I've been watching all of season one and currently season two and I have thoughts.

The two Ryan episodes broke me. This kid really tugged on my heart strings.

The use of pyrotechnics in almost every episode is a thing. Gas tanks seem to explode routinely, erupting in great balls of fire. Getting blowed up real good is a daily hazard in Smallville.

I gather, in the first season, they were trying to figure out who were the real stars of the show (besides Tom Welling) and the second season sees those actors carrying most of the show (Kreuk, Rosenbaum, Glover, O'Toole, Schneider).

Jonathan Kent has two moods--calm, paternal figure and violent maniac.

They must have cast actors for their eyes--I've never seen so many "like limpid pools." When the camera goes in close on Welling and Kreuk, I'm attacked.

I never was one of those that shipped Clark and Chloe--and still don't. Knowing what happened in the real world doesn't ruin the show for me. Chloe always seemed sketchy, like she was running her own game--the real world just informs that character. She's a super-villain on the down low.

Everybody remembers the opening song, but I quite like the closing music by Mark Snow--a beautiful orchestral suite that is unlike the music you usually hear at the end of a super-hero TV show. I always watch right through the end credits, rather than clicking to the next episode, so I can listen to that music.

Trying to figure out Clark and Lana's timelines will drive you mad. Just how old they were when the meteors came, how old they are in each season, what grade they're supposed to be in--and how old Whitney was in relation to them (how was he able to join the Marine Corps if he was their age?)--if I think about it too much I'll become Charlie Kelly.

Watching so many episodes together at the same time, the selective memory of the characters becomes much more apparent. Every week something out of the ordinary happens to many people in Smallville, so Lana and Chloe have no right to hate on Clark, when so many others and they themselves do weird, unexplainable things all the time.