Doomsday

OMG- what an utter load of BS. Chloe is shown to be sooooooo sooooo stupid. CK and chloe put the whole of mankind at risk. To save Davis; all for what? To kill both Jimmy and Davis- As far as the beast is concerned so they figure out the black kryptonian meteor rock can separate them, but they couldn't use the green kryptonite to disarm the beast..

What a good way to end this season ! It wasn't perfect but overall I strongly recommend it to anyone.

The major problem was that a single episode was just not enough to properly tell all stories. Too many characters were involved and far too many things happened. So I wish Doomsday had been directed as a two parts episode. As a result many scenes were too short and ended too abruptly. An other issue was Doomsday's design because we saw more of it and I really don't like the creature's design. It almost looks like a cheap puppet. Moreover the previous episodes didn't succeed in making us believe in his strength so his fight against Clark wasn't that impressive, and its ending was even worst. However I have to admit that the visual effects were well done but I think they should better spend their money, across all episodes, instead of throwing it all in for the finale to blow us away. I'm not asking for a CG creature as well rendered as Venom in Spider-Man 3 but when I see what Impossible Pictures manages to achieve with Primeval, I think a CG Doomsday would have been better. Last but not least an other disappointment was the orb arc. I really like Tess but her scenes were just useless and I think the director should have used these precious minutes to cover the Doomsday arc deeper. As for the upcoming season elements I think using this finale episode as a beacon was disrespectful. It means they planned it all along and Smallville could have never ended with season 8. Moreover the cliffhanger is not interesting because I don't want the show to go backward.

As for the pros all performers did a great job and made scenes even more believable. I specially enjoyed Tom Welling's ones because the maturity and darkness of his character reminded me of films like The Dark Knight and Watchmen. It was also intriguing to see if he would achieve the Doomsday goal set in the previous episode. The other scenes I really liked were the ones involving Jimmy. His relationships with other characters, specially Chloe and Clark, were developed further and something very important happened to him. There were also great moments like the mythological dialog between Chloe and Davis under the stars, Jimmy's gift to Chloe… But in the end my favorite element was probably the relationship between Clark and Davis. In the previous episodes they were only presented as good and evil brothers but in this one Clark realized something very important about his own identity. I don't know if he's right or wrong to think that way but it'll be interesting to get some answers during the upcoming season.

Smallville Season 8 was the season that I expected to be absolute trash and it completely surprised me. The season had a lot of hate when it was starting up since the old writers of the show were leaving, the most interesting characters in the show which were Lionel and Lex Luthor left, the season's budget was even less then the last and lots of fans quit the show. But thankfully, season 8 proved everyone wrong. The season got a lot closer to the Superman mythos as Clark Kent became the Red/Blue Blur, he started working at the Daily Planet and Doomsday become the season's enemy. Doomsday was actually an incredibly smart decision for the season's criminal and he was very engaging and his story arc was done really well while the buildup of his character was near perfect. The season also gave more depth to characters that the viewers had lost interest in like Jimmy Olson and Olliver Queen aka Green Arrow. The freak of the week episodes were also done better in this season and some of the freaks were actually kind of interesting and more deep then you would expect them to be. With all that said, the season did have it's faults like bringing Lana Lang back which no one needed, not having enough action sequences compared to the older seasons and being a lot less interesting cause of the loss of the show's most valuable characters (Lionel and Lex). The season finale was also extremely disappointing and the final fight between Doomsday and Clark Kent was about 45 seconds long. Otherwise the season was pretty solid and brought hope back to people even after they thought all was lost.

Smallville Season 8 gets an 8.3/10.

My thoughts - better late than never.

Sadly, I remember clearing my schedule in order to catch this season finale. I pondered: "Will this fight be on the epic level scale that the producers have left fans to believe during their interview on e-online? I hope so." Then everything went blank after seeing the "big showdown" that the writers/producers had promised I was left speechless; especially since I lost a bet (regarding a good fight between Clark and Doomsday) with my wife who is not a fan by the way. Even though the stake was $5.00, but in this economy, it can come in quite handy (a little humor at least).

I actually could have recorded it with my DVR, and watch it whenever I have nothing better to do, like clothes shopping with my wife.

Actors: good job.....producers: bad job.....writers: worst job.

All in all, I do hope that they redeem themselves in season 9.

They've been dumbing down this show in so many ways for quite some time that it is not really surprising that this finale was so poorly done, and that good old Clark has regressed from having the emotional IQ of a teenager to that of a grade school child. Full of plot holes (time travel or no time travel) and poorly conceived, written, sequenced, edited and acted - it displays a real lack of empathy for its audience - if this show was a Prime Minister, the ruling party members would have their knives out, but it looks like horrible finale or no horrible finale, we're doomed to have a season nine. If I were Aaron Ashmore, I'm thinking I would not be too disappointed to be exiting about now. BTW, Jimmy Olsen has a kid brother named Jimmy Olsen who they now say is the 'real' Jimmy Olsen. oh that is a perfect example of the incredulity- and ire-inducing inanity that pervades this episode.