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The Show that Never Will End that Fans want to End (Smallville)

I don't see why this is a problem...10th season to end the series right.

What fans want it to end?
 
Quite simply, the longer the series goes on the more the ingrity of the series will go down.
 
What would a tenth season even be about, assuming the Kryptonians are dispatched by the season's end?

I for one propose a massive Nazi invasion from another dimension. If it can't be a full-on flying, suited Superman show, Clark fighting Nazis would pretty much be the only way to interest me at this point...
 
All of the concussions that Chloe, Lois, Oliver, etc. have suffered finally come back to hurt them!
 
You know, if the audience is there and the producers feel they can create more stories to tell, then more power to them. Who is it really harming in the end?
 
It's on the CW, though. How many people does it take for the "audience to be there"? Is 5 people watching enough? ;)
 
Gaith said:
What would a tenth season even be about, assuming the Kryptonians are dispatched by the season's end?

I for one propose a massive Nazi invasion from another dimension. If it can't be a full-on flying, suited Superman show, Clark fighting Nazis would pretty much be the only way to interest me at this point...
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However, this being Smallville.

Nazi arrive in season premiere, getting hopes up for some intriguing plots and action.

Next episode they are mentioned in passing.

Next episode they aren't mentioned.

Second to last episode of season, they appear again...just a set up for the season finale. Clark dons the Super suit for only the 3rd time this season.

Clark beats them easily in a brief, unfufilling fight, last 15 minutes are characters discussing feelings while some emo-rock tune plays.
 
Admiral_Young said:
i for one do...for reasons I've expressed in previous Smallville threads. I'm not alone either.
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:rolleyes:

Why do you even bother with these threads if you don't even like the show? It's simple. If you don't like it, don't watch it. And stop shitting on everyone else's parade.

Gaith said:
What would a tenth season even be about, assuming the Kryptonians are dispatched by the season's end?
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Callum Blue (Major Zod) was signed to a two year deal.
 
Yeah, word is they have a two-year arc in mind for Zod. I don't watch it myself and I'm not really a fan, but I think at this point the show's earned the right to go out on its own terms. Even though it's a WB holdover, it was one of the CW's top performers since the network's inception, and to be honest, the CW doesn't really have anything else that could replace it.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
However, this being Smallville.

Nazi arrive in season premiere, getting hopes up for some intriguing plots and action.

Next episode they are mentioned in passing.

Next episode they aren't mentioned.

Second to last episode of season, they appear again...just a set up for the season finale. Clark dons the Super suit for only the 3rd time this season.

Clark beats them easily in a brief, unfufilling fight, last 15 minutes are characters discussing feelings while some emo-rock tune plays.
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Which is why I stopped watching the show after S3. ;)
 
It will never end.

The guy who plays Clark knows he can't act, so he will never leave the show, thus it will continue forever.

I hope it gets a 10th season so it can tie Stargate SG-1, proving that shit shows can still last 10 years. :)
 
I want it to end.

It's annoying to have to watch every episode.

I mean when you see a junkie corpse rotting in the gutter, do you blame the junk or the junkie?
 
This isn't really new news I'm afraid. Back when they were talking about a ninth season they announced that they had plans for a tenth and that they were trying to get Welling to sign on the dotted line for it as well. He did.

Actually one of the few who did not to sign for a tenth season, so far, is Allison Mack.
 
Might be your filter, sometimes those geeky moron editors at Io9 fill their site with NSFW posts like linking their site to some softcore/hardcore scifi review...if you get my meaning

Anyway here's the article

While we hope and pray that the rumor about Darkseid appearing in the next season of Smallville has no basis in truth whatsoever, the fact that the makers of the CW's most frustrating hour of television have already made Brainiac into a schoolteacher points towards it being real with the Source's very own flaming finger of fate. But is there a way to put the personification of pure evil (and probable inspiration for Darth Vader) into Smallville without it sucking? We look at the possibilities and spoil you some more under the jump.While Smallville has a long and shameful history of taking classic DC characters and, well, screwing them up - Brainiac, anyone? Zod? - it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Sure, the show may not have the flamboyance or budget to bring Darkseid to the screen in the way that we'd all want to see him, but that doesn't mean that they can't come up with a version that doesn't make fans run screaming from their televisions.

This is how we'd do it:

Steal from today's comics. Okay, actually from a couple of months' ago, but it's close enough. As part of the opening of Final Crisis (and, actually, in the Mister Miracle series from a few years back), Darkseid is shown as "hiding" in human bodies. Sure, his godlike presence tends to cause them to burn out very quickly, requiring a lot of replacements, but a succession of threatening guest-stars is probably cheaper than having someone come up with a believable way of bringing his traditional stony-faced, purple-clad look to the small screen.

Keep him lowkey. More than even Lex Luthor, Darkseid doesn't get his hands dirty; he has an endless supply of minions to do all the messy jobs for him, and they'll all happily die for him. But when it comes time for the inevitable showdown, remember that he's no slouch when it comes to either a fight or melodramatic rhetoric when either are absolutely necessary.

Remember that Darkseid thinks big, but acts small. The basic idea of Darkseid is very, very simple: He wants to eradicate all free will in the universe, and replace it with his will, and there's something on Earth that will make that possible. So, if he does appear on Smallville? He'd better not be someone who falls for Chloe and then decides to get even when she decides that she'd rather hang with Jimmy, is all I'm saying. But don't take that to mean that he's all about the grand gestures; Darkseid prefers to do things so that no-one notices. Like Final Crisis's kidnapped children, or Forever People's funpark that doubles as a torture chamber. He's creepier and more meticulous than most Smallville villains - and in a genuine way, not a Lionel Luthor smiles to himself while drinking a glass of whiskey kind of way.There is, to be honest, no reason why Darkseid couldn't work well on the small screen - His methods and, thanks to Final Crisis, disguises are well within network budgets, after all. But what worries us more than anything else is the almost inevitably bad decisions made by Smallville's producers and writers when it comes to coming up with ways of bringing fan-favorites into their show (turning unstoppable monster Doomsday into a hunky medic, for example?). So much so, in fact, that it's almost a given that, if we do see Darkseid come up against a young Clark Kent, he'll have become a goth teenager working at McDonalds who has a crush on Lois and likes to wear a lot of black while sneering at everyone.Consider this a challenge, Smallville staffers: Give us something approaching the real Darkseid: A new god worth Superman's time - and our own.
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