It’s a Smallville World!

Well, hair’s er… here’s something I have been intending to write about since starting this blog… Smallville! I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I enjoy watching this show, I like super-hero stuff, I like good stories, and I like things that make me think. Smallville pushes every button and ticks every box, in my opinion. It has moved with the times, yet kept the original ideas of the early days of Superman and his supporting characters. It is now showing in it’s ninth series (or season) in the UK, and the tenth series is the last one, apparently. I think I have seen every episode, but there may be one or two that I have missed. I have just watched the first series again, and there are some episodes there that I don’t remember seeing – although I am sure that I must have. The old memory ain’t what it was… I’ll have to find some meteor rock infused elixir which will boost my powers of recall. I’ll do that later, if I remember – I’ll get back to typing first.

I’m not going to write about my favourite episodes in this post, because there’s too many of them, and I’m a third of the way through already. But, I thought I would post a few words about my favourite characters from the series. There’s actually quite a lot of them too, so maybe I’ll just write about some of them this time around.

And the first has got to be the main man himself. Superboy / Clark Kent / Tom Welling. To start off with, he actually looks like Superboy – well, how I think he should look anyway. The way he played Clark in the early episodes, especially when he discovered a new ability was a pleasure to watch – and sometimes quite comical too. You could feel his embarrassment when his heat vision ability first appeared. And now, in the later episodes he is playing Clark working at the Daily Planet – in Superman times. So the boy has become a man so to speak.

Chloe Sullivan / Allison Mack. In the beginning, she was the girl who loved Clark but he was blissfully unaware. Eventually she was the girl who found out his secret, and covered for him on numerous occasions, until telling him that she knew. She has stood by Clark through some very trying times. She is definitely the kind of friend that I would love to have.

Jonathan and Martha Kent / John Schneider and Annette O’Toole. Clark’s adoptive parents, they found him shortly after his spaceship crashed in a field, in the middle of a meteor shower. They helped him to grow and develop his abilities, and found themselves caught up in some quite unusual situations, as others tried to find out the secret about Clark.

Green Arrow / Oliver Queen / Justin Hartley. Oliver wasn’t in the first few series of Smallville, but is now a great addition to the cast of characters. As well as being the inspiration for my haircut (…), he also looks good in his green leathers. I wasn’t too keen when he was going through his down in the dumps stage, but that was part of the Green Arrow history, and was well played. I think he is more positive now, but I’ve still got some more episodes to watch!

Lois Lane / Erica Durance. Erica plays Lois to perfection! I find some of the Lois storylines to be filled with humour as Lois gets herself embroiled in some kind of sinister plot time and time again. She’s also a battler, and gives her adversaries a run for their money, but she also shows her naive side when with Clark and talking to ‘The Blur’. She is 100% fun to watch!

So six characters briefly mentioned. More characters to be mentioned in my next ‘It’s a Smallville World’ post*. (*Not necessarily my next post). So, for now… TO BE CONTINUED…