Smallville Season 8: Pre-show Commentary (Merged)

**DonC** · 05-16-2008, 01:37 PM

Interesting note about Season 8 - it's looking like Laura Vandervoort won't be a regular. The only returning regulars are Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore and Erica Durance.

To be honest, I hope they do just leave Kara in the Phantom Zone. Her character never clicked with the others.

**Lord of Denial** · 05-16-2008, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by DonC

Interesting note about Season 8 - it's looking like Laura Vandervoort won't be a regular. The only returning regulars are Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore and Erica Durance.

To be honest, I hope they do just leave Kara in the Phantom Zone. Her character never clicked with the others.

I heard about this earlier and can say I am not so sad about it myself.

Also heard we will get more of Phil Morris as Martian Manhunter and since Justin Hartley's series did not get picked up we might be seeing more of him as well.

They are also saying that season 8 may not be the last as it is CW's most enduring show and a 9th season is possible.

I for one would like it to end at 8.

**DonC** · 05-16-2008, 02:14 PM

I agree. It seems to me like shows are better when they have a specific direction in mind. A beginning, middle and end all mapped out.

**alexr** · 05-16-2008, 02:14 PM

I've only watched the past couple years and have come to the conclusion that's it better than that Superman Returns movie.

I saw that film and my face felt like it was melting, like those Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

**Harding Prime** · 05-16-2008, 03:54 PM

I love the show and have watched every episode, but I would be happy with the show ending at season 8 with a dramatic ending of Clark taking his rightful place in the red and blue....and not the jacket and t-shirt.

**metalhead_dave743** · 05-16-2008, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by DonC

The only returning regulars are Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore and Erica Durance.

So it's Clark, Lois, Jimmy... and Chloe. If those are the main characters, then it's pretty much just the cast of Superman now. No more Smallville, they really need to finally put the cape on him.

I can't believe they are bringing in freaking DOOMSDAY already. I could understand Brainiac, Zod, even maybe BIZARRO but DOOMSDAY.

**Arachnid** · 05-16-2008, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by metalhead_dave743

So it's Clark, Lois, Jimmy... and Chloe. If those are the main characters, then it's pretty much just the cast of Superman now. No more Smallville, they really need to finally put the cape on him.

I can't believe they are bringing in freaking DOOMSDAY already. I could understand Brainiac, Zod, even maybe BIZARRO but DOOMSDAY.

You think they're maybe planning some huge retcon? Now that lex knows about clark, and the justice leage know eachother, and there are all these villains, maybe they'll end theseries with everyone forgetting eachother just to retcon it all out and put it back on the right path to superman. Its an idea I've been thinking about for a long time now.

**metalhead_dave743** · 05-16-2008, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Spidey-kid1

You think they're maybe planning some huge retcon? Now that lex knows about clark, and the justice leage know eachother, and there are all these villains, maybe they'll end theseries with everyone forgetting eachother just to retcon it all out and put it back on the right path to superman. Its an idea I've been thinking about for a long time now.

Maybe a... a... Crisis?

**Sean Whitmore** · 05-16-2008, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by DonC

Interesting note about Season 8 - it's looking like Laura Vandervoort won't be a regular.

It's the best thing, really. I liked her inclusion this season (the show is always better when it's dealing with Krypton), but she's a grown woman. She can't just hang around the farm all the time being charmingly befuddled about Earth customs.

Spend one episode next season freeing her from the Phantom Zone and then ship her off to the orphanage (figuratively speaking).

SEAN

**Ryan K** · 05-17-2008, 03:38 PM

Ausiello on TV Guide seems to indicate that the Bloome character is Doomsday:

http://www.tvguide.com/ask-ausiello

Question: Any additional info on the casting of Doomsday or the new female villain on Smallville? — Eric
Ausiello: As luck would have it, the official casting breakdowns went out last week, and here are the highlights:

Doomsday
• Real name: Davis Bloome
• He's in his mid-20s.
• He works as a bartender at the hip new Metropolis lounge Ace of Clubs (get it?).
• He plays down his smoldering good looks with a self-effacing wit and down-to-earth soulfulness. But he has long felt like an outsider (hence his nickname). And beneath his charismatic, easy-going demeanor lies a brooding sense of isolation and insecurity. When he begins to delve into the haunting mysteries of his true origins, a darker truth begins to emerge, one of blood and serial murders, one of survival and utter destruction — one in which he is forced to confront the true evil inside of him."

Tess
• Drop-dead gorgeous (duh)
• Roughly 28 years old
• She's determined, sexy, vengeful and has super-strength.
• "While Lex is away, she is in control of his estate and rules it with aggression. She's had intellect and the confidence all her life, though it's obvious she's had some training from Lex as well. But as much as Lex has helped fortify her power, he is also her biggest weakness. She harbors an undying devotion to Lex, claiming he saved her life a few years ago. She carries out his wishes with coercion, force, seduction — anything to get what she wants. And no one can resist her beguiling ways. Even Clark Kent. She doesn't remember anything before the day she met Lex. Once she realizes her previous life is buried below the surface, she's desperate to dig it up."

**Whirlwind Dinamo** · 05-18-2008, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by The Xenos

Really, what's the point of Smallville without Rosenbaum as Lex?

I can't watch this show anymore, it just became too ridiculous

**CBR News** · 07-27-2008, 10:02 AM

In celebration of the team's 50th anniversary, the superstar writer has scripted an episode of CW's "Smallville," which officially brings the Legion into the hit TV show's re-imagined Superman mythos.

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17458