Hey everyone, Kryptonsite.com hasn't posted a transcipt of what happened at the San Diego Comic Con yet, but they've got pictures up and there is a nice photo of Erica and Allison together.
Anyways, here's a transcript posted by mistame:
I'm in the middle of getting all the questions down but it's almost 4am so I'll post what I have now and continue tomorrow. I recorded the Q&A and tried as best I could to get the accuracy down. This is about the first 20 minutes:
hi, love the show. I especially love the scene at the end of the 3rd season where lex is discussing with Clark the legend of numan, and he's re-telling the story so that he's kind of the hero in disguise. So I was wondering, as the character evolves, whether or not you're gonna kind of go in that direction with Lex seeing himself as the noble hero even though he's acting kind of villian-like.
A (Millar): Uh, yes, actually. That is how I think most great villians see themselves, as heros and as noble saviors, so yes that was absolutely the intent
Q: Is Clark gonna have any complicity in Lex's devolving into a villian?
A (Gough): Yeah, absolutely. Clark is completely instrumental in why Lex becomes a villian. (cont 4:15ish)
Q: With the limits that DC seems to put on the series, has there been any movement in the talks with them when it comes to letting you do a little more with the characters or in a worse case, letting you do less with them? What sort of arguments have you had with them where you have gotten them to allow you to do something?
A (Millar): Well it's not really...we haven't had arguments, but we've had discussions. The biggest one was bringing Lois Lane onto the show for, uh, 13 episodes. And that was a conversation, it just took awhile to sort of figure out what the parameters were gonna be on that. You know the other things would be that we had to deal with the no other kryptonians in Smallville and the reason you only hear Jor-El's voice and you don't see Jor-El, um, was also coming out of things that had to do with themovie, but now that that version of the movie is dead, you know, Bryan Singer has his own version, we don't know what other effects that'll have on us at this point. But that have been good and understanding in support of Smallvile to keep the Superman legend alive for this generation.
Q: Basically, my question is: I don't understand why everyone in Smallville, including the women and girls just worship Lana Lang, because it really messes up the story. *crowd cheers*
A (Gough): well, in this season that's all about to change. So I think we're gonna see a whole new Lana and a whole new set of characters which we're pretty excited about
Q (cont.): I'm kind of concerned more about how other people react to her rather than how she is.
A: Well I think that characters react to how she is. She comes back changed, and she will be. I think that's something we've been working on for a long time.
Q: I love the show, and I love John in the show *crowd cheers*.
John: Thank you very much.
Q (cont.): But I have a question about the movie. *crowd laughs as glover looks jokingly confused*
Glover: Meet me after, alright?
Miller: No, John won't be playing Superman in the movie.
Q (cont.): Will Tom?
Miller: No.
*crowd awwwww's and boo's in disapointment*
Millar: It's not my ****in movie, I don't know.
*crowd cheers*
Q: Hi, I love the show. I realize bringing Lois Lane in this eason was a huge step, so this maybe looking too far ahead, but is there any truth at all to the rumor of the intention to do an episode or a couple episodes featuring the Bruce Wayne Character?
A (Millar): We had talked about that early on, ou know, with season 1, season 2, but with Batman Begins coming out next summer that really got put on the back-burner, so since they are making a new Batman film, that really deals with Batman's origins. So it won't be happening unfortuneately.
Q: I'd like to uh, 2 questions. I'd like to praise you and scold you for one thing. Praise you if you could bring Krypto, not a super-dog, but Krypto into Clark's life since that was part of the comic book. Also, we have thousands and thousands of Smallville fans, and I was here last year. No offense, where's Lois, where's Clark, Where's LEX! That's what we wanna see. I love Lionel, don't get me wrong, you're a great actor, but those are the 3 major characters. You guys the producers bring them to the con! *crowd boo's this jackass*
A (Millar): WEll we have a couple people coming, and uh, you know we shoot in Vancouver and their schedule makes it very difficult sometimes to get people out and to get people down.
Gough: You would not believe how many efforts they made to come down, but they were shooting until 4:30am last night, and Tom works at 6am on Monday morning so we can't wear out our cast like that unfortunelately.
Millar: also, we can't get them down on a plane. They'd love to be here, they had every intention to be here.
Q: Hey, um, John Glover, um, which part did you think that was better for you, like um, um, was Batman and Robin the best thing that you played or did you like Smallville better?
A (John): Well I was kissed to death by Uma Thurman. If they would let me kiss a little in Smallville...
Q: Are we actually gonna see Clark Kent and Lana Lang back together again in this season?
A (Millar): No.
*crowd cheers*
Glover: You all don't have opinions do you? (in sarcastic tone)
Q: Alright guys, now that Lois has been kind of introduced to the whole Smallville neighborhood, I guess you kind of answered the question with him [the previous question] that Clark and Lana are kind of done but does that mean the relationship's kinda reach its climax and it's gonna reach into a new direction, you know, Clark realizing there's more to life than Lana Lang, and will that come full circle and meet again at one point for, obviously, you have to move back out into Metropolis land?
A (Gough): Absolutely, eventually, but I think for the next season they will not be together,we will not play that relationship. We will introduce 2 new characters, one of which you will see in the first new episode, Lois Lane in the 1st episode. Jason Akles has joined the cast, is a great great actor.
Millar: He'll play Lana's new love interest that she meets in Paris....who's not french.
Gough: He brings a new element to the show. We also introduce a whole new mythology as well which we will unravel throughout the season putting the caaves to rest, Jor-El to rest, new things into the show which I think are exciting and fresh.
Millar: New things in the mythology that you all know and love and have memorized. It's also their senior year so they're finally gonna graduate. You know, at 27 years old we thought it was about time for Tom to graduate.
Q: Since wwe won't be able to meet Bruce this season, what other characters from the DC universe will we have a chance to meet this season, and what's up with Pete?
A (Millar): Pete is gone, he's moved to Witchataw. We may see him in a couple episodes come back as a guest star. We were actually talking to DC about a couple other characters that they will, you know, realease from the dungeon of feature development and open it to let us use on the show, but none we can announce right now.
Q: I love the show. Everything you've done with the show is very good, and Mr. John Glover, I wanted to ask you a question. You're very excellent at playing Lioneland I was wondering, do you have a favorite Lionel episode or moment?
A (Glover): Well Memoria was great for Lionel and Lex because you could see the love they have for each other. *crowd laughs*
Glover: No, you laugh but I'm serious! It's alll based on love. Don't forget that. Lionel is your friend.
Q (cont.): So you don't see Lionel as evil
Glover: Lionel is not an evil man *speaking as if he knows that's total bull*. He is driven, but he is not evil, so his choices maybe a little...wonky, misguided, pick a word.
Q: Mr Glover:how did you feel about shaving off all your hair in the season finale?
A (Millar): It was John's idea.
Glover: I offered it up.
Q (cont.): Wow.
Glover: Why??
Q (cont.): No, I said wow
Glover: Oh, wow. Yeah don't I look great? *rubs his head as crowd cheers*
Continued:
Q: Hey fellas, I'm a big fan of yours. I've got 2 questions. First: are we gonna see any recurring villains that have been mutated by the Kryptonite as a regular rouges gallery? and the second question is: what's been the most difficult/labor-of-love story arc to have ever shot?
A (Gough): Well we've always wanted to have recurring villains and it's kind of tricky to find the right cast members. We did a couple last season when we had Johnathan Taylor Thomas and when Van came back
(Loeb to Gough: Shawn Ashmore came back.
Gough: Shawn Ashmore who was great, loved him and there were a couple from last season. Tina Greer came back. Yes, we've had a few. The hardest thing we've had to shoot...some things we kept on trying to do for years and we finally cracked them, but it's...
Millar: I mean, Memoria we've wanted to do since season 1. That's sort of going back and seeing that story with Lex and his brother and Lionel and Lex and the Asylum. And then I guess Lineage is one we wanted to do in season 1 but did in season 2. We always wanted to go back to the day of the meteor shower and try to find out the deal that Jonathan made with Lionel.
Gough: and red kryptonite
Glover: I would like red kryptonite actually, see what happens to Lionel when he is infected by red kryptonite. I think it could be really fun.
Millar to Glover: You'd become a Hare Krishna.
Glover: Yeah, it could turn me good!
Millar: I thought you are good
Glover: I know, I slip every now and then.
Q: I just had a question. Like you said they're in their senior year, do you see it going on after this? I would really hope so, I'd love the movie with this cast. You guys have a great everything. It's perfect. *cheers*
Millar: well they'll graduate this season and then in season 5 some will go to college at Metropolis University. Clark obviously, he'll stay around and help run the farm so he'll go to community college or University of Kansas Smallville. I Mean there's ways to sort of keep him around. You know, Lex isn't in school, and obviously neither are any of the adult characters, so I don't think it will be really that huge of a transition for us, but what it will do is open up some other story areas and we'll probably get some more Metropolis as well.
A: This season is gonna be more fun. It's gonna deal with a lot more teen issues. We'll see if Clark can have sex and that sort of thing. It's much more, i guess sort of a cool graduation year and see more of what it's like to be a teen. And Clark becoming more popular as well.
Q: I'm a big fan, and I love the 1st and 2nd season and I love the 3rd season finale, but it seemed it was trying to overuse kryptonite as a plot device and I was wondering are we gonna keep seeing that, like the kryptonite car bomb.
A (Gough): Yeah, that wasn't one of our finest moments. Yeah that's not one of our favorites. The thing with doing 22 shows a year it's very very difficult to maintain the quality. I think out of 22 we have a very good batting average, but we have 3 or 4 clunkers a year which any show does and I think if you look at our track record it's very good. But it's always difficult to maintain that quality with that many episodes with maintaining the storyline and the special effects, so it's definitely...we always feel really bad when we have a bad episode. We know it's coming, we see it and it's like, that one was just horrible. *Gough says "Ressurection" and slaps is forehead in shame*
I will post Part 2 next.
