lovely film to enjoy as a family or on your own,

Stars the gorgeous Tom Welling, best season yet. If you haven't seen smallville from series one, I would strongly recommend it. You wont be disappointed.

Excellent. not a bad programm in the entire season.

I've been a fan of Smallville since channel four first started airing it way back when. I've had a love hate relationship with it ever since, finding in it both things to love and revile. Never has a show so utterly and completely frustrated me with its huge capacity for greatness -- only to fall short almost ever single time. I enjoyed season eight very much, it gave a hint as to the future of the show; what it could become if the writers tried a little harder if they pushed the boundaries... it turns out season eight was a bridge -- a difficult period that foretold of large changes. Yet it was flawed with inconsistent characterisation, muddled storytelling and Lanarama. It held much less of these than previous seasons, but it was there to impinge on its quality nonetheless. The remaining threads of story left by maniacal show runners was thus dealt with in season eight, leaving season nine a clean slate for the new ones. Did they ever make use of it! Season nine is the single greatest season Smallville has ever produced. The show has fully reached its potential and has created a tense, exciting, beautifully shot, clever and romantic season. One with interesting villains; conflicting needs; searching for the right questions; searching for the truth; love and hate and the fine line between it all; finding yourself and finding others. All with the strong undercurrent of destiny. There are around two 'not so well executed' episodes that fall short of their goals, but even those are not awful. The four or so main arcs of the season are: the return of a weirdly attractive and charismatic Zod, the blossoming relationship between Lois and Clark, the development of the Blur and the Justice Society. This is a season of triangles. Many carefully subtle and symbolic in nature: triangles between friends, triangles between enemies, the triangle for two. There was a distinct sense of care to this season, unlike the others -- it actually felt as if the writers paid close attention to the small things which made the writing feel more cohesive. It's certainly the case, because something as small as a hand gesture in one episode became a very significant thing later on. The season opens with 'Saviour', as Lois miraculously returns without memory of where she's been. The only thing hinting at a darker side to this is random flashes and visions, confusing memories. Are they dreams? Visions of a not-so-distant future? This is one of the mysteries of the first half of the season. I love this show but they I've never been so engaged as I have when Lois had those first flashes. It was well done and it was gratifying to see Smallville put together a coherent story arc which flowed into other arcs as the previous ones drew to a close. First time ever that I'd been excited to see where the mainplot went! Tom Welling is now an executive producer so having more creative control over his character is obvious this season -- it has a very positive impact on Clark. Clark finds himself being tested. Learning to cope with juggling an overly-inquisitive Lois, an alter-ego as the Blur whilst swiftly returning to his desk at the bullpen. But ultimately, a key theme of this season is his struggle to maintain a balance between who he is and what he could become. This season firmly asks: who will he become? There was some fantastic development for Clark as a character and his relationship with Lois Lane is centre stage the entire time. The writing for them is careful, precise, intimate and is wonderfully nuanced thanks to the actors. It was well established last season that Lois is in love with Clark, and Clark spends this season rightly demonstrating that he loves her back. The Lois and Clark relationship is one of my favourite arcs in season nine. It was so satisfying to see their romantic relationship moved forward without a painfully slow draw-out. There's a lot of beautiful scenes shared between them and the writers do a brilliant job of showing (yes 'showing', not telling) exactly why Lois is the one for Clark. Smallville hit all the right notes this season, it's funny, tragic, sad, romantic, and finally addresses the big questions. Instead of floundering in the mediocrity which has plagued the majority of its nine year run it embraced change and grasped the future it could only hold onto if it were to survive. I for one am sorry it took so long, but glad the show has another season in it. Enjoy it; this season is nothing short of spectacular. In the mean time, I'll be over there waiting impatiently for season ten. Highlight episodes include: Pandora, Salvation, Saviour, Absolute Justice, and Persuasion.

well a few times during season 9 Agent Waller has mentioned about an upcoming apocalypse which doesnt involve the kandorians so that must mean it has to be darkseid or apokolipse which would make the things that attack Oliver the minions of either one and as for the old chick who entered Tess’ room well that would be granny goodness who works for darkseid and the reason why she entered the room is to take tess’ body to make a soldier out of her, google the info coz im not to familiar with these characters but this is all what ive heard from else where anyway but it does fit coz why bother make Oliver go turn on just any old satellite there must be something special about this one that can maybe open a portal to allow darkseid to be released from a prison or something