I'm sorry, that's not true. Unless I'm forgettinmg something really important - that I hope you quote - all we know is what Jimmy says about it:
CLARK KENT: She's married?
JIMMY OLSEN: Yeah, well no, its more of a prolonged engagement, but don't ask Miss Lane when they're tying the knot because she hates that question.
Pretty explicit. She doesn't want to.
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I'm not sure what your argueing.
All I said is that she didn't refuse to marry Richard.
Whether or not the engagement has been prolonged by her doubts and the fact she was struggling to get over the guy that just up and dissapeared from the world, she did say YES when he proposed. Otherwise they wouldn't be engaged at all...
If she was completely sure she never wanted to marry him ever, why would she have said yes to a proposal? Why would she have become engaged?
When Lois introduces Richard to Clark, she doesn't say "my fiancee," "the man I love" but "an assistant editor here who's basically saved our International section. He's also a pilot and he loves horror movies." Not really love there.
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I would actually put that on her being kind to Clark and not rubbing it in his face. She knew he liked her, and she hadn't seen Clark since she was the head strong independant... Now she had a kid and a finance and it must feel really weird saying all that out loud to someone who knew her back then, especially when it all happened so unexpectedly.
You say she was all happy, ready for marriage, and right then Superman appeared?
Not according to the movie. She hated the idea of marrying Richard before Clark returned to the Planet.
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First of all, no I didn't say she was all happy and ready for marriage. I said she was having doubts and that she wasn't over Supes. But I do believe she would have married Richard. She would have worked through her issues.
She hated people asking her when she was going to tie the knot, because she wanted to make that full commitment when SHE was ready. It doesn't mean she didn't love him.
If she really didn't love him, she was a complete ***** in that film for stringing the guy along... And I don't think that's what they were going for at all.
And at this point you probably know that a woman won't love a guy solely because he's a good fellow who loves her very much. In fact, Lois doesn't love him more than she loves Superman even when he left without saying good-bye. That happens all the time, love is not always for the one who deserves it.
I'm not saying she loves Richard more or even as much as Superman. Just that she has been in a relationship with him for the past almost 5 years, and she had been building her life back up with him, planning a future and raising a child with him. You can't say there is no love there.
You try to move on and build your life back up again. You try.
But, as you say yourself, when there's someone who's "not the kind of guy you ever get over," then you might 'try' but 'achieve' is a different story.
Ah, h.s., what we should and what we do in matters of love...
There are plenty of people in this world that lost their one true love and are forced to move on.
Are you suggesting that none of them ever achieve that because they can't get over their first love?
If he didn't want to loose her, he shouldn't have left, or he should have explained himself properly before he did.
He can't come back after 5 years thinking she would have waited. She's a beautiful and successful woman in her late 20s... Of course she found someone!
And what right does he have to come back, take her flying, stare lovingly into her eyes and hold her close, sharing a moment in which they almost kiss ... When what he knows of the situation is that she has a son with another man.
He doesn't KNOW it's his kid when he does that.
So he is actively romancing someone whose positive response would mean breaking up a family.
And he's acting like this Martyr at the same time. Telling her she was wrong in her article, people are crying out for a saviour. Being all stoic and broody and giving one deadpan apology that wasn't on any personal level IMO. He didn't show any real emotion or conflict, and neither did she. The whole thing was just completely unrealistic and unrelatable because no two people would be like that in that situation.
I totally agree.
I've always said that the story would be the same (and better) if Superman had said good-bye but Lois just didn't accept that Superman put Krypton over her.
Well at least we can agree on that