From Crashdown to Doomsday

TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello keeps the Smallville scoop coming. He’s now reporting that Battlestar Galactica alum Sam Witwer, better known as Alex “Crashdown” Quartararo is joining the Season Eight cast of Smallville.

Apparently Witwer will play Doomsday, the villain that in the comic books eventually kills the Man of Steel. Don’t worry, he comes back. Since Smallville doesn’t exactly follow the plot of the comic books, it’s not a shocker that Doomsday’s origin is a little different. OK, way different. In the books Doomsday is an alien creature with strength matching Superman’s.

According to the press materials from CW, Doomsday starts out as Davis Bloome, a charismatic paramedic with a dark side. I’ve long since stopped bashing Smallville for not following the book plots, I get that it’s an entirely different take on the Super-mythos.

Besides which, it’s much easier to kick Smallville now because the creators and some of the stars have left. I don’t have a whole lot of hope for the show with Lex Luthor and Lana Lang gone. But if they’re going to “kill” Clark this year, that could certainly provide a ratings spike. I wonder how far they’ll go with it though. In the comics and even on the animated DVD of Supes’ death, things get pretty graphic. Will CW run promo posters with a bloody, beaten Clark Kent? And how will they handle a fight that logically, seems it would attract enough attention to reveal Clark’s ID?

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