Wow you're fast! Nice review. I liked the episode a lot myself and saw a lot more positives than negatives. But then again I've just kind of decided to let a lot of the problems with Blur/Zod vs Blur/Clark go for my own sanity.
//Clark: "Am I enough?", Lois: ::silence:: You've got to be kidding me, right?// I believe the silence was 99% to ratchet up the tension.
But that' being said the question I think works only in context -- a context that only Clark has -- is just one side of Clark enough for Lois.
From Lois' POV I actually find the question a bit unfair if not downright insulting. Lois sees herself as partnering with the Blur to pursue justice. Clark is a partner too for truth via their job and as a romantic partner. If the episode wasn't about the breakup with the blur at all and just about the two of them losing their job would Clark try a line like that? Maybe we can't be a journalists anymore but you still have me. Am I enough? I wouldn't expect Lois to say Yeah, as long as I have you I don't need a career. I think Lois gets a charge out of skulking around for the Blur just like she gets a charge out of reporting. As great as a guy mild mannered Clark Kent is he can't very easily be a substitute for that no matter how much Lois loves him.
//And I don't know, but really, by the end of it all, I just wanted to give Clark a hug and tell him everything'd be OK// He certainly finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. I hope everything will turn out OK. Episodes like this kind of make it hard IMO to turn around later and let Lois find out and have everything be peachy keen.
//I believe the silence was 99% to ratchet up the tension.
But that' being said the question I think works only in context -- a context that only Clark has -- is just one side of Clark enough for Lois.
From Lois' POV I actually find the question a bit unfair if not downright insulting. Lois sees herself as partnering with the Blur to pursue justice. Clark is a partner too for truth via their job and as a romantic partner. If the episode wasn't about the breakup with the blur at all and just about the two of them losing their job would Clark try a line like that? Maybe we can't be a journalists anymore but you still have me. Am I enough? I wouldn't expect Lois to say Yeah, as long as I have you I don't need a career. I think Lois gets a charge out of skulking around for the Blur just like she gets a charge out of reporting. As great as a guy mild mannered Clark Kent is he can't very easily be a substitute for that no matter how much Lois loves him.//
I love that you point all this out and this is what I love about different perspectives and interpretations while watching an ep. I am actually now able to better understand it from Lois' POV. And that's exactly my beef with the ep, because I don't want to be down on Lois, or Clark, and yet this ep caused me to question both of them, repeatedly.
This---the whole thing. Thankyou for articulating so well what I couldn't manage. This was truly one of the most frustrating aspects of the ep, for me. And I've watched the ep twice and it still sticks, unfortunately. I can understand even to the extent of Lois enjoying or finding some kind of inspiration in helping the Blur. But higher purpose? Since when isn't that journalism and journalism alone for Lois Lane?
Except that Lois didn't frame it like that. She didn't bring journalism into it at all, and that's actually part of my issues with the episode, this idea that Lois apparently doesn't feel a higher sense of purpose from being an investigative journalist. I don't think Lois needed to bring journalism into it since that wasn't what caused her row with Clark to begin with though I would have loved for journalism have played a bigger part. The two of them getting fired I felt that was for the most part unceremoniously swept under the rug. On the other hand the fact that Lois lost her job and the Blur and she still showed up to meet Clark speaks volumes to me about how important Clark is to her.
I guess what I'm saying is that the episode didn't frame it like journalism gives Lois that same sense of purpose; from my POV, it did just the opposite -- journalism, right now, didn't give her the charge that working with the Blur did. I actually agree with you. I wish they had shown Lois getting more of a charge out of journalism. I liken losing her job to losing the Blur as a hypothetical not because I feel they were similar in how much Lois gets out of the two but because in my mind they are similar in the what she gets out of them. I don't think romantic relationship relationships should give one a sense of purpose so I find comparing her relationship with Clark to her relationship with the Blur like comparing apples to oranges.
//Clark: "Am I enough?", Lois: ::silence:: You've got to be kidding me, right?//
I believe the silence was 99% to ratchet up the tension.
But that' being said the question I think works only in context -- a context that only Clark has -- is just one side of Clark enough for Lois.
From Lois' POV I actually find the question a bit unfair if not downright insulting. Lois sees herself as partnering with the Blur to pursue justice. Clark is a partner too for truth via their job and as a romantic partner. If the episode wasn't about the breakup with the blur at all and just about the two of them losing their job would Clark try a line like that? Maybe we can't be a journalists anymore but you still have me. Am I enough? I wouldn't expect Lois to say Yeah, as long as I have you I don't need a career.
I think Lois gets a charge out of skulking around for the Blur just like she gets a charge out of reporting. As great as a guy mild mannered Clark Kent is he can't very easily be a substitute for that no matter how much Lois loves him.
//And I don't know, but really, by the end of it all, I just wanted to give Clark a hug and tell him everything'd be OK//
He certainly finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. I hope everything will turn out OK. Episodes like this kind of make it hard IMO to turn around later and let Lois find out and have everything be peachy keen.
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//I believe the silence was 99% to ratchet up the tension.
But that' being said the question I think works only in context -- a context that only Clark has -- is just one side of Clark enough for Lois.
From Lois' POV I actually find the question a bit unfair if not downright insulting. Lois sees herself as partnering with the Blur to pursue justice. Clark is a partner too for truth via their job and as a romantic partner. If the episode wasn't about the breakup with the blur at all and just about the two of them losing their job would Clark try a line like that? Maybe we can't be a journalists anymore but you still have me. Am I enough? I wouldn't expect Lois to say Yeah, as long as I have you I don't need a career.
I think Lois gets a charge out of skulking around for the Blur just like she gets a charge out of reporting. As great as a guy mild mannered Clark Kent is he can't very easily be a substitute for that no matter how much Lois loves him.//
I love that you point all this out and this is what I love about different perspectives and interpretations while watching an ep. I am actually now able to better understand it from Lois' POV. And that's exactly my beef with the ep, because I don't want to be down on Lois, or Clark, and yet this ep caused me to question both of them, repeatedly.
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I don't think Lois needed to bring journalism into it since that wasn't what caused her row with Clark to begin with though I would have loved for journalism have played a bigger part. The two of them getting fired I felt that was for the most part unceremoniously swept under the rug. On the other hand the fact that Lois lost her job and the Blur and she still showed up to meet Clark speaks volumes to me about how important Clark is to her.
I guess what I'm saying is that the episode didn't frame it like journalism gives Lois that same sense of purpose; from my POV, it did just the opposite -- journalism, right now, didn't give her the charge that working with the Blur did.
I actually agree with you. I wish they had shown Lois getting more of a charge out of journalism. I liken losing her job to losing the Blur as a hypothetical not because I feel they were similar in how much Lois gets out of the two but because in my mind they are similar in the what she gets out of them. I don't think romantic relationship relationships should give one a sense of purpose so I find comparing her relationship with Clark to her relationship with the Blur like comparing apples to oranges.
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