Ok, hands up all those grown up who soooooooo wanted to fly when they were younger (and to be honest, probably still do). So why exactly was it suddenly a good idea to jump out of your window with your mum running behind you in hysterics? That’s right, the world’s first ever super hero. Named perfectly and obviously thought though with great detail, Superman. There have been many different versions of the great man. Starting with the comic, growing into several movies, a television series (which as a child I watched religiously), a game. Gosh, there are so many different versions that if superman was a real person he would earn a ridiculous amount of money. So when Smallville popped onto my television, I was a bit sceptical. Seriously, how many times can you tell the story without either totally destroying it or just coping something from the past?!? Well, I was pleasantly surprised and am quite happy to admit that I am now addicted.

This interesting version of the superman story shows our dearest Clarke Kent suffering the worst part of life possible. That’s right, high school. You first encounter the Clarke you know to love at the delicate, pimple popping age of 17 (ok, so he really looks over 20, and his face is as smooth as a babies bum, but still). By now Lana Lang has ‘developed’ into a beautiful woman and Clark turns into a cluts around her maybe something to do with the glowing green rock around her neck?). His best friends are Pete Ross, best friend since the age of four and sports fanatic and Chloe Sullivan, hard hitting reporter of the school magazine who will do anything to try and uncover the strange evens happing in Smallville since the meteor shower.

What I like about this series is that it is about Clark developing, not only in his powers but also as a person and how he becomes the infamous superman. You see him going from only having super speed and strength to suddenly being able to peak at the girls though the wall to the changing rooms and getting ‘excited’ and setting the class on fire. The bit that I enjoyed the most however was the relationship developments. We are all fully aware that Lex is no angel, yet for now he and Clark are like brothers. Just as we know, eventually he has a thing for Louis Lane but we still root for him and Lana to get jiggy with it.

The Box/Episodes
The front of the box sleeve is the size of an A5 piece of paper and the size measures at 2.5 cm. The photo is of the main character Clark Kent, with no top on *drool* and a large ‘S’ painted on his chest. You can then pull out the main box containing the discs. It opens in a similar manner to a book (of course with extremely thicker pages). The left side of the inside cover has a pocket containing a season break down of each episode including its name, short details of what happens, when it was aired in the US and UK (why?!?), the scenes you can pick from within each episode and a small photo. If you haven’t seen this series before DO NOT read though the book. You will encounter some serious spoilers so avoid!
Then you have 6 plastic ‘pages’ each with an episode. Each episode has a photo of a man character and up to four episodes on it.

Disc Two
Photo: Lana Lang
Episode 5 – Cool
Episode 6 – Hourglass
Episode 7 – Craving
Episode 8 – Jitters

Disc Four
Photo: Chloe Sullivan
Episode 13 – Kinetic
Episode 14 – Zero
Episode 15 – Nicodemus
Episode 16 – Stray