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A small town in Kansas, where nothing ever happens, is suddenly rocked by large green meteors. Sound familiar? It should, the setting for this new series is the little farming town of Smallville, home of one alien child adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent.
This series, the latest addition to the growing series about Superman, focuses on the man of steel’s early years, namely his teenage school years. Clark, played by Tom Welling is growing up on his parent’s farm and has yet to reach the big city of Metropolis. This means that there is no Lois Lane, but instead we are introduced to the original apple of the young Clark Kent’s eye, Lana Lang (played by the lovely Kristin Kreuk). Along for the ride are Clark’s close friends, Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) who help run the high school newsletter. Only Clark’s parents are aware of his origins and his growing powers, but his father (Dukes of Hazzard’s John Schneider) wants to keep Clark’s life as normal as possible.
The main problem is that Clark is only just learning that he is different from everyone else and not being able to tell anyone means that he has to keep suddenly disappearing at the first sign of trouble, something he will get very good at in the years to come. Lana takes this as a bad sign but mostly it goes unnoticed until Clark happens to save another young teenager by the name of Lex Luthor. Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) quickly makes friends with Clark, but in the back of his mind something nags him about that accident and how he was seemingly flown out of a sinking car.
Continuity differences usually annoy me, and there are plenty of them here between the origins of Superman in the comics to this new Warner Bros production. The stories are set in the present day, Luthor knows Kent as a teenager and Kent’s powers are only just appearing as he reaches adulthood. There are also far too many fragments of Kryptonite that seem to bestow powers on everyone they touch. For some reason, though, this production is different, the continuity can be waved aside in favour of good old fashioned story telling and some pretty good character development. Fine, so coming up with a story about yet another piece of Kryptonite can get a bit on the annoying side, but when it’s handled in the way this is, you don’t really mind too much.
The good guys are likeable and identifiable, the bad guys aren’t always bad, but misguided or unlucky. This isn’t good vs evil as in the early comics but a thought provoking series that deals with many issues including feeling alone and alienated as a teenager.
Warner Bros have managed to get all that is good about the Superman universe and make something brand new that works for the new millennium. Smallville is a gem in a seemingly endless pile of American sit-coms and series, dare I say it, it’s super!
This series, the latest addition to the growing series about Superman, focuses on the man of steel’s early years, namely his teenage school years. Clark, played by Tom Welling is growing up on his parent’s farm and has yet to reach the big city of Metropolis. This means that there is no Lois Lane, but instead we are introduced to the original apple of the young Clark Kent’s eye, Lana Lang (played by the lovely Kristin Kreuk). Along for the ride are Clark’s close friends, Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) who help run the high school newsletter. Only Clark’s parents are aware of his origins and his growing powers, but his father (Dukes of Hazzard’s John Schneider) wants to keep Clark’s life as normal as possible.
The main problem is that Clark is only just learning that he is different from everyone else and not being able to tell anyone means that he has to keep suddenly disappearing at the first sign of trouble, something he will get very good at in the years to come. Lana takes this as a bad sign but mostly it goes unnoticed until Clark happens to save another young teenager by the name of Lex Luthor. Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) quickly makes friends with Clark, but in the back of his mind something nags him about that accident and how he was seemingly flown out of a sinking car.
Continuity differences usually annoy me, and there are plenty of them here between the origins of Superman in the comics to this new Warner Bros production. The stories are set in the present day, Luthor knows Kent as a teenager and Kent’s powers are only just appearing as he reaches adulthood. There are also far too many fragments of Kryptonite that seem to bestow powers on everyone they touch. For some reason, though, this production is different, the continuity can be waved aside in favour of good old fashioned story telling and some pretty good character development. Fine, so coming up with a story about yet another piece of Kryptonite can get a bit on the annoying side, but when it’s handled in the way this is, you don’t really mind too much.
The good guys are likeable and identifiable, the bad guys aren’t always bad, but misguided or unlucky. This isn’t good vs evil as in the early comics but a thought provoking series that deals with many issues including feeling alone and alienated as a teenager.
Warner Bros have managed to get all that is good about the Superman universe and make something brand new that works for the new millennium. Smallville is a gem in a seemingly endless pile of American sit-coms and series, dare I say it, it’s super!
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I have to say, i was a bit skeptical about it at first, but now i watch religously, that shaking man was a really cool effect.
Wooooo, Kelly Brook in todays Episode :)
Who watched smallville today? it was good it's always good when he uses his powers
Ye, Love this show. That shaking guy was a bit weird though!
One of only a few programmes I actually watch on TV these days.
One of only a few programmes I actually watch on TV these days.
Yep it's all good, how there doing it. It's really good
I must admit, I hated the friendship idea at first, but they have built that tension up a bit now and are playing with the idea of what we all know will happen in the future.
I love the subtlety they add, such as Lana saying to clark 'I think blue suits you' We all know where that will lead!
I love the subtlety they add, such as Lana saying to clark 'I think blue suits you' We all know where that will lead!
I think the friendship between Lex and Clark is a brillaint twist to the Superman story in general.
how else are th people gonna get powers so they can challenge Clark i think they can stick with it for a while
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I watch this, it's a damn good programme.
Shame about the crap N64 game though!
> I watch this, it's a damn good programme.
Shame about the crap N64 game though!
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