Smallville Season 8 Finale: 8x22 Doomsday Review

[paradisekendra]

Hi Everyone,

Well, that was not only the worst finale ever, but one of the worst episodes ever. They're exhausted and apparently have no goddamn energy or desire to pull anything good out of any part of their body. Seriously, they couldn't look on the net and find some talented fans to help them out? Jesus, usually they just piss off the Cloisers

Comments

[sunflowercyn10]

All I can say is if SV wanted to elicit a passionate response from their fans then they succeeded. I have never seen such a reaction on the SV boards...well never. For a season that started so well and with so much promise they really took a chance going in the direction they did with Doomsday. I'm going to post my review/thought/rant soon but in a nutshell I didn't hate it, but liked that they were taking everything that Clark held dear...his friends, loyality, humanity etc and tipping it 180 degrees. I like that fact that Clark has lost hope but in order to become the hero that represents hope he first has to find his...and his connection to humanity which is Lois. In the comics Doomsday killed Superman but here on SV it was all about the death of Clark Kent...aka his belief in his own humanity.

I hated the Jimmy death switcheroo crap. I wish I was going to ComicCon to give them a piece of my mind for disrespecting their fans so much with what could only be a seen as a stroke of genius to the writing staff and producers but not to us. I didn't like that Clark and Lois had so little screen time together but what I did see I liked. From the moment Clark realized he was probably going to die, he decided to cut himself off from his feelings and the people close to him. I think it was significant that Lois was the first because now she is gone and she was his last hope for maybe sometime in the future of having a relationship. Tess/Lois fighting? Do I dare bring up the fight scene between Tess/Lana? I was expecting that at least so very disappointed about that too.

I'll wrote more about all of this on my LJ but I wanted to stop by and read your review and say well done. All I can say to the SV now is...FIX IT!

[paradisekendra]

Thanks sweetie! I appreciate your support in the universal bitching and moaning about all the disappointments from this episode, and honestly the second half of the season. Just ridiculous. :( Let's hope they feel that with the magic of Tom and Erica that they finally have, they'll get their creative juices flowing again and DO something fun with them that they haven't done yet.

[sunflowercyn10]

Agreed...the first half I was happy with until "you know who" showed up. I wonder how things would have played out if they didn't have to do that story arc. Also if season 8 was going to be their last and how they were concentrating so much on Chloe/Davis/Doomy I swear us CLOISers would have been even more upset then. *shrugs*

[paradisekendra]

It would've been so different if they'd continued to progress the Clois relationship instead of have Clark backtrack into his relationship with Lana. And they totally destroyed Chloe, in every direction. I was starting to actually like her with Hex, and in Bride, but her going with Doomsday, grrrrrrrrr!