Written by Brent Fletcher And Todd Hellbing
Directed by Gregory Smith
Lois (re Superman): "This was not supposed to happen. Not before me."
It's been over a year since the events of the third season finale and with the arrival of the fourth and final season, the era of the CW take on DC will culminate to its conclusion. It's been quite an interesting 18 years, hasn't it?
Anyways, last time we encountered the residents of Small illegal, we had a newly released Lex Luthor trying to bully Lois Lane into retirement, kidnap her father and of course, he managed to transform poor Bizarro into Doomsday and sicced him on Superman. Yup, this version of Lex Luthor isn't fucking around.
In fact this opening episode made it abundantly clear that his grudge against Lois wasn't going to end any time soon. He threatened her yet again with him also blaming her for his own daughter abandoning him and almost came close to killing Sam Lane this week.
Yeah, poor Sam. He almost escaped Gretchen and Otis but ended up being buried alive for his troubles. Fortunately Jordan actually managd to get to him in time but it was certainhly rough going before the big rescue moment.
As for the Superman side of things (and Clark too), we weren't too short changed. There was a lot of flashbacks with Superman/Clark and Lois and yet again, I'm reminded of the sublime chemistry between Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch. These two are absolutely amazing to watch and I'm going to miss them when the final episode airs.
Getting back to the present day stuff, the Superman and Doomsdsy fight was brilliantly choreographed with the farmer's heart being removed by the latter for Lex Luthor. Then the episode decided to end by giving us it's own version of The Death Of Superman arc. Yup, that's story again but that end scene was suitably devastating.
- Lex's other right hand woman, Amanda McCoy (Yvonne Chapman) popped up and she's definitely got feelings for Lex. Lex had hair in his flashbacks with Lois at the Daily Planet.
- Absent from this episode were Lana, Sarah, Kyle, Chrissy, John and Natalie.
- I liked that local guy Chuck (more on him next episode) had Jonathan and Jordan's backs when the boys met Lex at Vickys.
- Chronology: From where the previous season finale left off.
I thought that The End & The Beginning was a great way to open up this final season. The stakes have definitely be raised by this more vindictive version of Lex as well as the brutish Doomsday and the hints of Brainiac. Is Superman going to be dead for most of the season? Let's hope not. Still, a great opening episode.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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