Smallville
Summary
seek to catch up onSmallville ’s 10 - season run is a daunting project , but if Superman fans need just the best of the best , these episodes demonstrate theDCshow at its best . Although not every season was equally well - receive , Smallvillestayed surprisingly high - quality throughout its 10 season . Even looking back on the show , Smallvillehas aged pretty well . There area few uncomfortableSmallvillemoments , but overall , the show remain a great hot - activeness adjustment of Superman .
One ofSmallville ’s good qualities is that it shows Clark Kent at an age that usually is n’t explored in other Superman media . This means the show was able to search unique story and show Clark ’s development into the superhero he would eventually become . Any Superman rooter would be impudent to check out at least some of the show , even if it is just these episodes .
Smallville tells an epic Superman origin news report over the row of 10 seasons - we rundown the characters ' years and those of the actors playing them .
10Smallville Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot” Sets The Stage For The Show
Smallville ’s " Pilot " starts off with the meteor showerthat sets the degree for the intact serial . Audiences are shown how Clark ’s family line found him , and sets up stories for both Lex Luthor and Lana Lang . The episode then flashes forward to Clark as a teenager and shows him saving Lex Luthor ’s living . It also features a story about Clark render to get near to Lana , but being unable to , both because she is dating someone else and because she tire out a Kryptonite necklace .
Why This Episode Is A Must Watch For Superman Fans
“ Pilot ” is crucial viewing for any Superman fan wanting to get intoSmallville . It sets up the specific interpretations of the Superman type that are in the show , which are sometimes fairly dissimilar from their comic book counterparts . The episode establishes the frenemy human relationship between Clark and Lex , Clark and Lana ’s will - they - won’t - they kinship , and Clark ’s power as well as his weakness to Kryptonite . “ Pilot ” give interview everything they necessitate to realise the rest of the series , and in effect fructify up its major relationships .
9Season 1, Episode 8, “Jitters” Shows Lex Luthor Is Trying To Be Better
“ Jitters ” features a former Luthor Corp employee , Earl Jenkins , who now experiences strange convulsions due to his exposure to Kryptonite at the Luthor plant . When nobody will believe him , Earl decide to hold Clark Kent and his classmates hostage during their field trip to the Luthor Corp mill . He insists that Lionel Luthor , Lex ’s father , expose the companionship arcanum that leave to his stipulation , or else he will shoot down the hostage . Lex enters the plant against his father ’s wishes to negotiate with Earl , and serve the hostages get away .
Lex ’s story in “ Jitters ” did a lot to establish where his character comes from , and his wish to be good than his upbringing . SeeingLex ’s compassion in demarcation to his father ’s ruthlessnessshows that Lex wants to be a better soul . However , the show also contrasts Lex ’s want of positive role model with Clark ’s loving family . This shows whyLex has a harder time being a good personthan Clark , and why he will eventually become the scoundrel all Superman fans know him as .
8Season 2, Episode 4, “Red” Shows How Important It Is That Clark Kent Holds Back
At the beginning of “ Red , ” Smallville High has just receive their class hoop . unbeknown to Clark , the stone onthe ring is actually Red Kryptonite . The Edward Durell Stone causes Clark to lose his inhibitions and begin acting on his worst impetus . This admit immoral behavior like using his X - beam of light vision to see through his female Quaker ’ clothes , and start scrap for no rationality . Clark ’s family finally see what the ring is doing to him , and manage to get it off , but Clark still has to deal with the side effect of his natural process .
“ cherry ” shows just how destructive Clark could be if he want to . The episode underlines that if Clark was n’t such an upstanding person and view as himself back , he could stimulate some serious damage in pursuit of his selfish lack . This episode also exemplifies the idea thatit is more important that Clark has respectable moralsthan strong powers .
7Lex Luthor’s Story In Season 2, Episode 15, “Prodigal” Proves He Could Have Turned Out Like Clark
In “ Prodigal , ” Lex Luthor learns that his half - brother , Lucas , who he thought was drained , is really still alert . Lex ab initio tries to get Lucas to assist him take over his father ’s fellowship , but Lucas sprain on Lex . This leads to Lex getting kick out of his home and have to remain with the Kents . During his time with the Kents , Lex does his best to rend his weight unit and establish to Jonathan Kent that he can be helpful . Lucas ends up taking Lionel and Lex surety , wanting his founding father to kill Lex , but Clark spare them both .
“ Prodigal ” was an important episode for Lex , because it demo thathe could have turned out like Clarkif he ’d had a expert family environment . Lex thrives on the Kent farm , because all he wants is the favourable reception of a begetter figure of speech , in this suit Jonathan Kent . However , Lex grew up with a much more pitiless and virtuously compromise father than Jonathan . Lex ’s drive to print his begetter has led him to do bad thing , and Lucas serves as a warning of what Lex could become if he does n’t go against his forefather ’s views .
6Season 2, Episode 17, “Rosetta” Brought Back Christopher Reeve
After a tenacious buildup , “ Rosetta ” finally gave audiences some answer about the Kawatche Caves and their connection to Kryton . In the episode , Clark is experience strange dreams that conduct him to bring the key from his starship to the caves , where he see some of the Kryptonian language . subsequently , Clark meets with a scientist , Virgil Swann , who tells Clark that he received a message about an alien from Krypton arriving on Earth , but also evidence Clark that Krypton is move . Clark opens up the spaceship he arrived in , looking for solution , and is horrified to learn he was mean to appropriate Earth .
“ Rosetta ” is substantial for a number of reasons . This is the episode where Clark ’s beginning from Krytpon are in the end explored , and when Clark learns that he is probable the last surviving Kryptonian . Clark believing he was sent to conquer Earth is also a massive revelation . However , the best part of the sequence is thatVirgil Swann is played by former Superman actor , Christopher Reeve . Reeve ’s two appearances onSmallvillewere his last acting roles before he deplorably communicate in 2004 , andReeve reportedly enjoyed being on stage set . This piss “ Rosetta ” special even without its grandness to the show ’s story .
5Season 5, Episode 3, “Hidden” Proved Clark Kent Is A Hero Without Powers
“ Hidden ” takes place during a portion ofSmallvillewhen Clark has intentionally leave up his superpower . During the episode , a former classmate of Clark and Chloe ’s breaks into a projectile silo and plans to destroy Smallville , killing anyone affected by Kryptonite in promise of rid the world of super - powered people . Clark and Chloe arrive to strain and end him , but Clark is shot in the unconscious process and dies in the infirmary . Clark is brought back to life by his biological father , Jor - El , who possess Lionel Luthor ’s body . Clark is throw his powers back and use them to stop the missiles .
What makes “ Hidden ” such a particular episode is that it provesClark would still be acting like Superman even if he did n’t have superpowers . It ’s an significant part of Clark ’s character that the rationality he does good is not just because he has the power to do so , but because he deeply believes in doing the right thing . It establish that being a hero is more about one ’s actions than their abilities .
4Season 5, Episode 12, “Reckoning” Was Clark’s Spider-Man Moment
After five season of Clark keeping his powers clandestine from Lana , “ Reckoning ” is the episode whereClark finally recount her the truth . After he does , he offer and Lana finally consent . However , when Lex recognize Lana knows Clark ’s secret , he undertake to make her say him , guide to a elevator car chase where Lana is kill . Clark move back in time to foreclose it but is warned by Jor - El that someone else will postulate to decease if Lana is saved . Through Clark saving Lana , Jonathan Kent perish rather , and Clark blames himself for it .
“ Reckoning ” learn Clark several significant lesson . First , it teaches him that he ca n’t have everything and that he will sometimes have to make hard choice . The death of Jonathan also hammers home just how responsible he need to be with his world power , or else the people he loves can get hurt . This is very much Clark ’s adaptation of Spider - Man’s“with with child mogul comes neat responsibility”moment .
3Season 4, Episode 1, “Crusade” Finally Introduced Lois Lane
The season 4 premiere ofSmallville , “ Crusade , ” bulge out with the disgraceful Revelation of Saint John the Divine that Chloe has seemingly died . This is shown through a television diary being watched by Chloe ’s cousin , and Modern character to the show , Lois Lane . Lois do to Smallville where she encounters Clark , who has no memory of who he is . It is after revealed that Clark has been taken over by his Kal - El role and that he no longer has any of his memory . With the helper of the Kents and some black Kryptonite , Clark is returned to normal . He then call to avail Lois find Chloe .
On its own , “ cause ” is already a substantial season premiere . Chloe ’s sudden last and then her pretermit consistency sets up a gravid enigma for the time of year , and the ending of the previous time of year is effectively wrapped up . However , the best part of “ Crusade ” is that it in the end acquaint Lois Lane . Lois ’ absence seizure had been finger since the first episode when the role of intrepid reporter was apparently going to just be filled by Chloe . Lois is a sports fan - favorite Superman character , andSmallville ’s rendering definitely did n’t disappoint .
2Season 6, Episode 4, “Arrow” Proved Jumping The Shark Could Be Cool
“ Arrow ” begins with a fund - agriculturist being robbed by a orphic figure in a green hood wield a bow and pointer . Seeing as Oliver Queen had just been introduced in the previous installment , anyone who follows DC Comics would at once recognize that this was Green Arrow , stealing from the rich for a good purpose . After some difference of opinion with Green Arrow , Clark learn of Oliver ’s heroic intentions , and that he was using the illegal trade good he steal to make kindly contribution . Oliver also tries to convert Clark to use his powers to help the world , not just his family and champion .
The innovation of Green Arrow ina full superhero costume violatedSmallville ’s “ no tights ” policy . This could be get word as the moment that the show went too far toward simply becoming a superhero show , denounce its original premise . However , ifSmallvillewas going to jump the shark , it at least did so in fashion with awell - received adaption of Green Arrow .
1Season 7, Episode 18, “Apocalypse” Showed How Much Clark Has Helped The World
The episode “ Apocalypse ” take up with Clark care that he had never come to Earth , feeling he has done more bad than good . of a sudden , he is transported to an alternate realness by Jor - El to see what life would be like without him . Initially , Clark thinks things seem pretty good for some of his friend . However , he soon memorise that Lex Luthor is the chairman , and is plan to go a nuclear war under the influence of Brainiac . Clark run out to stop this alternate reality ’s Revelation of Saint John the Divine and is returned to his reality .
“ Apocalypse ” shows in no unsealed terms how much worse the populace would be without Clark in it . Things might seem spoiled at the bit , but it ’s nice for Clark to get a reminder of all the estimable he has done , and the terrible thing he ’s prevented . More than any other episode ofSmallville , “ Apocalypse ” show just how meaningful it is that Clark continues to do the right thing , even when it gets hard .
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