This is still my favorite episode. What I love about it is that it was the rare SV moment where they built something up over years and years, and when the payoff they promised finally came, it went out with a bang instead of a whimper.
I think I watched this episode every day for over a week right after it aired. There isn't a single bad scene. Besides the idiot-proof setup of Clark and Lex being trapped in an underground cave together and finally letting all the unsaid things boil to the surface, this was also the episode where I totally fell in love with Lana as a character.
(I think I have capped this episode four different times. First I capped the TV rip when it came out. Then I found the super-HD-TV-rip and capped it again. Then I got the DVDs and capped it on my old PC, but the color settings were fucked without my realizing it. So today is now the fourth (and hopefully final) time. I literally know this episode's frames by heart by this point, where every cappable frame is while slowly skipping through the episode. Sooooo pathetic.)

( Smallville 6x19: Nemesis picspam. )
I think I watched this episode every day for over a week right after it aired. There isn't a single bad scene. Besides the idiot-proof setup of Clark and Lex being trapped in an underground cave together and finally letting all the unsaid things boil to the surface, this was also the episode where I totally fell in love with Lana as a character.
(I think I have capped this episode four different times. First I capped the TV rip when it came out. Then I found the super-HD-TV-rip and capped it again. Then I got the DVDs and capped it on my old PC, but the color settings were fucked without my realizing it. So today is now the fourth (and hopefully final) time. I literally know this episode's frames by heart by this point, where every cappable frame is while slowly skipping through the episode. Sooooo pathetic.)
( Smallville 6x19: Nemesis picspam. )