fatedxdestiny:

Clark, every moment of your life that I take for myself, I am stealing from people that need saved. When I decided to become Superman, I… became a target, so anyone close to you would be a target, and then it got more complicated when you realized you loved me. [Clois Multiverse]



OKAY LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE FUCKS

You know the first Superman movie from 1978? The one nobody can fucking shut up about?

Yeah, THAT ONE.

I tend to be pretty hard on it as a result of I don’t think that Luthor should wear a wig or that Lois should read bad poetry and go flying in her nightgown or that Superman should be able to change the past, which was SPECIFICALLY something he could NOT DO back when he could time travel at will, but SUPERMAN THE MOVIE is a beloved classic and I have to admit I actually like it.

Anyway, one thing this movie gets totally 100% right is that Superman, when forced to pick between saving the population of California from a nuke-triggered apocalypse or saving ONE WOMAN who he happens to really like, he LETS LOIS DIE. He’s torn up over it, he’s clearly and severely unhappy, but HE STILL LET IT HAPPEN because saving MILLIONS vs saving ONE PERSON is NO CONTEST.

Now OF COURSE there’s a deus ex machina that lets him save both, because why wouldn’t there be? But it’s clear what he did and why he did it and this guy on Supergirl? The writers messed up. Smallville’s fine - given the chance to MAYBE save a dying deranged criminal or to definitely save Lois, he made the right call. But Supergirl’s writers dropped the ball on this premise and they dropped it all the way down into the Grand Canyon.

