World Famous Comics: Smallville - The Complete Third Season
Smallville - The Complete Third Season
Starring: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 6 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 16, 2004 Running Time: 950 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 2003
Description: Clark Kent lives in Smallville, but in many ways he is out of this world, and so is this spectacular series that provides a fascinating spin on Superman lore. Season 3 is marked by Clark's inability to overpower destiny and its pressing call for his return home. Clark, who has left Smallville for Metropolis, returns to Smallville to help his parents, who are desperately trying to save their cash-strapped farm and is happily surprised to find that Lex Luthor has survived a deadly jet crash. Lex and Clark's ill-fated camaraderie is strengthened by this miracle but causes tension in the close-knit Kent family, as Jonathan fears that Lex will emulate Lionel and his unscrupulous ways, even while Lex has tried to establish his own identity.
Amazon.com: Truth, identity, and responsibility are the cornerstones of Smallville's exceptional third season. When viewers left Clark (Tom Welling) at the end of season 2, he was feeling his oats in Metropolis with the help of a red Kryptonite ring, but by the opening of season 3, he must return to Smallville to not only help his parents save their farm, but seek some resolution in his relationships with Lana (Kristin Kreuk) and Lex (Michael Rosenbaum), who's returned from his abandonment at the conclusion of the previous season. Lex himself must deal with some shocking revelations regarding his relationship with his sinister father Lionel (John Glover, magnetic as always), and Lana becomes involved with a new figure in town, the mysterious Adam Knight (Lost's Ian Somerholder), who may or may not be a certain caped crusader. And speaking of heroes in disguise, the season's finale introduces Kara, a young woman with powers similar to Clark's--could she in fact be his sister, known best to comic book fans as Supergirl? Season 3 is chock full of such intriguing moments, including an appearance by future Daily Planet editor Perry White (Michael McKean, the real-life husband of series star Annette O'Toole) in "Perry," helmed by Supergirl film director Jeannot Szwarc; the return of villains Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Shawn Ashmore, and Jesse Metcalfe from seasons 1 and 2 (in "Asylum"); the departure of series regular Samuel L. Jones; and a intrigue-fraught final turn by Christopher Reeve as Dr. Swann ("Legacy").
The boxed set matches the high quality of the season with some terrific extras, including commentary on three episodes by series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, along with Rosenbaum, Allison Mack (Chloe), and Glover. Gough and Millar also contribute commentary to a battery of deleted scenes, and Mack's "Chloe Chronicles" returns for another go-round. The supplemental features are rounded out by a behind-the-scenes featurette, an amusing gag reel, and an Easter egg with Rosenbaum conducting some offbeat interviews. --Paul Gaita
Smallville: 3rd Season Being a big Smallville (Superman) fan, I have enjoyed the series. Amazon always offers DVD's at such a wonderful price! I especially like the free shipping for orders over $25.00. I always receive confirmation of order placed, and shipping date. In all the years of ordering from Amazon I have only had to return 2 DVD's because they skipped. Looking forward to ordering the 6th, 7th and when available, the 8th season. I have ordered other items as well from Amazon and have never been disappointed.
Smallville at its best! One of the best season ever. It's worth the money!! Just awesome!! I love it!
Clark's "saved" count, season 3 I like this season really well. Watching Lex and Lionel battle is always fun, as is watching Clark deal with his new powers. Sometimes I lose patience with Chloe... Clark's not into you, Chloe, deal with it! And, to prove I have no life, I watched the season with a checklist in front of me, and here's what I counted as far as who Clark saved this season, and how many times.
Lana=4 Lex=2 Jonathan=3 Martha=0 Chloe=2 Pete=2 Lionel=1 Random Hot Chick=3 Random Guy=3 Someone who was just trying to kill Clark=0 Other (group of people, entire world, etc.) 1 Total individual saves, not counting "other"=20 (half as many as season 1.. you're slacking, Clark!)
Nice for teens! Bought this for my nieces and they love it. I've never watched it but they say it's really great. They are in their teens so if you have teens, they will probably like this too.
Ahhh the good old days. It's strange looking back now at Smallville when you think of the rubbish it's become. Back in its first three glorious seasons it had some excellent stories, character progression & more importantly it was god damn entertaining.
Hell even Lana was watchable. This was because back then the Clark/Lana relationship was organically fleshed out between its first three seasons, with season 1 being they get to know each other, Season 2 they fall in love & Season 3 they try & stay together but ultimately (or seemingly fail). Now had Lana stayed in Paris (which she should have) then this would have made the Clark/Lana story indeed tragic but from Season 4 onwards Lana would become a mascot for the creators & cease to be a character but more on that in my season 4 review.
Anyway this season has some excellent episodes especially the episode Perry where Clark helps out a down & out Perry White wow those were the days, Clark was actuallt the star of his own show!!
The season ends with the sensational Covenant where Chloe seemingly dies & Lionel goes to jail for the death of his parents & Lex is left in charge of his Father's empire. Now had Season 4 started and continued with Chloe dead, Lionel in jail, Lana in Paris then the show would have been having the same forward momentum it was gaining for the previous three seasons & would actually had been considered one of the best shows of its time but sadly the creators wouldn't take more risks as far as characters were concerned, Lana would return, Chloe lived, Lionel somehow escapes prision & takes charge of LuthorCorp again although he was bankcrupt?
This is as good as Smallville would get sadly as after this the show would be much of the same but like any copy it would prove to be far inferior to its original predicessor.
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