First poll question courtesy of ratman.

I stopped watching after Season 6 Finale (Phantom). The Boards are where all the action is; it's so much more fun than watching the actual show! (Fondly remembers Omar *cries*)

That said, if there's a particularly good scene, I might catch it on YouTube.

Thanks, Tennison. I actually watched more of this season than the last several, since I actually own a TV for the first time in a number of years, but I can't see myself wasting a perfectly good Friday evening for this any more.

Dog Whisperer is on Fridays at 8. If nothing else remotely interesting is on Fridays at 8 I might, might DVR Smallville so I can snark on it or mute it and enjoy the pretty men.

I love the boards and (part of) the fandom, so I'll probably read the recaps (*weeps at the loss of Omar*), but I've got better things to do on Fridays than watch this crapfest of a show.

Friday nights are movie nights in our house, so no SV.

Does hell go with no?

Alas, 'tis an addiction.

Just one more season, then I'm done.

Definitely not, especially with Hois clogging up my screen

If Chlark is treated with respect, I will watch.

As long as Tom is playing Clark, I'm watching.

I have yet to miss an episode but I think I have reached a breaking point. I'll record some for certain, maybe even all, but just how many I will watch is uncertain and if Nois is in all episodes I will definitely just stop altogether.

I might stop altogether if Chloe is further dumped on or blamed for more in the opener or if they knock her up.

Yeah, a pregnant Chloe would end my viewing habits instantly.

I'm going in expecting 2 more seasons, this way when it's renewed I won't be as disappointed. I think the only thing that will keep me from being a full-time watcher is a 22 episode ED.

But Clark Kent is dead!

Yes, I am coming back and I can't wait. Wanna know why? Because the finale was, to me, totally confusing. What the hell was going on with Clark at the end? Is that really Clark, or did the Black K stuck on DD split Clark into a depressed Clark and Kal-el, and we just didn't see Kal-el yet? Who is dancing lawn guy? A Zod follower? The gardener?

I need some answers, so I will watch. I wish I felt more confident that the writers know the answers at this point, but I don't.

This will come as no surprise to anyone here (since I've been saying what my mindset was for a while now): I'm done. I may record an episode or two if it promises to be great and Nois free, but even with that I'm not sure I can muster up the will to do it. This show has committed the one unpardonable sin with me - it's caused me to no longer give a crap about any of the characters. Not Clark. Not Chloe. Nothing. I feel nothing for none of them at this point. Anger would be better, because at least I'd feel something. But I think my last honest anger with this show came at the end of HEX (which is when I felt the final "FU Chloe/Chlois fans" was given). From that point forward I watched but honestly didn't care. And I sure as hell don't care after the monstrosity that was FAILSDAY. I'll hang out here from time to time just because I consider so many of you good online buddies. But I'd be lying if I said I plan on watching next year. Not gonna happen. I'm getting my life back and investing it in better things.

Well, I hardly watched this year, but I have to admit that I did choose to watch a few really good episodes that I wouldn't have wanted to miss. I guess I'll watch next season the way I did season eight-- I'll follow spoilers (probably less ardently) and I may watch an episode or two without Nois in it if it sounds good. But for the most part, my interest in watching is pretty much gone (and if Nois is in all 22, then I won't be watching at all, nor following spoilers). I'll still keep writing fanfic, though, because I still love the characters as they were and as they should be.

I've quit this show twice, and both times ended up falling back into its abusive arms. I'm just assuming I'll be going back for more abuse in the fall at the moment, even though I'm totally apathetic towards the show at the moment.

Though if Nois is in all 22, I'm going to have to adjust my viewing habits somehow: I haven't watched a Nois episode sober for ages, and I really don't want Smallville to be my future Alcoholics Anonymous origin story.

What they did to Davis was the last straw for me. The Davis arc was by far the most compelling arc this season. It was written well, and it made for some of the most interesting, most entertaining episodes this year. But then, Jimmy/Henry/Whoever needed to die a hero and what do they do? They destroy a whole season's arc, for two seconds in the finally to prop up Henry/Jimmy?! That did it for me.

I will not watch season 9, because I don't see how that would be any different than season 8. They *might* have a compelling arc for one of the characters, but then lender the whole arc moot in the season's finale. Now I can't even enjoy episodes like "Abyss" (what was the point of the mind-rape?), or "Turbulence" (What was the point of Jimmy becoming a Junkie?), or "Eternal" (Why was Chloe crying as Davis was dying if she felt nothing and was doing it All. For. Clark?), or "Beast" (Was Chloe right? Was Olliver right? What?), and so many others.

I just can't put myself through that again. So thankfully. I am done watching. Of course this may change, if they announced that ED was only in the first five episodes of the season and then gone for good. That would drag me back in just to say "neener, neener".

The only sintuation that could make me watch this show again would be Sam hanging outside my door asking me to, since there is no way this will ever happen, then my answer is no. But I will be around to mock it everytime they mess up, that will be my sweet revenge for what they did with Chloe, Lex, Davis, Lionel and Shelby.

I will add Clark to that list of characters that got screwed on the show. When he first started you could see the seeds of Superman on him: there was this sweetness, nobility and heroic side of him that was very endearing... Now all I can see him turning into is Superass! Damn show!

That's where I'm at. Even if they come up with a great storyline next season, I'll be thinking, "Oh, they'll find a way to screw it up somehow." And not in a, "The resolution was confusing and anticlimactic, but I can still enjoy the stuff that happened before that," way. But in a, "Not only did the resolution suck, but they managed to retroactively ruin the parts of the storyline I really liked," kind of way.

I'd like to be gone permanently but I know I'll check in to see what happened. DVR at best is where I'm at.

I am, however, anticipating some horrific comic con Clois pimping so I reserve the right to bail at that point if it's too nauseating.

I don't know.

I feel like my interest in the show was buried with Jenry Hames Olsen.

I can get over the show not going with my ship. I don't like it, but not everything goes the way I want it to. What I can't forgive is the shoddy storytelling and mediocre character development. First and foremost this show should be entertaining, but they can't even manage that anymore. I kind of wish Smallville was one of those lamented "canceled before its time" shows.

I'm at that point too. I was just reading some speculation about the next season and discovered I still have a whole lot of unresolved anger about last season.

Not planning on watching much of next season even tho I've only missed 2 episodes in the history of the show - Infamous and Failsday. I just don't think this anger and bitterness will be going away soon.

That's exactly how I feel, Firebunny. As much as I love Chloe and Chlark, my problem is really that the plots and the characters make no sense. If they'd taken any trouble to develop Nois as a character who learned from her mistakes, I might have (reluctantly) accepted the Cnois this season, but they didn't, at least as far as I could see. They ruined Oliver, they ruined Jenry (could someone tell me what was the point of making him a drug addict?), they ruined Davis, they ruined Doomsday, and they even ruined Lana, imo, by transforming her into this super-powered Mary Sue. They've dragged Chloe through the mud all season and destroyed that spark (the love of journalism, the passion for the truth) that made me fall in love with her character in the first place. Last but not least, they've regressed Clark to the point that he's nothing more than a poor imitation of a broken record. This is at least the third time he's run away/rejected his human persona (end of Season 2, end of Season 3), and if he didn't learn from those experiences, I have no hope that he'll learn from this one. YMMV.

*Sighs* I don't recognize these characters at all, so why should I care what happens to them?

My interest in this show ended with Failsday. Even if Chloe returned to the DP in the premiere, I'm not sure I'd be tempted to return, now that PS have proven how easy it is for them to take even the most promising plotline and ruin it. Mostly, I'm hanging around this forum b/c I enjoy commiserating with you guys. :) (Also, I guess, b/c I still can't believe anyone could actually gut Superman the way these idiots have. It's like watching a disaster happening in slow motion. :/)

Here's the really sad part about all of it. I can accept not getting my ship, but that's the only thing they can possibly give me, because they don't have the ability to tell a good story. But what's the point in getting Chlark if it's hollow and gutted? It'll be just like Clois and I don't like Clois for that very reason.

What Failsday and Requiem taught me is that, no matter what story they're telling, they'll tell it poorly. It doesn't matter what kind of build up they give it, they will end it with a whimper.


I guess I'm feeling some bitterness, but mostly I'm feeling sad. I mourn Smallville and what it almost was.

See, FB, that's what gets me. We've seen this season that they DO have the ability to set up a great story. These writers aren't incompetent, they just don't care. And that's what I find unforgivable. They sold out Superman to get another year's salary.



Me too. :( That's why I said on the poll that I wouldn't be watching anymore. I can't stand to see them ruin Superman more than they already have.

I'm one of the catastrophe people. I'd be lying if I said I'd not be back. Thing is, I have no expectations at this point at all--I'm solely, as the poll suggested, just here to see it through (at least until AM is gone--then I am too, without a doubt). I wish I could turn my back but it's just not going to happen. I can only hope that they at least attempt a decent farewell to Chloe, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen either--why would they bother?

Oliver--douche-ified and smeared because the REAL hero must be Clark, according to the mythos.
Lionel--martyred and gutted because the mythos says that Lex has to be the biggest threat and worst villain.
Chloe--kicked to the sidelines and lobotomized because Nois is the bestest reporter evah, so says the mythos.
Davis--villified and destroyed because "Jimmy" had to die, since DC said that AA's JO didn't line up with the mythos.

History tells us that the show will go out of its way to ruin its own rare, good qualities and assets just to make sure that there's a "line up" with comics canon. Despite the show's long-time mantra that it was an alterworld and its own rendering of the pre-Supes story, after all these years suddenly that's changed and even when the writers manage to come up with something pretty cool late in the game (SW's Davis), they take it as far as they can and then pull a bait and switch. The worst offense was with Chloe/Nois, but really they did it with all of the examples I listed.

But, yet...I'm still going to stick around until AM is gone. Chloe's why I'm invested this long, and despite what's been done to the character, I'm still curious to see how they write her out.

Chloe is the only reason for me to stick around but it is precisely how they might write her off that at this late stage terrifies me.

After Davis I really think expectations can't be too low.

I'll defnitely be back for the season premeire but whether I will watch after that is another story. Between the writers screwing up their one great storyline of the season (Doomsday) and Clark's neverending supply of angst, I just can't take too much of it anymore.

It's clips only for me (Chloe-focused, naturally) , and, of course, this TWoP board. But, yeah, I'm vapor.

I have no reason to believe the story-telling and writing will improve after Doomsday. That's not to say every writer for Smallville will suck like the dumb asses who wrote Failsday, but the chances of equally bad scripts passing quality control have gone up a lot. If Doomsday can pass then any piece of shit they can come up with can and probably will.

This is one of the first times (when it comes to TV) I'm grateful to be in Canada. I can watch this crapfest as I need to see it through to the end, comforted by the fact that my viewing is not at all considered in the decision to renew the show. Yeah?

As long as Welling's there I'm gonna be there but Ive long since given up that there is a single person who can write consistently good material for this show. I will have to actually record alot of them this year since they've moved to Friday nights and I have a kid in high school and Friday nights usually means football and basketball games. To that end I voted: Yes, but only to see this catastrophe through to the end.

I can't quit this show, and that's terrible because it truly is an abusive relationship between it and me. The thing is, I know if can be great, but I also know it can be worse than what a howler monkey can throw at me. Anything that can inspire such huge, deep, sweeping feelings in me -- I can't let go of it. When I feel apathy, that's when I leave a show, and that's why I won't be watching Heroes again, for example.

I just am still too emotionall wrapped up in this show. It's probably going to kill me.