Finale

Thanks forever Smallville! What a epic and nostalgic final after ten seasons!! Incredible!!!

I just want to say thank you smallville And thanks to everyone in this show, I know maybe it's not the greatest but I am really glad watched it

There is question endlessly debated about how Johnathan can be able to make physical contact with Martha who doesn't think anything of it. While never directly addressed there's a answer from earlier in the season Brainiac-5. Earlier in this season we saw Brainiac, the Brain Interactive Construct as he was intended to be: a much kinder, update of himself called Brainiac-5. He taught Clark to stop being afraid, stop punishing himself and everyone around him for past mistakes and to embrace his future. When Evil Brainiac tried to convince Clark to kill Lionel it was by pretending to be Johnathan Kent. He could physically interact with everyone. So why wouldn't the more benign, supportive Brainiac 5 we saw in Homecoming take Johnathan's form trying to give Clark a gift? Everyone seems fixated on how Johnathan could be back from the dead and Clark's wedding and a room full of people not notice, but that's just it: There's nothing to say anyone except Clark and Martha can even see him. When Johnathan interacts with them, you can kind of see that he's just there for his friends and recognizing the importance of this moment...but not entirely sharing it. The hesitation in putting his hand on Martha's shoulder in the barn. Knowing it would be comforting but worried about over-stepping. To Have Johnathan there in some form for a moment as important as the wedding. But the main reason I don't think this is actually a beyond the grave incarnation is Johnathan does seem to be talking about himself a step-removed here, like he hesitates to refer to himself as Clark's father. Andf that Johnathan has NEVER 5 had so little reluctance in referring to Jor'el as Clark's father. It really sounded like this was coming from someone who knew and respected Jor'el, and always had. Like J'onn Jo'nzz or someone from Krypton.

Cassidy Freeman wasn't on set with anyone. Everything felt if not particularly rushed, more grand, fantastical and sweeping than anything that had come before it. Everything did happen pretty much at once. A little jarring but it was an adrenaline-filled season finale; the fast pace and 'no time' feeling probably was what they were actually going for. I actually saw Crisis on Infinite Earths of the CW Arrow-verse, before I saw this final season. I was wondering why Clark was so chill about President Lex Luthor apparently being in town. Clark was so cool with it because Lex didn't remember any of this! He was no longer the monster we've come to know over the past few seasons and might have been just a normal politician. He had truly been freed from the shackles of being raised, then confused and angered by Lionel as well as his feelings of betrayal with Clark's secrets and having judgment on speed dial season 5 onward. He explained in season six's Nemesis he got sick of Clark always having judgment on speed-dial, assuming the worst of him. And now he doesn't have to deal with what he perceived as a knife in his back and the loss of his best friend much less the circumstances of that loss. Tess didn't exactly redeem him, but did give him a truly precious gift: An unshackled future. Which apparently held 20 years later when Supergirl's Lex showed up, Tom Welling's Clark mentioned Lex was president. And actually seemed 1,000% cool about it.

I wanted to check out this series because I had read Arrow compared to it quite a bit over the years. This series was ok but I would have quit seasons ago if not for the character of Oliver. He really embodied what a hero should be. His integrity, his comedic timing, saying so much with just a facial expression...I loved the CW series Arrow and their version of Oliver Queen. It is one of my all time favorite series. Justin Hartley's Oliver is different, but just as great. He kept me watching when the overall angst got to be too much. I actually liked so many characters - Lex, Lana, Lois, Lionel, Chloe, Jimmy, Martha, Tess and others...all such great portrayals, lots of depth and complexity. The only character I really did not like is Clark. Which is ironic because he is the central character. The longer the series went on, the less I liked him - to the point I just forwarded through many of his scenes. I found him to be the worst Clark/Superman I've ever watched. He was often so incredibly self-centered, lied to excess to EVERYONE who meant anything to him, REPEATEDLY. He was a horrible boyfriend to every one of his girlfriends. And he was so self-righteous! Ugh!! He held everyone else to a standard that he never set for himself. It would have been different if he grew and matured during the series into the kind of man a hero should be. But I didn't see it happen, not to the degree it should have. Probably because this version of Clark never had it in him like he should have. To the end, he still fell back into his whiny ways. Give me Dean Cain's or Tyler Hoechlin's versions of the character. Because they both showed character and integrity. I think they embody the kind of person I've always felt Clark/Superman should be. Still with flaws like we all have but they were/are both heroic. But Smallville's version of Clark was a major disappointment, over and over. I can't believe how much I disliked him. But all the other characters made it watchable and enjoyable.

And Oliver and Chloe's relationship was so great to watch that I could ignore Clark to see them and make it through to the end of the series.

Three months after it was aired in the US, I in France just came at last to see Smallville's finale and... oh my God! I was screaming and laughing and crying in front of my screen: at last I was seeing the true Superman live again! Tom Welling was meant to wear the blue suit and red cape, he was made to be Superman; for the first time since the 1978 movie with regretted Christopher Reeve, I saw this symbol of hope, flying with his red cape in the wind and the mythical music theme of John Williams as a bonus. This final double episode was really satisfying, with beloved guest-stars and many brilliant ideas to link together the series with the universe of the comics. Of course, not everything was perfect, for example Lois and Clark's relationship was not quite as bubbly as usual, but they're cute nevertheless, and I believe that every fan found what they expected. I think we can congratulate Smallville's writers and producers for the coherence and inventiveness of the universe they created and its respect for its model. They took the stand for 10 years and they can be proud of their work.