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With The CW’s 15th anniversary right around the corner, TVLine’s ‘Best CW Show Ever’ tournament celebrating the major milestone is gearing up for one final battle, between superhero and supernatural.
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The closing, championship round of our March Madness-style bracket tournament pits Supernatural‘s demon-fighting brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, against Smallville‘s Superman-in-the-making, Clark Kent. Who should be declared the winner?
Review the latest bracket update below, then read more and cast your vote!
Smallville, which ran for 10 seasons (2001-06 on The WB, then 2006-11 on The CW), starred Tom Welling as a young Kal-El just trying to get through high school without exposing his powers to his friends. The series, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Oct. 16, delivered a strong performance throughout the tournament after defeating the devilish comedy Reaper, Arrowverse’s Supergirl and beloved YA drama One Tree Hill. During the Final Four round, Kent went head-to-head with the The Vampire Diaries‘ undead Salvatore brothers in a battle of the chiseled jawlines, proving Welling’s is sharpest of them all. Can the Kryptonian hero pull out one more win?
If we’ve learned anything over the course of Supernatural‘s historic 15-season run (2005-06 on The WB, 2006-20 on The CW), it’s that you should never count the Winchesters out. The CW’s longest-running show saw Sam, Dean & Co. plow through the competition, taking out the likes of Batwoman, Nikita and the Legends of Tomorrow. The SPN Fam showed up in droves for the Final Four round, propelling the series a victory over Arrow — the show that launched the Arrowverse. Supernatural‘s ride-or-die brothers have overcome death, loss of family and numerous apocalypses… but can they stop the Man of Steel?
UPDATE: The final poll is now closed, after 48 hours of passionate voting. The tournament champion will be announced Saturday at noon ET, along with a statement from CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz.
As Jensen Ackles said when Supernatural was renewed for Season 11. “Suck it, Smallville”
Supernatural because of Jensen. He plays Dean so well and just waiting to see what he says and does each episode made it a weekly treat.
jensen is in smallville too lol
Which was where that playful rivalry came for. I’m sure he joked when he left for his own show that he could outlast Smallville. But who would have known it would do so and by 50% The show is very impressive. I could have taken 5 more years TBH
Totally love Jensen I still have every episode
Supernatural’s Dean exists because Smallville’s Jason Teague died, you’re welcome Supernatural
I never did get into Smallville. Even my auto correct wants to call it Snellville…
SPN fam all-day supernatural takes the pic for me I love Smallville but at least we don’t hire people who work in cults.
Your sounding like a hater 😂
Wish I’d written that! 💯% agree 🙂
Reply to Deion “Wish I’d written that! 💯% agree with Deion! 🙂
That was close for VD. Time to see SN will win as was predicted from the start.
Interesting takeaways: Smallville barely beat both One Tree Hill and The Vampire Diaries. I would say it had a tougher bracket than Supernatural over on the left side, but still, that should indicate there’s small chance of it beating Supernatural. The interesting question will be how close it is. And, Legends did comfortably better against Supernatural than Arrow did. This means more TVLine readers like Legends than Arrow! If Legends and Arrow had gone head to head, this indicates Legends would have won. That’s very interesting.
Very interesting takeaways. Your logic tracks, crazy to think Legends is more popular than Arrow. Always assumed Arrow had a stronger following just by how much I hear about it.
Based on this comment section, there are lots of Smallville fans so it might stand a chance. Whoever wins it will likely be a smaller margin.
I feel Arrow has a much more high hit, high miss trackrecord than Legends. Legends has a horrible season and a half and everything since has never reached the lows Arrow managed to reach at points
While I’ve watched both series fully, my heart belongs to Smallville!
Mines too!
SMALLVILLE
NUFF SAID
How no flash on the list???
Flash is no another timeline
I saw this coming!
The original WB shows!
Smallville for the win
So sad, so sad. Smallville had no tear jerkers 😂.
Smallville, but it’s close. Let it be known, I watched both on the WB in ’05
When you say CW, I hear Smallville. You know which show gets my vote.
I’m bitter about TVD losing and don’t know what to pick lol
Then as a fellow TVD lover, support me and vote for Smallville lol
Supernatural hands down! It’s a no brainer! Two hot guys with a muscle car killing monsters…can’t beat that! It’s close to Halloween do it in the Spirit of Halloween spirit! 🎃
Yes Supernatural all the way!
Me too! TVD is the one show I’ll watch over and over.
This is like a clash between two gods. I know Supernatural will win but I’m voting Smallville.
I loved them both!! But if i have to choose its Supernatural hands down every time. 15 seasons/ years compared to 10 says it all!
The number of seasons was due entirely to the willingness of actors to continue the show, not with anything to do with the quality of the show. In fact, Smallville’s quality probably would had suffered if it had gone any longer.
I agree. That said, I think Supernatural could have pulled off another few seasons. Smallville came to a natural conclusion since the premise was Clark Kent BEFORE Superman from the beginning. Supernatural could have continued being a Monster of the Week show and found another “big bad” to battle…there’s so much mythology to pull from!
Smallvillel!
I actually never really watched SPN but heard its good
Its amazing show full of drama and family love
you should totly give it a watch through its amazing . There blooper reels and conventions that are on YouTube are great for a good laugh.
My two favorite shows of all time. It was a very difficult decision. But in the end i chose Supernatural.
Me too! I felt the same way.
If this just about the first 5 seasons of Supernatural, then I’d be voting for it. But overall, Smallville was best.
Agreed. Supernatural was great Season 1-5 and if that’s all it was, I would have voted for it, but Smallville was better overall throughout it’s run.
To each his own! Supernatural for me….☺️
I read this a lot, and it actually surprises me. Don’t get me wrong, six and seven were weak, but that wasn’t the end and they still had some incredible episodes. Eight was a great season and I love seasons 10-13. 14 and 15 we’re good, well there are a few episodes in 15 I have issues with but overall good. And there’s so many memorable episodes in those later seasons like Scoobynatural and The French Mistake and Baby. Baby will be one of my all-time favorite episodes of any television show ever and it was not in the first five seasons. There’s so much to appreciate in those later seasons.
Also, I can see the exact same thing about Smallville. Smallville was good up until about season 5 and then it took down turn for a few seasons and it finally started getting better around season eight.
All shows hove slumps and it comes down to what characters do you love and what storylines inspired you.
Just wanted to comment and say YES! THIS 100%.
My fave SPN season was 10.
I agree supernatural was TERRIBLE after season five and kirkpike left horrible. Smallville was good seasons 1-3terrubke 4-5,6 was good 7the worst if all the first half of 8great, 9-10awesome imo.
I do not understand. I simply do not understand how Smallville beat not only OTH but TVD as well. These two shows have one of the biggest and most dedicated fandom I have seen. I guess those fans don’t read TVLINE, otherwise they wouldn’t have lost. I have legit heard so little about Smallville. I haven’t watch Supernatural either but you definitely hear about it a lot.
I don’t hear about Smallville any more either, but I have a thought on this at least. I’m in my 30s and watched it “back in the day” when it was on and never watched most of the newer shows such as TVD, nor do I really participate in online fandom, so based on that very scientific sample size of one it COULD be that there are a lot of TVLine readers who fit that same category of having watched it back then and liked the idea of this poll that has some of the older shows on it. I FWIW, I voted OTH.
Smallville is literally considered the FORERUNNER of all of the superhero shows that are currently on the CW. If it wasn’t for Smallville, we wouldn’t have Arrow, The Flash, Stargirl, etc. etc. etc. It had a tremendous impact on the CW Network as a whole. Jensen was even on Smallville before he was on Supernatural. It is regarded as highly by everyone who has watched it and by critics who regard it as one of the greatest superhero retellings of all time.
Due respect, not “everyone who has watched it” thinks it was such a great “re-telling.”
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I watched all ten seasons. It started strong, fell apart in Season 4, and was embarrassing by Season 10. Some of the liberties it took with the source material were laughable, not to mention the narrative gymnastics it took to keep Clark from becoming Superman.
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It opened the door for the Arrowverse, yes. And it’s fine that some people have such nostalgic feelings towards the show. But not everyone thought it was “great.”
Oh, it was too! :-) Not to mention having the best version of Lex Luthor in Michael Rosenbaum. I must say, though, Jensen Ackles’ character had one of silliest ‘exits’ I have ever seen on television. x-D
What an awesome show, wished they continued with it..
SPN Family all the way!!
Loved both series but have to go for Supernatural just cause my Horror Fandom is stronger than my Comic Fandom
I’m with you Hugh love them both hated to see them leave they were like family,and when they died (show ended) a part of me went with them. I love horror stories , I love those shows now they are gone,family is with me no more. And the actors were superb but my Vote goes to supernatural because Smallville been cancel,and supernatural ran the longest. Bring them both back and let me do a cameo . Lol
I think we all knew this was only finals that would’ve been acceptable.
SMALLVILLE for the win!
I really loved both of these shows as a pre-teen, when they first premiered. I fell off around season 8 or 9 for both series, but…Supernatural might be slightly more planted in my heart. It might just be recency bias, but it got my vote either way.
Supernatural. Haha, Jensen was in both of these.
I think he appeared in s4 as lana’s love interest and then he went to do supernatural while smallville entered it 5th season
With Jane Seymour as his mom!
I predicted it will end like this. Now this is really tough choice. Supernatural has my vote. But if Smallville win I’ll be fine with it too
Can’t believe Arrow did so poorly in the semis… voting for Smallville here.
Arrow didnt do poorly, it just got hugely outnumbered by the legion of Supernatural fans out there. Supernaturals the kind of show that would give Game of Thrones good competition in a head to head poll.
This was not an easy call for me. I watched, and loved, both shows, from start to finish. Both had their ups and downs. It was always going to come down to these two, no question about that.
Smallville. 100%.
It’s gonna be supernatural but out of these two it should be Smallville
Smallville, all day!
I would be happy with either one, but my heart belongs to Smallville:)