It's certainly much simpler than tracing the true history of the series, its ratings, competition and long-standing interference from the network. Who would believe, after all, that the true beginning of the downfall occurred by not having a wedding? 

However, in Hollywood, you have to pin the blame on the person or persons with no power base and the least able to defend themselves.

However, this kind of blame-laying is typical in Hollywood and not just when a cravenly producer wants to pick a helpless target to take the fall for a show's cancellation. Sometimes if a producer or writer from a series makes a bad and costly decision to split up a popular couple, or refuses to put a couple together, that producer/writer will take a shot at another series in order to justify his bad decision. 

Joel Surnow, writer/creative consultant of La Femme Nikita, for example, couldn't resist taking a snarky swipe at Lois and Clark stating that the couple lost their chemistry after getting married. 

Why make such a baseless statement? Simple, the creative powers that be behind La Femme Nikita caught hell from fans when they ended the show with the lead couple going their separate ways. It's not surprising that the DVD sales of La Femme Nikita have been very disappointing and that's the bottom line.  No matter how engaging a series may have been, if it has an unsatisfactory ending, its performance in syndication and  sales of DVDs may suffer.

There's also the producer/writer who will defend an unpopular decision he may have made on a current show by making an erroneous analogy to a show he used to work on. Brad Kern, former writer for Lois and Clark (the final season only) and currently a writer/producer under fire from fans of Charmed, defended splitting up a married couple by stating, "In one season-finale episode Lois found out Clark's secret, and he asked her to marry him. The fans wanted that, they got it. But suddenly they're married, she knows the secret and the fans went away. I think that cost us one whole season on 'Lois & Clark.' So I learned a lot from that, and have applied it to 'Charmed.'"

Kern used some creative sentence structure in his above scenario. He made it sound as if Lois and Clark got married after the second season cliff-hanger, which of course is untrue. Viewers "went away" when a wedding not only didn't materialize during the infamous wedding arc, but when viewer angst was compounded by having Clark shipped off to Krypton with his Kryptonian fiancée at the end of third season. Fans, as opposed to viewers, on the other hand, stuck with the series to the bitter end and chased it wherever ABC/Disney tried to hide it during its final season.  

Brad Kern wrote me an e-mail dated May 28, 1997 after Lois and Clark was cancelled:

I take great pride in my contributions to the show, and not just for the scripts I took screen credit for. I also feel great pain in not being able to do more to treat you loyal fans to a fifth and final season where all loose ends could've been tied up. You deserve better, and so did the show. 

Fans deserved better, I agree, but years later it seems we're told we got exactly what we deserved and were given the blame for any failure, but no accolades for any of the show's success. 

So, as one of the millions of producers of Lois and Clark, let me tell you how proud I am of its four seasons. It was a romantic fantasy that said anything is possible and that being different isn't bad at all, especially if you have someone who loves you by your side.

We, the producers of Lois and Clark, hope you enjoyed watching our show as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you.

Whether it was Lois and Clark becoming parents, Perry and Alice getting back together, or Clark from the alternate Metropolis finding his Lois Lane, the evolving story lines all pointed in positive directions. If nothing else, Lois and Clark proved that hope is as strong as Superman.

In the end, Lois and Clark was a series where Superman was more a state of mind than a comic book icon. A series where Lois found Clark's virginity more astounding than the fact that he was a "strange visitor from another planet."

Most of all, Lois and Clark was a story about two outcasts, one from Earth and one from Krypton, who met, fell in love, and still live happily ever after.