Too much Kryptonite

[Corvette]

I'm a superman fan but in superman, Kryptonight is a rare substance. In Smallville it's the most abundant thing on Earth. Everywhere Clark goes, Kryptonight, Kryptonight, Kryptonight. Clark can't breath without running into the stuff. No more Kryptonight, smallville has completely killed the Kryptonight weakness.

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What's the purpose of giving Clark any powers at all if the whole planet is made up out of Kryptonight? You were almost going somewhere with this Doomsday character and what does Clark run into. Kryptonight. From season one, Kryptonight is the most abundant thing on Earth. Everywhere Clark turns, Kryptonight. That's enough. Find something else to harp on.

[Johnny_Luck]

What would you prefer them do? Would you have it be like so many other superman shows were he walks over all the bad guys with barely any trouble. I mean he really only has two weaknesses and even when they do a good job on the magic one people complain so.

what would you have them do when it comes to bad guys if no one in our world during smallvilles time really could touch him.

[devilicus rebel]

I know right! That thought occurred to me last night too when they showed the kryptonite bomb. There have been two meteor showers but it seems like the entire planet landed on earth after it was destroyed. There is no way it would be so readily available.

[Ilidan]

This is a TV show. They need to find a way to put Clark in danger 22 times a year, for the last 8 years. Now, there are ways to do this other than Kryptonite, yes, but come on.

Let's be honest here. This show would not work without the Kryptonite being as abundant as it is.

Also, remember - this is something that Al/Miles pointed out from the beginning - that the show is called SMALLVILLE.

It's more than just about Clark, it's about how the TOWN was affected by everything. Without Kryptonite, the town wasn't.

Kryptonite is necessary.

And there is a lot of it, because the Luthors (both of them) were collecting and refining it. It makes total sense. It's not very often just a random piece, there is almost always someone holding it who was specifically looking for it, for one reason or another.

[Corvette]

Johnny_Luck, I don't know, come up with something original that does not involve Kryptonight (and no, Kryptonight does not constitute something original). They can put Clark in all these complicated situations that are difficult to eliminate. Have you ever seen Lois and Clark? That has all sorts of interesting things. One thing I thought of is they can put Lois on one side of the world and Chloe on the other (ie: one person in China and another in America) and make it so that they both need saving at the same time. There are all sorts of interesting things that I can come up with that don't involve Kryptonight.

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The stuff is often a random piece. I remember an episode where they had one of those glass snow things and it had it in there earlier on. Once when Clark went to the basement he inadvertently inhaled it. Now Lex knows the weakness and the stuff will even be around Clark more. They could come up with something else.

[Ilidan]

Corvette - that changes the entire show.
The show is centered not about Clark, but about SMALLVILLE (hence the name), and the people in it.

That has been the case since day 1 - it's not just another Superman show.

Chloe nad Lois both needed saving doesn't affect everyone else in Smallville. This is NOT Lois and Clark!

[Demien]

yeah what the hell...it isn't planet earth it's The New Planet Krypton

[Corvette]

Ilidan, it's not like Lana and Clark have never been in China before. Those episodes with the witches were interesting and some of that took place in China. Heck, some of the Episodes have taken place off of Earth.

[Ilidan]

And a lot of those episodes get blasted for being too whimsical (Spell, for example? Ageless?)

A lot of the episodes that don't actually have Kryptonite in them get smashed because they are not connected to the over-arcing story: The effect of the meteor shower and Kal-El's arrival on the town of Smallville.

That's what the show is about!

[candor]

I'm a superman fan but in superman, Kryptonight is a rare substance. In Smallville it's the most abundant thing on Earth. Everywhere Clark goes, Kryptonight, Kryptonight, Kryptonight. Clark can't breath without running into the stuff. No more Kryptonight, smallville has completely killed the Kryptonight weakness.

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What's the purpose of giving Clark any powers at all if the whole planet is made up out of Kryptonight? You were almost going somewhere with this Doomsday character and what does Clark run into. Kryptonight. From season one, Kryptonight is the most abundant thing on Earth. Everywhere Clark turns, Kryptonight. That's enough. Find something else to harp on.

acually in a recent issue of superman/batman supes is sick of how many people have KRYPTONITE and they decide to find every last piece so that batman is the only one who has it (ya know just in case). so in the comics KRYTONITE is still pretty easy to get if ya got the loot to pay for it.
oh yeah! and when batman found kara/supergirls ship it was almost completely covered in KRYPTONITE (of all colors) as well so it became even more common.
but this did just recently happen within the last 2 years or so.

[crono]

Kryptonite is an overused storytelling tool in Smallville. I think it was fine to use to explain the abundance of strange happenings in the town, thus giving Clark some real threats to do battle with other than Lex Luthor - but having it constantly pop up to weaken Clark is a cop-out.

The writers of Smallville are so addicted to Kryptonite that they used it to disable him while fighting DOOMSDAY. What kind of sense does that make? You literally have the one creature who we know can beat Superman to death with his bare hands and they still feel the need to throw Kryptonite at him too? Why??

Most of the good Superman stories that have been written (including my favorite episodes of Smallville) were done without using Kryptonite. Smallville needs to tone it way, way down with that stuff.

[9-SOSIHTWB]

This is a TV show. They need to find a way to put Clark in danger 22 times a year, for the last 8 years. Now, there are ways to do this other than Kryptonite, yes, but come on.

Let's be honest here. This show would not work without the Kryptonite being as abundant as it is.

Also, remember - this is something that Al/Miles pointed out from the beginning - that the show is called SMALLVILLE.

It's more than just about Clark, it's about how the TOWN was affected by everything. Without Kryptonite, the town wasn't.

Kryptonite is necessary.

And there is a lot of it, because the Luthors (both of them) were collecting and refining it. It makes total sense. It's not very often just a random piece, there is almost always someone holding it who was specifically looking for it, for one reason or another.

Exactly how I feel!!!!!!!!!
SMALLVILLE wouldn't work without all the Kryptonite!
Its given us great storylines, Red, Crimson, to name a few!!

[jpfort1957]

If they want to use Kryptonite in several eppisodes they should bring some new types to the table.

[LifeFirst]

Ok....

I'm an avid reader of DC and Superman comics.

And I can't even remember the last time Kryptonite showed up in a Superman comic book.

I was thinking about this the other day and thought it was kind of weird. So I went to check on comicvine.com

According to comicvine, Kryptonite showed up in Superman's Action Comics only 41 issues, out of 905 issues.

So that means Kryptonite showed up in less than 0.4% of all the Superman stories written.

So why is it that Smallville used kryptonite just about every single episode???? (At least through the first 6-7 seasons)

Did the writers run out of ideas and couldn't come up with anything?? What's going on here??

I remember I would groan every time Kryptonite would fall out of a drawer or every time Lex or someone pulls it out....ughh...

In the comics they never did that, if ever.

[migo]

Well, when Superman started he wasn't all that powerful, he could jump an 8th of a mile, but couldn't really fly, and he spent most of his time stopping robberies and the like (I guess threats were a lot more mundane back then). People also liked seeing Superman solve things without any hassle, something that's reserved for cheesy commercials now. Tastes are now for heroes having challenges and needing to overcome them, but Kryptonite is Superman's only real challenge, so without it, there wouldn't be a challenge for him.

That's what happens when you've got a character with an achilles heel.

It would have been a lot more sensible to not have him have very many powers to begin with. Maybe super strength, and that's it (with a similar ability to move quickly, but not at superspeed, at least not right away.) That way he can actually get injured, and doesn't need the few instances he has his powers taken away to "prove" he's normal.