When Smallville first appeared I was enthusiastic to see a new view on the Superman universe. However, it only took an episode or two before I reached my tolerance limit of “What in the “bleep” are they thinking!” and switched it off. It was only earlier this year, after I became reacquainted with L&C that I got curious about what was going on with Smallville. So with some help from NetFlix I was able to burn through all of Smallville in a few months. My reaction is still mostly “ugh” (and worse)
but amid all that there are some interesting ideas.
I believe that any attempt to do a longer cross over story before Smallville season 8 would be unproductive. (I think Dandello captures the problem nicely in the micro-scene above!) However, as of season 8 you have most of the right people in the right places and they are (finally!) starting to look a little more like the characters I know. My feeling is that there are now some opportunities that simply did not exist before.
Anyway, I mostly just wanted to find out if there was a “no Smallville” rule. I do have some ideas way in the back of my mind that are on “slow cook” and if anything that seems worthwhile appears, it may see the light of day. I do believe that for this to work in this forum, you would have to bring the Smallville versions of the characters into our L&C universe. Then all that you would have to do is fill in enough background details so that non-Smallville readers can understand the critical differences in the character(s). I honestly believe that there is potential for something that would be interesting to an L&C fan. As I said, I have some ideas. However, I do believe that they would have to develop into something that in interesting, entertaining and not too confusing to an L&C audience. That part I’m not so sure of yet.
Bob
