I found the relationship between Clark and Lois both plausible and touching.
Some of the best scenes in the entire story (taking the two movies as one piece, which is what they felt like to me), I thought, were the ones with Clark and Lois at Niagara Falls—her attempts to prove that Clark is Superman, and his attempts simultaneously to save her and convince her otherwise, and what happens when inevitably she finds out. For all that I've read "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," I didn't really buy the idea that a physical relationship between them is impossible until he's given up his super-powers. It's mythic—Semele saw Zeus in his true form and was burnt to ashes—but I saw no real reason for it beyond plot complication. I was sort of pleased, therefore, to see that in current comics continuity, they're married. It makes character sense.
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Some of the best scenes in the entire story (taking the two movies as one piece, which is what they felt like to me), I thought, were the ones with Clark and Lois at Niagara Falls—her attempts to prove that Clark is Superman, and his attempts simultaneously to save her and convince her otherwise, and what happens when inevitably she finds out. For all that I've read "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," I didn't really buy the idea that a physical relationship between them is impossible until he's given up his super-powers. It's mythic—Semele saw Zeus in his true form and was burnt to ashes—but I saw no real reason for it beyond plot complication. I was sort of pleased, therefore, to see that in current comics continuity, they're married. It makes character sense.