Rank 'Em: Smallville's Final Season

[LL2K2]

For the final time:

Homecoming
Beacon
Finale
Abandoned
Booster
Icarus
Kent
Masquerade
Ambush
Scion
Luthor
Shield
Dominion
Isis
Lazarus
Harvest
Prophecy
Patriot
Fortune
Collateral
Supergirl

What was good about the Finale:

- Clark and Lois' reconciliation about their relationship
- Of course, the return of Lex
- Lionel proving what a truly Magnificent You-Know-What he is, willing to kill his own daughter to save his son.
- Oliver being cured of the Darkness thanks to Gold K and a physical and mental beating from Clark.
- Clark accepting his destiny and reconciling with both his fathers - realizing it was both sets of parents who shaped him.
- Lois sneaking on board Air Force One and convincing the Sec'y. of Defense that a hero was coming.
- Clark's first true flight - not as Kal-El, not as an avatar, not as Bizarro.

What was not so good:

- Darkseid. Or rather, Lionseid. The season's big baddie, instead of making his imposing presence fully known, uses Lionel as a vessel? Oh boy. Which gets me to...
- What a waste of Clark's first flight. All it took was flying into Lionseid to destroy him?
- The last 10 minutes felt like I was watching a frame-by-frame recreation of the plane sequence in Superman Returns.
- THE SUIT. The freaking SUIT. I've complained about this numerous times, but waiting 10 seasons to see Clark don someone else's suit is not what I had in mind.
- To make it worse, we don't even see a full live shot of Welling in the suit. Any "SuperBlur" action was through questionable CGI at long distance or from the neck up with a CG cape. Inexcuseable.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

You have a problem with Welling wearing a super suit that he didnt own?

 

[SpideyVille]

1. Finale
2. Homecoming
3. Lazarus
4. Luthor
5. Beacon
6. Scion
7. Kent
8. Booster
9. Ambush
10. Dominion
11. Masquerade
12. Abandoned
13. Icarus
14. Isis
15. Shield
16. Prophecy
17. Harvest
18. Supergirl
19. Patriot
20. Fortune
21. Collateral

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Season 1:
Pilot

Season 2:
Rosetta

Season 3:
Exile

Season 4:
Crusade

Season 5:
Reckoning

Season 6:
Justice

Season 7:
Descent

Season 8:
Eternal

Season 9:
Salvation

Season 10:
Finale



And from that I rank it like this:

1. Finale
2. Crusade
3. Salvation
4. Reckoning
5. Rosetta
6. Justice
7. Exile
8. Descent
9. Eternal
10. Pilot

 

[Webhead2006]

Homecoming
Finale pt.2
Finale pt.1
scion
Dominion
booster
Prophecy
kent
beacon
masquarade
abandoned
fortune
luthor
patriot
collateral
ambush
lazarus
shield
harvest
isis
supergirl

Hmm hard say, i really did enjoy the finale so right now its a toss up at these two.

Finale pt. 2
Homecoming
Finale pt. 1
scion
Dominion
booster
Prophecy
kent
beacon
masquarade
abandoned
fortune
luthor
patriot
collateral
ambush
lazarus
shield
harvest
isis
supergirl

 

[LL2K2]

You have a problem with Welling wearing a super suit that he didnt own?

I don't have a problem with that last part. Technically, it wasn't "his" to begin with. However, what I do have a problem with is that the suit is associated with another actor.

 

[RakuMon]

But he wasn't wearing Brandon's suit. They created its own SV version of the suit.

The suit at the end of the ep had a larger shield, a yellow S on the cape and round belt buckle. He wasn't wearing the SR suit after all. That's my favorite aspect of the end of the show!

 

[Webhead2006]

well i am going to need to let finale soak in more, i will probably revise my listings in the next few days.

 

[SpideyVille]

But he wasn't wearing Brandon's suit. They created its own SV version of the suit.

The suit at the end of the ep had a larger shield, a yellow S on the cape and round belt buckle. He wasn't wearing the SR suit after all. That's my favorite aspect of the end of the show!

Yeah, they used the same design, with the S coming out like the SR one, but it wasn't the same since you could see the one Jonathan handed him didn't have the same texture or the little S's on the shield.

 

[LL2K2]

Souders confirmed at Comic-Con that it was one of the SR suits. It's the same S-shield and colors:

http://youtu.be/Nq0EH846F8I (She says it 30 seconds in.)

 

[smallville fan]

What I think are the best episodes:

season 1: Pilot
season 2: Heat, Rosetta, Red
season 3: Exile
season 4: Crusade, Run
season 5: Arrival
season 6: Justice, Crimson
season 7: Artic
season 8: Legion, Hex
season 9: Rabid, Absolute Justice, Salvation
season 10: Homecoming, Beacon, Finale

 

[SpideyVille]

Souders confirmed at Comic-Con that it was one of the SR suits. It's the same S-shield and colors:

http://youtu.be/Nq0EH846F8I (She says it 30 seconds in.)

Yeah they used that as the prop suit in Lazarus and in the Finale. But the one at the end with the shirt rip was a different one based on that design. The Blue was much deeper and the design wasn't as extensive as the SR one. If anything, it looked more like a cheap knockoff of the SR one.

 

[MrSpyder]

very good finale.

 

[The Caped Knight]

1. FINALE part 2
2. FINALE part 1
3. HOMECOMING
4. Scion
5. Icarus
6. Kent
7. Booster
8. Luthor
9. Dominion
10. Abandoned
11.Masquerade
12.Beacon
13.Ambush
14.Lazarus
15.Supergirl
16.Prophecy
17.Fortune
18.Patriot
19.Isis
20.Harvest
21.Shield
22.Collateral

 

[Webhead2006]

LL that is true but it was for the suit used in filming of lazarus.

 

[flash13]

1. Finale
2. Booster
3. Masquerade
4. Scion
5. Icarus
6. Homecoming
7. Dominion
8. Beacon
9. Patriot
10. Kent
11. Luthor
12. Abandoned
13. Ambush
14. Supergirl
15. Shield
16. Lazarus
17. Prophecy
18. Isis
19. Fortune
20. Collateral
21. Harvest

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Yeah they used that as the prop suit in Lazarus and in the Finale. But the one at the end with the shirt rip was a different one based on that design. The Blue was much deeper and the design wasn't as extensive as the SR one. If anything, it looked more like a cheap knockoff of the SR one.

This. The SR suit was only used as a prop at the end of last season. The S on Welling's chest on my avatar is the "S" that Smallville's been using for 4 years now. It's similar to the SR one most at the bottom of the S but there are differences. If I can find the comparison .gif I have of all the recent "S's" I'll post it.

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

1º Finale
2º Homecoming
3º Kent
4º Scion
5º Booster
6º Icarus
7º Beacon
8º Lazarus
9º Masquerade
10º Luthor
11º Ambush
12º Patriot
13º Harvest
14º Shield
15º Dominion
16º Prophecy
17º Abandoned
18º Supergirl
19º Collateral
20º Fortune
21º Isis

 

[RagingTempest]

1. Finale (Part 2)
2. Homecoming
3. Luthor
4. Beacon
5. Finale (Part 1)
6. Kent
7. Masquerade
8. Lazarus
9. Scion
10. Abandoned
11. Ambush
12.Dominion
13. Isis
14. Booster
15. Patriot
16. Fortune
17. Harvest
18. Shield
19. Icarus
20. Prophecy





















21. Supergirl
22. Collateral

 

[SV Fan]

Loved
1. Harvest
2. Ambush
3. Fortune

Liked Alot
4. Masquerade
5. Shield
6. Homecoming
7. Finale Part 2

Liked
8. Booster
9. Patriot
10. Isis
11. Luthor
12. Scion
13. Abandoned

Average
14. Finale Part 1
15. Dominion
16. Icarus
17. Kent
18. Beacon
19. Lazarus
20. Prophecy

Didn't Care For
21. Supergirl
22. Collateral

Maybe not as bad as it is in other seasons but it's another case of First Half > Second half

 

[triplet]

1. Finale Part 2
2. Finale Part 1
3. Homecoming
4. Luthor
5. Beacon
6. Kent
7. Abandoned
8. Dominion
9. Booster
10. Fortune
11. Harvest
12. Shield
13. Supergirl
14. Scion
15. Collateral
16. Icarus
17. Ambush
18. Masquerade
19. Lazarus
20. Prophecy
21. Isis
22. Patriot

I've written 305,927 words in my reviews on the show... that's three novels's worth.

And I know I've shown you my review chart before, but here is the final one...



*sniff*

This season was the best rated by me, averaging more than 5 points an episode with the 10 points I gave both parts of the finale and the 7 I gave Homecoming.

 

[Webhead2006]

Nice list trip

 

[Sam Fisher]

1. Finale
2. Homecoming
3. Luthor
4. Ambush
5. Lazarus
6. Beacon
7. Kent
8. Masquerade
9. Booster
10. Fortune
11. Scion
12. Abandoned
13. Patriot
14. Icarus
15. Supergirl
16. Collateral
17. Shield
18. Isis
19. Prophecy
20. Dominion
21. Harvest

 

[SrsBsns]

Loved
1. Harvest
2. Ambush
3. Fortune

Liked Alot
4. Masquerade
5. Shield
6. Homecoming
7. Finale Part 2

Liked
8. Booster
9. Patriot
10. Isis
11. Luthor
12. Scion
13. Abandoned

Average
14. Finale Part 1
15. Dominion
16. Icarus
17. Kent
18. Beacon
19. Lazarus
20. Prophecy

Didn't Care For
21. Supergirl
22. Collateral

Maybe not as bad as it is in other seasons but it's another case of First Half > Second half

I know these are our opinions and all...but you seriously thought Shield, Ambush, Harvest, and FORTUNE were better than the finale?

 

[SV Fan]

I know these are our opinions and all...but you seriously thought Shield, Ambush, Harvest, and FORTUNE were better than the finale?

In general I just don't find the show does bigger plots/storylines that well. I prefer much simpler stories. In the case of the finale there was alot to like but I didn't care for how it handled other things. In the case of the 5 episodes you mentioned, all of them were entertaining for 42 minutes with only very minor issues(if any) I had. To add to the reason I don't have Homecoming and Finale rated so high, there was many stories done in the past 5 years that I didn't care for, that were key to making those 2 episodes work.