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For those who said Welling had no problem with wearing the suit.
Don’t have time to watch the whole thing. What’d he say?
For those who said Welling had no problem with wearing the suit.
He doesn't want to be Superman because he says being Superman is the easy part. The journey to becoming Superman is harder and more interesting. That was his reason why he is against the suit.Welling basically said if they called him up and told him he was going to be wearing the suit, he would have hung up the phone. He says it's about respecting what Smallville was. The usual Tom Welling answer haha.
I agree van, I think he would have pulled off the black suit/beard look awesome!
He's still my favorite Superma- *ahem* I mean Clark Kent... haha.
I'm curious what his reasoning is on not wanting to wear it? I could understand years ago afraid of being "typecast" but... he's getting old and hasn't done much anyways? Maybe he just think it looks lame. Haha. Ah well.
That's how I feel as well. I mean he did everything he could not to put on the suit. He just didn't want to be Superman even though for Season 9 & 10 he was practically doing a Golden Age Superman show aside from flying and wearing the suit. But my thing is when people sit here and try and defend this all I can say is there's your proof right there he had no interest in ever being Superman which is sad being a long time Smallville fan and one of his main supporters on this board during the Abrams/SR casting days. Makes me more upset about the last season of that show then I already was.He doesnt want to really have anything to do with super powers and all that jazz so if you can de-power Clark it's perfect. No suit, no green screen....though what he thinks of 10 years as being the journey of Clark with never becoming Superman in those 10 years.....he chose the wrong genre.
That's how I feel as well. I mean he did everything he could not to put on the suit. He just didn't want to be Superman even though for Season 9 & 10 he was practically doing a Golden Age Superman show aside from flying and wearing the suit. But my thing is when people sit here and try and defend this all I can say is there's your proof right there he had no interest in ever being Superman which is sad being a long time Smallville fan and one of his main supporters on this board during the Abrams/SR casting days. Makes me more upset about the last season of that show then I already was.
Welling's Clark was shown becoming Superman with glimpses of the suit, but it was played as a hint of a future that literally morphs into first a comic book (read by Chloe to her son) and later into the familiar Donner film style credit sequence. The idea being that this is the part of the journey that's rarely covered, leaving this as an almost universal origin for any version of Superman.
He embraced his destiny and served as Superman from 2011 (the date of the finale) until 2019 (the year of the crossover), so 8 years after the show's conclusion (a time lapse that has been confirmed by multiple sources and Lois's "about a decade" meta joke). The twin girls are only a few months old, since Lois wasn't pregnant during the finale's 2018 flash forward final scene when we see Lex was just elected president.
There is no official confirmation that the power loss was permanent (no, an EW article that suggested gold kryptonite without any direct quote from anyone doesn't count). Indeed, Durance even speculated that it was like a temporary paternity leave. He took time to be with his family after essentially defeating nearly every major villain and doing heroic stuff since he was in high school (and proto-Superman stuff since 2008).
I would have actually been annoyed to have seen Welling wear the suit for the crossover but not the show for its own finale. It wouldn't make up for the perceived slight that others feel his not wearing it was. To me, it wouldn't be a case of "better late than never." The time to wear it would have been for the finale. Even then, I think the reasoning is sound to leave the show as a solid prequel to launch into a more universal Superman than to define it too concretely. So, yep, I still respect Welling and the show.
Welling has always been open about not being interested in playing the Superman persona since day one and that he was interested in Clark's journey into becoming Superman. So its little weird that he's getting backlash from some fans for his honesty on this matter.
Also both Al Gough and Miles Millar intended Smallville to not be a Superman show which is what attracted Welling to the role in the first place. It's little unfair to suggest Welling chose the chose the wrong genre considering Al Gough and Miles Millar were adamant that Smaillve will have 'No tights, no flights' in the show.
Well he did become Superman in the Smallville finale.... sort of.5 years is fine but when you go on for 10 years trying to push off the inevitable.....it's...a reach.
My theory :
Even if you disagreed with it, the Smallville “no flights, no tights” rule represented a legitimate approach to the material. The series wasn’t about Superman, it was about the boy/man who would one day become Superman.
However, towards the end (which was maybe three years past its best-before-date ), the show was depicting Clark (“the Blur”) in a costume (!); and he was regularly performing deus ex machina “super speed” feats. True, technically, neither one of these is “tights” or “flights.” But essentially they amounted to the same thing. So it seems disingenuous to claim that the mere appearance of the traditional costume would conceptually go beyond the series’ original mission statement. To all intents and purposes, the series (itself) had already made this transition.
Just watch on the cw appThis may have already been covered recently, but we're still (in the UK) to get CoIE and as far as I can see there's still no date set for when we will.
Which is piss poor.
Honestly, by the time we eventually do get it all interest will have long evaporated. Do they want us to watch them illegally?
Just watch on the cw app
They should really put the CW superhero shows on Netflix UK like they do for Riverdale.This may have already been covered recently, but we're still (in the UK) to get CoIE and as far as I can see there's still no date set for when we will.
Which is piss poor.
Honestly, by the time we eventually do get it all interest will have long evaporated. Do they want us to watch them illegally?
We haven't had CoIE here in the UK yet. Which was better?Just recently rewatched some parts of the previous "Crisis on Earth X" crossover.
Jeez, I had forgotten on the difference in quality and production value between the two crisis crossovers was quite significant.