no matter how many times people are reminded that he still has eyebrows and thus probably other body hair.

They make that poor guy get waxed at least twice a season, for his Designated Shirtless Events. I suspect he's actually quite hairy, and it's too incongruous for a bald guy to be hairy everywhere else (80% of the bald guys I know notwithstanding), so out comes the hot wax.

All things considered, one has to look at the setup of the Smallville show, and guess that they created the Lex character as a 21 year old (rather than, say, making him 25, or 30) for the express purpose of decreasing the creepy-factor in his being excessively social and/or intimate with high school students.

it's too incongruous for a bald guy to be hairy everywhere else (80% of the bald guys I know notwithstanding

Well, if you're bald for traditional reasons, it's weird. But he's bald for reasons that seem to make sense for it to be all his hair, and it's meta that gives him eyebrows and eyelashes.

Most of the guys on TV are waxing their chests anyway.

But he's bald for reasons that seem to make sense for it to be all his hair, and it's meta that gives him eyebrows and eyelashes.

This is logical, but I think the logic is dictated by "what looks right/wrong" in this case (probably, as in most cases).

I blame David Hasselhoff for the spate of male body wax. On Baywatch, he was the only guy allowed to be hairy, and after all, who wants to look like David Hasselhoff? But, ow. Talk about suffering for art.

The Lex/Clark stuff never bothered me. Partly because I would always forget how young Clark was supposed to be. Tom Welling just looks too much like his age.

It was the Lex/Lionel stories that squicked me out the most.

I should not be surprised that people write Lex/Lionel, yet somehow I still am.

Lex/Lionel

The chemistry seems there on screen, to me, but that could just be the MR hotness (the man has something of a BBOC effect, I think) meets the JG hotness. Anyway, it's not something I've been inclined to read, but I pretty much expected to see it written after watching the characters interact a time or two.

YBBOC-effectMV, of course.

Mmm. Now I'm remembering some early Lionel/Chloe, way back before the show gave any reason to write 'em.

I've been missing the S1 HoYay joy of Smallville lately. I remember when I was mainlining the Clex, and that one perfect blow job fic that was the talk of the town (of course, I can't remember what the hell the name of the fic was, or who wrote it).

Signed, because of Smallville, will always be happy that Superboy has two daddies (or, as Livia puts it, "is made of Clex") in comics canon.

Signed, because of Smallville, will always be happy that Superboy has two daddies (or, as Livia puts it, "is made of Clex") in comics canon.

Heh. The first issue of TT that I read, that was the first thing that I read on page 1 -- the descriptor about Kon's progenitors. And all hope was lost. How could I *not* read a title where Clark and Lex have a kid and it isn't an Elseworlds???

Clark and Lex don't talk anymore. It's very sad.

I just think of SV as a show that lasted one season (with a couple of reunion specials the following year). (Reality? What's that? lalalalalalalaICAN'THEARYOU)