{"id":2778,"date":"2008-09-05T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2008-09-05T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:49:41","slug":"smallville-the-complete-seventh-season-2007-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/smallville-the-complete-seventh-season-2007-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season (2007) (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It used to be a simple case of \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t watch it.\u201d Hell, if I don\u2019t like a show, I just don\u2019t watch it, but hear me out. With \u201cSmallville\u201d it\u2019s different. At one time it used to be an excellent show, one that promised to be all about Clark Kent and his transformation in to Superman. Then somewhere on the fourth season, it was sold down the river and this show about Clark became a show about everyone else but Clark. I\u2019m a hardcore true to the blood Superman fan and it\u2019s not as easy as \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t watch it.\u201d I still sit and endure \u201cSmallville\u201d to this day because I pray and hope that it will return to its former glory of being about something.<\/p>\n

Something big. I can\u2019t accept that it\u2019s an Elseworld\u2019s tale. I can\u2019t admit that it\u2019s a good show, either. It\u2019s awful and what was once an experience about watching Clark become Superman is now an endurance test about a similar character named Clark Kent who will become something someday. Superman? Doubtful. This continuity doesn\u2019t belong to Superman. Hell, this continuity doesn\u2019t even belong to Jimmy and Lois Lane anymore. Season Seven didn\u2019t fill me with hope either. It\u2019s a pretty terrible bit of pussyfooting that further drags its heels on turning Clark in to Superman with the introduction of Supergirl, the one and only vapid rip off who isn\u2019t any better. She\u2019s further evolved beyond Clark Kent here and that doesn\u2019t make matters better.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s annoying, obnoxious, and serves no purpose but to remind viewers what Clark isn\u2019t, and inspire resentment. Then when we have the chance to see Clark do something like, say, fly in episode \u201cDescent,\u201d Clark openly refuses not to at the whims of Lana\u2019s health. Even in spite of genuinely good episodes like \u201cGemini\u201d which sported sch a great surprise ending, we\u2019re fed three more episodes like \u201cCanary,\u201d in which Black Canary is given a drastic overhaul to look like a clash between a Butch Lesbian dressed as a KISS Cosplayer; and \u201cHero\u201d where Pete returns as a stretching superhero after eating\u2026 Kryptonite\u2026 gum. \u201cSmallville\u201d Season 7 won\u2019t convince hardcore Super buffs to follow along with its storyline. As a Superman fan, \u201cSmallville\u201d holds no intrinsic value, but as someone holding out hope, I still have to see if it gets better. There\u2019s always denial.<\/p>\n

As for the DVD, we\u2019re given some great extras, regardless of what you think of the series. The features are more Superman than the series to be honest. \u201cSupergirl: Last Girl of Krypton\u201d is a seventeen minute fluff piece about Smallville\u2019s Supergirl that barely focuses on her origins in the comics. It\u2019s basically an admittance that she was just a way to market off of the potential girl comic book readers. It\u2019s good if pretty damn sexist. There\u2019s also the excellent \u201cJimmy on Jimmy\u201d where quasi-Jimmy Aaron Ashmore interviews almost every other Jimmy in Superman cinema who ever lived including Marc McClure, Jack Larson and Sam Huntington! It\u2019s brilliance, period!<\/p>\n

The rapport between the actors is light and funny, and there\u2019s great interplay between this brother hood of men who have played Olsen. \u201cSmallville Legends: Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton\u201d is a series of mini-webisodes chronicling the rise of Kara as Supergirl. The animation is sub-par and the voice work is average; Supergirl fans will love it more than anyone. And finally there\u2019s \u201cSmallville: Visions\u201d a DVD Comic book with a mini-story branching off the series. All around it\u2019s a great boat of extras for fans. This is a case where the extras are infinitely better than the actual series, and in spite of hating the show as a Superman buff, I’ll keep the set closely because of the extras that celebrate being a fan of the Man of Steel. It’s the Sloth of my Superman collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It used to be a simple case of \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t watch it.\u201d Hell, if I don\u2019t like a show, I just don\u2019t watch it, but hear me out. With \u201cSmallville\u201d it\u2019s different. At one time it used to be an excellent show, one that promised to be all about Clark Kent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,71,268,302,349,874,906,1007],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-dc-comics","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}