Smallville 9.14 "Persuasion"

This time last season, I was adamant that the way S8 had exceeded expectations only showed that Smallville had to continue for at least one more season. Fast forward to the present where Smallville wasn't a part of the early CW pickups/renewals and I think I'm finally at a place where if S9 is indeed the last season of Smallville I am able to say goodbye. I don't know where they could go with a S10, but if it does happen (and is the FINAL season) I'd want in an ideal situation that the showrunners make an effort to get every Smallville actor that has also directed an episode of the show to come back and direct an episode of the final season at the very least if not able to be onscreen sometime during it. That would be awesome, John Schneider, Michael Rosenbaum, etc. Now my thoughts on tonight's "Persuasion" ...

( I need to figure out a way to reverse this. I think I breathed in some sort of new meteor rock. )