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Comic-Con Report: Kelly Souders & Brian
Peterson Talk Season 8!
Part 2 After
the Smallville panel at the Comic-Con
International in San Diego, the participating
actors and producers spoke with members of
the press about the upcoming season, and we
are now happy to share with you an interview
with two of the show's new executive producers,
Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson,
from their roundtable discussion.
Kelly
Souders and Brian Peterson took the opportunity
to talk more about the show's addition of
Doomsday to the show's mythos. "Nobody
can ever step into Michael Rosenbaum and Lex
Luthor's shoes," Souders says, revealing
that one of the first things discussed was
to not try to replace Lex. "There's just
no point to it. We honor the character, and
we honor the actor so much. But, that said,
we looked at who was the biggest villain we
could possibly bring in, we talked about Doomsday,
we sat down with DC Comics. We have great
reps over there that work with us tirelessly,
and they kind of said that there hasn't been
much backstory on Doomsday, so what Smallville
always tries to do when they reinvent something
is also try to link up eventually with what
happens or to get the sense that that's where
that character's going or that storyline so
that everything kind of matches up. Just because
he comes onto the scene as this really great,
fun-loving, charming guy paramedic, doesn't
mean that we aren't also trying to figure
out how to make sure that he lines up down
the road," she continues.
"I
think Al and Miles created a show that uses
DC mythology but always puts a little spin
on the new characters and very much the way
we introduced Brainiac the way we did. I think
we got to a place that people understood we
were linking up and we actually were really
true and respectful to the mythology. It's
exactly what we're doing with Doomsday,"
Peterson adds.
Season
8 might also prove to be the year that
Clark will consider a dual life. "That's
actually his main thrust this season,"
Kelly Souders says. "Saving people
in Smallville was one thing, where he
kind of had to run to the factory to
save Chloe or the roads weren't very
crowded, but being alive in Metropolis
as Superman is a very different experience
and he will find very quickly in the
season that it's not so easy when you're
running through crowded streets or you're
having to run into a crowded crisis
situation."
"Or
you're accountable to Lois back at the
Daily Planet," Peterson adds.
And
finally, regarding the "No flights, no
tights" edict, Peterson reveals that
there have been talks about breaking one of
those rules. "We have a lot of conversations,"
he says. "The only thing that we were
saying is that we can absolutely confirm that
there's no tights. That's pretty much all
we can say on that."
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