Rating:  -
I just think that it is a very well-put together show. But like every other Prime-time series, there are the episodes that must be made as fillers. All in all, it is a great show.
Rating: -
Amazing!!! This series just keeps getting better. Clark on the verge of becoming his future, and Lex starting to show his true nature. Can't wait for season 5!!!!!!!!!
Rating:  -
Absolutely love it, but then I again I love Smallville, I'm obsessed. It's great!!!!
Rating:  -
Well, at a certain point you have to ask yourself, how can anybody find this show entertaining? This show used to be serious. Season 3 had its flaws, but a handful of the ep's in that season remain my favorites. They must have swapped out writers or something. How else do you explain the camera lingering on Lana Lang's revealing showers for no reason? I'll say it again: Showing skin on Smallville doesn't work! (unless it's Sarah Carter, MEOW.) At any rate, they don't show nearly enough skin to justify sitting through this crap.
*Good Points:*
-Michael Rosenbaum is still the best Lex Luthor ever put on film.
-Sarah Carter as Alicia Baker is back! She's Clark Kent's interim girlfriend, like a psycho Lori Lemaris (who cares if she tried to slice n' dice Lana last season and it makes no sense for Clark to be within 50 miles of her? I don't).
-Lil' Flash shows up.
-Lionel switches bodies with Clark, mwu ha ha.
There are two new supporting characters this time, Lois and, erm...Jason. I weep for Jensen Ackles. He's way too good of an actor to be put through this horrible role. The way he takes a dumbly-inserted character like Lana's New Boyfriend and immediately makes him likable deserves him an emmy or something. Erica Durance: EASILY the worst actress, and her lines don't help. I don't really mind, because Erica looks like Lois, even if her snarky remarks reach a cheese grater-level annoyance. I think Lois would work better if she just reamined in Metropolis and we saw her only through Chloe. But I guess it's cheaper to keep her on the regular set. Personally I think it's a conspiracy to give Allison Mack less screen time. Why doesn't she get a revealing shower? Bah.
****THINGS THAT MAKE MY BRAIN HURT:****
1.) Clark (somehow) becomes a quarterback for the football team. You get to see it for five episodes. What drama. Ok, this is just stupid. He's CHEATING, OK?? It's CHEATING. He can't just switch off his powers when he wants to. Clark's football career also results in the episode "Recruit", which is hazardous to your health.
2.) Turns out Lana's part-witch. I thought she was Native American? Nah, just French. And a LAME villain.
3.) Lets dress Lois, Lana, and Chloe in S&M corsets and make them shoot purplish energy balls from their fingers. Yeah, let's do that.
4.) If the writers weren't going to keep Jason around for more than one season, why put him in the credits?? Durr.
5.) Jane Seymour shows up in for the most pointless guest appearance in TV history. She does nothing for a few episodes then cashes her paycheck. Embarassing.
6.) 'Jynx', 'Spell', 'Recruit', 'Sacred', 'Spirit' and 'Ageless'. Oh right, and 'Forever'. I hate all of them. They make me ashamed to watch the show. Some are so awful I don't think I've ever watched them more than once. That's like HALF the dvd set. GAH!
Oooohh, I wonder if Clark and Lana are gonna get together this season! Just they like get together and break up EVERY season! I'm on pins and needles!
The ONLY things keeping this from 1 star are the excellent first couple of episodes.
Rating: -
After Smallville's knockout seasons 1-3, which just got stronger and better with each passing season, the show hits a few bumps in season four. The on-again/off-again relationship between Clark and Lana is starting to get more than a bit shopworn, and one wishes they would either just get together or call it off permanently and get on with their lives. The two episodes with Lana as a reincarnated 17th century witch were just hokey and someone should have had the sense to veto those scripts. (For example, the witch's magical powers in some ways exceed Clark's). The writers also don't seem to know quite what to do with Lex's character, as he bounces back and forth between a couple of psychotic episodes, trivial relationships with several women, and a couple of unwise deceptions which lead to imbroglios in his friendship with Clark.
That having been said, I still enjoyed the season overall and there were more good episodes than bad ones, and several episodes were some of the best so far, in my humble opinion, so if you're a fan, don't give up on the series yet. I look forward to seeing if the final season can live up to the standards set by the first three or if the show will falter somemore as it did in the fourth season.
One thing I wanted to mention is that DVD number 5, if I remember right, contains in the extra features section a history of the Lois Lane character, as she appeared in the original comic series, through the first TV show with Noel Neil, through the later comic books and movies, and finally up to Smallville. Lois's character is regarded as ahead of her time, as she becomes a successful reporter in what was still a man's profession. The feature includes an interview with Noel Neil, several scenes and footage from the original TV series with George Reeve, and overall was a nice idea to include in the set, and a good history of the whole Lois Lane character and concept.
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