What makes "Bride" the standout episode of season 8 is the creative methods the filmmakers deployed to film around their somewhat goofy monster, in the vein of films like Jaws and Cloverfield. Unfortunately, they didn't really succeed in making Doomsday look cool on screen - but to be fair, neither did Zack Snyder in Batman v Superman eight years later. You have to give Smallville season 8 credit for its ambitious attempt to bring Doomsday (the monstrous creature most famous for killing Superman in 1992's classic Death of Superman comic storyline) into its semi-realistic Clark Kent show. "Leech" may be an early episode but it showed how deep Smallville could (and would) get. And the honest and vulnerable conversation Clark has with Jonathan about whether or not his parents were ever scared of his abilities when he was a child is extremely tragic because it's clear that this has been a deep-seated insecurity of Clark's for a long time. But on the opposite end, his joy while losing a basketball game even though he tried his hardest is so pure. Even a simple nosebleed makes Clark so scared that you're reminded of how young and sheltered he still is at this point. Tom Welling plays up Clark's shock and absolute terror to such heartbreaking heights. Eric accidentally steals Clark's powers on a school field trip (for a season 1 episode, that lightning strike scene looks so dope), and Clark is forced to feel, for the first time in his life, what it's like for humans to get hurt.
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The first Ashmore twin sighting on Smallville (Shawn Ashmore played Eric Summers before his brother Aaron Ashmore became a series regular in the later seasons) may not seem like a major episode on its surface, but it's always stood out to me because it's the first time we see Clark experience real pain. Smallville's glacial but steady pace towards super-suits and heroes over the course of 10 seasons paved the way for Arrow and the rest of the CW's shared superhero universe, which picked up the torch and ran with it a year after Smallville ended in 2011. That being said, the show started to embrace the canon more and more as it progressed, especially with the introductions of Lois Lane ( Erica Durance) in season 4, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow ( Justin Hartley) in season 6, and many members of the Justice League. For example, the show's second and third seasons tied Clark's Kryptonian origins to the Kawatche caves found in Smallville, Mister Mxyzptlk wore all Black instead of his colorful impish attire, and Brainiac (James Marsters) was given a very human-like appearance. Guided by its notorious "no flights, no tights" rule, Smallville took a very slow approach to the Man of Steel's mythology, often searching for the most grounded and least ridiculous take on some of the comic's weirder material. Furthermore, making Lex and Clark friends was one of the show's best decisions, because it allowed Smallville to not only track the birth of a hero, but also the birth of a villain, and Rosenbaum remains the best live-action portrayal of the evil businessman. At his parents Jonathan ( John Schneider) and Martha Kent's ( Annette O'Toole) urging, he had to keep his abilities secret from those closest to him, including his school buddies Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (the recently-incarcerated Allison Mack), love interest Lana Lang ( Kristin Kreuk), and rich best friend Lex Luthor ( Michael Rosenbaum) - all of whom likely had severe brain injuries given how often scripts called for them to be knocked out in the interest of protecting the drama-producing engine of Clark's secret. Kryptonite, that followed him to Earth in a devastating meteor shower - and other catastrophes in the titular anad picturesque small Kansas town.
people who gained powers from green meteor rocks, a.k.a.
In its early seasons, the show followed a teenage Clark Kent (the perfectly cast Tom Welling) as he struggled to understand his powers and background while saving people from meteor freaks - a.k.a. Premiering 20 years ago today and created by Alfred Gough and Mark Millar, Smallville (initially) mixed 7th Heaven's family-centric storytelling with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's monster-as-high school metaphors structure to retell Superman's origin story, and broke ratings records when it debuted on the WB.
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