New
Season 5 Secrets In CFQ Fall Preview The
Fall Preview issue (Sept/Oct 2005) of CFQ Magazine has new interviews with Smallville
creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as
well as actor James Marsters (Brainiac) about the upcoming
fifth season of the show. The issue is now available on newsstands.
Here are some highlights from the interview:
About
Chloe working at the Daily Planet: "This will allow Chloe
to actually help Clark," says Millar. "She will
actually bring him into true crime cases in Metropolis. You
know, 'Hey, Clark, you need to get up here, this is what's
going on'. Which is not a structure that we've done before.
Thanks to her job at the Daily Planet, she will be getting
stories and feeding them to Clark and then will be helping
to solve them. As a result, Clark won't be falling into things,
he'll be getting into them directly. It won't be just another
meteor freak, there will be crime solving."
Millar
also reveals that things will be different with Clark and
Lana. "Now that they're going out, the whole sex question
comes up again. They are going to be together for a while.
Then, eventually this season, we're going to play Lex and
Lana to a degree. Until now, she hasn't been legal. The triangle
of the show was always designed to be Lex, Lana, and Clark,
but we've never been able to play it romantically. So you're
coming into season five and you haven't beeen able to play
the core relationship at all. I think that, for us, will be
liberating and open up lots of stories. Which will absolutely
trigger Clark's jealousy and anger. Hence friction, hence
tension, hence enmity, hence you're my arch enemy."
And about
James Marsters' role as Milton Fine, aka Brainiac: "We
know that there was basically going to be something big in
that ship," Al Gough told CFQ's Ed Gross. "The ship
opens and Kryptonians come out, but they aren't the major
ongoing threat. Brainiac comes out of the ship and takes human
form, like in Terminator 2, and he's a being of artificial
intelligence. He basically takes the guise of Dr. Milton Fine,
a college professor who ends up teaching Clark. We call this
the grand seduction of Clark Kent, where Brainiac is trying
to turn Clark against humanity in general, and Lex Luthor
in particular. He basically wants Clark to see that Krypton
was better than Earth and that, basically, he's got the making
here for a new society. Unlike Jor-El, whose intentions become
clear in the season opener, Brainiac has a much more nefarious
plan and he uses Lex in it."
And some
hints from Gough on the behavior of young Arthur Curry in
"Aqua:" "He is determined to save the oceans
and Lex is doing something nefarious involving a defense contract.
In a weird way, Arthur is probably two feet from being an
eco-terrorist and Clark has to sort of real him back in terms
of what he's willing to do."
"Aquaman
is sort of the opposite of the Flash," Gough notes. "The
Flash was a guy having fun and Aquaman is too extreme and
needs to be pulled back."
James
Marsters is looking forward to his character's psychological
seduction of Clark. "I don't have to beat Clark at all,"
he offers. "It's very important I talk him into joining
me. It's always a more interesting thing to watch. Frankly,
there's a lot of ammunition on my side. Earth is a beautiful
gem of a palnet and there aren't a lot like it around. But
there's just one problem: human beings, who are ruining both
the atmosphere and the topsoil at an alarming rate and there's
no way we're going to be here in 10,000 years. There's nothing
in human history that suggests
the bare hint that we are about to make the moral leap into
behaving the way the philosophers have been asking us to over
the years. So the best thing to do, both for Kryptonians and
Earth as far as Brainiac
is concerned, is to eradicate these stupid, barbaric failures
of evolution. His
feeling is to just get rid of these humans and let's have
a new Krypton, and he wants to use Clark as a tool to achieve
his goals."
The magazine
also includes many more quotes from Gough and Millar, and some
sidebars, such as a look at Jor-El's intentions. The latest
issue of CFQ should be hitting newsstands now.
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