Retrospective

So i’ve been re-watching all ten seasons of Smallville (about half-way through season 5). It sort of feels like looking back at high school (except mine was full of self-loathing, embarrassing memories and loneliness, not soap opera drama and sex). But there are a few things that i’ve discovered while re-watching the show, especially the early seasons; you know, the ones everyone says are the “good” ones.

Even when he’s trying to be cool, Clark Kent is still a dork. Lana Lang is more of a mary sue than Rey. Chloe was insufferable in the first four seasons. The show REALLY went out of its way to take a dump on the comic book origins of Superman. Green kryptonite was used to weaken Clark, whereas red kryptonite was used to have nauseating levels of soap opera drama shit, more-so than usual. The early 2000s music that appears frequently throughout the show really pulls my heart-strings. The show has a BIG bone to pick against God, which it takes out on the Clark and Jor-El father-son relationship; turning the father figure into an outright manipulative tyrant.

The whole Clark and Lana “secrets” bullshit thing is stupid! Even though i haven’t been in many relationships, the ones i have been in were NOT 100% open on everything. There were some things that we kept from each other, as we knew the value of privacy. Seriously, if i had been as psychotically inquisitive into someone’s personal life as Lana was into Clark’s, i’d have been slapped with a restraining order.

I didn’t realize just how liberal this show was!

In other news, the first four seasons are not my favorite: but the worst has got to be season 4, when jensen ackles appeared and Lana became the focal point of the show.