"Smallville" Doomsday (2009)

Director:

James Marshall

Writers:

Jerry Siegel (characters) &
Joe Shuster (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

14 May 2009 (Season 8, Episode 22)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Oliver tells Clark that he must kill Davis, but Clark deals with the fact that he can't take a human life...

Plot Keywords:

Smallville | Power | Kansas | Meteor Shower | Alien

Cast

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	...	Jimmy's Brother
Serge Houde	...	Priest

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Smallville Films

Trivia:

Season 8 finale.

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 was right. I put humanity on a pedestal. It wasn't a Kryptonian beast that killed Jimmy. It was a human.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Alien Nation (1988)

lackluster all-over-the-place episode, makes one wonder how much lower the series can go

They've been dumbing down this show in so many ways for quite some time that it is not really surprising that this finale was so poorly done, and that good old Clark has regressed from having the emotional IQ of a teenager to that of a grade school child. Full of plot holes (time travel or no time travel) and poorly conceived, written, sequenced, edited and acted - it displays a real lack of empathy for its audience - if this show was a Prime Minister, the ruling party members would have their knives out, but it looks like horrible finale or no horrible finale, we're doomed to have a season nine. If I were Aaron Ashmore, I'm thinking I would not be too disappointed to be exiting about now. BTW, Jimmy Olsen has a kid brother named Jimmy Olsen who they now say is the 'real' Jimmy Olsen. oh that is a perfect example of the incredulity- and ire-inducing inanity that pervades this episode.