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Product Description: Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series that chronicles the life of the boy who would be Superman is on DVD in a 6-disc collector's set with super bonus features.Running Time: 954 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 085392425525 Amazon.com: 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. The premise of Smallville--Superman as a teenager--takes up just a few pages in Superman's very first comic book appearance (in Action Comics back in 1938), but series producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar flesh out that period by portraying young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) not as the noble Superman-in-waiting, but as an average teen with some not-so-ordinary supernatural powers, including incredible strength and heat vision (Clark hasn't lifted up, up, and away as of yet). Clark's desire to fit in with his peers and make sense of his extraordinary abilities ground him in very realistic and identifiable terms for the series' primarily under-25 audience, as does his appealing and tentative romance with Kristen Kreuk as Clark's dreamgirl Lana Lang. But Smallville also strikes gold when it takes a turn towards more comic book territory, as evidenced by the parade of shape-shifting killers and other outlandish antagonists (many generated, in one of the series' most ingenious notions, by the same devastating meteor shower that brought the infant Clark to Earth) that Clark must harness his powers to face and defeat. Gough and Millar, along with their capable cast (which includes Michael Rosenbaum as a young and already bald-pated Lex Luthor, and Annette O'Toole and John Schneider as the Kents) manage to pull off the precarious high-wire act of combining science fiction with coming-of-age drama to create this highly watchable program. Smallville: The Complete First Season offers a very complete and attractive DVD package that is rounded out by some highly desirable extras for longtime series fans. The six-disc set offers all 21 episodes of the first season, including the pilot, in widescreen anamorphic format; Gough and Millar are featured on the set's sole commentary track, which appears on the pilot episode. Viewers can also access a number of deleted scenes from various episodes as well as view original pre-production storyboards and WB promotional spots. An interactive "tour" of Smallville rounds out the extras, but DVD-ROM owners can use the discs to access more features via the Smallville web site. --Paul Gaita Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-04
great show about the early years of clark kent
"Smallville" was a show that I feel premiered when the golden age of The WB (sadly its called The CW now) was coming to a close, and was really the only good show that was left on the channel. I'm also a charmed fan, but after Shannen Doherty's departure, Charmed went downhill, (and since Veronica Mars didn't come till later that can't be included in the golden era) so I was excited about this show and was very pleased with it.
Its easy to see why "Smallville" drew in the largest audience ever on The WB when it premiered. (I'm not sure if it still holds that title but I know that it did at one time)
It tells the story of Clark Kent aka Superman, during his teenage years, living in the small town of Smallville, and shows how he struggles between trying to fit in at his high school (he's not exactly part of the in crowd), deal with his super powers and making sure no one finds out his secret, and of course theres his long time crush Lana Lang (played by the beautiful Kristin Kreuk) who he longs to be with. You also get to see a friendship form between him and his future enemy, Lex Luthor (played by Michael Rosenbaum) after Clark saves his life.
This show does a good job of being a teen drama mixed with sci-fi (although during the first few seasons, its more of a teen drama. It gets more sci-fi during the later seasons I believe)
The only problem with this season is that it seems that during every episode, some random kid is gaining superhuman abilities after being infected by a meteor rock. But beside that....great show! The best part about this season is the season finale, which will leave you dying to see season 2! (which is another great season by the way)
Unfortunately, I can't give you a review on the entire series overall so far, as I am not up-to-date with the current seasons. But its not due to lack of interest! I watched up until mid-season 3, and then I ended up missing a few episodes and before I knew it, I had missed the rest of season 3, along with the entirety of season 4! So I figure now there's no point in trying to catch up since I've now missed several seasons, and instead just planning on purchasing all the seasons on DVD.
Bottom line: if you have not yet see this show, I strongly urge you to purchase this season! Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-09
It was great to watch
When I first heard of Smallville was before it release, but never got hooked and then I missed a lot from this series, at the point I didn't know which chapter I was watching or which season.
So I finally decided to buy the series, I'm planning to buy all 6 season and the 7 season prerelease, but first I decided to buy the first two seasons as a soft start, here is what I thought about this one I just finished to watch (the complete first season in two days):
I think it was very interesting, but it was getting.. you know, I little bit boring because everything was about human beings that acquire special powers when got in contact with kryptonite (although I enjoyed so much the drama involving Clark interacting with his friends), so most of the 1st season was about it, but from around chapter 16 or 17 it was getting more interesting, until the end which was great and quickly I wanted to see chapter 1 season 2 called "Vortex".
That is the only reason why I put 4/5 stars, other than that, I'm pretty sure that I will end buying all the seasons and I regret not watching them on regular schedule since it launch, but hey, on the other side, since I am getting now into Smallville world, it will be exciting watching all those episode I never watched together. Rating:
Date: 2008-05-19
Great Series For The Early Days Of Superman
I found this series to be a very entertaining and enjoyable show of the early days of Clark Kent before becoming the famous Superman. I do have to say that the way they did the character of Lana Lang was a little annoying. My personal view of the shows Lana is she is superficial almost to the seventh season and I was always rooting for the character of Chloe to become Clark's true love in the show even though that never happened. I thought the actors they got for the characters of the show were well done especially for Lex Luthor,Clark Kent,Martha Kent,John Kent,Chloe Sullivan,Lois Lane,Lionel Luthor,Peter Ross,and Lana Lang. The setting they got for Smallville is also incredible it seemed exactly like the comic version of the town. So I say to all fans of Superman if you like
to see the early years of his life in Smallville this series does the job
amazingly... Rating:
Date: 2008-05-04
SteveG
I have been a fan of this series for a while, I was glad to get this series on DVD.
The only problem is during shipment the DVD's will come loose from the case.. so open carefully. 4 of mine fell out. Rating:
Date: 2008-04-02
Great Start to a Nearly Perfect Series
Ok, you don't need me to tell you how great this show is... but I will anyway. The acting is top notch, the plots are mind bending and the characters are completely 3 dimensional. The first season took about 3 episodes to get on it's feet... everything beyond that is history. You'll find yourself crazy to watch the next episode, each one more entertaining and pleasing to watch than the last. Not since "Star Trek: Voyager" have I enjoyed a show this much.
Oh, and by the way... While you're watching Season 1 you'll probably think, "this show can't get any better." Trust me, each season is a massive improvement over the last, you'll be blown away. |
