I'm such a hopeless Clex romantic. - you and me both! ^_^ And so glad the flying line worked for you - I had to use something from their very beginning, to bring it full circle, and that line, cheesy as it is, is so memorable, too...and their relationship is so based on beliefs anyway, on what's possible and impossible and humanly-but-not-alienly impossible...Lex was speaking Clark's truth for him that first time, though neither of them knew it; only fitting for Clark to return it with faith.

And hee, yeah, I'm gonna take any challenge to the Lex-nalysis as retcon, myself. It makes sense, that's the story, and I'm sticking to it!