Smallville, one of the few shows I regularly followed is now officially over after 10 seasons filled with awesomeness, cheesiness, what-the-hell-are-they-smoking episodes and DCness. I vividly remember seeing the first advertisement of Smallville back in 2001 but I never followed it even I am a Superman supermark. Back in the 80s I watched old Superman films, the one with Christopher Reeves, including the horrible part 3 and 4 in betamax.
Only around 2006 I managed to appreciate Smallville after watching Superman Returns and a officemate recommended me to watch his Smallville season 1 to 5 DVD. I think this was the first time I experience watching DVD marathons. I remember watching two seasons straight in the weekends. Meanwhile, season 6 just concluded and I managed to acquire a complete Smallville season 6 DVD and watched it in one afternoon. Later, I just watched all the episodes of Seasons 7 - 10 in weekly basis.
Smallville, is Clark Kent's journey before becoming the most iconic super hero ever, its like a better version of the old late 80s terrible Superboy series.The main character Clark Kent, played by a younger version of Christopher Reeve, Tom Welling, the resemblance was creepily uncanny.
The difference though the writers followed a very strict single rule, the no flights/no tights rule. Meaning, his popular primary colored tights and his ability to fly is not shown throughout the 10 seasons except in few instances. In the very last episode we finally see Clark wearing the tights and finally knows how to make himself fly, presented in a very nerd raging way, you can't barely see Tom Welling in the world's most famous suit, in it's all far away shot and all CGI glory. I don't know why not have Tom wear the suit and make the fans happy.
Seasons 1 to 4 primarily focuses more with Clark's high school life and being tormented internally with his first love, Lana Lang, played by the modern-day Chun Li, Kristin Kreuk. Seasons 5 till 10 has more plethora of DC characters, the setting is more on Metropolis, and the blooming relationship of Clark's Ying to his Yang, Lois Lane, played by the lovely Erica Durance.
The series has a very impressive cast, ranging from the awesome Michael Rosembaum, which is our Lex Luthor, to very holy shit there are so awesome, John Schneider and Annette O Tool, playing Clark's adoptive parents. We have the ever loyal best friend of Clark, Chloe Sullivan played by the equally sweet Alison Mack and we got the magnificent bastard Lionel Luthor played by the magnificent bastard John Glover.
Along the way, they introduced some of DCs greatest creations like Justin Hartley and his Batman in green garb known as the Green Arrow and original ones, especially during the freak of the week stage back in Season 1 and 2.
Many fans, greatly disappointed in the finale due to not seeing Superman in it's all sparkling glory. Even we did not see him in closer view in the finale, we all know that he is now officially Superman since the main concept of the series is Clark becoming Superman. The whole series, even packed with a lot of filler and terrible episodes, was definitely super.
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