Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
There should be some title of honour for Tom Welling. In the U.K. they give out knighthoods. Could the U.N. confer a special title on Welling for his ten years of service as Clark Kent?
Watching the series finale, I felt that the actor is deserving of praise, giving a decade of his career to one character.
In the finale, it was surprising to see who returned and who didn't. Michael McKean did give his voice to Perry (but no actual filmed scenes) while Aaron Ashmore got to return as his younger brother, Jimmy Olsen 2.0. Did Michael Rosenbaum really go to all the trouble of shaving his head, just for a few scenes in the finale?
The ultimate defeat of Darkseid wasn't that great, as expected. While the series set up all these big foes, they could never pull off the big comic book confrontation to pay it off.
Clark in the super-suit might mostly be in animation, but it's still Superman right there on screen. I understand why people wanted that to pay off in a bigger way. But what they delivered was pretty good and likely blew a huge amount of the budget.
Who was the president that Lois met on Airforce-One? Was it Barack Obama? Lex is elected in 2018, so whoever was elected in 2016 must have been forced out of office and a special election held.
Conner Kent didn't return for the finale. Although we do get to see that actor in some of the flashback scenes from Lex's youth. As the same actor that played young Lex returned as clone Alexander who ultimately becomes Superboy. I think that's a cool bit of casting.
In the last two seasons, they were able to jam in a lot of D.C. comic book characters and story lines. I don't think (other than animation) any other T.V. series or movie has been given such freedom to use so much from the catalogue. It might not always have been well executed, but at least fans got to see their heroes (and villains) in live action.
The final season did a good job with the Lois and Clark love story. So I'm happy. The last scene of them calling back to the quantum leap earlier in the season got me all choked up. Donner end credits.