is a great show all in all I loved the show a lot more then I thought I would cause as I said before I hate Superman. I'm going to start off with the bad first there are a lot of episodes that feel like they drag down the story as a whole. The series spans ten seasons and as a whole it works well, but it didn't need twenty episodes per season I feel that it was limiting itself by following the formula of twenty plus episode a season. I think they should have play it more like if one season needed thirty episodes give it thirty and if another needs five it should've had five. Some seasons had thin plots that didn't need a whole season but were given a whole season and that is where the drag is felt the most. On the other hand some of the mid seasons felt like they needed more episodes and you feel it was rushed. Second problem is characters like Kara Zor-El and Oliver Queen, receptively played by Laura Vandervoot and Justin Hartley, both characters felt lackluster with their appearances after they were added to the credits, during season seven Kara wasn't there half the time making her feel like a throw away character. I felt that they went low brow with Kara as a character mainly because the first episode I remember her in she was trying to become Smallville's beauty queen can feel the girl power in that episode. And they quickly used the gag of Clark seeing his hot cousin in a bikini, when it would of been more intresting to have Brainiac trick her into thinking the Clark killed Kal-EL starting a three episode story arc. Instead of Clark having to deal with the sexy sibling stereotype it might have been funnier to see a motherly/sisterly Kara trying to coop with not being able to be a part of Clark's upbringing so she gets over protective this would've shown more sides to Kara's character other then following Jor-El's ever word like a girl scout or being really hot. And with Oliver it felt like his character was seen more before he was added to the credits which is sad because the chemistry between Tom Welling and Justin Hartley as their receptive character was awesome. Last bad thing about the show is that Kristin Kreuk who plays Lana Lang is in the show for far too long playing the damsel in distress. 
Next are Clark's friends Pete Ross played by Sam Jones III and Chloe Sullivan played by Allison Mack they are used to convey how and why Clark is so loyal and also why he keep Clark Kent and Superman two different persona's. Pete Ross is basically what would happen if people found out about Clark, its shown whenever Pete is jealous of Clark best example is when Pete finds out and truly sees Clark for the first time so he's freaked out, he doesn't know what to think, and needed time to himself. Smallville also shows how real people would act by having Pete willing to blow the whistle on Clark's secret and even go as far as to used kryptonite on Clark if it suits his needs. Pete Ross is shown as a human torn between light and dark and how that would play out if they ever found out Clark is Superman. Chloe is the light half of humankind that would not only help out Clark but pretend not to know letting him tell them when his is ready. But Chloe's character doesn't stop there for a while she's Clark's voice of reasons never letting him go too far and always watch his back over time she herself becomes jaded. This changes her thinking to the point of her feeling Clark sometimes doesn't go far enough.
The best thing about the series is the character evolution in Clark Kent and Lex Luthor. Michael Rosenbaum gives a mind blowing performance as Lex Luthor, at first we see him starting to obsess over Clark and it seems to come out of nowhere but with Lionel Luthor introduced and his back story unfolding as the series moves along, we see that this obsessive nature was drilled into him since birth by his father and as the show continues his obsession becomes his life. On the on other hand Tom Welling starts off weak feeling more like a supporting character with highs and low throughout the first two seasons but his country boy smile and great chemistry is enough at the beginning. By the beginning of the third season he was Clark for me the acting was much better and it felt like the cast was supporting him instead of the other way around. His Clark Kent was also hard to pull off he had to start off as a kid in high school trying to fit in then as they show continued he had to embrace aspects of the other actresses/actors around him to show that his environment and the people he loves are what's shaping him to become the Man of Steel (not the movie). Really if you think about it this is like The Prince of Egypt two young boy that are like brothers that are driven apart as one (Moses and Clark) is destined for greatness and shaped by his environment and the other (Rameses and Lex) is force down dark a path by an over bearing father figure.
My Rating: Enjoyed the first two times can't wait for the third: 7.9/10
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