eh has no one else noticed how crap the once off actors on the show are becoming? they have had people in the past who were really good such as the guy from the oc and lost, but that angel just took the biscuit, seriosuly bad, apart from the last week the show is becoming embarassingly bad, angels bumbling clark kent mirror image was awfull as was her "whatever" clark being alergic to meteor rocks. oh and did anyone else notice the battyesque music playing throughout? a la batman and batman returns as scored by danny elfman or was that just me?(anybody cop the blind as a bat gag to back this up??)

Yeah, so I'm one of those guys that thinks it would have been better to kill off Lana, pushing the issue between Clark and Lex in a direction that I think would have been pretty cool (albeit pretty final).

This episode was kind of lackluster in my opinion, but a necessary evil in following such a "mythos altering" show like last week. Maya (or Drea, or whatever they changed her name to from the original script) didn't really stand up in FOTW arena (I'm not a big comic fan, but would a Marvel person back me up on this: Did she seem like Black Cat to anyone else?).

I do like the deepening of the relationship b/w Martha and Chloe (but then, I think Allison Mack can make walking across the street interesting), and am still very curious as to the possiblities of this whole Martha/Lionel thing.

does no one else find it odd that clark showed his powers to lionel and no one cared? does he know that lionel knows? did i miss that?

I also hoped for a more daring choice and was betting that Martha would be the one to die first--as she did in a long-ago comic that I remember. Martha is a great character, but her demise would have been the creative twist I was looking for. Besides, the core of Smallville IS Clark-and-Jonathan, and John Schneider put his heart into the show. I don't know that it will survive without him.

I've enjoyed this series so far, and I was excited that the last episode was going to possibly be a strong one that lifted the series to a whole new level. I'm really glad to read someone else have the exact same impression as me.

Unfortunately, I think the consequences are that I am quickly draining of interest for this show. This weeks episode was a reflection of season one with it's one-off super hero/baddy story.

It's pretty clear that the writers think it's more important to keep the series alive than to do right with the plot development.

"Angel learned that her mother's murder was just a setup by Luthor, which one, we don't know."

Pretty sure the thug specifically said Lionel Luthor...

I thought this episode was more sad/tear jerking that the 100th. the 100th EVERYONE pretty much knew what was going to happen.

I don't agree that preserving the previous Superman mythos is reason enough to keep Lana instead of Pa Kent. I think it hinders creativity and makes the story predictable to blindly stick to the pre-ordained myth.
As much as it might disappoint the fanboys, I prefer surprises as long as they are good surprises.

Killing off Lana would have made for way more interesting final episodes. Instead it was such a typical sci-fi show cop-out: put in some kind of big, jump-the-shark, no-going-back event, and then use some kinda time-manipulation/mind-erasing thing to make it seem like it never happened.

I can't agree that they needed to kill Lana off to "splinter" the show from the Superman mythos. That mythos is sacred to the dedicated Supes fan (like me). Deviate a little to keep it contemporary and that's fine. Change the whole story to boost ratings, and you commit heresy. You will constantly hear us say "In the comics...", and I've enjoyed the nods to the original mythos the writer's keep adding. It lets you know they haven't flown too far from the nest.

I don't like Lana's character on the show, the naive damsel in distress gets a bit old after a while. She's been painted into a corner and hence her blandness is reviled by viewers. I also think the carrot-on-a-stick writing about Clark's "secret" and almost telling Lana is a very tired plot.

Pa Kent had to die. The original (early 40's) Superman, he lived to a ripe old age. Later, they needed to justify Supe's values and made him more of a critical character by killing him after Clark's graduation. It just made sense: people would ask "Why is Superman a 'Good Guy?'" and there was no easy answer. Rewriting the continuity to show it was because of his modest upbringing by good-value parents was genius. Breaking this on Smallville would be jumping the shark and carry the story into a flow that just isn't Superman.

I think I liked it more than you did, but, man... did you catch the hideously clunky Acuvue product placement? Ughhhh!