2011 TV News Archives

May 11, 2011: The Evolution of "Smallville"

Smallville Season 10 "Smallville" executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders spoke with the LA Times and answered their questions about the series finale and what challenges they faced.

    GB: The show moved away from "Smallville" in emphasis quite a while ago and even Tom Welling has said that the show's title could have switched to "Metropolis" in a way. Was that a concern as you balanced your brand with the necessary trajectory of the story?

    BP: In a weird way "Smallville" wasn't just about where it was set even though he did live on the farm for almost the whole series. It was more about the coming-of-age birth of a hero and the spirit and growth of a hero. He was not ready to become the hero that everyone knows as Superman. We tried to stay true to a lot of the themes and the visual palette of the pilot but as he grew and Clark became a different person and came into his own the show had to do the same. We took all of that in. In the finale, in fact, Lois calls him [by the nickname] "Smallville" again.

Read the entire interview at the LA Times website.



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