And you just answered your own not asked question.
Why would you leave a show you are making good money on when everyone knows you can't act?
Swimmer and Slavkin leave 'Smallville'
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And you just answered your own not asked question.
Why would you leave a show you are making good money on when everyone knows you can't act?
Dude you turned on Smallville very fast! What happened?
I do not disagree. Though it'll be a few years before you see them on the silver screen again. Long, continuing shows tend to make actors too well known for their parts and later get sidelined for cheaper, unknown actors.
Michael has a career and has had one for years and years. Alison seems to be awfully distracted by Smallville.
Are you watching the show lately? His whole arc this season is about embracing his role as a hero. He may not have the nickname or the tights or the frequent flyer miles yet, but he's finally starting to grow into the man who will be Super.
And if you ask me, it's necessary that he take some time to go through that growth process. Under Gough & Millar's showrunning, Clark was locked into a holding pattern of self-absorption and petulant judgmentalism toward others. I always felt that Clark would've been a very dangerous Superman, one who would likely jump straight to Justice Lords mode and use his powers to force his will on others. Now we're finally getting to see him grow into a selfless, heroic figure, and that's made the show worthwhile again. He may not have a cape yet, but it finally feels like he's getting there.
No. I haven't watched regularly in four seasons.
^^Well, I don't think there's any Clark-Lois chemistry on this show at all, so I don't care much about that. And the previous season or two of the show were dreadful. This season isn't brilliant, but it's much better than the show's been in several seasons.
Closer to a relationship with Lois? 
I've had to DVR my favorite, Supernatural, for the past three weeks because I've been in an evening training program for my new job. I always start the DVR five minutes early; each of those three weeks have ended with Clark and Lana have been whining at each other about how they can't be together. It's Clark crying over Lana, Lana, Lana. What's changed?
I've had to DVR my favorite, Supernatural, for the past three weeks because I've been in an evening training program for my new job. I always start the DVR five minutes early; each of those three weeks have ended with Clark and Lana have been whining at each other about how they can't be together. It's Clark crying over Lana, Lana, Lana. What's changed?
^ They brought Lana back for an arc to close her storyline (despite it having been over in the opinion of many). They're moving toward the Clark/Lois relationship and its going to become more common as the season progresses.
Including an episode where Chloe realizes that Clark is deeply in love with Lois.
Any potential Clark/Lois romance would come off as vapid and shallow simply because they haven't had time to build up to it. The entire series up to this point have been about the Clark/Lana relationship and a Clair/Lois relationship has nothing going for it but "destiny" and years comic book canon. Forcing it at this point simply isn't going to work.
Seriously, they shouldn't have had Lois in it at all. And instead of years of will-they-or-won't-they followed by obsessive teen love and deus-ex-machina that serve no purpose other than keeping them apart, they should have had a simple realistic romance that gradually turns sour, ending in a painful, bitter, but realistic and natural breakup, instead of the crap that they actually shoveled out. Or, you know, actually had some lobes and let the two of them end up together.
It isn't that hard to write a good five-year-arc distilation of the character, but instead they went for the shallow teen drama, cluttered it up with needless character cameos (Legion of Superheroes, I'm looking at you, and Aquaman, too. And The Flash, And pretty much every other superhero Justice League except, maybe, the Green Arrow, who is actually used half-decently sometimes, but mostly the Legion, because it it is extremely difficult to do time travel right; adding a while group of time traveling characters, even one-shots, damages the universe, even if they are comic book canon), and kept beating it's zombified corpse.
Seriously, they shouldn't have had Lois in it at all. And instead of years of will-they-or-won't-they followed by obsessive teen love and deus-ex-machina that serve no purpose other than keeping them apart, they should have had a simple realistic romance that gradually turns sour, ending in a painful, bitter, but realistic and natural breakup, instead of the crap that they actually shoveled out. Or, you know, actually had some lobes and let the two of them end up together.
It isn't that hard to write a good five-year-arc distilation of the character, but instead they went for the shallow teen drama, cluttered it up with needless character cameos (Legion of Superheroes, I'm looking at you, and Aquaman, too. And The Flash, And pretty much every other superhero Justice League except, maybe, the Green Arrow, who is actually used half-decently sometimes, but mostly the Legion, because it it is extremely difficult to do time travel right; adding a while group of time traveling characters, even one-shots, damages the universe, even if they are comic book canon), and kept beating it's zombified corpse.
I'm glad they brought her back. The closure the previous showrunners gave her last season was as inept as everything else they were doing at that stage. Lana's arc in the past five episodes did a good job strengthening and redeeming her character.
You gotta love genre fans and their blind worship of b-grade actors. What happened to all those great Trek actors and their careers? Oh, they really wanted to direct. Or they have a love for the theatre. Off Broadway. Way. Off. Broadway. But I digress.
I would suspect that once Smallville folds, everyone involved will have a permanent home in Sci Fi's "Most Dangerous Night ON Television". Or some forgetable art house effort.
Pretty normal reaction no matter who you are. And going to do it and actually following through are two different things....
Wow... Melrose Place... wow. I'm gonna go puke now.