Retconing lois?

[krpto]

Lois said something in last nights episode about clark should have known she is allergtic to cats when has this come up at all? I know she is allergic to shelby from her sneezing and near him and her conversation before about her bathing shelby supposed to help with the allergies but when did we find out she's allergic to cats too. Are the writers jut gonna randomly make lois allergic to anything that she doesn't want to write about just so clark can have some stories before he writes with her about superman. Shouldn't lois and clark each be getting thier own stories not just randomly picking what to write about and since when has lois gotten the ability to spell/grammar check clark's stories I thought she couldn't spell and now she proof reading clark's stories.
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[Timester]

The word "retconing" is starting to be abused. The fact that was never mentioned before doesn't make it a retconing. Retconing would be if she mentioned in the past that she wasn't alergic to cats.

[yaseen101]

Right it aren't a retcon, she didn't say she wasn't allergic before AND is it a rule that a person have to be allergic to only one thing in life? It's been some time at the DP so Lois surely have learned to spell well by now, also she just asked him to write that story for her it's not like they will be doing it all the time.

[krpto]

Okay but you'd think lois being allergic to cats would have been brought up when she was talking about being allergic to shelby the dog as another one of her allergies. That said I was more wondering why lois is spell/grammar checking the future superman's stories when she herself has stated more then once that she cannot spell at all.

[Timester]

That said I was more wondering why lois is spell/grammar checking the future superman's stories when she herself has stated more then once that she cannot spell at all.

She is being Lois.

She even talks about her article that she gave to Tess being spellchecked.

[WickedJenn]

This might help some:

When I wrote for my university's paper, we had what were called "desk editors". Staff reporters wrote the stories and then they had to check them with desk editor before it got sent to copy editors. To me, it's very much like Lois is Clark's "desk editor", catching the general stuff before it's sent to copy to be checked more thoroughly. Grammar is not the only thing that's checked in articles either. Example, you ALWAYS, in a news story, say "said" after the person is mentioned. Frex, "the President said." Things like that are imperative to newswriting especially. Lois would know this much for having worked at the DP for a year now. Even the Inquisitor, I'm sure, had some sort of semblance to the AP stylebook that they followed.

And I actually did get to choose some of the stories I wrote. I had to propose to the editor why I would write it etc, but usually they let me write it.

Now, I know it's not the exact same as a regular newspaper, but our liason was a seasoned journalist who tried to keep us as close to a real paper as possible.

ETA: I was going to address the allergy thing but Jade beat me to it ;)

[Jade4813]

Yeah, she never mentioned it before, so this isn't a retcon. And just because they talked about the fact that she's allergic to dogs doesn't mean that she had to go on a litany of what she's allergic to right then. "I"m allergic to dogs...and cats, dust, peanuts, flowers..."

I have a friend who's allergic to wheat, rye, and barley. But a lot of times, when she's talking to people about why she will order something without the bread, she'll just say, "I'm allergic to wheat."

Yeah, she's allergic to other things, too, but right then, the wheat is the pertinent one. And she doesn't want to get into a whole conversation about her condition (which I cannot spell), so she only talks about what's pertinent at the time.