Doomsday... a slap in the face for SHIPPERS everywhere?

[SGuthrie27]

Okay, regardless of whether or not you're all that big on the whole "shipping" business that Smallville is continually involved in, I realized something when watching "Doomsday" for the third time through... and that's that the Season 8 finale is a slap in the face for anyone who ships just about any relationship on the show...

Think about it... For Chlarkers, we had Clark not even showing up for Chloe's husband's funeral, saying Clark Kent is dead, and then abandoning her right when she needs him the most -- even after he says realizes aloud that she's pretty much lost everyone important to her.

For Chlavis shippers, we had Chloe say to Jimmy that she only went with Davis to protect Clark, and that among all the things she's lost, the only thing she misses is Jimmy... while he's lying only a few feet away! And then to have him murder Jimmy in cold blood and then attempt to bludgeon Chloe... "Doomsday" spelled doom for the Chlavis relationship...

Not to mention Chimmy! They tease a tiny glimmer of Chimmy hope in this small group's collective face, and then, right when they reconcile, realize how much they still have going for them, and start making out... SQUISH! Jimmy dies! And then he's not even Jimmy! And the poor dead guy's camera gets handed down to his brother, the real Jimmy, immediately thereafter! Major ouch-ness!

Clois shippers may have felt unamused as well, due to Clark's cold dismissal of Lois in their one scene they shared together, even if it was followed by a Blur phone call. The mere LACK of Clois (or Lois herself) could be construed as a slap in the face for this ardent group of shippers.

Even shippers of shorter term relationships, or those that haven't occurred yet (if they ever will) probably could end up feeling spurned by the episode. Cless shippers didn't get a single scene of Clark/Tess interaction. Olless/Tessie (how do you say that ship name anyway?) shippers? Zero happenings, either. Chlollie? All you got to see was Oliver escorting Chloe off the premises (or trying to before they all got their heads handed to them by Doomsday). Lollie? Oliver and Lois haven't really even interacted for half a season.

So, after that lengthy analysis, and after seeing the episode and re-examining it yourself, which group of shippers got the biggest slap in the face through the dooming events of "Doomsday?"

--SGuthrie ><>' --

[A Flawed Fashion]

I really, really hate Chlavis, but Chlavis shippers got screwed over big time. Davis wasn't even real in the end and then Chloe says she was in love with Jimmy and doing everything for Clark the entire time.

Chimmy got a decent good bye at the very least. I say the episodes leading up to this one were a bigger slap in the face. I wasn't a big Chimmy shipper, but I liked Jimmy. Those episodes were terrible to Jimmy seeing as they were going to kill him off. Having Chloe run off with Davis only to then say at the very end that she still loves him was pretty harsh. Not to mention the drug problem and people doubting him. Poor Jimmy.

Jimmy got slapped in the face the hardest as a single character, but the Chimmy ship ended with Chloe saying she loved Jimmy.

As a Clois shipper, I felt a little ripped off by the lack of Lois, but it wasn't too bad because I know Clois is coming in season 9. We only got 12 episodes of Lois and she disappears right away - I defiantly did not appreciate that.

Chlollie is my other ship and they didn't come out of Doomsday too badly. They got a scene together and that is more than they usually get.

I don't ship Chlark, but they will work it out. It left on a pretty rotten note, but like Clois, it is one that can be worked out in season 9. Chimmy and Chlavis are dead and buried with terrible endings.

I felt a sense of happiness at Davis' death because I hated him, but if I was a Chlavis shipper, that would have been the biggest slap in the face of the finale.

[zorasuperman]

even though chlavis isnt my favorite, I defintely felt that they had it the worst and the biggest slap in the face

[supercatmom]

Chlavis - of course.
Davis heard Chloe tell Jimmy that she loved him and only went with Davis to protect Clark. Ouch
Can you blame Davis for going beserk and killing Jimmy?
And then when Davis went after Chloe, He said to her that he thought she loved him.
And Chloe's answer was, "I thought I did but I only wanted to help you. Ouch again.

[actaeon]

I think this is a good argument for not 'shipping.

What is 'shipping anyway? I think of it as making "character A must hook up with character B" the main reason for watching a show. And I think that's a recipe for frustration. Mulder MUST end up with Scully... Barney MUST end up with Robin... Dean MUST end up with Sam (!!!) -- just seems like a mix-up of priorities.

"Doomsday" was about a lot of things (way too many things, IMO), but I don't think romantic relationships was really one of them. It just wasn't the focus of the episode. So no, I don't see it as a slap in the face to anyone.

Clark walked away from Chloe because she screwed up, big-time. Is he wrong? Maybe. Maybe he owes it to her to stick around and hold her hand and tell her it's okay, she meant well. Or maybe he owes it to himself to step away for a while and get his head straight. I can see it either way. Seems like balanced storytelling to me.

Chlavis: Really, did anyone expect Chloe and Davis to live happily ever after? The killer turned out to be... surprise! ...a killer.

Chimmy: There were going to be no happily ever afters for them, either. I admit I did feel bad for Jimmy though, especially since he died with Chloe lying to him yet again. Her "I did it all for Clark" was hardly the whole truth... she had feelings for Davis, feelings both sexual (her erotic/bloody dream) and romantic (her and Davis together on the hood of a car, mooning over the constellations and the myth of Persephone).

Clois: I don't see any slap in the face for Cloisers in "Doomsday". I suppose Clark's determination to bury his human side is not good for the barely-germinating Clois romance. I don't 'ship these two but I figure this Clark is going to end up with this Lois eventually... they are Lois & Clark after all. And I do like TW and ED's snarky, repressed, pre-sexual banter. But I will be neither surprised nor disappointed if I never see these two actually hook up.

[Zizi]

The biggest slap in the face was Chloe going back to a guy who specifically wanted nothing to do with her. "Don't call me, don't come by and if you email me I wont open it"

Davis and Doomsday were two different identities. They split. Davis got free. Finally a moment of peace. There is no Doomsday controlling Davis. I mean WTF.

And Chloe never cared for Davis? Not once? She was only pretending to? That is going to be so hard trying to convince myself while watching the Green K cage scene in Eternal when she rushes to the glass, puts her hand on it and cries her heart out. And yeah, even after he died she could have stopped but she continued. I mean, he was gone, why put up the act still?

Total b.s.