It would seem that EVERYONE but the studio heads are in support of the writer’s strike. Many of the actors have joined their writers on the picket lines to show their support while they are not filming the parts they already wrote.

KryptonSite gives us the message from Executive Producer, Al Gough himself:

It was a great afternoon at Universal as over 2500 writers and actors joined the fight for our collective futures (professionally speaking). We had John Glover, Michael Cassidy and Phil Morris out there supporting the cause.

I think it’s great to see SO MUCH support for this and I hope that it means a quick end to the strike so they can all get back to work.

Smallville is still among my favourites (despite the recent frustrations), and even they are ready to get in line to show their support. I hope this ends fast.

This post was Authored by Rodney Brazeau, Senior Editor for the TVShow Blog and Our Resident Authority on all things Heroes and Smallville

Smallville Superfan Tabitha who runs Allison MackOnline.com and has helped her favourite actress herself to run a blog. Not so long ago, on the official site AllisonMack.com there was a call for questions so you could interview Allison yourself.

Allison Mack.com had asked:

Do you have any questions about Allison that you’d like to ask? What’s her favorite wine? Is she a vegetarian, vegan, or what? What’s the best Italian restaurant in Los Angeles? Any other questions?

and now that all the questions are in, there is a series of Youtube Videos that cameo these questions. Some are about Allison, while others relate directly to Smallville.

She is adorable, and a lot of the questions offer a lot of insight into her and her experiences with Smallville. It just makes you like her even more as you see how honest and humble she is.

Check out her answers by Clicking Here

This post was Authored by Rodney Brazeau, Senior Editor for the TVShow Blog and Our Resident Authority on all things Heroes and Smallville

I had thought they already addressed this when they brought in the other Kryptonian girl who the fanbase thought was Supergirl (Kara) but it seems we were wrong.

Zap2it.com reports:

“One of the joys of creating ‘Smallville’ has been our ability to reinvent and reinterpret classic DC Comics characters,” says executive producer Al Gough. “Miles and I believe that Supergirl will give our series the mythic jolt that it needs as we head into our seventh season.”

The latest season will premiere with the arrival of Kara, Clark’s (Tom Welling) 19-year-old cousin born on Krypton. As the daughter of Zor-El, Jor-El’s brother, Kara also has superpowers, including one that Clark has yet to develop: the ability to fly. On the more mundane side, Kara butts heads with Clark, is sweet on Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore) and draws Lex’s (Michael Rosenbaum) attention.

Its long ago noticed that they like to reinvent the characters instead of just carbon copying the storylines from the page. But this is one character that they appear to be hitting right on. I wonder if she will have a costume of sorts, and thereby influencing Clark to mask his identity. (The glasses were cool but ditched a LONG time ago).

That and she can fly. Last season we were told that we would see Clark fly. They tease us with him accidentally flying in earlier seasons (floating over his bed, flying through the tornado) and he did fly as his darker alterego Kal. But Clark himself has so far been carrying this mental block that wont let him fly. So they teased us that “this season he will fly” and it wasn’t really Clark who did it.

Perhaps Kara will give him lessons.

This post was Authored by Rodney Brazeau, Copy Editor

Smallville has rapidly become one of my favourite shows. Yeah, Battlestar Galactica and Heroes have me by the short hairs and I cannot look away, but my heart belongs to Smallville.

Maybe its the Comic Geek in me living on the edge, watching the live action show that the comics only fed into my brain page after finely inked and coloured page. Maybe its the pretty girls.

Either way, tonight was the Season Finale, and of course as much as I was itching to see it, it presented more questions than answers. And there were a LOT of answers.

Lots of spoilers in this post, so I thought I would hide it.

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Smallville’s creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as well as star Michael Rosenbaum are in attendance at the Jules Verne Festival in Paris France. Smallville is being spotlighted as a feature series.

Kryptonsite reports:

At the Festival, the show creators have been interviewed and some interesting revelations have come out. Among them:

* Tom Welling is signed with the show through an 8th season. It sounds like the producers want the show to ultimately go for eight years, and end it there.

* Michael Rosenbaum’s contract ends with Season 7, so if there is an eighth year, it will be Clark vs. other villains. However, Michael COULD guest star.

* Aaron Ashmore will be back as Jimmy in Season 7. It sounds like he could have a 13-episode contract, though we don’t think it was confirmed.

* Justin Hartley (Green Arrow) won’t be back next year as he is attached to another project.

Rumours once surfaced that after the Smallville gang graduated highschool, Clark would run off to college and pursue his bespeckled career in journalism and Smallville title would eventually give way to Metropolis, detailing the earlier days of Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter.

Its already been stated as a solid rule, that we will not see the cape and tights on Welling, which he is happy about. And I for one am happy too. Tights work in comics, but honestly the suspension of disbelief crosses over to pure fantasy if we start putting villians in tights. I do appreciate the less costuming yet still superhero looking characters. No tights.

I am not a fan of the Jimmy Olsen character, and so far he is useless in the series. Maybe they will develope something for him.

But an 8th season without Lex Luthor? As suggested, this might open the doors to show NEW characters.

I am half hoping for a spinoff Justice League TV show with Hartley, and most would think this is unlikely considering the Movie they are attempting to hammer out, but it didnt stop them from making Smallville despite a new Superman movie.

Chloe has a power? They have been teasing with the idea that Chloe has a Meteor Freak power, and with the last episode Chloe’s mother can only manipulate the will of Meteor Freaks, and she can control Chloe. Maybe it was just because she is her mother, but maybe it does mean she is infected as well. But what is her power?

On Allisonmack.com a fan run fansite in which Allison Mack herself moderates. The bio section about Allison says:

Now wrapping up her sixth season on The CW’s acclaimed drama “Smallville,” Allison Mack stars as Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) best friend, Chloe Sullivan. Mack’s role continues to grow throughout the series as her character is the only person in Smallville who knows Clark’s secret, and has discovered that she has a latent a super human power of her own.

So from the actress who plays Chloe herself, we have some sort of confirmation that she has a power.

Kinda kills the Chlois theory but I think the fact that there are fans are behind the theory is enough to squash the possibility to begin with.

So what kind of power do you think Chloe has? I think she is going to turn out to have some sort of Comptuer Hacker power. Think about it. Chloe constantly gets into police files, government records, and decrypts hidden files and deciphers passwords on a whim. A little too convenient to just be a plot hook. I don’t even know if Chloe knows about it really. If someone asks her “how do you do that?” I would imagine her answer would be, “I just do, Im good at it” not realizing how impossible the things she does online even are.

I think she has been usuing her powers right under our noses for quite some time.

I like the idea of Chloe having a power she has been using right in front of us without letting on at all. After all the whole show deals with Clark using his powers around others and them not catching on the whole time. Someone always happens to be looking the other way, knocked out, or just out of the room when Clark does something outrageous. And everyone says, “what the…” and then dismiss it as irrelevant.

Just like we have with Chloe’s Hacker powers.

One of the cooler things I like about Smallville is that aside from being filmed here, both Lana and Lois are played by Canadians. Well according to the news recently, the producers of Smallville are trying to blow us up!

Kryptonsite reports:

Firefighters and police in areas near Smallville filming were warned of an explosion that would transpire on Wednesday afternoon. People were told, in reports in newspapers and on the radio, that the “the explosion in a private lot is not real,” and that it would be “a simultated special effect that could potentially be heard within a ten-block radius.” Emergency crews were notified of the plans of the Smallville production in advance.

This is confirmed to be part of the season finale.

What I also find interesting is that they are filming an actual explosion of this magnitude makes me wonder if they felt that CGI just wouldnt make a real enough explosion, or perhaps 5lbs of plastique explosives were cheaper than a team of 5 CGI artists?

Today I caught a rumour online that suggests in addition to a cast member leaving, a major character from Smallville will die before the Season 6 Finale. After reading it, I am going to call bullshit and hope I am right.

EOnline’s Kristen says:

Inside sources tell me exclusively that one of the main four castmembers—Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack or Kristin Kreuk—will be killed off before the season ends.

Although all of these castmembers are under contract for one more season (they initially signed seven-year deals), producers have decided to have one of their characters meet an untimely end, in a shocking plot twist.

Now to even tease that one of the characters might be Lex or Clark just makes no sense whatsoever. Granted Clark could “die” only to be brought back to life due to his Kryptonian regenerative powers, but it is unlikely they will go that way. And Lex is ALWAYS going to be Clark’s nemesis, so I doubt they would do that either.

That leaves Lana or Chloe.

Now other rumours according to Kryptonsite.com said there would be a cast member LEAVING the show, but that they are confident that if this rumour is true, it would be a different person. Which leads me to think TWO characters are off the show.

We are warned that the character who dies is a fan favourite, and of the core four, they all have their fans.

I vote Lana, as I have said before, her character is not as important as she once was.

One of the characters I didn’t really care for in the early seasons of Smallville was Whitney, played by Eric Johnson. I was kinda glad that he left the show. Granted I was against the idea of Whitney because I was stuck on the idea that Lana and Clark were meant to be together. As soon as the character was introduced, he was just “in the way”. But as Flash Gordon! Well I think the idea is great.

MovieHole says:

Former “Smallville” star Eric Johnson (Whitney) has snagged the much-coveted role in the Sci-Fi Channel™s new series Flash Gordon”.

The network has been trying to decide whether to cast a young twenty-something actor in the role or go older “ they’ve opted to go younger. Thirty-something actor Chris Showerman (George of the Jungle 2) was also in the mix.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 22-hour series, a contemporary take on the popular comic strip franchise, is slated for an August premiere. It will feature Johnson as space traveler Flash Gordon embarking on all-new adventures.

I do like the idea of SciFi getting there hands on THIS remake.

The original Flash Gordon was rather hokey, but with the success of Battlestar Galactica to their credit, can this go wrong?

And really, just LOOK at Johnson. He looks like Flash Gordon. Granted, Flash was a brawny beefcake of a 70s sex symbol so I would expect this treatment to be less corny, and darker. Johnson, when on Smallville was the star quarterback, so I doubt it will be a stretch.

As season 6 of Smallville draws in for its last stretch of episodes, we get wind of some rumours.

KryptonSite suggests:

We’re hearing some strong buzz that at least one of Smallville’s opening-credits cast members might not be back as a series regular for Season Seven.

Speculation is wide open as these rumours give no hint as to who it might be… if anyone at all!

I think removing Lana is inevitable. But not yet. As much as Smallville has deviated from its original Comic book origins, it seems that sooner or later we will see Lois and Clark together, and so long as Lana is around Clark will barely look at another girl. Removing a character doesn’t always mean death, but I have a theory that might just work out.

I think it would be interesting to have Lois die. I always thought the character of Chloe Sullivan was very much the Archetype for Lois Lane. That and for my tastes, I think Chloe is the most attractive of the girly entourage on the show. But that’s just me.

Now bear with me a moment, killing off Lois will be AWESOME for ratings as it will send the fans into a frenzied mess of contraversy. Make it part of the cliffhanger season finale and keep the fans guessing until fall. Then reveal that she is infact dead. Fans will be in an uproar that Lois was killed off in the show, and no one will see it coming.

Then give some plot device that has Chloe get in some sort of trouble, and have her assume Lois’ identity. This way Chloe still pursues her career at the Planet. Make it a permenant part of the TV Continuity, and Lois and Clark can still end up together.

Personally I think Chloe is a better “reporter” but I do have to admit that Lois is definitely putting on the snappy attitude and fearless gutsy drive that makes Lois so successful. I won’t say that my idea is going to happen, and likely wont. I’m sure most of the fans don’t have the same Ga-ga factor over Chloe as they do for Lois and her impressive cleavage.

I could live without Lois, and I am hoping that Chloe sticks around. But I honestly don’t want either of them off the show.

Other rumours that are whisping around include Clark fighting Bizarro but this one will be more of a mirror image of Clark much like his mental battle with the dark tainted Superman in Superman 3.

One of the fun parts of watching Smallville is catching all the tributes and hidden “easter eggs” in the show. One of the upcoming guest stars is just one of those. Wonder Woman will be on the show. Kinda.

KryptonSite gives a description of the episode called Progeny:

After Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) discovers Chloe’s (Allison Mack) mother Moira (Lynda Carter) has the power to control meteor freaks, he develops a drug to wake her from her catatonic state in the asylum, then threatens to kill Chloe unless she uses her power to help him.

Looking just as beautiful now as she did in the 70s Wonder Woman TV series this timeless wonder will be playing Chloe’s mom. I mean, look at this woman. She is just beautiful and she is 56 years old! The part I don’t care for is that Chloe’s mom will now strangely have a meteor freak power. I kind of liked that in the show not EVERY guest star had a power.

I do however, like that we are finally seeing Lex develop into a colder more calculating criminal mastermind. He still has his soft side, but its a medium well done kind of soft.

One thing my wife and I really agree on is when a show goes beyond its weekly fix and gives you more content outside of the show. It brings a whole new layer of involvement in the show, and tides us over until these long breaks pass. No, I am not talking about merchandising. That Smallville Ravens tshirt is cool, but its not what I mean.

Sprint had a promotion advertised repeatedly showing some behind the scenes details about the fan favourite Oliver Queen.

Kryptonsite reported:

Smallville Legends: The Oliver Queen Chronicles Now Available Online

The Oliver Queen Chronicles series of “mobisodes,” originally available only on Sprint phones, are now showing up at CWTV.com.

But it would seem going to the CW website leads you to a dead link. Oops!

So CW advertises on their website that these webisodes are available but they are not. I wonder when they are going to fix this?

Well until they do, as a service to you loyal Smallville fans, you can click here to see the first episode of the content they advertise is already available. Its subtitled, but it is in english. Check the links on that page for further episodes.