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DVD Smallville - The Complete Second Season
For many fans, the Superman revisionist series Smallville truly hit its stride in its second season, when it shifted focus from traditional comic book conflicts to one of self-discovery for its hero, a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Fans and first-timers can judge for themselves with this six-disc set, which compiles all 23 episodes and a decent selection of supplemental features. Whereas season 1 focused on Clark using his powers to combat a host of menaces à la the WB's other big fantasy hit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 2 delved into Clark's past and the extent of his super powers, most notably in the back-to-back "Heat," in which he discovers his heat vision, and "Red," in which red kryptonite in the high school class rings uncorks Clark's less-than-upstanding side. Other plot developments from the season that pull the series in interesting directions include the arrival of Dr. Helen Bryce (Emanuelle Vaugier), who becomes involved with Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), but the season's most significant moment comes during episode 17, "Rosetta," in which Clark learns of his Kryptonian origins courtesy of a scientist, who, in an effective bit of casting, is played by Superman film star Christopher Reeve.
The complexity of the writing and issues dealt with in season 2 marked Smallville as a series with depth and drama worthy of its considerable fan following as well as a second boxed set; fittingly, the supplements in this set are more expansive than on the first one. Producers Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Greg Beeman and cast members Welling, Rosenbaum, and Kristen Kreuk weigh in on commentary tracks for two episodes ("Red" and "Rosetta"), while a trio of short featurettes explore Christopher Reeves's appearance in "Rosetta," the show's visual effects, and the amusing "Wall of Weird" web page maintained by Chloe (Allison Mack). The extras are rounded out by a handful of deleted scenes and a gag reel. --Paul Gaita
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Excellent
I like this series, and I think anyone who likes Superman, but is not looking for "Comic Book Correctness" will like this series
What a Show Smallville
In Smallville Season 2 it ENDS the 2 part episode that was to be continued when Lana and her truck get pulled into a twister.
And Clark has to save her. The Second Season is a lot better then the first season because in the first season in every episode theres a bad guy usually involving the meteor rocks. More about Clark Kent is about to be discovered and at the end of the season Clark leaves Smallville. What is the Cave. Was Clark's Destiny To Destroy Earth Or Protect It. Clark and Lana hit it off but someone is jealous find out. 5 Stars CAN'T STOP WATCHING. SEASON 6 THE FINAL SEASON STARTS AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
Second Season more of the same
That is, if you liked the first season of Smallville, then your money for the second season will have been well spent. With the second season of Smallville, more of the Superman mythology is revealed. Clark learns about his heat vision and about that red Kryptonite which unleashes his inner James Dean. This series could have easily gone the stale way of Enterprise, where discovering everything about the Star Trek universe for the first time that we already knew about was inheritantly not very interesting, but instead was kept fresh thanks to the continually high performances by Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling. Special mention this season should also go to John Glover's portrayal as Lex's father, Lionel Luthor-picture a jolly reptilian and you have the idea where to go from there. The strengths of Season 2 for me were in Clark's ongoing conflicts with those who continued to get affected by the meteor rock, and the above average special effects, most particularly Clark's speed and heat vision. The unfortunate shortcomings, however, were in the scriptwriting in regards to Clark's emotional/romantic/human status. It almost seems to be an ongoing dilemma with the writers over what to do with Clark and his personal life: is he a normal kid, or a messiah who is above and over the rest of humanity. Isn't the essence of being an agent of goodness also in being an agent of love and compassion? What kind of superhero is he going to be if he can't feel love for anyone? These and other questions will boggle you as you watch Clark screw up just about every potential relationship throughout the series, especially with Lana and Chloe. Although Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack try very nobly to inject some kind of pathos and verisimilitude to their respective teenage characters, they usually come off as nothing more than emotional yo-yos going back and forth between weepy lovelornedness and girl-done-wrong outrage. If you can get past this frustration, then much fun can be had in this season. The highlight episodes for me were: "Visage"--a very disturbing and psychotic episode; "Insurgence"--a pretty action-packed episode; "Skinwalker"--a very vital episode for the direction of the second season; "Accelerate"--an even more disturbing episode about Lana being visited by her best friend who died when she was 10. The little girl is spot-on creepy; "Fever"--maybe one of the most sublime moments of the whole series is when a very sad and frustrated Chloe reads her feelings out to an unconscious Clark, a scene that almost single-handedly justifies the whole series. The extras for the Season 2 set are very high-caliber: A tribute to Christopher Reeve, arguably the best Superman ever; a great featurette about the visual effects; the Chloe Chronicles delve even deeper into some of the weirdness of Smallville, especially with the Jitter episode.
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The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in this imaginative and engaging television series from the WB Network, and series fans can celebrate the ratings success of Smallville with a six-disc set that compiles its entire first season. The deluxe package offers a chance to revisit the origins of the characters and their numerous plotlines, as well as view deleted scenes and other bonus features.
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The arrival of another gorgeous young woman with the initials of LL further complicates Clark Kent's (Tom Welling) life in the fourth season of Smallville, the WB's hip and sexy reinvention of the Superman legend. In this case, it's Lois Lane (Erica Durance), a would-be college freshman who's come to the Kansas heartland to investigate the disappearance of her cousin, Chloe. What she discovers instead is a naked, amnesiac Clark Kent in a cornfield, and things take off from there. Durance doesn't appear in every episode--she was credited as a "special guest star"--but her tough spirit and crackling wit provide a great, non-romantic foil to Clark.
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