Report: Supernatural and Smallville both renewed
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Me too...well I'm just getting caught up with it all finally. I like it enough, but I've also been keeping up with the comments here after each episode, and I get why people became so frustrated. It seems like it just keeps rolling with the punches...and I'm sure it has a strong fan base or it wouldn't have gotten this far.
I got mixed feelings about both bits of news. For one, I was thinking it would be neat for Supernatural to just do five seasons. I think getting another season might lead to more unfocused, filler episodes. But hopefully Kripke, etc. now know they got more time to really flesh out the Apocalypse and give us something special and not rush things.
As for Smallville, its definitely showing signs of fatigue and I don't know what else they can do or go, unless its places they don't want to go, mainly making him Superman. If its ten years, we've gone from him being a teenager to his late 20s and he's still not Superman yet? Also, I wonder who the main villains will be? Of course there's Major Zod, but I've not been impressed with him and hope more villains are added next season. I wouldn't mind seeing Darkseid. Also more Metallo. Hopefully Amanda Waller will be left in a position to come back. One good thing about the later seasons is the willingness to delve more overtly into comic book lore. I wouldn't mind seeing Steel, Natasha Irons, a return of Maggie Sawyer and Kara, Mon-El, the Guardian, Lucy Lang, and more General Lane.
As for Smallville, its definitely showing signs of fatigue and I don't know what else they can do or go, unless its places they don't want to go, mainly making him Superman. If its ten years, we've gone from him being a teenager to his late 20s and he's still not Superman yet? Also, I wonder who the main villains will be? Of course there's Major Zod, but I've not been impressed with him and hope more villains are added next season. I wouldn't mind seeing Darkseid. Also more Metallo. Hopefully Amanda Waller will be left in a position to come back. One good thing about the later seasons is the willingness to delve more overtly into comic book lore. I wouldn't mind seeing Steel, Natasha Irons, a return of Maggie Sawyer and Kara, Mon-El, the Guardian, Lucy Lang, and more General Lane.
But Welling is so much older it's starting to strain credulity.
Clark was supposed to be 14 at the start of the show? I pegged him for about 18, 16 at the youngest. No way Welling or anyone else looked 14.
I agree. Males mature physically later. Some 14 year old boys still look like little kids. They don't look like Tom Welling.
Previously comics considered Clark and Bruce to have an age between 28-32 (For the bulk of the 80's, this gives them a little wiggle room to have a solo career, before getting junior partners (very much a concern for Batman) and having those young kids grow up to became young adults. Meaning Clark and Bruce would have started years before (thus early to mid twenties).
Now of course Smallville doesn't have to worry about that. But what they do have to worry about is the fact that writers don't and haven't given any reasonable account of Clark's period from High School to now. Very little college, a job that he has no qualifications or real training for, ect. The fact the writers ignore the character of Martha (being an elected official does not remove that person from their home year round even for national office. And lets see Clark's had disappeared, moved away from his humanity and what Martha isn't trying her damn best to ground him? Seriously. How is that rational story telling, even without the actress one could have dialogue about it, anything. And that is fairly typical of how Smallville handles many of its situations. I used to really love the charm of that show (not the overall quality the charm), but by not treating its universe seriously it has destroyed my ability to believe its setting and its characters.
Of course he didn't look that age, no show is going to cast a minor (where they have filming limitations with number of hours) as their lead in a one hour drama (well rarely), heck even in ensemble shows casting usually uses 18 an older to play high school age characters. That isn't the reason that Smallville isn't a quality show (my opinion of course).
Four years of high school and you typically start high school when you are 14. Also, I think it was established that Clark was 3-ish when his parents found him in 1989.
In any event, yes, Tom Welling wasn't anything near 14 (he was a good ten years older). Like most TV shows, it is one of those things you just have to run with. On an interesting aside, Allison Mack and Kristin Kreuk were 18 at the beginning of season one, making them close to their character's ages.
Michael Rosenbaum at 29 when Smallville started was a good 9 years older than Lex was suggested to be when the show started. But then, I think Rosenbaum looks younger than his actual age.
Remember 90210 which featured a bunch of 30-year-olds playing high schoolers? It's a common TV thing. Season 1 started with Clark and the others as Freshmen in highschool which would've made them around 14.
BTW - Are you going to be able to do the Smallville discussion threads when it starts up again this week?
Smallville has had some real development in one area... They moved him from the farm in Smallville to the Daily Planet in Metropolis, so that's something.
