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Official Smallville Season Eight Spoiler Thread

This isn't exactly a spoiler, but SyFy Portal announced the winners of it's annual Genre Awards, and Allison won for best supporting actress

Read about it here.
 
Jensen Ackles voted a better actor than Tom Welling? :eek: I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!! ;)

Until Welling can do this, he's not going to be noted for his acting. I'm surprised that Allison Mack wasn't frustrated enough to chuck it all and not re-sign her contract. Now she'd make an excellent female addition to Supernatural, not the barbie dolls the network foisted on them.

When a djinn impersonates the mother who died in your childhood

I watch that, and I wonder what in the blankety blank shitty kind of audition Ackles must have had that Welling beat him out for the role of Clark.
 
From Kryptonsite

Laura Vandervoort revealed at the 2008 FanExpo in Toronto, Canada that she will be returing to Smallville for an episode to wrap up her storylines. Her episode shoots in October, which means it will probably land somewhere between #9 and #11 of the season.
 
Oh my.

You know.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the ratings for that episode tripled what the rest of the season will be getting?

Actually.

Has stunt casting ever netted such results?

Poor girl.
 
He always used to.

Considering they could send him back the instant he left, and back in the 70s they used to wipe his memory before he went back, although from John's buddy session between kal and Lightning lad a couple months back, I'd assume that he got his memories back if they were evert taken considering according to man of Steel these things never happened... It was all a pocket dimension deception from the Time trapper where the legion met a fake Superboy... According to Byrne that is.


None of that applies anymore - pretty much all of his pre-crisis legion adventures are now "real" again.
 
Yes, I've been reading Geoff Johns. I write in code but I did mention that in the text you quoted. :)

I wonder if he's pissed about Morrison bringing Barry back? Was that supposed to be Barry or Bart in the lighting rod? Find out soon enough.

Heading off to join the legion? camping out in the Future for the duration? That's a recent development from Mark Waid for something else she was doing in the skip year of 52 other than policing the bottle city of Kandor with Power Girl under the Aliases of Flame Bird and Nightwing but now according to Geoff Johns, Kandor had never been discovered for her to do that. Remarkable. I think that one of the 52 earths has been aset aside for Johns who can't play well with others and another probably for Morrison who is just as magnificent. But as I was saying, precrisis Supergirl only really took day trips into the future, but it was on the small screen's JLU animated that she was sent there as a happily ever after, even though preCrisis Kara Zor-El and postCrisis Linda Danvers were both hot and heavy for their respective Brianiacs.
 
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Wouldn't it be interesting if the ratings for that episode tripled what the rest of the season will be getting?

Do you not know what happens when you multiply a negative number?

When you multiply a negative number by a negative number then you get a positive number. When you multiply a negative number by a positive number, then you get a negative number. When you multiply a negative number by a an imaginary number then you get a four course dinner of donuts.
 
http://www.collider.com/entertainment/tv/article.asp?aid=8960&tcid=1

Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer Interview – SMALLVILLE

Todd Slavkin: Well, Tess Mercer is our own. So DC, it’s not Miss Tessmacher and it’s not Mercy, so we’ve really created this woman on our own. Miss Tessmacher in the movies is so goofy and it’s not Valerie Perrine and Parker Posey. That’s not what we’re going for at all. But just the name and the allegiance to Lex, that’s what clued us in. With Mercy, Mercy is this kick-ass woman and Mercy is a fighter and Mercy is a survivor and that’s really a lot of what Tess is all about. So it’s neither based really on the 2 of them, we just kind of took the names a little bit and then it’s fresh. So DC has been awesome. DC has been like with Doomsday we were worried, are they going to give us Doomsday? They trust us. We’ve done this for 7 years. We have a lot of reverence and respect for these characters and at the same time we make them a “Smallville” twist, you know, Lex Luther….that’s a new Lex Luther. You know Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey is very different. Rosenbaum was able to create this character that was so 3 dimensional and had so much depth that you don’t see in the other versions.

Darren Swimmer: DC is our collaborator. It’s not like there’s DC and there’s “Smallville” and it’s…they see every script. We talk with them. They give us suggestions. There’s not a lot of like you must do this because that has to conform to the comics. We have a reverence for the comics and I think it’s fun trying….you know without the legacy of the comics there would be no show and you’re right, it’s interesting to write something where you know the ending and I think that it’s a great sort of creative puzzle to make all these new original stories blossom out of this small period of time that we’re working with in the comics.


How long would you like to see the show go on for?

Darren Swimmer: As long as it can go.


Todd Slavkin: We have a lot more stories to tell. I think people—you’ll see in season 8 when you start watching the show—it feels fresh. We’re not cribbing like here’s a Green Arrow origin and we have Maxima from the DC universe. We have Plastic from the DC universe. We have great Lois and Clark stories that will feel fresh and will not feel like you’ve seen it on previous shows. I want to tell you guys more, just because I’m so excited, but at the same time I don’t want to truly spoil it but right now we’re breaking episode 7, just to give you an….and the first 7 out of the box….I really think if you’re a “Smallville” fan then you’ll have a smile on your face. You’ll be on that ride.


I was going to say I am a fan of the show and I’m very excited about this season… because just like with “Cheers”, with the defecting replaced, you have to change cast to keep a show going. That being said, are there any characters in the DC universe you’ve been wanting to work with and now that you’re thinking okay, let’s go after them and bring them in? Besides the ones you’ve already mentioned.

Darren Swimmer: There’s the ones that we just won’t be bringing on the show like Batman, obviously.

Todd Slavkin: Martian Manhunter—he’s been on the show. We have a great idea for him this season so he’s in at least 3 episodes, probably more, and he will feel more a part of this Metropolis. We will ground him for a little bit in the show which is really interesting. He’s a great actor and he has all this knowledge that Clark doesn’t have.

Darren Swimmer: There is one DC character that we’ve always wanted to do for several seasons and we can’t say it because we don’t know if we’re going to get the green….


Can I get a maybe?

Todd Slavkin: Which one? You can say maybe.

Darren Swimmer: Well it’s a female magician. Starts with a Z.
 
With these
love triangles,
origin story for green arrow,
possible Zatanna episode
filler episodes with the last 5 minutes devoted to the main arc
Doomsday

this doesn't feel like a final season and if Smallville gets the axe I won't feel sorry for them when they have to rush the last seven episodes to try to neatly put Clark in a place he's not ready for.

What I guess i'm saying is that they're not devoting themselves to this being a final season and putting all this extra stuff in instead of building up to the end with Clark as Superman
 
CW description


THE JUSTICE LEAGUE RETURNS TO FIND CLARK AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE FORTRESS; THE NEW CEO OF LUTHORCORP COMES TO TOWN — The Justice League, lead by the Green Arrow (Justin Hartley), hits the Artic in search of Clark (Tom Welling), who disappeared after the fortress collapsed. The team immediately has a confrontation with the new CEO of Luthorcorp, Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman). Meanwhile, Chloe (Allison Mack) is being held prisoner by a suspicious group who has discovered she has a new power, and Clark has been stripped of his powers by Jor-El. Erica Durance and Aaron Ashmore also star. Kevin Fair directed the episode with the story by Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders and teleplay by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
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The same by the numbers shit. I though the new monkeys were supposed to shake things up?

What about the gateway to Skaltaris on the Northpole? Superman must notice the traffic going back and forth from there right?
 
How many times is Jor-El going to strip Clark of his powers? How is he supposed to fullfill his destiny without them?


:rolleyes:
 
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