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Smallville: 1. 5 Things That Make No Sense. We have a lot of love for Smallville, the Superman prequel series that ran for 1. And we appreciate its optimism and sense of hope even more now that the DC Extended Universe has brought us a version of the Man of Steel who is, somehow, even mopier and more violent than Batman. But our relationship with the TV show is a complicated one. We love, for example, that it contains arguably the best versions of both Lex Luthor and Lois Lane that have ever appeared on a screen. But we’re less fans of its teen- angst- dripping theme song, overly complicated narrative decisions, and that one episode that was just a bloodless, even dumber version of the Saw movies. We can forgive most of that, however, because it’s still a decent show that crams in more comic book characters, nods, and references than the main hall of Comic Con.
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But that’s not to say we understand all of it. Smallville has some elements — and some entire episodes — that we don’t understand even after the series wrapped up six years ago. And we’re not just talking about that part in the epilogue when Lex becomes President in 2. Sure, that seems weird, but it’s hardly on the level of beings from distant worlds who, coincidentally, look exactly like humans. Here are 1. 5 things that still have us puzzled about Smallville, even after all these years. Note that we’re sticking to the show and not the Season 1. Prequel or reboot?
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Our main issue with Smallville is that we’re not sure if it’s a prequel to the movies from directors Richard Donner and Bryan Singer or if it’s a reboot of the entire Superman mythology. The best argument for the latter case is simply that it takes place in modern day instead of the ‘6. Donner’s original Superman film. A reboot reading also explains why Clark meets most of his most iconic villains before he’s even become Superman. But it also draws heavily from what we’ve already seen.
Clark’s polar Fortress of Solitude, for example, looks identical to the ones we see in both the ‘7. Superman Returns.
And John Williams’ iconic theme plays in the final scene of Smallville when Clark goes off to take care of a bomb. We were happy to hear it; don’t get us wrong.
But it does confuse things a bit. Kryptonite powers. Obviously, young Superman is going to need some people to fight, or the whole show would be about his relationship with Lana Lang. And we’re pretty sure it wouldn’t have lasted 1. We’re just not sure how this part of Smallville works. Rather than going immediately to the decades’ worth of established Superman villains, Smallville fills its first few seasons with original baddies who all have one thing in common: exposure to Kryptonite (which everyone annoyingly calls “meteor rock” until they learn what Krypton was).
These “meteor freaks” only have the source of their powers in common, however, because it affects them all in completely different ways. Ian Randall up there can make a copy of himself. Amy Adams’ character loses weight but gains an insatiable hunger.
Clark’s friend Chloe can bring people back from the dead. It all has to do with the context through which they’re exposed, but we don’t know how the space rocks know that when they’re doling out the abilities.
The vampire sorority. While we’re on the subject of weird Kryptonite powers …The fifth season episode “Thirst” is one of the worst of the series, not the least reason being that it has Clark going up against a sorority full of vampires. They’re the result of a virus that comes from Kryptonite- infused bats and which grants its host speed and strength along with pointy teeth, sensitivity to light, and the eponymous thirst, which is a response to the super- rabies ravaging their red blood cells. Fingers crossed that that’s the dumbest sentence you’ll have to read today.)The leader of the college bloodsuckers is Buffy Sanders, who is a clear reference to writer- director Joss Whedon’s famous vampire slayer. And that’s obvious and stupid, but it’s still smarter than the rest of the episode or the disease at the center of it. Clearly, the writers worked backwards from “Let’s make Clark fight vampires,” and this is what happened. Clark’s custom House of El jacket.
OK, let’s talk fashion. Clark wears a variety of costumes when he’s out secretly fighting crime before he dons his familiar uniform. He starts out in just whatever he’s wearing before he graduates to a Matrix- style getup including a black leather trench coat and a custom T- shirt with the familiar S shield of the House of El painted on it. It was … “edgy.”In later seasons, he graduates to our favorite non- Superman costume, a red leather jacket with the shield in relief on the chest. It looks really cool. Unfortunately, we have no idea where it came from. The two obvious options are that Clark made it himself, or his mother made it for him (she makes the iconic suit, in fact).
We never find out for sure, though, because he just starts wearing it in Season 1. By that point, Martha Kent is a Senator and barely appears on the show anymore, and we honestly don’t know if Clark is talented enough for that level of leather working. A tale of two Zods. Our confusion over Kryptonian villain Zod stems from our general befuddlement over the reboot- vs- prequel question, and that’s even before we get to the part where Smallville contains two versions of the character. Zod appears in various forms throughout Smallville. The original, General Zod, is the one that the Kryptonians imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for treason. He first appears in a spirit form that possesses Lex Luthor and tries to take over the world.
But Clark banishes him again. Then his younger clone, Major Zod, shows up with many of the same aspirations.
He, too, ends up in the Zone where he fuses with the wraith of his older original and becomes a combination of both. This one remains in the Phantom Zone, neatly setting up the events of Superman II, but that may just be a coincidence.
Selective Kryptonite shielding. Kryptonite is the radioactive remnants of Clark’s home planet, and the green variety weakens and will eventually kill him. Also, the red version removes his inhibitions and teaches young viewers about the dangers of drug abuse in the most heavy- handed way possible.
Exposure to the green stuff makes Clark immediately ill. One of Smallville’s nicest touches is that his awkwardness around high- school crush Lana Lang comes from his unwitting reaction to the chunk of the stuff she always wears around her neck.
But throughout the series, the stuff behaves unpredictably. Ostensibly, the Clark- killing rays should be able to hurt him whether he can see it or not, unless it’s behind lead. But sometimes he finds some in a drawer, or someone pulls a chunk out from behind their back, or Kryptonite sneaks up on him some other way that makes no sense. It never affects him until he actually sees it, which suggests that he could make himself immune just by closing his eyes or turning around. What happened to Doomsday? Smallville’s (slightly lame) version of Superman- killer Doomsday is a genetic hodgepodge containing elements of Zod, his wife Faora, and all of Krypton’s most dangerous monsters.
He’s also a shapeshifter who spends most of his time as humble, handsome paramedic Davis Bloome. Chloe eventually separates the two halves using Black Kryptonite, and Clark fights the monster- y part. He slams Doomsday into a geothermal plant — which simultaneously explodes for maximum awesomeness.