Smallville aired its final episode in May 2011, but the series is one which we know many of you remain big fans of. It's not surprising; after all, while the series was very much a product of its time, it delivered a compelling origin story for Clark Kent and pitted the young Man of Steel against many of his greatest foes.
It remains a shame that he didn't suit up until the finale (and even then, Tom Welling only paid lip service to the classic suit), but there's a lot of rewatch value in a show which debuted more than two decades ago...feel old yet?
During Smallville's early years, the prevailing theory was that Chloe Sullivan would somehow end up becoming Lois Lane. A possible romance between her and Clark was teased and, in season 3, she even used "Lois Lane" for a byline.
Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar were recently guests on Welling and Michael Rosenbaum's podcast TalkVille, and they both finally weighed in on those "Clois" fan theories.
"We did talk about that, that maybe she is the proto-Lois and that later on, she had to change her identity or something like that, and she becomes Lois Lane," Millar confirmed before Gough added, "The issue, again, was we wanted to get Lois Lane, and they wouldn’t give her to us."
"Then when she came in in Season 4, there was this huge thing about 'You can have her for two episodes,' and then 'You can have her for three,' and then 'You can have her for half the season' and [WBTV head] Peter Roth, to his credit, was like 'F*** it. She's in the show now and she’s just not leaving.'" Millar went on to say, "She became part of the show. It was never questioned again."
Kryptonite later reached out to Gough who says that, while Chloe becoming Lois was considered, "We discussed it when we were developing the show in mid-2000, but even in the series pitch document Lois was her cousin." Clearly, the idea only came up very briefly.
Gough also chimed in on theories Ian Somerhalder's Adam Knight was meant to be Bruce Wayne. Unfortunately, it seems Batman was never an option for Smallville. "[Bruce Wayne] was a name we were clearly trying to put out there, but we but we could never get Batman," he explains. "At that point, it was off the table, because [Christopher] Nolan was literally making Batman Begins at this point."
Smallville ended a year before The Dark Knight Rises was released and Superman and Batman didn't end up sharing the screen until 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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