Hey folks, just a reminder for you that tonight’s episode of Smallville features a full-on version of Doomsday!
If you’re not familiar with the character, he’s the big, scary guy who managed to actually kill Superman in the comics a few years back. It was a HUGE event in the comic book world and led to a full year without the “regular” Superman existing in the DC Comics universe.
And tonight we get to watch him face off against Smallville’s version of Superman: Clark Kent.
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This season of the show has been a HUGE improvement over the previous one. It seems that the departure of series creators Miles Millar and Al Gough was well overdue – the “new blood” that has taken over the show has done a very good job this season.
We’ve had no Lana Lang (well, it looks like she does put in an appearance tonight), and finally Clark (Tom Welling) is coming into his own as a superhero and is maturing big time. Moving the show mostly to Metropolis has worked out really well.
One of the more controversial plot points was the introduction of paramedic Davis Bloome (played by Sam Witwer) as the character who would eventually become Doomsday. There were concerns because in the comics Superman doesn’t meet this big bad guy until he’s been fully Superman for a very long time. There were also concerns about how the show would portray the character.
Well if you look at the image above you can see that it looks like they went all out and that the character does in fact look very similar to the one in the comic book.
Superman vs. Doomsday (from DanScottArt.com)
So the question remains of how the battle between Clark and Doomsday will go tonight – I have more than a sneaking suspicion that this is going to be a two-part episode.
In any case, I’m looking forward to this… are you?
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wow!!!!! kel you don’t need to even talk about the show if your not that interested in it and only watch it on ocasion. I have watched every episode and I am crazy about it. Try watching something that you actually like. Also im sorry clark is the best thing about the show if you werent awair he’s kinda what the show is about. By the way Tom welling is smoken hot!!!!!!!!
I kinda use to like lona but now I would rather see her off the show for good.I realy just love lois she is so sweet in her own way. Also I love the way that she looks at clark can’t wait to see more happen between them and there cut flirting.
I was realy dissipionted in the episode before doomsday. I hated how cloe lost memory of clarks powers and everything that they went through envolving them. I realy liked there relationship as friends and the way cloe was always there for clark when involving his powers. It just realy disipionts me.
lets make this really good i want superman to die along with doomsday like the comic and bring back a 9th season with the return of superman and the doomsday war
Only one more week to go until we finally find out what happens next with Doomsday and Chloeniac. Can’t wait!
So for the rest of the season we have 3 major villains: Brainiac-possesed Chloe, Doomsday (who looked pretty cool despite the fact that we only saw him in the shadows so far)and Lex, whose all wired up, scheming and pulling strings in the background (classic comic book villain style). Awesome!
It’s just me, but I keep feeling that, by the end of this season, they’re gonna kill Chloe off. (Fan-fiction alert) She’s possesed by Brainiac right now and knowing that smart-ass alien robot, he’s up to something real big and evil, something he’ll acheive more succesfully with Doomsday at his side, something that may change the lives of Clark and his friends forever. Eventually, this plan (whatever it may be) will lead to an all out battle at the fortress between Clark (the Justice League, Supergirl, Martian Manhunter and maybe Pete at his side) and Chloeniac who unleashes Doomsday upon him. It will take all of them, all using their own abilities at once to temporarily subdue the creature (maybe he’ll also get flown into the sun by Jon,Kara or Clark if he learns how to fly by then, to return at a later season). They’ll be all battle damaged by the end of that confrontation especially Clark, who, despite his almost fatal injuries would go of on his own to face off against the villain who took his best friend’s form. Their fight would be epic. Chloe would be packing some serious Brainiac mojo (superspeed, heat vision, the T-1000 liquid metal thingy, etc…), and Clark, whose pulling back his punches so as not to harm Chloe’s body, thinking their might still be a chance to cure her, is at a distinct disadvantage. That is until Chloe’s personna is able to reemerge temporarily, emploring Clark to just kill her since there’d be no other way to stop Brainiac. Clark would refuse which would lead to a dramatic back and forth between the two of them, Brainiac fighting to take back control the entire time, until Chloe would finally convince Clark that there’d be no other choice. Clark, in tears, would then say something along the lines of “I love you Chloe” and… the death of Chloe Sullivan. Then we’d have an iconic image of Clark carrying Chloe’s body out of the fortress with everyone around him watching and crying. The aftrmath of this tragedy would be Lex emerging from the shadows and entering the Fortress, taking something from it, perhaps a device Brainiac was using for his plan, a plan that he would attempt to try out and improve in the following season. (Fan fiction ended)
Afterthought: who else feels the show should be renamed “Metropolis” at this point.
heh! sorry for the long posting. ^_^
Ok, So when is Batman going to show up?…WonderWoman? And “Flash” is still Impulse?
Well, Folks, as I have read all of our close fans blogs. We find ourselves knowing that TW signed an overwhelming contract with CW. We are all looking forward to season 9. We are going to see eye opening episodes which will be enjoyed by everyone in general. I can hardly wait.
Being 70 plus, and Sept. 10 will be here soon. I have sincerely enjoyed the Smallvile series. Vic, you have been a real inspiration and very much enjoy you posted coments. Otho 2/28/09 6:30 Pacific Time
LOL SOME PEOPLE
alota people keep saying whens batman coming into it, wonderwoman
the show CANNOT use the rights to use bruce wayne or batman because of the movies going on right now, the same reason youll never see clark wear the suerpman outfit
its just the way tv works, they cant be seen to be using such HUGE characters that have been in reccent movies, but when its the other way round it seems pretty fine to make a FILM using characters from a series, i hate the way tv works, but also to the guy who asked about flash, he’s been in it, you realise theres a fair few flash’s dont you? and they didnt all name themselves the flash ^^ also hes been in smallville a few times, have u not been watching lol
If I remember correctly… Originally it wasn’t the glasses that kept people from recognizing Clark as Superman…
I believe originally Superman vibrated his face to be a blur so no one could recognize him… after the artists explained this .. they no longer needed to draw him blurred…
Sam Witwer has said on tv guide channel that there will be a big doomsday vs. Clark battle. Also, they asked if Lex will return, and he said he could not answer, which probably: yes.
Give us some link /proof / love Jesse.
is there a vid link we can watch?
The Lex thing keeps getting tossed around in so many different variations despite what Rosenbaum himself and the execs have reported to be saying…
Maybe he could not answer to keep us wondering and thus, interested.
Thanks bud.
SPOILERS MAY APPEAR FROM THIS COMMENT ON…. PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS… SOME OF US HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET. The Management
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This episode was RIDICULOUS
HORRID
So disjointed and horribly put together as to be worse than refuse.
Chloe, sure not a super krypton brain but she HEALS people …HELLO?
What’s with the interaction of all the superheros
Davis Doomsday split and each ending was so painful to watch (in so much as I HAD anticipated it would be good, thought out, interesting)
Smallville is my favorite show (was a tie with Stargate SG-1 but since that’s gone – and SG Universe looks like a joke – What on earth was this nonsense?
and I’ll agree with the above…… Zod back? What on earth? That’s just pathetic….. I suppose it could still be the alternative and could just be a representative of the best of krypton – but that would be pathetic also…….
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE………………………………………………………..
It’s almost like they WANT to piss off the fans so we will be ok with it being over………….. almost like they WANT to tick us off so much we will be happy if they actually give up now and don’t do the agreed upon next season.
I agree with above, this season finally was so pathetic. i can’t believe all the buildup leading up to the fight with Doomsday and they only make it into a 2 minute fight, they should have at least fight for 5 min….LOL. I can’t believe they are brining ZOD back, now thats stupid. I am so f@@@# mad I was looking forward to this all week and they BLOW it…I dont know if I will watch next season, I am tired of all the hype and then BOOM its dead.
Tonight I felt like I was watching a damn LOVE story…
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was ennoyed with the ending, but i think that clark may have sent the doomsday creature to the future, like how clark and the future guy talked about,
its a litte weird and hard to understand, but i thnk we will see it come together next season, i hope
Bill Gates doesn’t make this show. Yeah. The fight was a let-down. But that will come with having a budget and not just being able to draw a cross-country fist fight with massive explosions. Plus, if it was a fight like the Superman vs. Doomsday of the comics, it would have been a little hard for Clark to hide the fact that it was him fighting, with all the people and news helicopters and Cadmus troops and all. In the comics, DD punched his way out of the ground from being buried. For the show maybe this fight was just a way DD got down there as opposed to crashing into Earth (which he already did). A way to setup for the real Death of Superman fight that will happen later in his life, when he’s actually Superman. As for Zod, Clark’s upset with humans for being bad. With Zod, he can see just how bad Kryptonians can be, and he’ll learn that no matter where you go there will be good and bad people, leading up to him finally accepting his fate. I wish the show had unlimited money though; the fight could’ve been good.
Having a budget doesn’t yield a good fight scene?
Umm can we say Stargate franchise.
Perhaps the wrong people are in charge of Smallville…. lets get Stargate or Star Trek people in charge.
GEEZE!
Yeah – so many things in this episode are completely insane They don’t even go together in harmony with fact INSIDE this episode let alone the series.
This episode should never have been made. They should have either, if budget was key – which seems like BS – then they needed to save money and make ‘doomsday’ the next season opener with money for two episodes. Further perhaps the last few episodes should have been scrapped to end the season early with a well thought out Doomsday w/ the money from all those episodes.
BUT THEN I DON’T BELIEVE THIS IS A _MONEY_ ISSUE
As with a lot of people here – this is my favorite show and only Doctor who, Torchwood, and Stargate sg-1 are (were for SG-1) competition. Having said that – Doomsday, this particular episode was one of the worst episodes of ANY SHOW I’ve ever seen in almost 35yrs. And I’ve seen a lot of horrid shows in that time. I wish smallville would continue many years into the future – even with the replacement for Welling – as long as it’s a good replacement.
I do think Welling should be offered and play the New Superman in the upcoming new revision movie….. he should have done the part in the last one as Routh was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!……………………………… But I did like the movie even though it wasn’t really _good_ in any way – I still rather liked it a lot just for what it was the RETURN of Superman to the big screen.
LONG RANT……………………. Have more but I’ll probably be murdered if I continue.
Well I’m not really familiar with Stargate, minus the movie and the fact the black guy says “indeed” A LOT. I don’t know what the budgets for those shows are, if you do more power to you. For some of the things, I agree with you. First, the fight sucked. Second, Brandon Routh sucked(and wtf’s up with Superman being a deadbeat dad?). There are only a few reasons why the fight could’ve been as lame as it was. 1.) Money. 2.) Storyline-the writers could be saving up for something (which is lame). Once again though, it would be really hard to have a giant fight in the middle of the biggest city in the DC world without anyone seeing Clark. I personally thought the fight would end up with either Clark having to turn into his alter ego (Superman) to fight (so not to be revealed) or having to fly in order to beat DD (who can’t fly). Or there’s #3, which seems to be the most widely accepted answer by fans: the writers are a bunch of jerks who hate us. So to me, the only explantations other than that the writers are evil are: money (makes sense), not exposing Clark (sucks but the way it is) or future storyline (huge cop out). But I can’t imagine that they would sit there and say “Hey, let’s take the biggest fight in comic book history, a two-man war that destroyed half of Metropolis and make it suck”.
” Indeed “
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