SMALLVILLE And SPIDER-MAN 2 Screenwriters To Adapt Another Original Stan Lee Creation

Anybody reading Stan Lee's new stuff at Boom! Studios? The Traveler, Soldier Zero? Is it any good?

Tom Welling says:





"What do you mean you're not going to cast me??"





"That's bulls---!"

@IDKwhatToChoose - It's funny that you mentioned the 3 weakest seasons of Smallville and then dissed the 3 strongest. Season 7 was a trainwreck, the individual episodes were good but the thing didn't hold together at all. I don't blame them since there was a writer's strike that almost killed the Season at episode 15 so they had to drop plot lines and put together some kind of finale but Al & Miles left a mess at the end of the Season. As far as taking a wrong turn do you mean the turn where Clark begins to proactively do stuff instead of always reacting? In other words, where he begins to really become Superman?

Anyway, I hope they do better on their future projects than they did on Charlie's Angels. That thing was once of the worst things on television.

@IDKwhatToChoose - The last time I watched Season 1? I watched it all again this week. Yesterday, I watched the finale for Season 1. The best thing about it is, having watched the whole 10 Seasons a few times, I still see something new that I missed before.

Let me state that when I say weakness I don't mean bad by any definition. The only episode that I see as truly bad was Collateral in Season 10.

Season 7 suffered a lot from the writer's strike as well as Al & Miles who, from the commentaries, seemed to have known they were leaving but the cast didn't with Justin Hartley asking them about what they must have planned for Season 8 and Al & Miles giving him the brush off. This probably led to Season 7 having the worst finale and the worst set up for the next Season.

Season 1 suffered at the very beginning from the writing, directing, and acting until the 5th episode when all of the elements started working together. It also suffered from the Freak of the Week problem along with Clark discovering a new power just in time to use it to stop the FOTW. This extended into Season 2 but thankfully they hired some writers and started to delve into the mythos of Superman more heavily at the end of 2. Welling really stepped up his acting starting in Season 3 and beyond.

The hunt for Lex was an attempt to resolve the mess left by Al and Miles. Tess was less a main villain than a supporting character who helped move the story along. My guess is that the reason some fans were disappointed by the Doomsday ending was they did such a good job setting the confrontation up. There was a lot of build up but not a big fight. However, the climax was not Doomsday but Clark's actions after Jimmy was killed which was a great setup for the next season.

On these fights that Superman has with villains of around equal power. There has never, ever been a good one and there never, ever will be. I have read a lot of fans talk about wanting just that in the new Superman movie but let's be real(in the sense that one can be in a world based on comics). When not exposed to Kryptonite, the only thing that hurts Superman is something that is going to knock him into the next Solar System. He isn't going to stop when he gets punched into a delivery truck or if he punches a fellow Kryptonian that foe is not going to fly into a Coca-Cola sign and be stopped by the impact. The sign and the enemy will either head out to space or have a good laugh at how much it tickled. A punch from Doomsday to Superman's face would probably send out a shockwave that would break every pane of glass in Metropolis if Superman braced himself (it would probably knock over a few buildings too).

@IDKwhatToChoose - It could be argued that the Doomsday that Clark fought was not the Doomsday that Superman fought. That, in fact, they set up the future battle with Doomsday by having Clark be the one who buries him (a la the Doomsday who is later unearthed by Luthorcorp in the animated movie not the comic book Doomsday).

I wouldn't have minded another season although I don't see how they could have pulled it off. They did a good job using Seasons 9 and 10 as the finale road to Superman. Ultimately, it seems that the time after Icarus was the break at which they took stock on whether there was going to be another season or not since Welling was willing to do another season, but decided not to. Of course, the CW is regretting that choice now.

As for Welling's acting, I think he matured into a fine actor. His portrayal of the alterverse Clark in Kent is actually subtly menacing. It is interesting how well he did at portraying the many different Clarks on the show (Red K Clark, Bizzaro Clark, Silver K Clark, flying Kal-el Clark, Alterverse Clark, Inhabited by Lionel Luthor Clark), keeping them different with varying degrees of subtlety. I do think it would be interesting to see him turn up on a show like Supernatural as a bad guy, however, I think he may pursue the production and directing route more.