Tonight after 10 years Smallville flies off our TV screens forever. Executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders told us that tonight’s two hour finale starting at 8p on The CW will be satisfying to all the fans who have been watching since the show was on the now-defunct The WB.
At a Q&A session on Tuesday the two executive producers were asked if we can expect as endings to several characters we have also watched on the show since the beginning and they promised that we will, but tonight’s episode is about Tom Welling’s Clark Kent. What that means we will have to tune in to find out, but I am glad this is his episode. In fact they told us, the reason why the last few episodes were little more Oliver Queen heavy is because they wanted his story to be told before the finale was dedicated to Superman.
So what about the original cast members, who will be back and what we will learn of their tales coming to an end? Kristin Kreuk was never a possibility for the season, so Lana’s death was the end of her. Jonathan Kent will be back from the gave again, and as Kelly told us, “Every time I see certain moments with Jonathan I still get a tear in my eye, even after all these weeks of watching the footage.” They also shared his reappearance will have a very important meaning.
Now while John Schneider is back, Michael Rosenbaum almost wasn’t. In fact Brian said his ability to be on show came after it was too late, but they rewrote some things to make Lex Luthor’s return something special. Although it might’ve been more so because as Brian added, “There were a couple of things we had planned on planting in the season that we didn’t because we didn’t know that we were going to have him.” Well luckily they got him for one last Lex moment.
Now what about Clark’s best friend Chloe? Brian said, “I think there are a lot of different ways people want Chloe to end and so we, I think, serviced her character in a way that is right for who she was and who she’s becoming. She has one big moment with Clark where we get to see her shine.” Kelly added that there is a little jewel for Allison Mack’s character that comes towards the end of the episode. That little tidbit has me curious about what it is.
But what really has me intrigued is how they described tonight’s episode in general, “We didn’t just want to do an ending, we wanted to do a beginning.”
Now I can sit here and spoil things about tonight’s final episode of Smallville, but why not enjoy one last episode of a show that we have loved for the last 10 years.
Oh here is something to enjoy even when the show is over. The complete series DVD collection will be the largest release in The CW’s history, it will include so many “special” features that they couldn’t even tell is what some of them were. Now that is all kinds of awesomeness.
Thank you to the cast and crew of Smallville for ten years of great television!!!
