Smallville - The Complete Sixth Season (2006)

Starring: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk

Review:

Best Show on TV, August 19, 2007
By M. Bowman (Portland, OR)
The sixth season of Smallville is entertaining, exciting, and touching, sometimes all at the same time. This show has something for everyone. The lead charactor of Clark Kent, played so ably by Tom Welling, has been cast perfectly. He has grown as an actor over the past six years to the point where one look can bring tears to my eyes. My only gripe about the series is that Clark doesn't use all of his superpowers yet. I want him to fly! Other than that I love the show.


Kryptonian Excellence, August 7, 2007
By Derek Rodgers "BLADE" (Hammond , IND)
This is the constant struggle over good versuses evil and with this being the struggle between Clark and Lex.... Season 6 is the best. If you know the true story of Superman he had the constant struggle of wanting to be normal but having to except the difference of him being more than that and Season 6 embodies all the development of the characters in the Superman chronicles. We are watching Clark battle his father's nemisis ZOD who wanted to rule Kryton and then we are seeing the evil in Lex develop as well as we got a glimpse from the episode combat where the character was somewhat of the character DOOMSDAY who killed superman in the comics. The introduction of PIZARO was excellent and has set the stage for even more magnificent season 7. The love affair of Clark and Lana is great and will end the right way which will lead Lois Lane, hot shot reporter for the daily planet. Do not try to overbuild the hype of the series for it is very hard for the writers to capture the moment in a heroes life but they have done this excellently. I am hoping that when the series ends will see him enter and leave the fortress of solitude where he completes his training and comes back to metropolis when he is 30 to be roving reporter Clark Kent. The series is excellence!!!

Disappointing Season , August 7, 2007
By S. Nemati
I love Smallville, but this season reached some new lows. The Lex and Lana triangle started off strong in season 5, with some well written tension between the characters. This season begins with Lana moving in with Lex: a drastic step considering how long it took her to settle down with Clark. Lana undergoes too many personality changes, going from angry, self confident, and downright manipulative to trapped, scared, and helpless in the course of her relationship with Lex. The character seriously needs some kind of consistency. Also, the 5th season hinted at a new and exciting romance with Chloe... why then did they decide to bring back the old and rotting Lana and Clark relationship again?

Additionally the first half of the season was entirely taken over another superhero. Really? Are the writers so plumb out of ideas that they have to make another show? Green Arrow was a good character, but he was a bit over-used. The other new character is Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy is an affable, fun character, but never seemed close to Chloe's intellectual equal.

The plot itself never seemed that fresh and interesting. Last year, we had a dastardly, manipulative alien who acted as Clark's teacher and mentor. This year we get more cookie cutter villains and a somewhat lame plot about aliens from another dimension. Lex's 33.1 plotline about collecting 'freaks' is only slightly more interesting, but strays further out into the bizarre... a bit too far for my taste.

The few highlights included "Zod" (great season opener), "Nemesis" (finally highlighting Clark and Lex), "Justice" (fun comic book fare with many future superheroes), and "Labyrinth" (Clark's life is a lie). For me, these were the only really solid episodes. I hope Smallville can fix season 7, but honestly I think the show has gotten stale and should come to its end.