Smallville

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Omar G: D | 1897 USERS: C
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So Long, and Thanks for All the FAIL!
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I had planned to save this for the last page of the recap, a kind of sneak announcement for the most dedicated recap readers to send you off into the summer sun with a bit of news. But then I saw this week's finale, "Doomsday," and realized that, wow, most of you aren't going to make it to the end of this recap. I don't know if I'm going to make it to the end of this recap. What an awful episode.

On the other hand, it's a great way to end my run as Smallville recapper. Thanks, show. Yes, it's true. This is my last recap of Smallville for Television Without Pity. [Nooooooo! - Zach] I'll go into more detail at the end of the recap, but for now, as I'm expecting most of you won't read that far, let me just say it here: thank you for reading. All of you, haters and supporters, fans and nitpickers alike. I would have never made it through eight years of this... thing without your eyeballs and your feedback. You have my gratitude. The Gayest Look of the Series, it turned out, was between you and me, as we stared into each others' queerly loving eyes and wished this show were better than it really was. I hope it was good for you, too. Baby.

We open on the Metropolis skyline at night. Tens of thousands of lights each tell a different tale of the city, and it will turn out they'll all be more competently told than the one we're about to witness. We hear a rocket approaching from the right. Is the helicopter shooting this footage about to be taken down by a rogue missile? Instead, the projectile flies in from the right of the frame and blasts forward. We see it streak across the sky, this time from left to right. Then we see the figure of a man flying up among the buildings. It looks like he's got a blue jetpack doubling as his footwear. Another cut and we see the figure streaking downward to get to the roof of the Daily Planet building. Our familiar hero of sorts, Clark Kent, is standing on the roof waiting. He's wearing a light blue dress shirt and a tie. The rocket man was Rokk, who is still wearing strange buckles on his black jacket. I guess in the future, that's a thing. He thanks Clark for meeting him. Clark says he's not the one who had to travel 1,000 years to get here. Hell, Clark didn't even have to travel outside of the building. Rokk says he hopes he's not too late. Too late for what? You're the one with the time travel. How can you be late for anything? "For what?" Clark asks. "The future," Rokk says. Oh, you asshole! You come back from the future to say you hope you're not too late for the future? You already are! Maybe. Actually, I'm already getting a headache thinking about it. I already watched the Lost finale and that was more than enough time traveling for one week, thanks. Clark is intrigued. He tilts his head as if he's about to say, "The future, Conan?" Rokk walks past Clark and says he knows that every time they travel back, they run the risk of disrupting fate. To be honest, he says, he might not have a future to go back to if he mucks around in this time period. Wouldn't you just disappear instantly, having never existed long enough to travel back here? ACK! Ice cream headache!

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