For COMIC BOOK FANSSS.....Do you like the direction of Smallville?

Question

Please only comic book fans..Smallvile has take the Superman/boy story in new directions staying with the basic story, but altering the details. Lex is a boyhood friend. Lana doesn't just disappear. The addition of Chole and Pete. The Kents being younger. Lois and Clark meeting before the Daily Planet. Lots and lots. I have some friends that don't like the changes. Me, I'm gassed. What do you think?

Answer 1

Although I agree with you that they do take a lot of liberties, some of the things you mentioned are actually in the comic. Clark and Lex were boyhood friends. Of course the series details are different. Lex lost his hair in and experiment which turned him evil. Also Lana does reappear in the comics as a friend to Clark and Pete was a comic character appearing first in 1961 (they made him black for the series I think to appear to a wider demographic).

To get back to your question though I don't like a lot of what they did in the series. The relationship between Clark and Lex is too close, if Lex really suspected something was going on with Clark for 5 years and then some super guy shows up some years later, he is smart of enough to put it together. The "meteor freak of the week is a bit tiresome too. Also that fact that Clark and tell Pete and Cloe knows about him but he won't tell Lana is such a manufactured artifact to keep them apart and keep up the "suspense" Lois should not be in Smallville, Perry White should have never met Clark, and having Jimmy Olsen appear the same age as everyone else isn't right either. I still watch because of the few good episodes, but most suck royally.