"No one's gonna read a comic strip about a strong man in tights Joe, it'll never fly."
"Fly no, but he can leap over tall buildings."

There's your props.

No props to Jerry Siegel or Joe Shuster?

For shame.

OMG best news ever. Maybe the last season won't be such a utter dissapointment.


FLIGHTS TIGHTS NOW.

Hopefully the new show runners will unwussify Clark, let him fly, and keep Lana in zombie mode like the last episode left off.

I would love them make the jump to a new show called Metropolis. You can keep many of the same characters, but you have the freedom to open it even more to a more global perspective. More Justice League. Perry White as mentor instead of Ma and Pa Kent with a more big city attitude of what it takes to live in the city. The idea of a superman out there fighting crime even though Clark would rather remain out of the spotlight.

Oh thank god.

I haven't watched Smallville with any degree of regularity for a few seasons now because the Lana/Clark angst was just too much to bear. I never understood putting so much creative energy into that relationship, especially following high school, when everyone knows Clark ends up with Lois. And the continual "Lana in danger and Clark saves her" routine had become a gimmick-staple of the show. Maybe Gough and Miller leaving might be a good thing, don't know. But I think I may tune in again next season, see what's what. Maybe Clark will go to college and intern at the Daily Planet, and maybe he'll actually learn to fly. Could be cool!

This could be a good or bad thing, depending on who they're replaced with. For some reason it usually doesn't work out so well when creative staff get replaced on television shows, but it happens in other industries all the time. For instance, I think we're all thanking the heavens that Chris Nolan came along and replaced the previous Batman directors. Just last night I was watching the X-Men 2 special features dvd and saw that in one of the segments they were talking about the long line of artists, writers, and Marvel company chiefs who worked on the comic over the years. Some eras have not been as good as others, but overall the series has continued to grow and progress. That never seems to happen to tv shows. The people who were there from the beginning leave, and the quality seems to suffer almost immediately. But maybe they can make it through their (reportedly) final season without much of a dropoff. Not that these past couple of seasons have been top-notch.

Wow, I just talked about Batman and the X-Men in a Smallville article. If only I could find some way to work in Spider-man and Hulk I would be golden. hmmm. Fantastic Four. Iron Man. ...there.

I tried to watch Smallville but it was the same plot structure over and over in every episode. Am I wrong? It's been too long since I watched it but I remember it being the same setup every single time.

this better be the last season. im a big smallville fan but lets face it. nobody on that show looks even remotely close to the ages they try and play. i dont even think smallville should get a full season. give them like 11 episodes and as a chappelle show skit would say WRAP IT UP lol.

its time ill miss it and i loved it but its time. and he better start flying. i dont want to see him in any superman tights unless its a smallville movie but its time for him to fly. in the movies he was flying at the end of high schoool so they are definitely dragging their feet.

I think they are leaving because the cw probably wants to take to superman steps and they probably want to keep it back or they want to wrap it up and the cw wants to keep it going.