Smallville writers discussion thread

[Ultimate_Superman]

Lyrically BIG was better than Pac, I hope your not one of those little teenage white dudes dudes who's mistified by Pac's legacy cause the dude was real but he wasnt a great lyricist.

Oh and to keep topic just like BIG and Pac with enough preptime Batman could beat Superman and a great writer like Johns on Smallville could show that

Perfectly seamless link to return to topic

I am one of the only people who can say he saw every show Pac did in DC,MD and VA and NC.


But lets get back on topic and please both of you edit you post or put them in the right thread.

 

[LarryLegend]

He runs hot and cold....

He wrote and directed Ageless (almost poor drek) as well as writing Onyx and Mortal, both of which were totally stellar eps (aside from the awful twin stereotypes he perpetuated in Mortal, that is).

Forgot about Oynx and Mortal, loved both of them. He does have that supernatural/Buffy vibe that I don't think is a good fit for Smallville.

 

[TKodami]

Without seeing the scripts, it's a little hard to say exactly who my favorite writers on Smallville are. Especially since a good deal of the creative process occurs in group brainstorming sessions where all of the show's writers and creative consultants give their input on the plot of each episode.

Putting that aside, my two favorite episodes are (without a doubt) "Insurgence" and "Reckoning." Jeph Loeb and Kenneth Biller wrote "Insurgence" and Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders penned "Reckoning." Looking at it as a stand-alone episode, I think "Reckoning" is one of the tightest written episodes of this season. And I know that I'm probably very alone on this opinion.

I can find some of my favorite episode from each season in Peterson's and Souders' writing credits:

"Phoenix", "Relic", and "Forsaken" from S3
"Scare" and "Blank" from S4
"Hidden", "Exposed", and "Reckoning" from S5

Like most people here, I absolutely love each season closer and opener--most of which were written by Gough and Millar. So I'd probably have to say that Gough and Millar are on par with Souders and Peterson in my mind.

 

[thebigtree95]

This is something I keep updated on another website.
I can do so here if people would like that.



Quick reference writers/directors


Written by:

Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Pilot, Metamorphosis, Zero, Crush, Tempest teleplay, Vortex, Lineage, Rosetta, Exodus, Exile, Memoria(Millar directed), Covenant teleplay, Crusade

Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders
Nocturne, Skinwalkers teleplay, Suspect, Prodigal, Accelerate teleplay, Phoenix, Relic, Delete, Crisis, Forsaken, Gone, Scare, Sacred, Forever, Hidden, Exposed, Reckoning

Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
Duplicity, Visage, Rush, Accelerate story, Extinction, Asylum, Velocity, Resurrection, Covenant story, Transference, Recruit, Commencement, Arrival, Aqua, Solitude, Hypnotic, Fragile

Holly Harold
Magnetic, Obsession, Facade, Pariah, Lexmas, Void

Caroline Dries
Cyborg

Al Septien & Turi Meyer
Vengeance

Steven S. DeKnight
Run, Spell, Unsafe, Onyx, Ageless, Mortal, Thirst, Splinter, Lockdown, Tomb

Wendy Mericle
Fanatic

Jeph Loeb
Red, Insurgence, Legacy, Unsafe

Luke Schelhaas
Devoted, Bound, Krypto, Spirit

Kenneth Biller
Lineage teleplay, Insurgence, Calling, Shattered(also directed), Crisis(directed), Talisman

Mark Verheiden
X-ray, Rogue, Shimmer, Zero teleplay, Obscura, Heat, Dichotic, Witness, Perry, Hereafter

Neil Sadhu & Dan Sulzberg
Lucy

Mark Warshaw
Skinwalkers story, Jinx

Philip Levens
Kinetic, Stray, Drone, Crush, Tempest, Vortex teleplay, Ryan, Visitor

Michael Green
Cool, Craving, Shimmer, Nicodemus teleplay, Drone, Obscura

Drew Greenberg
Slumber, Truth

Ken Horton
Whisper

Clint Carpenter
Precipice

Matthew Okumura
Fever

Greg Walker
Hothead, Nicodemus

Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
Jitters

Doris Egan
Hourglass, Hug

Tim Schlattmann
Leech

Cameron Litvack
Reaper

Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner
Redux
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Directed by:

Thomas J. Welling
Fragile

Greg Beeman
Hothead, Leech, Tempest, Vortex, Lineage, Suspect, Prodigal, Exodus, Exile, Asylum, Hereafter, Legacy, Covenant, Crusade, Unsafe, Commencement, Splinter, Reckoning

James Marshall
Nicodemus, Crush, Heat, Insurgence, Rosetta, Accelerate, Phoenix, Obsession, Truth, Gone, Transference, Krypto, Forever, Arrival

Terrence O'Hara
Reaper, Obscura, Ryan, Calling, Slumber, Resurrection, Forsaken, Bound, Onyx, Mortal

Jeannot Szwarc
Perry, Velocity, Spell, Recruit, Thirst, Vengeance, Void

Whitney Ransick
Spirit, Hidden, Tomb

Glen Winter
Cyborg

Peter Ellis
Lockdown

Michael Rohl
Fanatic, Hypnotic

Rick Rosenthal
Rush, Visitor, Lexmas

Paul Shapiro
Stray, Jinx, Pariah, Solitude

Bradford May
Aqua, Exposed

Steven S. DeKnight
Ageless

Brad Turner
Sacred

David Barrett
Run, Lucy

David Carson
Rogue, Scare

David Carlson
Devoted, Façade

Thomas J. Wright
Precipice, Whisper

David Nutter
Pilot

John Schneider
Talisman

Pat Williams
Delete

Jeff Woolnough
Red

Michael Katleman
Zero, Drone, Extinction

Rick Wallace
Nocturne, Witness

Marita Grabiak
Skinwalkers, Relic

Michael Watkins
Metamorphosis, Jitters

Philip Sgriccia
Metamorphosis, Craving

James Frawley
X-ray

Jim Contner
Cool

Chris Long
Hourglass, Hug, Redux

D.J. Caruso
Shimmer

Robert Singer
Kinetic

Steve Miner
Duplicity

Craig Zisk
Dichotic

Bill Gereghity
Visage, Fever

David Jackson
Magnetic

 

[triplet]

Big Tree, do you have the list of which episodes the DPs have worked on?

I sprta keep track of it casually because I usually mention it in my reviews but not always but it's not on the Supermanhomepage list and TV.com doesn't list it either.

It'd be nice to have a list.

The guy who photographed Cyborg I had never heard of before, Les something, and they also had a guest DP for Cyborg.

 

[The Sage]

Biggie:
Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns
As I crush so-called willies, thugs, and rapper-dons
Get in that ass, quick fast, like ramadan
It's that rap phenomenon Don-Dadda, **** Poppa
You got ta, call me, Francis M.H. White
in tank-light totes, tote iron
Was told in shootouts, stay low, and keep firin
Keep extra clips for extra ****
Who's next to flip, on that cat with that grip on rap
The most shady ("Tell 'em!") Frankie baby
Ain't no tellin where I may be
May see me in D.C. at Howard homecomin
with my man Capone, dumbin, ****in somethin
You should know my steelo
Went from ten G's for blow to thirty G's a show
to orgies with hoes I never seen befo'
So, Jesus, get off the Notorious
penis, before I squeeze and bust
If the beef between us, we can settle it
With the chrome and metal ****
I make it hot, like a kettle get
You're delicate, you better get - who sent ya?
You still pedal ****, I got more rhymes than "Great Adventure"
Biggie ("How are you gonna do it?")



End of discussion, now lets back to Smallville

And we haven't even touched the "Juicy" lyrics.

 

[Serene]

This is something I keep updated on another website.
I can do so here if people would like that.

Awesome list, bigtree. Thanks for posting it!

Welcome, btw.

Directed by:

Thomas J. Welling
Fragile

Awwww... I'm so proud of him. Really. *sniff*

 

[triplet]

Awwww... I'm so proud of him. Really. *sniff*

Yeah... our baby is growing up.

 

[thebigtree95]

Big Tree, do you have the list of which episodes the DPs have worked on?

I sprta keep track of it casually because I usually mention it in my reviews but not always but it's not on the Supermanhomepage list and TV.com doesn't list it either.

It'd be nice to have a list.

The guy who photographed Cyborg I had never heard of before, Les something, and they also had a guest DP for Cyborg.

No I don't. I could try and put it together, but I'd have to go off the dvd's and live shows, because they don't list those in the episode descriptions.

Give me a few days and I'll see what I come up with.

 

[thebigtree95]

Awesome list, bigtree. Thanks for posting it!

My pleasure.

Welcome, btw.

Thank you.

 

[triplet]

No I don't. I could try and put it together, but I'd have to go off the dvd's and live shows, because they don't list those in the episode descriptions.

Give me a few days and I'll see what I come up with.

I know some of them but the only place its listed apparently is in the end credits....

It's annoying for me since if a show is particularly beautifully shot, I like to mention who the dp was.

 

[Lara]

Forgot about Oynx and Mortal, loved both of them. He does have that supernatural/Buffy vibe that I don't think is a good fit for Smallville.

It's not just a vibe he was a writer on Buffy and Angel. Ok but not one of my favorites from there either.

 

[AgentPat]

Directed by:

Thomas J. Welling
Fragile....

I wonder how often James laughs his arse off when he sees stuff like this?

 

[triplet]

I wonder how often James laughs his arse off when he sees stuff like this?

Actually, his middle initial is "J".... saw an image of his year book photo somewhere.

I can post it later, if you want...

 

[AgentPat]

Actually, his middle initial is "J".... saw an image of his year book photo somewhere.

I can post it later, if you want...

Well, ya learn somethin' new every day. Still... every time I see the name spelled out - what do they use all the time, I forget - I have to laugh. And I bet James does too. Hee!

 

[Super_Ludacris]

I thought his middle name was Eugene or something

 

[triplet]

Well, ya learn somethin' new every day. Still... every time I see the name spelled out - what do they use all the time, I forget - I have to laugh. And I bet James does too. Hee!

I think IMDB has it listed as Thomas Patrick James Welling...

Maybe the "James" is correct (wouldn't that be cute?) but the "Patrick" doesn't appear to be right...

I thought his middle name was Eugene or something

No, that's muscles fooling with us I think.

He throws that middle name in at times when referring to Tom. He calls him "Thomas Eugene Welling."

 

[thebigtree95]

It was sort of a joke by using his full first name and the middle inital J, since he was the big bad general on set for the week. I don't even know what his middle name is. I was just throwing the J in there like Clark Kent's name. Most times it's for Joseph, but it could be for Jerome. Just having a little fun.

 

[triplet]

I don't know what his middle name is (could be Joseph), but it doesn't look like that he has two of them:

NOTE: I didn't do the squigling over other people's names... I woulda done a better job than that.

 

[Serene]

This seems like a good thread to save.

 

[Kaboom]

This seems like a good thread to save.

you can be my superhero