If you could reboot Smallville...

[Webhead2006]

well we do know it did have some defensive measures as we saw in season 5 when it was going to freeze chloe. where as other times, like lois/martha jorel let them in, and others where with clark. or the fos was dead/they had means like the orb that protected them.

 

[Indy Flash]

Forget The Teen Stuff. IMO

 

[Kii]

Forget The Teen Stuff. IMO

I take issue with the poorly written melodrama of the earlier years, but not the teen stuff as a whole. The "teen experience" is needed as a it provides a way for the viewer to relate to a protagonist that's a super powered extraterrestrial.

 

[SV Fan]

I take issue with the poorly written melodrama of the earlier years, but not the teen stuff as a whole. The "teen experience" is needed as a it provides a way for the viewer to relate to a protagonist that's a super powered extraterrestrial.

If they need plots to make Clark relatable to people through "teen experience", couldn't they have plots like Pete and Clark get caught for underage drinking or Pete goats Clark into doing a panty raid instead of the non stop angst. I know that would be a hell of alot more interesting and make Pete a much better character at the same time. lol

 

[Kii]

If they need plots to make Clark relatable to people through "teen experience", couldn't they have plots like Pete and Clark get caught for underage drinking or Pete goats Clark into doing a panty raid instead of the non stop angst. I know that would be a hell of alot more interesting and make Pete a much better character at the same time. lol

Exactly. There are much better ways to convey what it's like being a teenager than just having Clark being love sick 24/7, that's just crap writing.

 

[SV Fan]

Exactly. There are much better ways to convey what it's like being a teenager than just having Clark being love sick 24/7, that's just crap writing.

I know I probably am in the minority but I always enjoyed the S4 football arc(Facade-Devoted-Jinx-Recruit). While I thought they could have given it more attention I thought it was a great non shipping plot for Clark that I wish the show would have used more often

 

[Kii]

I know I probably am in the minority but I always enjoyed the S4 football arc(Facade-Devoted-Jinx-Recruit). While I thought they could have given it more attention I thought it was a great non shipping plot for Clark that I wish the show would have used more often

Agreed, but at the same time I disagree. My issue with the football storyline comes from the fact that the show currently tries to push the notion that Clark is a nerd. But as a whole, I think the football arc was great as like you said, it gave Clark something else to do besides fawning after Lana. If I were to reboot the show, I'd certainly leave that plot in, but I'd tweak it slightly. I'd have Clark quit the team as he feels uncomfortable with the increased amount of peer attention and scrutiny, potentially putting his secret in jeopardy.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ya that is how they should have done that. But all the love drama was a down point in the show some times.

 

[TheTrickster]

Things I didn't like about the show:
Everyone who lives (or has visited Smallville) is proficient at computer hacking.
Clark appears to have an IQ of a five year old ( based upon the way he does things)
Smallville is not a fixed place, but rather a town that changes distance from Metropolis episode to episode.
Issues like Kara being lied to by Lex when he finds her, then when she returns to Smallville Lex is the only one she trusts.

 

[Catman]

Teen angst was a major flaw for this show, but at the same time, there was nothing they could do about it. It's requirement for a WB show.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ya so true there.

 

[Grail74]

For the most part I would generally keep things the way they happened. However I would make several changes as well.

1. Metropolis isn't in Kansas.

2. When Clark goes goes off to college, I'd actually have him go to college. Perhaps change the cast around, however would definately bring in Lois at this point.

3. No Doomsday, no Darkseid, No Kryptonians before Clark is fully Superman.

4. Jonathon doesn't die.

5. When Clark goes to college, the show is renamed Metropolis (Season 5).

6. No more meteor freaks after he leaves Smallville. Now he starts finding out that there are people that are born with or receive powers in different ways.

I've read some of your ideas and I've liked some of them. For instance Lionel being the villian in the HS years and Lex sort of being the force saving Clark from his Lionel (sets up the father vs son thing).

I see Lex going more towards the Darkside during the college years. Then at the end of season 8 killing his father and taking over the company fully and fully becoming evil. Lex never learns Clark's identity.

Once the show is revamped into Metropolis I'd introduce Intergang as a new crime family that is on the rise and consolidating power.

These are just some of my ideas.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Season 1-No Whitney.Lana and Chloe are never friends.There Is genure triangle ebtween Clark,Lana,and Chloe.Pete has crush on Lana not chloe.
Lex simply befriends Clark not investigating him.

Season 2-have It be Lional from outset Intrested In caves not Lex.Pete doesn't learn Clark's secret.Martha
remains Lional's assistant.Drop Clark thinking Jor-El sent him here to conquer.
Make cliffhanger of season 2 Clark and Lana get together.Chloe joins with Lional,and Lex's plane crashes.

Season 3-Drop the Lional killing his parents subplot.End season 3 with Calrk being contracted by the Jor-El AI.Make It contest.

Season 4-Keep Pete around this season.Clark,and Pete's firendship Is strained by clark discovering him revealing his feelings for Lana.Drop the witch
angle from the stones storyline.have it be Lional not Lex Clark has to outrace to find the stones.The season ends with Clark and lana breaking up.Lana and Pete kissing and leaving town(they both never return to the show) Lex leaves Luthorcorp to start Lexcorp and go his own way.Second metor shower hits smallville

Season 5-The Fortress Is created.Clark goes to collage,trains In fortress and
also goes to Smallville.Chloe attends the same collage.Over the course of season Clark finally notices Chloe,and romance finally devolps between them.
Lois Is Introduced at collage.Lex helps rebuild smallville after second metor shower.Lex begins to assemble benevolt public face.By end of season Clark reveals to Chloe his secret.Chloe would be only one besides Jonathan and martha to learn his secret.

Season 6-Lex's descent to darkness.For a time Lex dates Lois.Lex and Clark's friendship Is stained.The vartas storyline comes here and explains Lional's actions since season 1.Clark and Chloe take their relationship to sexual level.
The season ends with Lex killing Lional.

Season 7-Clark,and Lex's firendship ends.Lex moves to metropolas.Clark proposes to Chloe.She accepts.By season ends Chloe's life Is In danger and cliffhanger Is her fate.

Season 8-Chloe dies.Clark puts on glasses,and goes to work In metroplas at Daily Planet.So does Lois.Lex has left Metropolas.Tess Is Introduced and
triangle devolps between Her,Clark,and Lois.Clark and Lois become closer but tess makes moves on Clark.Brianiac Is Introduced.Cliffhanger IS fight ebtween Lois and Tess over Clark and brianic at fortress.

Season 9-General Zod Is freed from Phantom Zone.Clark and Lois begin dating.Tess spunned by Clark joins forces with Zod.Clark discovers the past Zod had with Jor-el and the actions that lead to destrucon of Kryptan.The season ends with lois breaking up with Clark and showdown between Clark and
Zod.

Season 10-Clark sends Zod back to phantom zone.Clark Is unsure of his future.Jonathan dies.Clark assembles balckoutfit as Blur to become here.Jimmy Olsen In introduced as young Intern who Lois also starts using to take pictures.Brianic plots revenge against Clark.Lois becomes enamed of the Blur.Clark at work begins to act clumsy to hide his identity more.Martha makes the superman suit.Lex finally returns to metropolas and murders tess
for her actions.Brainic launches attack on world.This Is when Clark becomes Superman.he defeats brainic but half of metropas IS destroyed.Lex decrys aliens and begins rebuilding the city.Lois names superman,and Perry White
becomes new editor of the Daily Planet.Lex vows to destroy Superman after seeing people cheering him.

 

[Lord]

If i rebooted smallville, Lois would be introduced as a rival to clark in metropolis as a reporter or as a summer work.
Season 4 would feature a story arc featuring the Legion of superheroes and while clark wouldn't be featured as superboy, some villains of the original comic would be featured and Bizarro would keep his origin as a Clark clone created by Lex or one of his scientists.
And for last and not least i would use Kenny Braverman before he became conduit, but he wouldn't become conduit until clark became superman.

 

[Lord]

Ok, i figured that a reboot could follow 10 seasons trying to figure out how clark becomes superman or there's another possibility, instead of reboot it with pratically the same story you could simply reboot his quest to become superman, if you did only that you could bring new elements such as the legion of superheroes in smallville and Clark as a reporter travelling the world, you could make him superman as early as season 5 and maybe even continue from there with superman's stories, it could from there end any season but if it had a 10 season you could use the same story from the 6th issue of The Man of Steel, wich i figured that could also be a good name for the series.

 

[Herolee10]

1. The term or even the idea of a romantic Triangle wouldn't exist on the show.

2. Clark wouldn't have kissed every female series regular that isn't related to him in some way.

3. The Season Antagonists would actually feel like a Season Antagonist.

4. Clark would have flown much earlier on the show.

5. Heroes and Characters being introduced or shown on the show would receive their spotlight without taking Clark's or hurting his character in some form of way.

6. The characters wouldn't be written as hypocritical at times.

7. Clark would have donned the glasses MUCH SOONER

8. Jor el wouldn't be the AI in the FOS. It would have been the Eradicator; plus, the Eradicator wouldn't be all powerful or all knowing like AI Jor el was presented

9. Both of Clark's biological parents wouldn't be blonde

10. Don't make costumes for the characters who's look you can't faithfully adapt onto screen without it being cringe-worthy looking

11. Consistency and Continuity would have been a MUST.

12. Relationships would have been handled A LOT better.

13. We would SEE Clark wear the suit entirely and have the public see him clearly and react to him by the end of the show.

 

[Sawyer]

What would I change in a reboot? So ****ing much. I love the show and all, but there were so damn many missteps along the way...

1. Seven seasons. Seven is a good number. Let's face facts here, the series was essentially just taking Clark from point A to point B. It should not have taken ten years to get from point A to point B. That's a whole lot of filler.

2. Michael Rosenbaum from beginning to end. Another downside of them taking so long to reach the end. The series was just as much about Lex's descent into villainy as it was about Clark's journey towards becoming Superman.

3. Don't use Lana as the reason Lex turns against Clark. Just ****ing don't.

4. Lana would not last far beyond the high school years. She got tedious by about season five. Change the entire arc of her relationship with Clark. Season one would've been the Whitney/Clark/Lana triangle (let's just change Whitney into Pete Ross, just for the sake of avoiding much product placement), season two would've been Lana and Clark dating, ending the season with Clark telling Lana his secret; season three would've been her dealing with being a part of Clark's life and season four would've ended with Lana leaving Smallville behind. Eight seasons work done in four WITHOUT forcing the two apart at gunpoint or delving into a ****ty Lex/Lana romance.

5. No witch arc, no Doomsday arc, and (as much as I enjoyed him) an entire season of Zod and the Kandorians was not necessary.

6. Dont wait until season five to delve into any real Superman mythos or give us any legit villains. But I loved Marsters' Brainiac, so solution: Instead of Professor Milton Fine in season five, how about Principal Milton Fine in season one and have him serve as an overarching antagonist for the high school years, just as Lex is the overarching villain for the series.

7. The Legion much earlier in the game. I loved their episode, but really, the second they showed up, their first reaction should've been "Mother****er, why are you not Superman yet?!"

8. No Tights, fine, but give us some flights. I get why they wouldn't want Welling running around in the Superman costume episode after episode for potentially many years, but I see no reason that this guy shouldn't have been flying by, like, season eight.

I can think of more, but I'm too lazy right now. Maybe later.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I think It would have been more interesting if the Kents didn't know the true origin of Clark. I've seen that done in a few stories.

Giving Clark a more assertive personality would have improved the show as well (or any reboot).

 

[Sawyer]

I dont get what you're saying about the Kents... like, they wouldn't know he's not human?

 

[Thundercrack85]

I dont get what you're saying about the Kents... like, they wouldn't know he's not human?

Oh, they'd know there was something different about him. But in DC, is that really saying much? Think finding a young Kal-El, but not his spaceship.

 

[CrazyDavey]

I would've just added a crossover with Bruce Wayne... i'm still disappointed it didn't happen

But at least we got all those other heroes!

 

[Indy Flash]

1-4 school
5 collage/Fortress
6-10 Dp glasses Superman

 

[LL2K2]

My biggest gripe, even bigger than love triangles and unnecessary pairings, was Clark's lack of interaction with people outside Smallville and Metropolis. Throughout the series' run, he ventured outside that area only 4 times, and they were for something relevant to the storyline at hand rather than a subplot to build his character.

By that last part I mean this: Every season since the start of S6, I've had the same wish for Clark - to see the world as a whole, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages (much like he did in Birthright and in Man of Steel).

 

[Lord]

If the series was rebooted in 10 years from now it wouldn't have the same success because then it was something new and interesting, my wish was if i could have made it with my oun ideas from the begining.
In the begining the series felt like if it was going somewhere, somewhere big, as it would lead to a feature movie, i would have made it liike this:
Season 1-4 the same but without the witches, Clark would travel the world, start wearing glasses soon in the middle of these seasons, Lex and Lionel were promising in the begining, and the Legion should have appeared during this period of time. Lex cares less for Clark and friends by season 3.
Seasons 5-7 would has clark traveling the world with Lex doing the same as Clark begins to accept his destiny and Lex slowly becomes the villain we love and goes to Metropolis, Clark goes to Metropolis and discovers Lex as a different Man, and becomes superman.
Then it would continue with the superman film series.

 

[storyteller]

Well first and foremost I would not try to be 100% faithful. Whats the point if all your doing is just adapting and not adding anything new.May as well just do a motion comic.

For my reboot assuming I got 10 years. I would have part of the journey with Clark in HS and the rest with Clark traveling around. This may call for two different actors because I want an actual kid as young Clark.

None of this destiny stuff. It has to always be Clarks choice. Less FOTW. I would start off in season 1 with regular crooks. But I wouldn't want Clark to get so much practice that he's Superman minus the costume.

I would keep the Blur stuff. I think that transition is much better then either being Superboy or debuting as Superman.

Zod, Brainiac, Doomsday, Lex all stay in.

I think the story would need to split at some point. Clark and Lex would have a parallel journey but not intersect.

Flight won't be on a pedestal. He learns to fly half way through but won't have full use of it to travel the globe. He would go stronger with the power.

Season 10 would be a full on Superman year one.

Lana is gone the moment the two break up and he leaves smallville. NO CHLOE. Oliver and the other heroes I would be encountered and only show up when they had something to go. No Lana like characters.