Thank you for the rec! I dipped my toe into Lois and Clark fandom sometime last summer, and I thought it was really interesting the way the stories "felt different" than what I might loosely call lj-based media fandom - it was like there was a whole different set of conventions about POV, pacing, sources of dramatic tension, etc. I'm not sure I'm explaining this well but I thought it was neat how you can get these different cultures of "what a story is like". (Like here, the big declarations of love happen more or less as set-up for the real plot, and that struck me as not something I would see in many stories - that they happened "onscreen", but not as the focus of the story.)
On another topic, I don't know whether this is something you would be interested or comfortable talking about here, or perhaps in email, but I found myself kind of uncomfortable with some of the portrayal of adoption in this story, and would be curious to hear your thoughts about it. I've never been any of the people in an adoption relationship and am surely reading things through my own biased lens as a bio-mom-planning-to-parent, but I found my sympathies more with Lucy than I think I was maybe intended to, and the eventual resolution did not entirely work for me. I don't remember Lucy at *all* from the TV show, although TSOR suggests she was in a couple of episodes, so that is probably part of it, but, I don't know, in the first scenes with Lucy it seemed very clear that she wanted to keep her baby but was having a problem with lacking sources of emotional and financial support, and it seemed very obvious that someone needed to get this girl a new mom's group and a social worker, stat, and then at the end she has this realization that she doesn't *really* miss him and besides, Lois and Clark are just So Much Better as parents, and, ok, there are two of them, they have established careers, they have Clark's perfect parents for extended family, but maybe there's something problematic with the idea that happening to have these things means they "deserve" the baby more than someone who doesn't? It just seemed very convenient that there was simultaneously this whole "Lois and Clark are better parents" thing and also this "Lucy's love for the baby isn't as deep as theirs" thing. I mean, I don't know, I guess I feel like everyone got a happy ending by chance or authorial fiat, when it would have seemed just as plausible given the story for only the first of those things to be true, and then what. Wibble. Does that make any sense?
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On another topic, I don't know whether this is something you would be interested or comfortable talking about here, or perhaps in email, but I found myself kind of uncomfortable with some of the portrayal of adoption in this story, and would be curious to hear your thoughts about it. I've never been any of the people in an adoption relationship and am surely reading things through my own biased lens as a bio-mom-planning-to-parent, but I found my sympathies more with Lucy than I think I was maybe intended to, and the eventual resolution did not entirely work for me. I don't remember Lucy at *all* from the TV show, although TSOR suggests she was in a couple of episodes, so that is probably part of it, but, I don't know, in the first scenes with Lucy it seemed very clear that she wanted to keep her baby but was having a problem with lacking sources of emotional and financial support, and it seemed very obvious that someone needed to get this girl a new mom's group and a social worker, stat, and then at the end she has this realization that she doesn't *really* miss him and besides, Lois and Clark are just So Much Better as parents, and, ok, there are two of them, they have established careers, they have Clark's perfect parents for extended family, but maybe there's something problematic with the idea that happening to have these things means they "deserve" the baby more than someone who doesn't? It just seemed very convenient that there was simultaneously this whole "Lois and Clark are better parents" thing and also this "Lucy's love for the baby isn't as deep as theirs" thing. I mean, I don't know, I guess I feel like everyone got a happy ending by chance or authorial fiat, when it would have seemed just as plausible given the story for only the first of those things to be true, and then what. Wibble. Does that make any sense?