I am frequently left seriously bewildered by S6 hate. Barring a few of the sillier Lex/Lana parts of the season, it's definitely one of my favourite seasons of Smallville, and it's the only reason that I started/kept watching SV on a week-to-week basis. Without S6 - especially the Oliver parts, as episode posts about Arrow were my point of entry into the fandom and when I made a lot of my awesome SV fan friends, including Bop - I never would have ended up in SV fandom.