The pilot episode of the television series Smallville premiered on The WB on October 16, 2001. It was written by series developers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and directed by David Nutter. The episode introduces the characters of Clark Kent, an orphaned alien with superhuman abilities, and his friends and family who live in Smallville, Kansas.
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The pilot episode of the television series Smallville premiered on The WB on October 16, 2001. It was written by series developers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and directed by David Nutter. The episode introduces the characters of Clark Kent, an orphaned alien with superhuman abilities, and his friends and family who live in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas. It follows Clark as he first learns of his alien origins, and attempts to stop a vengeful student from killing Smallville High School students. Production was set in Vancouver, Canada, with five months devoted to casting the right actors in the lead roles. When the series premiere was broadcast, it broke several of The WB’s viewership records. It was generally well received by critics, and was nominated for various awards, winning two. Clark first saves Lex from drowning when they get into a car accident; at the end of the episode, Lex saves Clark when he is strung up in the cornfield and immobilized by kryptonite. In the second strand of the story, Lex Luthor and Clark develop a “yin and yang” relationship. Clark and Lana Lang share an intimate moment at a cemetery, where Lana is visiting the grave of her parents. In such scenes, Gough, Millar created a theme of loneliness through the life stories ofClark and Lana. Clark is the only survivor of his homeworld; Lana’s parents are killed in the meteor shower. Although he is attracted to her without falling over in pain because she wears a necklace made of meteor rock, which is a radioactive fragment of Clark’s destroyed homeworld.
In other media, it is usually portrayed as an act he puts on to deceive people of his true identity. This image of Clark, in just his underwear and a red “S” painted on his chest, stretches back to Gough. and Millar’s foundation for the series, which was about taking Clark down to the basic elements of the Superman character. The episode jumps forward twelve years to when Clark is trying to find his identity and runs away from home. Jeremy Creek —who was mutated by the meteor rocks, gaining special powers—puts the three former jocks, who tied him to a scarecrow pole into comas. He sets out to kill everyone attending the school’s dance, after witnessing Clark experience the same hazing he did, but Clark is able to arrive in time to stop him. Clark eventually accepted the part of Clark after twice accepting the opportunity to be part of the show after twice reading the script for the pilot. The producers were keeping the show quiet on what the show was really about, which left him with the impression it was going to be something he did not want to do in high school. They received Kristin Kreuk’s audition tape for the role of Lana Lang and liked it so much that they immediately showed her to the network. They also used computer-generated imagery to digitally insert set pieces into a scene.
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