SMALLVILLE
SEASON SIX

"Justice"

Zod
A powerless Clark is trapped in the "Phantom Zone" surrounded by the criminals his father imprisoned there. However, an unexpected ally comes to his aid. Meanwhile, Zod in Lex's body advances his plan to transform Earth into a new Krypton, while using Lana to produce an heir.

Sneeze
In the aftermath of Zod's activities, Clark develops a new power. Lois gets a new job, Lana takes a new step in her relationship with Lex, and Lex has to deal with a new danger. Meanwhile, an old friend of Lex's arrives in Metropolis.

Wither
Clark and Chloe pursue a plant creature that uses male humans to recreate, one which has taken Jimmy Olsen as its next human breeding ground. Meanwhile, Oliver Queen asks a reluctant Lois to be his date at a charity ball held by Lex.

Arrow
The mysterious Green Arrow steals a necklace from Martha, and both Lois and Clark resolve to find out who the vigilante is. While Clark determines Green Arrow's true identity, Lex continues his investigation of the mysterious black box while Lionel warns Lana against him.

Reunion
Lex and Oliver Queen return to their old prep school for a reunion, but Oliver's old friends (and Lex's old enemies) start dying in mysterious accidents. Meanwhile, Clark learns that someone... or something may have left the Phantom Zone with him.

Fallout
After escaping from the Phantom Zone, Raya comes to Smallville to visit Clark. Raya and Clark grow close, and Raya reveals how to repair the Fortress of Solitude. Unfortunately, Baern, another escapee seeks out revenge on Clark and Raya for his time spent in the Zone.

Rage
After being shot while stopping a carjacking, the Green Arrow begins acting strangely. Chloe and Clark investigate and find Oliver is taking a super drug that while healing his wound, has some dangerous side effects.

Static
One of the escapees from the Phantom Zone has killed the crew of a ship in Seattle. Clark confronts the killer who feeds on the bones of his victim. In Smallville, a patient in LuthorCorp Labs escapes experimentation and seeks revenge on Lex by trapping him in a dimension where he can see and hear those around him, but they cannot see him.

Subterranean
An illegal immigrant comes to Clark for help, escaping from a nearby farm where he's working... a farm that houses a dark secret.

Hydro
A Daily Planet gossip columnist uses her special power to overhear a conversation between Lana and Chloe, and publishes the conversation... where Lana admits having doubts about marrying Lex. While Chloe investigates the reporter, Lois asks Clark to help her investigate the mysterious Green Arrow bandit when she suspects he may be Oliver Queen in disguise.

Justice
When Lex's Level 33.1 project comes to fruition, Oliver Queen must bring together several of Clark's "heroic" super-powered allies together: Arthur Curry, Bart Allen, and Victor Stone.

Labyrinth
Clark is in his barn one moment... and the next finds himself in a psychiatric hospital where he discovers he's been suffering from delusions that he came from another planet and has super-powers.

Crimson
Clark is once again exposed to red kryptonite, and his "other self" goes on a rampage of sorts on Valentine's Day, kissing the women he's most attracted to and expressing his uninhibited feelings for the various relationships around him.

Trespass
Lana has a stalker that leads her to an unexpected hideout. Also, Chloe has to reevaluate her feelings for Clark after she and Jimmy break up due to Jimmy's belief that she isn't really over Clark.

Freak
A boy named Tobias was blinded by the meteor shower but given the ability to identify other meteor freaks. Lex is using Tobias to locate other people with abilities so that he can perform experiments on them. Lana learns of Tobias and is fearful that he will name Clark as a freak, so she offers him a cornea transplant to keep him quiet. But Tobias has some surprising news.

Promise
Clark has second thoughts about Lana marrying Lex, and Lana has the same concerns. Meanwhile, the doctor involved in the secret behind Lana's pregnancy threatens Lex with his knowledge.

Combat
Clark and Chloe find an escaped Zoner named Titan who is the star of a secret fight club that puts its death battles on the internet. Lois can tell that there is a story and goes to investigate, where she is put in the ring to fight. Clark goes in as a super-powered fighter to take on Titan but ends up against a different opponent instead.

Progeny
Lex discovers that Chloe's mother has special abilities and forces her to help him in exchange for Chloe's life. However, she has a trick or two of her own to use to escape.

Nemesis
Lex gets trapped in one of his labs by a distraught woman claiming he kidnapped her husband. She threatens to destroy the lab--with Lex still inside--unless he divulges her husband's whereabouts. When something unexpected causes a rescue attempt by Clark to fail, he becomes trapped as well. Now, the two men must overcome their hatred for each other if they want to make it out alive.

Noir
Lana and Lionel have a secret meeting, after which Lana is shot. While Jimmy is observing photos of the encounter, he is knocked unconscious. While unconscious Jimmy dreams about what life in Smallville would have been like in the 1940s. Clark is a reporter at the Daily Planet, Lana is a siren who planned the demise of her magnate husband Lex, and Lois is a singer at a bar that Lionel owns.

Prototype
Lex tries to turn a soldier that supposedly died in Afghanistan into a "super-soldier." A senator threatens to tell the world about Lex's labs, prompting Lex to send the "soldier" to kill the senator. Lois sees the attack and becomes the soldier's next victim.

Phantom
Clark discovers the reason Lana married Lex then and sets out to kill Lionel. Lex tries to use DNA from the last phantom to power his super-soldiers. Lois goes to a dam to search for Lex's lab but is caught by a security guard and fatally injured. Chloe's power is discovered.

Clark Kent is destined to be the greatest superhero the world has ever seen but it's going to be a hard journey getting there.

When 'Smallville' started back in 2001, a prequel or alternative origins series was greeted with much mixed reactions from fans of the classic DC character. The show set out to change the origin story of Clark Kent from what we had seen in the classic 1978 movie and in the original comic. While Clark still grew up in Smallville, trying to keep his powers secret and falling in love with Lana Lang even though he has never had the guts to tell her how he felt, series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Miller nearly everything else to create their own mythos about the origins of Superman.

Now we have Superman's arch nemesis Lex Luthor starting as Clark's best friend, Lex's father Lionel Luthor running Luthor Corp with a ruthless hand as Lex will do in the future and Lois Lane meeting Clark well before the pair even headed for the Daily Planet. We also have fact that when Clark's Kryptonian spacecraft crash landed in Smallville, it was part of a meteor shower that will filled with Kryptonite fragments and this not only affected Clark but had an adverse affect on any human that came in contact with it. Meteor mutants with special powers then became the stalwart weekly villains of the show but as the series progresses over the seasons, they took more of a step back to make way for the development of Clark's transformation into Superman.

The sixth season sees Clark face some of his biggest tests yet. After been exiled to the Phantom Zone by his father Jor El's nemesis Zod, who had taken control of Lex's body, Clark escapes but with a cost, because some of the phantoms have returned to Earth with him. This sets up the underlying, continuing plot for the season but there are some other highlights. The biggest storyline is the introduction of a young version of Oliver Queen and his alter ego the Green Arrow and what he brings out of Clark. While Oliver has accepted his gift and using it to fight crime as a costumed superhero, Clark only uses his powers when he has to or when people are in danger. With Green Arrow actively seeking out criminals or actually attacking those he thinks are guilty, Clark faces the question of how much should he actually interfere and how much of an impact he can have on the world.

The continuation of the Lex, Lana and Clark story is still the main emphasis of the season however. With Clark and Lex's friendship falling apart and Lana heading into the arms of billionaire because of Clark's secret, Clark is on the verge of losing both of them forever. This is the season when we finally get to see Lex's true colours and Clark start to step up and realise that he can have a huge impact on the safety of the world.

With the cast of Tom Welling as Clark, Michael Rosenbaum as Lex, Kristin Kreuk as Lana, Allison Mack as Chloe, John Glover as Lionel, Erica Durance as Lois and Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent revelling in their roles, the sixth season of 'Smallville' is a joy for fans of the show and one that they will remember. It sees the star of the Justice League, the introduction of even more classic DC characters and Clark having to suffer a loss that will affect him for the rest of his life, this is a classic season of an extremely good show.

PICTURE & SOUND

Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen 16x9 with Dolby Digital 5.1, the series looks great.

BONUS FEATURES

Green Arrow: The Legend of the Emerald Archer (25.22 mins)
Smallville executive producers/creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, Smallville writers Kelly Sauders, Steven DeKnight and Brian Peterson, Green Arrow writers Kevin Smith, Judd Winick, Denny O'Neil and Mike Carlin and artist Neil Adams take you through the history of Green Arrow. From his first appearance in 1941, through the redesigns and changes and onto this small screen animated and live action incarnations. This is a fascinating insight into the incredibly popular character and one that the fans will really enjoy.

Smallville: Big Fans (29.56 mins)
Smallville executive producers/creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, writer Steven DeKnight, comic historian Mark Ward, stars John Glover and Erica Durance and die-hard fans of the series talk about the reaction to the show. With footage from Comicon in San Diego and of fans dedication to the show, this is a fun featurette that shows how much the show is loved.

Deleted Scenes
View deleted or extended scenes from most of the episodes from season six.

Smallville Legends: The Oliver Queen Chronicles (22.38 mins)
Split into six parts entitled 'Broken Arrow', 'Bon Voyage', 'Betrayal', 'Island', 'Bow Hunters' and 'Mended', this is a computer animation that covers the back story of Oliver Queen and Green Arrow.

The Making of Smallville Legends: The Oliver Queen Chronicles (9.10 mins)
Associate producer Mark Warshaw takes you through the pre-production, production and animation processes needed to bring the backstory of Oliver Queen to life.

Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom (9.53 mins)
Split into five parts, watch an animated comic book version of the Justice and Doom episodes.

OVERALL

The DVD treatment for 'Smallville Season Six' is very good. The extended features about Green Arrow and the fans are a very good watch but fans will be slightly disappointed at the lack of any commentary tracks for the episodes. Fans should be pleased with this release however.

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