I interpreted the scene Lynn mentioned exactly that way, and I was very surprised to find so many fanfics where the author read cruelty in that comment. I suppose I understand what the authors mean - but I always though nothing of it.
As for the pheromone scene, though, I don't think too many options exist. I remember Miranda making it clear that she's going to spray Lex with the 100% solution so that he falls for her. Forever, that is. That backfired, and he fell for Lois. Hard. I always thought that's why he was so obsessed with her - even after he died and was brougth back to life. No man would go to such lengths to kidnap her, even after she got amnesia, just for power or for the sake of it. Pretty sure that's the way it happened - although with Lex, I might be wrong.
The Tempus Anyone bit, I always thought like you. The possibility of the time machine never occured to me. Now that I think about it, it makes much more sense, because when altClark came to Metropolis in the 4th season, he hadn't aged unproportionally to Clark, so it appears that time passage was paralell as well. Also, if HG Wells pulls him out of his universe for a few days and returns him there without messing with time, he'd miss years.
There's a scene in SoulMates, the one in the wild west, which I don't know how to interpret. Tempus has a camera there because of his 'big ego' - however, if they weren't invented yet, how would he know to make one? And what would the rest of the town think of that? Did that incarnation time travel too, then? Because I always though the two incarnations we saw of Tempus in that episode were not time travelers, and stayed put.
Julie
