Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321900735896 Format: Box set Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 6 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2005-10-10 Running Time: 924 Studio: Warner Home Video
Customer Rating: Summary: Keeps getting better and better.... Comment: For me small ville keeps geeting better and better every season. I loved the idea of another main character having a story line because sometimes the ""demon of the week" theme does get a little worn out.
I also LOOVVEE the thing going on with lex and lana because its really sweet to see their relationship get stronger every episode... AND LOIS!!!! She really has become one of my favourite characters but it was a little disapointing for her to have such a small part because her and clark together are HILARIOUS!!!
Anyways buy this season its great... a lot better then the last three!
xxxxx Customer Rating: Summary: Smallville gets "lighter" Comment: Following the trend of humpety dumpety style openings, the writers manage to putt smallville back together again, with the character back into their original places. Lana returns, Chloe comes back from the dead *coughs* hiding, and Clark...er...falls back to Earth naked in a field. The introduction of Lois does being some much needed comic relief, and adds a new dimention as Cark is not the hero to her.
The main plot of this season is that of gaining three Kryptonian crystals, which grant the sum off al Kryptonian knowledge to it's possesser.
HOWEVER
This season is GREATLY spolied by the addition of a witch (and her two cronies in Spell), this degrades the entire season, as it's very difficult to except, or even take those episodes seriously. This continues throughout the season, dragging on and on.
Season four does however have some great episodes, such as Devoted, Run, Transference, Spirit, and Commencement (the finale). These are diamond in the rough however, as near the end of season four the characters obsessision with the "stones of power", becomes mind-numbingly frustrating.
If the witches were to be removed this season would have been far better, as it is they help to drag down the (arguably) weakest season.
However there is some hope in the form of a second meteor shower that this reviewer hoped would wipe out the irritaing stone plottline once and for all. Customer Rating: Summary: DRIFTED SCRIPTS BUT WORTH A LOOK Comment: WELL I LOVE SMALLVILLE EVEN THOUGH I'M 35. IV,E RECENTLY BOUGHT AND WATCHED THE WHOLE 5 SERIES BACK TO BACK OVER THREE MONTHS. AND SERIES 4 WAS THE WORST ONE. NOT TO SAY IT ISN'T WORTH WATCHING BUT I THOUGHT AN HONEST REVIEW WOULD BE HELPFULL, NOT LIKE THE OVER COMMENDING REVIEWS THAT AMAZON GET WHEN SOME ONE LIKES A DVD A BIT AND GIVES IT FULL MARKS..
SERIES 4 DRIFTS OF THE BOIL A BIT DUE TO LACK OF SCRIPT IDEAS I THINK.
THE WHOLE LANA BEING AN ANCIENT WITCH AND THE INTRODUCTION OF JANE SEYMOUR AS HER NEMISIS IS ALL A BIT LAIM (EVEN THOUGH THE EPISODE WHERE SHE DISCOVERS HER WITCH PAST IS VERY SEXY ).FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING THESE EPISODES I GOT A BIT BORED. APART FROM THESE EPISODES THE REST IS GOOD LIKE THE RETURN OF ALISHA THE TELEPORTING EX OF CLARK AND CHLOE FINDING OUT ABOUT THE SECRETS HE HAS.OVERALL NOT AS GOOD AS THREE AND FIVE.. Customer Rating: Summary: Smallville at its best & its worst Comment: The forth season of Smallville is rather odd in that it has many great episodes, as well as some truly bad episodes. This season also sees Smallville starts to introduce more elements of the comic books, such as black Kryptonite, the superhero Flash and the supervillan Mxyztplk, even a version of Krypto the Superdog makes an appearance. The best of this seasons episodes is Onyx which sees Lex split into Evil and Good versions of himself. This episode could have been terrable but Michael Rosenbaum dose a brilliant job and obviously enjoys playing the Evil side of Lex. On the down side the episode Spirit is dire. Is is probebly one of the worst Smallville has produced. Although there are good and bad episodes in this season there are more good than bad and is well worth watching. Customer Rating: Summary: Underrated season (gets 5 stars for Lois) Comment: Ok admittedly season 4 had its faults, but I'm not sure it's the worst season of the bunch; for me that was season 3, I was bored senseless!
But it's a subjective thing and while there is a lot of fluff and quite a few episodes that don't hit the mark, the addition of Lois Lane as a semi-regular character breathes new life into the series, and thus some vitally needed witty humour is injected into the often earnest show. It's a joy to watch her making degrogatroy remarks at Clark's expense whilst helping Chloe out with some investigative journalism, I do wonder how they ever did without her. Though I know with regards to the superman mythos Lois was never meant to be in Smallville, but there's no reason one has to accept this as canon and besides Smallville is just one of many versions of the mythos and even the comics have taken liberties at times! So at the end of the day, this season is easier to enjoy if you just accept that Lois is here to stay (especially since she gets added to the credits in season 5!) The writers also do a nice bit of foreshadowing in relation to Clark and Lois's future relationship, which is even more ironic when we see them really not getting along.
Besides the wonderful Lois, I know another problem people had with this season was the Lana-Isobel witch arc. Now I didn't have too much of a problem with it, it was in the background for me thus I could more or less stand it. But I do feel that magic and vampires etc have no place in Smallville, but these writers do tend to take a lot of artistic licensing; so much so at times that I think the producers just literally make it up as they go along... this is evident this season. It's quite obvious they did not have an overall plan for the season, they just went with it and saw what happened; the result was a lot of light-switching and muddled storylines. Some characters did an entire one-eighty within the space of only a few episodes, most notably Lana. But to be fair they were always consistent with her feelings for Clark, so I can't complain about the sudden change too much!
So while the season is a bit confused, the addition of Lois adds some interesting interactions between all the characters. And the search for the stones could have been very good had the witch arc been dropped, as quite often the search for the stones was pushed to background while there were whole episodes devoted to Isobel; due to the wide dislike for the arc it was dropped without much resolve during the finale; not soon enough for some. However, this left a large amount of unanswered questioned hanging over they events of the season... my theory is that when Isobel's purpose was completed and she thought all of those who had her burned at the stake were dead she could move on and her possession of Lana ended. I think it's also easier to assume that she was being controlled by outside forces (Kryptonians?), thus once all the stones were found she did not seek the Fortress of Solitude. It's a complex one, but some bits of the story are detailed quite nicely, like when blood was spilled on the stone (the air stone in this instance) the meteors were called.
Another redeeming factor about this season is the finale, `Commencement' probably the best episode in the history of the show and the extra ten minutes in length help to steady the exciting pace without losing any momentum. The season opener `Crusade' also gets credit for being one of the best episodes in the whole series; with Kal-El taking flight and Lois meeting him in the middle of a thunderstorm (foreshadowing) whilst stark naked (Kal-El that is!)
Other highlights include: the final scene of `Façade', `Unsafe' and `Pariah' which sees the return of Alicia, `Run', `Transference', `Krypto' because its funny, `Sacred' and `Lucy' where Lois's sister comes to town. Worst episodes of the season are `Ageless', `Spell' (though it's not terrible) and `Forever'.
Underrated because the larger faults overshadow some brilliant episodes! Worth buying.
