Smallville – The Complete First Season
March 16, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
- Before the Legend.Before the Icon.He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series that chronicles the life of the boy who would be Superman is on DVD in a 6-disc collector’s set with super bonus features.Running Time: 954 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 085392425525 UPC: 085392425525 Manufacturer No
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Before the Legend…Before the Icon…He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series that chronicles the life of the boy who would be Superman is on DVD in a 6-disc collector’s set with super bonus features.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes
Other
Storyboards
TV Spot
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The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in this imaginative and engaging television series from the WB Network, and series fans can celebrate the ratings success of Smallville with a six-disc set that compiles its entire first season. The deluxe package offers a chance to revisit … More >>
This Series is the biggest piece of crap I have seen in a long time. They used (and ruined) the Superman story to pull of another Dawsons-Creek-Chick-Series.
Rating: 1 / 5
Smallville, is a well shown show.
with charectars that almost look real and really good.
the smallville is the start of super-man, and Launna is who?
i know louis, but Launna?
how is Lex Luthour, clark’s friend?
he should be a enemy!
this show is exciting, but very…confusing.
Rating: 4 / 5
Having been a big fan of all things Superman for nearly 40 years, I was thrilled at the prospect of a new Superman show, even if it was about his life before he moved to Metropolis and became Superman. But this show was such a disappointment on so many levels. Where to begin? Well, in no particular order:
- It strays too much from the Superman story. All that supernatural stuff in the cave is contrary to what we’ve known about Superman ever since he was created, and Kryptonite has never affected people from Earth in any way, but on this show it felt like every week there was a new psycho super villian resulting from Kryptonite exposure. Clark’s character in Smallville is inconsistent with the Clark we’ve known for the past 60 years.
- It’s too negative. Superman/Clark Kent has always been a positive, upbeat, easy-going person. His parents are good people. In Smallville Clark is frustrated, angry, confused, and at odds with his friends half the time. What’s fun about that? His dad is childish, petty, and mean in his treatment of Lex Luthor, as if he doesn’t have the maturity to be civil to Lex just because he doesn’t like Lionel. What a jerk. How much better it would have been and truer to Jonathan’s character for him to be extra nice to Lex because his father. Apparently the writers of Smallville just love writing petty, mean-spirited characters, because this show abounds with them.
- There’s the severe lack of creativity. Too many Kryptonite bad guys*. Too many misunderstandings between Clark and his friends (how creative does a writer have to be to write about high school kids being jerks becaue they got their feelings hurt over a misunderstanding?). Too much time spent pining for Lana. Too little variety in general in the story lines.
I have three kids, all in their teens when the first season of this show started, and not one of them liked it. I tried to like it, but I gave up watching toward the end of the second season. It just wasn’t fun to watch. I think the problem with Smallville is that the writers didn’t really make it a show about Superman as a teenager. They made it a show about an unhappy teenager with super powers and threw in some elements of the Superman story, along with other stuff which is not at all a part of the Superman story. Bummer.
*In an audio commentary in a later season they pretty much admit they had so many Kryptonite bad guys because they couldn’t come up with enough bad guys without it. Lame.
Rating: 1 / 5
I really think this show sucks cuz it has bad character development, all the characters have no personality, and its filled with cliches that never evolve into anything new. The story lines are very repetitive and never go anywhere….I really wish this series was cancelled
Rating: 1 / 5
I was an avid comic collector (and I still collect some now) and Superman has always been the most monkeyed-with character. But “Smallville” has gone too far.
Maudlin and silly, this continuity-busting show is simply “Dawson’s Creek” with teenage Superman thrown in + 1 black helper character (all the networks got in trouble for color-less programming so I thought that I would mention him). You can almost hear the female teeny-boppers go “OOOOH!” when they see Supes in his flannel shirt; too bad that he is such a TERRIBLE actor.
To keep the young, male demographic interested, the show parades some 25 year old looking “teenage” girls around the set and has them pout their lips and whine out some insipid dialog every once in a while. Then their performance stops when Mr. Boring, the teenage Superman, starts giving the beat-down to the villian-of-the-week.
Just awful.
Rating: 1 / 5