I’ve been somewhat of an apologist for the non-Superman-like storyline of “Smallville”. Though it has been far from young-Superman for quite some time, it still remained a fun show, so I put up with the juvenile writing…until now. Comics2Film has an announcement from producers on the villains to replace Lex.

  • Doomsday: In season eight, Clark will face his ultimate challenge with the appearance of the legendary, unstoppable destroyer Doomsday, who appears on “Smallville” for the first time. As comic book fans know, Doomsday is notorious for being the only character in the DC Comics universe to have killed Superman.
  • Female villain: Doomsday won’t be Clark’s only nemesis in the upcoming season. The executive producers are tight-lipped about a new female villain they will be introducing, but they can say she will be familiar to many fans and will set her sights on Clark in ways Lex never could. Intelligent, brilliantly manipulative, and dangerously sinister, our gorgeous new villain has one more weapon in her arsenal: Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite for him.

Doomsday? Really? Now I know why Gough and Millar left. It is actually hard to put into words how uncreative and disrespectful of the Superman character I believe this is. There is no way they could bring Doomsday to “Smallville” that would work and stay true to the character.

Yes, bringing Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White and even Lex Luthor to Smallville in Clarks childhood was very against cannon, but it was possible. They found a way to make it work, but Doomsday will never work. The closest thing we could hope for would be the equivalent of the neutering they did to Bane in “Batman and Robin“.

Sitting on my DVR right now is last night’s episode…I’ll be deleting that. “Smallville” is dead to me.

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