DVD : Smallville - The Complete Third Season

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- Smallville-Third Season
Pretty cool. Actually tells about Clark Kent growing up into his super powers. But not just that but I like how his powers affect his life style and his friends. Grown ups and teens can really learn somethings pertaining to life if they watch and listen closely to these sequels. I waiting for the sixth season to come out. I recommend all of them if you can get them.

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- Love this Series
My daughter is seven, a dedicated fan of "Smallville". I like it because it's another way for her to connect with my own childhood. I'm 54 and loved watching the George Reeves Series on a tiny, grainy Black & White TV with rabbit ears back in the late 50's. We have those shows on DVD, BTW.

This particular season is worth purchasing if only for the glimpse of cape, the "silly red sheet", seen in the episode "Hereafter".

Now. Why is it so damned expensive???

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- Fathers & Sons
The peaceful small town of Smallville, Kansas is anything but ordinary in "Smallville: The Complete Third Season". After a kryptonite-induced romp in Metropolis, young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) returns to Smallville but new revelations involving his biological father Jor-El (voiced by Terrance Stamp) will direct him closer to his true destiny on Earth. The rivalry between Lex Luthor (Michael Rosembaum) and his father Lionel (John Glover) heats up as both Lex and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) pay high prices for investigating Lionel Luthor's crooked dealings. Lana Lang (Kristen Kreuk) falls for a mysterious stranger (Ian Somerhalder) who's hiding something dangerous about his past. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, "Smallville" is the successful live-action comic book series that follows the adventures of a teenage Clark Kent during the years before he becomes Superman. The third season features some stirring episodes, an entertaining season-long storyline, cool visual effects and guest stars like Rutger Hauer, Michael McKean and Christopher Reeve in his final acting role. It also includes such highlight episodes like "Exile", "Phoenix", "Relic", "Asylum", "Memoria" and "Covenant".

If you already own the previous box sets, then feel free to pick up your copy of "Smallville: The Complete Third Season" at your local video store. All 22 episodes are presented in their original 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen format. The 6-disc box set has a great picture quality with fine sharpness and bright colors. Its lively 2.0 Dolby Digital sound definitely surpassed my expectations. Its supplemental extras consist of a fun gag reel, seven shorts of "The Chloe Chronicles", several deleted scenes, the 22-minute "Producing Smallville" featurette and three in-depth episode commentaries by the show's cast and creators. Overall, "Smallville: The Complete Third Season" scores a "B".

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- Growing pains
This is a quite good season plot-wise. My fav ep is RELIC but there are several good ones, esp. the cliffhanger. The only problem I have is the Clark/Lana angst every single episode. It's so thick you could cut it with an angst-cutting device and after 3 or 4 eps of exactly the same goo-goo eyed expression, it gets tedious, esp. since nothing ever comes of it. That's probably why Relic was such a relief. Even past-life romance was better than none at all.

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- Smallville expanding

With the third season of Smallville, things really seemed to be hitting their stride. Characters were put into some bad situations which, when gotten out of, had consequences that were far reaching. This was the darkness season for all the main characters-Lana, Pete, Chloe, Lex and especially Clark, where they all had to face some morally ambiguous sides of themselves and their friends and somehow find a way to move beyond the bad to find the good. Unfortunately this also meant the continuation of the does he/doesn't she follies of Lana and Clark as they continued to do their respective relationship dances around each other, the root of which lays Clark's unwillingness to share his secret with her. But once you get past this bit of redundant unpleasantvilleness, you can enjoy the many things going on this season. First we get to see gangsta Clark on red kryptonite over a period of months. Then we learn of Lex's fate after the airplane crash--this is the beginning of a truly unsettling storyline. We learn about these stones of power that will have a prominent role in the fourth season. There are many many highlights this season: Lex's shock treatment in "Asylum" was one of the creepier moments of the season; "Perry"-Michael McKean's performance of the future Daily Planet editor in chief was priceless; "Hereafter"-that moment when Jordan glimpses Clark's future; "Truth"-there is one truly chilling moment in the otherwise lighthearted episode when Chloe confronts Lionel about some important information; "Crisis"-may be Smallville's version of the Dead Zone, but I've always been partial to the episodes that philosophize about free will versus fate; and the season closer, "Covenant" which hits the ground running, just gets better from there and ends on one of the most glorious cliff-hangers. The special features on the set continue to be above average. The Chloe chronicles continue in comic book format.

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