What an episode, most certainly makes up for a few of the past lesser ones, tragedy befalls smallville indeed, wuite sad, a bit deja vu and nice to see a no going back hatred between clark and lex FINALLY as for the mystery man who saved clarks secret, look foward to finding out what happens with that, look like things are coming to a good head uop in smallville now, cant wait to see how thye follow this one up.
OVERALL i would say 8/10

I know we have said for sometime that lex needed to go to the dark side to complete his journey but did the producers have to complete that journey in five minutes flat ? .It seems harsh on john glover after six years and i am not so sure this was done for the good of the plot or as being wildley reported to contain the budget for season eight.

Cant believe I forgot about that, sad end to a very talented actor, should have had more, no, deserved more, that was a crap part of this one, but they tried to progress the Zurich story too fast is why I think this happened, and personally I wouldnt mind if they had added in another episode to let JG go properly

Lionels death scene was cut from the end of Veritas.

Where was Martha Kent?

she didnt show up to pay her respects,

she wasnt even mentioned!