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'Smallville' at 15: An imperfect Superman show, but the best Clark Kent story ever told

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(Image credit: Warner Bros. Television) For 10 seasons, Tom Welling's Clark Kent stood for truth, justice, and teen melodrama on "Smallville". On May 13, 2011 — 15 years ago to this day — the popular DC show concluded with a fist-pumping final scene where Clark rips open his shirt to display the iconic Superman logo while John Williams' unmistakable score rings like a battle cry. The perfect ending to an imperfect series that treated canon like a piñata, beating the tar out of it until it resembled whatever the showrunners wanted. Yet, at its core, it's still the most human story about the man beneath the Man of Steel. (Image credit: Warner Bros. Television) Part superhero series, part teen drama, the show spotlights a teenage Clark living with his loving adopted parents — Jonathan (John Schneider) and Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) — all the way to him becoming a reporter (albeit an unreliable and flaky one) for the Daily Planet.…

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