Movie Freak: A Must See Tv Series

Greetings fellow IGE lovers..

This time we would like to review an American television series that captures everyone’s heart; Smallville. For those of you who have not watched this series; then you should consider reading this article.

Now before we talk about Smallville, there’s a question you need to answer; do you know who Superman is?
A pretty dumb question, yes.. But for those of you who don’t know the answer, Superman is a fictional character in a comic book strip created by Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932. He is the man flying across the Metropolis sky fighting injustice wearing a red cape, blue tights, a big shield with an “S” in it on his chest, and of course the trademark: red-short-tight-“underwear” outside his pants. He is actually an alien from the planet Krypton. Was born as Kal-El, he was put inside a space aircraft by his parents and was rocketed to earth just before Krypton was blown apart. Kal-El’s space craft crashed on earth, near Kansas and was found by a farmer (Jonathan Kent) and his wife (Martha Kent). They couldn’t have a child so they raised Kal-El instead and named him Clark Kent. Clark grew as a regular farm boy but possessed super human abilities which he and his adopted parents kept secret. He worked at the daily planet in the city of Metropolis as a reporter after graduating Kansas High, and that was also the time when he met his one and true love; Lois Lane.

Superman has become very famous across the globe, considered as the leader of all superhero alongside The Batman, and his character was used as a base copy for creating other superhero characters. The success of the comic-strip led to block-buster movies such as “Superman: The Movie” in 1978 and the latest “Superman Returns” in 2006. Even now, Superman continues to exist in the heart of all the superhero’s fans.
That pretty much covers “The Man of Steel”, so now let’s get to the fun part..

Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman. What makes it different than the other story of Superman is that Smallville is trying to explore the life of Clark Kent when he was just a teenager living in Kansas with his adopted parents. Smallville points out Clark having difficulties dealing with a teenager life while having superhuman strength and his relationships are the main plot for the series.

So you won’t find Clark wearing Superman’s suit here, instead he will be wearing normal clothes. He won’t have any abilities in the first episodes except for super strength. Not to worry though, because he will find his other abilities along the way his journey towards maturity.

But what makes it a very entertaining and successful is Clark’s relationship between him and the girl of his dreams; Lana Lang. The writers really go all-out in ensuring the audience will be kept wondering how the story will continue and how Clark’s relationships will evolve in each episode. The story goes like this; Clark has two best friends; Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross and a girl of whom he adores very much; Lana Lang. At first he’s just friends with her because she already has a boyfriend. But he cannot escape his feelings for her and tried hard to get close to her. After a while there’s a turn of event which led to the breakup between Lana and his boyfriend, and the opportunity didn’t come to waste as Clark began to move closer and closer to the girl of his dreams. When they get pretty close, a new problem comes; Clark is struggling whether he tells Lana about his powers or not. The hard part about telling her is that he is afraid that she will not accept him as who he is. Another issue is; Clark learned when he arrived to Earth, his spacecraft created a meteor shower that destroyed most of Smallville and killed so many innocent people including Lana’s parents. He’s afraid that Lana will think Clark is the reason why her beloved parents died.
That was just the initial story of Smallville. After a few seasons, the creators then changed the whole idea of Clark’s life before he becomes Superman to a completely different story of Superman. Perhaps the creators were fascinated by the success of “Batman Begins”, and decided to re-write the life of Superman into a something the audience can relate to with the reality.
So you will see Clark working as a reporter at the Daily Planet, meeting Lois Lane and other DC superhero characters, fighting his arch-enemy Lex Luthor whom in the first few seasons was his friend, but without wearing a silly costume.

Smallville is basically an entertaining television series filled with amazing adventures of Clark fighting evil-doers, romantic stories between him and the female characters in the series, and his struggle with his teenage life. The best thing about watching the series is that you will be captured in the world of Smallville, where you will laugh and cry because of the story.

Smallville is filled with many amazing talents such as Tom Welling (Clark Kent), Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang), the phenomenal Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor), Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan), and many more.
For those who don’t know who Superman is, or those who dislike The Man of Steel, you can rest assure that the series will not let you down at all. You don’t have to be a Superman freak to understand the story, and you don’t have to love Superman to love Smallville. What you have to be is someone who loves watching and hungry for a good movie to fill in your days.

The last thing I know about Smallville is; it teaches us not to look for a hero to come and rescue your day; deep inside of everyone’s heart, we are all heroes. You don’t have to wear costumes or have superhuman abilities to fight injustice; we can do it with our own strength. If you help an old woman to cross the street, or if you help a lost child to find her parents in the mall, or if you help your friends to overcome their tears; you are the hero yourselves!

Overall what we are trying to say is; please guys watch this series! Let yourselves be lost in the wonderful world of Smallville! It will not be a waste, I can promise you that..

And I’ll see you again at our next article..

Good bye all..