Smallville Finale Postmortem – or, Put Your Glasses Back On, Idiot

It’s over.  It’s finally over.  After ten seasons, the poor beast is finally dead.  At first genuinely watchable, then watchably terrible, and finally just terribly unwatchable, Smallville has had a longer life than anyone could reasonably have expected.  For a while the most entertaining part of the show has been speculating as to the mental state of its writers, who would repeatedly paint themselves into a corner, up the wall, through the roof and into outer space.  It does not deserve our respect – only a thorough postmortem.