smallville

Smallville was a television series which ran from 2001 to 2011, built around a young Clark Kent’s adolescence in a small Midwestern town. While the series takes some liberties with comic book continuity, it was written around the founding principle that Superman is the hero he is because of the way Jonathan and Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole and John Schneider) raised Clark (Tom Welling). The series began with Clark’s entrance into high school, his crush on childhood sweetheart Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) and a “freak of the week” format with Smallville residents mutated by ‘meteor rocks’ that fell to Earth when Clark’s ship landed from Krypton – in short, mirroring the formulas of other teen shows of the time: Dawson’s Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell. After that first season, Smallville found its own identity as Clark developed an ironic and strained friendship with future foe Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) and met young versions of several heroes he would later serve with in the Justice League. He never flew nor wore the signature costume until the final episode, where he symbolically came of age as Superman.

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  by makingsense / on Aug 5, 2011
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• Aaron Sexhart talks Batman, Heath Ledger + some MoS stuff

  
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• Wonder Woman makes her Smallville Debut

  
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• A Wonderful Addition to Smallville Season 11

  
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  While the Smallville TV show included a number of familiar DC faces, the two other members of the Trinity were not seen. But the the spinoff comic Smallville Season 11 has been fixing that. Batman made his debut in the comic last year and now in an upcoming arc, so will Wonder Woman. Given how great Bryan Q. Miller ...
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• Wonder Woman to make her ‘Smallville Season 11′ debut

  
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  After introducing DC Universe staples ranging from Batman and Nightwing to Monsieur Mallah and the Brain to the world of Smallville , writer Bryan Q. Miller is turning his attention to comics’ best-known superheroine. Or at least an interpretation of her. In an interview with MTV Geek , Miller reveals August’s ...
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• Starkville House of El 183 – Haunted and Effigy

  
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  Posting the latest episode of SHoE here due to some tech difficulties at the main site. Here’s what to expect: A little late on this one, but Derek, Bryan, and Steve discuss the third and fourth installments into Smallville season 11 with ‘Haunted’ and ‘Effigy’. Bryan talks in detail about where the ...
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• TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “The Undertaking”

  
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• A Sunday Review

  
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• LOIS & LANA ARE BACK! SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #45

  
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