Finale Screentime Minutes, and Deep Thoughts

[jeannev]

So, here I am...finally.  This is a hard review to tackle.  For one thing, its like two episodes.  For another, its the end.  Obviously.  And so I understand the desire to just want to let it alone.  It is what it is, and all that.  But, that just wouldn't be very me.  And besides, I think a series finale should get a little of the microscope

Comments

[jlvsclrk]

I for one agree absolutely about Martha and Jonathan and the AI - those scenes came close to ruining this episode for me with that whole unnecessary level of angst. Why oh why when there are so many great and obvious angles that could have been tackled with this last episode did they waste time on such twaddle?

Also agree that the Darkseid plot was massive fail that makes Doomsday start to look good - well, no, nothing can really do that. But there was so much else going on that I can give this episode a qualified A+, especially since Clark was so well done by here.

Some random thought: I think its obvious this was originally going to be two episodes - Wedding and Darkseid - and when they smushed them together, they should have trimmed Wedding to give proper time for Darkseid. Did you see on Beeman's blog where he talked about certain scenes being juggled around after he'd sent in the final cut? That explains the non sequitur of Clark going to check on Tess when he should have been going to the FOS for some totally stupid reason. And yes, the Chloe scenes felt totally unnecessary, but I did enjoy the future Clois. I didn't think his Miss Lane was anything more than his being so totally into his "mild mannered" role that he kept it up even when he needn't.

[jeannev]

The Martha/Ghost Jonathan/AI stuff is the stuff thats still hanging around in my brain, slowly eating away at the rest of the episode. Because I really do believe it has no validity, and so its a last minute "You're doing it wrong Clark" moment. And really, did the Finale need one of those?

For me, if I'm generous, I could give the Finale a B+, and thats mostly due to my Clark.

When I do my post about S10 as a whole, to include the Finale, I'm going to go into how much I think the wedding stuff should've come in episode 20, instead of the Prophecy episode.

There were definitely some editing issues I didn't quite get. The big inspirational speechs from the Kents should've come right before Clark goes to the FOS, but I'm not sure how that would've worked. You could also completely tell who was available to appear in what half of the Finale.