You're looking into this way more than I am, lol. I don't really buy into this linking up directly to previous seasons aside from Action; it's such a Brian/Kelly thing. Both 8x03 and 9x03 built the coffee stuff directly into the script like a signpost to introduce it/remind us it's still in play. Like how they started the flowers thing in Plastique by writing it into the script directly with dialogue. Both of those things began with their takeover as showrunners.
I pretty much just see this as in S9, Lois says having a "real cup of coffee" is something "real couples do." Clark and Chloe both have coffee together in Hex; Lois and Clark still haven't. Penelope gets stood up at the coffee shop: Clark stands up Lois there, but he takes Chloe out for coffee instead. I essentially see this as Action meta mixed together with the idea that when two people have "real coffee" together, that means they're for realz. Clark and Chloe have. Clark and Lois haven't, and the show keeps making mention of it since they started dating.
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Date: 2010-02-14 04:28 pm (UTC)I pretty much just see this as in S9, Lois says having a "real cup of coffee" is something "real couples do." Clark and Chloe both have coffee together in Hex; Lois and Clark still haven't. Penelope gets stood up at the coffee shop: Clark stands up Lois there, but he takes Chloe out for coffee instead. I essentially see this as Action meta mixed together with the idea that when two people have "real coffee" together, that means they're for realz. Clark and Chloe have. Clark and Lois haven't, and the show keeps making mention of it since they started dating.