The episode where Lana got Clark's powers should have been her villain reveals. I want her to completely lose it, go all Harley Quinn and get back with Lex to be a villain couple. 😭 This would have made me so happy 😂
When i first watched Smallville, It didn't occur to me that it was weird that Lex and Clark were friends but after getting older and a few re watches, I don't understand why more people in the universe aren't concerned about their friendship.
In Season one Lex is 21 years old and he chooses to eventually become best friends with Clark who in season one is supposed to only be 14, and no one not Clark's parents or the kids at school find it weird that a fully grown adult is best friends with a teenage boy not to mention Lex spends a lot of his time hanging around underage children.
Now I know it doesn't look weird to the audience because both Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling are much older than the characters they play, Michael was 29 I believe and Tom was 24, but even then in universe people should be more weirded out by their friendship.
For example, Ryan can't read Clark's mind, so he is unaffected by Ryan's power, but Clark cannot pass the force field those creepy twins from Belle Reve made around his house and is his mind is affected by Simone when she breaks him and Lana up.
EDIT: bad example bc I forgot he didn't have his powers when the twins were at his house. But someone explained the answer below so I get it now!
Full disclosure, I haven't watched today's Talkville so I might have to eat crow later, but while scrolling on Tiktok my algorithm did its thing and showed me this wonderful edit by brilliant user 𐙚˙⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 Am I turning into a fan of MR's current opinions? Maybe!!!
Lana's main problem on Smallville is because Al Gough and Miles Millar based her character off a barely 2 minute scene from Superman the Movie (1978).
As such, they ignored most of Lana's 51 year characterization from the comics at the time.
In the Comics, Lana was actually Clark Kent's best friend, not just his crush. In neither Pre-Crisis nor in Post-Crisis comics did Clark ever look longingly at Lana from afar, while a football bully boyfriend of Lana's kept them apart. They were friends, they hung out with each other, got mad at each other, had fun together.
The only thing that Comics Lana and Smallville Lana had in common was their obsession with figuring out Clark's "secret".
Unfortunately, Richard Donner, the director of Superman the Movie, used a very shallow version of Clark and Lana's relationship and people believed it. More unfortunate, Al and Miles chose that version as the foundation for their Lana and Clark.
And then they created Chloe Sullivan who basically got all of Lana's characterization from the comics. From being Clark's best female friend, to Pete liking Chloe (in the comics Pete marries Lana), even to being a journalist as Pre-Crisis Lana became reporter at the Daily Planet.
Had Al and Miles just allowed Lana to be Lana, fans of the show wouldn't find her characterization and writing on the show to be so controversial.
(This is my first watch so please no spoilers past 10x15) Someone recently made an “edit” about this episode on TikTok and the comment section seemed to love it- and I can absolutely see why. As Tess said it’s “very human” just seeing them all retrace their steps and go through a very human dilemma. Still having that very campy Smallville charm
I was a member of Smallville_ and I got banned for saying Clois is a better relationship than Clana. I appealed the ban and asked why is it an issue that I think Clark and Lois was a better relationship than Clark and Lana. They responded with "why are you hating on Lana in this message". Wow, is that sub ran by insecure 13 year olds or something?
We all know Lois loves Whitesnake, and I've finished watching the show recently and was a little disappointed that they didn't play a single song from them, even in the later seasons when she and Clark had a lot of romantic scenes. The show is packed with great songs, but as a Whitesnake fan, I think there should have been at least one song from them.
I can see why clark, in the crisis of infinite earth clip gave up being superman.
Jor-el was such a bad father, he gave clark so many rules to follow and was overly strict with training to be superman. He even said that his human side makes him weak and cut off everyone.
He then freezes him for weeks, when he knows bizaro is pretending to be clark.
He disowns clark, refuses to even speak to him and gives his destiny to kara. Then tells kara that she's in the way of clarks destiny and to ethier leave earth or she could ruin clark's future.
I thought he disowned clark and gave his purpose to kara, now her being there ruins clarks future?
Then at the end of the seires, jor-el says, the people of smallville are the reason clark is such a good hero and his training is finished. That is the complete opposite of what he said earlier, that the people of smallville are making him weak and to cut them off to be a good hero.
If i was clark, he would drive me inside, with his rules, flip flopping around.
I am watching the series for the first time and am confused by Clark’s school timeline. In season 2 he buys his senior ring which is usually for graduation. But in season 3 he is still in school. Whitney graduates in season 1, which you assume Lana is a year below, but she’s actually two years below? We see Clark have a birthday in season 2 as well but does not say what age he turns. There’s conflicting info online of Clark and Lex’s ages, saying Clark could be as young as 15 when the series starts with Lex being around 21. Obviously the actors are significantly older which is I guess normal for filming in the early 2000’s. I’m mostly confused by the school timeline with the ring purchase etc. makes no sense? Would writers intentionally be making vague storylines?
Hi guys!
I'm basically on my first watch of Smallville and I loved it so far. I'm currently watching 9x9 which is when we see about Lois memories when she travels to the future. My question is: is there a reason why Lana is not literally the most important person of planet Earth singlehandedly taking down the Kandorians with her brand new kryptonite charged Prometheus? I feel like the point of this entire Zod plot is moot if you're just going to make the anti-Kryptonian person before he's introduced.
Clark is sometimes forced to reveal his powers when villains put others in danger, but he never tries to protect his identity, which could put his family in danger. I know superman doesn’t wear a mask in the comics but he could still wear glasses just like in the comics to show that he at least tries to protect his identity. We would have to suspend our disbelief because it wouldn’t work in real life.
Just finished Lexmas and at the end I’m guessing lex just doesn’t care about his friendship with Clark anymore?
was playing the game and stumbled upon the batcomputer. went to change the wallpaper and saw this gem.
I am currently rewatching smallville and realized that despite needing to hide his powers, Clark was doing a very terrible job at doing it. Like casually ripping doors off of hinges, ripping car roofs off etc. And yet hardly anybody knows his secret. Thoughts?