The latest major bit of news regarding the young-adult-angst-meets-metahuman-affairs show was that a primary member of the cast would depart at the end of Season 7. Sure enough, they announced that Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor, wouldn't come back for another season.
So what do you do when the guy playing the major antagonist of the show leaves? Anyone even passingly familiar with the Superman mythos knows how integral to the equation Lex Luthor is. No one can replace that character.
As expected, the producers tried to compensate by bringing in another villain. Not one, but two. They announced a female lead as the primary emotional and intellectual antagonist. And as part of Clark's "physical challenge," they announced that Season 8 would introduce Doomsday.
Yes, Doomsday. The one character who has the bragging rights to saying he killed the Man of Steel, at least in the canon reality. And that was when Superman was at his prime.
In Smallville, Clark is still in the process of becoming Superman. If ever. Seems like a mismatch. Let's review, for the sake of those who have trouble picturing. We have this guy...
...potentially going up against this cheerful person:
Somehow that doesn't seem quite right. So people are speculating that this is going to be some tamer, weaker, less savage Smallville twist on the Doomsday character. Which, if you think about it, would make the villain more accurately called Weaker Villain Inspired by Doomsday, given that the essence of the true character is an indestructible, unstoppable, brutal, engine of death and destruction.
Hence the name.
So in my mind it'll end up one of two ways. A lameass blah version of Doomsday, or a dead Clark Kent at the season ender. Who knows? All I know is if they try to keep to the original version of the guy, that's one heck of an SFX budget they're building up.
Lex disappears, and likely, so does most of the show's charm. Funny how Luthor might have just "killed" Superman simply by falling out of the spotlight.
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