The story presented in Smallville is a teen/love story/soap opera which is not my cup of tea but I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is that it uses the names Clark,Lana,Lois,Lex,Martha,Jonathan,Smallville, etc. I was a boy in the 50's and 60's and these names told me that this was going to be a story about Superman or Superboy. The story is an extreme adaptation of that story. It should be called "Pretty Darned Good Man" or some soap opera title like "Fred's Landing". Superboy was not a dark character filled with doubt and fear, at least not the one in the comic book stories I grew up with. This one is much more like Peter Parker which is fine, but that's another story altogether. I was briefly sucked into this for seasons 1-3, but finally realized the story was not going where I thought it was and bailed out. Fortunately, I discovered the old Superman, the one I read about when I was a boy, and he lives on in "All Star Superman" comics.
Review of Smallville
