Just a couple of quick reactions to "Kent".
1. I thought I was doing ok with the approaching end of Smallville, though I did get a little bit of a pang when the Luthor mansion got burned down--but it turns out I'M a lot more attached to that yellow Kent farmhouse than Martha, Clark, or Lois. *OH MY HEART* Yeah, I got it thematically, in the alt world and this one, your home is the people you love, not a physical space, and that was lovely for the Jonathan-Martha and Clark-Lois stuff, but dammit, I am attached to the Kent farmhouse! I don't want them to sell it! *Clings to Smallville desperately*
2. Tess clearly has a LOT more willpower than me, because if I had Clark Luthor trying to seduce me + get me to help him kill off my worst enemy, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to resist. Especially if I was basically in love with Clark. So kudos to her. And I appreciate TPTB giving a little more support for a Tess/Emil ship, in that scene at the end.
3. Lois + Clark 4EVA!!!! And can I just say, I loved that Lois was the one person who wanted to hold onto the farm because it was the only stable home she ever had, and she remembered Jonathan and Martha there--but I also loved that Clark is all the Smallville she needs. *Happy Sigh*
4. I never love Clark more than when he is doing the Superman "I will make you a better person just by believing in you" thing, and he got to do it twice in this episode--for poor crazy Jonathan (which I was expecting) and then for alt Clark (which honestly I was not expecting--I thought they'd just send him back to the altverse, so I got a little verklempt that he was going to get a chance to redeem himself too).
And a bit longer commentary on "My Heart will Go On," though mostly in the form of exclamations
1. ELLEN!!!!!! ELLEN ELLEN ELLEN ELLEN ELLEN! I AM SO HAPPY THEY FOUND A WAY TO BRING HER BACK!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I knew we'd lose her by the end of the episode (*sob*), but I was glad of what we got, because I really missed her. And I was unspoiled, so it was a pretty amazing surprise.
2. Dean, HOW long have you been a hunter? In all this time, you haven't figured out a smooth way to warn people about the supernatural, really? (Ok, your lack of social skills were showing more than normal in this ep in general, but GEEZ.)
3. Who's Celine Dion? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
4. "The other angel. The one in the dirty trench coat who's in love with you". !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. I laughed my ass off at that scene where the boys were walking along tempting fate. Especially at the juggling hatchets. Hee!
6. Souls for the war machine? Minting money? Very very interesting. I'm really curious about what we're going to find out about how souls are actually used.
7. Atropos is a pretty hot librarian, I have to say. Though I'm a little surprised they decided to make Fate someone who worked for God rather than an independent operator
8. You killed 50,000 people for us. Damn, the Dean/Castiel shippers are gonna go crazy. I do love Castiel keeping stuff from them, though, and letting them think it's just Balthazar being whimsical. Interesting strategic thinking there.
9. Oh, Bobby. You poor sad man. I'm not sure if it's worse never to know about Ellen, or to have lost a second wife.
10. Three times in the episode it was repeated that it's better not to be born than to die bloody (Bobby, Ellen, and Castiel all said it independently). I think, somehow, this must be significant or foreshadowy, but I honestly can't figure out what it might be foreshadowing.