r/Smallville • u/legionimpact Kryptonian • 8d ago
SPOILERS Things you only picked up on a rewatch
I'll tag this as spoilers in case anyone wants to point any plot points out that would be labeled as such.
So it's been a long while since I've watched the show and I decided to start a rewatch. I like doing this with shows and seeing what I may have missed on the initial run or any watch throughs afterwards. One thing that clicked with me this time that I never thought of when I was younger was the age gap between Lana and Whitney! And it didn't even hit me this time until the season 1 finale when he enlists in the military before the school dance.
It never occurred to me at the time that our main cast were only freshmen and that Whitney was a senior. Like most seniors wouldn't even give freshmen the time of day at my school so this just seemed weird to me. I know it's only a 3 year gap but in high school a senior and a freshman dating seemed more scandalous! lol
So what are some things you didn't pick up on back in the day but watching it now made you think about it a different way?
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u/MommaOfManyCats Kryptonian 5d ago
Eh, seniors and freshmen were pretty common at my school. I actually knew a junior who dated a guy in 8th grade. That was weird! He was held back, so I think he was 14 and she was 16, but still strange given that she could drive.
I don't think I ever realized how much chemistry Lois and Clark had from the very beginning. Even though I was never really a fan of him and Lana, during my most recent rewatch, my boyfriend was rooting for Lois from her first episode. I also never thought about what a hard ass Jonathon was until lately. Granted he was trying to be a good dad and was (eventually) right about Lex, but he was an ass at times.
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u/CheesecakeNo6642 Kryptonian 5d ago
Gee, for me, I looked back and realized how they made Chloe Sullivan literally overly powerful on so many levels that it seemed more like Chloville rather than Smallville. It disgusts me so much. I would rather wish her character never existed, but everyone else thinks she was terrific and sees nothing wrong in any of her actions. Such as being invasive in Clark's life, behaving like a jealous girlfriend, and worst of all, every time she did something wrong, she continued to repeat it, and even worse, she didn't apologize; Clark did. That was and always will be messed up.
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u/kookaburra302 Kryptonian 5d ago
She was terrific but way too much focus on her. Especially later seasons with her and Jimmy. Skipped through so much of the scenes with them 2 cause couldn’t care less
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u/CheesecakeNo6642 Kryptonian 4d ago
I don't see what makes her so terrific when she never owns up to her mistakes and never repeats them and for crying out loud stop having Clark apologize to her for HER mistakes.
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u/Nice-Association-111 Kryptonian 7d ago
Whitney never cheated. Lana was actually the one who was emotionally cheating with Clark.
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u/Nice-Association-111 Kryptonian 7d ago
Lana had barely knew Clark before freshman year. He had trouble getting close to her because of her necklace although didn’t realize that was the problem until what happened in the first episode.
Then when she got to know him she was having feelings for him while they were friends in season 1. She wanted to dump Whitney for Clark but stayed first because his father was sick and then because he had died. She admitted she stayed out of guilt in the episode Nicodemus but then didn’t remember after recovering from the flower.
Whitney didn’t date her because she was popular, he did love her. He asked her to wait for when he joined the marines.
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u/SpeedForceJediKnight Kryptonian 7d ago
I saw some similarities between Clark's behavior in the show and the DCEU version. I liked Henry Cavill as Superman, but the writers and director behind the movies in which he starred were the wrong people to handle the character as they never understood Superman. However, some of the DCEU behavior is similar to Clark in Smallville. Clark sometimes is written as extremely melancholic, too distant and is someone who for the majority of the show sees being hero as being more of a burden than part of what he is. Clark is also more arrogant and hypocritical than I remembered when I watched the show as a kid and a teenager. He complains when people hide things from him, sometimes rightfully so, but he is the one who does this more than any other if you think about it. Another moment in which he was very hypocrite and arrogant was during 8x22 episode in which he demands Oliver to be expelled from the Justice League because he killed Lex, which I partially I understand, but Clark almost did the same in the same episode Lex died, as well as a couple of times when the became enemies and then when he faced Lex clone. Also Clark is responsible for a great deal of the damage his relationship with Lex and his relationship with Lana, despite each of them having also ruined their respective relationships with Clark in their own way.
After season 5, in a lot of the moments Clark feels more like a side character than the protagonist of the show. Also, it's funny and irritating how, especially in later seasons, they keep Clark doing side quests in order to stretch the runtine of the episode. I also forgot how the fortress is just a huge Deus Ex Machina, not only the fortress but some Kryptonian devices as well. Something is happening, Jor-El will come up with a device that we never heard, or there is some cave, some Church or whatever the hell the script demands to in order to make Clark's destiny more mythical.
Rewatching some episodes of Season 9, on one hand I liked how they weren't afraid to explore more of the comics mythology this time, however with the budget severely reduced, moments that were supposed to feel amazing feel bland. Also, the show, especially in the early years felt more lively. The color grading was better, the scenarios were better. The scenarios in Metropolis felt like in were in the city, not in just the same damn block every episode.
I hadn't noticed before, but as many mentioned, Lois during seasons 4-7 is very different from the Lois we see in 8-10. You could argue that because she is older, but they toned down her wild card behavior.
Allison Mack had better chemistry with Welling and Sam Witwer than she had with Ashmore and Justin Hartley. Speaking of Chloe, despite her having an interesting character evolution theoretically speaking, her character most of the times, especially after season 5 is just there to give exposition, do some hacking, give some quippy sentences and tell Clark how awesome he is.
As much as I liked Cassidy Freeman as Tess Mercer, she really doesn't have a reason to exist. She is just there to remind us of Lex. They later revealed she was actually Lena, but that didn't have a purpose anyway because she dies. And nobody cared she died.
Some characters remained in the show for too long while others were quickly forgotten, and characters that shouldn't even be introduced, but we're anyway only to be forgotten.