Post-Smallville Ideas

After the sixth season of Smallville ended last May, I heard rumors that the producers were looking to bring Supergirl into the show for the it’s seventh (and probably final) season. I was excited, because I am a big Supergirl fan. I’ll be honest as to why: because it’s a hot female superhero. But, luckily, at around the time I started to actually pick up and read comics, Peter David was writing for Supergirl and honestly she wasn’t all that hot in that series but it was good enough for me to have just recently spent almost $150 on the complete collection because it was so well written. I could into more detail about this but I won’t.

Anyway, here is Supergirl on Smallville:

Not sure if that’s an official promo shot or what, but I like how Smallville, in it’s final years, is fleshing out more of the DC universe’s cast of characters. For example, last season the Green Arrow played a pretty prominant role and we saw the beginning’s of the Justice League. Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) has said that no matter what, season 7 will be his last, and I can’t really imagine Smallville without his Lex Luthor, so I hope that if Smallville really does end this year they’ll have a number of spin-off options. They could do a Green Arrow series, and I’d watch not because of the Green Arrow storyline but because the guy they had playing him was just so damn cool. Better yet, they could do a Justice League series–even if Tom Welling (Clark/Superman) didn’t want to keep playing Clark Kent/Superman, he could be a guest star and run things “offscreen.” If done right, it could be a better version of Heroes.Had Veronica Mars not came (and went), I’d even think Chloe might be pretty good with her own detective/drama type show. But since that’s no longer an option maybe she could continue to be “The Watchtower” for the Justice Leage or Green Arrow.

They could even do a Supergirl spinoff. What teenage boy (or twentysomething perv like myself) wouldn’t watch that? Get Peter David as head writer and you’ve got yourself what the insiders like to call “a pretty good show.”