Fans were promised two major deaths in the Smallville season finale, and the show certainly delivered.  In an almost Shakespearean bit of human drama, Jimmy Olsen and the human Davis Bloom killed each other for the love of a woman, Chloe Sullivan.

The Davis death was to be expected since the Doomsday storyline had run its course and keeping him around would be silly.  But who could've predicted the death of Jimmy, especially since everyone familiar with the Superman mythology knows he's still around in the future.
For that, the Smallville writers were working overtime to come up with a solution that seemed equally inspired and idiotic.  In the Superman mythology, Jimmy's full name is James Bartholomew Olsen, but at the funeral, it was revealed the man who died was named Henry James Olsen.  Chloe then gave Jimmy's camera to his younger brother, encouraging him to follow in his big brother's footsteps.

In other words, this whole time we thought Jimmy was the Jimmy Olsen from Superman, but he wasn't, he was just that character's big brother all along.  Well, I doubt it was all along.  More likely than not the writers decided to shock fans by killing off Jimmy and then rushed to form a random way to fix the glaring continuity error that would arise in the Superman universe.

However, the more important point of both of these deaths is this: Chloe was the cause.  It was her relationship with both men and her deceit in those relationships that were responsible for Davis and Jimmy's deaths.  If Chloe had acted with the interest of anyone other than Clark in mind, neither man would be dead.

If the guilt of watching two of the key men in her life kill one another wasn't painful enough for Chloe, she got even more bad news when Clark told her that it was his emotional connection to her that was preventing him from being all that he can be.  As if he was trying to prove just how insensitive he now is, he told her "Clark Kent is dead."  That would be bad enough if it weren't right after Jimmy's funeral.

In other words, if Chloe weren't so emotionally attached to Clark and killing to do everything he asks to protect him and his secret, Jimmy and Davis wouldn't be dead and Clark wouldn't have vanished into thin air.

So let's all prey Chloe doesn't start dating Oliver next season or else he's a dead man.


-John Kubicek, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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