DVD : Superboy - The Complete First Season

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Rating:

- Superboy's first outing
This series is nearly 20 years old. The clothes and the hairstyles show that. However, having said that, the special effects are quite good and the characters are well chosen, dispite the occassional wooden performance.
This is a fun series and well worth the price of admission. Even if you aren't a Superman/Superboy fan, this is still worth watching.

Rating:

- when's the next season?
This is a great series! I loved it when it first came out back in 88. I'm glad the first season came out, but, when is the next season coming out? come 'on W.B.! what's the hold-up? Its been over a year since the release of the first season(granted it was released with a bunch of other superman related material as a promo for 'Superman Returns') But isn't it time for the next season? Believe me, the other three seasons were better! They will sell! Are you reading this W.B.!!!!!!!

Rating:

- Good start to a great series, bad dvd mistake by WB.
First this a great series and the first season isnt the best of the series but it is still a great season. The dvds are great quality and have some good bonus features but WB made one huge mistake which keeps me from giving this more than a three star rating. Please note that the quality of the season IMO is 4.5/5 but the mistake they made deducts a few points. There is an episode called "Countdown to Nowhere" and the version they released on dvd makes the episode make no logical sense. The orriginal broadcast episode started with Lana/TJ and Clark remembering how they first met Superboy and they are in the Shuster Harold waiting for Superboy for an interview then they flashback. It ends with them talking to Superboy at the Harold. WB cut all that to add some crappy alternate scenes. It completly ruins the ep as it makes absolutly no sense. Other than that, it's a great set.

Rating:

- VERY "CHEAP" LOOKING SHOW!
For a show that was produced in 1988/89, I was amazed at the overall poor quality of it. It looked like a mid 70s "Afternoon Special". Film was very grainy and production values were lousy. The 1950's Superman was even better, quality wise. Acting was OK, guest stars good. Bottom line: if you're thinking of buying this.....PASS IT UP!

Rating:

- Superboy isn't Superman
The events in "Superboy" are post-Smallville, when Clark Kent (John Haymes Newman) moves away from home to attend Shuster University as a journalism major with classmate Lana Lang (Stacy Haiduk). Intrigues at Shuster force Clark to adopt the alter-ego of Superboy. In this series' first season, Superboy first comes face to face with what become in the comics, Superman's arch-enemies, Lex Luthor (as a college student) and Mr. Mxyzptlk (hillarious performance by Michael J. Pollard-excellent casting choice). We learn how Clark develops a contact at Shuster (T.J. White, son of Perry White-editor for the Daily Planet) that will eventually lead to his job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. We also get the story of how Luthor looses his hair, how he discovers Kryptonite as a deadly weapon to use against Superboy, and Superboy's first encounter with this deadly substance. Of course, these stories have already been told and re-told in different ways. But here we get another version of them.
I agree with prior posters that the first season suffered from poor writing, poor special effects and weak villians. On the plus side, John Haymes Newman makes the best "Man of Steel" since Christopher Reeve, much better than Dean Cain or Brandon Routh, I would have liked to have seen him succeed Reeve in the Superman role. This set of discs includes Newman's hillarious screen test, interviews with former cast members, producer Ilya Salkind, as well as a sneek-peek at the new Ken Burns documentary on the Man of Steel, "Look Up in the Sky."

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