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What, it's nonsense that I don't agree?

No, your argument that it's realistic is nonsense.

It's not realistic, at all, to think that Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Lana Lang would keep up a love triangle after Lois and Clark were married - it's completely contrary to any of their characters.

Yes, it does happen.

But not to everybody. And not to people like Lois, Clark, and Lana.

You seem to be consciously ignoring the fact that Austen was choosing to depict Clark and Lois's marriage as unhappy during this period.

Quite the contrary. It's obvious that he's doing that. The problem is that there is no good reason to portray their marriage as unhappy, given the characters.

That he's completely ignoring the established characterization of established characters is not a defence of his writing.

I find it strange and unnerving that you characterize Lana as a "love-starved bitch" because she wanted to say to Clark, "Maybe you married the wrong person."

The fact that she won't let go of a man who's been in a happy marriage for years, and thinks he married the wrong woman, despite their having been happy for years? That's 'love-starved bitch' behaviour. That Austin decided to contrive it so that Lois and Clark were in the midst of marital problems doesn't change the fact that they'd been happily married for years.

Naming her son after Clark - who, when she's not written as an obsessive stalker, she's friends with, and who was also friends with her ex-husband? That, on the other hand, is NOT creepy stalker behaviour, on its own. It only becomes creepy when she's otherwise acting creepily. It's not at all uncommon to name children after friends. Especially when they're friends of both parents.

By the way, what the hell kind of stories do you think your super-boring Lana Lang could be in? By resolving the triangle you resolve out her entire reason for existing in the Superman cast (as opposed to the Superboy cast).

I don't know. Perhaps she can take in Clark's cousin. Or be part of Lois and Clark's personal and professional support circle.

Maybe she could try to help get LexCorp running as a legitimate company! (Or at least one not actively working against Superman.)

Nah, they'd NEVER do anything like that. It's not like Lana could POSSIBLY be a well-rounded character in her own right, after having dated Clark.

A Lana that exists only to be a complication in Lois and Clark's life - THAT is a super-boring Lana.

Also clichéd to a ridiculous extent, and utterly offensive.