Smallville: Season Nine...SUIT!!

[jimjimmyjones85]

Season 8 on Blu this week ! I am all in for prep ! Still enjoy the show ! Keep it going !

 

[nash]

Season 8 on Blu this week ! I am all in for prep ! Still enjoy the show ! Keep it going !

nice! thanks for the reminder. gonna have to add it to the collection.

 

[Natrix]

A little more info on the new season's guest stars.

Spoiler:

New Comic Book Faves Swoop Into Smallville
by William Keck August 31, 2009 03:44 PM EST

As Clark Kent grows ever closer to becoming Superman, he will encounter more and more familiar visitors from the pages of DC Comics. Joining Smallville Season 9 villain Major Zod and his Kryptonian cronies Faora and Basqat, as well as Toyman, Metallo and Roulette, will be the Wonder Twins, the Justice Society of America and Green Arrow’s sidekick, Speedy! “It’s the newest version of Speedy,” says exec producer Brian Peterson. “Her name is Mia Dearden.” In the comics, Mia ran away from her abusive father and became a child prostitute who contracted HIV (fun stuff, eh?). The TV character will likewise be HIV-positive. “She has a sordid past and crosses paths with Oliver [Green Arrow] in some shady places,” says exec producer Kelly Souders. “But he gives her hope.” Mia, who will debut her red-and-yellow comic colors in Episode 6, has “amazing martial-arts skills” yet to be honed, Peterson says. Ollie will step in to train her.

Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna—from the Super Friends Saturday-morning cartoon series that ran in the ’70s and ’80s—pop up in Episode 8. Though they won’t have pointy ears, they’ll be wearing purple and will “activate” into an ice sheet and a cougar. There will even be a glimpse of their blue monkey, Gleek.

This winter, the Justice Society of America, whose members include Hawkman, Spectre, Doctor Fate and the Atom, come out of retirement to give “the screwed-up guys of the next generation a needed smack down,” says comic book author Geoff Johns, who wrote last season’s Legion of Superheroes episode and is also penning a big-screen Flash feature film for Warner Bros. “They’re the Mystery heroes who started it all–like the Watchmen.”

According to DC Comics lore, the JSA is a World War II-era team of aging superheroes who exist in an alternate reality universe known as ‘Earth Two.’ Popular members include Hawkman, Spectre, Hourman, Doctor Fate and the Atom, along with alternate grey-haired versions of Superman and Batman. Johns won’t say which members he’s writing in to the mid-season episode (it’ll be based on legal clearances), except to say they’ll be in their 40’s and mainstays Jay Garrick (the original Flash) and Alan Scott (the original Green Lantern) will not be included. “It’s going to be about them coming out of retirement to give these screwed up guys of the next generation a needed smack-down.”

And remember old Perry White, last seen as an alcoholic tabloid reporter in season three (played by Michael McKean)? Peterson says ‘The Chief’ may finally be “working his way to the Daily Planet.”

 

[SnakeDoctor]

SnakeDoc

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Reminiscent of Brando's Jor-El in his black robes.

 

[UTtoyfan]

A little more info on the new season's guest stars.

Spoiler:

New Comic Book Faves Swoop Into Smallville
by William Keck August 31, 2009 03:44 PM EST

As Clark Kent grows ever closer to becoming Superman, he will encounter more and more familiar visitors from the pages of DC Comics. Joining Smallville Season 9 villain Major Zod and his Kryptonian cronies Faora and Basqat, as well as Toyman, Metallo and Roulette, will be the Wonder Twins, the Justice Society of America and Green Arrow’s sidekick, Speedy! “It’s the newest version of Speedy,” says exec producer Brian Peterson. “Her name is Mia Dearden.” In the comics, Mia ran away from her abusive father and became a child prostitute who contracted HIV (fun stuff, eh?). The TV character will likewise be HIV-positive. “She has a sordid past and crosses paths with Oliver [Green Arrow] in some shady places,” says exec producer Kelly Souders. “But he gives her hope.” Mia, who will debut her red-and-yellow comic colors in Episode 6, has “amazing martial-arts skills” yet to be honed, Peterson says. Ollie will step in to train her.

Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna—from the Super Friends Saturday-morning cartoon series that ran in the ’70s and ’80s—pop up in Episode 8. Though they won’t have pointy ears, they’ll be wearing purple and will “activate” into an ice sheet and a cougar. There will even be a glimpse of their blue monkey, Gleek.

This winter, the Justice Society of America, whose members include Hawkman, Spectre, Doctor Fate and the Atom, come out of retirement to give “the screwed-up guys of the next generation a needed smack down,” says comic book author Geoff Johns, who wrote last season’s Legion of Superheroes episode and is also penning a big-screen Flash feature film for Warner Bros. “They’re the Mystery heroes who started it all–like the Watchmen.”

According to DC Comics lore, the JSA is a World War II-era team of aging superheroes who exist in an alternate reality universe known as ‘Earth Two.’ Popular members include Hawkman, Spectre, Hourman, Doctor Fate and the Atom, along with alternate grey-haired versions of Superman and Batman. Johns won’t say which members he’s writing in to the mid-season episode (it’ll be based on legal clearances), except to say they’ll be in their 40’s and mainstays Jay Garrick (the original Flash) and Alan Scott (the original Green Lantern) will not be included. “It’s going to be about them coming out of retirement to give these screwed up guys of the next generation a needed smack-down.”

And remember old Perry White, last seen as an alcoholic tabloid reporter in season three (played by Michael McKean)? Peterson says ‘The Chief’ may finally be “working his way to the Daily Planet.”

That's some good stuff there, Natrix! Thanks!!

 

[MooMooEgg]

The black is really the opposite of Supe's bright outlook of humanity (his use of the color was pointed out by Bats in Kingdom Come). This really makes him look like some kind of Evil Superman.

But I'm sure this is just a placeholder and I'm hoping they give him a "real" suit before the end of the series that utilizes the traditional red, black and yellow in some way.

 

[Darklord Dave]

The black fits with how S.8 ended with him giving up the Clark persona and being all emo.

Spoiler:

The Wonder Twins scare me though...I'm sure it will be a "watered down" version, ala how they did Mxyzplklk. JSA sounds uber-cool though!

 

[MooMooEgg]

The black fits with how S.8 ended with him giving up the Clark persona and being all emo.

Spoiler:

The Wonder Twins scare me though...I'm sure it will be a "watered down" version, ala how they did Mxyzplklk. JSA sounds uber-cool though!

Ahh, ok. I don't watch the show, so I'm just going by the pics.

And why does everyone have to be so emo nowadays?

 

[El Roranous]

Ahh, ok. I don't watch the show, so I'm just going by the pics.

And why does everyone have to be so emo nowadays?

...because there were too many songs about rainbows.

 

[MrStayPuft]

When does the new season start? I know Sept, but what day?

 

[Natrix]

Smallville (CW) Sept. 25

 

[nash]

I want that black S t-shirt.

 

[Darren Carnall]

the black outfit looks cool and everything, but given that he knows people 'know' of him as the red/blue blur.... I would have thought his outfit would represent that, without going as far as the 'proper' suit, obviously

 

[The Mike]

The Black "S" shirt looks like the S is almost spraypainted on there. I wonder if its an interim suit before the "official" suit of the season...

 

[Darklord Dave]

No responses to the season premiere?

Lots of questions, which is good - lots of things to like. I dig Lois' future Kryptonian ninja assassin. Her vision at the end was also very cool.

So I'm guessing these Kryptonians are all clones (perhaps created in Kandor?) and that's why he's "Major" Zod when we've already seen General Zod. I'd say they don't have powers because the yellow sun hasn't built up, but Kara had her powers instantly. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the costume or him signing every rescue (sometimes more than once? - the train had one inside and then the one outside on the wall).

Metallo looks pretty cool next week.

 

[The Mike]

The writers are saying he is Major Zod because this adventure is supposed to take place early in his military career. What they've redone with that retroactively I don't know since I've been out of the show for a while. From what I've read the group are Kandorians and Clark misreads her prophecy obviously. As for the episode itself I liked the end of last season but wasn't too fond of this episode. It fel to Batman to me right down to the music and visual shots. I'm not too happy about the Legion Ring floating around and Clark completely refusing it. Lois looks good though as usual but I feel like this beginning isn't the one that it could have been for the end of the series run. Clark never embraces the dark, even in his weakest time he embraced he hope and this "training" while interesting feels like filler. I'll tune in next week but it just doesn't feel Supeman enough. Metallo looks cool but I really hate Brian Austin Green as Corbin, he feels too David Silver the College Years instead of Reese in TSCC. And I'm predicting it now, the Flight Ring will come into play to rewrite the earlier years, put Clark in glasses and beginning his identity while keeping him free of the time stream because he'll be the traveller bur have everyone remember him as geeky, awkward Clark Kent and he'll be tempted to save Pa Kent but choose not to.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

As for the episode itself I liked the end of last season but wasn't too fond of this episode. It fel to Batman to me right down to the music and visual shots.

I thought the episode was ok, nothing spectacular, but the Nolan Batman influence was much, much too obvious. The music sounded like it was practically lifted straight from those movies.

 

[The Mike]

That's my point. Batman and Superman work so well together because they are opposite ends of the spectrum. The light and the dark. I get that the writers are showing a darker part of Clark's life but it should never, ever get so dark that it feels like a Batman episode. That isn't his vibe. I think it was a shot to impress and to lift from the popularity of the Nolan films and I think it failed.

 

[Darth Caedus]

MIssed the first 20 minutes of the episode, forgot it was on, but it was an interesting premier. Because I missed those first few minutes, the purple Orb released Zod, but did it also release all the rest of the Kryptonians as well???

Is this the same Zod that possessed Lex a couple of seasons back...I'm so confused