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I wasn’t paying attention. I saw the trailers for the The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and thought it had enough weighty stars – Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, (ok, also) Brendan Fraser – to put my movie-going dollars to good use. Especially since it was written by Al Gough and Miles Millar.. you know, of the Smallville fame.
But when the Smallville creators failed to bring The Mummy back to life, Don William of BuddyTV wrote the two should go back to their day jobs. What, go back so Smallville, you mean?
Uhm, I don’t think so. I *heart* Gough and Millar for putting Smallville on the map of superherodom but seven seasons are enough. Many fans lost interest by season 6 because the show started to lose its touch, and the story was getting old. The writers stretched out Clark’s indecision to embrace his destiny too long. In Smallville, Clark Kent is the most narow-minded, indecisive person there is. I mean how microscopic can the boy get? He has superpowers, he can do the world good, he can easily defeat Lex and all he thinks about is Lana Lang. Even she grew up much faster than he did.
After watching the execs in Comic Con, this new breed of executive producers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson are just what the show needs. And anyway, they’re not necessarily new to the series, but just living in the shadow of the two top honchos. See, even Souders says that the writers are now more psyched than ever. “I haven’t seen the writer’s room as energized in a while. Not that we weren’t really passionate about it before, but I think it’s just forced everyone to think [deeper].”
As Kelly Souders adds, the Smallville mainstay characters need to grow up. Chloe needs to get over Clark and get on with her new love, Lois needs to become the multi-awarded reporter we know her to be, and Clark Kent really needs to get a job (where did I head that from?!). “So there’s some sense of leaving the past behind and moving to the next part of the Superman mythology”.
Exactly. That’s why it’s a good thing Gough and Millar are out of the picture. They can keep writing movies.