the news surrounding smallville they have cast general zod , and mason got cast for season9 there would hopefully the better villians in this season for clark to stop last year was alright but this year will be better because general zod is more powerful than doomsday and mason is more evil than tess mercer and the news about the other cast will be back and from my understanding chloe sullivan  will be back for another season but i don't know about season10 . lois lane will be back this year more than 12 episode. tess mercer will be back this year also . oliver Queen will be back but this he will be drinking again. their would be no jimmy olsen and no davis bloome in season9 . because of last season finale ended. this season will bring hopefully smallville fan togther than ever . I call this season superman becoming the superhero everybody known from reading the comic books . that's it from right now I hope that this season will be a season that everybody will be cheering and jumping for joy about this that know body will forget. that's it for now.