It'd have to be a squirrel to balance the cosmic scales. Kill a squirrel. Save a squirrel.

Okay, I did get something I wanted to see.

Chloe, Lois, and Martha throwing Clark a birthday party. I thought they should do it because it would be a nice and sweet thing to do. I can't believe they actually went through with it.

Cyb. I've noticed that you keep coming up with these amazing things that you want to see on Smallville.

I don't have any such high hopes or dreams regarding this show.

I would be really happy if they just show Clark eating a piece of pie.

Oh neither do I. And yet, I keep coming up with wishlists. Like this one!

Next week, Clark kills Lex. For real. Just gives him the old phallic symbol of death. Next season, Clark mourns a little. Sure, the guy was a jerk, but they once were friends. Plus, killing Lex totally stained up Clark's favorite shirt. But then, when all hope seems lost, the real Lex shows up! The one who's been in suspended animation since the end of S3. He knows nothing of the Krystal Kwest or French witchery, or heterosexuality. When Lana comes mewing up to him, he runs away from her, "Ew cooties!" Lana, now without a boyfriend, ceases to exist. She just vanishes and no one asks after her.

Ah yes. Your famous "Every episode since Memoria has been a kryptobath induced halluncination." That's one reboot I can live with.

That or this Lex is a royally defective clone. The real Lex is in Europe somewhere where he has to filter is blood daily through his nipple clamps. He crashed there when Clark ripped open that plane of his. This Lex also saw everything that Clark has done to his plane and is plotting to stop this all-powerful-yet-easily-brain-washable-alien. He's just waiting in the shadows trying to cure his condition while trying figure our how to stop these kryptonians from conquering mankind.

I just popped over to the Supernatural forum, and everyone there (and a few here in the Meet Market thread) are just on different stages of 'OMG!OMG!OMG!Wow!' after seeing the season finale. Everybody is in shock.

I'm so totally jellus. I can't watch SPN, so I want Smallville's season finale to be just as squee-worthy. I want to be going 'OMG!OMG!OMG!' after it's over. And then I want us to all come on over here to the boards and go 'Oh my God! I can't believe they killed off Lana! Wow!'.

Ok, ok. Fat chance. I'll settle for a nice, big, wow-worthy season finale. Please, please? Pretty please?

I love your reboots, Reynolds and Cyb. My reboot is that everything since the S3 finale and Clark getting sucked into the cave wall is Jarnelle showing the BDA what will happen if he continues down the path of asshattedness. When Smallville finishes, Clark will fall out of the wall to find only a few seconds have passed since he got sucked in. Horrified at the future he has seen Clark will superzip his Dad and Lex to the hospital, all the while deciding to be a better person. When Lex is better the Clex will run away together, as far as possible from Lana, and live happily ever after!

My reboot is very simple: Lana's parents were holding her. And Lois' family now fully understands the tragedy of alcohol poisoning.



If we get the Chlark kissI'm wanting, it will be!

Reynolds, Cyb, and DarkPriestess, your reboot ideas OWN! I love your Jarnelle showing the BDA the future that springs due to asshatry, DarkPriestess. Very Dickensian! My request for the season finale: Lex with powers can fly. I also want him to pimpslap Clark. I'd rather he do this while not possessed, but I'll take what I can get. Small favors, PTB.HA! I'm still hoping for the day that Lois is involved in a disfiguring accident, has facial recontruction, and leaves town (a la Pam on Dallas).

Great reboots, everyone!

I would like an episode that clarifies whether Lionel did or did not kill his parents. It would be cool to see a flashback set in Suicide Slums, with a young Lionel & Morgan Edge. (This being SV, they'd probably be fighting over Lana's grandmother played by KK in yet another bad wig.)

I think Lionel's confession in Truth sealed the deal for me: he did it. That Bastard! But Great Big Honkin' WORD to wanting a young!Lionel episode, Durq! This idea is one of my biggest wishes! Perhaps we could even see his early days with Lillian and perhaps a too-precious-for-words baby!Lex! But if we are ever shown any of this, I will lose my mind. It would be that.freakin'.awesome. And you know what? I wouldn't mind one bit if they had JG play the part of Lionel in his early twenties. No problem with that whatsoever. Any kind of Luthor backstory ep., I will squee over. Just please lord, no retcons. I've had enough of that shizzle!

Now, that Season 5 is over, I thought I'd look over the thread and see if we got some of the stuff we wanted. Turns out a good number of us did. I sorta got something on my wish list in Mercy when Chlarkex worked on a problem together which was pretty fantastic as I thought it would be. While I didn't get a Chlex kiss, I got a Chlex tussle and some really heated Chlex exchanges which is a lot more than Season 4 provided.

My Wishlist for Season 6

1) Chlois
2) Chois
3) Chlois
4) Chloe to get some action both as an investigative reporter and as a young woman.
5) Pete, Gabe, Chloe's mum, Lillian, Chad the Goth, Bart, Bittleman, Kaaahhhnnnn, Perry,Martha's dad, Kevin Grady and Kyle Tippett to show up on screen again.
6) Make Nois go away permanently
7) Let us see Lex's abs more. ;)

This is my shallow wishlist:

1. Give Martha a haircut. Seeing AOT in the upfront pics in the media thread just reminded me of how much I've hated Martha's hair lately. The shoulder length bob she used to have was great. Maybe something shorter with a bit of wave to it.

2. More bounce to Chloe's hair. I got my wish last year of seeing her with longer hair but sometimes they iron the life right out of it.

3. About two pounds less makeup on Lois if she has to be around at all.

4. Make Lana invisible for the entire season. Sure, she's pretty to look at, but I'd have to do a lot less ff'ing if she just weren't in scenes. Plus, it'd give KK more time to work on movies or whatever.

5. No more girly bangs or pseudo mullets for Clark. And burn the Horrible Red Jacket. Burn it, lock the ashes in a safe, dump the safe into a river. Then hurl the river into space. It must DIE.

I concour with Cyb's list. Get Clark a new horrible red jacket. :P

And I concour with Massena on:



I personally can live without Lex's abs. Instead I add a shallow one of my own:

7) Give Tom Welling an Ab Roller.

I wish that the kids had only spent 2 seasons in HS. If they were 14 (TW was like 23 for the first season) why the hell were they driving? Did killing off 20 or so Crows really make the show better?
Shit like how Lana runs a buisness while she is 16 wouldn't have come up. Lana's weird living situations also wouldn't raise so many questions. Pete moving would have been a sign of them growing up and moving on. Keep them all at the local junior or community college for 2 more years. Then they could use the wormhole back and forth the Metropolis for season 5.

My Wishlist:

1. Chlois
2. Chlois
3. Chlark
4. Helen
5. IF EDLois is THE Lois, please, a total revamp of the character.



The jacket should trade its life for Clark's in the PZ.



Okay, this I can excuse to an extent. I think there is a special license that teenagers under 16 can get if they live on a farm and as such have to drive in order to help run the family business. I could be wrong but I thought I remember hearing about that.

My wish for S6:

Shirtless Lex with a gun. Shallow, I know, but since a cohesive plot and character development is out of the question I will take what I can get.

Speaking of Lex and guns, I won't allow them to let Lex be shot in S6.

No shit. Give the brother a bullet-proof vest already. Sheesh.

My wishlist for S6:

*ahem*

1. Chlark (at least, for one season, please! My girl needs some lovin'!)
2. New superpower. I love that Clark can light my cigarette in a strong wind, but I need something.
3. Less gratuitous boobage...and stuff. Come on! I don't need to see Lois working out!
4. A new DC character that doesn't involve water. No water!
5. Oh! And of course, no fucking Clana. None. Zilch. Nada. Back away from the Clana, Al. That's right. Nice and slow like.
6. Christ! How could I forget this one?: Please! Could we get some music up in this mofo that isn't on constant MTV rotation? How about some Sparklehorse, or PJ Harvey, or Wolfmother? You had Depeche Mode on there...How about some f'n Smiths?! Joseph Arthur?!

Sorry...Went a little off there. :)

Totally unacceptable, unless he is quickly tazered by a shirtless Chloe.

Tazering by a football jersey-wearing Chloe would also be acceptable.

RepairmanBob I could totally get behind shirtless Chloe with a tazer. Especially if she's tazering Lex. Kinky!

See? we could both be happy.

My Smallville wishlist for Season 6:

1. Everything on Cyb's list, especially

WORD, a hundred times over. No more Red Jacket for me. My eyes can only take so much pain every week.

2. End of the Chlana 'friendship' onscreen. I want a nasty, bitchy end. I wouldn't mind seeing Chloe pull Lana by the hair and call her a nasty, lying, self-centered bitch. But since that's never gonna happen, I'll settle for Chloe giving Lana the cold-shoulder. Followed by her (Chloe) ending the friendship. On her terms.

3. Chlark.

4. No Clana, relationship or not. I don't care if they continue with Lexana, but please. No more Clana. Which will take care of my other two wishes - no more pathetic barn scenes and no more Clana-induced angst.

5. Superman-y Clark, doing something selfless and heroic every once in a while. He's been showing traces of that Superman-ness all season. I just want a little more of it. That's all I ask.

Yeah I think we've been anvilled over the head enough with his blue-red combo. Yes, he's going to be Superman. I get it! I got it five years ago! If they still want the primary colors, let him alternate. A red t-shirt one week, a blue button-down the next week.

I've been off the Chlark ship for a while, but if they went with it, I'd want Chlark with conditions. No Clark pining for Lana while he's with Chloe. No Chloe sacrificing her new relationship so that Clark can be with his 1truluv. No contrived HypnoHo style drama. No bizarre personality shifts where Chloe is suddenly a high maintenance girlfriend who can't handle Clark being a hero for everyone in the world. If I feel reasonably sure these things won't happen, then I'd consider maybe getting back on the ship.

That really, really needs to happen. And I don't want it to end because Lana dumps Chloe for "stealing" her exboyfriend. I can all too easily imagine her whisper-hissing, "I knew I couldn't trust you!" while Chloe looks gutted. No, Chloe just needs to put her foot down. No more acting like Lana's personal doormat.

My wishlist:

1. An updated look for Clark. Keep the hair long, brush it off his forehead, and diversify his wardrobe.
2. Chlark. And if I can't have Chlark, Clori (Lori Lemaris), and if I can't have Chlark or Clori, Clois. Just let Clark have a relationship with someone that isn't Lana. Chlark being my STRONG preference
3. Very, very few Clana scenes. And if she bitches at him, he's allowed to give her a "talk to the hand".
4. Clex confrontations, but let them call each other on their bullshit.
5. Lois, use her or lose her
6. Happy!Clark. At least a few times. Some life affirming moments would be a good thing for him. More heroic saves.
7. Chlana smackdown. I never bought they liked each other, let them get down with their inner bitches
8. No Mionel romance. Scenes? Yes. Romance? Wrong
9. Clancy Brown. As anyone.
10. Bring back some familiar faces. Top of the list: Perry White, Bart, Victor, Andrea, Helen, that Myx guy, Gabe Sullivan, Clark's grandfather, General Lane

Bart and Perry. That's all I want. Just Bart and Perry.

"WORD, a hundred times over. No more Red Jacket for me. My eyes can only take so much pain every week."

Snort. I almost wrote the death of the Red Jacket into one of my fanfics. I wanted to have him set him on fire with his heat vision by accident. I finally decided not to, but Gawd it was tempting. I hate that thing. Kill. The. Jacket.

I'll agree with: Chlark (but do it right-- word to everything on the subject in Cyb's last post), nomoreClanaEVER, Chlana smackdown. Plus I'd like to see some really science fictiony plots with cool twists. You know, the kind of plots that make you think. I love romance novels, but this isn't one. Romance should be highly secondary to the main plot.

RepairmanBob..you are a man after my own heart. I love it...

Nois? Loseher.



Repairman Bob - A Chloiser and a Chlexer? Maybe we should consider picking out china patterns? ;)

They have destroyed the red jacket on this show, this season, in Hidden, and still he wears it. It is indestructible. Also, in Vessel, he wore it the whole show and that is what he is wearing in the Phantom Zone.




I agree.



This is exactly how I feel.

Since shallow is acceptable.

1. Tom Welling. With or without the ab roller.
2. If the first thing is not doable, then, a happy Clark, for at least 2 episodes.

My wishlist...

1. Chlois
2. Chlark (and they must actually be into one another and happy)
3. Evil!Squirrel no more good or princess Lana please!
4. Get Lex a new security team!!!!
5. A Wonder Woman or Wondergirl guest appearance.

A wonderful compromise, DarkPriestess. Kinky Chlex is definetely something I want to see. Hell, give me the shirtless adventures of Lex and Chloe for 15 minutes a week, (with recurring character the re-Bastardized Magnificent Bastard) and AlMiles can do whatever the hell they want with Clark, Lana and Lois.

wrighty555, Massena1- thank you for the appreciation of my programming suggestion.

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WORD to the nth degree. Fragile was one of my favorite eps this season for that reason.

I have to agree about having Clark doing something "Super". He is damn near invulnerable (except for kryptonite of course) but he acts like we (Lana) should be impressed when he stops a bullet (that Lana didn't even know he did). That would be like me bragging that I stopped a balloon sword.
Right now I don't see Clark as super at all. Much less in the same league as any of the other Supermans. Reeves, Caine, and the animated Superman all were Super. Sure he has powers but Superman has always been more than the most powerful superhero. He has had the greatest moral center and was willing to die to protect even his enemies. This Clark is nothing like that.

Wheeeeeeee! SDK just answered my question and gave me hope that we'll see both Bart and Perry again! Well, that just made my day. I probably shouldn't get that much joy from this development, but I have to admit I squealed like a tiny little piglet.

I saw! That is sooo cool!! I'm actually kind of psyched to see Perry White back, myself.

EEEEE!

LOVE Perry. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Perry.

EEEE!

LOL, he just answered mine, and I'm not sure if it's a magic 8 ball "yes" or an "I'm so toying with you, little kdsch123." :) I'll leave the analysis to the experts.

That's exciting, Nutty. They're both such fun characters. Michael McKean and TW had great comic chemistry and I'd love to see a Bart/Chloe episode.

Double post. Sorry!

Nutty Goodness I feel your joy! SDK answered my question about the Clark/Lionel uneasy relationship. I hope TPTB don't forget about it or quickly sweep it under the rug.There's so much potential there; not to mention more opportunities for TW and JG to work together.To me this is the second biggest relationship on the show (heading into the sixth season) behind the Clark/Lex deteriorating 'friendship'.

But Clark is not Superman yet. He'll be there by the end of the series.

1. The end of Clana. Seriously. After the verbal castration Clark took in Vessel, I cannot imagine any way these two should be in a room together, much less in a relationship. Yes, Clark feels responsible for Lana. Yes, Clark blames himself for Lana dating Lex, and I am sure she will blame him too when Lexana ends. No, after five years, I no longer give a fuck about any of this angst.
2. Chlark. Even if only for a few episodes. Throw us Chlarkers a bone.
3. Make Lex competent. Our future world-class villian still has no security, is routinely outsmarted or betrayed, and recieves almost as many head injuries per episode as Homer Simpson. Lex does not need to always succeed, but neither should he always lose. Look at Ageless. The episode as horrible, but at the end, Lex has the data from the amazing exploding baby, which he promises Clark he will share with the world. When a lacky asks Lex if he was serious, Lex smiles and replies, "Eventually." Evil but dumb is not as interesting, or as convincing, as mostly-evil and smart.
4. Shirtless adventures of Lex and Chloe. Just because.
5. Useful Lois. Lois is great with Chloe, good with Clark and Mama Kent, and would make an interesting neutral character in the likely Lexana vs Chlark conflict Smallville seems to be setting up for season six. Lois can be great, but having everything handed to her (a la Lana version 2.0) is one of my main annoyances about the character.
6. Less whinny Clark. Seriously - cheer the BDA up. Give him some pie, let him play football, hook him up with Chloe for some lovin'. SDK's talk of "breaking down Clark to build him up" just reminded me of the fine job ME did on Buffy. They broke her down for two horrible, soul-killing seasons, and I am still waiting for the rebuilding. Just lose the guilt, and make Clark happy.
7. More shirtless adventures of Lex and Chloe. Guest starring Stompy.
8. Lana gets what she desirves. Have someone, anyone, call the pretty princess on her crap. Just once.

I'd love for season 6 to have more of an original score, rather than Maroon5 and James Blunt leftovers. People were discussing which pop songs they could use for eventual romantic Chlark moments, but I really hope that they don't use any at all.

Buffy and Angel (sorry, but that's pretty much the only other hour-long dramas I've watched) had terrific scores - of course, Buffy had the wonderfully talented Christophe Beck working for them - with each couple having their own love theme.

If the composer for Smallville (anyone know his name?) is too lazy to write new stuff, there are plenty of terrific instrumental music available (although the really good stuff might be just as expensive). IMHO, when they use Maroon5/James Blunt/Lifehouse, it just detracts from the scene, rather than add to it. Not because it's those bands per se, but... I'm not quite sure, but I think it's the singing that detracts; it all just seems so very teenybopper.

Mark Snow does the music for Smallville.

Which, at some point, I hope to get a scoretrack of. Just sayin.

Thank you, Chiriru, I don't know how I could've forgot that it was him. Why isn't the music on Smallville more memorable, then? Mark Snow is terrific - I especially like his work on Millennium (okay, that's another hour-long drama I'm watching).

Pepsinger that is the problem. Reeves, Cain, and the animated Clark were all good reporters. I can see Clark becoming Superman (sort of) but how the hell does the BDA becoming Clark Kent ace reporter?
In all the various Superman series (other than Justice League) Clark Kent is almost as important as Superman. But this Clark is nothing like the other Clarks.
We have had 5 seasons of Clark feeling guilty for causing Lana's parents deaths. 5 years of him lying to her because he thinks she will blame him for them being pancaked. 5 years of Clark not letting himself and Lana move the fuck on.
Smallville has said that it won't be exactly like the other Superman stories. That is fine. But they should stop hinting at Clark Kent ace reporter or get of their ass and focus Clark.

For me, it depends. When the lyrics fit with the scene, I don't have a problem. Take for example the lyrics to "The Reason" in a Chlark scene in Delete, I believe.

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You [x4]

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you



I'd love to get a scoretrack, too, Chiriru.



I think we might see him try in season six. I like to think of the teaser in Fade as foreshadowing what's to come in S6. Clark goes to trials with Chloe, and it "sets off the journalism spark" again.

I'd love to see Pete. I'd have loved to see a conversation between Pete and Chloe in S5, or even some fake email or phone call.

And wouldn't it be cool if Pete was the one to save the day at the beggining of S6? At least, he could rescue Chloe and then they could figure a way to bring Clark back.

I happen to like a lot of the alternative rock-pop stuff (that kind of stuff really appeals to us middle-aged females, y'know:-), but I like a good score, too. I think the music at the end of "Smallville" is just beautiful, but I've hardly heard them use it. I can only think of one moment where they've used it, at the beginning of the third season. I'd like to hear more orchestral stuff along those lines.

And word to RepairmanBob's comments about the end of Clana. After what she said to Clark in the finale, are we really supposed to think he should still be in love with her? In yesterday's NY Times article, Miles was quoted as saying again that the end of SV would be a "tragedy" because he wound up mortal enemies with Lex and didn't get Lana. The mortal enemies part I get, but how is it tragic for Clark not to get Lana in the end? Hell, I think he should throw a party:-).