It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a failed show that is finally ending!
Yes, ladies, Tom Welling will not be taking off his shirt anymore after this. So cry me a fucking river and listen to Justin Bieber while slitting your wrists while having a period.
The tenth and season of Smallville has come at the end of the journey that has disappointed many Superman fans after season 5. The first season was good, but then it got weirder and weirder when it got to Season 6. You would always think this or that was the season when Clark would finally be Superman.
According to the fucked up writing staff of Smallville, this is the season in which Clark embraces his destiny and becomes Earth’s greatest protector. Why couldn’t do that in Seasons 8 or 9? I don’t know, but I was really disappointed in both.
The show begins with Baby Clark’s arrival in Smallville during a meteor shower that can enable people to have powers and can kill them or people in the long run. Clark fights these psychos and some of them use their power for good. Then the show grows into a more drastic and dark show, filled with a depressed young Superman who should’ve taken a kryptonite knife and slit his own wrists.
The characters stem from the mainstream universe, and new characters have been placed as Clark’s foes or friends. In Season 1, there was Lana Lang, played by Kristen Kreuke, who was Clark’s love interest for four seasons and left after season 7. YAY! Now she can marry Pete Ross.
Speaking of Pete Ross, portrayed by Sam Jones III, he becomes a stretchy dude after eating Krypto Gum. Wtf? Anyway, he leaves the show in the third season. I don’t have a problem with his ethnic background, but wasn’t Pete Ross white?
Next, there is Lex Luthor, played beautifully by Michael Rosenbaum, was and always shall be the enemy of Clark. I try to understand how he was killed in Season 8 while he is the exact opposite of Clark, and if he’s taken out of the equation, who fills his place? Batman?
Anyway, the Kent Parents, played by John Schiender and Annette O’Toole, are in this as well, except that Jonathan dies in Season 5 and Martha leaves in Season 6. Pain in the ass, I know. New characters were added and taken away.
Lionel Luthor, the father of Lex, played by John Glover, lives from Season’s 1 to 7. And yes, Lex kills his dad. Epic spoiler!!!
Chloe Sullivan, played by the beautiful Allison Mack, has remained on the show since the first season. She plays as the best friend and knowledge of Clark and gains some abilities. Weird.
Anyway, besides the long list of regulars that have come and gone throughout the rest of the series, I was really disappointed in Season 8. I mean, I was really expecting a two hour long battle between Clark and Doomsday. But it was reduced to three minutes in the finale. Pisses me off.
Have any of you notice that in almost everything related to Superman that Doomsday is portrayed as a dumb monster, capable of only destruction, havoc, and grim death?
Doomsday was a thinking creature. Not a killing machine. Clark can’t die to Doomsday’s hands until he’s Superman, which I have hoped he would become, but that’s just me.
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