Kristin and Lana fans alike, I want your opinion on Kristin's new hair do! If you don't know, our favorite Smallville girl has a new, shorter, hair style, and I want to know what you think of it. Do you like it, love it, or dislike it? Please do not be overly critical or downright nasty, afterall, it's not our hair, it's Kristin's. Also which hair style do you think Kristin looks best in?
I personally dig the new do, definitely something different! It's weird to see KK with that style because I'm so used to her old look, but with that face she could go bald-headed and still be gorgeous!
My favorite Lana-look has to be when she was playing Lana Luthor, where her hair was almost always tied up. The professional look just does it for me, and KK was working that look hard! Sexy Mama! LOL, what's the word Smallville VIPs??? Chime in...
Where in the world is Lex Luthor? Is he in Russia?
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Original cast
| "He hasn't been able to choose whether or not he has these abilities. All this responsibility has just been thrust on him, and he has to deal with it." Tom Welling on Clark Kent |
| "...I have the feeling that she didn't have a mother growing up — they've never introduced a mother for her. That's why being a mother is so important to her — and being the 'picture book' kind of mother at that." Annette O'Toole on Martha Kent |
The show is produced at BB Studios in Burnaby . Initially, production was going to be in Australia , but Vancouver had more of a "Middle America landscape". The city provided a site for the Kent farm, as well as doubling for Metropolis. It also provided a cheaper shooting location, and was in the same time zone as Los Angeles . "Main street" Smallville is at a combination of two locations. Portions were shot in the town of Merritt , and the rest was shot in Cloverdale . Cloverdale is particularly proud of being a filming site for the show; at its entrance is a sign which reads "Home of Smallville."
Vancouver Technical School doubled as the exterior for Smallville High, as the film makers believed Van Tech had the "mid-American largess" they wanted. This kept in-line with Millar's idea that Smallville should be the epitome of "Smalltown, USA". The interiors of Templeton Secondary School were used for Smallville High's interior. The Kent farm is a real farm located in Aldergrove . Owned by The Andalinis, the production crew had to paint their home yellow for the show. Exterior shots of Luthor Mansion were filmed at Hatley Castle in Victoria . The interior shots were done at Shannon Mews, in Vancouver, which was also the set for the Dark Angel pilot and Along Came a Spider . Movie house Clova Cinema, in Cloverdale, is used for exterior shots of The Talon, the show's coffee house.
Originally, Tollin/Robbins Productions wanted to do a show about a young Bruce Wayne . The feature film division of Warner Bros. had decided to develop an origin movie for Batman , and, because they didn't want to compete with a television series, had the television series idea nixed. In 2000, Tollin/Robbins approached Peter Roth, the President of Warner Bros. Television , about developing a series based on a young Superman. That same year, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar developed a pilot based on the film Eraser . After watching the pilot, Roth approached the two men about developing a second pilot, based on the young Superman concept that was brought to him. After meeting with Roth, Gough and Millar decided that they didn't want to do a series where there was lots of flying, and a cape. It was here that they developed a "no tights, no flights" rule, vowing Clark would not, at any point, fly or don the suit during the run of the show.
Gough and Millar wanted to strip Superman down to his "bare essence", and see the reasons behind why Clark became Superman. Gough and Millar felt the fact that they were not comic book fans played into their favor. Not being familiar with the universe would allow them an unbiased approach to the series. This didn't keep them from learning about the characters; they both did research on the comics and picked and rearranged what they liked. They returned and pitched their idea to both the WB and FOX in the same day. A bidding war ensued between FOX and the WB, which the WB won with a commitment of 13 episodes to start.
Roth, Gough, and Millar knew the show was going to be action oriented, but they wanted to be able to reach that "middle America iconography" that 7th Heaven had reached. To help create this atmosphere, the team decided the meteor shower that brings Clark to Earth would be the foundation for the franchise of the show. Not only does it act as the primary source behind the creation of the super powered beings that Clark must fight, but it acts as a sense of irony in Clark's life. The meteor shower would give him a life on Earth, but it would also take away the parents of the girl he loves, and start Lex Luthor down a dark path, thanks to the loss of his hair during the shower. Roth loved the conflict that was created for Clark, in forcing him to deal with the fact that his arrival is what caused all of this pain.
Another problemm the creators had to address was why Lex Luthor would be hanging out with a bunch of teenagers. They decided to create a sense of loneliness in the character of Lex Luthor, which they felt would require him to reach out to the teens. The loneliness was echoed in Clark and Lana as well. Gough and Millar wanted to provide a parallel to the Kents, so they created Lionel Luthor, Lex's father, which they saw as the "experiment in extreme parenting". Gough and Millar wanted a younger Kent couple, because they felt they needed to be able to be involved in Clark's life, and help him through his journey. Chloe Sullivan , another character created just for the show, was meant to be the "outsider" the show needed. Gough and Millar felt the character was necessary so someone would notice the weird happenings in Smallville. She was meant to act as a "precursor to Lois Lane".
The concept of Smallville has been described by Warner Brothers as being a reinterpretation of the Superman mythology from its roots. Recently, since the November 2004 reacquisition of Superboy by the Siegels , there has arisen contention regarding a possible copyright infringement . The dispute is over ownership of the fictional Smallville, title setting of the show, and a claimed similarity between Superboy 's title character and Smallville 's Clark Kent. The heirs of Jerry Siegel claim "Smallville is part of the Superboy copyright", of which the Siegels own the rights .
There is humanity
and there is the inhumane.
There is no middle-ground.
The oodles and oodles of Extra Terrestrial protoculture vomitted up in the western world for the gogeoisie benefits of furthering a global ghetto for the have-nots as they struggle for their own personal socio-economic revenge (more colloquially refered to as "keeping up with the Joneses") is quite at home in the comforts of Proto-shippers [< protoculture + worshippers] tuning into, yet failing to grasp at all the ramifications of, the Illuminati agents (like CCClark Kent) they turn out to.
I like comic books. Good versus evil, and Superman is thus quintessentially good.
Not Smallville. Farce of Greek Tradgedy, sprinkled with maggia conjurations, and liberally soaked in Human artisanry, this 42 minutes of heavily commercialized pseudo-homage,has worn it's veil of maggia nuance quite thin.
CLana is an obtuse and tragic plotdevice.
CLois refuses to redeem her Dutch (they're all Dutch, might as well call Germany the Dutchland) and Wagnerian antagony being. Yes, it's quite protruding even behind the cleverest of dialogue.
Lionel is abused for an irrelevant character bible, that sorely lacks the insight of any true Greek composition, and anchored to sufferences for CLex, not even remotely like the real deal, Luthor, as his human side, that hurt and frightened child, is only seen in ridiculous and unwarranted circumstances, and not juxtaposed nor cared for by the story nor it's Protagonists. (Spider-Man almost always tries to appeal or plead a case to his foes' human side, and Batman believes in a reform system, post his control freak domination, of course.)
CLexarguabley has the means portrayed accurately, but what is his ends? The real Lex Luthor is Zionist, and sinceleft without resources for warbots, turns to political peoplemechanics.
CLara does not seem at all like a Super-anything (well, at least not anything that is not insulting), let alone aSuper-Woman.
Loe nee Cloe, is the best character, but this serial'sdirection refuses to yeild any humanity or less and less common sense decisionsin social interaction as it progresses.Centralize some shojo (and as need dictates, countercultural) action and deuteragonizethe tragicgreek tragedy, called Smallville.
Smallville makes the Lois and Clark series look well and good.
I take small comfort in the fact that you Earthen Monitors (unwittingaccomplices of a souless Politico-Relegious virulence),with your Year Zero Revolutionary machinations, break easy.
Viza'Aziv
PS: Lion beats Robot, Robot beats Meteor Shower, Meteor Shower beats Lion.
I think it is really col that Lex is becoming more scheming and "evil" in the 7th season; and, the eighth season will hopfully include som more of Michael Rosenbaum's cleverly acted/clever witted Lex. I really believe that MR's Lex far surpasses that of Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey (from Superman Returns). Of course, that's just a viewer's opinion: yet, I shudder to see how the 8th season will fare without at least a few episodes with Lex. Anyone want to wager it?
