Before we say goodbye to Smallville Season 5 and get ready for the best season yet, let’s take a quick look back at some of our favorite moments this past season.

Appreciate all the interaction and love this season. Get ready for Season 6 of our rewatch premiering Wednesday January 22.

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🏆 Best of Season 5 Voting

1️⃣ BEST Guest Appearance

James Marsters (Solitude) - Winner 43% 🏆

Emily Hirst (Fragile)

Lillian Luthor (Void)

Alan Richtson (Aqua)

Lee Thompson Young (Cyborg)

Tom Wopat (Exposed)

Carrie Fisher (Thirst)

Denise Quiñones (Vengeance)

2️⃣ BEST Explosion/ Crash

Warehouse Explosion Ending (Lockdown)

School Bus T-bones Lana (Reckoning) - Winner 35% 🏆

Cyborg Totals Lana’s Car (Cyborg)

Choo Choo Goes Boom Boom (Mercy)

Zod Disciples Blow Up Cop Cars (Arrival)

Stripper Gets Rag Dolled (Exposed)

Paranoid Clark Flips His Car (Splinter)

House Explodes with Glass (Fragile)

3️⃣ BEST Sad Moment

Death of Lana Lang (Reckoning)

Chloe Reunites with Mom in Mental Hospital (Tomb)

Lex Sees Lana Die in Childbirth (Lexmas)

Lana Gets Heartbroken (Hypnotic)

Death of Jonathan Kent (Reckoning) - Winner 74% 🏆

Martha Finds Out Clark Died in Hospital (Hidden)

Lex Overlooks City Alone (Lexmas)

4️⃣ MOST Confusing Moment

Security guard impressed by Ford Focus (Solitude)

Why was Lex testing on Sorority Vampires (Thirst)

Shaved head assassin making Lois take the shot (Fanatic)

Jonathan Kent storing Kryptonite in the house (Solitude)

Kryptonite skeleton has been in the walls this whole time (Tomb)

‘Clark you’re just hypnotized’ explanation (Hypnotic)

Jonathan Kent’s long unspoken love for baseball (Oracle)

Clark explaining how he came back from the dead (Hidden) - Winner 22% 🏆

5️⃣ BEST Smooch

Lex and Lana first kiss (Fragile)

Clark and Chloe goodbye kiss (Vessel)

AC and Lois (Aqua)

Lex and Lana cityscape ending (Vessel)

Clark and Symone alley fornication (Hypnotic)

Clark and Lana ‘Coldplay’ foreplay (Mortal) - Winner 29% 🏆

She says Yes to the marriage proposal (Reckoning)

6️⃣ BEST Save

Clark saves Chloe from Car crashing the Daily Planet (Vessel)

AC saves Lois bumping her head (Aqua)

Clark saves Lionel from falling out of Luthorcorp (Vengeance)

Clark catches elevator with Lionel and Martha (Mercy)

Clark jump save opening stunt (Fade)

Clark’s rocket save (Hidden) - Winner 30% 🏆

Clark helicopter save (Exposed)

Clark slow-mo saves Jonathan on stage (Fanatic)

7️⃣ BEST Fight

Clark vs. Zod Disciples (Arrival)

Fine subdues the paranoid Clark (Splinter)

Clark takes out Fine in the Fortress of Solitude (Solitude)

Underwater superfight (Aqua)

Clark hypnotized kicking ass (Hypnotic)

Clark knives Fine (Vessel)

Clark and Lex exchange blows (Mortal) - Winner 35% 🏆

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🌹💣 Season Episode Ratings

TOM

 - Average: 1.3 🌹

 - High: 3 🌹

 - Low: HEDER 🤷‍♂️

MICHAEL

 - Average: 0.8 🌹

 - High: 3 🌹

 - Low: 3 💣

RYAN

 - Average: 1.2 🌹

 - High: 3 🌹

 - Low: 2 💣

PATRONS

 - Average: 1.3 🌹

 - High: 2.7 🌹

 - Low: 1.1 💣

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🎬 Ryan’s Favorite Scene

SEASON 5:

 - TOM: 2

 - MICHAEL: 4

 - Tie: 14

 - Nobody: 2

TOTAL:

 - TOM: 16

 - MICHAEL: 27

 - Tie: 50

 - Nobody: 18

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Introducing The Best Moments of the Last 25 Years in Fashion from The Run-Through with Vogue.

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Vogue’s fashion features director Mark Holgate and senior archive editor Laird Borrelli-Persson join Nicole Phelps to look back at the first quarter century of fashion. From the birth of Style.com to Alexander McQueen’s dramatic runway shows—these are the best fashion fashion moments of the 2000s.

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The villain of season takes over the villain of the story this week as Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum revisit the Season 5 finale in Episode 22: VESSEL! We talk about the jaw dropping scenes in the finale episode, Michael’s embodiment of a new kind of super evil, and Tom’s shock at certain smooches and stunts.

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Introducing The Moments That Defined 2024 Fashion from The Run-Through with Vogue.

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On today's episode, Nicole Phelps is joined by Vogue Runway’s Jose Criales-Unzueta, who chronicled every single show, pop star fashion moment, and minor kerfluffle (no phones at The Row!) of 2024, and Laia Garcia-Furtado, who collected the shoes, jackets, and even the runway soundtrack that defined the year in a piece about its It-items. The three of them look back at 2024 and reveal some of their fashion predictions for 2025.

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Join Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum for the penultimate Season 5 episode and the return of a familiar face in Episode 21: ORACLE! After getting a much needed history lesson on the truth behind Season 5 from Al Gough, we discuss the good evil intentions of Lex Luthor’s venture into biowarfare and his Zod-like transformation in the last couple episodes here.

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Introducing S5:E5 The Maternal Health Crisis: Investing for Change from Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns.

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There’s a maternal health crisis in the United States, with high rates of maternal mortality, especially among marginalized communities. But what is being done to improve it? 

Through conversations with those on the front lines, we uncover the stark health inequities that exist in maternal healthcare and the developments created to tackle them. We also hear from mothers who have firsthand experience with Preeclampsia—a serious pregnancy complication and one of the many causes of maternal mortality— and one company on a quest to cure it.  

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Back to life, back to ‘freak of the week’… join Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum as we revisit Smallville Season 5 Episode 20: FADE. Tom shares stories working alongside former stunt double turned stunt coordinator Chris Sayour during a super jump surrounded by paparazzi and Michael gives a 101 lecture on the craft of sleep acting.

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Introducing The Power of Granite in Business from Smart Talks with IBM.

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As the scale of artificial intelligence continues to evolve, open technology like many of IBM’s Granite models are helping enhance transparency in AI and improve efficiency across businesses. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Jacob Goldstein sat down with Maryam Ashoori, the Director of Product Management and Head of Product for IBM’s watsonx.ai, where she spearheads the product strategy and delivery of IBM’s watsonx Foundation Models. Together, they explored the shift from large general-purpose AI models to smaller, customizable models tailored to specific needs.

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Do you want to play a game! Well too bad, because this week Smallville meets SAW as we get into Season 5 Episode 19: MERCY! After we get over John Glover’s shredded physique in this ode to SAW, we discuss Clark revealing his superpower to a dangerous Lionel Luthor and a new all-time low for security on Smallville.

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