Smallville: Season 4 DVD and the future of Smallville

Ah yes the newest box set of Smallville. Yup.

Let's do a background check:

Note- This is just a background on Smallville seasons, not on the box sets.

Smallville Season 1, ruled.

Smallville Season 2, all right.

Smallville Season 3, sucked. Began to get better at the end.

Smallville Season 4, improved upon season 3. Episodes really got better by seasons end, except one.

Okay, I'll do my rants first.

First off, the dvd selection of extras, I'm not going to watch, because they are dumb. What do I mean? No outtakes, no seein Mr. Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) doing his impersonations or wacky screw ups. Come on, it shows actors are human, and get paid way too much. Shoot, put me in episodes and I'll ask for 5K an episode. 20 episodes, nice chunk of change for me. Movies, whole other price range.

All they have are little extras about who Lois Lane is, talking to the original Lois Lane from the George Reeves' shows, Margot Kidder (Superman movies) and Erica Durance. Now I will say Erica Durance is pretty good. Course she's cute too, so I give extra bonus points, but uh, isn't Smallville about, oh say Clark Kent, not Lois Lane? GaDuh!

The shows, still on the rant, were pretty good, some shows better by the end. They had to use different stories, it felt that hey let's just doing a good job writing up a dumb script and then go with it. People will watch. I'm one of them, I'll watch, I like Superman related material. Taking stuff from movies though, dumb. You will see in one of the later episodes, that I believe two, one in particular was taking it from a movie that came out beginning of this year. When I saw the preview for that, I immediatly thought of that movie. I'm not in to those movies, wasn't really into that show either. It was different than the movie, but based on the movie none the less.

Now I'm done with that.

The way they set up the end with going to the Antartic for the Fortress of Solitude, awesome. They actually flew Tom Welling and crew to the Antartic somewhere, and did the shot of him getting ready to throw the precious Kryptonian stone towards what would be the Fortress of Solitude. Superman: The Movie anyone? Great sequence.

I'm pleased with the season that just happened, it got better than what season 3 left with. Great job by some of the writers. To the other writers, come up with some material. DO NOT take stuff from other movies, unless it is DC comic book related. STUPID.

I give credit to the acting, and look forward to season five.

As for the dvd box set. Eh, it's a box set of show I like. That's about it, nothing superduper about it.

Side note- to all that read this that are Smallville lovers who like Lana and Clark to be together. If you are Superman fans as well, you know that it will be Lois and Clark. To the people that only know Smallville- Clark ends up with Lois, Lana will be his best friend, know his secret and will keep it a secret forever.

Which by the way, Smallville writers need to get a clue on that. I mean look at the Death and Life of Superman comics, it was stated that Lana Lang knows his secret, even that the first season of the animated series of Superman gave Lana Lang the truth of Clark Kent, and they were in high school, which means, they screwed that up in Smallville.

I know Smallville is supposed to be an original take on Clark Kent and his Smallville life, but seriously, it's the DC comic world, use the info that is in it. The Clark Kent/Lex Luthor thing, is fine with me, I don't mind that, but by series, not season, but series end, Lex Luthor has to have a memory something or other done to him, to forget who Clark is, because Lex Luthor didn't know Clark Kent until he came to Metropolis. Smallville however has a good detail on Lex Luthor now becoming who he is intended to be, and getting ready for how Clark will become.

I just want to know when Martha Kent will make the suit. It needs to be done. I know they have a rule on it, but they can make the suit by series end. Shoot they said that Clark Kent wouldn't fly, they did it first episode of season 4, but they said it was Kal-El who flew. Why not just have the blasted S show up for a costume, something.

Graphics are great. Just use it for good, don't do stupid stuff for season five, that's all I care about. Make season five the best yet. From what I've heard, there are going to be seven seasons, as long as the show is doing well. If not, let season five be the best season ever.

These are just my opinions, would love to know what people think and have to say on the future of Smallville.