Smallville came across some problems, specialy during season four.
Up util this point the character was slowly but surely evolving, and they had the chance to make Clark Kent/ Kal-El into a much better character than in the comics at the time. But they failed completly.
I'm gonna give a more detailed list of what they did wrong:
1- It took Clark ten seasons just to learn how to fly, when all other kryptonian characters could fly as soon has they got their powers, and that was simply ridiculous.
2- Kryptonite! It seemed that the whole planet Krypton fell on Earth. There was kryptonite everywhere, in their multiple versions. It got so absourd that they even created the "meteor freaks" people that were exposed to some extreme situation where kryptonite was around and got instant powers. That and the experiments made by Lexcorp on people by injecting them with kryptonite. At least in the comics kryptonite is also deadly to humans if they are either exposed for long periods of time or if they get it inside their bodies.
3- Clark/Kal fight to accept his destiny. He fought Jor-El consciousness at every turn, just to make things worst.
4- The fortress of solitude, if we can call a place where anyone could get in, a fortress. And they made it too much like the one in the Christopher Reeve Superman movie version.
5- The all Lana Lang and Lois Lane took too much time, and filled up a lot of episodes with stories that added nothing to the serie.
6- It was hinted more than once that Clark had other powers (like telepathy), but it was always a one time deal. Much like his x-ray vision, only once did he used it to just see through a wall, all the other times it wasn't even x-ray vision but more of a x-ray spectrum vision.
-7 How plain normal his mind was. He was freaking pre-superman and has such he should be able to think and learn at a superhuman rate, but no. Till the end of the series he was just normal smart. Hell, even I'm smarter than he ever was, and I have no powers.
8- The clothes! The clothes were a disaster, always with the red and blue, it made me sick. And then Kara/Supergirl comes along and again with the red and blue. Then he started wearing that black suit with the white S shield, which could have been way more cool if it was more like the suit Marlon Brando wore in the movie. Then he used that red jacket with the S on it and I can't state how ridiculous it seemed. And finally the plain Superman suit. They could have created something new like in Man of Steel, but no, they lacked the creativity even there.
9- His friendship with Lex Luthor. His struggle to fight for someone that would come to be his greatest enemy, was so pointless that everyone knew it was a lost cause from the beginning. But still the producers keeped insisting in it, even with all the lies and decieving that was known by both characters.
10- How other DC heroes were presented in the series. Green Arrow, Aquaman, Cyborg, Black Canary, The Flash (well actually it wasn't the Flash but Impulse, Barry Allen great-great-grandson). All these characters stories/backgrounds came so lame and so weak, that it was painful to see them acting independently or as a team. And the villains... I'm not even going to go there, its even more painful.
There! Smallville had 10 seasons, and I've just gave you 10 reasons that made Smallville a die hard, serie. Because only a die hard fan of Superman would be able to withstand seeing all 10 seasons.
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