Dans cette derniere saison, Clark prend de plus en plus conscience de son rôle de protecteur de Metropolis et de futur mari de Lois Lane. Episodes: Lazarus / Shield / Supergirl / Homecoming / Isis / Harvest / Ambush / Abandoned / Patriot / Luthor / Icarus / Collateral / Beacon / Masquerade / Fortune / Scion / Kent / Booster / Dominion / Prophecy / Finale.
Dans cette 7eme saison, Clark Kent et Lex Luthor sont devenus les pires ennemis que l'on puisse imaginer. Clark va découvrir plus d'informations concernant sa planète et pourquoi il fut envoyé sur terre. Lana quant à elle avoue à Lex qu'elle est toujours amoureuse de Clark... Cette saison Clark va devoir combattre et gagner la plus grande bataille qu'il ait jamais disputée.
L'adolescence à Smallville de Clark Kent (futur Superman) qui découvre ses pouvoirs et apprend à les maîtriser dans le but de servir l'humanité.
Dans cette petite bourgade en proie à de nombreux phénomènes paranormaux dus à des chutes périodiques de météorites, Clark Kent aide sans relâche à sauver des vies, tout en veillant à ce que personne ne découvre son secret. Cela s'avère difficile car ses agissements souvent étonnants intriguent beaucoup son entourage et en particulier son ami Lex Luthor, qui deviendra une dizaine d'années plus tard, son ennemi juré. (Cette évolution est conforme à l'une des bandes dessinées dont la série est issue.) Mais grâce à l'aide de Chloé, Clark arrive à garder sa véritable identité ce qui engendre de nombreux conflits avec Lana, la personne dont il est amoureux.
A meteor shower bursts from the heavens, raining destruction on the unsuspecting citizens of Smallville. Present day. Twelve years later and the healing process has left the town's inhabitants with scars and secrets. From the ashes of tragedy, a popular yet awkward teen attemptsto decipher the meaning of his life and his clouded past. As he struggleswith the transition from boyhood to adulthood, his strength and strangeabilities set him uncomfortably apart from his peers, and his name is Clark Kent.
Season Four of SMALLVILLE saw the major characters all beginning to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood, reflecting the beginnings of the show itself to begin the transition to the next level. The fundamental challenge for the show has been to reinvent the Superboy years by conceiving Clark Kent as a work in progress, a profoundly gifted young man gradually gaining use of and control over powers that makes him utterly unique but also alienates him from his friends by the need to keep his abilities secret. During each season he has discovered new abilities, first X-ray vision, then heat vision, then super hearing to go with the super strength, speed, and invulnerability that he has long possessed. Plus the hints of the impending ability to fly. The difference between SMALLVILLE and the Superboy comics I read growing up is that the latter were always utterly ahistorical, intentionally oblivious to everything that would take place for the adult Clark Kent. There was Lana Lang, but no reflection on how things would go with them, how they would fail to forge a permanent attachment, how Clark would later focus his attention on Lois Lane instead. To its credit, SMALLVILLE has always proceeded with one eye cocked towards the future. In this season, the show began what could be a metamorphosis into a more mature show. I would not at all be surprised if in the next year or so SMALLVILLE were cancelled and a new show, perhaps called METROPOLIS, would be taking its place, with a small number of characters making the transition to the new show: Clark, Lex, Lionel, Lois, and perhaps Chloe, with guest appearances by some Smallville regulars. I've thoroughly enjoyed the four seasons of SMALLVILLE, but my own belief is that they are coming close to exhausting the possibilities in the story of Clark Kent's youth in Smallville. Hopefully they will take the story to the next level. Bit by bit they have added elements of the future to the show, and this persisted into Season Four's finale, with Clark stranded in a frozen region with a mysterious power crystal. I think all fans of Superman will be utterly shocked if we don't see the creation of the Fortress of Solitude (which has ironically been the name of Clark's barn loft for the first four seasons) in Season Five's first episode. And being so far from home, is it unreasonable to assume that he will add the ability to fly at will in Season Five (the flying sequences in the first episode of the season were, by the way, absolutely stunning, far surpassing the flying sequences in the Christopher Reeve films from the seventies and eighties).
Though this was another good season, it was perhaps less consistent than the two previous ones. The season was hurt by two things: 1) a number of weak episodes and 2) a dismal storyline in which Lana Lang somehow channeled the spirit of a dead 17th century French sorceress. It wasn't just that Lana's possession was a bad idea, it didn't lead to any great resolution. As much as I enjoy Kristin Kreuk aka The Cutest Young Woman in the World as Lana, she simply doesn't possess the acting chops to pull off multiple persona in convincing fashion. At the end of Season Three Lana went to Paris for a vacation, and while there picked up a boyfriend, who predictably met her to manipulate her into serving a sinister purpose (in the very first episode of the season, when I saw that Jensen Ackles, who previously was best known for his role in Season Two of DARK ANGEL, I knew that he would end up being one of the season's bad guys). The good part of this plot twist was that it created some emotional distance between Clark and Lana, making the inevitable split between the two perhaps a bit easier to take in the future. Simultaneously, Erica Durance was introduced to the cast as Clark's inevitable love interest Lois Lane. These were just two of many slight changes that started scooting the series towards the future. Lex, for instance, started more and more showing his willingness to submerge his genuine affection for his friends for his own ambitious ends. In the season finale he even physically assaults Lana to forcibly take from her an object he imagines she possesses.
My favorite development in Season Four has been Chloe's discovery of Clark's superhuman abilities. Another unusually gifted individual, Alicia (the teleporting girl who first appeared in Season Three, and who returns in Season Four as a far more sympathetic and likeable character), believes that she will be more accepted if others realize that Clark also has extraordinary abilities, and abducts Chloe so that she can witness Clark's response to an emergency. The result is a marvelous sequence in which Clark catches a car that is spinning through the air, with a cutaway to Chloe's utterly stunned expression, as she tries to comprehend the incomprehensible. In the earlier seasons, as Clark has struggles with the question of whether or if he can share his secret with his friends, he has clearly been afraid that if Chloe knew, she would not merely write the story for the Torch, but would take it to the Daily Planet. Instead, without even a trace of an inner struggle as to what she should do, Chloe keeps Clark's secret, not even revealing to him that she knows it. Her affection for Clark in fact grows, as she understands the enormous pressure his secret creates in his life. Her reaction to his secret has been one of the loveliest touches in the show, not least because she seems completely immune to the temptation to reveal his secret to the world. Clark just doesn't know what a great friend he has in her.
I look forward to Season Five. This is clearly a show that is on the verge of exhausting its concept, and I'm profoundly sceptical that they can continue it beyond the coming season. I hope that the show's producers and the WB can negotiate bringing this show to a graceful conclusion and then transitioning several key characters to a new show that continues the adventures of everyone's favorite Man of Steel in the big city of Metropolis.
Clark Kent lives in Smallville, but in many ways he's out of this world, and so is this spectacular series that provides a fascinating spin on Superman lore. Season 3 is marked by Clark's inability to overpower destiny and its pressing call for his return home. Clark, who has left Smallville for Metropolis, returns to Smallville to help his parents, who are desperately trying to save their cash-strapped farm and is happily surprise to find that Lex Luthor has survived a deadly jet crash. Lex and Clark's ill-fated camaraderie is strengthened by this miracle but causes tension in the close-knit Kent family, as Jonathan fears that Lex will emulate Lionel and his unscrupulous ways, even while Lex has tried to establish his own identity.
Girls, homework, kryptonite. Don't miss a single second - the entire second season! Clark Kent lives in Smallville, but in many ways he's out of this world - and so is this spectacular series that provides a fascinating spin on Superman lore. This 6-disc collection includes all 23 second-season episodes plus bonus materials worthy of a hero. Among the episode highlights: Clark grapples with his true calling. Is he on Earth to serve humanity or perhaps destroy it? Lex gets married - twice! Lana moves in with Chloe, adding a new dynamic to their Clark dilemma. Martha and Jonathan receive miraculous news. Lionel pulls devious strings. And Pete becomes a keeper of the Clark secret. One thing we can't keep secret: the legend grows stronger in Smallville!
Clark a bien failli être un ado comme les autres, mais Superman n'échappe ni à son destin, ni à ses responsabilités. La kryptonite verte a des effets fâcheux sur les habitants de Smallville, transformant des ados frustrés en passe-muraille, en télékinésistes, en psychopathes vengeurs, en reines des abeilles ou en voyantes extralucides. Clark, lui, masque ses sentiments pour Lana et succombe à Chloé, conseillé par Lex Luthor devenu un grand frère protecteur? et quelque peu inquisiteur? Série bien ficelée, maniant avec subtilité le romantisme, l'action, le fantastique et la légende d'un super héros, Smallville aborde les problèmes traditionnels de l'adolescence difficile : drogue, dés?uvrement, amours triangulaires, mal être, acceptation de soi. Bref, une série qui mérite le détour.