Any "Smallville" fans? A question.

[Hateshinai]

I used to watch Smallville on and off during the first season or two. If it happened to be on TV when I was channel-hopping I would stop and watch, but I was no really into it as such. Probably because I'm not a great fan of Superman and all the episodes were kind of similar (kid with powers from meteor, etc).
However recently I downloaded the two-parter featuring the Justice Society. I am a major obsessive compulsive JSA fan. I have (to my knowledge) every single JSA comic published in the last 25 years or so.
Anyway, even though the acting was atrocious I kind of enjoyed it and decided to give Smallville another chance. However I am not interested in watching from Season 1 and I would rather start at a later point, when the other DC heroes started being introduced. Which season should I start with?

[Flake]

Dude, I love the JSA as much as the next guy (probably more than the next guy) but don't get yourself into Smallville. That show blows. It was good for the first two seasons but after that I found myself more and more incredulous that this kid was ever or could ever become Superman.

I, for one, could only handle so many 'lana finds out the truth and then hits her head and gets amnesia' episodes before I bowed out. That was around season 5 or so.

[Jrecee]

I would rather watch the Justice Leage Live Action pilot for all eternity than Smallville's wannabe matrix melodramastravaganza

[thekorean12]

Lana was hot...

[Gamerforlife]

Geez, not very helpful guys. I haven't watched Smallville in a long time, but I think they starting bringing in other heroes with Green Arrow in season six or seven and made him a regular in season 8. I know that after he came on the show, they starting bringing other heroes like Flash, Aquaman, Black Canary, the Legion, etc.

One thing I remember Smallville was pretty good about is the fan service. Lots of little winks at the comic book fans all the time. One thing that really bugged me though is that I got tired of waiting for them to bring Batman into the show's mythos. I used to enjoy Michael Rosenbaum as Lex, he was quite good. He also voiced Flash on the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons. And I have a huge crush on Kristen Kreuk but I don't think she's a show regular anymore

[Flake]

Geez, not very helpful guys.

It's hard to be helpful with that show. Every season was exactly the same and the plots became more and more contrived.

A lot of people got excited when they started the fan service and expanded the scope of the shows mythos. I am a die hard fan of The Flash, so when they announced a speedster ep I was there, even with my waning faith in the show. But that's what actually killed it for me: The fanservice was shallow, a barest wink and nod at DC fans without any depth to the cameos. I wasn't expecting the version of the Flash they featured (Some mix of Young Wally and Impulse era Bart) to be true to the comics...but I expected it to at least FEEL like it was the Flash.

They made the same mistakes, IMO, with Green Arrow, Cyborg, etc. They kinda dressed someone up in the colors of the role, gave them that name, and pretty much ignored the established mythos of those particular characters or how the story was making it less and less credible that this Clark Kent would ever grow up to be Superman.

[Jrecee]

Not that I ever wanted to watch it, but seeing the promo pic of Clark in his first "superman outfit" was so damn laughable.



Oh yeah, brings me back to 2001. It reminds me of that concept art for that failed superman movie where they had him wrapped in black leather.