Wednesday showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar talk Smallville and what they regret doing with the Superman series.
Series creators Al Gough and Miles Millar owe a lot to adolescence. Deciding to chronicle that part of a character’s life has given them two mega-hits: Smallville and Wednesday. However, these two shows premiered over 20 years apart from each other, and Smallville came to life in a very different TV world. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gough and Millar talked about the young Superman series and if they have any regrets about it.
During the interview, the duo stressed that one of the biggest changes that separate today’s content from the early aughts is the episode counts. While today there are a few shows that deliver 20+ episodes per season, that was the norm when Smallville premiered. So, a series would typically hit 100 episodes by Season 5, which meant that season-long and series-long arcs had to be a lot more spaced out.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY “We were definitely cautious and just very conscious of the fact we wanted to get to five seasons, and we ended up at 10 seasons, but we’re just like, ‘OK, if we split them apart, what are we gonna do?’ Again, as the father of girls, I think the female characters we would do differently today. I think Lana, her agency was not there. She could have been a much stronger character, and she always felt put in positions of weakness. It’s a different era, a different time.
“I think there are things there, if we went back, we probably would be a little more adventurous with some of those relationships and bring them to certain heads and let them play out. […] I feel like we were very, very fortunate to do the show when we did it because we got to make the show we wanted to make, and frankly, there was no committee sitting over us telling us what we could or couldn’t do.
Smallville aired for 10 seasons and delivered over 200 episodes. It told the story of Clark Kent as a teenage boy learning to use and master his superpowers, way before he became Superman. Across the series, several famous characters were featured in the story, including Jimmy Olsen , Oliver Queen/Green Arrow , and Lex Luthor .
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