Smallville: Series Finale!

[jwyblejr]

I guess I'm alone in not liking it. First hour was a big snooze for me. Second hour,didn't really do it for me. All of that build up season long and that's it? What was the point to LOD last week if you aren't going to use them? Darkseid is done in like a puff of wind. More negatives for me than positives. Two positives were the John Williams theme and the end credits looking like from the original movie.

[Sideshow Spock]

You're not alone.. I thought it was equal parts laughable and dreadful..

[Thor]

The end really underlines the fact that the show was far past it's prime. I liked seeing him in the suit and the old movie score but they pulled the same type of crap with Darkseid that he pulled with Doomsday. A huge build up and then fight that lasts a couple of seconds. Both characters are supposed to be able to knock Supes on his but but that didn't happen. I suppose budget restraints are the reason. Using Lionel Luthor as a vessel for Darkseid was cheap in itself. At least the very end was good ole school.

[Werewolf]

Well, we never saw him really IN the suit. Just some quick glimpses.

Bummer. I think the fans deserved to see him in suit kicking butt for their loyalty to the show all these years.

[kingdom warrior]

I guess I'm alone in not liking it. First hour was a big snooze for me. Second hour,didn't really do it for me. All of that build up season long and that's it? What was the point to LOD last week if you aren't going to use them? Darkseid is done in like a puff of wind. More negatives for me than positives. Two positives were the John Williams theme and the end credits looking like from the original movie.

you're not alone I was bored with the first hour I was falling a sleep.. It kept building up and building up and then 5 minutes in the suit..... I watched it live, I usually just DVR it just way too many freeking commercials my goodness!!!

[kingdom warrior]

The end really underlines the fact that the show was far past it's prime. I liked seeing him in the suit and the old movie score but they pulled the same type of crap with Darkseid that he pulled with Doomsday. A huge build up and then fight that lasts a couple of seconds. Both characters are supposed to be able to knock Supes on his but but that didn't happen. I suppose budget restraints are the reason. Using Lionel Luthor as a vessel for Darkseid was cheap in itself. At least the very end was good ole school.

Just one note I wish they'd stop raping my childhood and using the John Williams theme. That belongs to Chris Reeve's Superman Legacy not Brandon Routh nor this guy.

Kirk Alyn,George Reeves, Chris Reeve and even dare i say it that dopey show lois and Clark all had their own theme music that made their Superman different.

[Brue]

... they pulled the same type of crap with Darkseid that he pulled with Doomsday. A huge build up and then fight that lasts a couple of seconds. Both characters are supposed to be able to knock Supes on his but but that didn't happen. I suppose budget restraints are the reason....

i don't think it was budgetary. big superpowered CGI fights aren't part of the show. i would have liked it too but it just isn't what thy were going for.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I really liked it but I thought it was stange that they never actually showed Welling wearing the suit.t was all CGI and then the end was just the shirt. He must have looked really bad in the spandex. too flabby?

[The Bat]

I loved it! Sure there wasn't a lot of action, but the show has always been about Clark(after all it is called Smallville)...so it was fitting that it ended being about Clark coming to terms with who he really is, and all they People that made him the decent person that he is, and him finally accepting his destiny.

The little bit we did see him Costume, I LOVED! And I geeked out every time I heard the John Williams theme.

[Earth 2 Chris]

After thinking about it a bit more, I think the ending was very fitting for Smallville. Sure, I'd love to have seen a slug-fest with Darkseid, but the show wasn't about that, as others have said. Welling standing tall for one scene in the suit would have been great too. Not really sure why that didn't happen, but seeing as how at one point I thought we'd never see the suit period, this will do. I doubt it had anything to do with Welling's physique. He's always been pretty fit.

I think I would have been even more psyched about it overall had I not seen Thor just a few hours before this! After that all-out approach, Smallville's conservative stance on super-heroics was a little harder to come back down to, even for an old, right-from-the-beginning fan like myself.

One more thing: Man, it was great to have Rosenbaum back. In his few scenes, he OWNED this finale. I can totally buy him giving Clark hell for the rest of their lives, just out of spite. The Tess solution was a good one, and their final exchange was well-played. Glad they didn't have her return to the "dark side" before bowing out.

Chris

[Bizarro Amy]

I guess I'm alone in not liking it. First hour was a big snooze for me. Second hour,didn't really do it for me. All of that build up season long and that's it? What was the point to LOD last week if you aren't going to use them? Darkseid is done in like a puff of wind. More negatives for me than positives. Two positives were the John Williams theme and the end credits looking like from the original movie.

No, you're not alone. I got bored with some of the dialogue sequences and fast-forwarded through the part with Clark and Lois discussing their vows through the door. Yeah yeah, Clark's become a good man, blah blah...I wanted to see him wear the suit and kick some Apokolyptian butt. The thing with the Anti-Life equation looked cool, but why did Darkseid want souls? He's not the Devil. If he was just enslaving them, I could see it. I was very disappointed in the final "battle" between him and Clark. I've never liked the way they designed Darkseid and was hoping it was just the way he manifested himself on Eath, and that eventually we'd see him in his true form. So Clark flies up, pushes Apokolypse out of the way, and that's it? This is why I couldn't watch this series on a regular basis. It teases me with really cool stuff, and then leaves me disappointed every time(except most of the JSA episode). Oh, and where were the other heroes?
It was cool to see the suit, but why didn't they give us any real, heroic shots of him wearing it, that weren't CG? I did like the end, with him running out on the roof with the John Williams music in the background.

[Mego Magyar]

Even though there were things I was hopping for that weren't there I'm just glad they didn't wipe out the whole series and make Smallville only a comic book that was being read to a kid - that's was my fear when I saw the opening.
It's been done before:
Saint Elsewhere wiped out the whole show having it only in the mind of an autistic child.
Dallas wiped out a whole season, remember Bobby in the shower and the past season was a dream.
Newhart wiped out the whole series as a dream.
Rosanne wipe out at least part of a season ( everything after Dan's heart attack - he really died ) as a story she was writing.

[The Bat]

BEST SERIES FINALE EVER!!!!!
OMG! I was equal parts crying and cheering. That was SO satisfying! That's how you wrap up a series! After so many lame series finales lately <coughLOSTcough> it was refreshing to see one done RIGHT.
Nobody who already hated the series was going to magically enjoy it from that finale but those of us who watched EVERY episode for the last TEN YEARS received our promised send-off and it was SPECTACULAR!!!
I kind of wished they had dealt with the Darkseid subplot earlier in the season and used something else for Clark's big debut (and Smallville's goodbye) but it is what it is and was done right!
Congratulations to the producers & writers and actors and THANK YOU for the last ten years. I'm going to miss having my Superman fix weekly now.
That last scene had me jumping out of my chair and shouting with enthusiasm!

[huedell]

Even though there were things I was hopping for that weren't there I'm just glad they didn't wipe out the whole series and make Smallville only a comic book that was being read to a kid - that's was my fear when I saw the opening.

Still, isn't that essentially what it was? A work of fiction?

It's not comicbook, yes, but it's a TV show just the same.

I don't see how that would've changed anything if it were
"just a comicbook."

Anyways, first thing I thought of was the comicbook intro from the first Reeve movie.

I thought the whole show came of (as mentioned) as "elusive"... maybe
that's one of the positives abourt SMALLVILLE, in that it doesn't show the full monty for fear of overdoing things... oh well... I can't really
complain too much about a ten year Supes show.... at least, not at this moment

[Sideshow Spock]

BEST SERIES FINALE EVER!!!!!
OMG! I was equal parts crying and cheering. That was SO satisfying! That's how you wrap up a series! After so many lame series finales lately <coughLOSTcough> it was refreshing to see one done RIGHT.

Better than the Lost finale?

I think I know what planet you live on..