Warning for anyone taping the re-runs on WB Sundays.

I was watching the showing of the first two eps on Sept 15, and lo and behold, I noticed things zipping by *much* faster than previously. Hey, sez I, wasn't there more to that scene? And sure enough, here's a far from complete list of stuff I noticed cut:

The thumping on the roof of the bus scene with Chloe and Pete.
Clark's entire football daydream sequence.
The "Kiss of Life" at the river
Lex's "Kid, you alright?" line
Clark's "If you had, I'd be dead." line and subsequent 'swoon'
Clark's conversation with Lex in the stairwell at Luthor Mansion.
Lana's arrival at the graveyard on her horse
Clark's arrival at the graveyard and pose in front of the angel statue (one of my personal fave scenes! How dare they! )

... and these are just some examples.

I can only assume they wanted to stuff more commercials into the time slot, but REALLY.

I'm glad I saw the DVD first, too. They had the nerve to cut scenes with Lex! Faugh.

I can think of a few scenes I wish they'd cut, but they didn't.

Bad choices.

Thank goodness for that DVD.

I do wish that when they cut episodes for time, they'd cut Lana's lines, or Pete's lines, or anyone's lines but Lex's!
Couldn't Jonathan Kent spare a platitude or two?

People seem to have eked out the subtext all right, but it's amazing that the Pilot was as well-received as it was with some of the best lines missing.

Makes me really, really long for the DVD version of all the other episodes. Who knows what we've missed?

I'm new to the Smallville thing, and the only time I saw the Pilot when they recently reaired it, so I'm quite interested to know what I missed! What's this DVD you're all talking about?