I don't blame Rosey for leaving, seems the show has lost its soul a bit? Well, I'll know when I see season 7. Meh, I gotta wait till September for that! Waah!

Anyway... yes, and of course he saw Clark as a surrogate Julian as well. Lex just needed help beyond his father drugging and frying his brain for his own secrets to be kept. I keep thinking, damn, if Clark had gotten Lex out of Belle Reve before they could erase his memories.. because at that time Lex would still have forgiven him anything, not telling him, and he wouldn't have been in the position to let him be tested at 33.1 and they would've been okay!