Wall Banger/Live-Action TV/Smallville


 * Smallville's finale for Season 8. Bangers galore:
 * Clark Kent. He attempts to  (though maybe he had reason for that - see below) and  He experienced the whole Linda Lake thing, and yet he does this. He also
 * Chloe Sullivan. She ends up looking wishy-washy; she's shown to have
 * Another wall-banger in this episode was that Chloe, having  -- deliberately  The premise of this episode included that none of the events in it would have happened if  . That was frustrating.
 * Davis Bloome. Prior to the finale, he's portrayed as not wanting to kill; he only killed to suppress the Super-Powered Evil Side that would kill thousands more. He already exhausted the option of suicide. After being separated from Doomsday,  The actor himself had a problem with the scene, and told the writers so. Doomsday doesn't get away scot-free;
 * Made even worse by  Davis' entire arc was about giving Doomsday a human side to make killing him not so cut-and-dry; any other show would have his Moral Event Horizon be the lynchpin that makes sealing Davis to stop Doomsday the right moral choice but Smallville decided to both Take a Third Option with regards to this and have Davis Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, making said 3rd option not only utterly meaningless but directly responsible for
 * Jimmy Olsen.  as a Retcon surpassing even Veritas rears its head. After being on drugs for so long that  in an effort to realign the show with the mythos they've ignored for seven seasons. Never mind that
 * Oliver Queen and the Justice League of America. Apparently, the JLA is ; it's not immediately apparent what's wrong here, but when you remember Dinah's and Clark's professions (famous radio show personality and newspaper reporter, respectively)...
 * How about the fact taht their entire "kill Doomsday" plan wouldn't have worked and they know this? Oliver is fully aware that Doomsday can come back from the dead. He's the one who buried him in the first place. Yet he still falls back on "I'm gonna shoot him in the head" and seems to think it will work.
 * Lois Lane. While Lois hasn't always been portrayed as exceptionally intelligent, she drops to a new low by
 * This is a new low? Lower than when she
 * Tess Mercer. Even though she knows  This could be forgiven because
 * Further, the aforementioned fight between Clark and Doomsday that had been teased for the entire season and heralded as the biggest challenge Clark would face by both Jor-El and Rokk . It's no surprise that Smallville was moved to the Friday Night Death Slot for S9.
 * S9 has a massive wallbanger in episode 14, where a clone of Zod has created a pair of identical towers in the center of Metropolis (the biggest city in the DCU). The banger comes when Clark decides to take care of the problem by using heat vision. He blasts the towers with heat vision, slicing into them near the upper floors. They burn, buckle and finally collapse in on themselves, causing the reporters covering the unveiling of the solar towers to run screaming for their lives. When the towers were introduced, the writers likely already knew their ultimate fate, and yet chose to make the headquarters of Zod not an abandoned warehouse, not a conglomerate of towers, not a single skyscraper, but TWIN TOWERS IN THE CENTER OF METROPOLIS. Nothing else really needs to be said.
 * In the Grand Finale, It's just as bad a wallbanger as the Henry James Olsen retcon.
 * Well, Lex could just look through all those files he's had on Clark and pretty much everyone else. Hell, he'll probably figure out everything within five minutes due to all the info he has on them. It might not be personal to him, but there's no doubt he'll find out.
 * There's also the fact that Lex's marriages to Desire, Helen, and Lana are public knowledge, as is the fact that he lived in Smallville for 7 years. He may no longer remember the gritty details, but given that Lex has been shown to be naturally curious--and the fact that he was paranoid enough to keep detailed files on everything during his time in Smallville--he will almost definitely re-learn a lot of the details, if not all of them.
 * Now that the Season 11 comic is coming out, it looks like we will get to actually see the process of Lex rediscovering information about his past.