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For the helluvit, and for the fact that I know a lot of people haven't heard the House of El podcast yet, I took liberty of transcribing some of DeKnight's comments from the second part of the interview. This is great stuff folks! Enjoy!!
PS: Don't crucify me on my typing skillz; there's probably a bunch of words spelled wrong, especially proper names. Sorry. My motivation to correct that stuff is nil right now. LOL
Indeed. Me too; my fingers hurt. That's it for the night. I'll let others transcribe more if they feel the urge.
Nighters gang.
Thanks Pat. Its nice to have that here in writing so we can reference it from time to time when we need to clarify heresay as just that.
I agree, especially since he mentioned a lot of info about upcoming eps and their writer/director's etc. Thanks Pat!
-- but most of the time it's just pure blind luck, good and bad.
Thanks for that Rene, some good information.
It saddens me that they changed the finale.
If they went that far over budget, then we may get gipped come finale time when it comes to bing bang boom type stuff.
I hope it didn't change alot...it always makes me wonder what they changed....such as what they did for "Vessel".
Thanks for that Rene, some good information.
It saddens me that they changed the finale.
If they went that far over budget, then we may get gipped come finale time when it comes to bing bang boom type stuff.
I hope it didn't change alot...it always makes me wonder what they changed....such as what they did for "Vessel".
I hope we never find out what the original finale was going to be. Because we will jsut end up pissed off
Some of the recent blog comments by DeKnight.. for those of you who don't wander over there:
In response to an interview with KK, I think.
Aww, thanks, KK! I wish I could write you that way all the time! Hmm... maybe I'll get a little chance in my last episode...
In response to whether or not ED is in his last ep.
Yes. She plays a major part. Thrilled to be writing for her one last time.
And Ollie:
No Ollie in ep 21 at the moment, although I'd love to work with Justin again.
His last ep:
Writing one more. Ep. 21.
Budgetary comments:
The budget is a lot more complicated than that. We aren't getting less money than we used to. The problem is that any show becomes more expensive to produce in their later seasons. Plus the Canadian/US exchange rate is no longer the boon it used to be. Adding to the problem are episodes like Zod, Arrow, and Justice. The big stuff's great, but just those three episodes put us well over a million dollars over budget for the year. That million has to be made up by created "below patter" episodes. And an ep like Trespass doesn't save as much as you might think (less than 10% of that deficit, actually). We're always wrestling with what we can afford to do. Just the nature of the beast.
Heh.
Thirst was one of your favorites? Okay, to each his own. I admit I really loved Static, which most people hated.
Who gets to write which ep:
No, it's purely luck of the draw. You're usually told what episode number you're going to be writing before we've settled on what the story is. Sometimes if you're higher up you can massage that -- which I may have done with Justice
VERY intriguing!
The end of the season as originally planned is different now. Still should be pretty cool, but not in the way I was talking about before.
I also reminded SDK what a great forum we have here and invited him to come visit us again.
(Am I bored today, or what?)
Hmmm...that's a good point...it might have something to do with that.
By the way, the previous finale was "Vessel" and they changed the script and planning of the episode at the same time it was being filmed...and I always wondered what they had planned for it.
Finales never dissapoint, so I'm sure whatever changes they made will still be enjoyable.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Q: DeKnight, do you guys have anything great in store for Chloe after "Progeny"?[/FONT]
A: WELL, THERE IS THAT MYSTERIOUS METEOR FREAK POWER I SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TO EXPLAIN...
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Q: All I keep reading about is Clana and Lois being forced down my throat with her suddenly, serious journalism (it seems strange after all the times the show has ragged on The Inquisitor as crap, now that Lois works there, it doesn't seem to matter)...[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A: [/FONT]I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THE INQUISITOR IS A CHEAP RAG. LOOK FOR A REF TO THIS IN PROTOTYPE.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Q: As a Chloe fan, do I have anything to look forward to?
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A: HER POWER TO KILL A YAK WITH MIND BULLETS. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Q: It just seems like Chloe is getting thrown aside as reporter, dumped off to be with the geek because she, apparently, doesn't deserve a superhero, and the potentional love interest for Clark foreshadowing from S2 seems to have gone nowhere...trying to find something positive from what's been spoiled so far...[/FONT]
A: CLARK WILL ONE DAY END UP WITH LOIS. WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO CHANGE THAT ONE. BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN?
I believe Kai culled those comments from DeKnight's blog (I remember the mind bullets/yak response LMAO!!) He usually just offers a quick quip or two based on the things people have been babbling on about, usually 'shipper-related matters. It's a tough read there sometimes; I don't know how he does it.
Seems pretty cut and dried. They could hypothetically pair Clark up with any female companion, provided they keep in mind the one he's destined to be with in the end is Lois.
Many people bashed Clark for that and it was ultimately SDK's fault!
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