10x21 - Finale (Page 1 of 2)

Good lord.. it lasted 10 seasons?

Ditto!

You never forget your first. 

It was a good show.... once... to bad that the last few seasons has been a bit painful...

I see it really as the opposite I thought the worst parts of the show were seasons 4-8 there was some good episodes but overall I thought it was kind of bad and seasons 9-10 have redeemed the show.

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Just watched the finale thought it was alright I guess, wish there was more to the fight in general. I get the show is Smallville Clark becoming Superman which is what happened I just don't personally like Superman the hero bugs me so I was less looking forward to the part of the show and the fight which I wish would have been the Just League vs Darkseid...again I know not what this show was about, but still it should have been.

Indeed!!!

plot wise it wasn't the best finale but seeing him turn into Superman was awesome!
And reuniting the cast was also great, few people were missing but the ones that did show made it all worth it.
I really will miss this show.
It's been around for 10 years and it was the first show I got addicted to....
For me , it's the end of an era

So I thought I'd add my $0.02 even though I am not a fan of being negative just for the sake of negativity. I watched Smallville pretty regularly until about season 6 when it got very bad. I haven't seen anything since the middle of season 6, but wanted to see the last minutes of the show so I suffered through the two-part finale.

The episodes were pretty bad - full of pathos and empty phrases and surprisingly low on action. There's a planet hurling toward Earth and Clark basically just runs from place to place, talks to a few people, then has an epiphany and magically saves the day.

But what bugged me the most was how far Smallville was pushing the whole "origin" story. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (the two original showrunners who left at the end of season 8, I think) had a rule: "no tights, no flight." Clearly CW had different plans, because they got booted off and then the past two years, from what I've gathered in the finale were all about Clark and Lois getting closer and him becoming Superman. And that is definitely going too far.

I was hoping, way back when I was watching Smallville, that Gough and Millar would break their rule at the very end and give us maybe just a silhouette shot of Superman in his costume at the top of the Daily Planet while John Williams' famous score would be played, fade to black, ideal ending.

Smallville should have ended with Clark coming to Metropolis, meeting Lois Lane, and deciding to become Superman and getting the costume. In the version the writers did right now too many people knew about his secret identity so getting the costume was really just for our benefit - not to mention how they screwed with comics continuity by having the costume be Kryptonian and not made by Martha. (Why would Jor-El create a costume with an S on it? There's no S in Kal-El? It makes no sense.) Superman's very public secret forced the writers to also do a lot of redacting, especially in the very forced way they wiped Lex's memory. And the whole wedding thing was too contrived and puts the ending of Smallville somewhere in the middle of Superman's story, not the beginning where it belongs.

Finally, as much as I appreciated the use of the original music - especially the build up while Clark talks to Lois about being late for their wedding got my blood pumping - it was the only good thing about that last minute. It reached the crescendo as Clark was opening the door and dropping his jacket in slow motion! That moment could have been handled much better - even just dropping the slow motion would have made a huge difference.

But I admit that Superman is a difficult hero to write for and I guess the Smallville writers did a decent enough job. But for future reference they should use less slow motion

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

The finale did not live up to the hype but I for one will miss Smallville.

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First off I've finally registered after reading the forum and watching the homepage for several years, Great job everyone with good clear comments on, well pretty much every series I've watched uptill now..

On topic:
After I saw the final episode I was tremendously relieved, I've follow the whole series of Smallville from A-Z because I actually loved the whole selfish hero ideally.
I thought looking back to Smallville as an entire series this episode was beautiful. The main point what Separated Smallville from the real superman series is (to my opinion) the flying and the suit, to have them been brought together how they did was as I expected.. Though from the Superman fan point off view it was MUCH overdue.
However from Smallville point of view it was justified.

Clark could beat darkside because he finally embodied the light side itself thus rendering Orions bow mute, due to it being a weapon for light where as clark/superman embodied it. The Arrows just took care of the lackey's, Clark with (probably/fictional) imbued the powers of light as him self.

I am hoping for a new series with Tom Welling as Superman and 40% of the Smallville cast (Lois, Perry and Lex are to my opinion a must for the new series)  to pick up where Smallville left it. A new series which would follow as a "season 11".
Due to this series running for a decade it has defined the "Superman look" for the new fan generation.

I for one am hopeful for a new series and hope the Superman legacy wont die out after this series. ( I disliked the New adventures of lois and clark thus I genuinely hope for a new series. )

Yes a new series maby/probably would redefine Superman However if the last episode would be taken to heart (Clarks new point of view and him getting married ASAP.) it would still be Superman.

To many series have truly ended or got cancelled when they were finally able to show their true potential.. I hope this wont happen to this franchise..

Look at it this way, The final episode was a Pilot for the new series..
Whom of the Superman fans/ long running series fans would like to have it die out after it finally gets to shed its childish skin?

take a look here and here, it's kind of the symbol of the House of El.:
http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/House_of_El
http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_of_El

The most epic way the original theme was ever used was when the ship lightened up in his hole behind the barn or whatever and Clark going down in it to check it out.

I don't even have a clue wich season finale it was (early years though) but the image with the theme being played by a solo soft trumpet I think was one of the very few moments I remember from that show.

mm... think I'll redownload that one just for that little piece.

Correction: Wasn't a finale but almost. Was episode 2-22 and the first time Clark hears Jor-El (Stamp) voice.

If I remember right season 5 by far was the worst season I think that had both the 100th episode that I hated Brianic as Johnathan ghost which was also weak and the Lana desperate for Clark to sleep with her but doesn't cause he got his powers back..I could be wrong about the season though