Like the seasons before it, the completed seventh season traced the development of Clark Kent/Kal El’s character. One recurring theme that Clark’s friends kept telling him was that the world is bigger than Smallville, and he needs to let go of whatever holds him back. And like the seasons before it, the seventh season brought back to life some of the characters from the Superman mythology, like Kara and Bizarro. Long lost cousin Kara/Supergirl figures prominently into challenging Clark Kent’s myopic view of his world. Bizarro challenges Clark Kent’s destiny. But in the end, it was his best friend-turned-archenemy who threatened to end everything that Clark Kent would someday become.

Some of the extra features in the DVD include a Supergirl documentary, “Jimmy on Jimmy” featurette, Smallville Legends Mobisodes Gallery, a comic book, unaired scenes, and cast & creator commentaries on two key episodes. MovieWeb described the special features in detail.

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This episode really felt like the last day of school before senior year. You know you’ll see your friends again after the summer, but also know that when school opens in the fall – it’s your last year together.

Knowing that “Arctic” is the last episode before the final year begins in the fall, and the fact that two of the main actors are leaving the show… this episode brings a lot of nostalgia and closures with it… but on to the review first.

After his cover was blown at St. Christopher’s church, Edward Teague escapes to South America in a chartered jet. Unfortunately, Kara intercepted his plans and acting as a stewardess, demanded the location of the device that controls Kal El. In threat of his life, Teague reveals the name of Lex Luthor.

At the mansion, Lex learns that two of his advance teams to the arctic simply vanished. Jimmy enters the room and Lex tells him to get Lois off his back by helping her find some false information – an oil drilling expedition. Otherwise, he’ll drop Chloe back into the lap of the Dept. of Domestic Security.

At the farm, Lois tells Clark that an internship position at the Daily planet has just opened, and Clark would be perfect for it. Her spiel of Clark being destined for greater things in life than working on a farm, she hit bulls eye without knowing it. Chloe interrupts the conversation to tell Clark that Teague’s plane went down an hour after take off. Chloe and Clark go to the Isis Foundation and hacking the NTSB, Chloe gets the blackbox recording. Clark zeroes in to hear Kara’s conversation with Teague about Lex.

Kara goes to the mansion and finds the orb, but it turns out that she can’t use it. Clark appears immediately from behind her and Kara tells him that she didn’t want anyone controlling Clark. She will do everything she can to save the planet, even when Clark won’t. She kicks Clark on the head when he tried to stop her.

Lex finds Kara waiting for him at the mansion. She talks about Veritas – the secret society formed to control a powerful alien from another planet. Lex denies any knowledge of it, until Kara tells him that the she and the Traveler are from the same planet. When Kara shows her powers to Lex, he realizes that she’s the angel that saved him from drowning. Kara convinces Lex that it is his destiny to defeat the Traveler, and points that the orb contains directions to his fortress. When Lex asked why she would turned her back a fellow Kryptonian, Kara replies that she was wrong about the Traveler – he will destroy earth.

At the farm, Clark was getting ready to use the green kryptonite to weaken Kara, in hopes that she will not cause anymore harm. But Chloe insists that she can do it, and without Clark. He reluctantly agrees. At the talon, Chloe calls Kara on her cell phone and when she appears, Chloe shoves the green rock towards her but nothing happens. That’s when Kara transformed into Brainiac! He drills a hole into Chloe to drain her energy when a bright light envelopes Chloe and Brainiac got scared! “What the hell are you?!”

Chloe gets admitted to Smallville Medical Center and Clark visits her, sorry that she got into trouble for his sake. When she suddenly opened her eyes, he realized she crossed path with Brainiac and not Kara.

Brainiac has grown weak. Chloe’s powers had drained him of his, and he goes to an electric grid to revive himself. Clark finds Brainiac there and tells him to bring back Lana, Chloe and Kara. Brainiac taunts him that the only way these women are going to heal back is if Clark kills him – and Clark doesn’t have the guts to kill a man. To which Clark’s classic reply is – you’re not man, you’re a machine, and destroys Brainiac right there. Way to go, Kal El!

Meanwhile, Jimmy had given Lois the wrong information from Lex but was feeling so bad about it – the guy can’t lie – so he returns to Lex to tell him he can’t hurt his own friends. Lex admires Jimmy for his integrity and walks away.

With Brainiac dead, Chloe and Lana both recover. Clark visits Lana at the hospital but she had already gone, with only a video left for Clark to watch. Lara said her goodbyes to Clark and admits that as long as she is in his life, she is holding him back from his destiny. As if on cue, Lois Lane enters the room, sees Clark in tears and receives him in her arms in a hug. It was a beautiful farewell from what can never be, to welcome what the future of Clark Kent is going to hold – in the arms of Lois Lane!

Meanwhile, Chloe and Jimmy are now at the Talon and he proposes his love for her, with a ring! Well, a fake one… just then, government agents rush in and takes her away! Chloe’s last words before being dragged away “tell Clark!”, which, must be always weird to hear from a boyfriend’s point of view.

Still, Jimmy did find Clark at the farm. Clark found out three things in that one-sentence-rush-of-words from Jimmy – Chloe gets arrested, he made a deal with Lex, and Lex is at the arctic.

Lex finds himself now at the Fortress of Solitude, mesmerized with what he saw. Clark flies in and the old friends exchange barbs. Lex thought he was being betrayed – that he could have helped Clark become the hero. But he now understood that this is his destiny, his birthright, to destroy the Traveler before he destroys earth. Clark on the other hand, was pleading with Lex that his life is in Lex’s hands and that by using the orb Clark will lose control over his own life. But Lex triumphantly declares that Kal El will never threaten the world again, and plunges the orb into the crystals. Clark weakens more and more, and the Fortress starts crumbling. Lex has the last words – “i loved you like a brother but it has to end this way. I’m sorry.”

The Fortress disappears from sight.

Season finale ends.

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Since the first year, Smallville has always delivered season finales that are major cliffhangers. And this being the last season before the final year, “Arctic” looks like it’s going to be one awesome episode.

Here’s what we know so far: (spoilers!!!)

• Lex will discover what the location on the holographic globe points to, and Kara will take him there – to the Fortress of Solitude
• Brainiac has taken over Kara’s body, and the real Kara is trapped in the Phantom Zone
• Chloe is arrested by the Department of Domestic Security
• Lana wakes up from her comatose, and she’ll get better, but she will leave town.
• Finally, Clark and Lex will face off with each other in the Fortress

As we already know, this is the final year for Michael Rosenbaum and Kristin Kreuk as regular casts. So I hope we see their characters get some major airtime! Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar are also leaving Smallville as producers.

source: spoilerfix

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Seeing one fan-made trailer of the Season 7 final episode “Arctic” made me look for more! This one is from FireFlyInc4life, and man, it is totally awesome!

If you know/have more fan-made vids, just point me to them and I’ll feature you here.

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“The sins of the father shall be visited upon the sons.” Lex Luthor has always felt he was an afterthought. That his father Lionel Luthor was so obsessed with something else, someone else that Lex could not compare. That reality made Lex yearn for this father’s affection, and that became his obsession.

I found this trailer for the season finale, and it was so well made I actually thought it was from CW. It’s from an avid fan – ADuarte03. You rock, man!

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Smallville creator Al Gough was quoted, “The cliff-hanger could go either way for Lex“. Lex Luthor discovers the secret of Clark Kent. We know he can not be trusted, so why is he offering Clark to help him become a hero? Lana awakens from her coma, but now Chloe gets trapped.

This episode should be one smashing finale, since it will be the last for Kristen Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum as regulars on the show.

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A puzzle is solved, and another mystery is revealed in this pre-finale episode of Smallville. The opposing destinies of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor prepare to collide with the discoveries of more clues and puzzles.

At the mansion, Lex hires an expert in antiquities to find out how the cryptograph works. After the man leaves the house, someone breaks in knocks Lex unconscious. The mystery man carves a series of symbols on Lex’s chest – the diamond and cross intersecting. Lex recognized the man as the manager from Zurich, and he realizes that someone else is after the cryptograph.

Jimmy took pictures of Lex’s wounds and shows them to Chloe, and in turn she shows this to Clark. Clark deciphers the symbols to mean “traveler”, “savior” and “sanctuary”. There is only who group who consider the traveler their savior – Veritas, leading Clark to deduce that a Veritas member must still be alive. Using the Isis technology, Chloe’s search for the patron saint of traveler lead them to St.Christopher’s Cathedral in Montreal.

According to the antiquity expert, the cryptograph carries the mark of a German watchmaker who went into seclusion after an unknown patron commissioned him to make a magnificent clock. The clock later resurfaced again when Dr. Schwann posthumously donated it to St. Christopher’s. The gears on the cryptograph were a match to sketches of the clock.

Clark goes to the cathedral and sees Kryptonian symbols on the baptismal. A hooded monk appears from behind -  Edward Teague, the last surviving member of Veritas. He bows to Clark and begins to revere him as the new savior of mankind.

Clark refuses, and didn’t want to be worshipped. But he asks who would have the power to control him. Teague replies that Schwann kept that secret to himself, but he left scattered clues in the hopes that they won’t line up in the wrong hands. When Teague realizes that Clark knew about Lex and didn’t do anything to stop his adversary, the monk goes crazy and shoves a Kryptonite rock toward Clark, weakening him.

Jimmy discovers more about the symbols he saw on Lex – there are plenty of them in the Kawatche caves – the site of ritualistic killings. And there is one symbols that shows a man standing at a doorway, that could also be interpreted as a human being sacrificed on a table.

Back in Montreal, Teague ties Clark up on a sacred table and performs an ancient Kryptonian ritual – a warrior’s sign of respect for their enemies. He tells of how Jor-El had high hopes for Clark. But Jor-el understood the danger of setting a god among humans. So he sent a device that can control Clark, in case his own son turns against humanity. Weak from the kryptonite all around him, Clark could only watch as Teague branded the symbol on Clark’s chest – which is the symbol for ‘air’, or for the house of El, the mark of Clark’s ancestry, and later that of Superman.

When Lex arrives in the same church and finds the clock, he adds the kryptograph.  A melody begins to play, the gears turn and another pentagon emerges. Teague appears and taunts Lex that he was too late. A duel ensues between Teague and Lex.

Chloe arrives just in time to save Clark from being consumed by the Kryptonite liquid. Clark rushes back into the church just in time to save Teague from Lex.

Back in Smallville, Jimmy finds another symbol at the Kawatche cave- one that meant the fight between good and evil will come to an end, and the hero’s journey will end in a final battle. Clark confesses to Chloe that so long as something out there can control him, he is a threat. But he also realizes that in order for him to save the world, he must kill Lex.

Meantime, Lex finds another clue – in his own mansion. The melody played by the clock was a song that was a puzzle – and it pointed to a hidden compartment on top of the fireplace’s hearth. Inside it is a hologram of the globe, with a beacon that leads to a location on the arctic.

                 ********** to be continued ************

Next Thursday, Smallville 7.20 “Arctic” – the final episode of season 7.

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The pre-finale episode takes Clark Kent and Lex Luthor one more step closer to beginning the rest of their opposing destinies.

What do we know so far, about this Thursday’s episode “Quest“?

• Perhaps the last living member of the Veritas clan is hiding in a church
• Lex is attacked by a cloaked stranger with Kryptonian symbols on his pendant
• Clark and Lex race to find this member first – and the first to do so holds the key to Clark’s destiny.

Will the destinies of Clark and Lex forever be intertwined? This episode may hold the answers.

source: spoilerfix

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The pieces to the mystery of the Traveler and Veritas are coming together. But who will complete the puzzle first – Clark Kent or Lex Luthor?

The last of the Veritas members is revealed in this trailer. Who is he? Why have we not met him before? We find the answers out this Thursday, May 8, 2008.

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TV Guide went behind-the-scenes and revealed some juicy bits about the 150th episode that’s directed by Tom Welling.

What new things did we learn from this clip?

• Lex Luthor shoots at someone. Is it at Clark?
• Brainiac returns and is an aide to the President Lex Luthor.
• Tom Welling is a ‘born director’.

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