I adored the chest-baring moment in the phone booth, and still hope that there could be some chick named Lori that he meets in the club.

Also, Lex has no shirt.

Someone needs to explain evil to them, though. Proper evil, above and beyond what the actor brings to the screen. Because, when you're Tom Welling, you need as much help as possible. So -- leather, sideburns, nancy boy hair gel, SOMETHING.

C'mon, people.

Clark slipped his flaming red class ring over his finger, buttoned up his black shirt to cover the brand burned deep into his chest, and squeezed out a generous dollop of Nancy Boy Hair Gel. "$19 a bottle?" he said to himself. "What do I care? I'm a bad boy."

Wow. Smallville was completely ridiculous tonight! What the hell does red kryptonite do anyway? (I missed all of last season, where it was probably explained.) Why does it make Clark's chest go all glowy? Which one was Rutger Hauer? I definitely enjoyed it, though--light on the HoYay, sadly, but the GAYLE (it has to be the look "Lewis" gives Lex, with his fingers brushing Lex's shoulder, as he asks him to stay on the island with him) was great, and made even better by the fact that Lex imagined it all. Did anyone else think that he was calling Clark's name as the airplane zoomed overhead? And what was up with that skeleton in the stream, and why was it wearing a Lex Luthor necklace (at least, I assume that's what the LL pattern was)?

I thought he was saying Clark, too.

Every single time he said "Lewis" I thought it was either "Clark" or "Lois".

Shirtless Lex, fighting off a hunky version of his own latent homosexuality?

Clark, meeting hot women every night but ending up with his bartender?

Bo Duke, superhero?

I'm happy.

(Seriously. This was the first time Smallville truly surprised me with that ending moment.)

Pinwiz, I'm so with you.

And as Amych pointed out to me -- Lewis is an OBVIOUS connection to Clark.

The bartender was HOT.

edit: And MR looks better with no shirt on than TW.

edit: And MR looks better with no shirt on than TW.

Hey. That was my line.

SV was so freakin' ridiculous tonight. How was PapaKent strong enough to withstand the streaming skittles. Why didn't he just die?

The only upside was how gently the metaphor was played with Lex.

t /sarcasm

I watched it with a cat-calling crew of villains, and that's probably the best way.

Not enough wtf in the world, really.

What, when you're a bad boy living on your own in the big city, on ill-gotten gains, going to nightclubs every night, in jeans slung down low enough you have to shave your pubes, surely you're a virgin too? (Of course, considering the Woman of Kleenex factor, we should probably be grateful this is an 8 o'clock show.)

Also, we were wondering where all the desert islands are in Kansas. That flight was a lot longer than it seemed.

And ALSO! The whole thing with how the wife survived? How there was one parachute left and Lex valiantly made her take it? They ripped off that old Kissinger joke about the priest and the hippie. "No problem, man. The smartest man in the world just jumped out with my knapsack!"

Let us merely say there was laughter, and fail to specify whether it was "at" or "with".