Smallville - 2006.05.11 Season Ender (Spoliers Wecome)

[Hand of Evil]

What a freaking LAME ender - this show needs a kick in the pants or to end!

Lex is taken by Fine to become Zod -
Clark is told he need to kill Lex to save the world from Zod and is given a knife by Ja-El -
Lana and Clark have words -
Fine releases a virus to destroy all tech, as blackouts and failures occur, roits take place and the world panics -
Chloe kisses Clark, highlight as it was about freaking time -
Clark leaves to find Lex and try and talk with him, they fight -
Lois and Ma Kent are being flown to their doom by Fine -
Clark get knife and kills Fine (again) which releases Zod into Lex -
Zod then sends Clark into the Phatom Zone without a fight.

Some diailog was good but overall not a good ending and if you ever read the issues with the build up to the new superman movie, you can see some of those elements in this ender.

 

[EricNoah]

I enjoyed it immensely. I thought it was the best episode of the season.

 

[Belen]

I enjoyed it immensely. I thought it was the best episode of the season.

Bingo. I loved this episode. I was left dying to see the other half. Chloe was left in the hands of rioters either being beaten or raped, Lois and Martha passed out due to oxygen deprivation, Lana making out with Zod!

And Clark drifting off into space trapped in the phantom zone.

I loved it!

I have enjoyed this entire season. It has been a very dark season filled with pain and despair for much of the cast. Clark keeps refusing to grow up and become the man that he needs to become. Clark has been hiding from himself in Smallville this entire season. He has been selfish and self-absorbed and his refusal to open his eyes had led to this disaster.

 

[EricNoah]

And yet who can blame him? He's got Jor "Nah, just let Chloe freeze To death, your training is more important" El on one side, Lionel "To be a hero you need to commit a few evil acts for the greater good" Luthor on the other, an ex-girlfriend he can never explain himself to ... it's a tough old world! He's damned if he does, and if he doesn't.

Clark's greatest weakness, as Brainiac said, is humans. He's willing to get caught up in a web of relationships, just like the rest of us, and that's what makes him Super MAN and not Super ALIEN. It would be easy to have him just leave Smallville and forget his mother and his friends and have him live alone and fight crime. But that's part of his journey -- how can he have it both ways?

 

[Belen]

And yet who can blame him? He's got Jor "Nah, just let Chloe freeze To death, your training is more important" El on one side, Lionel "To be a hero you need to commit a few evil acts for the greater good" Luthor on the other, an ex-girlfriend he can never explain himself to ... it's a tough old world! He's damned if he does, and if he doesn't.

Clark's greatest weakness, as Brainiac said, is humans. He's willing to get caught up in a web of relationships, just like the rest of us, and that's what makes him Super MAN and not Super ALIEN. It would be easy to have him just leave Smallville and forget his mother and his friends and have him live alone and fight crime. But that's part of his journey -- how can he have it both ways?

This season has not been about protecting the people he loves. The season has been about protecting himself. Everything that he has done has been selfish and he has paid for it. Even saving Lana in the 100th episode was about him and his selfish desires.

I think he almost understood in this last episode when he asked if maybe Jor-el was not trying to protect him and the world. Clark has demonized Jor-el because Jor-el wants him to sacrifice his own desires for the greater good.

The return of Zod was Clark's fault. He hid in Smallville and only did something when it affected him on a personal level. He blinded himself.

It's great to see that level of human fault in Superman. I think the next season will focus on focusing him to become Superman.

 

[EricNoah]

I personally am glad Clark didn't kill Lex just 'cause daddy said so. Clark's not a killer. The results are unfortunate, but that's sometimes what happens when you take the high road. Clark is right to resist Jor-El because so far he's never shown all that much interest in humans -- humanity as a whole, maybe, but individuals are just tools to him. Until I understand his motives I gotta side with Clark on most of his choices this season.

 

[Crothian]

The only way I think it could have been better is if at the end it showed a few of the other Superheroes we'd seen fighting and also losing.

 

[Fast Learner]

I also thought it was fan-frickin-tastic. Hand of Evil, what exactly are you looking for?

I don't know that Clark took "the high road," though. If a man is going to kill thousands of people unless I kill him first, and I have plenty of reason to believe it, all I see is weakness in letting him go on. I recognize that the general concept of killing X in order to save Y is a very nebulous, gray moral area, but I don't see any high road in refusing to kill one guy and therefore allowing the death of many, many others. Makes no sense to me at all.

Integrity is not its own virtue. I can swear to kill every baby I see and as long as I live up to my word and actually kill every single one, I'm acting with great integrity. I'm also wrong. Clark's "I will not kill" pledge does not make him a better person if he's positioned to save the lives of countless others. It is high time he re-examined how his ethics and the reality of his responsibility intersect. I know that Superman is well known for not being a killer (with a noted exception or two), but that's always been a bit of fantasy that spoils his character for me. There is such a thing as the greater good, and though it's a very dangerous and slippery slope to claim that you are acting in defense of it, that doesn't mean you're not.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I also thought it was fan-frickin-tastic. Hand of Evil, what exactly are you looking for?

I don't know that Clark took "the high road," though. If a man is going to kill thousands of people unless I kill him first, and I have plenty of reason to believe it, all I see is weakness in letting him go on. I recognize that the general concept of killing X in order to save Y is a very nebulous, gray moral area, but I don't see any high road in refusing to kill one guy and therefore allowing the death of many, many others. Makes no sense to me at all.

Integrity is not its own virtue. I can swear to kill every baby I see and as long as I live up to my word and actually kill every single one, I'm acting with great integrity. I'm also wrong. Clark's "I will not kill" pledge does not make him a better person if he's positioned to save the lives of countless others. It is high time he re-examined how his ethics and the reality of his responsibility intersect. I know that Superman is well known for not being a killer (with a noted exception or two), but that's always been a bit of fantasy that spoils his character for me. There is such a thing as the greater good, and though it's a very dangerous and slippery slope to claim that you are acting in defense of it, that doesn't mean you're not.

The flow seemed to be slow - a lot of commericals may have been to blame.

 

[Truth Seeker]

-My reaction-

Nuff said..