A&E 'Look Up In The Sky' 5 Eastern/8PM Pacific 6/12

[Pickle-El]

It's on right now.....Kevin Spacey Narrates.

 

[Kaboom]

waching bc f this post! good work!

 

[Robot Komakino]

im going to watch it later. i have it recording.

 

[1987olds442]

Been channel hopping between it and the final episode of Monster Garage...

 

[user123456789]

how was it?

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I missed it. anything interesting? Who from the show was on?

 

[Pickle-El]

I missed it. anything interesting? Who from the show was on?

Dude, it covered basically everything, it was 2 hours...I had no idea the Fleischer cartoons looked so damn amazing. O'Toole had was the only one that actually was interviewed. But Smallville was like a segment in there......a good amount of time. It was very respectful towards the show.

There's some moments in there that will choke up any Superman fan. There's something really great for everyone. It'll remind you why we choose to follow the character in the first place.

 

[darkzombiemutt]

It was really good, The best part was Jon Peters on camera confessing that what he had been trying to make for the last 12 years was wrong was priceless.

 

[The Caped Knight]

I found this interesting What Al & Miles thought of smallville in terms of Clark's story .

Season One: Who Am I?

Season Two: Where Am I From?

Season Three: Darkness

Season Four: Leaving the Childish Behaviour behind

 

[wiegeabo]

Watching it now. They've just gotten to George Reeves' death, and now a Superman teaser just started.

 

[eXperiment]

That was great!!!

 

[1987olds442]

It comes on again at 12:00AM

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

It was really good, The best part was Jon Peters on camera confessing that what he had been trying to make for the last 12 years was wrong was priceless.

You and me both its about time he said that.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

My question is why doesn't Welling ever take the time out to be interviewed for these type of things?

 

[M.E.H.Z.E.B]

My question is why doesn't Welling ever take the time out to be interviewed for these type of things?

Probably because he just doesn't want mainstream exposure. Other than that, I can't think of any reason why he never makes any appearance in any documentary, featurette or interview regarding Smallville.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

Probably because he just doesn't want mainstream exposure. Other than that, I can't think of any reason why he never makes any appearance in any documentary, featurette or interview regarding Smallville.

maybe I just wonder because SV is what made him who he is and really to me he seems more like Terri Hatcher who wants nothing to do with their role in Superman history. but maybe he talks about it on the DVD, but I have yet to see him talk about the show if he is not promoting something for it and it seems like when he does that he doesn't really want to talk about it.

All though I like how the people who created SV finally admitted they knew little about Superman before SV, which explains and makes up for alot on the show.

 

[Kaboom]

Probably because he just doesn't want mainstream exposure. Other than that, I can't think of any reason why he never makes any appearance in any documentary, featurette or interview regarding Smallville.

maybe to avoid type casting? if everyone knows him as superman, maybe he thinks work will stay away. but if he can build a resume where sv i sjust part of a body of work, he will have an easier time finding work at the shows inevitable conclusionn.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

maybe to avoid type casting? if everyone knows him as superman, maybe he thinks work will stay away. but if he can build a resume where sv i sjust part of a body of work, he will have an easier time finding work at the shows inevitable conclusionn.

type casting from what????? All the roles he has taken so far are just a mirror of Clark with out the powers. He is the one typecasting himself not SV or Clark Kent.

 

[The Question]

I enjoyed it imensely. Although, I would have liked it if they talked more about the post crisis changes. That was a pretty big deal, and they didn't really touch upon it.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

I enjoyed it imensely. Although, I would have liked it if they talked more about the post crisis changes. That was a pretty big deal, and they didn't really touch upon it.

Maybe because the only thing to stick through out all the post crisis chages is that he died and got married. Other then that everything from the post crisis era has pretty much been thrown away.

 

[The Question]

Which really causes more problems than it solves. But that's another arguement. Either way, it was still a big thing for Superman, and they should have touched upon it.

 

[Kaboom]

type casting from what????? All the roles he has taken so far are just a mirror of Clark with out the powers. He is the one typecasting himself not SV or Clark Kent.

maybe typecast is the wrong word, but...

george reeves constantly expressed regret that he would never get work for anything other than being superman.

chris reeve is only remebered for superman, and id be hard pressed to name another movie he ever made, (except for somewhere in time, and i only know that because jane seymour was in it).

dean cain's career has stalled after lois and clark.

my point is that once you public associates an actor with superman, it seems like thats all they become. maybe tw avoids interviews so that the majority of people dont see him as superman apart from the 5.5 m or so that watch smallville, hoping that when the show ends he wont have the stigma of, "he can't have an edgy part...he's superman"

 

[Kaboom]

Which really causes more problems than it solves. But that's another arguement. Either way, it was still a big thing for Superman, and they should have touched upon it.

the show was about superman through the ages.

if they started going into tthe constant updates/revisions to supe's history because of the gol;den age/silver age/modern age/ post pre crisis/ infinite crisis, etc...the vast majority of people out there would be like huh? so is johnathan dead or not? was he ever superboy? it would just confuse everyone.

and they DID touch on it. they referenced lex luthor on the serial as bald mad scientist who evolved into business tycoon and eventually into the boyscout's arch-nemesis.

<~~~~brushing shoulders off.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

maybe typecast is the wrong word, but...

george reeves constantly expressed regret that he would never get work for anything other than being superman.

chris reeve is only remebered for superman, and id be hard pressed to name another movie he ever made, (except for somewhere in time, and i only know that because jane seymour was in it).

dean cain's career has stalled after lois and clark.

my point is that once you public associates an actor with superman, it seems like thats all they become. maybe tw avoids interviews so that the majority of people dont see him as superman apart from the 5.5 m or so that watch smallville, hoping that when the show ends he wont have the stigma of, "he can't have an edgy part...he's superman"

TW will avoid it for one of two things

1. He wont put on the suit long enough for people to remmber him as Superman
2. He plays as Clark Kent not Superman and SV as good as a show it is will be remembered like Buffy or Angel or DC. Where yea for about 2 to 3 years he might be remembered as Clark Kent once the show ends but it all depends on how BR does in the other project as well that could over shadow him in the same where he wont have the problem.

I think really out of all of them Welling has it easy because only the die-hard SV fans will call him Superman after that he is really just an actor to most people playing a role because he doesn't wear the suit. Once you wear the suit( and when I saw wear it I mean for more then a few min, but a whole season or more) then you have a problem.

 

[M.E.H.Z.E.B]

maybe typecast is the wrong word, but...

george reeves constantly expressed regret that he would never get work for anything other than being superman.

chris reeve is only remebered for superman, and id be hard pressed to name another movie he ever made, (except for somewhere in time, and i only know that because jane seymour was in it).

dean cain's career has stalled after lois and clark.

my point is that once you public associates an actor with superman, it seems like thats all they become. maybe tw avoids interviews so that the majority of people dont see him as superman apart from the 5.5 m or so that watch smallville, hoping that when the show ends he wont have the stigma of, "he can't have an edgy part...he's superman"

To sum it up, the whole thing is part of the "Superman Curse"