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From: ma3166ay@unmc.UUCP (L.A. Electronics)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Question about SUPERMAN II (spoiler) and an ID request
Message-ID: <80@unmc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 19:49:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  9 19:49:31 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Mar-86 19:21:23 EST
Reply-To: ma3166ay@unmc.UUCP (L.A. Electronics)
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <> ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) writes:
>
>	    A friend and I have differing interpretations of the ending
>	of SUPERMAN II, specifically the scene in which he kisses Lois,
>	whereupon she swoons momentarily.  Now, I never thought that he
>	was doing anything then other than to say look, it's all right,
>	just take it easy, I love you.  On the other hand, my friend
>	thought he was removing the memories of what had happened
>	between them, since they were causing her such anguish.
>                   . . .
>
>	    Perhaps part of the reason I am so reluctant to read it that
>	way is because it requires postulating another power that Supes
>	posesses ad hoc, of which enough had been done in that movie
>	already--the giant evaporating Saran Wrap 'S', the force beams,
>	the teleportation, etc. ad nauseam.
>						--pH

I must admit that your interpretation of the ending never occured to me.  Look
at the was Lois acts towards Clark after she recovers from her swoon . . . she
treats him just like she did BEFORE she found out he was Supes.  Her ignorance
of "what's been happening in the world" kind of clinches that, using some
strange, mystic, Kryptonian power known only to him and the Salkinds, Supes
wiped her memory of the previous few days' events.

Oh well, nobody ever said the things were going to fit into the comic-books'
continuity.  Good movie anyway, in my opinion.

.rne.

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