Addressing what is clearly the most important point first: now that they've established a young Lex clone with hair, they could TOTALLY have Lex be all new-and-improved with hair, which I understand is about 90% of MR's reason for not coming back (the baldness thing, I mean). So I join your pleas and add my non-existent firstborn to the pile.

I forgot about the previous Ollie torture (my memory, she is short) so I guess they had a valid reason for not showing the chest. Darn.

And yes, I agree with you completely about Jor-El's hypocrisy. WTF?