There was plot and emotion and referencing things that have happened in the past! Correctly!
Good Lionel; Lionel as Jor-el; Not Jonathan; Clark with a mind of his own; Lex in a black shirt; Lana using the word 'moratorium' and not sending me into howls of derision; Lex and Clark; Evil Lex; Not just Evil Lex, but Lex as the Kryptonian's weapon.
I'm so Smallville's bitch again.