James Harvey
12-07-2001, 01:03 PM
During a recent press junket, the Superman site <a href="http://www.supermanhompage.com">Superman Homepage</a>was able to interview "Smallville" Executive Producer Al Gough. Below is an excerpt from the interview:
SY: Other than the flood of emails I receive about how much fans love Smallville. I also get quite a few fans telling me that the biggest deterent to the show is the fact that you continue to have Kryptonite affect someone in each episode and that this is getting old fast. That it has quickly become too much of a formula. How do you react to these comments?
AG: You know what? I think that's a very valid comment. And it's something that we are aware of. It's one of the things when you start a show, especially in its first round, you want to make sure the people coming to it get the idea. You know the idea of its core content is that Kryptonite in Smallville does crazy things to people. I understand that people watching the show religiously might get tired of it. However the latter part of the season will concentrate on more "true crime" type of stories that actually don't involve Kryptonite. And also different uses for Kryptonite.
SY: How many kids in Smallville can get transformed and/or killed before someone higher up (in the government or the press) starts to notice a trend?
AG: I think it's still early days, but eventually it will attract attention. And also some of these "villains" that we've seen, we could bring them back aswell, which could be interesting. I think it's still early days and there are other explanations for things that have happened. Again it's a small town where things have been happening for 12 years... a certain level of, you know, wierdness... the wierdness is their reality... they sort of expect it. I don't know if you come from a small town or not, but those kinds of things aren't really talked about [Laughs].
To read the full interview, click <a href="http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/interviews/al-gough.html">HERE</a>.
SY: Other than the flood of emails I receive about how much fans love Smallville. I also get quite a few fans telling me that the biggest deterent to the show is the fact that you continue to have Kryptonite affect someone in each episode and that this is getting old fast. That it has quickly become too much of a formula. How do you react to these comments?
AG: You know what? I think that's a very valid comment. And it's something that we are aware of. It's one of the things when you start a show, especially in its first round, you want to make sure the people coming to it get the idea. You know the idea of its core content is that Kryptonite in Smallville does crazy things to people. I understand that people watching the show religiously might get tired of it. However the latter part of the season will concentrate on more "true crime" type of stories that actually don't involve Kryptonite. And also different uses for Kryptonite.
SY: How many kids in Smallville can get transformed and/or killed before someone higher up (in the government or the press) starts to notice a trend?
AG: I think it's still early days, but eventually it will attract attention. And also some of these "villains" that we've seen, we could bring them back aswell, which could be interesting. I think it's still early days and there are other explanations for things that have happened. Again it's a small town where things have been happening for 12 years... a certain level of, you know, wierdness... the wierdness is their reality... they sort of expect it. I don't know if you come from a small town or not, but those kinds of things aren't really talked about [Laughs].
To read the full interview, click <a href="http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/interviews/al-gough.html">HERE</a>.