Smallville Season 9 Review

I have just finished watching season nine of smallville, alot has happened, I have noticed a patten over the past two seasons that unlike season one which had the freak of the week format, they have villain of the season now, in season eight it was doomsday and for season nine it was zod, zod and his soldiers are released from the orb after doomsday defeat, Clark spends most of the season trying to prevent the kandorians from getting there powers and taking over the world. Again Tess Mercer is an important character but new players are added to the mix like checkmate, red queen, the justice society of America. A feature of this season is Clark's struggle to be close to Lois and not revealing his secret but not lie to her either, he somewhat achieves this by talking to Lois via phone as the blur, but this puts Lois in danger and later gives zod a way to manipulate Lois to gather information on Tess for him. Chloe tries to be the focal point for Ollie and his hero team as she runs watchtower, it becomes her sole purpose and she comes dangerously close to loosing focus on why she is doing this work, Chloe also starts dating Ollie but after loosing Jimmy she does not want it to become serious and is not after commitment but everytime Ollie is in danger Chloe is out of her mind with worry. Clark's mother Martha is hardly mentioned during the show and Lana is in only a few episodes, in a strange turn of events she uses Lex's technology to help build a super suit, she is infused with nanites and after going through extreme training she plans on working side by side with Clark, Lex has a bomb planted on the roof of the Daily planet, Lana's suit will absorb the kryptonite and prevent an explosion but Clark can not get within ten feet of Lana, she later leaves as she can't take not being able to be with Clark. Clark spends most of the season trying to reason with Zod while also trying to prevent him and the others from gaining there powers. But in a strange turn of events, clark saves Zods life with his blood and this gives Zod his powers, he later shares this power with the others who are loyal to him. The kandorians start wreaking havoc around the world, clark and the other heros are stretched thin trying to track them. After Zod betrays one of his own and kill the mother of his unborn child the other Kandorians decide to listen to clark, clark uses a crystal to open a portal to transport all kryptonians to another dimension, clark would also go. But in the final battle between zod and clark, clark is killed, this prevents him from being beamed away. The season ends on a cliffhanger with clark falling from the building with a dagger in his chest. I was not a big fan of Zod as a villain, his menace went on a bit too long and clark with his powers could have stopped him in his tracks long before if he was willing to and clarks reasons for lettings his people find their way is a bit thin, when it is shown that if clark fails that the world will be turned on its head.