^Smallville Cliche #457--DRINK!
Official Smallville Season Eight Spoiler Thread
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I don't see how anybody could think they can go on for a ninth. There's only so much you can do with a "prequel" to such an old story, even though it has veered off into it's own continuity. If I were Tom, I wouldn't sign on. He looks as tired of reading the same recycled scripts as I am of watching them.
That and the total lack of promotion the CW is doing makes me think the series isn't going to be here much longer.
That and the total lack of promotion the CW is doing makes me think the series isn't going to be here much longer.
And everyone has been thinking that since season 5. Not because it was awful, just merely because 5 years seems like a decent run. Now it's like some brutish party guest that won''t leave the next day after sleeping on your couch.
The CW execs are betting the farm, literally, on Gossip Girl and 90210 the sequel. All their advertising dollars are going towards those two shows. Smallville and Supernatural are the old WB shows. Thursday is expected to take care of itself.
Guess who sends back the Legion
Not going to use the Legions real names?
What would be cool is seeing them in the 31st century fighting Vandal Savage played by you know who for a couple minutes before they skip back into the past.
What would be cool is seeing them in the 31st century fighting Vandal Savage played by you know who for a couple minutes before they skip back into the past.
The CW's Official Write-Up For Season 8:
Lightning lad- Hey Clark there's someone that wants to meet you
Clark- really?
Lightning lad- step closer to the time portal
*Clark steps forward*
Lightning lad- closer
*Clark moves in closer*
* A fist slams straight into Clark's face*
Superman- Perfect
"It's three superheroes, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad—although we might not use those names"
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That didn't take long.
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That didn't take long.
Well, at least Lex is missing, which gives us an unsolved mystery. I kind of like that, like the way Wolverine's origin was the best unsolved mystery in comics for decades.
I had been worried that he would be in Washington or somewhere, and we'd get a one-sided phone conversation every week.
If Lionel was alive, they could do a scene where he had Martha on the phone in one hand, and Lex on the phone in another.
I had been worried that he would be in Washington or somewhere, and we'd get a one-sided phone conversation every week.
If Lionel was alive, they could do a scene where he had Martha on the phone in one hand, and Lex on the phone in another.
Hopefully that just means that they'll be incognito, not using costumes or codenames. They could be calling themselves Imra Ardeen, Rokk Krinn, and Garth Ranzz, or some more contemporary-sounding variations of those names.
But yeah, I know that's expecting too much of this show....
The code names with the "lass" and "Boy" and "Kid" and "Girl" is incredible condescending even if it is selfstyled but I suppose it was originally thought up so that children could identify with these "Teenagers" from the future, but really... These kids are fully autonomous, no parents so, why the hell were they infantalizing themselves?
Please don't tell me they were being ironic.
Please don't tell me they were being ironic.
did anyone see the mention that they are considering darkseid? oh boy
No, but I bet you 5 bucks they pronounce it wrong and call him "Darkseed".
It's just a convention of the genre. If you think about it "Batman", "Superman", "Wonder Woman", "Spider-Man", "Green Lantern", and so on are all silly names. It takes me out of the moment a lot more whenever someone tries to 'update' these kinds of names--if you buy the premise, you buy the bit.
That's a real world answer when I was talking from the perspective of if the characters were real. 
Geoff johns has the government call the kids on this too, who are obviously well into there twenties in Legion of Three Worlds last month when they were trying to strip the legion of it's funding and charter.
I've got 60,000 comics sitting a couple feet away from me and probably another 20 thousand in the dubious digital medium because I thought I should eat and get pissed now and then.
Geoff johns has the government call the kids on this too, who are obviously well into there twenties in Legion of Three Worlds last month when they were trying to strip the legion of it's funding and charter.
I've got 60,000 comics sitting a couple feet away from me and probably another 20 thousand in the dubious digital medium because I thought I should eat and get pissed now and then.
