Smallville ended with Clark Kent finally understanding his calling as the Last Son of Krypton and embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel. What happens next is, as they say, history. We all know the hero that Superman becomes, right?
Maybe not.
Smallville story editor and writer Bryan Q. Miller doesn’t think so apparently. Bleeding Cool reports that he may be working on a novel about what happened to the characters of Smallville after that curtain closed. Something similar to the medium hop that Buffy the Vampire Slayer experienced with the Season 8 and Season 9 comic book arcs.
Stay tuned with us as this story develops.
[The Shakedown]
If you’re anything like me, the 2 hour finale to Smallville was the biggest cheap shot in television history. For a decade, fans watched Tom Welling take on the role of Clark Kent and really make it his own. While producers and writers always said that there would be no flights or tights, they trounced all over that promise through the years. Welling took flight several times, only as his alien counterpart “Kal-El” which turned into a heck of a lot of jumping that looked suspiciously like flying in later seasons, while he and several other heroes appeared in various street-leather versions of their future selves to dole out vigilante justice. After 10 years of Clark/Lana angst, Clark/Lois angst, two different vigilante looks for Clark, and the Blur nonsense it looked as though they may give fans what they wanted all along in the end: an honest to God Superman that fans had already crowned as rightful heir to the red boots, kicking some big, bad ass. We even got a glimpse of the suit.
Instead, what do we get? We get more red/blue blurring swirling around a giant cloud entity and a final shot of Clark on the roof of the Planet tearing open his shirt to reveal the “S” beneath. Boo. Hiss.
Okay, I admit that final shot was pretty cool, but NOT the payoff I felt that fans really earned. A novel would be a small but much appreciated step in alleviating the sense of, “WTF?” I felt at the end of it all. If I can’t see Tom in the suit, I can at least get a little more on how Clark managed his coming out party after sending Darkseid packing.
