Smallville Spin-off Coming Soon?

Rumor has it that the CW is looking into creating a spinoff from Smallville.  We’ll file this under the category of bad ideas.  Mike Ausiello over at TV Guide has the scoop.

Sigh.

I don’t like Smallville anymore and I don’t know very many people who do.   I used to love it back when Michael Rosenbaum was fleshing out a brilliant portrayal of Lex Luthor and Tom Welling wasn’t 30.  Sure it tended to fall into a repetitive ‘baddy of the week’ fare, but it was still fun and Kristen Kruek was hot.  But it’s been NINE years and Clark has graduated high school and you really think he’d be Superman by now.  But, no.  The show needs to end.  And it seems that CW is realizing it too.  But far be it for a company to do the right thing and put the dog out of its misery rather than squeeze every last cent out of the franchise.

They’ve tried this before with aborted runs of Aquaman (called Mercy Reef) and a before-he-was Robin Dick Grayson.  It didn’t work out then, what makes them think its going to work out now?  I guess they will probably be looking into spinning off the Oliver Queen character on Smallville or perhaps bringing the Justice League together.  But whatever, without Superman, NO ONE CARES.

Over at io9.com, Graeme McMillan explains things much better than I ever could.  To sum up, Graeme says that if they really want to keep the franchise alive, ditch the Smallville part and make a show about Superman.  Give Welling the tights and make a better Superman show than Lois and Clark.  And call it Metropolis or even Superman – Clark’s formative years are done – he’s ready to become the hero we know and love, so let him be Superman.

A Superman show is a show I’d tune in for.