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CW’s veteran Smallville had a solid though not spectacular end of its 10-year run last night. The two-hour series finale of the young Superman series drew 3 million viewers, 1.3/5 in 18-49 and 1.2/4 in 18-34. That was up 50% in the 18-49 demo from Smallville‘s hourlong episode last week but not a series nor season high. It was Smallille‘s most-watched episode since October.
After a lackluster season premiere last week, CBS’ Flashpoint (1.3/5, 7.5 million) jumped 18% in its second airing. In its season finale, CSI: NY (1.5/5, 10.2 million) slipped a tenth from last week, while the season closer of Blue Bloods (1.7/5, 11.4 million) was up 13%. CBS won the night in 18-49 (1.5/5) and total viewers (9.7 million).
On the heels of its renewal earlier in the day, ABC’s Shark Tank (1.3/5, 5 million) ended its second season on a high note, up 8% in the demo and 11% in total viewers from last week. Fox aired a new Kitchen Nightmares (1.5/5), which won the 8 PM hour in 18-49, followed by a repeat.
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the finale was epic!!
You are clueless, way to easy to please and you where probably one of those people saying that Schumacher’s Batman and Robin is a great movie. Go to all the fan boy sites and you will see comments that express what million feel:
TEN YEARS OF SMALLVILLE AND ALL WE GET ARE GLIMPSES OF SUPERMAN. It’s not that expensive so show him full on in a suit and they’ve already shown his powers. If the costume didn’t fit him than have any costume designer make him a new one. It doesn’t have to be the expensive Returns suit. You can make a decent one for under a $1,000. Hell some designers would do it for free just to say they made the suit. Their is no excuse, even the series Lois and Clark could show Superman weekly. I expected to see Superman in full on suit for the entire or at least half of the series finally. Thanks for f@%cking us you jerk of executives at the CW and you idiotic producers of Smallville.
Oh, and playing the Superman movie music while Clark walks out in the last shot would have been cool had we seen him fly with the suit on. Except they show us a cheesy shirt rip that any kid can do. Lame.
Also, I really wanted to fast forward through all the boring “Clark without his confidence and Clark not trusting his family” b.s. But, stayed and watched hoping that we would get more than a glimpse of Superman. I and the rest of the world was robbed with b.s.
Clark has had ten years to know who he is. Yet he is talking like he sounded like in Season one ten years ago. No need to put us through it all in the last two boring hours. Thanks for raping the last ten years of those dedicated to the show you douche bags.
Also, all the dialogue played like the most boring soap opera ever. There was no real dramatic depth. Again, if Lois and Clark, a TV show from a decade ago can show us Superman than why couldn’t Smallville. PATHETIC. All we get is cheesy CGI in the last two minutes. No full shots of Clark in costume, SOMETHING THAT WAS PROMISED FOR TEN YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The producers of this show should never be hired, the executives of the CW need to be fired for being complete idiots.
You are an idiot who is out of touch even with the fanboys. Go to fanboy sites and even most of them loved the finale. The trollish hell of comicbookmovie, where the worst of fanboys congregate, still has over half it’s users polled as “It was soooo awesome! Wrapped it up nicely.” Over at Screenrant is an all out lovefest, with fanboys spewing rainbows, hearts and roses. And IGN has always been a haven for the Smallville-loving fanboys. The most humorous thing in your post is the rally cry for Snyder’s Superman after citing the importance of fanboy opinion, since the fanboys HATE everything they hear about it and are unified in pouring poisonous bile all over every post about it. We all better HOPE fanboy opinion means nothing to Snyder’s Superman or the film is in big trouble.
Full shots of the costume were never promised, that’s all in your imagination. Do you know why it took 10 years to finally see Superman?….
….Because the show was about Clark Kent NOT Superman. Superman is everywhere. For once there was something out there that gave us part of the story but in a different perspective and to this day people don’t get that. My god if you wanted to see Superman then read a comic, watch a cartoon or rent the movies. Wait for Snyder’s film next year.
As I said already, the fans got to see the suit, got to see Superman, were given a Michael Rosenbaum return as Lex Luthor, a good cameo of the real Jimmy Olsen and FINALLY saw Clark Kent fly…..yet still find something to complain about!!! Unbelievable.
First off, it WAS promised in at least two different interviews, INCLUDING one in Kryptonsite, and the other was in combicbookmovie.com. Two, if the damn series was supposed to be so focused on CLARK KENT, then why put all of SUPERMAN’S enemies and contacts in the show? Just be honest and admit they at least screwed up with the handling of the Superman persona introduction. This show failed so many times, and it is no wonder that of all the “millions of fans” that thought the show was great, the ratings showed that not even the finale could bring the numbers up to match even a season high. A CGI Superman will never do. This is why there will never be a “Metropolis”…not saying they said there would be, but why would you bank on seeing more of the same crap….Welling playing Clark in Metropolis and NOT smallville and NOT being Superman. Clark has Flown at least two times (Season 4, remember?) But…..at least the scenes with him and LEX were AWESOME!
Superman’s enemies are Clark’s enemies dumbass. It is clear you don’t know anything about the history of Superboy comics. Zod was INTRODUCED in the Superboy comics. Superboy had run-ins with Brainiac et al. You are a failure as even a flaming troll. Any comic book fanboy immediately disowns you for your displayed ignorance.
“….Because the show was about Clark Kent NOT Superman.” This is such a lame excuse. The series was about Clark BECOMING Superman. The producers and Tom Welling (who was executive producer) are to blame for such a dissapointing finale. Throught the season fans were teased of Tom wearing the Superman suit at least on the finale. It was a cheap way to end the series.
As a wise woman once said, “If you watched 10 years of Smallville just (as in the ONLY reason) to see Tom wearing tights for 5 minutes, and are disappointed today? Sucks to be you!” (Mr Crazypants)
Happily, I was not so crazypants. (LOL, you are boasting that your decision-making is so faulty that you wasted 10 years of your life, waiting for 5 minutes? And people are supposed to take your opinions seriously after admitting what a colossal screw up you are? LOL) Luckily, my own intermittent viewing was motivated by the typical factors that determine if I watch any episode of any show. “Will I like this episode?” (Pats self on back for good decision-making) So I’ve been quite pleased with the finale and these last 10 years of my life. LOL
The finale was great. I’m curious what the backstory is between the SMALLVILLE producers and the WB in terms of having a full on shot of Tom Welling in the Superman suit. That wasn’t in the finale (we saw full shots of CGI Superman from afar, and most speculate that was actually leftover footage from SUPERMAN RETURNS, which now gives reason to why they used the ‘RETURNS’ suit). Also, the footage of Superman by AIR FORCE ONE and pushing a “giant piece of land/planet” into space is pulled right out of RETURNS, so clearly the producers were forced into this situation if they wanted to feature Welling in the suit. I loved the finale, Kelly S and the rest of the execs/writers/crew/cast did a helluva job (Congrats guys!) but I would love to know the legal happenings behind the scenes, just out of curiosity.
PS: PERFECT ENDING SHOT.
It is an enormous relief that this series is finally over. It had some positive qualities but they really dragged it on. They should have made it shorter but better written and they would have been able to have ended it a few years earlier.
I hope Tom Welling does more mainstream movies from now on. He is an underrated actor. He should have joined the A-list years ago. So, I hope that he does more movies, tries to reach his full potential as an actor and tries to win an Oscar.
At least when Man of Steel (2012) comes out, Superman won’t be overexposed because of Smallville still continuing after a decade. A movie series alone is adequate.
Man of Steel is one of the films that I am looking forward to next year even though I am disappointed that they are using General Zod as the villain again. As General Zod and Faora will be in Man of Steel, they have to include Non, Ursa, Quex-Ul, Nam-Ek and Aethyr-Ka.
Leighton Meester, Jessica Szohr or Evan Rachel Wood will probably play Ursa.
One of the following actors will probably play Perry White:
Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Cleese, John Goodman, Steve Martin, William Shatner, Robin Williams
We should expect one of the following rising young actors to play Jimmy Olsen:
Thomas Dekker, Anton Yelchin, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Adam Brody, Emile Hirsch, Michael Cera
So why didn’t Tom Welling wear the Superman costume in the series finale?
Was it because WB did not let him?
Or was it because Tom didn’t want to?
My guess, after reading the producers talk about the finale, after it aired, was that they, nor Tom, wanted to show Tom wearing the Superman suit. One of the producers said that he didn’t think it was “relevant” for him (Tom) to wear the suit. That just shows you how much they really care about the fans of the show.
Series finales rarely live up to their hype (yes, I’m talking to you Battlestar Galactica), but I have to give Smallville credit fot hittingf many of the high notes I wanted. There were some missteps ***SPOILER*** like the dead Jonathan Kent interacting with Clark as if he were still alive and some of the plot points were tied up a little too quickly. However, the final episode did the one thing it need to, ***SPOILER*** it got Clark into those tights (even if it looked mostly CGI) and embracing his future. I even thought the return of Lex Luthor was well done.
The Jonathan scenes were one of my favorite parts of the finale. Not a misstep at all!
SORRY to disagree, Brian, but looking back at this final season, I saw a lot of miss-steps by the writer/producers that I didn’t see before. When a show like Smallville is on the verge of creative bankruptcy, it tends to move in outrageous directions.
I dunno, I thought the Smallville finale was only meh. I’ve been sticking with the C-Dubb for a while, local and national level, and my patience with the PROGRAMMING DEPARTMENT has started to pay off. Some good shows coming up –picking up Ringer is a bold move. You have to have an eagle eye to see how the CBS/CW/WB relationship can be improved — old patterns are starting to change, but, in the interest of honesty, turning around a brand takes a lot of hard work and self-reflection. And it takes time. WIth a new guy in charge, let’s hope they can right past wrongs. I’m patient.
Doubt the audience has any patience left, tho. We’ll see.
The CW sucks! AND ALWAYS WILL!!!!
They should focus on making shows right (finally), and getting some real dev going again.
Dreams about moving up and out of their 5th, 6th place slot should not be the goal — just be a better network.
What a crap way to go out. I mean, all it took was a simple double-fisted punch to dispose of Supe’s greatest villain? And Green Arrow took out 3 demi-gods with his arrows? And don’t get me started on that “push the planet” solution at the end that took a minute. GARBAGE
Arrow used the bow of Orion. Dude I didn’t even watch this season and I knew that. Nonsense complaints reflect more on the complainer than the show IMO.
Bow of Orion was destroyed before he could use it. He used special arrows, they just didnt fully explain where he got them from.
No, he didn’t. He used his usual bow; the bow of Orion was destroyed by Granny Goodness a few episodes before the finale.
It was the opposite of epic, for mostly those ^^^ reasons. Reeked of low budget.
I enjoyed the final but they took out Darkside to quick. Is theat Green Arrow son? O well
That was THE cutest little boy. Seriously adorable.
Yeah the “push the planet solution” was sooooo lame!! I mean the guy who wears the titghts, flies, has super strength, shoots fire from his eyes…..oh and is from another planet should have disposed of that large planet some other way! What a laaaaame finale!!!……
The fans got to see the suit, got to see Superman, were given a Michael Rosenbaum return as Lex Luthor, the real Jimmy and FINALLY saw Clark Kent fly…..yet still find something to complain about!!!
The finale was underwhelming. After all the promos teasing Tom Welling wearing the suit, fans were left without their wish come true: seeing Clark/Tom Welling as Superman. Being Executive Producer, Tom has some of the blame for the decision of not wearing the suit. I felt very dissapointed on how the producers did everything to avoid one final shot of Clark becoming Superman (Tom wearing the suit).
As I mentioned in a couple of magazine reviews of the episode, it had both its good points and its bad.
There was plenty of hype and speculation about the costume, but in the end I was personally disapointed. As a very long term fan of everything Superman and Smallville, it left me empty and I was actually yelling at the screen. We should have seen Tom in the costume, maybe even in the classic Superman pose. Instead we got incomplete images, and low budget special effects. To be honest the CGI image of supes was a complete waste of time. It wasn’t even good quality.
The story conclusions tied up a lot of the continuity differences between Smallville and the regular DC universe, and I had no problem with Jonathan Kent turning up at the end – although Jor El (or is that Jor-L) had some seriously stilted dialogue.
The arrow heads were all that was left of the Bow of Orion I think… Still trying to work that out…
It would be foolish to assume that the majority of Smallville fans were satified with the brief glimpse of Clarke in his Superman persona, but lets face it: the series is over and the studio had nothing to prove ratings wise.
And those of you who think that this series was just about Clarke need to think again. It was about the birth of a legend..