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meteordustSmallville is on the cover of this week's Sun-Herald Television Magazine!
Small change
by Scott Ellis
Caption: 'INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD': Smallville is said to 'reinvent a screen comic and television legend' - Superman.
They're one of television's greatest potential couples: Smallville's tall, dark and handsome Clark Kent and his beautiful childhood friend Lana Lang.
But while he might be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and outrun a speeding bullet, if Superman thinks he's got enough powers to get the girl of his dreams, he's got another thing coming.
Forget supervillains or kryptonite, what's standing between him and a romantic ending is far more powerful - the creators of Supe's latest television outing, Smallville.
"Basically he can't get laid in this show," said Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville.
"It's a classic superhero dilemma: you can't be intimate when you can't share your secret.
"He gets close [to Lana or Chloe] but the superhero element sort of always comes between it."
Then again, hinted Tom Welling, who plays the teenage Clark Kent alongside Kristen Kreuk who plays Lana, anything is possible.
"These guys," Welling said of Gough and Smallville's other co-creator, Miles Millar, "They spin such a web that we open the scripts going: 'All right, what's going to happen this week?'
"But really I think no matter what appens, as long as there's that tension... I mean I like the dynamic! At least for now."
Romance woes aside, the new season of Smallville, which premiered last night, has somes interesting times ahead for the teenage Superman.
"You know, you could potentially see powers that he doesn't have when he grows up," Gough said. "Like, if Smallville shows puberty with super powers, what are the super-powered pimples?"
Clark will also start to explore just where he comes from in the universe and how he fits in on Earth, with the help of special guest Christopher Reeve, the best known of the big screen Supermen.
"It was a great experience for me just to meet him and work with him," Welling said. "But it was also the experience of Clark learning this information.
"It's such heavy information, and it really changes the whole direction of where Clark's going."
One of the difficulties, Welling and Gough agreed, was the fact everyone watching Smallville already knows precisely where the lead characters are going.
Clark becomes Superman, Lana is replaced by Lois, and his teenage friend Lex Luthor goes on to become his worst enemy.
Just how they get there, Gough said, is the fun part of reinventing a screen, comics and television legend.
"I think one of the reasons these superheroes are around is because they can be reinterpreted for the times," Gough said. "And Superman absolutely has."
In the original series, he said, Superman couldn't fly, only jump long distances. Even kryptonite, one of the Superman staples, was brought in to give the writers the chance to bring in a different-sounding Superman when the star of the radio series wanted a holiday.
Having Lex and Clark start as friends was another way to inject life into a well-known story.
"People don't just wake up one day and go, 'I'm going to be evil', you know; it's things in their life that have happened," Gough said.
"And what is interesting about this show is that Clark has lied to Lex much more than Lex has lied to Clark. In a way he's never given Lex a chance and he's always being closed-minded... but then you ultimately know he's right to be nervous about the Luthors."
If the creators get their way, keep an eye out for the appearance of another hero from the comic world, or at least his teenage equivalent.
"We've always wanted to bring Bruce Wayne in," said Gough, of the character who goes on to become Superman's sometime friend, sometime rival, Batman. "That's always been a matter of licensing because DC Comics, which owns Superman, doesn't wholly own Batman.
"You obviously never see Bruce Wayne in that costume, but we'd like to bring him in; we're still talking about doing it."
Smallville, Channel Nine, Saturday, 7.30pm.
Scott Ellis travelled to Los Angeles as the guest of Channel Nine.
Small change
by Scott Ellis
Caption: 'INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD': Smallville is said to 'reinvent a screen comic and television legend' - Superman.
They're one of television's greatest potential couples: Smallville's tall, dark and handsome Clark Kent and his beautiful childhood friend Lana Lang.
But while he might be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and outrun a speeding bullet, if Superman thinks he's got enough powers to get the girl of his dreams, he's got another thing coming.
Forget supervillains or kryptonite, what's standing between him and a romantic ending is far more powerful - the creators of Supe's latest television outing, Smallville.
"Basically he can't get laid in this show," said Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville.
"It's a classic superhero dilemma: you can't be intimate when you can't share your secret.
"He gets close [to Lana or Chloe] but the superhero element sort of always comes between it."
Then again, hinted Tom Welling, who plays the teenage Clark Kent alongside Kristen Kreuk who plays Lana, anything is possible.
"These guys," Welling said of Gough and Smallville's other co-creator, Miles Millar, "They spin such a web that we open the scripts going: 'All right, what's going to happen this week?'
"But really I think no matter what appens, as long as there's that tension... I mean I like the dynamic! At least for now."
Romance woes aside, the new season of Smallville, which premiered last night, has somes interesting times ahead for the teenage Superman.
"You know, you could potentially see powers that he doesn't have when he grows up," Gough said. "Like, if Smallville shows puberty with super powers, what are the super-powered pimples?"
Clark will also start to explore just where he comes from in the universe and how he fits in on Earth, with the help of special guest Christopher Reeve, the best known of the big screen Supermen.
"It was a great experience for me just to meet him and work with him," Welling said. "But it was also the experience of Clark learning this information.
"It's such heavy information, and it really changes the whole direction of where Clark's going."
One of the difficulties, Welling and Gough agreed, was the fact everyone watching Smallville already knows precisely where the lead characters are going.
Clark becomes Superman, Lana is replaced by Lois, and his teenage friend Lex Luthor goes on to become his worst enemy.
Just how they get there, Gough said, is the fun part of reinventing a screen, comics and television legend.
"I think one of the reasons these superheroes are around is because they can be reinterpreted for the times," Gough said. "And Superman absolutely has."
In the original series, he said, Superman couldn't fly, only jump long distances. Even kryptonite, one of the Superman staples, was brought in to give the writers the chance to bring in a different-sounding Superman when the star of the radio series wanted a holiday.
Having Lex and Clark start as friends was another way to inject life into a well-known story.
"People don't just wake up one day and go, 'I'm going to be evil', you know; it's things in their life that have happened," Gough said.
"And what is interesting about this show is that Clark has lied to Lex much more than Lex has lied to Clark. In a way he's never given Lex a chance and he's always being closed-minded... but then you ultimately know he's right to be nervous about the Luthors."
If the creators get their way, keep an eye out for the appearance of another hero from the comic world, or at least his teenage equivalent.
"We've always wanted to bring Bruce Wayne in," said Gough, of the character who goes on to become Superman's sometime friend, sometime rival, Batman. "That's always been a matter of licensing because DC Comics, which owns Superman, doesn't wholly own Batman.
"You obviously never see Bruce Wayne in that costume, but we'd like to bring him in; we're still talking about doing it."
Smallville, Channel Nine, Saturday, 7.30pm.
Scott Ellis travelled to Los Angeles as the guest of Channel Nine.
