Smallville - Season 1 (DVD, 2003, 6-Disc Set)

If you love comics and super heroes, like I do, then you will love Smallville: Season One. It literally starts the SUPERMAN franchise from the beginning and takes you through his freshman year in high school in Smallville, Kansas. I think Tom Welling (Clark Kent) plays an excellent character of young Superman (whom most of us have come to cherish from when Christopher Reeves played him).

They do a superb job of introducing and creating the tension between over-curious Lex Luthor (who is saved by Clark in one of the very beginning episodes) as well as the others (ie Lana Lang, Chloe, his parents, and Lionel Luthor (Lois Lane doesn't appear yet). They also do a little set up for furthre villians, which I was not familiar with (nor can i remember what their names should be as they did not have their name from the comics yet).

I did not start watching Smallville until season five, which I found as one of the best shows on TV. I instantly added Season One to my Netflix queue. It was fun to see Clark develop his powers, such as jumping through fields of corn; looking thru the wall into the girl's locker room to throwing the truck of the Lana Lang's boyfriend (his love) on top of three other cars like it was a piece of cake; burning a hole thru a projection screen at school when he gets a little horny over his new very hot teacher; and (my fav) running super speed when he needs to be somewhere else immediately. I will say that the first few episodes I was not overly impressed with as they were a little cheesy and a little too slow for me. However, by about episode 5 it was full blast story and action that hasn't slowed down yet. The overall plot build of his young superman is a perfect gradual crescendo that will suck you in for more and more. So if you liked Batman Begins or Xmen, you'll sure to like Smallville.

I can't wait to start Season Two!