The creators of SMALLVILLE now reveal what they would change about the series

Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar recently did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and during their conversation, they were asked what they would have done differently with Smallville today…if anything. For Gough, he explained that the Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and Lois Lane (Erica Durance) dynamic has gone on too long and says “something else” should have happened.

“The Clark-Lana thing has gone on for too long. Something else had to happen there. I think it was a bit repetitive. My younger daughter is now, finally after Wednesday, back to watching Smallville, and she’s in season two. She says, ‘What’s the matter with these two?’ I’m like, ‘It was a different time.’ So, I think there’s things there, if we go back, we’d probably be a little more adventurous with some of those relationships and bring them to certain heads and let them move forward.

As for Millar, he said he was going to do something different with the female characters. She also wanted to do more to give Lois Lane agency. She also said that they originally only wanted a five-season run, but ended up doing ten.

“We were very cautious and very aware that we wanted to go to five seasons, and we ended up with 10 seasons, but we were like, ‘OK, if we split them, what are we going to do? ‘ Again, as a father of girls, I think the female characters we would do differently today. I think Lana, her agency wasn’t there. She could have been a much stronger character and she always felt put in a position of weakness. She is a different era, a different time. So, it’s something that I think we could have done and would definitely try to do better.

I recently finished watching the entire Smallville series again and it was incredibly fun to watch it again! It had been forever since I’d looked at it, and there were so many things I forgot about it. This was such a great show with great storytelling and character development. But it also had a lot of weird stuff that was fun. If you haven’t watched the show in a while you should revisit!

Also, I really wouldn’t change anything about the series. Smallville is a fantastic product of its time. But if I had to change anything, I think after that there would have been a better way to handle the whole Lex Luther thing Michael Rosenbaum left the show. Is there anything you would like to risk on the show?