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Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete Second Season of the hit series about the life of the young man who in time would become Superman is now available. This wonderful TV show is coming to DVD in a 6-disc collector's edition with 23 episodes and with a ton of bonus features. You can also access a number of deleted scenes from episodes as well as view original pre-production storyboards and WB promotional spots, season 3 sneek peek and DVD-ROM owners can use the discs to access more features via the Smallville web site. Smallville is truly a great show and icing on the cake for those who are Superman fans. I can only hope they release "Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman" on DVD soon.

Smallville The Complete Second Season 2 DVD Episode Guide

22. Vortex
23. Heat
24. Duplicity
25. Red
26. Nocturne
27. Redux
28. Lineage
29. Ryan
30. Dichotic
31. Skinwalker
32. Visage
33. Insurgence
34. Suspect
35. Rush
36. Prodigal
37. Fever
38. Rosetta
39. Visitor
40. Precipice
41. Witness
42. Accelerate
43. Calling
44. Exodus

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The Light To Show The Way
The second season of the before he became Superman series, Smallville, certainly improved upon the foundation laid down in the first year. Gone are the meteor rock creates a supervillian stories of the past, instead, the characters are put in far more interesting situations and story arcs.

Young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) continues to discover new powers and abilities, as well as information about his mysterious Kryptonian heritage. Clark's relationships with his friends take some dramatic turns. His buddy Pete (Sam Jones III) learns his secrets, Chloe (Allison Mack) is torn between her feelings for Clark and her friendship with Lana (Kristen Kreux), while she herself deals with the return of Whitney (Eric Johnson) and her own feelings for Clark. Future Superman arch enemy Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) has to deal with the fact that, his dad Lionel (John Glover-now a series regular), who has his own hidden agenda, decides to stick as close to Lex as possible. The arrival of Dr. Helen Bryce (Emanuelle Vaugier) will also make his bald head spin. Clark's adoptive parents, Jonathan(John Schneider) and Martha (Annette O'Toole) continue to guide Clark through life, as they try to adjust to things they learn about his origins.

Special mention must be made of the episode called "Rosetta"--clealy a season highpoint. In it, Clark discovers that a reclusive millionaire astronomer holds the key to his past and future. Dr. Virgil Swan is played by Christoper Reeve, who played the Man Of Steel on the big screen for almost a decade. What would have been an important episode anyway, is made all the more special with Reeve in the role. As a fan of '78s Superman The Movie, I also liked the way snipets of composer John Williams' great themes from the film, can be heard in the episode. Nice touch. Series developers and executive producers Alfred Gough & Miles Millar made certain that the series remained entertaining and fun--but also made things much more complex. Sometimes turning the Superman mythology on its head, yet stying true to it at the same time, no easy feat.

The second season, six DVD box set, has all 23 episodes from the 2002/03 television year. The extras are better this time out, as compared with the season one set. Gough, Millar, and writer Jeph Loeb get together to talk about "Red" and "Rosseta" to make for great audio commentaries. Alternate tracks on these episodes with Welling, Rosenbaum, Kreuk, and director Greg Beeman giving us their perspective. Both tracks are worth a listen. There are deleted scenes from five episodes, nothing earth shattering, but still pretty meaty for a TV show. The Chloe Chronicles webisode investigations are a clever way to catch up on the series year mythology. Two featurettes, one on the show's special effects, the other highlighting guest star Reeve's appearance. Both are short but worth a look. A four minute blooper reel, website access, and a season episode guide booklet round off the set.

If you watch Smallvile, the choice to purchase is a no brainer. If you don't--This would be a good way to jump in. Highly recommended

The show that insults an American mythos
For starters,comic book purists HATE it when a classic book gets tampered with or heavily manipulated. This is especially true when it comes to comic books that make the transition to TV and film. Why,you ask? Because they turn out disappointing about 70% of the time.Written and produced,almost always,by a bunch of Hollywood writers who've never read comics before. More often than not,it's not a labor of love for the writers,it's just another script..Sometimes they can be good(The first two Superman movies,Tim Burton's "Batman" the first season of "Wonder Woman","Ghost World"and the two Spider-Man flicks)some mediocre("The Flash","Hulk","Hellboy","Birds of Prey","The Punisher")and some just downright awful("The Human Target","Dr.Strange","Captain America")

So,now we get "Smallville". I have nothing but some bitterness for a show that takes a 66 year old comic legend and reduces him to a teeny-bopper,"Dawson's Creek"pretty boy shill. For any real comic book fans like myself,this is a slap in the face. Anyone who's ever regularly read the Superman comics know that Smallville,far and away,was/is the least interesting part of Superman's origin. Beyond him being found by the Kents in the rocketship,slowly discovering his powers and experiencing his first love with Lana Lang,the fun that was Clark's home town pretty much has always stopped there. So,why make a whole series about it? And how lame and desperate is it to have to create other metahumans using that radioactive meteor (almost all of them evil and conveniently within Smallville's city limits)just to give Clark something to do? To make this even more ridiculous, it's almost always an uneven fight unless the villian that week gets a hold of some kryptonite.

Another problem with making a Superman "prequel" of sorts is that the mythos is limited and not fully tapped. Sure,the planet Krypton,kryptonite (in both green and red) STAR Labs,Metorpolis and Intercrime get used and name-dropped often but it's just not enough. Ok,Perry White also pays a visit as does Morgan Edge,but again,it's short shrift. Beyond Luthor (the only interesting character on the show) and the aforementioned Edge,the rest of the Man of Steel's arch-enemies are MIA. This means no signs of classic Supes baddies like Metallo,the Prankster,the Toyman,General Zod(from both the comics and "Superman 2")Bizarro,Mr.Mxypltk,the Parasite,etc.Yeah,they have the "villian of the week"schitck but none really interesting enough to warrant a return. Hell,even the recently cancelled "Birds of Prey"brought in classic Batman villian Clayface and also Batgirl's quasi-arch rival Lady Shiva! The writers have painted themselves into a corner and,therefore,can only use about a third of anything from the Superman history. This would be like doing a TV series focusing on Bruce Wayne after his parents' murder and he still hadn't gotten the inspiration to become Batman yet.Think of it: no Batcave,Batmobile,no cool utility belt,the grim black/grey Batsuit,etc. Now try to envision having to watch all this every week. Boring,right? This is what "Smallville" has become: turning the most powerful superhero in the history of comics into a melodramatic goof.

Millar and Gough,the Smallville writers,have adopted a strict"no tights/no cape" i.e. no costumes. Since they've made pretty much made Clark Superboy without the red & blue suit,you're sometimes wondering "what's the point of watching if he's not even going to change?" or do anything truly "Super"? Yeah,they have him running at super-speed,using his heat and x-ray vision for the first time and,of course,that super-strength is a given. However,it loses its punch when you see Clark doing all this in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Half the fun that goes with being a superhero is the secret identity,that juggling of the duality,which he doesn't really seem to have much of here. Of course,Ma & Pa Kent knew from day one as does best friend Pete of Clark's powers. And I don't believe for a second that Luthor hasn't known all this time.

Yes,there are some bits of action but not enough to write home about. Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you that Superman,in general,is boring compared to his contemporaries(Batman is still the most popular character in the DC Universe,far and away)but he is still the WORLD'S most popular superhero. MIllar and Gough have just made Clark Kent even more one-dimensional and lifeless than ever with "Smallville". Nice attempt,boys,at trying to infuse the teen angst similar to classic Lee/Ditko-era "Spider-Man"but it's just too forced. One wonders if Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are spinning in thier graves after hearing about the latest incarnation of thier classic icon.

At the end of the day,Millar and Gough are not showing any respect or love for the legend and seem more inspired on the marketing scheme than anything else. For crissakes,at least ABC-TV's "Lois & Clark"captured the fun of the comic,even with its heavy"will they or won't they?"subplot. And they had villians from the comic! "Smallville"is a teen chatter-fest,clearly marketed to girls and young women who really aren't there to see the heroics so much as to see the smaltzy melodrama between Clark and Lang. For comic book fans everywhere, I recommend that you save your pennies and just rent it or ,better yet,wait until it's syndicated and watch the reruns.