Smallville.

[Hero]

I thought I'd start this thread off since its been mentioned in the Heroes thread a bit ^^.

So basically, Season 7 has been good so far. 7 has introduced Kara (who is said to have her own series after season 8), Bizzaro, and Lor-El into the series. Things seem to be winding down now that Martha has moved on and that Clark's destiny as much he denies it is unfolding.

Green Arrow, Bizzaro, and Brainiac are all said to return with Black Canary also making an appearance.

Even though the writers strike has hit the series it is said that the 15th episode will be cliffhanger. The 8th episode BLUE is due to air this Thursday

===KEN

[kayevcee]

Smallville Bizarro? Seriously? What's that like?

-Nick

[Jaymz]

kayevcee said:

Smallville Bizarro? Seriously? What's that like?

Imagine something really bad. Then imagine it was played by Tom Welling.

[Hero]

Taken from Newsrama. This could be really something!

The Legion of Super-Heroes is coming to Smallville, and the writer who's guiding the futuristic team in comic books will be the one introducing them to the show.

Geoff Johns, writer of next month's Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds mini-series for DC Comics, will also be writing the Legion's introduction to the Smallville television show. As announced Sunday at San Diego Comic-Con, Johns will be writing "Legion," the ninth episode in this year's season 8 of Smallville.

"I've known the Smallville writing team – Todd [Slavkin], Darren [Swimmer], Brian [Wayne Peterson] and Kelly [Souders] – for a long time," Johns told Newsarama. "I had an idea for an episode, so we all had lunch. And I pitched them the idea of bringing the Legion of Super-Heroes to Smallville. And we're off and running."

In comics, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a group of super-powered teenagers from 1,000 years in the future who are inspired by the legend of Superman. The Legion story, which saw the young heroes time-traveling back to visit a young Clark Kent, recently inspired a Warner Bros. animated TV series.

Smallville fans had already seen updated versions of several DC Comics heroes on the live-action show, including Green Arrow, who's become a regular character. Just last month, it was announced that a new "Doomsday" character, played by Battlestar Galactica alum Sam Witwer, will be added to the Smallville cast this season as a nemesis for actor Tom Welling's Clark Kent.

While the show's very human-looking Doomsday is apparently a re-interpretation of the monstrous comics character who once killed Superman, according to Johns, the Legion that appears in his Smallville episode will be the team that comic book readers recognize.

"I can't get into any specifics about the story we're telling because we’re still working on it all. But they're from the 31st Century. And it will be focusing on some obvious characters who first met Clark," Johns said. "It will be written to fit with Smallville, and I think it's going to be a really fun challenge to approach the Legion in a different way. But with me, you know you're going to see Legion rings, and they're going to be as true to the core as possible. It's going to be the Legion of Super-Heroes."

Johns, who just recently used Legion characters in a story he wrote for the Superman-centered series Action Comics with artist Gary Frank, couldn't confirm if the Legion characters he's introducing in Smallville would appear in more than one episode.

As Smallville fans may remember, this won't be the first time the name "Geoff Johns" is attached to the show. In Season 4, a super-powered, villainous football-playing character was named Geoff Johns. And as most comic book fans know, Johns shares offices with former Smallville writer and comic book creator Jeph Loeb, who was involved with the series during Seasons 2-4.

"Like I said, I've known the Smallville team for a long time. And I have to thank Jeph Loeb for introducing me to those people in the first place," Johns said. "I'm really looking forward to working on the show. It's exciting to see the Legion be part of that."

[legios]

Jul 29, 2008 0:25:57 GMT Hero said:

Taken from Newsrama. This could be really something!

As a long time fan of the Legion you would think that this would have caught my attention. Unfortunately I doubt that "Smallville" has the budget, or more importantly the mindset to really make good use of the Legion(I doubt they can possibly afford a convincing 30th Century, without which I can't see a lot of point in doing the Legion). In addition, the fact that Geoff Johns is writing it is pretty much the kiss of death for me (He is the last person I would want writing the Legion in any media to be honest).

I'm just not sure that live action TV is a terribly sensible place to do the Legion - and Smallville doesn't strike me as having the room for the kitsch Legion of the "Superboy: The Adventures of Superman. When he was a boy" strip, or the resources to do the more serious Levitz era Legion.

Karl

[Hero]

Would you watch out of curiosity though?

[legios]

Jul 29, 2008 16:45:23 GMT Hero said:

Would you watch out of curiosity though?

I'm not even sure that it gets shown on steam-TV anymore does it? I think it may well have been relegated to cable or satellite. Even if it was on normal TV would I give up an hour of my time to watch it out of Legion completism.....? Given that it is going to be written by Geoff Johns? And that I haven't seen "Smallville" since the end of the first season? Probably not in all honesty I'm afraid.

Karl

[Hero]

Season 8 has gotten off to an OK start. I hope the Legion episode will be good.

===KEN

[Hero]

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GGVYkdtPOWE

Doomsday is in next weeks episode and looks to be crashing Chloe and Jimmy's wedding (in Clark's Barn?). Taking a page out of Cloverfield's book here

[Hero]

Legion was off the hook! Lightening Lad had all the best lines. Don't want to give too much away too soon.

Watch it asap.

[Hero]

Post some feedback when you can Paul. I'd like to see what you thought of the episode.

Martian Manhunter Jon Jones is back next week in the episode 'Bulletproof'.

===KEN

[Hero]

Season 9 Trailer

[Bogatan]

Apart from the slightly less than dramatic ending to last season I thought it was really well done. For the first time in many years Im looking forward to the new season.

Andy

[Hero]

Wow! This show has had a massive surge of quality. 8 episodes into the 9th season and not a bad one yet!

The guy playing 'Zod' is doing a brilliant job.

So much on the horizon with The Justice Society, Speedy, Wonder Twins, Merlyn, the return of Zatanna and Martian Manhunter, plus Pam 'Jackie Brown' Grier joining the cast as Amanda Waller.

Oh, and an episode called HUBRIS is in the pipeline. What is a Hubris anyway?

===KEN

[The Doctor]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris

-Ralph

[Hero]

Ta Ralph

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Big news! The Justice Society arc will now air in January as a 2 HOUR MOVIE!

===KEN

[Hero]

The 2 Hour movie will air on Feb 5th and will be called Absolute Justice

[Hero]

The final season starts next Friday:

[Hero]

Shattered Glass Universe / Crisis on Two Smallvilles

Lionel's back!

[Hero]

The last 11 episodes start later this month...

[Hero]

I may be briefly appearing in the upcoming episode "Beacon". Fingers crossed...

===KEN

[Hero]

EEEEEK!!!!

[Hero]

I stayed up last night and watched the finale streaming as it aired...

Look up in the sky...

Is it a bird... ?

Is it a plane...?

No! Its... something that RULES.

I saw ....

SPOILER: Click to show

SUPERMAN!!!!!

I will miss Smallville...

[sf1378]

A lot of US fans have been angry over that ending....idiots. Its fitting and was the whole point of the show, WHEN he would....etc, etc. I've seen it via Youtube and really liked it. Its a shame Warners can't persuade or has the nous to use Welling in the title role for any future films.

What I do admire is the use of the John Williams theme and the set design for Kal El's Fortress of Solitude, its fitting and respectful to Donners 1978 movie and shows how amazing and far ahead of its time the designs were that subsequent media still use these elements. I think that with any reboot of Superman the problem lies in the fact that nothing can really better Superman I and II, Christopher Reeve still is seen as the epitomy of Superman and even in my eyes he still is. Superman Returns for example was a reboot but also a retread of the 1978 film, the casting of Routh in the role was so much like Reeve.

For any new film to do well and have sequels Warner Bros need to completely revamp it, i.e. new music, no use of previous Kryptonian set designs etc. That'd be a bold gamble to make as it could backfire. Then again if such elements are used they have to be done right; the problem with any new films is that the shadow of the originals looms large which is both its selling point but also its downfall as 'reboots' try and tack themselves onto I and II....What it needs is a total overhall and be totally remade from the start...

Sadly the new remake will have Zod as its villain. Again, a II concept reuse. With such a wealth of villains in the comics its time for a remake with the guts and savvy of Batman Begins which totally sacrificed Burtons aesthetics and sounds to come up with something revolutionary and surpassing all belief.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

May 15, 2011 15:21:41 GMT @sf1378 said:

Batman Begins which totally sacrificed Burtons aesthetics and sounds to come up with something revolutionary and surpassing all belief.

And a cast so strong it can't be argued with. (Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Rutger Hauer, Cillian Murphy, and so on.)

Anyone want to propose a dream team actor line-up for a Superman movie?

Martin

[sf1378]

Given Christopher Reeve did it best it really is a tough one to re-cast...everyone remembers him.

Batman Begins, yes, the cast were superb as well...they brought more to the whole film and its sequel too....Forgot to mention that, ahem!

[Hero]

herokenflatt.blogspot.com/2011/05/superman.html

[andrewbcalculating]

I've been on the Smallville Wiki filling in the gaps. I've found out about the Orb but I'm at a loose end when it comes to Davis Bloome. Does anyone know why Doomsday was created?

According to the Wiki "Doomsday was created on the planet Krypton through genetic engineering by combining the DNA of the planet's strongest and most violent creatures with the DNA of the Kryptonian warlord General Zod and his wife Faora."

Now the Wiki also claims that "according to Tess Mercer, the Orb could only be activated once Doomsday was defeated by Kal-El because, in his occupation as the Ultimate Destroyer, he would have killed the Kryptonian clones." One of those clones is Major Zod so I can only work out that in some way General Zod wanted a way of living on if his his plan to rule Krypton fails. This could only happen if the Orb was opened creating the Major Zod clone but the only way for the Orb to be opened is for Doomsday to be defeated.

So is this why Doomsday was created? So that he could be defeated causing the Orb to open? It seems a bit much just to make a monster that will open an orb. Is the reason actually related to Zod wanting to kill Jor-El's son by creating Doomsday?

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[Hero]

My head is spinning

A truckload of Kandorians also emerged from the orb too.

The Doomsday in Smallville was beaten by having the 'phantom' extracted from Davis Bloomes body (via Black Kryptonite), but the phantom itself ended up becoming the proper Doomsday. Davis Bloome was killed off, but Doomsday (via Season 6 episode footage of an explosion edited in) was suggestivley buried deep in the Earth.

As far as I remember too, Davis is also Zod's biological son. Extra footage of him as a small child was edited in with stock of Clark being found. It implied that the Kents could have found him instead of Clark. Davis ended up with the Luthors instead...

[Nigel]

Smallville is going to continue, Buffy-like, as a comic series.

Ralph isn't pleased at the news.