I haven't watched it at all this year.
However, I'm not sure if it's in the comics, but I don't like the fact that Kent meets all of these people before he's Superman, when he's in Smallville. It's just stupid to me. It just cheapens the mythos, seriously, having him meet Brainiac, Zod, Bizarro, etc all before he's even become Superman?
The Bruce Wayne show was going to suffer from the same thing. I read that Bruce Wayne as a teenager would encounter Selina Kyle, Harley Quinn, and even Jack Napier before he's even Batman.
Seriously, just go full out. Put Welling in the damn suit and send him to Metropolis for good. What they're doing is half assing it.