Smallville has plenty of bad acting to go around. The casting, it wasn't purely for talent.

Exactly right?! So for people to hyper-focus on Kristin just seemed so....convenient. (I say that because of how tired I am of Gossip Girl fans slagging on the ONLY non-white regular character in the show. Yeah. Convenient, that.)

but at least with him, you can enjoy him as a great *villain*, you know?

YESSS!!! I guess I've been influenced by my villain!knee-jerk reaction of Luthor from the comics, but I could never buy him as the woobie that apparently he was to many SV fans?