Smallville

Finally, Smallville gets galore action! On the episode entitled “Combat,” a illfamed fighter grace the storylines of the standard sci-fi show and he comes in the form of a Phantom Zoner named “Titan,” who is played by the wrestling veteran Kane.

On the said episode of Smallville, Kane plays a star of a mystery fight club that puts it is death battles on the Internet, who is bound to face Clark Kent in an action packed battle that pushes the hero to the limit.

Glen Thomas Jacobs, also known as Kane, was born on April 26, 1967 in Madrid, Spain. He studied at Quincy College and attended Northeast Missouri State University on a basketball scholarship. His success in basketball led to his enlistment in the Truman State University as a record holder for the most eminent field goal part for a single season. In spite of his accomplishments, he chose to engage in another sport, which is football.

Eventually, he penetrated the world of wrestling in 1992. Initially, he was known as Angus King and then swapped to Unabomb, appearing in respective wrestling federations and associations. After a good deal of name and effigy alterations, he reinvented himself as “Kane”, the half-brother of the notorious “The Undertaker”.

As for his Smallville experience, Kane deemed it as very pleasurable. The nature of his reputation on the show without any delay prompted him to partake on Smallville since it was a reputation he may surely discern himself with.

In an consultation with Wizard Magazine, he dished out his sentiments in regards to his delightful participation on the show. In fact, if Smallville offers him another appearance, he says that he would gladly do it again, given his good working kinship with actors Tom Welling and Erica Durance. And altho he enjoyed his stint while acting on television, he admits that he is not yet ready to leave the wrestling arena, which brought him to stardom.

Smallville

After a meteor shower bursts from the heavens, raining destruction on the unsuspecting citizens of Smallville, years pass, and the healing routine leaves the town’s inhabitants with scars and secrets. From the ashes of tragedy, a frequent yet awkward teen attempts to decipher the meaning of his life and his beclouded past. As he struggles with the transition from boyhood to adulthood, Clark finds that his strength and strange abilities set him uncomfortably detached from his peers.

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70 of 82 humans found the following review helpful.
Smallville Season 10, out on top
By Nicholas Dobrilla
I’ve been observing Smallville since it’s premier on October 16th 2001. Lets be honorable folks, this series started out so strong, it just wasn’t in truth Superman like… in the beginning. That doesn’t make it bad tho, it all comes together in due time. Character development on this show has been superior to most other shows. I put the characterization level to Joss Whedon’s Buffy: Anya and Cordelia (through Angel) who have been 2 of the most fleshed out characters in my television looking at history. Each reputation on this show has his or her own place, and their development is top notch. The show in the end formulates into what it will become in season 4 and the introduction of Lois Lane. Smokin hot Erica Durance!!!! Her alchemy with Tom Welling has been undeniable since she basi found him in that field. Unfortunately (And fortunately) Season 7 brought with regards to the end of creators Al Gough and Miles Millar’s run on the series! This is bad, as they are fantastic with what they do, and how they kept the pace of the show. Also bad because season 8 Smallville is by far the weakest season underneath the Smallville belt. It felt pushed, the acting was slippery and the plot had more holes than a 5lb chunk of Swiss Cheese… The Doomsday fight alone was cringe-worthy sufficient to almost destruct the entire show, that is until season 9 kicks off… Which is when all the GOOD starts happening in spite of Gough and Millar’s exit. Once the new manufacturers (maybe new writers?) found their groove, they grooved all the way to the bank…. Season 9 exploded into my bestloved season of the show. With so a good deal of guest stars and new characters… Season 9 looked to be the best, and then….. SEASON 10 has been blowing my mind. The progression that we’ve all been waiting for has in the long run arrived… The show has hit it’s stride, and it’s so fantastically ominous (not to say I don’t understand) that with S10, we will be rid of Smallville, and that my friends is a melancholy moment, but I’m sure glad they are going out with a bang! If you haven’t seen any Season 10 yet… just you wait, it’s tops! As a series… it’s one of my all time favorites along with Buffy, Angel, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. I find it hard to put these 5 shows in any kind of order, they are all fantastic!

19 of 20 humans found the following review helpful.
Smallville as a Whole – 5 Stars
By sarajade
I’m not an individual that knows the Superman mythos. I’m not intimate with all the DC Comics characters. I did watch a couple of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies as a child and so I know the basi principles of Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor, but other than that…I know nothing. And I’m glad because I think this is what makes it more comfortable for me to take pleasure in ALL of Smallville. I had no expected values and thence I was not disappointed in the overall story of Smallville. The story that I was always fascinated in was, of course, Clark Kent. Let’s face it…this story is in regards to him and how he deals with life and with his destiny. That’s it…and to see him struggle with it all was freshening to see, at least to me. He wasn’t this perfective being that knew where his place in “history” was…he had to figure it out which is where all the drama of Smallville began…Clark “dealing” with life…which included over protective parents, a introductory love (Lana Lang) who could never rather trust him, a friend (Lex Luthor) that became a life long enemy, a sidekick (Chloe) that was the best friend he could have ever had but who also lost a little bit of faith in him, a fellow superhero (Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow) that tested his morality and always fell short, and last but not least…my favorite…Lois Lane…the unlikeliest person for him to fall in love with but who believed in him…or in Smallville storyland…the Blur…more than any individual else did…even Chloe. That’s why in this Smallville version, Clark tells Lois…you were always the one that I needed. Her finish trust in what he represented is what he necessitated in this story to meet his destiny. This may not be IAW the Superman mythos, but it’s darn good storytelling and I have loved each minute of it. I will be sad to see the series end because I could watch Lois and Clark played by Erica Durance and Tom Welling, banter back and forth and save the world for many, a lot of more years to come. There are few series in TV land today that match the storytelling of this series. Thank you Smallville for numerous a heap of great stories that I will proceed to watch over and over again.

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
FIVE STARS FOR SUPERMAN … zero for writers that tried to hijack his 73 year legacy
By freelancer26
DVD Features:
1. Featurette on making of the 200th episode “Homecoming”

Episode List:
1) LAZARUS: GRADE A- …Lois saves Clark from brink of death – remindful of the “Death of Superman” comic book cover.
2) SHIELD: A- …Clark begins to reembrace his important colors thanks to Lois’ rival, Cat Grant who arrives at the Daily Planet while she’s in Egypt befriending Hawkman -minus the beard, handsome Michael Shanks.
3) SUPERGIRL: A- …Clark and Kara have a family reunion. Green Arrow reveals his identity not caring that his former love almost got killed protecting him.
4) HOMECOMING: A++ …The scenes taking place in the future and the barn scene make this episode one of the very best. However, Oliver’s speech was moronic and hypocritical given that he’s the one who made the conscious decision to “step out of the shadows.”
5) ISIS: A …The last fifteen minutes are DIAMOND-STUDDED GLORIOUS!!
6) HARVEST: A+ …From start out to finish, this episode might have been taken right out of “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” – only much, much sexier and with an edge.
7) AMBUSH: A+ …General Sam Lane played by the superb Michael Ironside arrives for Thanksgiving dinner. His idea for the Vigilante Registration Agency is actually what the Justice League will become in the future when Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman take over it is leadership. The divergence here is that Darkseid has agitated anti-hero sentiment permitting those who would enforce it to use it as a weapon.
ABANDONED: A- …Tess Mercer aka Lutessa Lena Luthor learns when it comes to her past. Lois and Clark’s parents deliver touching messages through video recordings.
9) PATRIOT: A …Directed by Tom Welling, Aquaman and wife Mera show Clark and Lois the vantage of permitting your best girl to be your best ally. General Slade becomes Deathstroke after a run-in with the Justice League.
10) LUTHOR: A- …Welling in one of his most electrifying performances both as Kent and Luthor.
11) ICARUS: A+ …Hawkman and Deathstroke’s fight scene is the finest choreographed. In the last scene, everyone involved is at their most finelooking – particularly Erica Durance who looks like Wonder Woman and Welling who looks like THE Superman.
12) COLLATERAL: C …Written by Jordan Hawley -it’s hard to believe this is the same person who wrote the masterwork that is The Rain Scene in last season’s “Rabid.” He ridiculously glorified chloe at everyone’s expense and made Lois sound stupid taking into account that when she bashed the “Tea Party” she was bashing her own father. The only things worth looking at here were Black Canary, the virtual flight scene and Clark and Lois’ primary and last scenes together. Everything else was trash.
13) BEACON: D …Perry “Bulldog” White a she-man hippie? Ha! Yeah, right. With his classic choleric personality, he’d crash a war as an embedded journalist getting the stories basi hand and not accepting anyone’s spun on a story except his own. Hippies were not rebels. They were lazy, horny, dope-addicted cowards who started the “make love not war” hypocrisy just to refrain from the draft. Notice they didn’t have a problem sending others to war when they got into power (Bill Clinton, anyone?). They glorify JFK yet they conveniently forget that he’s the one who got us involved in the Vietnam War in the firstborn place. Ghandi, MLK Jr., the American revolutionists of the 18th century- they were authenti and admirable rebels. This makes two lousy sequences in a row that Lois is written out of character. She is not an unperceptive insecure feminazi. Lois Lane has been a strong, intelligent, confident, independent yet at her core (like Superman) passionate, loving, iconic gentlewoman for over seven decades so her scene with Martha Kent made no sense at all peculiarly since they’ve known each other for years and Lois is the reason Martha’s even in politics. Their fundamental interaction in “Hostage” was so much more natural. Welling’s distraction for his other project genuinely showed in this episode. At least the fan videos were nice. I liked the one sent in by the soldier. Other than that, this wasn’t worth the time.
14) MASQUERADE: A- …Ah, what a breath of fresh air it was to see MY Lois again after two miserable episodes. And Mr.Kent? Sexy, sexy, SEXY! It was so GOOD to see/hear their classic, hilarious, pure gold banter again! Downside: Episodes 12-15 shaped up to be chloe’s Arc of Suck. At least this time, the iconic duo weren’t completely sidelined.
15) FORTUNE: B- …Bursts of hilarity(courtesy of Emil-Elvis/Tess duet,drunken Clark,Oliver in drag)mixed with the Smallville writers’ pathetic and very desperate try to cannonize themselves through their creation:chloe sullivan. They had her straightout announce herself the “king maker” in being THE ONE who inspires Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to greatness? I’d get crazy at this if it wasn’t so sad and ridiculous. Writers who can’t exercise objectivity when the outcome of the story is on the line have no business being producers. Lois/Clark’s eventual wedding was a payoff for stomaching all the shams: Lex/lana, chloe and the two cannon characters she had no business messing with. Because of her one ended up dead, the other with a dark mark and away from his destined true love. Seriously, if I were a family fellow member of the creators of “the big 3″ I’d sue them for disrespecting 7 decades of hard work by thousands of artists and craftsmen and the millions of fans who supported them.
16) SCION: C- …Besides giving Lionel a well deserved all around smack-down, there wasn’t a point here that piqued interest. His re-introduction in “Luthor” was tantalizing but it turned out to be a DUD – as did the “Lex clone.”
17) KENT: B+ …Where “Luthor” was tightly executed focusing on the family as a whole, “Kent” was lopsided in that the focus was the Kent Farm, not the family itself. It also concentered too much on the Luthors again.
18) BOOSTER: A++ …BEST episode of the season and the series. If this show were to have any kind of spin-off, I’d want it to be just like this. Written by DC Comics executive Geoff Johns and directed by executive producer/star Tom Welling, this is the only episode where only two regular cast members (Welling and Durance) appear. Handsome Eric Martsolf was born to play Booster Gold. Welling ends his Smallville directing career with IMPRESSIVE ECSTATIC SUPERMANLY FLAIR!
19) DOMINION: B …Cheesy and predictable. The “gladiator” fight scenes were very funny, though – they looked like skinny spoofs of Conan the barbarian in slow motion. But at least it did (clumsily) move the story along and it was nice to see Callum Blue again albeit, clearly, not his best performance.
20) PROPHECY: B+ …The “crazy quilt” of the season. Very nice moments sewn into a tapestry of visually rich scenes framed in stunning fashion. But, there was much, too, too much jammed into one single episode without proper exploration leaving one dissatisfied. Case in point:Kara’s (Laura Vandervoort’s) departure. It was an ill-conceived stunt even when DC permitted it in Justice League Unlimited. Perhaps, it was no accident that Season 9 (despite it is plotholes)remained the greatest, most tightly executed season in the series’ entire ten-year run AND it was likewise the one and ONLY season when Welling was to the full or entire extent engaged as star/producer the entire year (come season 10, his constructing time was cut in half due to his “Glee knock-off” dramedy). Absent Welling’s unseparated attention to detail, 10 fell prey to the typical pitfalls of seasons 1-8: strong firstborn half (and 10 did have the firmest ever) followed by a second half full of anti-climactic non-resolutions, strong story lines shamefully rushed, glossed over while weak and Superman-irreleveant arcs were wasted over assorted episodes.
21) (SUPERMAN)FINALE PART 1: A++ …The last episode filmed (as Part 2 was filmed third to last). It explains why most of the cast members seemed so genuinely aroused – in the barn, the door scene and then the wedding. They were tenderly staged and photographed – simple, elegant… beautiful.
22) (SUPERMAN)FINALE PART 2: A++ …For once, Ausiello was faulty and they stuck with “finale” as the official title. Just as well. For me, it confirms that the writers were never mesmerized in telling Superman stories, only in using his fame to publicize their show. Welling punked out. He did not wear the suit. The Fortress sequence was thrilling but after that, it was just close-ups of his face and an all CGI caricature. Still, the final 2 and 1/2 minutes were… PERFECT. Or, as perfective as this show ever got.

I’ll do not forget it as “the Superman show that wasn’t with regards to Superman.” Thanks to sure parts though, Smallville’s decathlon kept glances of authenti cinematic greatness. All in all, it was an oftentimes interesting, at times too far-fetched and needlessly melodramatic but because of it is source origin, always hopeful decade – not because we want/need to believe in heroes but because there ARE heroes no matter of wether we believe in them or not. And, when these heroes’ deeds at long last touch our lives, they inspire us to manufacture new ones and become them ourselves. Writers come and go but Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s original Superman resourcefulness shines as bright as always. 73 years and counting…he still stands for Truth, Justice and the American Way. Thank God for that.

TOP 25 EPISODES IN TEN YEARS:
1.BOOSTER(10th season)… 2.HOMECOMING(10th)… 3.(SUPERMAN)FINALE parts 1 and 2(10th)… 4.APOCALYPSE(7th)… 5.SALVATION(9th)… 6.IDOL(9th)… 7.RABID(9th)… 8.CROSSFIRE(9th)… 9.AMBUSH(10th)… 10.ICARUS(10th)… 11.HARVEST(10th)… 12.LEGENDS(9th)… 13.PANDORA(9th)… 14.EXPOSED(5th)… 15.STILETTO(8th)… 16.(SMALLVILLE)PILOT(1st)… 17.CRUSADE(4th)… 18.GONE(4th)… 19.DEVOTED(4th)… 20.COMMITTED(8th)… 21.AQUA(5th)… 22.JUSTICE(6th)… 23.KRYPTO(4th)… 24.FACADE(4th)… 25.NOIR(6th)

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