Official CW Synopsis:
Now beginning its seventh season, this new interpretation of the enduring Superman mythology and its classic characters blends realism and adventure into an exciting action series. This season, Clark Kent (Tom Welling, "Cheaper By the Dozen") and Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum, "Kickin' It Old Skool") have become the sworn enemies that comic book aficionados have always known and loved.
Season seven brings exciting guest stars from the Superman mythology, including Dean Cain ("Lois & Clark") and Helen Slater ("Supergirl"), plus storylines of Krypton and the El family. This season Clark will discover more about his home planet, who his parents were, what his future holds and why he was sent to Earth.
In last season's finale, Lana (Kristin Kreuk, "Partition") confronted Lex over his lies about the baby, confessed she was still in love with Clark and told Lex she was leaving him. Lana turned to Clark for comfort but when she revealed that Lionel (John Glover, "Brimstone") forced her to marry Lex, Clark went after Lionel to stop his machinations once and for all. However, Martian Manhunter (guest star Phil Morris) stepped in to explain Lionel is on their side and together they've been working to stop Lex from finding the last Phantom Zone escapee as Lex needs the wraith's DNA to fuel his army of super soldiers. Meanwhile, Lois (Erica Durance, "The Butterfly Effect 2") had her own agenda for bringing Lex down and snooped around his base at Reeves Dam. When an armed guard confronted her, Lois was stabbed and left for dead. She called Chloe (Allison Mack, "The Ant Bully") for help, but her cousin arrived too late and found Lois. As a despondent Chloe clutched Lois, her latent meteor power was revealed. Chloe healed Lois, but took on her wounds and collapsed. Lana's car exploded when she tried to leave town, and the police confronted Lex at the dam and arrested him for murder. The wraith attacked Clark, creating Clark's ultimate enemy -- Bizarro. The two super men fought and their struggle caused Reeves Dam to break, flooding the area and leaving everyone in peril.
Relationships
Clark & Chloe
Chloe always had a crush on Clark, and toward the end of the first season, they started getting together. That didn't work out. Chloe and Clark are best friends now, and Chloe is mostly over her infatuation with Clark, though she did plant a big kiss on him at the end of Season 5 when she thought she was going to die.
Kryptonite
Red Kryptonite
Red Kryptonite turns Clark into a leather-wearing bad-ass. In other words, it makes him more gay than he already is.
Silver Kryptonite
Silver Kryptonite makes him all paranoid and crazy.
Black Kryptonite
Black Kryponite is a kind of Kryptonite where once you go to it, you don't go back.
Spin-Offs
Smallville Feature Film
Probably will never happen. Warner Bros. put its eggs into the movie Superman Returns and that went just fantastically if you ask Bryan Singer. There are no plans to take the show to the big screen as a separate property.
Episodes
Season 7
Bizarro (9/27/2007)
Kara (10/4/2007)
Fierce (10/11/2007)
Cure (10/18/2007)
Action (10/25/2007)
Lara (11/1/2007)
Wrath (11/8/2007)
Blue (11/15/2007)
Gemini (12/13/2007)
Persona (1/31/2008)
Siren (2/7/2008)
Fracture (2/14/2008)
Hero (3/13/2008)
Traveler (3/20/2008)
Veritas (3/27/2008)
Descent (4/17/2008)
Sleeper (4/24/2008)
Apocalypse (5/1/2008)
Quest (5/8/2008)
Arctic (5/15/2008)
Main Characters
Clark Kent / Kal-El (Tom Welling)
Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) 2001-2008
Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) 2001-2008
Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack)
Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) 2001-2007
Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) 2001-2006
Lionel Luthor (John Glover) 2001-2008
Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) 2001-2004
Lois Lane (Erica Durance) 2004-
Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore) 2006-
Kara Kent / Kara-El (Laura Vandervoort) 2006-
Christopher Reeve
He guest-starred on the second-season episode "Rosetta" as a reclusive scientist, Dr. Swann, who helped Clark to discover where he's really from. He returned to the show and had more appearances planned before his sad death in October 2004. The show paid tribute to Reeve in a post-episode message urging people to buy bracelets in support of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. The character's death came into the show in the episode "Sacred."