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Smallville - The Complete Seventh Season [Blu-ray] | ![Smallville - The Complete Seventh Season [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512QzpFhTkL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Actors: Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, Allison Mack
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $79.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2254
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 829 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000039703
UPC: 883929025183
EAN: 0883929025183
ASIN: B0012U7IWU
Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 2001
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Condition: Never opened in orginal factory shrink wrap. Mint Condition.
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 Unsatisfying October 6, 2008
Emmanuel C. Kim
Season seven of Smallville proves that they should have ended this show a year or two ago. Amidst trying to round out characters that really don't need rounding and introducing a slew of new eye candy, this season really falls flat as a satisfying season.
Probably the only two pieces of saving grace to the season were the introduction of Kara Kent, and Michael Rosenbaum's performance as Lex Luthor. Kara Kent, played by Laura Vandervoort, is Clarks long lost Kryptonian cousin who's been trapped in suspended animation for the last two decades. Not only does she add another piece of delectable eye candy to this season, but she also helps to fill out some of Clarks back story as the last son of Krypton.
Without a doubt, Lex Luthor has to be the writers favorite character. The writers seem to love exploring and growing Lex's character, and season 7 is no different. This is in stark contrast to the other character this season, like Clark.
Clark more or less is stuck in his role as a overly protective, brooding, alien. On a positive note, they explore more of Clark's Kryptonian heritage this season by bringing new characters to the table. In what could have been the best sequences of the season, we are introduced to Clark's biological mother, and Kara's megalomaniac father. But they actually manage to screw this up, by cutting the story arc to only one episode. What!!!
As for the other characters, they just don't feel like they have any direction. This season really felt like they didn't know how to make the existing characters interesting anymore so the solution was to add just a bunch of other characters into the mix. Sort of sad really. They truely broke Lana's character, and Cloe's biggest obstacle this season was finding a haircut that worked for her.
Honestly I feel like the days of truly intriguing story arcs are over. As much as I loved a ton of episodes that came after, they really should have ended the show on season 5. Just one man's opinion.
 Very Nice!!!!!! October 3, 2008
Vicente Lozano Jr. (Mission,Tx USA)
Very Nice season and plenty of extra features.If you love Smallville then you definitely need to pick up this season.
 SMALLVILLE ON BLU-RAY (in spanish) October 2, 2008
Olimpusharp (SPAIN)
Me encanta Smallville y luce muy bien en alta definición, pero se nota que no llega a una calidad de visión digna de un blu-ray. Se nota una gran diferencia con respecto al dvd pero aun así la imagen podria ser mejor, a pesar de todo, genial. Una buena compra.
Oh the potential of Smallville... September 13, 2008
David Stager (California, USA)
I've watched the show faithfully from the beginning and it's just now getting close to living up to its tremendous potential. To me, the show peaked with the seventh season episode "Apocalypse" where we saw the world without Superman and peeked into the world of the modern Superman comic books.
I suppose there's no point in going through the episode details because if you're buying this you surely know most of that. So, focusing on the Blu-Ray version... the menu system is gone. We've seen this on Blu-Ray movies where it just plays the movie upon loading the disc. Same here. Loading the disc just starts playing the episodes. Pressing the menu button does not bring up the list of episodes, and is used only to allow access to special features.
Since the episodes themselves do not contain title cards and the printed insert does not include a chapter key - you're on your own trying to use the skip buttons to find episodes on the disc.
Part of why I buy the box sets is to be able to find a particular favorite episode to watch - not to watch the whole series in chronological order again. So, needless to say the menu design is severely flawed for a box set of this type.
Also, there are just three discs in the box for the entire season of 20 episodes. Therefore the HD, although still good looking, by necessity is at a lower bit rate quality than the Blu-Ray format can deliver. The season six set had 22 episodes on four discs.
I'm hoping that Clark will actually fly in season 8. He's been the Flash for seven seasons and it's about time that gimmick end.
An excellent season for a show that has been on for seven years July 12, 2008
Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Warning! Several spoilers!
I have long had a conflicted reaction to SMALLVILLE. On the one hand I really like a lot of the main characters -- the reconception of Lex Luthor and the invention of the character of Chloe Sullivan are two major contributions to the Superman mythology -- and there are in each season at least a few exceptionally good episodes. On the other hand, SMALLVILLE narratively remains one of the most timid shows on TV, barely moving the overall story along from one season to the next. Fans of LOST became unhappy with the series both in Season Two and at the very beginning of Season Three because the show seemed to go into something of a holding pattern. Instead of moving the story along, it seemed to be standing still (luckily LOST dramatically picked up the pace in the last 16 episodes of Season Three and all of Season Four). But compared to SMALLVILLE, even at its slowest LOST seemed to be moving along at a jacket rabbit pace. Both shows seem slow compared to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, which has moved its story along at a refreshingly brisk pace.
So, all in all, not much happened in Season Seven of SMALLVILLE, much like all previous seasons. The goal of the show seems to be to stretch it out as long as possible, not to make the best show that they can. Four or five episodes can pass with virtually nothing of significance having happened, and then you get an exception one like "Descent," in which Lex kills his own father Lionel, and Lex is transformed into something approximating the utterly evil Lex Luthor of traditional Superman.
But the timidity of the writers/producers dominates the show. Only at the end of the season do we finally see what appears to be the genuine end of the Lana/Clark romance. Lois was introduced seasons ago, yet it is hard to imagine her and Clark having much chemistry (that will be the great challenge for Season Eight, making the eventual romance between the two of them seem not merely possible but plausible). They seem more than anything like non-kissing cousins. New plot wrinkles were introduced in Season Seven, like Clark's cousin Kara arriving and the emergence of the Veritas organization, but these mainly seemed to be ways of postponing the real story. And what is that? How a mild-mannered farm boy (as Lois puts it) can be transformed into the world's greatest super hero. In Season Six we seemed to be moving a bit in that direction with Oliver Queen urging to use his abilities for some greater purpose, but in Season Seven Clark seems to have regressed. He seems -- to be blunt -- to be clueless about what he should be doing with his life.
The biggest story surrounding Season Seven really is about what it portends for Season Eight. There is absolutely no question, the changes from Season Seven to Eight will be enormous. Michael Rosenbaum (Lex) and Kristin Kreuk (Lana) both will be more or less leaving the show. Lex should be present in at least the first episode of Season Eight, but while both are supposed to return in guest roles, neither is expected to play a major role next season. Also gone is John Glover as Lionel Luthor. It could have been worse. After these three major characters were acknowledged by the studio to be leaving, Allison Mack's agent demanded a substantial raise, since Chloe would be the only major remaining character besides Clark from Season One. After a few days of posturing and an enormous outcry of outrage by fans, it was announced that Chloe would indeed returning (I hope her raise was a good one -- she deserves it). This good news was tempered with reports that Laura Vandervoort, who had been excellent in Season Seven as Kara (aka Supergirl), might not be returning in Season Eight. I hope they bring her back. This show has lost an exceptional number of familiar faces in recent years. They ought to try and keep any good, new one. There are rumors that Oliver Queen aka The Green Arrow might be back for at least part of Season Eight.
But my major concerns with Season Eight return to questions of narrative. Speed it up, guys! They really need this season to deal with two major issues and then bring the series to an end. First, they really need to make this particular Clark and this particular Lois believable as a romantically destined couple. Second, they need to give Clark the backbone to face up to the significance of his having the powers that he does and what that entails. In other words, Clark needs to become heroic on a truly super level. As far as the romance goes, there have been other shows that have successfully replaced one epic romantic couple with another. The love of Buffy's life was Angel, but her romance with Spike was engrossing in its own way. And while for three years the great romantic couple on THE O.C. was Ryan and Marissa (though I personally preferred Summer and Seth), Season Four made us forget all about R&M by unexpectedly pairing Ryan with Taylor, a character he had had absolutely no romantic vibes with in Season Three. The show needs to hit the ground running in Season Eight pushing the whole Lois and Clark thing. We have to believe that they might have a future together by the time the series ends. Right now it takes a heck of a lot of imagination to imagine them together.
Update (July): The people taking over the production of the show apparently are having some of the same feelings about the need to develop the Lois and Clark connection as I mentioned above. Multiple leaks indicate the Season 8 will show a definite racheting up of the relationship between those two, though initially it will be more comedic than dramatic. I think that could be wise. It is easier to imagine them developing feelings through comic situations than heavy emotionally ones. But the leaks definitely have me looking forward to what comes next. Also, confirmation that Oliver Queen will be very close to a full time character and the announcement that Doomsday will be played by Sam Witmer (best known as Crashdown from Season One of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA).
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