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Posted by: bakerx3

Does anyway know if the WB is doing or planning on doing the "EasyView" rebroadcast of Smallville eps on Sunday? They did last year. This year TiVo shows that there will be Smallville replays on Sunday but according to the guide data, the Sunday broadcasts are showing eps from the pilot. Will they start rebroadcasting this years eps?

I've got a conflict w/ Ed on Wed. and only ONE TiVo (will change by the Holidays, however).

Thanks for any help.

Posted by: JYoung

No, they will not be repeating Wednesday's episode on Sunday for this season. The Easy View will be showing Smallville: Beginnings which will be the first season of Smallville.
Either break out the VCR or watch one live......

Posted by: hookbill

I noticed that they are showing the pilot on 10/5 this week. I never saw the first two seasons and I don't know if I'll watch all the old episodes but I definitly want to see this show.

I just started watching Smallville this summer, and I think it is pretty good. Sometimes it can be a bit much with the teenage love bits but I think the way they have handled the well known story is pretty good.

Posted by: omnibus

I only watched Smallville once. The fact that I only breifly had access to the WB or is it UPN, did'nt help.

It was a while ago so this may be a stupid post.

How can we have a Clark Kent and Lex Luthor in their early twenties and Ma and Pa Kent only early middle aged. The suspension of disbelief was too much for me.

Posted by: gladstone

quote:
Originally posted by omnibus
How can we have a Clark Kent and Lex Luthor in their early twenties and Ma and Pa Kent only early middle aged. The suspension of disbelief was too much for me.

And the suspension of disbelief involved in watching a show about the lone survivor of an alien race whose planet was destroyed, and who gets superpowers and near invulnerability from our yellow sun--that wasn't too much for you? :rolleyes:

Anyway, Clark is not in his early twenties; he is a teen-ager in high school, and his parents aren't, in my opinion, too young to have adopted him when they did. Lex is in his twenties, but his father Lionel is older than the Kents, too.

It's an entertaining retelling of the Superman mythos. You ought to give it another try.

Posted by: smak

I don't know if this helps but John Schneider is 44 and Annete O'toole almost 50.

I don't know when exactly Clark is supposed to leave Smallville, but I think the ages are pretty close.

Except of course for Tom Welling, i think he's like 45 or something.

-smak-

Posted by: omnibus

The basics of the Superman story are well known He was sent by his parents from a dying planet, found and adopted as an infant by the elderly Kents. He has superpowers etc. etc.

To me, seeing Ma and Pa Kent as young middle aged people is like arbitrarily deciding, well, Superman can't fly or doesn't have X-ray vision.

It would have been more acceptable to me If there was a story line explaining how Superman discovered a way to reverse the aging process on his parents.

Posted by: mwhip

Just be thankful they have not given a guest role to Dean Cain or Teri Hatcher yet.

Posted by: Mike20878

Are you certain they aren't running "Easy Views" of the current episodes? Last I checked, my upcoming episodes showed tonight's season premiere airing again on Sunday.

Posted by: allan

quote:
Originally posted by omnibus
The basics of the Superman story are well known He was sent by his parents from a dying planet, found and adopted as an infant by the elderly Kents. He has superpowers etc. etc.

To me, seeing Ma and Pa Kent as young middle aged people is like arbitrarily deciding, well, Superman can't fly or doesn't have X-ray vision.

It would have been more acceptable to me If there was a story line explaining how Superman discovered a way to reverse the aging process on his parents.

A lot about Smallville differs from the "official" Superman story. My own problem is if Lex knew Clark as well as the show indicates, how could he not suspect anything when some guy in blue tights starts flying around. I mean, Clark isn't even wearing glasses in the show!

Posted by: Rcrew

quote:
Originally posted by mwhip
Just be thankful they have not given a guest role to Dean Cain or Teri Hatcher yet.

Actually, I'd welcome a visit or a cameo from a vampy Hatcher... just as long as Howie doesn't come along... wait a minute how about a super villain match between Howie and Clark!

Posted by: Graymalkin

If Jonathan and Martha are in their mid-60s when Superman is an adult -- I've always assumed that he's at least 30 -- then Jonathan and Martha would have to be in their mid-30s when they find him as a baby and their late 40s when he's a teenager. Given that, John Schneider and Annette O'Toole would not be far off the mark.

So how old do you think the adult Superman is? 30? 35? He sure isn't 25, like Dean Cain was.

Another thing -- he didn't join The Daily Planet straight out of college, so he had some experience somewhere else. I've always wondered what paper he started at, and where.

Posted by: Big_Daddy

quote:
Originally posted by hookbill

I just started watching Smallville this summer, and I think it is pretty good. Sometimes it can be a bit much with the teenage love bits but I think the way they have handled the well known story is pretty good.

Join the club. I think I managed to catch up on most of the season 2 episodes over the summer, but I haven't seen any of season 1. I'm looking forward to tonight's season premiere, and will catch up on season 1 with Smallville:Beginnings.

Oh, it's a smallville world after all...

Posted by: Ereth

During the "Golden Age", Superman was officially 29. Now that he's been rebooted in the comics, I'm not sure of his age, but he was officially 29 for what seemed like forever.

However, the age of the Kents varied many times and even had a story explaining it in the "Superboy" comic series in the 1970s. According to THAT tale, some aliens had planted transmitting devices in Smallville and were broadcasting the "Adventures of Superboy" as a TV show in their home world. Audience reaction was high, but the audience felt the Kents were too old and wanted them replaced with younger actors. Since it wasn't really fiction, this presented quite a problem for the alien producer, who hit on the idea of putting a chemical in the Kent family well which would bring the Kents back to their youthful selves (ie, in their 40's instead of their 60's). This worked and the fans of "Adventures of Superboy" were happier. Superboy and the Kents themselves never found out how it happened, but after that point, the Kents were always drawn as being in their 40's when Clark was in High School, and, in the versions were they weren't dead before he went to Metropolis, in their 60's while he was at the Daily Planet.

Note, that the "Golden Age" Supermans parents had died before he became Superman (of the Black Plague, no less, according to one Superboy story, caught when he took them back in time). The Christopher Reeve movie put forth that his mother had survived, and John Byrne's reboot after "Crisis on Infinite Earths" left both of them alive.

Posted by: JYoung

quote:
Originally posted by Mike20878
Are you certain they aren't running "Easy Views" of the current episodes? Last I checked, my upcoming episodes showed tonight's season premiere airing again on Sunday.

My WB affiliate (which is a full WB affiliate) is showing the Smallville pilot on Sunday with the first season episode Metamorphosis on the following Sunday.
You might want to check your upcoming episodes again or you may have bad guide data or your WB station is doing something totally different...

Posted by: allan

quote:
Originally posted by Graymalkin
So how old do you think the adult Superman is? 30? 35? He sure isn't 25, like Dean Cain was.

He's 65! I hope I look that good at that age! I wish I looked that good at any age! :D

Posted by: Graymalkin

Officially 29? Well, close to 30. Good enough. Prefer 35, though, with Lois 29.

Posted by: Mike20878

quote:
Originally posted by JYoung
My WB affiliate (which is a full WB affiliate) is showing the Smallville pilot on Sunday with the first season episode Metamorphosis on the following Sunday.
You might want to check your upcoming episodes again or you may have bad guide data or your WB station is doing something totally different...

I double-checked at TV Guide and it is the pilot. I'll have to check my TiVo guide data again and see what it has. Luckily, I decided I'd rather wait to see ST:Enterprise until it airs again on Saturday.

Posted by: dswallow

Well that was an enjoyable premiere, but I really feel like I missed something between the last season finale and this one. Kinda strange.

Posted by: David Platt

quote:
Originally posted by dswallow
Well that was an enjoyable premiere, but I really feel like I missed something between the last season finale and this one. Kinda strange.

Wow; I had the opposite reaction. I thought this premiere was just horrible. I'll put the rest in spoiler tags, so as not to ruin anything for anybody:

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

the whole 'Lex on Survivor' thing was just ludicrous. I was laughing out loud at the absurdity of it sometimes.

Granted the producers of the show have always messed with the Superman canon, but they've gone over the line, IMO. Making Superman a felon in his early years? Please.

And Bo Kent suddenly having super powers? Please. Don't even get me started on that.

I hope this isn't indicative of the season to come.

Posted by: scooterboy

To quote myself from another thread:

Terrence Stamp as the voice of Jor El?

That's just wrong.

Posted by: vertigo235

quote:
Originally posted by Graymalkin
Another thing -- he didn't join The Daily Planet straight out of college, so he had some experience somewhere else. I've always wondered what paper he started at, and where.

Duh, "The Torch" ! :D

Posted by: Graymalkin

Very funny, vertigo... :)

He's going to have to have some post-college experience at a newspaper. Very few major dailies like the Planet will hire anybody without previous experience. Perhaps the Bigville Shopper & News or the Paola Times-Journal...

Of course, if he becomes editor-in-chief of the Harvard Crimson or Stanford Daily, and cracks some serious stories, that might be enough.

Posted by: LooseWiring

Actually Clark was hired at the daily planet because he was an uber-fast typist. They never mention previous experience at all.

As for what Clark does after High School/College, he pulls a "Kung Fu" and wanders the earth for ten years until he comes to Metropolis to fulfill his destiny.

Not much of what happened while he wandered the earth has really ever been discussed.

Posted by: Mike20878

Hasn't it always been told that Clark got his job at the Planet by getting the scoop on Superman and impressing Perry White?

Posted by: keefer37

quote:
Originally posted by Mike20878
Hasn't it always been told that Clark got his job at the Planet by getting the scoop on Superman and impressing Perry White?

No that's how Peter Parker got his job at the Bugle -- with his photos of Spider-Man. :p

Posted by: scooterboy

quote:
Originally posted by LooseWiring
Actually Clark was hired at the daily planet because he was an uber-fast typist. They never mention previous experience at all.

That was in the movie, but did it happen that way in the comic books?

Posted by: Jeff Edsell

What I wanna know is...

We got that great shot of the Metropolis skyline and docks in the season premiere. Metropolis is in Kansas, right? It's visible on the horizon on the road out of Smallville.

Exactly what body of water is it on?

Posted by: edc

quote:
Originally posted by Mike20878
Hasn't it always been told that Clark got his job at the Planet by getting the scoop on Superman and impressing Perry White?

Minor, minor spoiler:

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

Coming up on Smallville is an episode named "Perry." It gives Clark and Perry some backstory, and Millar/Gough have said it is intended to "give Perry a real reason for hiring Clark at the Planet.