Smallville: Phoenix....

[fajrdrako]

I am a happy fan. Anyone who saw Smallville tonight probably knows why I'm happy and it isn't just because maboroshimaki brought some delicious cheesecake to our Smallville party. No. It's because:

• Clark and Lex hugged. Warm, heartfelt, needy hug on Lex's part. Happy, tight, happy-and-relieved hug on Clark's part. That was worth waiting for.
  
  
  
• Lex and Lionel hugged. Lovely multiple levels of ambiguity. Lex's hug was loving but by gum, he's setting Lionel up and now Lex is a giant step further to running LuthorCorp too and Lionel knows it. They are allies now, and can't trust each other an inch.
  
  
  
• Clark said it wouldn't work with Lana. It certainly wouldn't. (What a shrew she is!) Clark broke up with Lana and reaffirmed his relationship with Lex.
  
  
  
• No more red!Clark, or so I hope.
  
  
  
• Morgan Edge. Morgan Edge! Morgan Edge with Lionel Luthor. Morgan Edge threatening the Kents. Morgan Edge seeing Clark use green kryptonite on himself, and then using it against him.
  
  
  
• Clark's blood in a jam jar.
  
  
  
• Lex set Helen up - and let her know it while he was doing it. I have almost begun to like the edgy, ambiguous, snarky, insincere like/dislike relationship relationship between them. As long as I don't have to like her as a person, I like her as a character! Love it that she worked for Morgan Edge. I still want to learn that she's been doing research for Somerholt.
  
  
  
• Clark back in flannel.
  
  
  
• Chloe. My goodness I love that girl.
  
  
  
• The Clex hug. Yeah, I know I mentioned it, but I went back to watch it again, so it bears mentioning again. Not to mention being watched in slow motion.
  
  
  
• Morgan Edge and his old friend Lionel Luthor. Who says it's just the young'uns who are sexy?
  
  
  
• I loved what Lex said to Clark about facing his enemy - the dark side of himself - and not being sure which side was which. Hey, it's the human condition.