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Summary: The Legend Continues To Grow
Review: We pick up where we left off in season one, in the eye of the Tornado and, once the dust has settled, several things come to light over the next few episodes.
Lex falls for an attractive teacher who seems to have some kind of power over men...and even gets Lex to marry her (something told me this wasn't going to work out). Pete discovers the spaceship in a field and Clark feels compelled to tell him his secret...which might just be more than Pete can handle.
We discover the effect that red kryptonite has on Clark Kent (don't trust our guy when he's wearing black). And, of course, there's Lana...sweet, innocent Lana, who Clark can't seem to let into his life...and who sees this as a stumbling block in their road to happiness. And, of course, there's Chloe, still hoping that Clark would see her as the woman of his dreams (he could do a lot worse, believe me).
All this and the return of Ryan from season one, the return of Whitney Forman (or was it??), the blindness of Lionel Luthor, and the discovery of Lex's half-brother Lucas.
All that aside, the highlight of the season without a doubt, was the episode "Rosetta" and the appearance of Christopher Reeve as the mysterious Dr. Virgil Swann. This could be seen as the late Mr. Reeve's stamp of approval on the Smallville series...which it was, Reeve was a big fan of the show. This would lead to another appearance in season three and talk of more appearances until his unfortunate death last October.
And, of course, we can't forget Dr. Helen Bryce as played by the very beautiful Emanuelle Vaugier, who becomes Mrs. Lex Luthor number two.
Season two progressed the story nicely, we see Clark learn a lot about himself and he seems to take comfort in having someone know his secret, which almost backfires in "Rush" when Pete takes advantage of this.
We see Lex Luthor on the periphery...but still believing he is, deep down, a good man...though everything seems to be pointing toward the opposite direction.
Great extras, enjoyed the commentaries (though Kristen Kreuk was basically useless in that role), the Chloe Chronicles and the features on the visual effects and Christopher Reeve (here's hoping the fourth season set contains a tribute to this great actor and even better human being).
Five stars out of five as the legend continues to grow.
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Summary: Special Effects Revealed
Review: Smallville has some of the most amazing special effects on television. How they can produce a weekly show with the special effects quality of a megabudget movie like the Matrix is worth getting this CD set. But on to the episodes itself.
Season Two chronicles the further development of Clark's gifts and relationship with his friends, especially Lana. For anyone who has ever had a crush on someone from afar, this is one of the more satisfying season. Clark, of course, gets up the courage to finally admit to Lana about his crush. Major theme of Smallville, of course.
Lex gets betrayed by the women he marries, and Lionel's dark side becomes apparent. Meanwhile, Chloe still harbors an unrequited hopeless crush for Clark, but manages to be the smartest cynical kid in Smallville. Chloe and Lana develops a sister-like relationship when Lana moves in with Chloe. Pete, as Clark's best friend, also becomes Clark's confidante. Lots of development in this season for those of us who enjoy the growing up aspect of Clark and Smallville. Plot movement as far as the superman mythology, this season moves this along at a good pace.
DVD Quality - great. Commentary from the executive producers and the stars Tom Welling and Kristin Kreuk. Place this in the computer, and you get a little more insight into the town of Smallville.
This is better than Season 3's DVD and is a must have for your Smallville library.
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Summary: Finally, a Superman theme that I can actually rate 5 stars!
Review: While I love the show, I was disappointed with the Season One DVD set of SMALLVILLE. However, everything that I felt was lacking in the first set, is here is this second season set! There's a hilarious "gag reel" which includes a pretty good impression of Christopher Walken by Tom Welling (Clark Kent) and wait until you see Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luther) at the end doing a dance routine that will make you wet your pants.
Also included are TWO commentary tracks (Both of which feature Tom Welling, Kristin Kruek (Lana Lang), and Michael Rosenbaum...oh, and the annoyingly voiced Co-Producer, Greg Beeman)
The first commentary track is for the episode "Red" which introduces red krytonite (It makes Clark go baaaaad). If your tastes lean toward a serious, information-rich commentary, this is NOT the one to listen to, as it is totally unprofessional, completely hilarious, and my personal favorite!
The second commentary track is for the episode "Rosetta" (That's the one with Christopher Reeve, as Dr. Virgil Swan) A little more serious of a commentary track, but Michael Rosenbaum is still cracking wise through it.
There are SIX deleted scenes ("Heat" "Duplicity" "Dichotic" "Prodigal" "Fever" and "Exodus")
There is also TWO featurettes: one is about the visual effects of the show (Sorry, they don't exactly show you how they do that stuff, though they DO show a breakdown of how they filmed the "200 foot leap" that Clark does in the episode "Insurgence" and a couple of other effects from other episodes) and the other featurette is about Christopher Reeve (His "Superman" career, as well as cast and crew talking about what it was like to get him to be on the show.) I liked them both, personally.
There's also a quirky little feature called "Chloe's Chronicles" which is the character of Chloe videotaping some of her investigations and interviews with some people about the strange things that have been happening in Smallville. It's cute. Quirky, but cute, especially if you're a fan of the character (Which I am...What can I say, I like quirky!)
There also ROM-Enabled features for your computer (My DVD-ROM is being a brat, so I have no info on this)
This second season begins immediately after Season One ended, which I won't spoil for the late commers who have not seen the first season finale.
The next episode dives right into Clark gaining a new "superpower."
Episode 3 is where a main character finds out Clark's secret.
Episode 4 is when red kryptonite is introduced (Baaaaad Clark)
In later episodes, we learn what happened to Lana's Marine Boyfriend, Whitney, Clark takes a not-so-flying leap, there is a nostalgic "Who Shot J.R.?" style episode involving Lionel Luthor, Lex gets a brother, Clark gets a fever, Superman and Super-Teen meet for the first time, Lana learns to kick some a$$, Chloe is tempted by the dark side of the force, the cave pictographs drive a specialist insane, and Lana and Clark advance things just as everything revealed during the season comes to a head and Clark ends up...TO BE CONTINUED (Ain't I ba$tard?)
Excellent season, excellent DVD set, with excellent bonus stuff.
That's My Opinion But You're Welcome To It!
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Summary: smallville...from tornado to metropolis. all in 22 eps....
Review: Actually, Clark goes to Metropolis a lot, but i'm just saying that's how the finale ends... well season 2 picks up where season 1 left off...with clark running into a tornado to save lana, jonathan running into the open area to stop bad reporter man Nixon from revealing clark's secret to the world, martha watching the spaceship fly outta the cellar, although this is not shown, whitney running off to war, or something, lex, watching his daddy about to die, and pete and chloe doing absolutely nothing. Well, after everything returns to normal in ep. 2 (the summer has passed and school is in session once again) things return to the abnormal (if that even makes sense)with the incessant kryptonite freak o' the week. Sometimes we are blessed with the absence of a freak but not usually. storline wise, clark finds some caves that eventually lead to his learning of his home planet, krypton, with the help of fellow superman guy, christopher reeve! Lionel goes blind, but that is fixed shortly, martha works for lionel also for a few eps., which leads to interesting plots. lana finds her biological father who fades away rather quickly in a stupid way, pete is still worthless except for the time when he learns clark's secret, chloe teams up with....uh, spoiler in finale. i dont wanna say here. even though everyone probably knows (oh well) stuff happens to martha and jonathan (martha's pregnant) and lex meets a woman who he gets engaged too. and in the finale clark is contacted by jor-el to fulfil his destiny so clark does, by putting on a red k ring which has been put on him before, leading to bad stuff, and lex is betrayed by, as season 3, ep. 2 puts it, his dad and/or his wife. to be continued into season 3 which is released nov. 16 on dvd!!!!!! can't wait. this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!1
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Summary: Region 1 = region free
Review: The good thing about the box is that despite its label stating "Region 1", it is actually region free.
Of course that only helps if you like the series to start with and want to have the box. I do.
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Summary: It's... OK
Review: I'm not a comic book purist who spouts off when Hollywood slaps long-time fans in the face. I'm used to it.I give the DVDs 3, 'cuz it's 50/50. Half are good, half aren't. I have a hard expecting something GREAT everyweek, so I take what I get. Considering that this is a Hollywood rendering of Clark growing up, that is geared to a 'Dawson Creek'-y teen culture, I think it's alright. If I want something better, I'll got buy the graphic novels. (Honestly, the books are ALWAYS better ;)
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