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List Price: $119.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 94314
Released: May 18, 2004 |
| Our Price: $58.88 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After a meteor shower bursts from the heavens, raining destruction on the unsuspecting citizens of Smallville, years pass, and the healing process leaves the town's inhabitants with scars and secrets. From the ashes of tragedy, a popular yet awkward teen attempts to decipher the meaning of his life and his clouded past. As he struggles with the transition from boyhood to adulthood, Clark finds that his strength and strange abilities set him uncomfortably apart from his peers.
Description of Smallville - The Complete First Two Seasons (2-Pack):
The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in this imaginative and engaging television series from the WB Network, and series fans can celebrate the ratings success of Smallville with a DVD set that offers a chance to revisit the origins of the characters and their numerous plotlines, as well as view deleted scenes and other bonus features. The premise of Smallville--Superman as a teenager--takes up just a few pages in Superman's very first comic book appearance, but series producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar flesh out that period by portraying young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) not as the noble Superman-in-waiting, but as an average teen with some not-so-ordinary supernatural powers, including incredible strength and heat vision. Clark's desire to fit in with his peers and make sense of his extraordinary abilities ground him in very realistic and identifiable terms for the series' primarily under-25 audience, as does his appealing and tentative romance with Kristen Kreuk as Clark's dreamgirl Lana Lang. But Smallville also strikes gold when it takes a turn towards more comic book territory, as evidenced by the parade of shape-shifting killers and other outlandish antagonists (many generated, in one of the series' most ingenious notions, by the same devastating meteor shower that brought the infant Clark to Earth) that Clark must harness his powers to face and defeat. Gough and Millar, along with their capable cast (which includes Michael Rosenbaum as a young and already bald-pated Lex Luthor, and Annette O'Toole and John Schneider as the Kents) manage to pull off the precarious high-wire act of combining science fiction with coming-of-age drama to create this highly watchable program. Smallville: The Complete First Season offers a very complete and attractive DVD package that is rounded out by some highly desirable extras for longtime series fans.
For many fans, the series truly hit its stride in its second season, when it shifted focus from traditional comic book conflicts to one of self-discovery for its hero, a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Whereas season 1 focused on Clark using his powers to combat a host of menaces, season 2 delved into Clark's past and the extent of his super powers, most notably in the back-to-back "Heat," in which he discovers his heat vision, and "Red," in which red kryptonite in the high school class rings uncorks Clark's less-than-upstanding side. Other plot developments from the season that pull the series in interesting directions include the arrival of Dr. Helen Bryce (Emanuelle Vaugier), who becomes involved with Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), but the season's most significant moment comes during episode 17, "Rosetta," in which Clark learns of his Kryptonian origins courtesy of a scientist, who, in an effective bit of casting, is played by Superman film star Christopher Reeve. The complexity of the writing and issues dealt with in season 2 marked Smallville as a series with depth and drama worthy of its considerable fan following as well as a second boxed set; fittingly, the supplements in this set are more expansive than on the first one. --Paul Gaita
Smallville - The Complete First Two Seasons (2-Pack) Reviews:
Buy the Seasons Seperately, NOT this Set! 
2005-11-10 - I love the show, and the episodes are great. I highly recommend getting the DVDs, but I don't recommend buying THIS set. Have you noticed that if you buy Season One and Season Two SEPERATELY, as opposed to both together in this set, YOU SAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE MONEY? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
Great 
2005-02-07 - I first saw this series in the mountains with hardly any channels in our hotel room. They had a Smallville marathon on. It was on the tornado episode and I love weather, so i decided to watch it. It is a wonderful series! I did not know it was superman in high school until a friend told me! The whole cast is excellent, but I think Michail Rosenbaum does a wonderful job playing Lex.
An Intelligent series for any Superman Fan
2004-10-21 - Actually, Superman in this series is really Clark Kent,not the
opposite. Superman is a title given to him by the People and the
Daily Planet,The newspaper of Metropolis. Clark Kent was Kal-El
and now is a progeny of his step parents, The Kents. Clark Kent
had to create an alter ego in able to fit into society which as
we all know wouldn't accept an outworlder. I'm speaking in reference to the world of Smallville which is closer to the movies than the comic books.
If your stuck on the comic books then this series won't suffice
in my opinion unless you treat it with an open mind.
I love this series and I embrace it for what it really is, relating to those who are afraid sometimes to be who they really
are in society in fear of persecution. Growing pains are represented here as well which is why I think it is relatable
to the younger viewers. Give this series a try after watching
the Original Superman movie...I think it will prove itself to all
viewers with its intelligence.
Langues
2004-10-20 - Je suis un quebecois de la region de lanaudiere...
Jai le cofret de la 1ere saison puisquil est en francais mais la la 2ieme saison..
SEULEMENT en ANGLAIS....
quand est-ce la traduction?
Best show ever
2004-10-11 - Not only is this package a good deal, but also the best package ever to be sold. The journey Clark has taken in these past two seasons has been a very exciting and susspensful one. In the first season Clark is adjusting to his abilites so he can blend in and seem normal, but normal is umcommon in Smallville. From Kryptonite rocks and Lex Luthor, Clark has his hands full. Of course, this interferes with Clark and Lana's relationship. The second season doesnt stop there. Clark begins to learn more about his origin. Not only does Clark have interest in the caves, but so does Lionel and Lex Luthor. Can the Kents keep Clark's secret or will he be exposed? To find out, watch the first two seasons and I garuntee you won't be disapointed
