On KryptonSite, the producers of Smallville have written an open letter to all the fans of their show. This letter is about the potential upcoming spin-off or complementary series of Smallville called The Graysons, about the life of Dick Grayson and family before he put on the tights and became Batman's partner.What disturbs me most about this letter is the fact that they mention a season nine of Smallville. Can't they let this series die already? They lost Lana and Lex. Clark is currently working with Lois Lane at the Daily Planet (despite his lack of college education) and rather than a reference to the town he grew up in, Smallville is now a reference to Clark himself. What more can he do without actually becoming Superman?
I admit to a curiosity regarding what sort of storylines they could run in the show to accomplish this goal. I suppose that alone would keep me watching, even though I believe it should end this season.















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10-06-2008 @ 12:26PM
amazo said...
i agree. i still watch this show out of loyalty. but it needs to end.
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10-06-2008 @ 12:28PM
Courtney said...
I agree. I hate the way television is where they want to keep a show going until it's terrible and limping along. They should end them when stories run out--or when it runs out of characters! I figured Season 8 would be the last season. I really think the series should have ended when Lois realized that Clark would be working at the Daily Planet across from her. She looks at the nameplate and BAM. We're done.
Oh well. Let's see how it goes...
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10-06-2008 @ 12:40PM
Blu-Sam said...
Learn to fly, complete train from Jor-el, and own supersuit then Superman is begin.
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10-06-2008 @ 1:11PM
Eric Cotton said...
Right! Flights and tights!
10-06-2008 @ 1:03PM
ac said...
The show has somehow managed to improve even with the loss of Lex Luthor. The loss of Lana must of evened it out as well as the fact that Tess is a good replacement for Lex. However I doubt they are going to get Tom Welling to do another season this is most likely the last season. Also to the Robin prequel I say HELL NO!
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10-06-2008 @ 1:10PM
Eric Cotton said...
The only reason I'm still watching this season is in hope that we'll see Clark move closer to Superman. If a season 9 confirmation comes, I'll ditch this show once and for all since another season will mean that it'll continue to go nowhere fast.
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10-06-2008 @ 1:16PM
Sam said...
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
For God's sake, finish the story and GO HOME. Tom Welling is 31 already; how long are you going to have him play a 20-something?
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10-06-2008 @ 1:37PM
J. said...
Most overrated treatment of a superhero since the Burton Batmen, IMO. Oh wow, they bring in perfectly normal guys and they're supposed to be iconic comic characters in name only (Brainiac, Mxy, DOOMSDAY). Nolan Batman does a much better job at being realistic and fairly true to the characters!
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10-06-2008 @ 2:50PM
Riley Freeman said...
i am a fan of the show but iits time to go. it had 8 years run. thats one less than the greatest show ever to grace television (seinfeld) thats a pretty good accomplishment. now go home. people cant keep getting knocked out while clark does superman then waking up when hes gone.
the only way they can get this show to be interesting again is if they stop with the pre-24 episode format. before 24 every show had one case per episode that was solved. very rare was it a 2 part story. if they want smallville to survive they need to change to the 24 formart where a string of episodes solves one storyline.
he keeps fighting these low level bums. im going to watch this season buti dont know if i can watch again next year
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10-06-2008 @ 2:57PM
JW said...
This the only show that I watch religiously. I still haven't figured out why people think it needs to end; there's a bunch of other shows out there that should end as well but no one else seems to think so. Law & Order and One Tree Hill have been on longer than Smallville has. I do think if they cancel it, they should replace it with a Justice League type show or one based on The Green Arrow, since we already have an idea who he is.
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10-06-2008 @ 7:31PM
Courtney said...
One Tree Hill has only been on for 5 years. This is its 6th season. I'm not saying it's comparable, but I thought I'd just clarify that.
10-06-2008 @ 3:40PM
Z said...
So instead of making a show about young Bruce traveling the world training to be batman they're using Dick, the circus performer? Does this make sense to anyone?
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10-06-2008 @ 8:13PM
StillBash said...
No, it doesn't. I think it sounds absolutely silly.
If they were to show us how Nightwing came to be though... I mean if they totally skip the whole "Batman's gimp" part of the story...
10-06-2008 @ 8:11PM
StillBash said...
I had this feeling two years ago but don't have it now. I liked the first three episodes of Smallville. Very much so. I like the fact that Lex and Lana are gone - and Jimmy. The show is much fresher right now and what prevents this one from going 15 years like ER? What's the rush to get it off the air? We still haven't seen the real Superman and that might be the nail in the coffin then when you remember what "Lois & Clark" was *yuck*. So maybe he should never ever put on the tights and they should just keep going. I like the connection between Green Arrow and the new head of Luthorcorp. More than I ever enjoyed the connection Lex/Clark. All the Lana drama is gone and we can now finally see how Clark gets together with Lois. Or how they start to do so. If you take what they did the first seven years of Smallville with Clark and Lana that means there are at least another five years of story to go before Clark can finally date-rape Lois. I mean have wonderful night with her, impregnate her, and then make her forget all about it. You know - the Superman Returns plotline :-)
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10-14-2008 @ 12:25AM
nisesmith said...
I started watching this show because my husband is a huge fan. It's entertaining, but I thought it should have ended last season. How long can they keep Clark from learning to fly? And now Lex is gone...where do we go from here? I agree with the previous poster who said it should have ended with Lois looking across and seeing Clark at the next desk.
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12-09-2008 @ 3:51PM
Emma said...
I agree with the above. Smallville should have finished a long time ago. It is best to end a series at its peak not when it is despised and criticised!! I thought the series started to have a lot of loose ends from season 4 and found this really frustrating as I was a real fan of Smallville right from the tsart.
I used to be addicted to every season and watched them over and over again. Now, I find that if I missed so many episodes, it didn't seem to make a difference to even catching on to what happened to the main characters as hardly anyone seems to move on.
I completely dislike the Jimmy character, I don't like how through out the whole series, Chloe, with all her intelligence and beauty that she could not find a man that matches her credentials like Lana and Whitney used to be in season 1.
Lois's, Kara's and all those ugly alien creatures were completely over rated and stood out in a not very nice way. I didn't feel that any of them really fitted in at all. With their cocky sense of humour yet continuously sad puppy eyed Clark, just did not match.
Saying all that, I did like the storyline of Green Arrow and Lois. Bringing in the Justice team was a great uplift for the series.
Also, the way Lex's father was killed off was also frustrating as his end never clarified and finalised what and when and how he really felt about Clark, the "Traveller" that Lionel claims to have always known about!! So does this mean that all those early seasons when he investigated the Kuwatchi caves, that he knew all along about the Traveller? why did he seem so nasty then later on became so kind then nasty then...oh I give up.
Anyhow, I am going to miss Lex a lot but totally understand why he left the series. Anyone with a half a brian would have left the season by now. It is about time that Clark should grow up and be a man rather than some teenage or early 20s kid.
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