Mum's Monday: Smallville

This serial is a spin off from the ‘Superman’ story, but this is the back story of Clark Kent (Tom Welling) being sent to earth to escape his home planet, which is being destroyed. Sadly, when he reaches earth, his arrival causes a meteor shower, and tragedy strikes.

Having being adopted as a little boy by a farmer and his wife, Jonathan (John Schneider) and Martha (Annette O’Toole) Kent, with the help of Lionel Luthor (John Clover), we now see Clark, having grown up and starting high school. This is where the story really gets going and shows all the trials of being in a high school environment but also trying to keep your superpowers a secret and also your one disadvantage, as in Kryptonite. 

We see that Clark and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) were never going to work, because Clark felt guilty of the tragedy that happened at the beginning, but how much blame should, if any Clark take for what happened? I can see enough so as to not tell Lana the truth. 

It seems Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) was only trying to help people but was misguided by not knowing the whole truth. His experiments always went wrong and Clark was left to pick up the pieces. Then Clark trying to tell Lex to leave well alone on only half the information. It seems Lex didn’t stand a chance and Clark was self-inflicting ‘Banging his head against a brick wall’.

This concept made me question ‘Could Clark really be a good friend, however, when he did let his good friend Pete Ross (Sam Jones the 3^rd) know his secret, the burden became too much for Pete.

It is sad to see Clark couldn’t play in the Football team. The compulsory blood tests for drug enhancements would reveal much more than would be expected. That’s even if they could get the needle in his arm to take the blood in the first place.

As the series move on we see the characters leave school and as said Clark and Lana were never going to work. Lana has now moved on and is now with Lex (Much to everyone’s surprise and they are concerned) who had a thing for her for a while. I hoped this would work out but sadly true to Lex’s nature of messing a good thing up they split up. Using a, not strictly above board obtained divorce settlement, Lana sets up a surveillance room and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) Lana’s and Clark’s friend from school gets involved. And this is where the story moves on further into the darker nature to be continued until Clark becomes the ‘Superman’ we all know is portrayed today.

In amongst all this darkness that has crept up quickly on the series there is a bit of light-heartedness in the episode where it is Clark and Lois Lane’s (Erica Durance) ‘Bachelor and Bachelorette party, which turned out to be another couples one as well, as we see Chloe and Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley) start married life in an unconventional way and after a bit of confusion, which would have taken some explaining.

This serial brings a whole new meaning to a ‘Coming of age’ series and I prefer the first few series to the last few. It seemed rushed as in they were running out of episodes and they had to make Clark turn from a farmer’s son to ‘Superman’ in the episodes they had left. It is a shame that they had to destroy The Talon and other links to him growing up in Smallville in the process it is like they wanted to wipe out all of his past.

It was good to see it all come together at the end and ‘Superman’ is now ready to save the world, as we know of him today.