r/Cloisville

Like what Erica said, "Lois is built different."

It needs a real man to handle her but damn it takes a whole lot of bravery and sacrifice to handle Clark Kent. There are times that I get annoyed with Clark's secrecy, indecisiveness, and hypocrisy but girl accepted it all with grace. Clark is a lucky man and she's definitely one of a kind. No wonder darkness can't possess her.

So basically, clanas know that they're not the endgame so their main counter argument against lois is he loved lana more which sounds so embarrassing for me. It's like forcing someone married and say "you still love your ex ik trust me, you have better chemistry" So desperate-sounding. That's it. Cheers!

Idk where to put this so I am just going to post this here. I hope this is a safe space for this. Is it just me or the main smallville sub deletes clois content? They also delete those who criticize lana and clana? Do they do the same for those who criticize lois and clois?

I read somewhere that there is a scene where lois said to clark that she met lana and clark is just indifferent about it. Can you tell me what chapter is it? I can't seem to find it. Makes me think it's just a headcanon or something. Thank you in advance.

Season 8 is the ultimate turning point in Clark Kent’s life. Okay, I know how most of us feel about Clana return, and I absolutely agree that it is the Aos/Arc of shit.

BUT. WE ARE MISSING THE BIG PICTURE IN CLARK’S JOURNEY.

In S7, Clark doesn’t stop the Lois banter even when Lana is supposedly dead. He is at home, with his dog, happily joking with Kara, Lois, Chloe, and you even see him smile and giggle. So, Lana comes back and he gets back with her, only to realize she’s not the idealized innocent-girl-next-door version in his head, and is actually much darker. She kidnaps lionel, tries to kill lex, hurts Clark and Lois with Clark’s powers, falls more in love Clark’s opposite Bizzaro than Clark. He still stays, as she already knows his secret, he goes “not everyone can live with the double identity thing”. Even bizzaro called Clark out saying
“He lies to himself that he still loves her because he’s too worried about doing the right thing”

Clark admits that he doesn’t recognize Lana anymore, and all this while, didn’t want to look under the surface to see who she really is. When she says that he doubts that she’s the one he’s gonna end up with, the guy doesn’t even deny it, he just goes “I can’t tell you the future and I don’t know what’s gonna happen to us”, Clark is so non-committal, but he’s superman, he wants to see the good in people, and gives everyone multiple chances, Lex, Alicia, Lana, because deep down he’s scared to be alone.

Now, Lana leaves him before S8, and he is just fine. More than fine. He “gets off the farm gets a job” and actually embraces life. Gosh, he flirts with Lois for 7 months non-stop, all while still in denial of his feelings.

Some of Clark’s lines to Lois in S8:

Before AoS:
“I’m gonna be a little closer to home. Looks like we’re going to be neighbors Lane.”
“Why? Were you worried about me?”
“You think I have a charming smile?”
“I was your knight in shining armor?”
“Do you always wear so little on the first date?”

After AoS:
“Isn’t there a limit to how tight a shirt can be to meet dress code?”
“I didn’t realize there was room for introspection underneath that costume”
“I’ve searched everywhere. There’s no sign of Lois…
Home? I don’t have a home”

The flirty dynamic is consistent from Day 1
Examples:
S4 Lucy: Lois serving coffee, Clark: “It’s like a free floor show.”
S5 Exposed: Shamelessly gawks at Lois strip a sailor costume and can’t look away (while dating Lana): Clark: “Aye Aye Sailor”

The chemistry in Bride is insane. By now, all their friends, Jimmy, Chloe, Oliver and even Lana and, even villains like Maxima, Electric chair psycho and Zod’s wife, have all pointed out Clark’s buried feelings for Lois.

When Lana returns in Bride, she is still being duplicitous with Clark regarding her motivations for being back and hiding things from him. Chloe tells him to not hurt Lois in the process of closure if he doesn't know what he wants. He admits things with Lois are unsure because their relationship hadn't yet moved past harmless flirtations, Lois to this point had not admitted her true feelings for him, and she left town before they could even talk about their "almost kiss". “Don’t take your love away from me” plays as Lois’ departs, sending Clark spiraling back into the toxic, yet familiar Lana rut. The fact that she knows his secret vs having to put himself out there anew with Lois is also reason why he relapses. Clark blames himself for Lana taking the powersuit and regrets telling her his secret in a dvd scene. In Power, she actually stole it because she “needs the power” and it makes her “feel good”, but she convinces Clark she did it so they can be together. Poor guy. Clark mentions that he and Lana have been back and forth so many times that he almost feels like he owes it to their relationship to give it one more shot. This doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of a love everlasting.

When Lana finally exits, Clark makes zero effort to get the kryponite out of her(which we know is possible from the S11 comics). The very next episode he’s back to his happy life flirting with Lois at the Daily Planet, he calls Lois “special” in Infamous, but doesn’t show up at coffee shop because he is genuinely scared to get hurt again, because his last relationship was nothing but, misery and hurt and drama. He’s actually never been in a healthy relationship, he can’t even imagine one.

Yet, the more he tries to bury his feelings for Lois, the more they surface. Chloe even comments that he hasn't brought up Lana's name once since she's left, but spends a few hours as Lois and immediately clocks how into Lois Clark actually is: his “non-stop puppy-dog eyes”, all the flirty comments, and banter. He’s literally written down and framed Lois Lane’s rules of reporting ffs. Lois is going on a date, so Clark’s jealous and wants to call her up on her date night to “see if shes available”, really clark?

And finally in stiletto, when he talks to her as the blur and sees a different side of her, he falls deeper in Love with her (as he admits in S9 Hostage), she’s the first person ever to ask him what HE needs, wanting nothing in return. The look on Clark’s face after the call shows that there’s no turning back from his feelings now.

So the point of this season is, it was never about Lana, the powersuit hastened the breakup. Even if that didn’t happen, when Lois comes back, breaking up with Lana is inevitable. The nostalgic whirlwind bubble will break and Clark will see who the “love of his life” is. He would’ve tried his best to bury his feelings for Lois and stay with Lana, until he can’t anymore, until Lois leaves with the legion ring and he realizes that Lana doesn’t fill the void that Lois left behind.

End of S8, When he thinks Lois is gone of good, he says he “doesn’t have a home” and “Clark Kent is dead”, and abandons his whole life and friends, including his mom, a mourning widow:Chloe, and a depressed Oliver. Future Clark literally considers himself to be dead without Lois.
The world is literally ending all because he refused to work with his friends who remind him of Lois and it’s “too painful”. It’s so crazy he feels this great loss for a girl he hasn’t even dated yet.

He later realizes that he cannot “live in a world where lois doesn’t love him” contrast to when in S7, he found out Lana is married with two kids in an alternate reality, (while he was dating her back in his world), and says that’s the best news he ever heard.
Lana loses her kryptonite in S11 comics, and Clark doesn’t care one bit and is fully in love with Lois.

The way that it is ultimately done may not have been the best, but I think Clark had to lose both Lana and Lois, to understand just how deeply he feels for Lois. To understand the difference between loving an image of someone vs truly loving someone.
He needed that first loss that he thought would break him, to be something he overcame, only for this other loss to completely wreck him in a way he never expected. Clark losing Lois is the slap in the face wake up call that Clark needed to fully see how important and integral to his life Lois is. She got under his skin on day 1 and she's been there ever since. And once she comes back, it brings Clark Kent back to life. And once Clark starts pursuing Lois like the confident man she has helped him become, he never looks back, and he never regrets loving her with a deep unending love that consumes him. She is “the one and always will be”. He can't “live in a world where she doesn't love him.” She's his strength, he trusts her more than anyone else. She is the love of his life and nobody compares.

Lets end this with Kristen Kreuk’s own words:

"I think that they probably would have gotten to the place eventually, i don't know but based on where this story goes they would have go to a place where they came to a conclusion that they weren't right for each other in the end"

"I think by end its clear that (lois) is his choice, that she's who he picks and she's great for him and they're great for each other. Clark and Lana never got a chance to develop a mature relationship, they were very much still in a childhood place with so much trauma they never solved”

Okay, so chloe and lana both clearly see clark and lois ending up together as soon as she shows up. Lana even goes, “the best ones always start that way”, and though Chloe never really pushed the idea as we can see the jealousy in the dunk tank scene, in season 9, she says “you’ve had feelings for Lois since the 1930s, I was wondering when you were gonna make your move”

And ollie is spot on when he first sees them together, with “If I lived under a roof with such a beautiful woman, I would’ve masked my feelings under sarcasm too” which goes perfect circle when he toasted to them in their engagement party “Congratulations on finally figuring out what we’ve all known for a VERY long time, Lois and Clark are destined to be together”

It’s so great that all the characters (hell, even villains: zod’s wife, queen maxima) who sense their undeniable chemistry early on, actually got to see them end up together.

But poor jimmy, not only did he miss his happily ever after with chloe, but he never got to see the Clark and Lois romance that he ALWAYS shipped and envisioned. I mean he’s the one who brings them together in Season FIVE crimson,
Jimmy: “You can’t deny the chemistry”

S8 Identity:
Jimmy: “Lois, did you just give Clark Kent a compliment?” grins cheekily as he can see they’re falling for eachother

S8 Bride:
Lois: Clark doesn’t like me, he likes driving me crazy.
Jimmy: Flirtation 101. That’s what a guy does when he’s into a girl. Trust me, Lois and Clark would be great together.
Even calls him “Mr. Right”

This guy shipped them for YEARS, can you imagine how much he would’ve gloated in S9 when they end up together?

Jimmy was right about doomsday, about Clarks secret AND his feelings for Lois. It’s just so tragic how it all ended. Jimmy was a wise man.

My favorite was when he said
“Clark could not be who he was on smallville without Lois, because it pushed him into different areas that he wouldn’t have gone to with Lana, cause the Lana thing was juvenile in a lot of ways”

And also how he passionately says
“I don’t think there’s a version of Clark leaving Lois for Lana”
which is spot on, as in S11 comics Lois tells Clark that Lana loses the kryponite and he’s so unbothered, he goes “cool what do you want for dinner” 😂
We love Tom for being so real!!