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.
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.