The CW has officially announced what Michael Rosenbaum has been saying for awhile … this is Lex’s last season on Smallville. TVGuide.com has their statement, as well as a letter from Rosenbaum to his fans:
Well, it’s been seven wonderful years. Your support is what has made Smallville so successful, and I appreciate you all more than you know.
That being said, it is time for me to start the next chapter of my life and career. I hope that I gave you some enjoyment over the years, and that you found my portrayal of Lex Luthor to be satisfying. I am truly grateful, as Smallville fans are the best fans out there. I sincerely hope that you will continue to follow my career through my hair growth period and beyond.
So who’s gonna give Clark heartburn next season? Doomsday, and a mystery female villain:
The Smallville bosses go on to tease a new breed of villainy for Season 8, including the arrival of Doomsday, “the legendary, unstoppable destroyer” who will present Clark with “his ultimate challenge.” (Doomsday, of course, is the only character in the DC Comics universe to have killed Superman.)
Also to be cast for S8 is a female villain who “will be familiar to many fans and will set her sights on Clark in ways Lex never could. Intelligent, brilliantly manipulative, and dangerously sinister, [she] has one more weapon in her arsenal: Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite.”
I watched for Lex. Hell, he made me write Flying Friar. No point now.
Comment by Rich Johnston — May 2, 2008 @ 6:17 am
LET
IT
DIE!!!!!!
Comment by Lolxomic — May 2, 2008 @ 8:10 am
Yea, at the point you try to do a character like Doomsday in a live action TV series…well he looks enough like a shark to say the show is jumping it. I watched the Justice League episode from last year and that’s about the last time in MANY seasons that the show held my attention.
Comment by Tim O'Shea — May 2, 2008 @ 8:56 am
The show jumped the shark pretty much as soon as Clark left high school.
I think Rosenbaum is awesome so he hope he has some luck with other roles.
Comment by Bishop — May 2, 2008 @ 9:22 am
The show jumped the shark pretty much as soon as Clark left high school.
I think Rosenbaum is awesome so I hope he has some luck with other roles.
Comment by Bishop — May 2, 2008 @ 9:22 am
I can honestly see Smallville Doomsday being just another 20something guy that’ll get in the way of Clark/Lana’s love.
And Michael Rosenbaum looks weird with hair at this point. The poor guy’s scalp has been pidgeon hold.
Comment by Beheader — May 2, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Pigeon Hold is the best hair product.
Comment by Joe Lawler — May 2, 2008 @ 10:53 am
Pigeon Hold is the best hair product.
Comment by Joe Lawler — May 2, 2008 @ 11:08 am
Pigeon Hold is the best hair product.
Comment by Joe Lawler — May 2, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Good for Rosenbaum, he’s done some good and interesting stuff outside of this show. Hopefully he’s young enough he can wash the stink of it off him and get something good going soon.
Comment by Erech — May 2, 2008 @ 11:43 am
The show jumped the shark pretty much as soon as Clark left high school.
I think Rosenbaum is awesome so I hope he has some luck with other roles.
Comment by Adam D. Kline — May 2, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
^ Exactly. It’ll just be some dood who wants Lana too. Or better yet, they could get Lorenzo Lamas.
Sigh.
Good for Rosenbaum though, he’s done some good and interesting stuff outside of this show. Hopefully he’s young enough he can wash the stink of it off him and get something good going soon.
Comment by Erech — May 2, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
^ Exactly. It’ll just be some dood who wants Lana too. Or better yet, they could get Lorenzo Lamas.
Sigh.
Good for Rosenbaum though, he’s done some good and interesting stuff outside of this show. Hopefully he’s young enough he can wash the stink of it off him and get something good going soon.
Comment by Erech — May 2, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Wow, triple post. How’d that happen?
Comment by Erech — May 2, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
The comment things seem a bit screwed up.
Comment by Joe Lawler — May 2, 2008 @ 12:18 pm
I agree, LET IT DIE already. They won’t, though, because it’s one of the highest rated shows on the CW (kind of like being the world’s tallest midget), so it will just continue to be directionless and pointless - even more so now without Lex. I remember the original point behind the “no tights, no flights” rule was to keep the show somewhat grounded and realistic. But in the past 4 years they have introduced most of the JLA, Brainiac, the Fortress, Bizarro, and now Doomsday. The show couldn’t possibly be less grounded, yet they still refuse to turn Clark into Superman.
I wish the CW would put a DC staffer on, at least as a consultant, to try and give this show a purpose and direction again.
Comment by Joseph — May 2, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
We had some kind of system issue that affected comments … looks like they’re working ok now.
Comment by JK Parkin — May 2, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
“Smallville” was originally expected to run for a year, a couple years, maybe four or five. In that time, they’d take Clark and Lex from strangers to friends to enemies, and they’d take Clark and Lana from strangers to sweethearts to friends. At which point Superman would appear and the closing credits of the series finale would roll.
But since it was successful, they had to ditch that plan and turn it into an ongoing series, and as comics readers we all know what a storytelling trainwreck those generally are. “So what do we do with them this month?” I lost interest and stopped watching a couple years ago. And now it’s losing Lex. Anyone else remember what happened to “Lois And Clark” when that happened?
Comment by Todd VerBeek — May 3, 2008 @ 10:37 am