Smallville and Supernatural RENEWED for Next Season

[Icemizer]

Flights & tights!!! No more Lana EVER!!! Green Lantern, Question, A trip to Gotham, or Opal City. Solomon Grundy, Amanda Waller. Ok those are all things I would like to see on the next season. I mean the government should be involved with the rise of all these vigilantes shouldnt it? Waller brings in the Suicide Squad to take on Clark and the Super Buddies.

 

[the Dagman]

I have heard that one big reason Tom Welling was reluctant to don the Superman costume was the perceived "Superman Curse". So he thinks that if he never dons the costume, then he technically was never Superman and can avoid the "curse". Superstitious? Sure. But he is far from the only person in the world who is.

Maybe he has grown out of that belief? Perhaps he now realizes he will forever be linked to the character, so he may as well give the fans what they want? We can only hope.

I am glad to hear that Supernatural has been renewed too. I didn't really follow it at the beginning. Mainly due to Jensen Ackles' prior role as Jason Teague on Smallville and that characters' connection to Lana Lang, a useless character played by a talentless actress IMO. I spent most of season 4 editing out the Lana centric scenes and was in the habit of going "ewww..." whenever Ackles was on the screen. I did enjoy his character(s) in his series prior to that, Dark Angel with Jessica Alba. But I have been watching fairly regularly over the last season or two, and find Supernatural enjoyable. So I am glad to hear they will be able to finish their planned story arc.

The other renewals? Don't care. Don't watch them. Crap, crap, crap.

 

[nx1701g]

Flights & tights!!!

Flight - Maybe
Tights - Doubtful

No more Lana EVER!!!

Some way will be found to bring her back.

Green Lantern

A Green Lantern movie is announced. An embargo will be put into place in short effect. Even the rumored Flash movie a few years ago made them change their Flash back into Impulse.

Question

Possible.

A trip to Gotham

Highly unlikely (see embargo)

or Opal City

Possible.

Solomon Grundy

Possible, but Smallvilleized.

Amanda Waller

I'd like that.

 

[Corran Horn]

I imagine they will put a damper (even though the Lana arc pretty much already did) into the budding Clark/Lois romance for the rest of this season. Why give even a semi-resolution now when you can milk it for all of next season?

 

[Samurai8472]

Well I guess this caps any chances Welling has of a career post Smallville. Unless "Cheaper Fog" goes into production.

 

[hyzmarca]

It's going to be pretty hard to top what the K man has planned for season five. The transformation of Sam from the skinny 22 year old kid from season one has been miraculous. He's a baaaaaad man.

I think Kripke meant he would extend the story a little bit and put in some more plot. We'll have to see.

It depends on what type of ending he has planned. If it's a "that over now, lets go hunt some more stuff" ending it would be fairly easy to logically extend the character development and just have them hunt some more stuff. If it's a "that's over, now what?" ending they could possibly have an epilogue season that deals with the fallout of the epic ending. Only if it is a "nothing else interesting could possibly happen" ending is it impossible to extend the series past the ending.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Why would Welling sign for a ninth season? The bad economy? Clark no longer looks like a young kid, Superman to be. He looks like a should have been Superman three years ago.

It depends on what type of ending he has planned. If it's a "that over now, lets go hunt some more stuff" ending it would be fairly easy to logically extend the character development and just have them hunt some more stuff. If it's a "that's over, now what?" ending they could possibly have an epilogue season that deals with the fallout of the epic ending. Only if it is a "nothing else interesting could possibly happen" ending is it impossible to extend the series past the ending.

Would the fans want them to extend the series artificially if all it amounts to is more monster of the week formula stand alones to milk an extra season? If Kripke goes for what I think he's going to go for next season now that he has it--and doesn't have to cram it into the end of season four via the alternate script he was planning just in case--the characters will have already experienced their major emotional growth and epiphanies. On Supernatural those epiphanies are pretty major. They'd be awfully hard to top. Plus, with Kim Manners dying so suddenly this spring, their hearts may not be in yet another season. That was a big blow to all concerned.

 

[Samurai8472]

It depends on what type of ending he has planned. If it's a "that over now, lets go hunt some more stuff" ending it would be fairly easy to logically extend the character development and just have them hunt some more stuff. If it's a "that's over, now what?" ending they could possibly have an epilogue season that deals with the fallout of the epic ending. Only if it is a "nothing else interesting could possibly happen" ending is it impossible to extend the series past the ending.

They should have Dean ready to slay a dragon

I think they're going to have "there's more to hunt" type series finale.

In the smallest realms of reality, evil can't be vanquished completely in the "Supernatural" world

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Dean already slayed Azazel and he's dealing with Lilith the little girl demon from hell trying to raise Lucifer. Poor guy's got a pretty full plate without adding dragons.

 

[Brent]

S9 of Smallville, I better see at least glasses or some answer to how he isn't going to be recognized by everyone when he puts on the cape. And he better fly.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

Dare I ask how old Welling is at this point? I daresay he should become Superman before he gets his AARP card.

Isn't the Man of Steel eternally 29 in the comics?

And he still can't fly? Get him some Flyagra! Paging Dr. House!

 

[nx1701g]

S9 of Smallville, I better see at least glasses or some answer to how he isn't going to be recognized by everyone when he puts on the cape. And he better fly.

Spoiler: My theory about SuperID

I think Zatanna will have something to do with him not being identified by others as Superman.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

If IMDB is to be believed, Welling was born April 26, 1977. If it isn't, that means he's older because actors/actresses always shave years off their ages. They don't make themselves older. So he'll turn 32 (or more) in April. Ackles will be 31 in March, but that's okay because his character just turned 30 and is allowed to age. I loved it when the vampiress talked about the "really old guy--he must have been 30" to Dean. The writers love to tease Ackles.

 

[hyzmarca]

Would the fans want them to extend the series artificially if all it amounts to is more monster of the week formula stand alones to milk an extra season?

Some, certainly. The MOTW episodes are great. Some, certainly not. Compromising the vision wouldn't sit well. In the end, either course of action would be difficult for the fans, but they'd still eat it up if it continued. The show is very good. It can sustain itself on MOTW for a season and remain top notch. But that's not the ideal season that the fans would want.

The best solution for an extra season would probably an epilogue, if the plot allowed it. Considering that they're essentially building to inevitable Armageddon, there's going to be some big fallout to deal with if there are any survivors at all. Likely, Sam and Dean wouldn't be the same, but fans are just as interested as seeing how they deal with those changes as they are in seeing what the changes are.
The great thing about an epilogue is that it isn't about topping what's come previously, it's about winding down after a huge climax and tying up all the loose ends. Things don't have to be bigger. They just have to be good.

But depending on how it ends, a spinoff could be interesting more interesting. Maybe a legal drama in which Sam takes up landmark cases involving demons and other supernatural creatures.

 

[BenRoethig]

I only hope that Tom Wellings suppossed contract negotiation has a clause about finally putting on the suit. For some small percentage of time either per episode or per season 9. Its well past time and there is no cinematic Supes to "confuse" the masses either.

I agree. We've gotten far past the teenage no flight, no tights stuff and into early superman. Honestly, the series should have ended with Clark leaving smallville for Metropolis. Learning how to fly in season 9 in a must. As for the suit, Welling doesn't have to wear it, but if nothing else, the last scene of the series should have it lying on the bed ready for Clark to put it on followed by a red/blue streak flying out of the farmhouse.

 

[nx1701g]

I think that we've seen the suit as much as we're going to see it on the show: The Red Jacket, Blue T-Shirt, Blue Jeans.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Question,

Jeffery Combs

Solomon Grundy,

Ron Perlman

Amanda Waller

.

CCH Pounder

So, will this year's season finale be the death of (NOT Superman)?

 

[nx1701g]

^ I could see CCH Pounder as Amanda Waller.

 

[DarKush]

^ I could see CCH Pounder as Amanda Waller.

I third this. Great choice and she would be an interesting villian. If Lex isn't returning, it would be nice to move away from Luthorcorp and perhaps have Cadmus or some other organization take over the villiany.

 

[Samurai8472]

At least they've broken out of having Clark find ANOTHER excuse to stay in Smallville(phantoms, meteor freaks, cousin) now that he commutes back and forth

I predict S9 will continue with the Daily Planet type stories and continue evolving into "Metropolis"