.424 -- Supernatural and Smallville.
I don't really have much to say on the finale because, well, I'm not really invested in the show as much as I used to be. Season six was a little more entertaining when it featured likes of Green Arrow, but now I'm getting really, really tired of the show as a whole. It really has been dragging for too long and there's only ever been a few key elements that have kept me watching. One of them is Chloe.
I kinda think Chloe is dead for real. And that really pisses me off, because the way the writers have been screwing with the Superman canon makes me wonder why they don't at least have respect for the non-canon characters, especially because Chloe is far more interesting the Lois and Lana put together.
I have to say, and I say this with conviction: if Chloe is truly dead, I will no longer be watching the show. Considering that she is a non-canon character, she gives this show more life than a good number of the canon characters. Her death was cheap and pointless, and I'm not invested in Lois Lane's character enough to consider her self-sacrifice a worthy one.
So Chloe's a meteor freak and her one power is to heal one person and then die? It sounds heroic, but in the grand scheme of things I thought it was a cheap, degrading way to let her die. I hope for the show's sake that she's not dead, merely unconscious, and that the writers realise what a benefit her new powers could be in future episodes. Chloe is too significant to render her a substitute in the face of Lois Lane, and maybe if the writers hadn't screwed with canon so much and made Lois a barely-like character, I could have found some merit in their decision. But mostly I'm just pissed off. I knew there was a chance they'd kill off Chloe eventually. I knew it from the get-go. I guess I had a small hope that maybe they'd write her in such a way that she wasn't so expendable. Her character is capable of great things outside of the Smallville canon. In fact she's one of the few good things that the writers got right, I think. And now they've just made me unbelievably angry.
If Chloe is dead, I'm taking this moment to state that I will not, and will never, accept the season six finale as canon. I will continue to write Chloe as a very-much-alive meteor freak with the power to heal. However childish and ignorant that may sound, I don't care. I think the fans of Smallville out there have more respect for her character than the writers themselves, which just about sums it up, I think.
I haven't ranted about Supernatural for a while, but that doesn't mean I don't love it as much as I always have. I do, and God bless those who helped the show earn a third season. I love the boys too much to watch them disappear into TV-obscurity.
The season finale was... God. I can't even say. I know it sounds very fangirl-y and a little obsessed, but I'm so proud to call myself an Ackles fan. I have loved every minute of watching him grow as an actor and after so many years I'm glad to see he hasn't grown stale and monotonous. I love watching actors grow like that. I think Padalecki is also incredible, but I've only been watching him for two years. I haven't seen him grow like I have Jensen. And Dean will always be my boy. He's one of the very few actors that can bring me to tears through his sheer intensity and the last few episodes have brought a lump to my throat just by watching him.
Gah. Season three seems so far away now. I know summer will go by faster than I'll like, but it still seems too long.
Sigh.