I think that Lucy is also right, that because Lois
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like[s] eggs but don't want the chicken.
Well, I think Lucy is wrong here. I believe that one of the reasons why Lois has fallen in love with Clark is because she loves Jory, and he loves her. This Lois has grown up in a loving home, but for all of that she has probably never met anyone who has loved her as much and needed her as much as Jory has loved and needed her. And because Jory is a clone of Clark, Jory
is Clark. (At least that is what Clark told her.) Well, if Jory is Clark, then Clark is Jory, isn't he? And then he should be capable of loving Lois as much as Jory loves her.
I know. This reasoning is deeply flawed. Jory isn't Clark, and Clark most certainly isn't Jory. Not only is Jory not a perfect copy of Clark, but his life experiences aren't the same as Clark's by far. Lois can't just assume that Clark's feelings towards her are, or should be, identical or similar to Jory's. But I think that some small subconscious part of her refuses to believe that. And therefore Lois not only wants the egg as well as the chicken, but she may want the chicken partly
because she loves the egg.
Clearly the focus of several upcoming parts is going to be on Jory. I think it was Elisabeth who criticised Lois for inserting herself into Jory's life and making the boy dependent on her, only to cruelly withdraw herself from him again. I can see Elisabeth's point, but I want to defend Lois and say that, like Sonia has already told us, Lois's motives were pure. It was Martha, after all, who asked Lois to help keeping an eye on Jory. And then it was Clark who asked for her help with the boy. And when Jory had one of his 'hearing attacks' and was hysterical because of his pain and confusion, Lois comforted him as well as she could. And he responded to her care and comfort. Yes, Lois inserted herself in Jory's life more than she should have, but it just happened. It wasn't as if she was being calculating or deliberately cruel.
Nevertheless, now we have this situation where Jory has grown dependent on Lois, but suddenly she won't be showing up again. How will that affect Jory? Certainly the effect won't be good. It could be that Jory feels deeply betrayed and rejected by Lois, so that he will refuse to see her again if she should come back.
Lucy told Lois that she should deal with the fact that she is in love. Yes, maybe, but it is more important that she tries to deal with 'the Jory problem'. The way I see it, Lois just has no moral right to abandon Jory. Not now. She carries around a picture of a dying little boy to remind herself of the photographer who took the picture of that child only to walk away from the child and abandon him. Jory may or may not be dying right now, but Lois mustn't abandon him all the same.
It may have been Elisabeth who said that Lois had no right to make Jory so dependent on her since she wasn't his mommy. (And if it wasn't you who said this, Elisabeth, then I apologize.) Anyway, I don't agree. Why shouldn't Lois be Jory's mommy? Because she
isn't his mommy? That's no reason why she couldn't become his mom. It's not as if she is stealing the rightful position from another woman, because Jory has no mother at all. And there is
no reason why Lois couldn't become his foster mother or adoptive mother. After all, we all accept that Martha Kent is Clark's mom, even though she isn't his biological mother. So why couldn't Lois become Jory's mom?
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