Smallville Season Eight News

[JetsAndHeels]

This season is going to suck. I don't want it to, but I can only feel like it is going to keep getting worse.

When the producers of the show leave, that is a tell tale sign.

[ZariusTwo]

If you don't like this series, stop posting in this thread. There's people who have followed Smallville and ARE'NT as tight up the arse about the Superman mythos, they don't have to be pandered to specificly.

[JetsAndHeels]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

If you don't like this series, stop posting in this thread. There's people who have followed Smallville and ARE'NT as tight up the arse about the Superman mythos, they don't have to be pandered to specificly.

Wow, what's wrong with you today? Got your period?

This show used to be a really good one. It started going downhill somewhere around late season 3/season 4. I have stuck with it because there have been some good, solid episodes...but the poor ones just seem to outnumber the good ones lately.

I support the show, and as a viewer and someone who buys the product and reads the books/comics, I am entitled to my opinion. Just get over yourself.

[Hero]

I hope the show has a good ending no matter how bad the season may be.

I've enjoyed Smallville from the beginning myself and I hope to still enjoy it till the end.

===HERO

[JetsAndHeels]

Originally Posted by Hero

I hope the show has a good ending no matter how bad the season may be.

I'm with you on that.....this will be the last season so let's hope that the show ends on a positive note.

[Raph's Girl]

Welp. Season 8 will apperantly premier October 2nd, even tho earlier they said Sept 18th.

Also. The season will apperantly also reveal Green Arrow's origin. Like we need another version of that. Didn't they already do an animated version on the CW site???

Also:

Spoiler:

Jimmy and Chloe MIGHT be getting married. But meanwhile poor Jimmy will have a new rival in that of Doomsday. Um...Chloe and Doomsday?? WTF?
Bette aka Plastique has a Section 33.1 connection. Oh...goody...

[JetsAndHeels]

As far as Green Arrow goes, yes they did an animated show...plus they featured it on the season 6 dvd set. It was part of the mini-series they did with Sprint mobile.

As far as that spoiler goes....all I have to say is interesting.

[Raph's Girl]

Announced at Comic Con:

The Legion of Super-Heroes themselves will be appearing in the 9th ep of the season!!!

Nothing on which of the LOSH will appear but I hope Brainiac 5 is among em!

http://www.newsarama.com/tv/080727-s...le-legion.html

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."

[JetsAndHeels]

I read about this yesterday, and I can honestly say if it is done right, it should be alot of fun to see all of these characters.

I am optimistic about this because the episode "Justice" in season 6 is one of my favorites. Hopefully it will flow the same with the Legion.

[Hero]

Was'nt Supergirl written out of the cartoon by joining up with The Legion of Superheroes? Perhaps Kara could end up being written out the same way since she's meant to be off the show now.

===HERO

[GK Punk]

Supergirl is being written off the show?

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by GK

Supergirl is being written off the show?

Yeah she's being reduced to reacurring character status while Green Arrow gets full credit status.

[GK Punk]

Somehow, I'm okay with that. She's gotta be the first version of Supergirl I don't care very much about.

[Raph's Girl]

Rumour has it that Saturn Girl will be played by Gemini Award winning Canadian singer/actress Alexz Johnson according to Canadian paper The Provence. She definatly looks like Saturn Girl.



Now for the casting of Lightening Lad, Cosmic Boy, and whoever the big bad is (for a while the rumour was Darkseid but now they're saying...eh..no) other than Brainiac....

[Hero]

Awww Cute

Perhaps things will pick up a bit more when the Legion turn up. Things have felt very watered down with the show recentley. (more than usual)

===HERO

[GK Punk]

And why wasn't she Kara?

[Hero]

True.

===HERO

[thebrownranger]

Oh man, Doomsday already. I hope this is going to be epic

[Raph's Girl]

Next week Doomsday will be appearing in full form (the trailer doesn't show him well enough darnit!...). I still think it's a bit funny that he's the creation/son of Zod and Ursa (er um I mean Faora ).

Meantime tho we got another LOSH casting! Canadian actor Ryan Kennedy(who apperantly is not famous enough to deserve a wikipedia entry...bah) has been cast as Cosmic Boy/Rokk Krinn . Checking imdb.com it seems I've seen him in several Sci-fi channel B movies (Category 6: Day of Destruction, Firestorm: The Last Stand at Yellowstone, and Ogre).

Incidentally Ogre also starred John Schneider (who proceeded to feed the poor kid to the titular Ogre...Oi) and he was also in Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness with Dean "Im Superman and Vandal Savage!" Cain. He played Dean Cain's son! So 2 connections to Smallville and the Superman mythos already in his belt.

[Raph's Girl]

17 year old actor Calum Worthy (gods...he looks younger then that) has been cast as Lightining Lad!

The only thing I've seen him in is an ep of Stargate Atlantis. :/ Here's a pic of him: