About a week or two ago, I started watching Smallville. For the first season and a half, I loved it. Maybe it's because Superman is my favorite superhero. Or maybe it's because Tom Welling is so attractive. Either way, I wasted a lot of time in this series.
Don't get me wrong, it's an okay series... if you like unrealistic investigations and a stupid love triangle. Before I get any further, let me explain what the series is about. It all started in 2001, when Jerry Siegel thought it might be a good idea to make a series about Clark Kent's teenage years. The story line states that twelve years before the series began, there was a meteor shower where a lot of people died and Clark came down in the spaceship. Along with him, came Kryptonite. Everyone just called them meteor rocks (until season two when Clark 'mysteriously' finds out their name). Over the years, Clark is developing his powers. AFTER twelve years, he discovers he's an alien when his parents show him the spaceship. It's like, seriously? It's kind of obvious you're not from this planet.
Things in Smallville start getting weird. Humans are effected by the meteor rocks and they're getting strange powers. Right off the bat, this is a stupidly put together series. Why would people only start being affected TWELVE YEARS after the meteor shower? They never really tell you if there were things like this going on before the time frame, but I think they should have made it clear that there were. So when all of these weird things start happening, it's up to Clark and his friends Chloe and Pete to figure out the mysteries of Smallville and "get rid" of the bad people. He never kills them because he wants to help them. But there are people that are so bad, they don't want his help and they end up killing themselves, accidentally of course. Karma. This is pretty much every episode of the first season. I just want to put something in here about one of the episodes. So y'all have seen Mean Girls right? Okay well, Lizzy Caplan (Janis Ian) was in an episode of Smallville. She played a shape-shifting lesbian who is in love with Clark's crush, Lana Lang. She goes crazy and shifts into Lana's dead boyfriend, Whitney (stupid name for a boy). Sound familiar? I died laughing watching this episode. I know, that's bad.
In season two, Clark is discovering where he is from. It's no longer about fighting off random people affected by the meteor rocks. There's is actually a story line. Unfortunately, it's a crappy story line. After awhile, it got really boring. I think I liked it better when Clark was fighting off random people. There isn't much else to say about this series because I stopped watching it halfway through.
Onto my conclusion, if you want to waste a bunch of time, you can watch this series. I wouldn't though. The only reason I started watching this is because one of my favorite bands have a song on the soundtrack. 'Forget It' by Breaking Benjamin. Great song. If I can figure out how to autoplay music on my blog, I'll put the song on here. Or you can look it up. Seriously, it's a great song.
I really like doing reviews. I'm not all that great at it yet. But like anything else, you have to practice to get good. Give me ideas on any topics you want me to write about or other things you want me to review! If you've seen Smallville, what did you think about it? Let me know in the comments! Thanks friends :)
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