Smallville Complete Series Superman has had a tough history leaping off the page onto the big screen and onto the small screen. On top of that small screen adaptations of comic book characters, as well as attempts to create shows in comic book molds, haven’t been very successful in recent years. Shows like Birds of Prey, Heroes, The Cape, Aquaman, No Ordinary Family, and Wonder Woman all suffered a grisly fate by the ax of the networks. The fact that Smallville lasted for ten seasons in an era of failing television comic book adaptations is quite surprising.

It’s even more surprising considering most filmmakers working on the previous Superman movie wanted to shut down production on Smallville. This would have been the fate of Smallville if Tim Burton or McG had their way, and even JJ Abrams was working on a screenplay that rebooted the series and Tom Welling was one of the top choices to take the big screen role. In the end, though, Bryan Singer was cast and allowed the show to remain on the air.

This is one of those shows that I remember the first episode I watched. I originally wasn’t going to watch the show. The WB, as it was at that time before changing to the CW, was full of preteen and teen melodrama. I didn’t expect this to be any different, as a matter of fact I thought it was going to irreverent to the source, so I never tuned in. Then one day when nothing else was on I caught a season 3 episode called “Velocity”. It was with that episode that my perception of Smallville changed.

While it has its moments of teen angst (“Velocity” itself deals with teenage rebellion) and romance, it does try to remain faithful to the comics. It’s even become revered by comic’s artists who have added a few of the characters created for the show to the comic’s lexicon, and a few writers have even shown up to pen episodes such as Geoff Johns. Even when hitting the moments of teen angst and romance the choice of using a young Clark coming to grips with who he is makes since.

What really caught me with Smallville, though, was the handling of the mythology; in this aspect the 2nd and 3rd seasons remain my favorites. The show delicately handled the growth and development of Clark’s powers (in an interesting use of metaphor, “Heat” sees Clark developing his legendary heat vision at the sight of a beautiful woman). It was the handling of Clark and Lex Luthor’s relationship that I found really interesting though.

They’re relationship starts in the show when Lex drives his Porsche over the edge of a bridge narrowly missing Clark. Clark dives in after him, rips the car open, and saves Lex from drowning. What comes of that is an uneasy friendship. Lex suspects Clark of being more than a farm boy from Kansas and Clark constantly has to cover up his powers. Eventually this turns into a game of suspicions and betrayal before finally diving headlong into abject hatred.

All of this worked because the casting was impeccable. Tom Welling grew as an actor throughout the series, taking the helm to direct a few episodes. He also had that quality that embodies the qualities of the character we’ve grown to affectionately call “the big blue boy scout.” Michael Rosenbaum oozes duplicity as Lex, making you question his every move and motive. In my opinion, even over Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey, Rosenbaum has portrayed the best version of Lex Luthor to hit the small or big screen.

Unfortunately, after the third season, the producers felt things had gotten too dark and felt the show needed to lighten up a bit. The result was that the fourth season became easily the weakest season in the series taking more cues from Charmed than the Superman canon. Luckily, they bounced back in the fifth season and the show remained strong for the rest of its run (although I’m sure I won’t get any arguments when I say that the season 8 finale was quite anticlimactic).

Rating 5/5

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The groundbreaking 10-season hit that redefined the origins of the world’s greatest hero is all here – from his arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel. Relive a decade’s worth of thrills across 218 Episodes in a Spectacular 62-Disc Set that includes 2 Bonus Discs of Added Special Features. Let your spirits be lifted up, up and away.

Season 1-Before the Legend, before the Icon, he was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series begins the chronicle of the life of the boy who would be Superman.

Season 2-Girls, homework, kryptonite. Don’t miss a single second – the entire second season! Clark Kent lives in Smallville, but in many ways he’s out of this world – and so is this spectacular series that provides a fascinating spin on Superman lore. Among the episode highlights: Clark grapples with his true calling. Is he on Earth to