Binker
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As we have found out in the upcoming season 9, Clark will wear a prototype costume, hopefully under the code name of "Phase 1". Now, because this is Smallville; if they have to come up with a really big, really complex, reason like they have been for every small piece of element of the Superman mythos, in order to explain why would Clark would wear that costume because they themselves can't wrap their heads around it, which in turn have made Clark do the same, then they should look at this.
Other than comics or even movies, television, one of my favorite Superman stories is a novel called "It's Superman!", by Tom DeHaven, set in the 1930s. One of the things that made that book so good was how original it made the story and elements from the mythos seem. One good example is the costume and S-Shield. In the book, around 1937: Clark now lives in Hollywood as a stuntman. He dates a woman named Diana (No, not the Wonder Woman Diana, just a Diana) who is a costume designer. When the sci-fi film "The Saucer Men from Saturn" is canned, she only has made one costume. Thanks to her, not only does Clark like her glasses which he plays around with, but takes a liking to this outfit. That outfit? You guessed it: a blue leotard, red trunks, red cape, with an "S" (standing for Saturn) on the chest.
The show should use an idea similar to this, but not so similar to the episode "Action" where Clark gets the cape. Instead, since this is a leotard outfit, have Clark investigate something regarding a local theatre, and inside a costume line that is either going to be destroyed, or they are simply slap together, he finds this blue leotard outfit (sans cape and "S"). Because this is Smallville, he will cringe and walk away, but later on in the episode, he goes back, because he become intrigued by the costume, and takes it. That way, this costume either becomes the costume he wears at the show's end, or forms the basis for a Smallville Superman costume that will become the main costume.
Thoughts?
Other than comics or even movies, television, one of my favorite Superman stories is a novel called "It's Superman!", by Tom DeHaven, set in the 1930s. One of the things that made that book so good was how original it made the story and elements from the mythos seem. One good example is the costume and S-Shield. In the book, around 1937: Clark now lives in Hollywood as a stuntman. He dates a woman named Diana (No, not the Wonder Woman Diana, just a Diana) who is a costume designer. When the sci-fi film "The Saucer Men from Saturn" is canned, she only has made one costume. Thanks to her, not only does Clark like her glasses which he plays around with, but takes a liking to this outfit. That outfit? You guessed it: a blue leotard, red trunks, red cape, with an "S" (standing for Saturn) on the chest.
The show should use an idea similar to this, but not so similar to the episode "Action" where Clark gets the cape. Instead, since this is a leotard outfit, have Clark investigate something regarding a local theatre, and inside a costume line that is either going to be destroyed, or they are simply slap together, he finds this blue leotard outfit (sans cape and "S"). Because this is Smallville, he will cringe and walk away, but later on in the episode, he goes back, because he become intrigued by the costume, and takes it. That way, this costume either becomes the costume he wears at the show's end, or forms the basis for a Smallville Superman costume that will become the main costume.
Thoughts?
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