I love watching Smallville but it's not a great adaptation of any of Clark's stories. However the characterization of his main cast is top level, and I love all the private and non dramatic moments between them. Clark Kent, Lois, Jonathan, Martha, Lex Luthor, even Jimmy Olsen for the few seasons he's in it. Lana Lang is the only important character that I don't really like in the show.
I like the Ruby-Spears theme. It's interesting; it starts as a reskinned version of the Williams theme, but midway through it switches to something more unique, at about the part of the opening when the Kents find Kal's rocket I believe. From that point onward, it's more unique, though still clearly in the same vein, and this is also the theme that plays over the end credits and during the show itself as Superman's hero theme. I guess they only bought the music rights for the opening?
Superboy, I used to love the early first season theme song when it had the electric guitar joining the orchestra, but after that when the theme became more of a march, I liked it a lot less, funnily enough. The show inarguably got better after season one! But the theme song got a bit worse, in my personal opinion, haha!
As for Smallville, I never cared for that song, even the first time I heard it, but by season 10, it was long since a relic. The last time anyone listens to a Remy Zero song, it will be cause they were the last person to ever watch Smallville.
As a show, there's a lot to like and a lot to dislike about Smallville. Love its Lois, Lex, and Oliver. Sometimes frustrated with its Clark. But that's all beside the theme music point, haha!
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Remy Zero was fun in the context of Smallville. They were a Smashing Pumpkins-lite band (I love SP) but they had a solid vibe. The Smallville theme really works. Smallville's whole soundtrack is a time warp of Y2K/early 00s indie. I mean that as a big compliment. It gives it such a strong sense of place.
I'm talking of the 01-06 show (seasons 1-5) of course.
Last edited by Flash Gordon; 01-05-2021 at 08:45 PM.
I voted for the iconic march. I'd have voted for the Lois and Clark theme if it was an option.
superboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liUdfpeY60
lois and clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giTNQ1Q9j74
smallville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAgfaHsmgiE
It's between Superman March and the CW Supergirl theme for me. Ultimately I picked CW as I really enjoy it and the way they combined all the CW show themes for their Invasion and Crisis crossovers
For me it's between the Williams theme, the Lois and Clark theme, and the STAS theme. I hear any one of those and I think 'Superman.'
OMG I FORGOT ALL ABOUSH THE DEAN CAN TERRI HATCHER SHOW!! That one wins. I still hum that one
Nothing touches the Superman March. I mean, there's plenty of others that are good in their own right but I mean...yeah. Its still no contest. That's not to say I don't think its capable to compose something that could ever compete, it just hasn't been done yet imo.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Am I the only one that likes Planet Krypton's Theme more than the Superman March? Even today, I think Planet Krypton's theme still fits in when I imagine a new Superman film, whereas the March really doesn't.
Last edited by Alpha; 01-10-2021 at 01:41 PM.
I love Arcade from Man of Steel--
What about you?
I think Planet Krypton by John Williams is far more impactful than the Superman March, and it would actually work so well in a modern film with Superman.
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