So, I just bought the
Smallville "Pilot" in glorious HD (my first time seeing the show that way) on Amazon Video, and...
alack!!! It's a made-for-reruns edit, missing
three minutes of key scenes:
- In one scene Clark daydreams of using his powers to win a football game, and impressing Lana.
- During the argument Clark and Jonathan have about keeping the truck Lex bought him Jonathan mentions how Lionel cheated farmers out of their properties. “So you’re judging Lex on what his father did?” “No, Clark. I’m not. I just want you to know where the money came from that bought that truck.”
- Lex talks about the history of the Luthor mansion - which is supposed to be his ancestral home and was "shipped over from Scotland stone by stone".
- Before leaving the school dance at the end, Clark gets revenge on Whitney by stacking his truck on top of three others.
- And finally before Clark daydreams of Lana coming to his loft he tells Jonathan he’s glad that he and Martha were the ones who found him. To which Jonathan replies “we didn’t find you, Clark. You found us.”
I definitely missed these missing moments, especially Clark and Jonathan's reconciliation. I navigated over to the Hulu version, which is also incomplete, and various other digital sources list a runtime of 45 minutes, rather than the correct 48. In other words, it looks as though all publicly available versions are abridged - except, that is, the (SD) one from the Season 1 DVD set.
So... will anyone here be
super enough
(sorry) to create a fan restoration of the episode, patching in the missing DVD bits into the digital HD version? :blush: