Smallville Season 9 Interview With Executive Producer Kelly Souders

Smallville Season 9 Interview With Executive Producer Kelly Souders

TV Guide has posted a full interview with "Smallville" executive producer Kelly Souders regarding the 9th season of the comic book television show and give details whats ahead for Metropolis blue blur. Chloe gets a new love interest, the big Clark & Zod showdown and more...

By LEEE777 - Oct 28, 2009 11:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Smallville
Source: TVGuide.com




Jor-El, Zod, Chloe and of course Clark and many more details right here from a great interview from TVGuide.com to executive producer Kelly Souders.

TVGuide.com: You teased a big twist coming up with Chloe. Can you discuss what it is? Is she returning to the Daily Planet?
Kelly Souders: She has a couple things coming up. We've talked a lot with Allison because Chloe's big issue this year — she's having a hard time trusting people, understandably. Other people have come and gone in her life. She's got a few things below the surface about which she hasn't been very forthcoming with people around her. I think there's going to be a couple of surprises along the way, some of them more personal than others.

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TVGuide.com: So Allison will have more screen time this season?
Souders: Yeah. One of the things is that we do have a big, huge cast now, which is great, so everybody ends up sharing the screen a little bit. One thing with her is that she always has something she's working on on her own, so she's developing herself and where she really stands in the whole hero-J.L.A. of it all. There's definitely a part of her in all these heroes lives that is more than the simple sidekick.

TVGuide.com: Could there be a new love interest in her future?
Souders: Oh, just maybe yes. I think there's going to be a hint of some feelings under the surface. If you pay attention, I think there's somebody she maybe has a little bit of a fire for. I'm not saying [who], I'll give you this much: It's somebody who is very charming and it would be hard for anybody not to have a fire for.

TVGuide.com: Moving over to Clark, are we going to see more of his abilities coming out and will there be more training from Jor-El?
Souders: I have to be honest. The idea is he's doing some of that at the fortress. He has so much other story going on, we don't see a lot of that for a little while, but it does come back into play. I can't quite [tease any powers] because we're breaking one of them as we speak and we're going back and forth on exactly how the power works, but I can say that it's a magnificent power.

TVGuide.com: Be honest: It's flying. Do we get to see him fly this season?
Souders: As we've said before, that's kind of his final step to becoming Superman, but at least it's on his radar now.

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TVGuide.com: How are you approaching Clark and Lois (Erica Durance) finally being a couple this season?
Souders: They have their ups and downs just like every other couple. What comes out in the first half of this season is exactly what their issues are as far as their relationship goes. You get a little more insight, particularly into Lois. In the past, Clark was always hesitant to get into a relationship. He's finally met his match in Lois and I think she's even more hesitant in some ways than he is. The issues that she's grappling with romantically will start to emerge more clearly over this first half of the season.

TVGuide.com: Will she find out Clark's secret now that they're dating?
Souders: Well... there's a really great episode called "Idol" that's coming up that if you're curious about Lois and Clark and the secret, you should definitely watch that one. As we know we have to line up with the mythos, in which case she doesn't know his secret, but watch "Idol," it's very, very fun.

TVGuide.com: I take "Pandora" to be the episode when Clark discovers the content of Lois' visions. How does he come to discover it and how does it affect the future story lines in learning this?
Souders: It greatly affects Clark's storyline and shines a big light on Zod [Callum Blue] and the other Kandorians who have come. It informs what Clark does from that point forward. He discovers it through Lois' point of view, through her visions of the future. It's Smallville, so we have to do something more visual than her just telling him. It's not another power, there's nothing unreal about it, but he gets to see the world through her eyes in a sense.

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TVGuide.com: With Jor-El and Zod coming back, that can change the Smallville mythology. How is the time-paradox going to play out?
Souders: There's a little secret about Zod and the Kandorians: They're not exactly the way you think they are; that has a great deal to do with how the mythos would play out. In Episode 7, which is called "Kandor," a lot of their backstory comes to light and it sheds a huge light on them here presently.

TVGuide.com: When will Clark meet Zod and what happens when they come together?
Souders: He meets him in the first run [Editor's note: The first run of episodes concludes with Episode 9]. It's a little prickly. They don't have any reason to trust each other, so they don't. A lot comes to light in the middle run about each other. The tables keep on turning.

TVGuide.com: Will Clark get to meet Jor-El in person?
Souders: Tune in to "Kandor."

TVGuide.com: Here's the tricky one. Will the Jor-El in the Fortress of Solitude get to meet the Jor-El who has arrived on Earth?
Souders: How would you explain that in a scene? [Laughs] That would be a writers' nightmare. They don't quite come face-to-face at this point.

TVGuide.com: What are the prospects of a 10th season right now?
Souders: We're just going gung-ho. We are planning to break a season finale and not a series finale. We have our fingers crossed. The fans have just been amazing. Nobody knew what was going to happen when we moved to Friday night and the fact that fans showed up and have been enjoying the show, it's meant everything to us and I know it's meant a lot to the studio and the network. I think that's given us a much better chance of coming back for Season 10. We're hopeful.

Many thanks to the guys at TVGuide for the "Smallville" interview.


LEEE777 - Well i wish "Smallville" great success and it can only be good for all us comic book fans, hopefully we'll get a season 10 and a "Green Arrow and JSA" spin off series too in the future, you never know! ; )
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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 11:49 AM


; )
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 12:13 PM
Cheers @ TEA!

Man im hoping CHLOE bites the big one myself lol.
lc
lc - 10/28/2009, 12:14 PM
ya looks ok x
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 10/28/2009, 12:42 PM
Good stuff LEE! (hey, have you seen the BS that "BrotherBizarro" has written to you on the other SV article?)

Ugh...I want LESS Chloe not MORE!!! Doesnt sound like we're going to be seeing any flying for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time and the rest of the season just sounds completely underwhelming reading what Souders says in this interview..!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 12:46 PM
JOSH @ BROTHERBIZARRO lol!!

Yep i concur, LESS CHLOE not more!!

Hey, i kinda like Supernatural really lol. ; )
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 1:14 PM
I LIKE CHLOE, VERY CUTE..PLUS IN REAL LIFE SHES A DANCER..DANCERS ARE GREAT IN..I LIKE CHLOE, SHES GREAT.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 1:16 PM
IN THE LEGION EPISODE THEY NEVER HEARD OF CHLOE AND AT THE MOMENT CHLOE IS HEADING THE WATCHTOWER, NOW WHAT IM THINKING WILL HAPPEN IS THAT SHE WILL BE COMPRIMISED OR SOMETHING, EITHER HAVE TO CHANGE HER IDENTITY OR SOMETHING,SWITCH BODIES OR WHAT SO WE'LL SEE
superdog
superdog - 10/28/2009, 1:16 PM
chloe will fall for oliver. bet you a million dollars
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 1:20 PM
SUPERDOG I KIND OF SAW THAT COMING
superdog
superdog - 10/28/2009, 1:24 PM
yeah espicially after the last episode where she went through so much trouble to "save" him
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 1:34 PM
Poor CHLOE!! : P
Talontd
Talontd - 10/28/2009, 3:20 PM
GUNSMITH-

I'm with you, i think they are going to somehow incorporate her into the mythos. She has already had the power to heal, and the brainiac brain.

I used to think they were going to kill off LOIS LANE and CHLOE was gonna take her name "in honor".

You guys think OLIVER.......i was thinking IMPULSE, but I guess he's not frequent enough.

JEEZ, she and LOIS are turning into straight up SUPERHERO HOES. It ain't no fuuuuunnnn, if the homies can't haaaaaaave none!
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 10/28/2009, 3:36 PM
@talontd, lol
Timerider84
Timerider84 - 10/28/2009, 6:09 PM
Chloe will die at the end of this season and Clark will have to step up as leader. He will have a new costume, that's not quite the Superman outfit we all know, but close. He's going to burn the black outfit after Chloe kicks the bucket.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 6:51 PM
I THOUGHT CHLOE WOULD BECOME THE ORACLE ROLE
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 8:32 PM
GUN @ [frick] CHLOE!!! How can she be ORACLE man???

Thats ex-BATGIRL's role??
SubyWagon23
SubyWagon23 - 10/28/2009, 9:10 PM
jimmy needs to be revived, he's not suppose to die.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 9:26 PM
LEEE...DUDE....ITS SMALLVILLE...ITS SMALLVILLE.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 9:28 PM
SUBY-IM PRETTY SURE THEY WILL BRING HIM BACK, SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN AND IT WILL MAKE CLARK USE THE LEGION RING TO SAVE JIMMY, ITS GONNA HAPPEN
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/28/2009, 10:21 PM
GUN @ Yeah but dude if they made CHLOE ORACLE is would be well sh1te! : D

God i hate her, she should be in a show like GILMORE GIRLS than [frick]ing SMALLVILLE!!

I thought JIMMY wasn't the real JIMMY, the little boy was??

Man SMALLVILLE mind [frick]s ya don't it lol.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/28/2009, 10:53 PM
LEEE-NEXT TIME YOU PHOTOSHOP YOUR TICK AVATAR..MAKE HIM SPACEGHOST
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/29/2009, 12:04 AM
GUN @ Bud i never did this TICK-HORNET one, TEABAG did, and BETTY did the CAP-TICK one!! I still ain't worked out how to color and change the PICS myself lol.

Yeah ive got PHOTOSHOP but cant work it out, well not for this anyway! : D

If anyone wants to do SPACEGHOST-TICK feel free and i'll send ya a cheque in the post! ; D

Scarycherry
Scarycherry - 10/29/2009, 12:44 AM
not the real Jimmy his lil bro is the real Jimmy.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/29/2009, 4:16 AM
2 JIMMY'S IN THE SAME FAMILY?
FlashThompson
FlashThompson - 10/29/2009, 6:10 AM
Gunsmith, haven't you heard of the show the Adventures of Pete and Pete that used to run in Nick?

I love Smallville. Call me a super dork but I somewhat have sentimental value to that show. I started watching it while going through a super hard time in my life and it helped me get through it. As retarded as it sounds, I try to lose myself in movies, TV, wrestling, MMA and shit while going through a hard time until I get myself over it. I think I watched the first 4 seasons in 3 weeks. I only left my house to go to work and go to the gym. When I think about it, I was kinda pathetic for awhile.

Anyways, yeah last season was kind of a disappointment with as much potential as it had. This season seems to be going pretty good so far. I love storylines that really dig deep into Superman's mythos. I know that a lot of it is written different in Smallville as compared to the comics but when you think about it continuity in comics changes all the freakin' time. So I'm not too bothered by a different take on the character.

That's just me though.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/29/2009, 6:37 AM
ITS A INTERPETATION OF THE SUPERMAN MYTHOS,I WISH IT WAS MORE TRUE TO COMIC BOOK, THEY MIRROR THE COMICS BUT THEY TAKE LIBERTIES TO BE UNIQUE, EVERYONE WANTS TO PUT THEIR STAMP ON IT..I KNOW MOST COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW THEY VEER A BIT ON THE LORE,HOW IT COULD BE TOO SOAPY AT TIMES, BUT BOTTOM LINE IS WE HAVE SOMETHING SUPERMAN, IF STUDIOS WOULD REMOVE THEIR HEADS FROM THEIR BUTTS AND FINNALLY MAKE A WORTHY MOVIE FOR THE BIG SCREEN THAT WE ALL WAIT FOR, WELL IT MAY BE AFTER HELL FREEZES OVER..ME IM TIRED OF WAITING 4 THEM TO MAKE UP THEIR MINDS..HONESTLLY PUT, WE HAVE SOMETHING COMIC BOOK ON TV,THERE ISN'T MUCH..YOU HAVE HEROES,(WICH LOST THE COMIC BOOK FLAIR AFTER LOEB LEFT) SMALLVILLE IS REALLY THE ONLY COMICBOOK THING ON REGULAR TV, PEOPLE LOVE TO HATE ON ITS FAULTS, BUT REALITY IS,ITS THE ONLY TARGET WE HAVE..WE'LL MISS IT WHEN ITS GONE.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/29/2009, 7:20 AM
Yep two JIMMYS, Sh1t i know but there you go, its SMALLVILLE! : P

GUN @ With the success of SMALLVILLE, trust me man, there will be a SPIN OFF or two!!
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