DVD : Smallville - The Complete Sixth Season [Blu-ray]

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- Superman!!!
I'm a smallville fan there isn't much more to say. You either love or hate this show.

Rating:

- Pretty good season.
I love this show but this season wasn't the greatest. The last episode definitely stands out. The visuals are great but one thing makes me wonder... I know Blu-ray has great capacity but six 42 minute episodes on a single disc? Maybe it's just me but the episodes on that disc look sort of soft. Other than that I'm happy with the purchase.

Rating:

- Too Soapy, Too Whiny
The preceding (fifth) season of Smallville accomplished two main tasks: setting up the Lex/Lana relationship and moving the show in a more action & sci-fi direction. One plotline succeeded, the other failed. Let's start with what went right in Smallville's Sixth Season, then end with why it became downright difficult to watch at some times:

-As Clark pursues escaped Kryptonian prisoners (a key season-long arc), his action-packed battles with the villians are sights to behold.
-The formation of the "junior" Justice League, bringing back favorites from seasons past and introducing a new hero who proved to be a "bullseye".
-A completely new aspect of Chloe Sullivan's character is revealed towards the end of the season.
-More "wink-wink" nods to the Superman cannon, including a certain bow-tie clad camera man and an episode that precludes a potential Clark/Lois relationship.
-The continued descent of Lex into pure evil, whether through flashbacks to his youth or his "33.1" secret projects.
-As usually, the season premiere and finale are both visually and creatively stunning. Much like the end of season five, the final scene will have you anxiously awaiting the Season Seven DVD's to be released.

However, despite those positive factors, the Sixth Season is severely lacking in some key areas:

-First, the Clark/Lana relationship is streched beyond the realm of good writing, where its "on-again, off-again" nature is apparent in nearly every episode. One week they may be together, while the next week they won't even speak to each other. This writing faux pas also hindered what could have been a dynamite Lex/Lana relationship. Even when genuine Clark/Lana moments are attempted towards the end of the season, they lack any emotional punch, as that relationship has been used again and again.
-Another problem with this season (as with the previous two) is the character of Lois Lane. If there ever was any doubt that Lois is on the show for her sex appeal only, this season put those doubts to rest. Whereas Lois should be used to hint at her ultimate relationship with Clark, so is all too often just "eye candy".
-Finally, the writers/producers spend way too much time on the concept of Clark's negative impact on the world (what I like to call "Clark whining"). Multiple times this season Clark is seen lamenting the very fact that he was ever sent to Earth...not a "Superman-esque" attitude whatsoever. I appreciated that a young Clark may grapple with those issues, but it seemed to be a much over-used dramatic technique.

To conclude, the Sixth Season of Smallville did not measure up to its past. Though doing a decent job of advancing the Superman "mythology", this season emotionally bankrupted most of the show's important relationships, thus providing little to no "tearjerker" moments that had been such a part of earlier seasons.

Rating:

- Season of growth and a season of change great on Blu Ray Disc.
*Before I begin any owner of the DVD, HD-DVD, or Blu Ray Disc who has NOT seen this season all the way through should stop reading this right now and finish the season first; because there will be spoilers.

The season is the first you begin to see Clark's journey into what will become the Christopher Reeve or Dean Cain or Brandon Routh adult Superman. This is the first season if not only season where Clark doesn't have at least one love interest in the whole season. His feelings for Lana are still there of course, but he is more focused on 2 things. Stopping his former friend Lex Luthor's Meteor Infected 33.1 experiments and re capturing and or destroying freed prisoners from the Phantom Zone. I'm assuming that everyone has seen Season Five and therefore no need in describing what the Phantom Zone is or what happened to Lex. The key story points of this season are Lex and Lana's relationship and the destruction of that relationship. Clark's road again to be the adult Superman, Chloe finding out she is meteor infected, Lois' journey to the newspaper field, and Clark and Lex's friendship for all purposes being over. The stand out thing from season six for me is Lex Luthor's journey into becoming the evil bastard we all know and love to despise. Michael Rosenbuam's performance of Lex Luthor is right up there with Kevin Spacey in Superman Returns and John Shea in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as my favorite interruptions of the character. Michael captures Lex's glib sense that he truly feels he is not doing anything evil. Also this season continues Lex's streak of loss of women in his life. He lost his mother in his early teens, he was betrayed and lost Dr. Helen Bryce (Emmanuelle Vaugier) his first wife in Smallville Season Three, and now he has lost Lana Lang his second wife. Which furthers Lex's hunger for power and control. The video transfer and audio transfer on these Discs are pitch perfect and the special features are not horrible but it should be noted, this is the first season of Smallville not to have any audio commentaries on any episodes. Other then that a solid Blu Ray Disc set.

Rating:

- smallville the way its ment to be seen
I have Been watching smallville sence it started, have enjoyed watching rerunns on hdnet for a couple of years, great to finally have it in hd in my own librery. It looks amazing and sound great to. Well worth the extra money you pay over the dvd version.

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