Smallville: A Hint of Dread, A Hopeful Finish

[zarius]

Dug up one of my old fanedit workprints from an old computer yesterday, I might do a higher quality version now that I have Premiere Pro. I thought I'd share the best part of it with you guys..

In this portion of the edit, Lex retains his memories of the first seven years, and Tess simply becomes a victim of his, with no goofy magic memory-eroding pathogen affecting him.

[zarius]

Update: Figured I'd update and let everyone know the edit has went through quite a bit of changes. People at FE.org suggested I omit Tess' death, I also decided to cut out the flash forwards entirely and come up with a new ending.

It's now barely over an hour and feels more like a regular standalone episode of the show.

New timeline is as follows

-Opening changed. Chole reading to her kid is cut out, instead we open with Apokolips heading to Earth and go to the opening titles
-Clark visits Jor-El and shuts down the fortress(footage taken from penultimate episode "Prophecy")
-Oliver finds the bow of Orion, only for it to be destroyed by Granny Goodness and put under the trinity's spell, commercial cut is edited out (also from "Priophecy")
-Clark and Lois have a conversation at Watchtower (from "Prophecy")
-Granny visits Tess at the Luthor Mansion
-Commercial cut after the unveiling of the gold kryptonite is edited out
-Scene with Clark at Jonathan's grave edited to remove all references to Lois wanting him to move on from her. In this edit, their marraige almost goes off without any hitch.
-Clark and Lois making up at Lois' apartment is omitted entirely seeing as there's been no problem
-Third commercial cut when Clark and Oliver witness the arrival of Apokolips at the chapel is edited out
-Fourth commercial cut after Clark has the conversation with his parents is edited out
-Lionel's transformation into Darksied's host is followed immediatly by Lex awakening
-Lois bringing up Clark's letter before the two say goodbye is cut out, as that letter plays a part in the edit's ending.
-Some scene reshuffling here. Lois knocks out the bitchy reporter and takes her pass to board air force one, we cut to Luthorcorp where Lex opens the windows and looks out at the sky. Luthorcorp sign becomes LXCorp. Cut to Oliver preparing for war on the unholy three
-After Oliver defeats the trio, we cut to Luthor mansion for the Clark/Lex confrontation. All references to Tess are edited out, and instead the conversation begins after Lex tells of Lionel's "change of heart". Commercial cut to black after Clark leaves edited out.
-Another reshuffled scene, as we then cut to Lois aboard Air Force One
-Clark returns to the barn and battles Lionel, the flashback montage of the past ten years is shortened to just Clark watching it fleetingly. You definitely don't need two and a half minutes to get the point across
-After Clark destroys Lionel, we cut back to Air Force One
-Clark arrives at the fortress, becomes Superman, saves Lois and Air Force One, pushes Apokolips out of orbit.
-Ending takes place two months later, Lois is now hesitant to marry Clark because of his responsibilites, but the letter from Clark gives us all a glimmer of hope she will reconsider some day.
-Final scene is from the season nine finale where the familiar red and blue blur flies past the Daily Planet globe and startles a plane

[crazy_asian_man]

So is this primarily refining the series finale? (Or is this also compressing elements of the final season? It's been awhile since I viewed it...)
Tried to watch the youtube vid, but it says it's been removed.....

[zarius]

I took those vids down because they were from an earlier and much more flawed workprint, I got feedback on the edits over at Fe.org and I've made improvements since then.

Basicly, yeah, it is a rewrite of the finale with bits of the penultimate episode thrown in too, but overall it clocks in at just 60 minutes and tells a much pacier story.

[Kirok]

I'd be very interested in seeing this re-edit. Any private links you could send me if copyright trouble is a concern?