Smallville Season Nine

Earlier this week it was revealed that actress Alaina Huffman will reprise her role as Black Canary on the ninth season finale of "Smallville." However, she won't be the only superhero to return to the series before the end of the season.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Hawkman, Stargirl and Cyborg will also be coming back in the season finale. Michael Shanks and Britt Irvin first appeared as Hawkman and Stargirl during the Justice Society episode of "Smallville" earlier this season.

Last month, Geoff Johns publicly stated that the Justice Society would return in the ninth season, confirming comments by Shanks last year that Hawkman could return as mentor for Tom Welling's Clark Kent

Lee Thompson Young ("FlashForward") previously appeared as Cyborg back in the fifth season of "Smallville' before returning for the initial Justice League team up in the sixth season. While the character hasn't appeared on "Smallville" in nearly three years, Cyborg has also played a starring role in the online spinoff, "Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom."

The season finale of "Smallville" is expected to wrap up the year-long Zod (Callum Blue) and Kandorian storyline. A few weeks ago, a rumor suggested that one of the series' major characters will be killed off in that episode.

The Martian Manhunter, Metallo, Max Lord, Martha Kent and Perry White will also appear in the remaining episodes of the ninth season of "Smallville."


Taken from MTV.com

here's Trailer for the next ep called upgrade:

Smallville Checkmate - Clark saves Chloe(taken from guzvidz)

Heres a preview clip from the next ep called upgrade something tells me clark's gone again lol, clip taken from cw:

Clip 2 of upgrade:

Here is a little info on the ep called Hostage:

Clark's mother (Annette O'Toole) returns to Smallville with her new boyfriend, Perry White; Chloe and Clark search for information that may help them stop Zod and his army.

Here is a interview with one of producers of smallville, interview taken from tvguide.com:


If this season of Smallville has taught Clark Kent (Tom Welling) anything, it's that he needs to work in tandem with the Justice League or suffer serious consequences. Unfortunately, executive producer Brian Peterson says, Clark has even more tough lessons to learn before the season ends. Through the hardships — which include an identity crisis, some double crossing, and the reveal of an even bigger foe — Peterson says Clark will find redemption and finally step into a leadership position in the Season 9 finale. Read on for Peterson's take on the Red Queen, the return of Perry White and Martha Kent and much more.

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TVGuide.com: What does it mean that the hero has been wearing black all season?
Brian Peterson: At the end of last season, Clark made a decision that threw him into really embracing his Kryptonian identity. In our minds, that really involved giving up his relationships and everything that he had known as his human connection, so all of that was the color in his life. He embraced a very dark version of who he thinks the hero he needs to be will become.

This season has been about Clark exploring an identity as Clark Kent and a very separate identity as this cold, saving Kryptonian. That will propel us into the next season, where he has evolved out of that. He's been in his Kryptonian cocoon, and he will evolve out of that into the hero we all recognize. For everybody who goes out to be a hero for good, you have to struggle with the darkness before you really can come out the other side of it.

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TVGuide.com: Speaking of being dark, will Chloe (Allison Mack) be held accountable for her immoral spying this season?
Peterson: Yes, absolutely. In this week's episode, she's definitely held accountable for it. It absolutely comes to a head in Episode 20, in "Sacrifice." That's where everything comes home to roost for Chloe's actions this year.

TVGuide.com: Zod (Callum Blue) is really trying to usurp Clark as the savior of mankind, but he only really wants to save the Kandorians.
Peterson: Right. Clark is really caught in an increasingly difficult predicament. On one hand, he has to be the savior of Earth, but on the other hand, he finally has live, flesh-and-blood Kryptonians in front of him that his father, in his dying breath, told him to save. He wants to win over and save this different race, but he's very protective of the humans. That will come to a pretty big climax in the finale.

TVGuide.com: Lois is being duped by Zod, who is acting like the Blur for his own means. What will come of that?
Peterson: What we see is how reverent Lois is toward the Blur and how much she's willing to protect him and fight for him. Unfortunately it's the wrong Blur, so that gets Lois into some significant hot water.

TVGuide.com: How will Lois (Erica Durance) and Clark's relationship continue to develop? Will you deviate from the mythology and let Lois in on the secret?
Peterson: What we've been trying to do is build the relationship in our version of the mythology. So, we're really trying to be true to how each of the characters would be acting in the situation they're in. Lois is hiding something from Clark and talking to the Blur behind his back. Clark is trapped in knowing he has two separate relationships with Lois — one as this huge faceless hero, one as this real genuine guy right in front of her. That all comes to a head towards the end of the season.

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TVGuide.com: What can you say about the Red Queen? Some fans seem to think that it's Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole).
Peterson: Obviously I don't want to tip it one way or another because we have a lot of players on the board that could be the Red Queen. But the Red Queen will continue to play a role all the way through the rest of the season. We'll find out that the Red Queen trumps almost everybody we thought was actually in control and becomes a really big power player in the show. It's a really fun direction for the end of the season.

TVGuide.com: What can you tease about Perry White (Michael McKean) and Martha's return to Smallville?
Peterson: Martha and Perry return in a very fun, "look who's coming to dinner" episode, because they come at a very inconvenient time for Lois and Clark in their relationship. The episode is very fun, but I think it pays off certain things that we've been planning with our mythology through the series.

TVGuide.com: I hear we see a lot more of the Justice League in the finale.
Peterson: There are some members of the Justice League and Justice Society that make cameo appearances. It's really Clark's moment to shine and take the leadership that we saw a glimmer of in "Absolute Justice."

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TVGuide.com: Last year's finale was described as Clark's darkest hour. How will this year's finale compare for him?
Peterson: We tried to thread it all the way through. So, really the finale is Clark's redemption for everything that happened last year in "Doomsday." We really needed to put Clark through a journey to get to where he's going to be. I think fans will be very happy.

Here's a update the ep called Hostage, taken from kryptonsite:

IT'S THE RETURN OF MARTHA KENT AND PERRY WHITE - Much to Clark's (Tom Welling) surprise, Martha Kent (guest star Annette O'Toole) returns to Smallville with her new boyfriend, Perry White (guest star Michael McKean) in tow. Lois (Erica Durance) and Perry realize they are both working on the same story about the Red Queen, and decide to team up, which ultimately puts them in serious danger. Chloe (Allison Mack) helps Clark search for the Book of Rao, which they believe contains information on how to stop Zod (Callum Blue)

The Trailer for the next ep called charade:

Here's a interview with one of the producers of smallville, it fills in whats been happening this season and the finale and of course season 10:

IGN TV: Let's jump into this week's new episode and the return of Metallo.

Brian Peterson: We were really excited to have Brian [Austin Green] back, because he did such a great job as Metallo. He was pretty much the quintessential Metallo, we thought, but what's funny is that he comes back in really different capacity than we saw him the first time, and in fact kind of plays the protagonist for the episode, because Clark ends up infected with red kryptonite. And so you have Clark and Zod teamed up against poor Metallo, so it's a very different switch-up.

IGN: As we're going into these final episodes and Zod now has these powers, will he be taking center stage a bit more?

Peterson: I would say it's pretty balanced. Clark has a lot of other things on his plate, like Lois and Checkmate and Tess and Chloe. So it's actually pretty balanced. He takes center stage in a couple episodes, but I would say not in the full run.

IGN: Clark has been wearing a sort of prototype version of the Superman suit, and he's definitely acting more like a superhero than we've ever seen. But he's also got some darker moments that remind us he's not Superman yet – he's a little more threatening with Tess and some characters than maybe Superman would be. Is that an interesting dynamic for you to explore: the guy figuring out what kind of a hero he's going to be?

Peterson: Yeah, Al [Gough] and Miles [Millar] from the start created a world and a character where we got to explore all the different kinds of missing emotional pieces that a person would go through when they're deciding to become the world's ultimate superhero. We've really tried to continue that, because obviously somebody doesn't make a massive decision to accept their destiny like Clark eventually will without a lot of weighing the pros and cons and going a little too far in one direction or another. We promised this would be Clark's darkest hour, and that's what we're doing. We're really showing when you become a god, when you've taken it upon yourself to be the city's savior, are there moments when you have to look back and go, "I'm never gonna go there again." And so that's what we've been doing.

IGN: "Absolute Justice" had a lot of tantalizing moments. We saw that glimpse of the red cape that Clark was shown by Doctor Fate, and we also had an interesting mention from Fate to Chloe about her destiny. Will that be something that we delve into more going forward?

Peterson: Definitely. I would say we're not quite at that point yet, but that definitely was a plan for something we want to pay off as the series wraps up, whenever that may be.

IGN: The Chloe/Oliver dynamic is one that's gone over very well with a lot of fans. Was that something that was fun for you guys to get to explore this season?

Peterson: It really felt organic to who each of those characters are, because they've been through a lot when it comes to love and allegiances, and to have a relationship on the show that isn't so filled with angst and riddled with romance and all the problems that go with there… It really felt like it was right to have those two characters be a counter-balance to Lois and Clark, and obviously Tess and Zod have a little more sadistic relationship. I think it's been really fun. It's really fun to see those two, and then the actors have really embraced it too – Allison [Mack] and Justin [Hartley], I think, have really enjoyed playing something that kind of feels real and what a real person would be going through in their situation.

IGN: You mentioned Lois and Clark. That's obviously a very famous, iconic couple. Lois had been on the show for several years. Did you feel like this was just the right time to finally see what these two are going to be like as a couple?

Peterson: We definitely wanted to be true to Clark's heart, and even after he broke up with Lana, he was still dealing with the wounds and being in love with Lana, so after last season, where that kind of was healed a little bit, we finally got a chance to see the two of them exploring the feelings that they have for each other. I think they don't quite know how to handle those feelings, because Clark is having two separate relationships with Lois, as Blur and as Clark, and Lois is torn because there is this iconic, amazing hero she kind of has a duty toward, and then she kind of has a romantic love for Clark. So that really all climaxes in this last run of episodes that we have.

IGN: You teased Clark's glasses a bit a few episodes ago. I'm just curious if we might be seeing Clark wear them a little more going forward?

Peterson: You will have a quick peek at the glasses in the finale.

IGN: Tess has been an interesting character, because she's been so ambiguous, going back and forth in her loyalties and playing both sides. But Ollie pushed her away pretty hard last week. Where does she go from here? Does this maybe push her into a darker path, because she's been rejected by the heroes?

Peterson: Tess, even though she means well underneath, always hitches her wagon to the wrong star and is kind of lost without somebody to fight for. Now, in a way, Clark has rejected her, Oliver has rejected her, and she and Chloe, in these next few episodes, kind of come to a head. She really is a bit lost, and there's one person who enters the picture in "Hostage," episode 21, who has a big impact on Tess.

IGN: Might that have anything to do with a certain Mr. Lord?

Peterson: There is an appearance of Maxwell Lord in 21, and I don't want to tease any more about that, because that episode is all about the secrets and the fun – In addition to the fact that we have this really fun "Look Who's Coming To Dinner" Martha-and-Perry episode – but underneath it there's also some fun secrets, so I don't want to give away too much on that.

IGN: Can you talk just a little bit about bringing Martha and Perry back? I know a lot of people are excited to see both of those characters.

Peterson: Well, we were just glad that it worked out. It was a long time in the making. To have both of them back on the show in the same episode was something we'd been really trying for. It's fun. It's very heartwarming to see Martha back and to see how much Clark has grown since she left, and how much she's grown as a character, and so I think it's just a very back-to-basics fun, yet heartwarming Smallville episode.

IGN: Not being able to fly has been a continuing issue for Clark, so I keep waiting for him to see that Zod can fly and go, "OK, this is just not fair anymore!" Will there be some motivation for Clark to finally get past that power-block at some point?

Peterson: There will be. I think right now, Clark is still… Especially seeing how dark some of these Kandorians are going right now, his denial of who he really is underneath -- as much as he's trying to embrace it -- is actually even heightened right now, because he sees the darker side of his Kryptonian birthright. So I think, right now, more than any time, he's fighting giving into mentally accepting everything that he is, if that makes sense. It won't be right now that he's toying with those ideas, but soon. Soon.

IGN: Getting the early pickup for Season 10, and comfortably knowing that you're going into the finale and you have another season, I would imagine is very freeing. You can plot ahead for the next season, with the certainty it's going to happen.

Peterson: It was. It was very liberating to be able to have a final goal in mind for the season and then look toward next season, but there's a lot that we're still discussing about next season. Unfortunately I can't really give up much about next season… but it's gonna be great.

IGN: This is a long-running show where fans have become quite invested, and because of that, everyone wants to make sure that it does have a proper finale when it does finally wrap up. Do you have any idea if Season 10 will be the final one, or is it still up in the air?

Peterson: I have learned never ever to guess about that. [Laughs] Because I would have been wrong probably three or four years by now. I don't know. That's about all I can say on that. I'm sorry, but I do not know.

IGN: Lastly, as a big comic book fan, I think, like many, I was tantalized in "Absolute Justice" when the mention of Apokolips came up, and even just the idea of Darkseid in some form appearing on the show seemed to be teased. Anything you can say about that and if we'll see at some follow-up to Amanda Waller's little mention there?

Peterson: Umm, we have several ideas for next year. I would say if you look closely in the finale, you will see one little follow-up toward that, but I think only the hardcore fans will recognize it.

IGN: Well, I think the good news is you have quite a few hardcore fans.

Peterson: Yeah, we do. We do! Thank God for them.

Taken from ign.com.

looks like we'll get to see clark in glasses, but will we ever see him fly?