"Smallville" Speculation Thread, Part 1 (Spoilers)

[dc_gothamite]

The WB has posted a preview synopsis of Season 5 at TheWB.com which includes some all-new spoilers! Here's what they had to say:

Fourteen years ago, a meteor shower burst from the heavens, raining destruction on the unsuspecting citizens of Smallville, Kansas. The intervening years have left the towns inhabitants with scars and secrets. From the ashes of tragedy, Clark Kent has grown into an awkward teen. While adolescence always brings its challenges, Clark's transition from boyhood to manhood has been particularly difficult. He has struggled to come to grips with his emerging superpowers - and the effects of various forms of kryptonite - while battling the strange things that have plagued this idyllic Midwest hamlet since the meteor shower.

In last season's finale, Clark, Lana (Kristin Kreuk) and Chloe (Allison Mack) graduated from high school but the day was less then celebratory after the military called for a forced evacuation of the town due to an impending meteor shower. Searching for answers, Clark once again turned to Jor-El and was told the only way to stop the impending disaster was to unite the three sacred crystals. After stealing the last one from Lex (Michael Rosenbaum), Clark brought all three together in the cave and immediately disappeared into a vortex that brought him to the arctic tundra. As season five begins, Clark unlocks the Fortress of Solitude and is given a new challenge by Jor-El. Desperate to return to Smallville, Clark makes a promise to his biological father that will soon come back to haunt him.

The guardians of Clark's secret identity have always been his adoptive parents, Jonathan (John Schneider, The Dukes of Hazzard) and Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole). However, this year, Clark learns that Chloe also knows his secret. After finding him in the Fortress of Solitude, Chloe admits to knowing about his powers and the two join up to fight injustice. While one part of Clark is thrilled to have someone to talk to about his powers, another remembers what happened with Pete and fears the same fate for Chloe. Meanwhile, Chloe joins the Daily Planet as an intern, which provides her with new resources to help Clark.

With Clark in college now, Jonathan and Martha are able to finally pursue their own lives. While Martha continues to run the Talon, Jonathan gets a visit from an old friend (Tom Wopat, The Dukes of Hazzard) who convinces him to run for mayor against Lex. An enthusiastic Lois Lane (Erica Durance) jumps on the bandwagon and immediately takes over as Jonathan's campaign manager. On board to save his town from the Luthors, Jonathan also knows this sudden spotlight could be dangerous to Clark, as his past will become public record.


Clark and Lana finally surrender to their long unrequited love and consummate their relationship after declaring their love for each other. Happy in love, but feeling the need for something more, Lana begins to explore her options outside of Smallville. Originally intending to skip college for a year, Lana rethinks her decision once she sees Chloe and Clark leave for school. After promising things won't change between them, Lana leaves Clark behind and heads off to live in Metropolis with Chloe, making it a struggle to beat the odds and stay together.
Over the years, Clark has forged a remarkable relationship with Lex Luthor though neither has an inkling of how their destinies will ultimately collide. Lex has constantly fought his destiny and turn to the dark side. This year he loses that battle. The Lex Luthor of comic lore has arrived and this season Clark and Lex become mortal enemies.
The arrival of DC Comic villain Milton Fine, aka Brainiac (James Marsters, Angel), exacerbates the situation between Clark and Lex. Fine recruits Clark to be his research assistant and provides him with top-secret information about Lex's immoral Luthorcorp experiments. His arrival on Earth was no accident. Fine was born out of the spaceship that landed after the meteor shower. Who sent him and why proves to be a life-altering revelation for Clark as he finally learns why he was sent to Earth and what happened to his biological parents and home planet.

Clark comes face to face with another DC Comic hero this season. Aquaman swims into Smallville, and into Lois' heart, after saving her from drowning. After witnessing one of Lex's experiments cause irreparable harm to the marine life, AC, a young man with special powers, uses Lois' military connections to save the ocean and all its inhabitants by destroying Lex's secret underwater lab. Wanting Clark to join him in stopping Luthorcorp, AC shows Clark proof of Lex's wrongdoings, which sends Clark reeling.

Reinterpreting the Superman mythology from its roots, Smallville was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Shanghai Noon, Spiderman 2), based on the DC Comics characters. Gough and Millar serve as executive producers, along with Greg Beeman, Ken Horton, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.

looks to be a very interesting season. I loved Seasons 2-3. Season 4 kinda went back to the episodic & mediocre feel of Season 1 (w/ a few exceptions like "Run," "Transference," and "Commencement" IMO).

-yay for Brainiac! If Dr. Swann isn't telling Clark anything (RIP Christopher Reeve), then Brainiac will...

-yay.. more Lois!

-yay... finally some real interaction w/ Chole... gotta bring Pete back for an ep or two, now that Clark's closest friends know.

-yay... finally an actual romance w/ Lana (i still love Kristin Kreuk).

-yay... Aquaman. they got the love for the Aquatic life down... sure they take a few liberties here & there, but if they're able to do this the way they did Flash last season, I won't mind much... another member to add to the club or league.

-yay... Lex... his story is pretty much the most interesting one of the show... after five years, we're definitely gonna see much more of the man we all know he's gonna become

-of course...YAY... the real good ol' boys. Bo & Luke r back... I like the fact that Jonathan may run for mayor... IMO it's about time that an actual upstanding citizen run for political office... but of course, given Clark's past, we'll see how this goes.

Looks to be an interesting season! :D

[langden alger]

also with this season looming near the new superman movie, should be very interesting...would really have me smiling to see some kind of slight chloe refrence...maybe like somehow throwing the phrase 'wall of weird' in the movie somehow lol...

[Peter Paltridge]

Lex has constantly fought his destiny and turn to the dark side. This year he loses that battle. The Lex Luthor of comic lore has arrived and this season Clark and Lex become mortal enemies.Yeah. I wish I could believe that but this show is never going to progress anywhere. They should have stuck to the 5-season cap; now they're just going to drag the initial situation out as long as they can, then very quickly wrap it up in 2 episodes for whenever the final episode will be. That's good job insurance, but bad storytelling.


Clark and Lana finally surrender to their long unrequited love and consummate their relationship after declaring their love for each other.Doesn't "consummate" mean they DO IT? Isn't it out of character for Superman not to remain a virgin until marriage? And especially after a "special" episode telling kids to wait?


However, this year, Clark learns that Chloe also knows his secret. After finding him in the Fortress of Solitude, Chloe admits to knowing about his powers and the two join up to fight injustice. While one part of Clark is thrilled to have someone to talk to about his powers, another remembers what happened with Pete and fears the same fate for Chloe.There's one good thing--no more of those repetitive elbow-in-the-rib "hints" that she knows. Clark need not worry....Chloe isn't a token minority character with no personality that is easy to write off.

[Casey Mack]

Doesn't "consummate" mean they DO IT? Isn't it out of character for Superman not to remain a virgin until marriage? And especially after a "special" episode telling kids to wait?
no he usually waits for the one he loves, and he loves Lana. Isn't that why some people have sex to show their love.
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[Peter Paltridge]

no he usually waits for the one he loves, and he loves Lana. Isn't that why some people have sex to show their love.I'd like somebody on TV other than a 7th Heaven character to actually show good judgment and wait. There are plenty of other ways to show love, and sex is "all the way"--as far as it gets. One of the main reasons for the 50% divorce rate is because sex has lost its sacredness, but if I go any farther this'll go off topic.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Aquaman, eh? Funny, he was the last hero I would've expected on the show (Flash was done, Batman could've been done, Hal Jordan could've popped up, Diana could've been a Greek exchange student or something, J'onn could've been in disguise all episode until the end where he reveals he's an alien from Mars but doesn't show his true face, etc.). I want to see a pissed off Aquaman!

Pissed off Aquaman, happy Lana. It seemed like she only cracked a smile once last season (when she wasn't evil). Finally putting her and Clark together makes sense (weren't they supposed to be high school sweethearts? Hardly), although I'm not big on the sex thing. Not just because they'd have to take more than the necessary precautions to prevent Lana from being killed, but yeah, it does sort of go against that episode last season (red kryptonite Clark will get married before having sex, but normal Clark won't? What the?!).

I'm dying to know what Brainiac's going to look like, but since it sounds like he'll be disguised from Clark, I'm betting on just James Marsters in a lab coat.

[raykremer]

Lex runs for mayor? :rolleyes:

Clark and Lana finally hook up? That almost seems anti-climactic. Especially with Lois in the show now.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Bah, I thought the ship had already sailed on Clark and Lana's relationship. Beating a dead horse bringing that one back.

[DisneyBoy]

I definately think that most of this show's premise has been stretched thin, as Martinainvader pointed out. The Clark/Lana romance died out waaay back in season one, and has been nothing but irritating ever since. Lex is, in my mind, a Passions character, and no...that's not a compliment. I see there's no mention of Lionel in the press release, so I guess he's either dead, or just another "big surprise" waiting to unwrap itself. Now they've got us thinking that Chloe is actually going to be getting some good screentime, but history repeats itself. With Lex being "full flown evil this time - we swear!" and Clark and Lana making out, Chloe is going to be exactly what she's always been...loveable but completely rejected. She should be on her own show by now, and not relegated to playing the sacrificial briquette which we all know she's destined to be.

Smallville could have taken things one step at a time and thought up a good reason for Lex to become mister baddie, but instead, they went the episodic route and now who can tell what it was that drove him over the edge, provided anyone is actually keeping track.

Jonathan as Mayor sounds boring as all heck, Martha running the Talon is an insult (now the character is left picking up Lana's messes?) and Spike as Brainiac? Oy. Smallville has long prided itself on being a reinvention of the Superman mythology, but all it's ever been is a Superman show in denial. No flights? Sure. No tights? Wait for the last episode. Lex as a good guy? Um...when did anyone ever believe him to be a good person? No Lois, Perry or the Daily Planet? Not the last time I checked. Why does this bother me? Because I actually thought Smallville was going to show us something that we hadn't seen before. Instead, they discarded the original premise in order to bring in every possible Superman element they could and keep this baby alive for five years of unrequainted sappiness, historical references-turned "ironic" lectures, and selling out to whatever style of television happened to be popular with the core demographic at the time.

This isn't a show as much as it is a collage of things people like to watch on television. You like Buffy-styled monsters and freaks battling pretty youngsters? We got that. You like coming-of-age stories where kids are torn between their families and their futures? We got that. You like super-opera styled story arcs, where by the time something is resolved, you've forgotten exactly how it began? We got that too. And just in case you haven't caught on yet, we'll end every episode we can with the pop song du jour before rolling the credits.

Gahhh!

Sure, I'll give a few episodes a look-see, but honestly, once Smallville started it's early nose-dive, it hasn't ceased spinning out of control, and as such, has become painfully predictable and unentertaining. With any luck, it'll fly up and up and far far away at the end of this season, and let it's cast and crew move on to more focused, original projects.

[Peter Paltridge]

And just in case you haven't caught on yet, we'll end every episode we can with the pop song du jour before rolling the credits.It makes me wonder how they're going to work in Bowling for Soup's "1985." Maybe one week they'll have a crazy girl named Debbie who kidnaps the three girls and forces them to get gigantic perms and listen to "WHAM!" over and over.

I can't wait for the "Stacy's Mom" episode, can you?

[DisneyBoy]

Stacey's Mom? LOL :D :evil: :D

Hmmm...let's see. With Jonathan campaigning, Martha will start being hit on my the town's farmers, while Nel comes back to town to visit Lana at college. Then they can just redub the song "Clark's Mom..." or "Lana's (almost) Mom..."

Or if they want to be really vile, they can zoom in on Chloe's mother's grave and sing "Chloe's mom has got it going on (in heavan)".

Oh yah, isn't Chloe supposed to find out where her mom is this season? If I were her, I'd be more concerned about where her DAD is. Do we even know if he survived the house explosion?

Gahhhh! I give up! Too many plot holes to consider...so little time...

[HelloKittyKat]

I'm tuning in just to see Brainiac appear in live-action for the first time.