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Summary: one of the best shows on tv
Review: I don't watch alot of tv, but I Love this show and try to catch it whenever I can. I hope there are many seasons to come and I am looking foward to this next season like a junkie that needs another fix. GOOD TV!!!!!
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Summary: The seccod season commith!!!
Review: i have all the episodes from season 2 on tape and this is a welcome addition to my collection, season 2 explores more of clarks parents, kryptonian parents that is, we hear the voice of jor-el for the first time (voiced by tarence stamp who played general zod in superman and superman 2) also from the superman genere is none other than superman him self christopher reeve, playing the roll of dr virgal swan, who is delvering a message to clark from his biological, this season you also see clark and lana hook up finaly and the first apperence of red kryptonite, this season sets up a lot of things that happen in the superman timeline, and the hardships that clark will have to endure the rest of his life, descions he has to live w/ lives that will be lost and friendships that will be tested, if you are a diehard fan of the show as well as superman himself this is a must have, w/ all the extra features and deleted scenes never seen before by the wb public its something you will enjoy for a long time to come!!!
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Summary: Smallville Season 2 another great season & a DVD set to own!
Review: Smallville: The Complete Second Season on DVD! Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete Second Season of the hit series about the life of the young man who in time would become Superman is now available. This wonderful TV show is coming to DVD in a 6-disc collector's edition with 23 episodes and with a ton of bonus features. You can also access a number of deleted scenes from episodes as well as view original pre-production storyboards and WB promotional spots, season 3 sneek peek and DVD-ROM owners can use the discs to access more features via the Smallville web site. Smallville is truly a great show and icing on the cake for those who are Superman fans. I can only hope they release "Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman" on DVD soon. Smallville The Complete Second Season 2 DVD Episode Guide 22. Vortex
23. Heat
24. Duplicity
25. Red
26. Nocturne
27. Redux
28. Lineage
29. Ryan
30. Dichotic 31. Skinwalker
32. Visage
33. Insurgence
34. Suspect
35. Rush
36. Prodigal
37. Fever
38. Rosetta
39. Visitor
40. Precipice
41. Witness
42. Accelerate
43. Calling
44. Exodus
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Summary: A great season, a great DVD
Review: Fans of the first season of Smallville will be pleasently suprised that the second seasson more than measures up. Some of the best episodes of the series - "Red," "Insurgence," and "Rosetta" are on this set. DVD geeks will also note that the special features for season 2 are dramtically better than the season 1 extras with more commentaries and deleted seasons. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Season 2 of Smallville gets even better
Review: After seeing the first season of Smallville, I almost had doubts about the success of season 2, simply because season 1 was so good. However, my doubts were put to rest as soon as I saw the first episode. Season 2 of Smallville manages to become even better than the first season. The season opens with a bang by offering a thrilling and satisfying conclusion to the cliffhanger from season 1. From there things only get better. Clark discovers his heat vision, he has his first experience with Red Kryptonite, someone very close to Clark learns about his secret, Christopher Reeve guest stars in one of the best episodes to date "Rosetta", Clark and Lana get very "close", and so much more. If you liked the first season, you will love the second season. Before I watched "Smallville", I assumed there was no way for a WB made show to compete with the other aspects of the Superman franchise. Doubting "Smallville" was probably one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made. In my opinion, it is the best show on TV right now, and one of the best that I have ever seen. The entire cast from Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, and Kristin Kruek, to John Schnieder and Anette O Toole all do an outstanding job. The reason the show works, is because it takes an interesting look at the legend of Superman. You bare witness to the human side of the character - Clark Kent, growing up as a teenager in Smallville,Kansas. Clark must adjust to his different powers, the relationship between Lex Luthor and Clark develops, and you see the classic romance between Clark and Lana Lang, who are destined to be just friends. The show has something for everyone to enjoy. If you are a fan of Smallville, then you definately have to pick up the season 2 DVD box set. It is just flat out amazing. The set is not worth owning just for the episodes however. The extras are incredible, and blow away the extras from the season 1 set. The extras include - Commentary on "Red", and "Rosetta" with commentary by Al Gough and Miles Millar, OR series stars Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, and Michael Rosenbaum; the COMPLETE series of "Chloe Chronicles", Gag reel, Deleted scenes, and two beind the scenes featurettes.
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Summary: Best So Far!!
Review: This season was the best so far. If they keep improving on what they did during Season 2, this series will be around for a long time. Happy Fna.
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Summary: AN EPIC MASTERPIECE OF A SHOW
Review: Let me begin by saying, James Lowrie, a reviewer from Amazon, asked a question regarding the DVD. James, I have a response at the bottom of this review. :) "SMALLVILLE" the first season began on a dramatic high when a meteor shower struck the quaint little town of Smallville. From that shower came a young Clark Kent, a boy with special abilities. The first season played with the abilities and basically was action-packed, featuring a teenage Clark Kent battling meteor-freaks. It began very well, but still, had much room for improvement as far as storylines go. Then came the thrilling opener to the second season, a continuation of the cliffhanger in season one. BOOM! BANG! Here it is, the second season! Here we see much more character developement, as Clark Kent digs deeper into his roots to really figure out who he is, and Lex Luthor (at this point Clark's good friend) tries to fight his demons, A.K.A. his twisted father, Lionel Luthor. Part of the genius of the season is Tom Welling's portrayal of Clark Kent. He plays the hero as not one of those action-movie type heroes, but rather, just a normal kid. He's not Superman yet. This is the story of how he becomes Superman, and thus, Tom Welling plays him as being just a mild-mannered teenager confused about his routes, wanting to know his destiny. Meanwhile, Michael Rosenbaum creates a dramatically brilliant performance as Lex Luthor. Poor Lex is tortured by the fact that he may grow up to be just like his father, and he is doing everything he finds humanly possible to stop that from happening. BUT...an important thing to see here is the point to all this. The creators of the show are not saying that if your father is a bad man, you will be. No. This season explores more in depth character study to show you that you CAN fight your destiny, but if you let your demons get in the way, like Lex's father, problems arise. At this point there's not much he can do to avoid it, but in the third season, Lex lets his father into his life in a way that creates more disturbing problems. The Lex and Lionel Luthor conflicts are part of the key reason for the show's massive success. John Glover plays Lionel with such a twsited outlook on life, but yet, gives the character many sides, so you also sympathize with him. His performance is incredible, and the chemistry between Glover and Rosenbaum is nothing short of extraordinary. As Lionel gets closer and clsoer to making Lex stray to the dark side, he also begins to be more and more curious about the enigma of Clark Kent. You see, Clark is trying to fight his destiny also. In an exquisite episode titled "Rosetta" he is told by Dr. Virgil Swann (CHRISTOPHER REEVES, THE MAN OF STEELE HIMSELF!) that his destiny is to take over the world. Now Clark is also on a quest to prevent his destiny from occurring. Thus, Clark and Lex are so much alike, but will ultimately be torn apart. Meanwhile, Clark and the love of his life, Lana Lang, grow closer, as his reporter friend, Chloe, who has the hots for him, becomes a bit envious. Some of the best episodes include "Insurgence" in which Lionel Luthor bugs Lex's mansion with spy equipment, and Lex turns the tables, "Rosetta" the episode where Christopher Reeves reveals some secrets to Clark about his destiny, "Calling" where Clark begins to grow closer to Lana and Lionel grows closer to Clark's secret and "Exodus" the season finale that will take your breath away and leave you heartbroken and looking forward to the following season. The DVD features are all very excellent, including a behind the scenes look at the making of the superb special effects in the show, an interview with some actors, including Christopher Reeves, deleted scenes, the CHLOE CHRONICLES, and a hilarious blooper reel! :) And, James Lowrie, to answer your question, yes, the DVD does come with a booklet, at least mine did. I'm curious why yours didn't? It should be right in the front there in the front pouch.
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Summary: The show that insults an American mythos
Review: For starters,comic book purists HATE it when a classic book gets tampered with or heavily manipulated. This is especially true when it comes to comic books that make the transition to TV and film. Why,you ask? Because they turn out disappointing about 70% of the time.Written and produced,almost always,by a bunch of Hollywood writers who've never read comics before. More often than not,it's not a labor of love for the writers,it's just another script..Sometimes they can be good(The first two Superman movies,Tim Burton's "Batman" the first season of "Wonder Woman","Ghost World"and the two Spider-Man flicks)some mediocre("The Flash","Hulk","Hellboy","Birds of Prey","The Punisher")and some just downright awful("The Human Target","Dr.Strange","Captain America") So,now we get "Smallville". I have nothing but some bitterness for a show that takes a 66 year old comic legend and reduces him to a teeny-bopper,"Dawson's Creek"pretty boy shill. For any real comic book fans like myself,this is a slap in the face. Anyone who's ever regularly read the Superman comics know that Smallville,far and away,was/is the least interesting part of Superman's origin. Beyond him being found by the Kents in the rocketship,slowly discovering his powers and experiencing his first love with Lana Lang,the fun that was Clark's home town pretty much has always stopped there. So,why make a whole series about it? And how lame and desperate is it to have to create other metahumans using that radioactive meteor (almost all of them evil and conveniently within Smallville's city limits)just to give Clark something to do? To make this even more ridiculous, it's almost always an uneven fight unless the villian that week gets a hold of some kryptonite. Another problem with making a Superman "prequel" of sorts is that the mythos is limited and not fully tapped. Sure,the planet Krypton,kryptonite (in both green and red) STAR Labs,Metorpolis and Intercrime get used and name-dropped often but it's just not enough. Ok,Perry White also pays a visit as does Morgan Edge,but again,it's short shrift. Beyond Luthor (the only interesting character on the show) and the aforementioned Edge,the rest of the Man of Steel's arch-enemies are MIA. This means no signs of classic Supes baddies like Metallo,the Prankster,the Toyman,General Zod(from both the comics and "Superman 2")Bizarro,Mr.Mxypltk,the Parasite,etc.Yeah,they have the "villian of the week"schitck but none really interesting enough to warrant a return. Hell,even the recently cancelled "Birds of Prey"brought in classic Batman villian Clayface and also Batgirl's quasi-arch rival Lady Shiva! The writers have painted themselves into a corner and,therefore,can only use about a third of anything from the Superman history. This would be like doing a TV series focusing on Bruce Wayne after his parents' murder and he still hadn't gotten the inspiration to become Batman yet.Think of it: no Batcave,Batmobile,no cool utility belt,the grim black/grey Batsuit,etc. Now try to envision having to watch all this every week. Boring,right? This is what "Smallville" has become: turning the most powerful superhero in the history of comics into a melodramatic goof. Millar and Gough,the Smallville writers,have adopted a strict"no tights/no cape" i.e. no costumes. Since they've made pretty much made Clark Superboy without the red & blue suit,you're sometimes wondering "what's the point of watching if he's not even going to change?" or do anything truly "Super"? Yeah,they have him running at super-speed,using his heat and x-ray vision for the first time and,of course,that super-strength is a given. However,it loses its punch when you see Clark doing all this in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Half the fun that goes with being a superhero is the secret identity,that juggling of the duality,which he doesn't really seem to have much of here. Of course,Ma & Pa Kent knew from day one as does best friend Pete of Clark's powers. And I don't believe for a second that Luthor hasn't known all this time. Yes,there are some bits of action but not enough to write home about. Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you that Superman,in general,is boring compared to his contemporaries(Batman is still the most popular character in the DC Universe,far and away)but he is still the WORLD'S most popular superhero. MIllar and Gough have just made Clark Kent even more one-dimensional and lifeless than ever with "Smallville". Nice attempt,boys,at trying to infuse the teen angst similar to classic Lee/Ditko-era "Spider-Man"but it's just too forced. One wonders if Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are spinning in thier graves after hearing about the latest incarnation of thier classic icon. At the end of the day,Millar and Gough are not showing any respect or love for the legend and seem more inspired on the marketing scheme than anything else. For crissakes,at least ABC-TV's "Lois & Clark"captured the fun of the comic,even with its heavy"will they or won't they?"subplot. And they had villians from the comic! "Smallville"is a teen chatter-fest,clearly marketed to girls and young women who really aren't there to see the heroics so much as to see the smaltzy melodrama between Clark and Lang. For comic book fans everywhere, I recommend that you save your pennies and just rent it or ,better yet,wait until it's syndicated and watch the reruns.
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Summary: Jonathan Kent
Review: Ideally blinded and optimistic teenage fools, ADULTS working as writers who're manipulating you are the ones subtly dictating how insecure teenagers behave, by imposing supposedly "teenage" situations in their below-average teleplay. Like infamously humiliating WB shows, Smallville discriminately stereotypes misguided and insecure teenagers to misconceive that looks are everything, one shouldn't be independent, but always submit to "friends" for direction, affected feigns of awkward grimaces count for "deep emotions", one should longingly chase trifling high school crushes, disingenuous airs of pharisaical sensitivity count towards politeness, and dressing in tight, scandalously revealing getups which stress one's bustline and impersonate size-inadequacy-imitating economic poverty-is hip and necessary for peer acceptance!!!!
Convicting teenage brats of being the worst, superficially marketing-subservient, shallow creatures in generations, the mere, affronting blameworthiness that Smallville's unambitiously regurgitated struggles at storylines are always predictably blatant, neglectfully uninspired, yet trivially vain teenagers patronize, implicates absolute, irrecoverable degeneration in today's teens' directions!!!! How insecurely gluttonous for soullessly commercialized ideals of popularity are teenagers that they treasure such notoriously mistreated TV-populism???? ALL inferiorly created characters are transparently dull, vapid, hollow-they're Canadians!!?? Though an overused cliché, if you've seen ONE Smallville, you've seen ALL. Indicting Smallville's blatant targeting of indiscriminating teen audiences relapsing attentiveness, EACH vacuous episode develops in same, stagnant ruts. Some, term's "Freak-of-the-Week"-unmasking how unsatisfactory the writers' "creativity" is, creature's hit by the ruthlessly misused "meteor shower" at EACH episode's beginning, divulging the villain instantaneously, massacring viewer-captivating suspense!!!! Next, the inferior supporting cast (Pete, Chloe) get fretfully jealous of Clark's single-minded attention to Lana, culminating in degrading schisms between them-which Smallville's writers arrogantly presume equals deep themes. Then, one said lesser character gets imperiled by the more stagnant "Freak-of-the-Week" creature, or, where Smallville's writers' trickiness incurs, sometimes Lex plays both Clark's friend/treacherous ally because he's the only one who can aid Clark in his godlessly unimaginative "predicament" since he's involved in the affair insidiously. Clark's then commonly conflicted between what Smallville's incompetent writers misjudge as soul-searching self-examination of his superpowers contrasted with endangering friends. Defamatorily, blandly, Clark routs his "adversary"-"Freak-of-the-Week"-with foreseeable ease. Sometimes, Smallville's writers include immaterial ordeals within Clark's recycled attempts to save his friends to fabricate supposedly additional "layers" to their trite story, shortcoming still. At Smallville's dictatorially contrived episodes' end, Clark usually undeservedly reconciles with inferior cast members in infamously disingenuous stipulations planned to end the show punctually rather than plausibly-despite problems between Clark and the inferior players are always boringly consistent: jealousy, pressure keeping Clark's "secret", or neglect from Clark.
The forcibly insincere relationships between characters' SHALLOWNESS are corny, superficial, angst-filled, rehearsed. Take Clark and Lana's sexual-stress-and-repression relationship. Smallville's assumingly unqualified writers plot to incorporate implied, sexual apprehension to be something more substantial in their high-school, lightweight themes and to seductively entice lost teenagers with peer sex suggestiveness. Clark's disappointed Lana immoderate times, yet writer-misdirected Lana continues flirtatiously baiting Clark irregularly, straining to maintain friendship although Lana's allegedly frustrated by Clark's non-committals. There's disingenuous "tension" in ALL of Clark and Lana's encounters, with the humiliatingly novice actors feigning interrupted, quick looks and facial grimaces as "tension"!!! The hazardous writers plan to insinuate suggestions of sexual lustfulness between them-ILLEGAL for kid's shows!!!! Chloe, dislikeable third wheel, lecherously whores for Clark's manhood, but her role's defamed to a sniveler who's relegated mostly, being incompatible. There's Black Pete who's agonized "keeping Clark's secret" and the inconveniencing consequences like Clark getting endangered because extortionists are threatening him that incurs-which is a doubtful plot Smallville's writers abuse to falsify relevant interaction between them since Pete's already relegated to inessential hanger-on in storylines. Lex is mishandled because he displays abnormally raging interest in teenagers, like pedophiles!!!! Lex is haunted by surviving his car crash which, PREDICTABLY, stimulates him to uncover the unknown and befriend his savior Clark. Unoriginally, whenever Clark endures predicaments-kidnapping, supernatural forces, or zits-Lex provides all-sweeping help because the Luthors are a legitimate crime family. Lionel and Lex's relationship is from Jerry Springer and dysfunctional. Lionel's plotted to kill/kidnap/erase Lex's memory unrelentingly, yet Smallville's writers dictate unconvincing father/son dramas about estrangement and interoffice conflicts in management!?!? Clark's parents ARE THE vilest caricatures EVER of uninspiring TV-parents who're subordinates. Jonathan's the country-rural-hick who wears plaid/jeans and simplistically believes in hard-working values, practicing unyielding uprightness. Martha's the stereotypical housewife who misbehaves as frumpily as she looks, melodramatically "consoling" Clark whenever he encounters identity crises and fretting when something concerning afflicts her family!!!!
Smallville's last ordeal concerns its unrealistic façades. The ludicrously hallucinatory coincidences are objectionable. Chloe doesn't have a menial-style job common of teenagers, rebelliously driving a sports car nonetheless; styles herself as a "reporter", but the weight of intelligence she/Clark/Pete uncover at their constrictive school paper's disparaging; is able to infiltrate anyone's records, whether they're the meteor shower's people's, government, or old newspapers. Critically, she can do this solely by having school broadband access!!!!???? Clark's parents WILL recycle some tiresomely clichéd parable if Clark questions himself; Lex WILL be connected in shady deviousness to some of Clark's adversaries because of Lionel's criminal funding; halfway through, one of the inferior cast WILL be kidnapped; just before they're murdered, Clark WILL appear to save them after unconvincing sleuthing to "determine" their locations; Lana WILL be fabricated by Smallville's writers as the "tough babe" by exhibiting "kickboxing"; Smallville's stigmatically substanceless climaxes WILL finish five minutes before show's end!!!! Package that with what's describable only as THE GAYEST soundtrack, indicting commercialized bands "hip" with bad-taste teenagers, and Smallville is HELL ON EARTH!!!!
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Summary: More compelling than first season
Review: One of the complaints I and many had with the first season is that it almost had a freak of the week feeling, where characters had kryptonite-induced powers that would try to hurt either Lana, Chloe, Pete, or Clark's parents. Very repetitive. This is where the series starts getting better and more confident in their stories.
Second seasons are usually where everything starts. Like in most shows, the first season is the testing grounds, since shows have a 50% chance of being cancelled, they try not to overload the plot of the show then have it cancelled. Smallville is the same way: not much for plot development than season 2 hits and it takes off.
There's definate highlights in this disc: the premiere Vortex, Clark developing heat vision in Heat, him being uninhibited on red kryptonite in Red, him leaping his first building, well sort of anyway. Other highlights include him discovering some of his origins in Skinwalker, the big episode Rosetta with Christopher Reeve, the introduction of Jor-El and the finale.
It's quite a nice season to a show that seems to get better and better.
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