Smallville - The Complete Seventh Season | 
| Actors: Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, Allison Mack
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
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Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 900
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
UPC: 883929024094
EAN: 0883929024094
ASIN: B000X5SMXY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 9, 2008 (In 47 Days)
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This season is the most dissapointing for me July 22, 2008
For the past two months, I was watching Smallville via DVD, actually, 30 minutes ago I finished watching season 6th finale. I got to admit that 5 and 6 seasons were my favourite. I watch Smallville on WBLA channel (latin Warner Channel, not The CW, and they are repeating the season again), broadcasted on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM (Santiago of Chile timezone), the episode broadcasted last time (July 15th) was "Lara" (Lara kidnapped and being injected with some kind of "truth serum"). OK, I finally did catch up with 7 years of Smallville.
As I was watching the season 7, I was watching 1-6 via DVD, i already told you that, but as I was approaching to 6th finale, my disappointment was growing because I was getting the picture of what I was facing, season 7th is not that good as the rest. I noticed how Martha Kent was not appearing on season 7th and I think it is an important character, because it makes the Kent Farm less lonely, I saw how she was "literally" written out from the show in "Phantom" with the excuse that she will move to Washington DC.
I am not sure if I will buy this season, maybe to collect the whole set, why not I already own the first six season, but the whole thing is boring to watch.
About the actors, definitely Alison Mack is the best, not that I am fan of her, but I got to admit that she has skills to be an actress.
Tom Welling is not that good, there are tons of scene where I think it was best that he show some emotions, like crying, best scene where he did this was "Vengeance" on season 5th, where he "accepted" Jonathan Kent's death.
Kristen Kreuk is also a good actress, not as good as Alison, but not worse than Erica Durance (and with this line I kill both).
Michael Rosenbaum is another one damn good actor, I like the idea of how funny he is in real life and play the character we all hate on the show.
Annette O'toole, is a little bit hard for me to describe, all I can say she makes a good role playing as Clark's mom, but I can't stand the idea of how close she got to Lionel after her husband dead.
Smallville is my favourite show, and no other show have gained a place of my heart than this one, I sort of like the idea of how "superheroes" try to fit on the society, I wish they come up with something like the Justice League at the end of Smallville.
Finally, I have to admit that I have not finished watching season 7 and here I am writing a review of it, but take this review as a super express resume of how I see Smallville as a whole.
 Wasn't the best, kinda poor for Smallville. July 14, 2008
Ok it wasn't terrible. But the writers strike did have a hand in making it kinda crummy. To be honest i think it would have been better with the cliffhanger and the 2 hour finale. Which would have been around episode 15. Kara being introduced i think was a good idea. But the amnesia was a major mistake!
Lex's obsession with another 'Kent' was a bit ridiculous. It was good that Lana and Clark got together in this season, and it could have worked so well, if they hadn't have given Lana the evil side. Basically the writers turned Lana into something new and horrible. For 2 writers who loved Clana, they really destroyed it.
It was good having Pete back for an episode, but to be honest he should have been back for more than one, and seeing Martha a gain would have been good.
There is an episode that involves a parrallel universe and it was such an opportunity for the writers to bring back Martha and Jonathan and lots of old characters, but they wasted this opportunity by just bringing back the female sherif who died in season 5.
The finale was pretty bad, and the graphics of it had decreased badly, when the fortress fell it was very bad CGI. It looked like bits of lego falling to the ground.
I think Smallville is going down hill but i'm not going to drop it incase it gets better.
Don't get me wrong its still a thrill to watch, but there's just bits in the show that are so bad, it makes you want to cringe.
Hope this helps :)
 Smallville season 7 deserves 10/5!!! July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was one of the best seasons ever! Great action and great stories in each episode! You wont be able to stop watching it after you buy this collection. I highly recommend it for every smallville fan and new fans as well. Dont believe the ones that gave this 1 star. why? because they either hate superman or they just want to get attention. This is a MUST HAVE for all!
 I thought I'd like this series but I was wrong July 6, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I made the mistake of buying all the first six seasons on DVD because I watched a few random inconsecutive episodes at someone else's house and thought that I'd like it since I normally like Superhero movies. I wish I'd never bought them. First of all, almost every single character on Smallville has ethical problems. Clark Kent is so determined to keep his powers secret that he becomes a compulsive liar and goes as far as to hurt all the people closest to him, including the love of his life, Lana Lang. Lana starts out in the earlier seasons as a character who is more honest and sincere than Clark, and by season six she turns into the money grubbing opportunistic and shallow wife of evil sadist Lex Luthor. Lex starts out the earlier seasons trying to be good, and is initally Clark Kent's best freind. Clark's freindship with Lex frequently compromises his moral judgement and often the so-called "hero" Clark even goes as far as engaging in actions that empower Lex and his father Lionel to do evil things, and the worst part is, he knows it but claims it's not his place to stop Lex or his father from the broader evil agenda they have- but rather only intervene in indivdual acts of evil without addressing Lex and Lionel's broader pattern of behavior or the threat thier actions have to society at large. Lionel Luther at one point captures Clark Kent and puts him in a tub of liquid kryptonite, at another point hires a mobster to take Clark and his entire family hostage- and yet Martha Kent finds it in her heart not only to forgive Lionel for these things in later episodes- but to go beyond that and have an affair with him after her husband Jonathan dies of a heart attack that takes place as a direct result of a conversation with guess who? Lionel. Virtually all of the characters of Smallville at some point in time do something evil- even the so-called "good guys", which makes it a bad show in my opinion. A superhero show is supposed to be designed to teach the audience the difference between right and wrong. Smallville does not accomplish that goal. Clark's lies alienate not only Lana, but they seem to be part of the series of events that turns Lex Luthor from a person who wants to be a good person but tends to fail in that goal, to a person who chooses not to be good and revels in his evil. From watching all the first six seasons this transition from a "morally challenged" Lex to a downright evil and sadistic Lex unravels simultaneously as the trust between Clark and Lex unravels. Lex lies to Clark for years as he has Clark investigated, followed, and practically stalked. But throughout the series it is apparent that Clark is as much to blame for this as Lex since, if they were supposedly true freinds at any point, Clark could have been honest with Lex, Chloe, Lana, and his other inner circle friends and then none of them would have had anything to wonder about in the first place. So it's clear that although Lex is definitely the most evil character in the series, Clark has almost as much culpability in Lex's evolution into an evil character as Lex's father, Lionel has for his role in turning his son into a monster. Lionel of course is the person who taught Lex to be ruthless and vengeful, and though in later episodes he seems at points to be regretful of that, he never really does much to change Lex's direction in life, other than to occasionally help people who are trying to stop Lex from doing evil things. But it would have been better if Lionel could've just convinced Lex to stop being evil or done whatever it took to neutralize Lex if changing Lex was impossible. One of the more ludicrous moments in the show is when Clark faces an evil alien plant-woman who escaped from a prison planet she'd been sent to by Jor-El because she had destroyed entire planets. After she tells Clark her goal is to wipe out the human race and all civilization as we know it- Clark politely asks her to leave Earth voluntarily. Of course she refuses and the fight with Clark that ensues leads to her demise, but what made that scene so ridiculous is that the alien plant woman had already murdered innocent people and expressed her intention to destroy the earth- and Clark thought politely asking her to leave would get to her to go away voluntarily. There is a big difference between innocent naivety and blatant stupidity. Clark has lots of moments like these in Smallville, and often those moments work to the advantage of Lex Luthor and some of the other villians who emerge in the show. Instead of developing a Superman character people can respect and admire, Smallville portrays Superman as a selfish liar whose choices frequently lead to disasters. Many of his so-called heroics are in the context of cleaning up situations of his own making, and though he is willing to put himself at risk at times to help people, he makes protecting his secret identity as important a priority as saving lives. I'm sorry, but Spiderman puts saving people first, even ahead of protecting his identity. That is what a superhero should do, and the Clark Kent of Smallville is nowhere near as selfless as Spider Man (going by the Spider Man movies since I've never read the comics). In Spider Man 2, Spider Man allows his identity to be seen by an entire subway car full of people in order to save their lives- but after watching 6 seasons of Smallville, I don't think the Smallville Clark Kent would do the same. Which makes the series Smallville a total dissapointment. I would not reccomend watching this series because the disappointing choices made by its characters show only that NONE of them know the difference between right and wrong, and NONE of them are as selfless as the superheroes we expect in movies or comics. It's one thing for a superhero to be flawed, and to sometimes make mistakes. But on Smallville, everyone from Clark Kent and his family to Lex Luthor and his family is not just flawed- they all have a very warped sense of what justice is and what their obligatons to their loved ones as well as the world around them are. I grew up on old-school superhero cartoons in the 80s where all the "good guys" really had something to teach the audience about the difference between right and wrong, and I've come to expect the superhero genre to do that, and this show doesn't do that. All of the characters are as deceptive as any soap opera, so this show is I guess, more of a soap opera, than a superhero show.
This season should be renamed to Suckville June 29, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
First let me state that I liked every other season of Smallville but this one. The reviews people have written remind me of people who know Star Wars Episodes I-III suck and refuse to say it because they're still attached to the good 'ol days of star wars. Well, the good 'ol days of smallville ended with season 6. Sure we knew that lana really didn't get killed off at the end of season six, but saying she used a clone in place of herself in order to fake her death is just lame. Lex giving up on lana? ha! He's a supervillain! They're insane! They don't give up! The rest is downhill, the season finale sucks. The writers don't leave you wanting more and from what i hear in Season 8 Michael Rosenbaum isn't going to be a regular. How can you continue this series without lex luthor. The only few bright spots in this season is 1: Lana is finally out of the picture..thank god, because she was really annoying 2: the way in which lionel dies 3: Veritas. Every season has had episodes that weren't up to par, but this was the worse. Hopefully, it will end with season 8. It would be hard for me to buy this season on DVD. If someone ever gives it to me it will probably collect dust on my shelf. The writers sure knew how to kill a great series. BRAVO!
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