Well, there
is interesting chatter going on elsewhere regarding Welling and Smallville's future, so I expect it to migrate here shortly.
I'm just going to throw this out there because it's been bugging me. There's too many radical changes seemingly being made on the fly right now. Take the faux Jimmy, for example. I don't believe for one second the producers cast Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen three years ago with the knowledge that they would eventually have to retcon him. How dumb is that? As recent as the 7th season's DVD, Ashmore was profiled along with Larson, McClure and Huntington in the Jimmy Olsen retrospective. This sudden need to realign the show with the mythos by youngifiying Jimmy - an arguably very insignificant detail when in Smallville continuity, there's a permanent krypto-powered Lana Lang running around the globe playing superhero - is very suspicious. There's no sense to either bonehead decision as you either keep to the mythos or you don't. Even DC's Gregory I'm-so-confused Noveck pointed out that SV's very nature as an elseworld's tale grants it more wiggle room in the mythos. So why the major change with Jimmy? Something is just fishy there.
The other thing that makes me wonder is Welling resigning for two years. Now I know the two years part is standard (as opposed to one year). What I don't know is the size of the wheelbarrow they used to hold all of that non-existent cash they had to offer him. Was it in the form of executive producer's credits? Or did they go the route of studio put pics? For example, sign onto SV for two more years, and we'll guarantee you first dibs on three WB films over the next five years. Something like that. What's the catch here? Is there some major change in store for the show next season that interested him enough to stay for another
two years?
Anyhoo, I'm curious to see the approach they take next year. Because the about-face they took halfway through this season left me confused and a bit annoyed. It all started so wonderfully and then it took a nosedive?