We finished Smallville a couple of days ago. Smallville
ran during the 2000′s, and it is about young Clark Kent, who would
become Superman. I had watched it before, but my Mom and her husband
had not.
When I first watched Smallville, I really liked the earlier
seasons—-as in seasons 1-5 (and maybe 6, if I was in a generous
mood)—-but not so much the later ones. In the earlier seasons, Clark is
growing and learning about who he is, and the other characters are
growing as well. Lex was struggling with his evil and came across to me
as sympathetic. Lionel was a funny villain. The later seasons were
somewhat of a blur to me (no pun intended—-Clark was the “blur” before
he became Superman). I usually taped the episodes, and their quality
was not so great on my VCR. I also found some of them to be silly, or
boring. And I did not care for Tess Mercer replacing Lex as the
villain.
My Mom and her husband were the opposite. They liked the later
seasons more than the earlier seasons. They were not big fans of Lana
Lane, who was in the earlier seasons, since she came across as so
perfect. I always liked her as a character because she had that lonely
quality. My Mom and her husband also did not care for the music, but I
liked it. They also preferred the later seasons because of their
references to the comic books. As my Mom’s husband said when watching
the episode “Absolute Justice,” that episode was featuring some pretty
old superheroes—-superheroes who go way back!
After watching all of Smallville a second time, I like the
later seasons more than I did at first. Clark still struggles with what
to do. At the same time, most of my favorite episodes are from the
earlier seasons.