In a partnership with Stride gum, Smallville made the season 7 episode "Hero" full of blatant product placement and early ...

Their dynamic fueled the earlier episodes before later seasons took ... given the character's future popularity. Smallville season 7 fills a unique niche. It's more grown-up than what came before ...

The show's writers started working on the episode during the first half of Smallville season 10 and, as Miller puts it, "Being able to put those characters together that we had played with ...