Smallville season Finale---Spoilers *Blink, Blink*

[Maerdwyn]

If you wanna bring me up to speed fast, that'd be great; reruns aren't dependable enough (sometimes out of order, preempted for other things, etc.)

Thanks!
Daniel

Ok

I'll start another thread to avoid cluttering this one.

 

[DMScott]

I think the problem is the writers never departed from "angsty teen drama" mode. Hopefully they'll eventually feel confident enough to do a super hero show without the teen soap opera nonsense.

Well, then they'd just have to start with the regular soap opera nonsense. Clark Kent's life has always featured twists straight out of a soap (or sitcom), it's just that in the comic books that's mostly a sideline to the Superman stuff. This show seems to focus more on the Clark Kent side, and will presumably continue to do so if/when they notch the ages up.

I personally don't think that moving straight to Metropolis is all that good an idea. They don't want to rush into the tights any sooner than they have to, because as soon as they do the show's focus (and the audience) will have to shift - not to mention the special effects budget goes way up.

 

[Taelorn76]

I thought I read on these boards that DC had bought the rights to Chloe. That would mean she is not going anywhere just yet.

 

[PugioilAudacio]

Chloe is NOT DEAD.

But seriously, Allison Mack is on the list for next years cast. The WB (and others) love doing this. I don't know if anybody watches Charmed, but they did the exact same thing, making you think at the end of the last season that one of the characters (Leo) was blown to pieces. In the first episode of the next season - there he was again - he hadn't died.

Clark is probably going to spend a summer stuck in the "Phantom Zone" with the next season picking up at/near the start of school (anyone else find it funny that he's only a Junior). Additionally, I think he's going to patch up his relationship with Lex, at least enough so that they are speaking to each other.

My other predictions:
Clark will gain a new power - probably flight.
Clark will have a new love type affair.
Launa will return from Paris (new look?).
Lex will start taking a much darker path (of course).
Perry White will show up several more times.


Like all good predictions, these are suitably vague. One final note, the producers have stated that the show will end once Clark proceeds to Metropolis (fairly reliable source on this).

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I'm expecting some cheesy time travel fix next season. Not that I didn't really enjoy this episode, but I really think they are going to pull a fast one.

 

[MEG Hal]

Chloe is NOT DEAD.


My other predictions:
Clark will gain a new power - probably flight.
Like all good predictions, these are suitably vague. One final note, the producers have stated that the show will end once Clark proceeds to Metropolis (fairly reliable source on this).

I have always heard "no flight, no tights" and I also heard they signed for 5 more seasons so Clark can go to college. So Metropolis may happen but flight will not (according to producers).

 

[Filby]

For my part, I strongly believe that the "Jor-El" on the show really is Clark's father. Why is he acting in an "evil" manner? Well, the way I see it... he's a highly-evolved alien with no conception of the human concepts of right and wrong. "Good" and "evil" have no meaning to him, and he believes that Clark conquering Earth would be in mankind's best interest. If he's acting like a villain, it's that he just doesn't know any better.

I'm 95% certain that Lex is not dead... I mean, he's Lex Luthor, he can't die. And Lionel replacing his son by placing his brain in Lex's body? It would take all the emotional baggage out of Lex's descent into true evil.

On a bit of a tangent, though, I would like to see something along the lines of the above happening to that mad scientist from the Somerholt Institute: the explosion by the green-K water-tank doesn't really kill him, he wakes up stunned and crippled and, as a side-effect, a hundred times smarter, and uses his newfound brainpower to devise a way to transplant his brain into a new body. Bingo, Dr Whatsisname = the very first super-villain ever, and Superman's original arch-foe from 1938, the Ultra-Humanite. Bring back his minion Mary "Brainwave" Briggs with some new mental powers and you've got yourself two Golden Age villains ready to go.

Of course, that's never going to happen, but I can dream.

 

[Bill Scott]

Man, the modern Superman is a stupid guy. A bit of an , actually. He gets angry at his friends, jumps to conclusions, and doesn't trust anyone. Compare that to the Christopher Reeve(s?) Superman, who was really a nice guy, and I think I understand why I don't like this show.

I know it's possible to write a show about a hero who doesn't have silly fallings-out with his friends every week and a half.

The show is not about SuperMAN. The show is about how young CK, with all his teenage problems, matures to the great hero he is destined to become. Once he becomes SuperMan, the show will be over

As for the Jor-El being evil part, I think he is just testing Clark/Kal to see if he was taught well by the Kents.

Is Clark in the Phantom Zone? With no stars around his 'cocoon', it seemed like it. As I said before, it's going to be a long wait before next season

 

[WayneLigon]

I think the problem is the writers never departed from "angsty teen drama" mode. Hopefully they'll eventually feel confident enough to do a super hero show without the teen soap opera nonsense.

Does anyone else but me realize that the teen drama angle is the only reason this show is still on the air? No straight superhero show has ever done well over the long-term, period; you need buy-in from the mainstream audience for that and the mainstream audience is not going to sit still for an hour of people in tights. You have to sneak up behind them first. Gradually, Smallville has more and more heroic scenes of Clark using his powers.

Lois and Clark approached the idea from the same angle: focus on the relationship between the two instead of on striaght superheroics. It lasted four seasons, which was nothing short of a miracle. esp since it had more heroics than Smallville does, and a costume to boot. They basically survived by giving you both sides in balance; form every scene where Superman flies and saves a bus from hitting a baby carriage, there's a scene of Clark and Lois looking at houses, or in the workplace.

Now, Smallville will being going into it's fourth season. I think we'll see even more heroics in the upcoming season, though I still do think that the very last shot of the very last show of the series will be him taking off his shirt and revealing the Superman costume underneath. Then it'll fade to black and we're done. I hope it's not so, but I think it is.

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I think the thing with Jor-El is pretty cool. They've probably taken a lot of cues from the comics where, now, it's pretty evident that (ironically, apart from Jor-El), most Kryptonians would see us as ants and treat us accordingly.

Though I still think it would be cool as heck if 'Jor-El' turned out to be General Zod

 

[Mistwell]

I'm expecting some cheesy time travel fix next season. Not that I didn't really enjoy this episode, but I really think they are going to pull a fast one.

That was the first thing I thought of as well. Too much got messed up by Jor-El's intervention. Clark's gonna just pop back out of the cave before this all happened, and fix it all. Cheezy, but predicable for this show (which I often like, but which is inconsistent in writing due to the number of writers they use and lack of continuity meetings).