2011 TV News Archives

May 10, 2011: "Smallville" Executive Producers Talk Series Finale

Believe A number of media outlets were invited to attend a press Q&A with "Smallville" executive producers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson where they were also shown some preview clips from the series finale.

Examiner.com has a very thorough report on this press Q&A:

    "I think there a lot of different ways people want Chloe to end," Peterson pointed out, "but I think we service her character in a way that is right for who she was and who she is becoming. And she has one kind of big moment with Clark where we get to see her and how she interacts with the overall mythology."

KryptonSite.com:

    "We really wanted to keep this Clark's finale," Peterson prefaces, though he adds that Lex plays a "very interesting role." "There are a couple of big twists with Lex," Brian reveals, adding that there are more surprises beyond a clip that we were shown that implies that Lex wants to help Clark to defeat Darkseid.

E! Online:

    Kelly Souders: When Lois (Erica Durance) is about to walk down the aisle...I'll just say I have a couple great favorite moments just on the aisle.

    Brian Peterson: And there's a very good scene with a door. It's probably one of everybody's favorite scene in the show. There's one shot that is just like the Smallville shot. You'll see it, and you're like, "This is what we needed in the finale." And you'll know it the second you see it.

TVline.com:

    We didn't want to just do an ending, we wanted to do a beginning. What we were aiming for was giving people the emotion of what's to come since the end of this show lines up with every movie and a lot of other things. Unlike other shows, we know where the story goes, so it's a hand-off to those other pieces of mythology, rather than just an ending.

IGN.com:

    I asked the showrunners just how down to the wire it came to signing Michael Rosenbaum to return for the finale and Souders joked, "It was over the wire. It was past the wire," with Peterson noting they had written a version of the finale without him in it - though they would have always revealed Lex was orchestrating certain events behind the scenes, even if we never got to see him again on screen. Peterson also revealed, "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."

The 2-hour series finale will air on Friday, May 13th at 8.00pm on The CW.



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