Anno_Domini
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Truth be told, I found season 1 to be a bit... iffy, because of the "freak of the weak" X-Files nature of things. Which they got much better at sorting out by season 2 onward.
The Freak of the Week routine was something that made me fall in love with the early seasons of Smallville in the first place as I never wanted to see any hints of Superman's future villains, so having new villains in the form of these kryptonite-enhanced men and women worked perfectly, imo.
That might have gone backseat during season two and up, but we still were given fresh storylines instead of using Superman's future enemies....that is until he left high school
Season 5 was good for Johnathan Kent's death alone.
"alone" is something that makes me laugh because it's very true and that can't honestly keep a season at its best just for that. Bringing in Brainiac and all the Kryptonian background and heritage was all fine, but as I mentioned, I didn't want to see any of Superman's enemies on the show; the villains and the storylines involved needs to only be shown on film.
Season 6... oh the wasted screen time with Lana. But at least it showed Lex truly beginning to turn to the dark side whole-heartedly.
Lexana was completely dreadful and I'm very glad Supernatural started to air to finally keep my interest up on WB.
And what's funny is that, to me, once Lex's downfall and descent began, I stopped enjoying SV. It's like so many things happened to the characters right during the time that I stopped enjoying the show. It's like the writers deliberately made this show awful just because they wanted me to stop watching, lol.
When all is said and done, I think season 10 is my favorite for the simple fact that basically everyone ****ing knew Clark's secret. I disliked the lack of Chloe, but the fact of Lois knowing was just so much of a relief.
I only watched the season premiere and the series finale of season ten, but...seriously? Everyone knew his secret? Gosh dangit that sounds so pathetic with the writers. Why even have dual identity when everyone already knows?
It's the one thing I hate most about live-action Superhero TV shows. They all always make a big to-do about the secret identity aspect. Though I think Smallville was the worst in this department because A) they over-emphasized it forever and B) there is no way in hell people wouldn't have put two-and-two together in a small town like Smallville after the second season of Clark Kent always being around when miraculous saves happen.
People should've been smart enough that when they kept seeing the 'S' on the buildings and looked back on newspaper clippings to see another weird symbol on the Kent farm from back in "Rosetta".
Overall I liked the later seasons a smidge more for their more Superman over-tones and the earlier seasons more for their freshness.
References of Clark becoming the iconic Superman is all I wanted. No Blur, no "Good Samaritan" and no Matrix Superman.
Lex was the only villian who warranted regular status, IMHO.
Him being the anti-hero from the first four seasons was perfectly fine. His mesh with Glover's Lionel was fitting with Smallville until they started to use other famous villains. "Talisman" was an episode that hinted such a future of Lex becoming the main villain to Superman and we never needed to actually see Lex become the true villain.