Review of Smallville

A lesson in flogging a dead horse.

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Smallville started out brilliantly showing the early life of Clarke Kent before he became known as Superman. It was clever and fun to watch, he barely had any powers bar strength and speed and so you got to watch him learn throughout the years. This set it apart from any old Superman show because he couldn't just rely on his super hearing, or his heat vision, or flight! He doesn't have these powers yet. Growing up is not helped by the fact the young Lex Luthor has just so happened to of moved to his town, they start off the best of friends but Lex's story is in my opinion, the more interesting on the show. He begins as a guy who feels like he can make a difference, hes a good guy and he just wants to make his mark. Of course we all know he is going to turn into a villainous mastermind, and so over the 7 years the show has been running for, this is exactly the spiraling slope you see him slip down.

I found each season of it enjoyable, the only major down fall of the show is they follow a similar format each year, where by Clarke saves the day each ep, mid season he learns a new ability, with crazy results, red kryptonite makes him evil, with crazy results. He loses his powers, with crazy results. Theres a big bad guy to fight, everyone winds up in their own individual "big finale" circumstances, and Clarke *usually* winds up leaving Smallville. The next year it starts with him coming back, and then repeats!
Its not as arduous as it sounds, well not for the first 5 years, its only by that point you begin to think the show is falling apart. They bend the feasibility sometimes with characters like Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen being regulars in it now, and even Super girl is a main character in season 7. The show ended at season 6 for me, on a whimper. I will watch season 7 one day, but when i watched episode 1 and knew exactly what was happening before it did i decided its not worth it.
To summarize, it is worth watching. You will enjoy it and the characters are great in it. The stories each episode are fun and usually pretty original, its just once it gets later into the series you begin to notice they only follow a set template and it gets silly. If they do a Season 8 of the show it will be going too far with it, things should of ended by now. Id say this will appeal more to teens than older audiences. But fans of Superman are missing out if they dont watch this.

7/10

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Added by RB6K 8 months ago on 16 March 2008 03:50