The thing that baffles me most is why use Pete Ross and Lana Lang if they wasn't going to play a crucial part in Clarks life. I also don't like a mopey and miserable Clark Kent who doesn't have friends. Clark Kent isn't a loner who cant make friends, his a friendly out going kid who can come across as a little strange sometimes. Goyer and Snyder just don't seem to know what the fundamentals are that make the character.
Lana Lang was totally useless.
I think Pete Ross played a role though. When he stretched out his hand to Clark, after the other kids were bullying him. Pete chose to help Clark get up rather than follow the cool kids.
It's a small thing, but it's a scene of Clark being shown the good in humanity.
I didn't say he never had friends. He was isolated. Isolation does not equal being a friendless loser. Every person has felt alone sometimes, even if they're surrounded by friends and family. There are things that burden us, or that we burden ourselves with, that sometimes set us apart from other people.
Well, in other versions, superior versions, Clark has had great friends prior to Lois: Pete, Lana, Chloe, etc, that works, and makes more sense. For a woman like Lois to fall in love with him, he should be socially well-adjusted.
Whatever. It's better than them working together for five years and her being unable to realize that Superman and Clark are the same person. What's up with that? WHY IS THAT BETTER????? It's a waste of time, and it makes Lois look like a moron.
Who said that Lois should take five years to find out that Clark is Superman? Nice strawman, yes, we all know that would suck.
Ideally, imo, Lois would have suspicions in the second movie, and find out in the third, approximately. One doesn't need to stall for six years like Smallville did, however, a little bit of stalling, some organic development, makes the eventually payoff feel better.
Think Lois and Clark, when Lois says "Who's asking, Clark Kent, or Superman?", a famous line of television.
As for the courtship, if you consider lying and fudging the truth with your partner for years to be a great way to begin a relationship. I personally find honesty and respect to be a better way of handling things. No mind-erasing ****, no bumbling, stupid excuses. No making Lois look like an idiot just for laughs.
Mind-erasing? Another strawman.
The point is that the love triangle for two is fun, and it's a unique aspect of this romance that people love. The way to go forward is not to erase it, but to do it better.
Besides, Lois and Clark aren't married yet. There's still room for courtship and stupid mistakes and arguments and near-death experiences to remind them that they love each other.
We are all filled with excitement at the prospect of David Goyer developing a completely original romance without taking material that is tried and tested from 70 years of mythology.
This is going to put
Dirty Dancing and
When in Rome to shame.
Yes. Lois-the-idiot has been done and done, and done, and done. No need to keep doing it. We know how it goes. Lois falls for Superman. She works with Clark and wonders why Clark gets all the good bylines on Superman and blah blah. I'm bored just typing this **** out.
I don't need to see that nonsense done for the fortieth time.
We know how everything goes. Let's start the mythology with Lex Luthor in jail and Doomsday already attached to an asteroid floating away from Earth.
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