To appreciate the file, you must first appreciate the content. Smallville Season 1 is a unique artifact of television history. It aired on The WB network at a time when "superhero" content was not yet the billion-dollar juggernaut it is today. The pilot episode, directed by David Nutter, introduced us to a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling), a Luthor who wasn't yet a villain (Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex), and the tragic meteor shower that turned the idyllic town of Smallville, Kansas, into a haven for "meteor freaks."