Somebody Else's Nimrod

I now have a theory that you can divide Smallville slashers between the more experienced, "we had to *look* for our subtext! Both ways! Uphill! In the snow!" contingent and the newer, "What's *sub*text?" crowd, by whether they need to have it pointed out to them that the basketball game in "Prodigal" was gayer than the gayest thing in Gaydonia.