smallville is clearly better. of all my years watching lois and clark all he has been foiling was bank robberies, once in a while he might run into a mad scientist or two but that was it. then there would be those dumb ass plot lines where he would end up in the past battling cowboys and lost his power then only when he has righted a wrong does he get to go home...like some lame ass quantum leap throw away script
Smallville is a wonderfully written retelling of the Superman legend. Sometimes it almost seems like a biographical account, as Superman is so well known. My only two gripes with the show are 1) they tend to fall into the outcast-with-freaky-meteor-power format too much; and 2) he's meeting all the people who will be important to him as an adult while he's still in Smallville (eg, Lois, Perry--Jimmy probably still in diapers, so I think we will be spared his appearance). Kinda reminds me of muppet babies or loony-tunes kids in reverse (everyone knows everyone else their whole lives).