Doomsday (14 May 2009)

Oliver tells Clark that he must kill Davis, but Clark deals with the fact that he can't take a human life. This leaves the justice league to take the affair on their own hands. Then, Rokk ... See full summary »

Director:

James Marshall

Writers:

Jerry Siegel (character created by: Superman), Joe Shuster (character created by: Superman),

Stars:

Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Erica Durance

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
Erica Durance	...	Lois Lane
Aaron Ashmore	...	Jimmy Olsen
Cassidy Freeman	...	Tess Mercer
Sam Witwer	...	Davis Bloome
Justin Hartley	...	Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
Alaina Huffman	...	Dinah Lance / Black Canary
Kyle Gallner	...	Bart Allen / Impulse
Ari Cohen	...	Regan Matthews
Ryan Kennedy	...	Rokk Krinn / Cosmic Boy
Mike Dopud	...	Security Guard George
Dario Delacio	...	Doomsday (as Dario De Iaco)
Ryan Harder	...	James Bartholomew Olsen
Serge Houde	...	Priest

Storyline

Oliver tells Clark that he must kill Davis, but Clark deals with the fact that he can't take a human life. This leaves the justice league to take the affair on their own hands. Then, Rokk Krinn teleports from the 31st Century to give Clark another Justice League time-traveling ring so Clark can exile Davis/Doomsday to the future. But in a surprising twist, Lois confronts Tess about her nefarious plans involving a mysterious crystal and in the fight, Lois accidentally finds Rokk's ring, and gets zapped into the future. Meanwhile, Chloe gets in the middle of Clark and Oliver's fight about Doomsday's human carnage, in which Dianah/Black Cannary and Bart/Impulse intervene. Jimmy finds out Clark's identity, leading to a fateful showdown when Clark attempts to use black kryptonite to split Davis from Doomsday and seal the beast in a large hole in the ground. But nobody is prepared for what Davis will do afterwords.

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Plot Keywords:

legion of super heroes | injection | poison | ritual | syringe

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 May 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Smallville Films, Tollin/Robbins Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the last appearance of Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen and Sam Witwer as Davis Bloom as series regulars.

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Quotes

Chloe Sullivan: How did you survive the geothermal explosion?
Clark Kent: It was before Dinah pressed the button. I don't know. I got out before the blast, but not fast enough to save everyone else. Chloe... I've searched everywhere. There's no sign of Lois.
Chloe Sullivan: [cries softly] I saw someone tacking her photo on a missing-persons report. And I keep thinking that maybe, maybe I haven't...
Clark Kent: Lost everyone.
Chloe Sullivan: You were there today, Clark, weren't you? I really needed you. Why didn't you come to me?
Clark Kent: I'm the reason Jimmy's dead. Oliver ...
[...]

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Connections

References Alien Nation (1988)

User Reviews

Too short with some quite disappointing elements but impressive visual effects, fascinating dark mythology and great character development

What a good way to end this season ! It wasn't perfect but overall I strongly recommend it to anyone.

The major problem was that a single episode was just not enough to properly tell all stories. Too many characters were involved and far too many things happened. So I wish Doomsday had been directed as a two parts episode. As a result many scenes were too short and ended too abruptly. An other issue was Doomsday's design because we saw more of it and I really don't like the creature's design. It almost looks like a cheap puppet. Moreover the previous episodes didn't succeed in making us believe in his strength so his fight against Clark wasn't that impressive, and its ending was even worst. However I have to admit that the visual effects were well done but I think they should better spend their money, across all episodes, instead of throwing it all in for the finale to blow us away. I'm not asking for a CG creature as well rendered as Venom in Spider-Man 3 but when I see what Impossible Pictures manages to achieve with Primeval, I think a CG Doomsday would have been better. Last but not least an other disappointment was the orb arc. I really like Tess but her scenes were just useless and I think the director should have used these precious minutes to cover the Doomsday arc deeper. As for the upcoming season elements I think using this finale episode as a beacon was disrespectful. It means they planned it all along and Smallville could have never ended with season 8. Moreover the cliffhanger is not interesting because I don't want the show to go backward.

As for the pros all performers did a great job and made scenes even more believable. I specially enjoyed Tom Welling's ones because the maturity and darkness of his character reminded me of films like The Dark Knight and Watchmen. It was also intriguing to see if he would achieve the Doomsday goal set in the previous episode. The other scenes I really liked were the ones involving Jimmy. His relationships with other characters, specially Chloe and Clark, were developed further and something very important happened to him. There were also great moments like the mythological dialog between Chloe and Davis under the stars, Jimmy's gift to Chloe… But in the end my favorite element was probably the relationship between Clark and Davis. In the previous episodes they were only presented as good and evil brothers but in this one Clark realized something very important about his own identity. I don't know if he's right or wrong to think that way but it'll be interesting to get some answers during the upcoming season.