Future plans for Smallville. The good & bad...

[mathhater]

I just found this interview with Gough & Millar over at Supermanhomepage.com
I didn't see any discussion here about it, so I thought I'd share...

On Sunday afternoon at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, Al Gough and Miles Millar answered fan questions about "Smallville".


First and foremost, the co-creators of the show settled any doubts that neither Bruce Wayne nor Wonder Woman would be making any appearances in the TV series due to restrictions placed upon them by Warner Bros., due to motion picture plans for both characters.

Ideas they're toying with for future episodes include another Good Lex vs. Bad Lex episode, the introduction of villains such as Bizarro, Metallo, Doomsday and Parasite, perhaps even appearances by characters such as Hawkgirl and Green Lantern... possibly even Supergirl.

In a statement that will anger many Superman fans, Gough said that Tom Welling will not be putting on the Superman suit at all during the series, again due to film franchise restrictions.

"It would be the end of the show because that would be when Smallville would end and Superman would begin," Gough said. "It's always been Clark Kent becoming the hero we all know him to become. It was never our intention to put him in the suit, as we always said, unless it was the last moment of the last episode of the series. Now, with the feature film out, we're steering clear of it."

The "film franchise restriction" card was also played in regards to any possible Lois and Clark relationship...
"We can't play any romance between those two characters," said Millar. "We did sort of vaguely, because of the Red Kryptonite, get into that area. We're very pleased to have her on the show, and we feel very lucky that the features department let us use the character at all. So it's not a problem."
Al Gough added that Lois is "the only one who doesn't treat Clark like he walks on water."

Personally, I think some of this sounds cool, but the bad here definitely outweighs the good. No costume?...ever? They may as well just cancel the damn show now...since they'll be wasting our time showing 7 years of a journey, but not the destination. Without that payoff, it just devalues everything they've done or will do from here on out. But that's just my opinion.

I wish the studios would just mind their own business and stay out of the other forms of media...it just waters down everything else out there that has any potential.

 

[KalKai]

http://superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248164&page=30

 

[mathhater]

http://superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248164&page=30

Ooopsies...but in my defense, that's a thread about Season 6...and this is a topic about the series in general...So I'm sorry I missed it...

 

[Prognosticator]

That's mostly disappointing news to hear. It's takes away the idea that they may eventually get into the 'romance' territory or Clark's evolution...

and "Lex vs. Lex" - Where's my remote?

 

[COMPO]

I like the Metallo and Parasite ideas but, i think its a bit early for Bizarro and Doomsday. I don't care about Supergirl, a new bit of crumpet would go a miss.

 

[The Caped Knight]

Ok this is a load of Bull**** (so we can get Doomsday) but not Welling in the damn suit WTF is that. Every Superman fan that watches this show is waiting to see tom don the damn suit and fly .

 

[mathhater]

^ too true. There's some good ideas they're playing with. But on the whole, that interview was quite the downer.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

I don't like the idea of Doomsday and all because I have a feeling they wont be done right

 

[triplet]

and "Lex vs. Lex" - Where's my remote?

I thought they did that in Onyx, although I loved the bad Lex in that episode...

*shrug*

Why on earth would they go there again?

 

[The Caped Knight]

I don't want to see Doomsday before SUPERMAN . (DC comics can't let them go thought with this .)

Death & Return Of Superman was the best Superman story arc ever written . I don't want it to be ruined by the writters of smallville, by having Doomsday appear so early in the story .

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

I don't want to see Doomsday before SUPERMAN . (DC comics can't let them go thought with this .)

Death & Return Of Superman was the best Superman story arc ever written . I don't want it to be ruined by the writters of smallville, by having Doomsday appear so early in the story .

At this point I dont care what they do since he is not putting on the cape and tights.

 

[The Caped Knight]

As for the Lois & Clark issue again that's a load of bull**** , Unless In (Superman : The Man of Steel in 2009 the sequel to Superman returns) In the movie Lois re-discovers that Clark Kent is Superman and they devlop Lois & Clark's relationship into what it is in the mythology . Then I see no reason why smallville can't have Lois & Clark in a romantic relationship right now (without Red-K involed) . Instead going back to the same damn Clana crap from season 1 all over again.

 

[Eros]

As for the Lois & Clark issue again that's a load of bull**** , Unless In (Superman : The Man of Steel in 2009 the sequel to Superman returns) In the movie Lois re-discovers that Clark Kent is Superman and they devlop Lois & Clark's relationship into what it is in the mythology . Then I see no reason why smallville can't have Lois & Clark in a romantic relationship right now (without Red-K involed) . Instead going back to the same damn Clana crap from season 1 all over again.

Lois and clark haveing a romantic relationship on the show would pretty stupid.

 

[mathhater]

I don't want to see Doomsday before SUPERMAN . (DC comics can't let them go thought with this .)

Death & Return Of Superman was the best Superman story arc ever written . I don't want it to be ruined by the writters of smallville, by having Doomsday appear so early in the story .

You make a great point. But consider this...we're never going to get a Superman series out of this continuity. So is it that damaging to show us as much as the DCU as possible? Remember, IF he was ever to don the costume, that's it for this series and this continuity...we were never, ever going to get "Superman vs. Zod," "Superman vs. Lex," "Superman vs. Brainiac," etc. These were always going to be Clark Kent encounters.

I grant you how it kind of sucks, seeing as how they're throwing too much mythology at us way too soon. But we're not going to get to see so far into the story that we would get to those characters in their proper time or context...so we have to take them as young Clark Kent encounters them. It's that, or nothing as far as this particular continuity is concerned.

(But I can relate to your argument...way back, I was getting all bent out of shape about Lex and Lois spending time in Smallville and knowing Clark at this stage in his life...but I got over it... )

 

[The Caped Knight]

Lois and clark haveing a romantic relationship on the show would pretty stupid.

They've already ruined most of the mythology (Why bother trying to protect the second most important core part of the mythology ?)

At this point I see no reason why Lois & Clark can't be in a romantic relationship . At least with that they be moving the story forward , instead of going back to the the same old bull**** from season 1 (clark, Lana & Lex) dumbass triangle as well as Clana .

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

They've already ruined most of the mythology (Why bother trying to protect the second most important core part of the mythology ?)

At this point I see no reason why Lois & Clark can't be in a romantic relationship . At least with that they be moving the story forward , instead of going back to the the same old bull**** from season 1 (clark, Lana & Lex) dumbass triangle as well as Clana .

True

 

[Eros]

They've already ruined most of the mythology (Why bother trying to protect the second most important core part of the mythology ?)

At this point I see no reason why Lois & Clark can't be in a romantic relationship . At least with that they be moving the story forward , instead of going back to the the same old bull**** from season 1 (clark, Lana & Lex) dumbass triangle as well as Clana .

They may have altered or buried much of the usual Mythology, but they haven't pissed on its grave yet.

 

[Brainiac 8]

They may have altered or buried much of the usual Mythology, but they haven't pissed on its grave yet.

No they haven't. They have changed things, but anytime you take something like comics, and move it to other media; it gets changed to the vision of the one making the change. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Heck, just within the comics, DC has "Pissed" on it's own mythology many many times.

Why do you think every twenty years or so they have to do another Crisis story to fix the past twenty years worth of problems they created?

 

[Prognosticator]

I thought they did that in Onyx, although I loved the bad Lex in that episode...

*shrug*

Why on earth would they go there again?

They go there regularly. And by "they" I mean the writers, and "there", old story ideas used again and again......

 

[The Caped Knight]

They may have altered or buried much of the usual Mythology, but they haven't pissed on its grave yet.

Yes they have (in more ways than one .)

 

[Brainiac 8]

They go there regularly. And by "they" I mean the writers, and "there", old story ideas used again and again......

"Hi I'm Lex Luthor, how may I h*~"

BANG!

"Ack! I've been shot! This may be it for meeee*~"

sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Prognosticator]

There is probably an average of 15 episodes per season where someone or multiple persons learn or see something or do something they shouldn't, and for no real reason that is plausibly realistic, they "FORGET" what happened by episode's end...It's nauseating.

 

[Eros]

There is probably an average of 15 episodes per season where someone or multiple persons learn or see something or do something they shouldn't, and for no real reason that is plausibly realistic, they "FORGET" what happened by episode's end...It's nauseating.

That actually is very annoying.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

They've already ruined most of the mythology (Why bother trying to protect the second most important core part of the mythology ?)

funny how you glossed over the part in that interview where Gough said every script they do is reviewed by DC Comics and given their seal of approval before they go ahead with it.

None of the mythology is "teh ruined," if the keepers of the mythology have a say in the matter.

 

[Serene]

I'm currently reading "Red Son" and you know what? Those bastards changed the story!

No, seriously! Clark is a commie, and Lois is married to Lex!

I say we start writing letters NOW!