Smallville S01E01 Pilot

This is episode original aired as a two hour premiere but for the DVD they broke it down into two individual episode so the first hours is consider only the pilot. This episode doesn’t illustrating the future of Smallville but it does a good job of introducing us to the characters of the Smallville word. The special effects still hold up even ten years later.

From this first moment you see Jonathan and Martha Kent you know that they are a wholesome parent. John Schneider and Annette O’Toole capture the Kent perfectly and their casting is perfectly evident. Annette O’Toole casting also marks a hallmark that will run through Smallville’s run…bringing beloved actor from previous incarnations of the Superman pathos.

The introduction of Tom Welling made me gasp an explicative the first time I saw him…his got to be the oldest look * freshman in the history of the * world. I have to admit it took me out of the illusion and had to convince myself to go with it. Beside Whitney (Eric Johnson) the rest of the younger cast did look significantly younger than Welling. It had me question Clark Kent physiology from the beginning.

The FotW was Jeremy Creek, the homecoming Scarecrow of 1989, he was strung up in a field where we were introduced to a nine year old Lex Luthor during the initial meteor shower that brought Kal-El, and honestly if you don’t know who that is just stop now because there is no hope for you, to Smallville. He awakens from a 12 year coma from an electrolyte imbalance to be electrically charge. He goes on a killing spree killing the jocks that strung him up. Yet Jeremy doesn’t stop there when he finds Clark as 2001 Scarecrow and decides that all the students should be punished or it will never stop.

What was done exceptionally well was the establishing of the characters in this episode. On this hour alone you get a strong sense that it’s the characters that will drive this journey. I think the highlight of this episode was Clark discovery of his alien heritage and the establishment of his initial relationship with Lex.

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