3. Not Stopping To Smell The Roses
Every story arc in this series strives for something to do. Guardian reintroduced us to the world of Smallville, but apart from that, every other story has been reestablishing old characters, or introducing new ones to the Smallville lore so they can make a bigger world to play around in. I understand that to some extent this is a necessity, but for once in this comic continuation I'd really like to see a Smallville story, not an introduction of yet another character we already know or were waiting to be introduced in the series but they never got round to it. Maybe even as one of the Specials, just do a "Freak of the Week" case, like in the days of old? Not to sound like a broken record, but the earlier half of the season also had some side stories, and the finale improved upon itself by having Superman announce to the President that he is in fact an alien, which is being continued throughout Season 12.