![]() ![]() The lads become friends when Clark saves Lex's life but it's just as well that Lex doesn't know that the radiation exposure that left him bald resulted from Clark's arrival in a meteor storm. He will find out that years before becoming Superman's arch-enemy, Lex was sent to Smallville by his wealthy and domineering father - LexCorp, the family's empire, has roots there. He hangs out with pals Pete Ross (Sam Jones III, CSI) and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves), befriends Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum, Urban Legend) and pines for the beautiful Lana (Kristin Kreuk). He lives with his loving and protective adoptive parents, Jonathan (Schneider) and Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole, who played Clarke's teen dream Lana Lang opposite Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent/Superman in Superman III). ![]() We are really in effect dealing with a special-needs child." Set in the present day, Smallville follows the adventures of Clark Kent during his small town, high-school days in Kansas, before he learned to fly, before he mastered all his other powers, before he relocated to Metropolis and the Daily Planet. Can he ever have a normal life, and can he have sex? That clearly has never been explored before." John Schneider, the former Dukes Of Hazzard star who plays Kent's father, grins: "I think it's clear in the pilot that we're not dealing with Superman as a teenager. "It's puberty with superpowers," says fellow creator Alfred Gough. "For a teenage boy it's great - he can see through people's clothes," says co-creator Miles Millar, "but you don't always want to be able to see through things." Yes, the about-to-be-Superman is going through all those changes that lads face when they're growing up - learning to cope with shaving, voice-dropping, super-strength, X-ray vision. In Smallville, the new Dawson's Creek take on the comic-book hero's high-school years, Clark Kent's biggest task is fine-tuning his X-ray vision. Fighting for truth, justice and the American way? No way. ![]()
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