In my head I've got this worked out as a book, although in reality I don't know that I'd find a publisher for something so niche.

But if I ever do, here's a little teaser -- the table of contents that I have meticulously worked out.

INTRODUCTION
ABSTRACT: RAFAY-EL AND THE HERALDIC PREDILECTION
PROLOGUE: NAM-AN, SA-GEETH, DAX-UR, AND BRAINIACS 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 417
FIRST INTERLUDE: FROM PRE-HISTORY THROUGH THE 15TH CENTURY
PART 1: THE ERADICATOR, VERITAS, AND THE BEGINNINGS
PART 2: FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE YEAR, i.e. SEASONS 1 & 2
PART 3: JUNIOR YEAR, i.e. SEASON 3
PART 4: SENIOR YEAR, i.e. SEASON 4
PART 5: CLARK KENT'S COLLEGE YEAR, i.e. SEASON 5
PART 6: THE GREAT PHANTOM ZONE ESCAPE, i.e. SEASON 6
PART 7: THE RETURN OF VERITAS, i.e. SEASON 7
PART 8: DOOMSDAY, i.e. SEASON 8
SECOND INTERLUDE: THE "ONE YEAR LATER" TIMELINE
PART 9: MAJOR ZOD AND THE KANDORIANS, i.e. SEASON 9
PART 10: THE COMING OF DARKSEID, i.e. SEASON 10
THIRD INTERLUDE: EARTH-TWO
PART 11: THE CRISIS, i.e. SEASON 11
PART 12: IMAGINARY STORIES, i.e. "SEASON 12"
EPILOGUE: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
END NOTES

Apparently, Tom Welling gets a DUI at or near an Arby's Parking Lot.
https://cosmicbook.news/smallville-tom- ... -dui-arbys

He did not try to escape from the police, hearing Alfred Gough and Miles Millar's Smallville mandate in in his alcohol-addled
mind: "If you get tight, no flight"—or something like that.

Oh, Tom.

What will the millions of children who idolize him and copy his every move make of this?

Probably that they need to get a wife and maybe get a little carried away celebrating her birthday?

That was meant to be a joke not any excuse for him or excess drinking and driving.

Didn't the guy who played Superboy in that show's first season get fired because of a DUI?

Is there a "Superboy" curse?

We dare not speak speak of it, lest we invite the curse upon the next poor bastard actor to play Superboy.

You of all people should know this, Doot. Why do you think the Kristin Kreuk/Allison Mack sex cult happened? Why do you think we never got to see any more of Adrianne Palicki as Supergirl? Why wasn't there just one more season of Smallville...? It was the curse...the fearful, dreaded curse...

Bump for love of SMALLVILLE

You know, overall, I liked it.

I love to hear that.

I have all ten seasons on DVD (bought them yearly as they came out), and bought a couple of the "Season 11" comic books
(just the first one or two that featured Barbara Gordon and/or Bruce Wayne). I think the only episodes I ever watched twice
were the ones where the Justice Society first showed up.

I doubt I will ever watch the discs again. I don't want to accidentally see "The Blur" phase.

I hate to hear that.

Once you reach ten seasons, and about 22 45-minute episodes a year, we're looking at what, 165 hours?
I guess, with minimal sleep, we could get through it all in ten days.

Only 217 episodes. I was close.

Here's an endeavor for you to consider, Doot.
You've got all 217 episodes to work with, but say I'm only willing to watch, let's say 30 of them again total.
Of those 30, we should probably have the first couple and the last couple as framing sequences.

Suggest then which 30 episodes I should watch that would best encapsulate the series' storylines. Looks
like you have a good summary at the top of this thread, so you might be able to rattle off 30 easily.

What's the Reader's Viewer's Digest version of Smallville? A one-day all-day binge?

So ...
1. Pilot
2. Second episode
[Twenty-six hand-selected episodes]
29-30. Two-hour finale

Is that what we're talkin' 'bout?

'Cause I am ON IT

Yep, that's what I'm thinking. They don't have to be the "best" episodes, per se, but they need to tell a good 24-hour (or
so) Smallville series story.

What I mean by that, is that sometimes the best episode might require two or three other build-up episodes to achieve
its "best" status/emotional pay off, etc., and therefore, may not be the best choice for a Viewer's Digest Marathon. This
should end up being a nice package for someone who's never seen the series before, something that makes sense.

And with the right selection, you could probably get the gist of what happened by the "Previously on Smallville" recap.
(I'm assuming it had those. I don't remember.)

Also, I had it in my mind that the first two episodes were more closely tied together, but I just looked and the second one
is that one where I thought Lana was going to become the Insect Queen (or something like that).

So, new rule: You do not need to select episode #2. I'd rather has the X-Ray Vision episode because… fun.

This is the worst thing anyone from that show has ever done.

By FAR.

I read you. Good thing to clarify.


Might end up being a lot of premieres and finales, which means less creativity on the part of me, the complier ... but I'm still up to it.


It was more frequent in the later seasons, although I think for at least one season, the DVDs omitted those recaps. Or maybe there's just an option to skip or not skip recaps, that needs to be toggled ... ? I'm not sure.

But IRREGARDLESS.

I am still on top of it.