On air between 2001 and 2011, on The CW, the series Smallville: The Adventures of Superboy featured 10 seasons of action and emotion and dragged a legion of fans around the world. THE The plot followed a young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) at the beginning of his journey to become the great Superman., one of DC’s greatest superheroes. However, even with all the success of the show, the creators of the work believe that they could have done better.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, creators of Smallville, and also the hit Wandinha, from Netflix, revealed that, if they could, they would have changed a little the dynamics of the relationship between Calrk and Lana (Kristin Kreuk). . Looking back, the two believe that the constant back and forth between the couple was not very beneficial to the narrative.
Smallville set an epoch for telling Superman’s origin story in an engaging way.Source: The CW
“The case between Clark and Lana went on too long. Something else had to happen there. I think it ended up getting a little repetitive”, said Gough, who continued: “my youngest daughter now, after seeing Wandinha, is returning to watch Smallville and it’s in Season 2. She said, ‘What’s up with these two’?’ I said, ‘It was a different time.’ So I think there are things that, if we went back, we would probably do it in a more adventurous way. […]”, he concluded.
Concurring, Millar revealed, “We were cautious and very conscious that we wanted 5 seasons, and we ended up getting 10 seasons, but we were like, ‘OK, if we break them up [Lana e Clark], what are we going to do?'” He added, “Again, as a parent of girls, I think female characters would be different today. I think Lana was underused. She could be a much stronger character, and she’s always been put in positions of weakness.”
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In this sense, it is clear that the producer duo regrets some character arcs, especially Lana’s, which could have been better used throughout Smallville. However, the creators of Wandinha had the chance to do better with their female characters in the series centered on the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams.
