and they're super touchy feely and have a deeply enmeshed, codependent, homoerotic friendship

and where it's omegaverse but nontraditional because there are no heats, ruts, or knotting mentioned but Lex is an omega and Clark is an alpha (and has dual anatomy)

Um...Clark being so concerned about Lex's morality and trying to protect him while also struggling with the idea that Lex can't be saved morally. ✅

The way Jonathan sort of defends Lex at the end, when Clark wonders how Lex could treat those women so terribly, by saying that Lex was just doing what he learned 🤯

Clark and Lex serving homoerotic friendship realness ✅

Idk, maybe I'm delusional, but Clark was lowkey yearning this episode, just the way he wanted Lex to be good so bad because he still loves Lex and he needs things to justify it based on this scale in his head weighing the bad experiences he's had with Lex versus all the good.