Smallville Season 7 Review

Having just completed watching season 7 of smallville, this is my review. following on from the finale of season 6 which unlike previous season finales, season 6 ended with a to be continued finish. during season 6 after Clark escaped from the phantom zone, several phantoms also escaped, the most powerful was a wraith which appeared more predominately towards the end of the season with it finally being able to make an evil copy of clark and survive without a host body. Season seven begins with a bang and some major changes in line up. the season starts with Lionel missing, Lex is trapped in a car under water, Chloe appears to be dead and good Clark is fighting bizzaro clark. what happens to Lex is light a mirror of what happened to him when he first met Clark, out of no where a guardian angle comes and rescues him, in this case it is a new character Kara, who is Clarks cousin, she had been trapped underwater in her ship, when the dam breaks she is freed. on screen this season it is quote character busy, with Chloe, Jimmy, lois, Kara who features predominately, Lana as well as lex, the justice league, a Major character that has taken a complete sideline is Martha Kent, she is mentioned a number of times throughout but has no screen time. Clark finally tells Lana everything about himself, Lana accepts him for what he is and for a time they live very happily together. Lex goes through a long of changes through this season, at the start he is remorseful of the way he treated Lana, he creates a clone of his dead brother to try and have a connection with family but when that backfires on him he has Julian killed, he also has his childhood friend, Patricia swan killed and finally he kills Loinel in his pursuit for the key and the truth about veritas. Lex's character is getting darker and darker per episode as he seems to be loosing his grip, as the people around him like Lana, Lionel and Clark reject him. this season see Clark again face off against Bizzaro and professor fines (brainiac). we learn more about Chloe's new powers as she comes to terms with the enormity of them. but after a run in with fines she seems to loose her power but her IQ jumps off the scale. In an interesting episode we get to see what life would be like if Clark never came to smallville, it turns out this is just a test by Jor El to complete Clarks resolve in following his destiny. After Kara and Clark went to Krypton via a time portal, they stop Fines from killing Clark as a child and return to earth, Clark does not know it at the time but it is fines who returns to earth with him and the real kara is trapped in a mirror marr floating in space. Fines disguised as Kara finds Edward tigue who is the last surviving member of the Veritas group, which was made up of the Queens, Tigues, Luthors and Virgil swan. Edward (robert picardo) is trying to escape and go into hiding again after he surfaced to meet the traveller, he is upset the traveller will not kill lex to prevent him from controlling him, so Edward using Kryptonite plans to kill Clark so he wont fall into the wrong hands. Fines is on the hunt for the sphere himself so he can control Kal El. Clark destroys fines for once and for all, Lana and Chloe come out of the Coma fines had placed them in. we get to see a much darker side to Lana, having been scarred by Lex and wanting revenge she spies on Lex, kidnaps Lionel, sets up the ISIS foundation as a base in which to spy on lex and his secret plans. The season finale is a more tame affair than previous finales. Lex finally learns the truth he as always suspected that Clark was the traveller, lex uses the sphere he had found through the series of clues set out by Veritas, this destroys the fort and strips Clark of his powers. overall this a good season, there are a lot of interesting characters that come and go, such a Julian Luthor, Patricia swan. it is good to see Chloe and Jimmy get close and it looks like Chloe while still a complete friend to Clark, no longer has romantic feelings for him. Clark is facing a tough question throughout, does he play house with Lana, as he has everything he could ever want, good friends, the girl of his dreams, family and home or does he give that up and follow his destiny. with all the different characters it can be difficult to keep straight who know what but it was an interesting and exciting season. this season was perhaps a little less focused than previous season's and did seem to source alot of material from Kara, either learning her way, being rebellious, getting in trouble and danger with Lex and fines, but she is a good addition to the cast.