It does have some faults, such as being a very 90's, early 2000s style show... but overall I would say it captures Clark Kent's early life very perfectly.
literally, the only things I would've changed about the show had I the power-- 1) Have Lana Lang work with Chloe Sullivan on the school newspaper so that the writers wouldn't have to go out of their way to give her weird contrived excuses to be at some place just to be attacked and get saved by Clark. Seriously it was amazing how many times this happened. I think she should've been more like a proto-Lois in that she was overly curious and often got herself in trouble all the time, but without being a direct clone of Lois Lane. And this way we could joke that Clark has a "Type". ;)
2) this opinion might be out there, but I think Lionel Luthor should've stayed the "evil" Luthor while Lex remained a good yet tortured soul. John Glover was just TOO DAMN GOOD at being the super-evil daddy of Lex Luthor while Micheal Roseauaum (Lex Luthor) did a great job building up the friendship between him and Clark. But if we had to have an evil Lex via executive meddling-slash-Mandate, I don't see why we couldn't have Lionel flat-out murder the original Lex Luthor and then transfer his mind to a Lex clone, and poor Clark finds out but came too late to save the real Lex Luthor from Lionel's schemes and obsession to stay alive forever. this of course would be in the final season and would explain how we got to canon point with an evil Lex and a Superman.
3) Have them do something more with Pete Ross! the way they used him was just lame.
