Here are the highlights of the Smallville Comic-Con panel:
– Laura Vandervoort is not returning to the show.
– Chloe (Allison Mack) relies on the protection of a gun this season.
– There is a hot and steamy love scene between Lois and Clark.
– Chloe and Clark’s relationship will be very strained. Said executive producer
Kelly Souders, “They have a little bit of a rocky start.”
• Erica Durance is in 18 episodes this season. “I think you guys are going to be pretty excited this year,” Erica said regarding the Clark and Lois progression. “Lois is dealing with being smitten with Superman and still finds Clark irritating.” This season is going to be “spicy,” she added. Lois and Clark will definitely grow closer this year, but there’s a love triangle between Clark, Lois and the Blur. “Just as Clark falls for Lois, she’s falling for someone else,” said Peterson.
• A relationship for Chloe and Clark is “dead in the water,” said Allison. Clark is preoccupied with other women, and Chloe is dealing with the loss of Jimmy while stepping into a more powerful position with the supes.
– Justin Hartley said we will see a lot more of the Green Arrow this year. He’s
going to be struggling in a dark place. Peterson added that in the first eight
episodes you “will see him hit rock bottom.”
– The producers said Metallo (Brian Austin Green) is a big part of the first two
episodes. The ninth season also brings the return of Toyman, and we’ll see
Roulette as well.
– Geoff Johns, who wrote “Legion” this year, is writing another episode this season and said it will be “Justice Society of America.”
– Tom Welling is directing two episodes this season, while Allison Mack will direct one.
– When asked if Lex was actually dead, Peterson said, we all know from the mythos that Lex is “absolutely not dead.”
• “Lois comes back from the future, and she starts getting flashes, and she thinks she has amnesia. She thinks something is wrong with her,” said Durance. “I know that they’re going to develop all sorts of scenarios for her to try to piece all those things together, like a big puzzle to figure out what’s going on, and then maybe, be the linchpin, key answer to some of Clark’s questions, which is a different place for her to be.”
• As seen in the preview, Chloe was wielding a gun. Allison explained that she’s on her own this season, since the rest of the supes are off saving the world: “We’ll see [Chloe] experimenting with some different paths. We’re definitely going to see her trying new things. Always with the intent to save the world, but maybe not necessarily the way that Clark Kent has done.”
• Because of the time parallel caused by Zod, Souders and Peterson teased a possible appearance by Jor-El, though we’ll find out more in the second episode.
Source: E! Online
