To Superman or not to Superman?

Smallville is back and it's got a double dose of Tom Welling, as Clark Kent/The Blur/Smallville/Evil Clark or what ever other nickname you prefer and I like that they are playing with dual universes. It's very Fringe of them. It must be cool to be able to play, in one episode, the good Clark Kent and the bad Clark Kent from the other universe. This is a great episode to begin the ending of the series and it is completed by a Kent vs Kent, Clark vs Clark, Good vs Evil battle of the Super kind; that is over before you can blink.

It was good to see John Schneider again in the episode.

I missed that good ole Duke boy!

Don't get too excited though if you are watching it on your dvr and fast forward through the little teasers coming back from the commercials you will miss some great stuff. Like a great shot of Tom Welling standing still, very stoic, and the shadow that he casts wears the cape flapping from his shoulders behind him in the wind.

Leaving the question all Smallville fans are debating!

When do you show Clark Kent as Superman?

I've listened to a lot of podcasts and read a number of Blogs, Twitters, and Facebook discussions about it; and there are a number of opinions out there.

Show him in full Superman costume saving the day or just a glimpse of him flying off? Just barely show the emblem or a shadow of the cape? Don't show anything or show it all? To Superman or not too Superman? That is the question?

There is no way to please every geek and nerd out there with the ending of WB's Smallville saga, but you can give us a few alternate endings on the DVD release.

I'm just saying?! "That would be cool"

So.......

My opinion is simple. I have not been watching this show, religiously, for ten seasons to get a crap ending with a lame teaser of what he will become. Tom Welling is every bit Superman to me as Christopher Reeves was and always will be.


I would have no problem seeing Tom Welling in the last ten minutes of the series turn from Clark Kent into Superman and save Metropolis and Lois Lane or at least have him flying of, through the clouds, in the suit. I think that Tom Welling has put so much time and development into this character that it would fall flat and feel awkward if he didn't wear the suit. Don't you? It would be another LOST ending!$&@?! It is an honor to wear the Superman suit and I think Tom Welling has earned the right to end an era and great television show as Superman.


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