Smallville creators/executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are leaving the young-Superman drama after seven seasons, though the CW will keep its longest-running and highest-rated drama on its viewership-challenged schedule next year. “We look back at 152 episodes,” Gough and Millar wrote in an open letter sent to media outlets this morning. “We look back knowing that the show will continue into season 8 without us. After much heartache and debate we have decided it is time for us to move on.” Here’s to hoping it goes better than the net’s Amy Sherman-Palladino-less final season of Gilmore Girls.
Apr 3
2008
04:25 PM ET
'Smallville' creators call it quits
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I can’t believe this. I’m in shock. I’m not sure what to think, but I have a sneaking suspision this can’t be a good thing.
Maybe this will mean an end to the “No tights, no flights” rule!!!
Well it can’t get possibly get any worse than it has over Seasons 5 through 7 can it?
I think this show has been floundering for a while now. I think this might be a good thing.
It is sad that the people who created it, don’t get to end it.
Let us pray they were the ones behind the “Lana is every man/woman /mutant’s dream” crap. She truly made me hate the show. I love Chloe. They could stand to lose Kara, Lana and Lana. Oh, that is a repeat, but an important one. It would be great have Clark move and save someone other than LANA!
I cant believe any of you that think this show is floundering. It is as good as it has ever been.
I’m gonna have to agree with LD in that there’s been some good stuff going on this season. There have been some missteps (Pete’s brief return for one), but the last couple of episodes have been tight, and I think the April 17th one is gonna be one for the ages. I’m sure Season 8 is going to be the last, I just hope things wrap up well with this surprising news.
HA HA !!!! YEAH!!! Now the show actually has a chance to survive. I was starting to think the writers were gearing the show toward 2nd graders. It can only get better from here!!! YEAH!
Hope this means that the dreary Clark-Lana thing will end. Clark and Chloe would make a better couple!!!!
I’ve stopped watching Smallville since Season 3. So, so boring. Almost every villain is infected with Kryptonite. It’s okay for such plot to happen 2-3 times, not 50 times. And Superman who cannot fly? How idiotic. I think it’s great that the so-called “creator” left the show. New people could easily take this show to a new height. For a much better show, watch “Battlestar Galactica” and “Reaper.”
This show is really good, and I disagree with a recent post — seasons 5 through 7 have been excellent. However, I hope whoever comes in stops just two things — 1) Superman getting punked (i.e. bleeding) nearly every episode, and 2) the mass use of kryptonite.
This can only mean the soon to come ending of the show since Kristen Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum are said to be leaving the show this season and possibly only making guest appearances for next.
Maybe some fresh blood can steer this ship in a new direction. Let Clark become Superman, have him move away from Smallville, to the big city and call it Metropolis. Let him fly! Let him fall in love with Chloe. Why not? This show is so far removed from the Superman-lore, just let it go for broke and give people what they’ve wanted for so long.
BTW, Lex and Lana leaving is so good for this show!