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Originally posted by Big Sexy
They need to end the show soon. Its getting worse. I loved it in the beginning but it went from being a great show to being more like a soap.

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Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had already had the occasion to come to Paris for the Jules Verne festival. Unfortunately, they had been unable to take a tour of the French capital when Lana was here during the fourth season. "We had to make these episodes in Vancouver, in the street, which we made as French as possible." Effectively, the result wasn't quite plausible, notably with the appearance of a multitude of French flags and schoolboys with uniforms straight out of the 1930s. Miles Millar confided in us: "When I arrived in Paris, I realised the difference between what we did in the series, and the reality, and I said 'The French are going to crucify me'."

A season 7 with Lex Luthor, for the last time...
But let us return to the essential: will Smallville return to the CW next year? "We are very confident concerning the renewla of the series, but the final word hasn't been given." If season seven is there, the budget should be in all respect identical, and Tom Welling will obviously return since his contract binds him until the eighth season.

Michael Rosenbaum was also present at the Jules Verne Festival; he announced that the seventh season is confirmed to be the last in which he'll play. Can Smallville continue without one of its principle cast members? "The series will be different without Lex, but that won't be a total rupture. There will be other villains to contine the story. We would prefer to continue with Michael, but we understand his choice and respect it. We will make a kind of arrangement so that he returns as a guest star in some episodes." They aren't the only ones who'll have to do without Lex Luthot since, according to them, the next Superman film is being made without Lex.

The eighth season will be the last.
The two creators of the series assure us in any case that the last episode is close: "The eighth season will definitely be the last, but everything depends on the audiences and if season seven does well."

They know even the last scene of the series. "We have always had an idea of the last scene in a corner of our mind. We have constructed it in advance thoughout the series through some outstanding facts. For example, we know pertinantly that at the end of his schooling Clark discovered the Fortress of Solitude". However, they haven't given any more details about this scene, if we should expect to see Clark in the Superman suit.

Superman Returns wouldn't have seen the light if not for Smallville.
During its last few seasons, Smallville has brought in a lot of new characters from American comics. In its sixth season, notably we saw the arrival of Green Arrow, who won't be present anymore in season seven, according to the directors: "Justin Hartley, who played the Green Arrow, is engaged in a pilot, so he can't return in the series". However, season seven will confirm the present of Jimmy in the same manner as Lois Lan, who was originally only going to be in one season but remained ever since.

Smallville has prifited from the beachcombing of adaptations in the cinema, but it has also encouraged them, which sometimes prevents the producers from exploiting certain characters: "Even if we loved the ides of the character of Wonder in the series, we can't have her because of the film being made".

Also, the series made it possible to put Superman comics in the spotlight: "I didn't think that the film Superman Returns could have been realised without the success of Smallville. At the epoc, everyone used to think that Superman was uninteresting. We have always said that one could do what one wanted." The producers don't his that the film was not the result of their waiting: "Si we had made the Superman film, we would have wanted to do it from a different angle. The film is an ode to the Christopher Reeve films. For example, the Fortress of Solitude in Superman Returns is the same as in the Reev films. We wouldn't have gone forward with that. We would have innovated more and made Lex Luthor (played by Kevin Spacey in the film) a more serious character". Nevertheless, they were able to assist in the making of the film: "We are friends with Bryan Singer (the realiser of Superman Returns) and we went to see the making of the film in Australia. We asked Bryan Singer what he thought of season five of Smallville".

Chloe has entered the Superman mythology.
The creators of the series each have their favourite characters in the series. Miles Millar particularly likes Lionel Luthor, "a supervillaine and a fantastic actor. He is intriguing, one never knows what he is thinking". Chloe is the favourite of Alfred Gough because "she has entered into the Superman mythology thanks to the series. Moreover, she has an undeniable comical dimension".

Chloe forms, with Lane [sic; I think this was supposed to be Lana] and Clark, according to the producers, "a triangle that gives the energy to the series, at the centre of the Smallville mythology". The classic love triangle, (one thinks obviously of Dawson/Pacey/Joey in Dawson's Creek) has in any case not only given the series success and also permitted its debut on The WB, but found its light with The CW: "The target demographic of The CW, adolesents, permitted the triangle that comprises the three protagonists to recover its importance".

In effect, the series has seen its audience packed over the years, but since the arrival of The CW network, born in Spetember after the fusion of The WB and UPN, the series has seen its audience focus itself more on the young women as at its beginnings. Nevertheless, the arrival of a new network hasn't changed the big things according to the producers: "The series is aired at the same time and the same day, we work with the same people and plus, The CW always lets us be for the moment, the audiences are satisfied."

The CW has buried Aquaman
The CW has in any case stopped the production of the Smallville spin-off, centred around the character of Aquaman, initially planned for entry last on The WB. "If we had remained with The WB, it would have been made. But The CW didn't want it at all, notably because it didn't correspond with their target audience: young adolescents. In a certain way, they didn't think much of the project and decided to renew [Seventh Heaven?] in its place". The pilot had however convinced the numerous internet-users who had seen it via iTunes in the US."

"The CW continues to look for its identity. There isn't one in its programming, with very different programmes each night", notes Alfred Gough. The channell should anyway renew its confidence in Smallville during the Upfronts, the period during which each of the big networks announce their schedule for the next re-entry. Perhaps the channel will find itself with the change in Smallville.

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Originally posted by Magee
To me its like they have so much left to show but would rather give us some shite Lana story about her sacrifice for Clark, boo hoo no one cares lets see him fly already, lets see him do his kryptonian training ffs. Seems like their aiming this show more towards 13 year old girls with each passing episode, pricks.

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Originally posted by Big Sexy
They need to end the show soon. Its getting worse. I loved it in the beginning but it went from being a great show to being more like a soap.