I cannot fathom what the show thinks it's doing with Lionel. How it can expect us to accept Lionel as good while condemning Lex as evil baffles me...Lionel has done far worse than anything we've seen Lex doing thus far. And then they invite him to Thanksgiving dinner!!!

...the Thanksgiving invite gets me. Martha going for the Magnificent Bastard, that I can see; he is smooooooth like a smooth thing and very much pursuing her, and Martha is willfully blind to evil. But how they could stand to have Thanksgiving with him? How Chloe could bear it? Or Clark, knowing what he did to Lex? I'd be choking on my turkey, sitting across from him! If they could have him, why not invite Lex & Lana, too? It couldn't possibly be any more awkward...