Smallville is a show following the story of Clark Kent, more commonly known as Superman. However this show is not a normal Superman story, it actually follows his path to becoming Superman. So basically Superman before Superman.
Just like any other Superman story, the origins are the same: a baby, Kal-El, is sent to Earth by his parents, Jar-El and Lara-El, to escape a doomed planet called Krypton through a meteor shower. The baby is found by farm owning couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, in Smallville, Kansas. He is then raised among humans with special abilities, some (but definitely not all) of which include super-speed, super-strength, super-hearing, laser-vision, and X-ray vision. And he can only be hurt by one thing: Kryptonite. Authors Note: I will try to review this show without giving away any spoilers as I know that some of my audience is currently watching the show. Yes, I am talking to you Daniel, finish season one already. And if there are any spoilers, there will be a spoiler alert along with where to pick up. Smallville was released on October 16, 2001 and is composed of 10 seasons and 217 episodes total. Throughout seasons 1-4, Clark is in high school battling what they call “Meteor Freaks”, aka people infected by Kryptonite, that came with Clark when he was sent to Earth, and were given special abilities. Seasons 5-7 is mostly him learning more about his Kryptonion heritage and his destiny on Earth. And seasons 8-10 are about him working at the Daily Planet with Lois Lane. Now, before I finished the show, I had a major problem with one thing: how long they took to make him Superman. I was going to rant about that in this review until I watched the last episode of the show. Throughout the seasons, we see Clark save many people, from strangers to friends to enemies. And his fathers interactive conscious in the Fortress of Solitude, something brought with Clark to help guide him through his quest, puts him through many trials to make him the hero he is destined to become. Spoiler Alert! Skip the next paragraph if you haven’t finished the show. Butttt... in the last episode, we find out that what Clark perceived as Jar-Els “trials” weren’t really the trials he needed to face at all. His trials were the people he saved and the situations he was put in. Although I do think they didn’t make him Superman in the tv show because of legal reasons, they still made it work very well because, like I said in the beginning, this story is supposed to be about HOW Clark Kent became Superman, not him BEING Superman. And everything that Clark went through in all 10 seasons made him the hero we know and love. So they actually had a reason not to make him Superman in the tv show, which I really appreciated because I, and probably other fans, was wondering why he was not wearing his iconic outfit and was called "The Blur" instead of "Superman" However, one thing I think the show didn’t do very well in the first few seasons is the storyline. Most of seasons 1-5 are him facing a different villain every episode and the only episodes that really mattered to the story were the first and last few episodes of the season, everything else was just filler to achieve the amount of episodes they needed. They basically avoided the actual storyline until the last episodes of the season instead of doing what most tv shows do which is have those obstacles while also telling a story at the same time. After season 6, they fixed that a little bit and the show actually got much better. The storyline was continuous throughout the whole season while he also faced different villains and different scenarios. The fight scenes got better and the plot twists were a little predictable but still very shocking to see. Overall, the show is really good for the time it came from and it actually became one of my favorite superhero shows. I would recommend this show for the people that watch Arrow, Flash, etc... on the CW because it is very similar to how those shows are. And although the show is over, you can still catch Tom Welling reviving his role as Clark Kent in this years CW superhero cross-over episodes titled "Crisis on Infinite Earths". It is confirmed that the following superheros will appear: 3 Supermans (Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, and Tyler Hoechlin), Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis), Arrow (Stephen Amell), Flash (Grant Gustin), Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), Batwoman (Ruby Rose), and all the Legends of Tomorrow heroes (Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Nick Zano, Tasla Ashe, and Matt Ryan).
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