"A thinking Clark is a good Clark. He's not actually *supposed* to be stupid..."

Exactly! And he was pretty smart the first season or so of SV. I think it was being around Lana and her necklace too much. :-)))

I'm glad this Clark never teams up with Lionel. That's one of my biggest beefs with him, because it just makes no sense and negates so many of the arguments in his favour. If he hadn't done that, I might have been able to keep at least some of my respect for him.