TV reviews

Those season finales are coming thick and fast now.

Unlike certain shows I could mention that don’t really do the cliffhanger thing, every season of Smallville ends on a cataclysmic series of deaths, destruction, revelations, and plot wrap-ups. This season was no different.

Despite being one of the strongest, creatively, since the show began, there has been a certain meandering quality to it, with plots laboured past their natural death point, minor reset buttons pushed and so on. I won’t tell you how many of the major cast ‘die’ – they’ll be back, you know they will – but it’s rather a lot and if one in particular doesn’t come back, well, I don’t think there’ll be much point watching next year for its final season.

Explanations, when they do come, are pretty far-fetched, but hey, it’s a comic book – what you going do about it? Superman fans, however, will be delighted by the arrival of at least two characters from the comic books, one expected, and one me am expecting, too (there’s a clue for you), although the origins of both have changed. And there is the possibility that something might finally have changed. Permanently. No going back on it this time.

Tension: 9/10 (1/10 really because we all know a giant magic reset button will be in the next episode, because there always is)

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Those season finales are coming thick and fast now.

Unlike certain shows I could mention that don’t really do the cliffhanger thing, every season of Smallville ends on a cataclysmic series of deaths, destruction, revelations, and plot wrap-ups. This season was no different.

Despite being one of the strongest, creatively, since the show began, there has been a certain meandering quality to it, with plots laboured past their natural death point, minor reset buttons pushed and so on. I won’t tell you how many of the major cast ‘die’ – they’ll be back, you know they will – but it’s rather a lot and if one in particular doesn’t come back, well, I don’t think there’ll be much point watching next year for its final season.

Explanations, when they do come, are pretty far-fetched, but hey, it’s a comic book – what you going do about it? Superman fans, however, will be delighted by the arrival of at least two characters from the comic books, one expected, and one me am expecting, too (there’s a clue for you), although the origins of both have changed. And there is the possibility that something might finally have changed. Permanently. No going back on it this time.

Tension: 9/10 (1/10 really because we all know a giant magic reset button will be in the next episode, because there always is)

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