Erica Durance as Lois Lane in SMALLVILLE
I caught the news that Erica Durance (Smallville‘s Lois Lane) and Michael Shanks (Smallville‘s Hawkman & Stargate‘s Dr. Daniel Jackson) are starring in a Canadian medical drama series called Saving Hope.
If NBC gets the price it wants, we’ll be seeing the series in a 13-episode summer run.
Saving Hope has Erica Durance playing a surgeon and Michael Shanks plays her husband… who is in a coma. But while he’s in a coma, he wanders the halls in spirit form.
Saving Hope is executive produced by Ilana Frank, whose track record includes some favorites of mine, Rookie Blue, so my hopes are a notch above buzzing.
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No spoilers in this front section of my Smallville recap and review:
It is here. The moment we’ve all been looking forward to and dreading, all at once. Through the highs and some of the lows, this is what it comes down to, the series finale of Smallville on The CW. The episode much heralded by many websites throughout the last few months.
This final episode of Smallville was 90% pretty damn good. The story took care of many of the open stories and we got to see many past characters/actors. We didn’t see Pete, (Sam Jones III) because ["In October 2009, he was arrested by the DEA on charges of drug trafficking, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute." TMZ] His loss.
The story in this final episode was good enough to keep me from being sad that this was the last ever new episode of Smallville. The last twenty minutes had many recap images of the previous ten years and it was then I started realizing how sad I was becoming that this was it. No more upcoming scenes.
FROM HERE ON OUT, SPOILERS are in this Smallville recap and review:
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'Smallville' episode promo pic for "Prophecy", The suit of Superman
The series finale of Smallville is airing tonight in a 2-hour finale on The CW that promises to be a very exciting television event for the fans. Despite some lows in story, there have also been some highs and through it all, we’ve stuck by the show. Having started with the series, watching it for so long, how can you not see it through?
Via Smallville, on The CW we’ve been introduced to the vision of a reimagined Superman originally conceived and brought to us by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Over the last 10 years we’ve been introduced to Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Kristen Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Justin Hartley and many many more.
By ‘introduced’ I mean brought to our attention, not necessarily first time to TV.
Yes, he runs for a phone booth too!
Tom Welling has become a producer and other cast have come to be a part of our awareness as we start to follow them in other ventures. The most popular of the cast could very well be Michael Rosenbaum.
Through the last ten years, we’ve cried for the series to break the rules of ‘no tights’ but we’ve come to learn they had other legal obligations they had to operate by. We’ve never seen Batman or Wonder Woman or The Flash, but we’ve seen other characters or representations of these characters in different ways.
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We’re in the midst of the last season of Smallville, starring Tom Welling, Erica Durance and more. This is the tenth season and it’s hitting the fans hard with some great quality stories as the creative team behind The CW series is pulling out all the stops to give the fans the best possible experience as the show heads to the series finale.
Below is one of two promo posters released for the final season of Smallville. The cooler, new image occurs near the end of the article and the image with the reflective image was released a few weeks ago. The new images included are courtesy of Superman Supersite:
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In the meantime, a few things will be coming our way as the Smallville season winds down.
As you may recall, Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) are now engaged. As to whether we see them get married or not in the series, well, the producers are being a bit reluctant to answer that but they do say something big in their relationship is coming up. But along those lines, they also touched on the idea that living in the shadow of Superman is tough and Lois has to do something to stand out on her own. We also know that Clark has to grow as a “husband” or partner.
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If you consider outline-like details of character appearances as spoilers, then I am thinking you will consider the following info after the page break as SPOILERS!
In this short article, I toss some news bits at you about the upcoming Superman movie that’s rushing to the theaters, some Smallville character returns, True Blood season four casting news and a tiny bit of info about some upcoming story for The Vampire Diaries!
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Warner Bros Wants a CG Superman Suit
It seems that Warner Bros likes what they’ve done with the Green Lantern CG suit and now they want to do the same to the Zack Snyder directed, Christopher Nolan written upcoming Superman movie titled Superman: Man of Steel.
Right now though, reports on the street are that both Snyder and Nolan are challenging the direction and want to retain the organic look and feel of an actor wearing a real suit in Superman: Man of Steel.
We’ll see how that battle goes.
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This weeks’ episode of Smallville titled “Abandoned,” had a strong emotional familial message when Lois (Erica Durance) found and watched video tapes of her mother, Ella, who had died of cancer. Her mom was played by Teri Hatcher and to see the woman talking to her daugher across the years via video brought to light an aspect of life when people have lost their parents at an early age and live with at hole in their hearts. It was touching.
Lois was then sparked to help Clark (Tom Welling) touch base with his own digital father in the fortress of solitude. She ticked him off at first but then later it/the fortress/Jor-El played a message from his real parents to Clark, played by Julian Sands and Helen Slater.
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Here goes a 30-read episode recap of the Smallville episode titled “Isis.”
Clark (Tom Welling) decides to tell Lois (Erica Durance) that he’s “The Blur.”
Oliver (Justin Hartley) is embracing his dual role of hero and millionaire.
Lois gets possessed by Isis, looking for her long dead love.
Cat Grant (Keri Lynn Pratt) is very confused, thinking Lois is The Blur. (Is she annoying or what?)
Clark and Lois/Isis get into it.
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Was Gordon Godfrey Darkseid or was that one of his minions?
In the Smallville episode titled “Supergirl,” Lois has returned from Africa and Kara is back! Though Kara (Laura Vandervoort) tries to teach Clark (Tom Welling) to fly, it doesn’t go too well. And with Kara having been “sent” to Earth to defeat this dark force, I fear this may get ugly. Though I have to admit, I don’t see Laura publicly scheduled for any more episodes of Smallville, so I’m not sure how this story angle will be carried out though for now, she seemed to have dispersed Godfrey.
Now despite one more excuse to put Lois (Erica Durance) in something skimpy, she is biting off more than she can chew when she tackles Gordon Godfrey, played by Michael Daingerfield.
When Clark confronted Godfrey, he could see right through Clark and all his weaknesses that Clark holds in his mind. He almost possesses Clark but Kara intervened.
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Smallville Preview
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The upcoming episode for Smallville is title “Supergirl” and Laura Vandervoort reprises her role of Kara. She’s back to help Clark with a thing or two. It will be nice to see Laura reprise her the role tha Kara that was cut too-short as far as I am concerned.
Here’s the synopsis for “Supergirl” from The CW
Clark (Tom Welling) is stunned when Kara (guest star Laura Vandervoort) returns to Earth and tells him Jor El sent her to stop the dark force that is coming because he doesn’t believe Clark can handle it. Meanwhile, Lois (Erica Durance) confronts Gordon Godfrey (guest star Michael Daingerfield), a shock jock radio DJ who has been crusading against heroes, after he threatens the Green Arrow (Justin Hartley). However, after Godfrey is possessed by the dark force, he takes Lois hostage and Clark and Kara have to come to her rescue. Mairzee Almas directed the episode written by Ann Cofell Saunders.
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The 10th season premiere of Smallville opens with Clark falling off the building after banishing Zod, with the blue kryptonite knife sticking out of his chest. Clark (Tom Welling) hits the ground unconscious and while Lois is crying over him, he wakes up in a green field… in memory lane and then he finds himself talking to his dad, Jor-El. He then see’s an outline of what looks like Lex, then he wakes up after Lois (Erica Durance) pulls the knife out of his chest. When Clark comes to, Lois runs off and hides… not wanting him to know she knows his secret. What? A double-ended set of secrets?
Chloe (Allison Mack) is dealing with the disappearance of Oliver (Justin Hartley) when Clark shows up, but in a spate of illogical writing, Chloe says nothing about Oliver disappearing. Then later, in the usual, non-communicative mode she’s been in over the last season, she finds herself Dr. Doom’s helmet and dons it. (I know she’s not going to be on the show full time and I’m glad for it… I’m tired of the secretive mode she’s been in.)
Oliver is being beaten for information by a new bad guy. Anyone catch his name yet? I didn’t.
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