Starkville’s House of El Podcast

Late thursday afternoon The CW issued a press release concerning The 10th season of Smallville. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

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Today’s SF takes us back in time to June 17th, 2008. In issue #17 of Smallville Magazine there was an origin story for Warrior Angel. Our very own Derek Russell was the writer for the article and and he was kind enough to provide me with the origin story. I see no need to rewrite or summarize the material, take a look after the jump and enjoy!

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This installment of the SF has been a tough one for me to tackle. There were so many characters mentioned in Absolute Justice that I had to take a step back and figure out what to do about all of them. Simply because I do not have the time necessary to spotlight them all, I will focus on the three main JSA characters that were in the episode. I will however place numerous links in the SF to point you in the direction of the characters that I do not write in depth about. Hopefully that will suffice and allow you to find out more about the JSA and Icicle.

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Well here we are with a new episode and a new character to discover their origin and backstory that was the basis for Vortigan on Smallville. The show only gave us snippets of what this character was all about, and I wish we could have seen a flashback scene or two explaining more about him. But at any rate lets see where the Smallville writers got their basis for Vortigan.

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With all the news bubbling to the surface in the past week or so concerning Smallville, there is yet another bit of news from Natalie Abrams of TV Guide. It is being reported that “The Silver Banshee” has been cast as the villan in episode 16 “Escape” .

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This week has had an abundance of Smallville scoops for the second half of Season 9 on Smallville.Yesterday DC Comics Blog posted a trailer for “Absolute Justice” and today EW.com’s Michael Ausiello reports that Michael McKean will be returning to Smallville.  This news comes only a day after we learned that his wife Annette O’toole will be reprising her role as Martha Kent later in the season as well.

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I thought it might be fun to quickly spotlight a few characters of interest during the hiatus until “Disciple”. Here are some notable characters from film, TV, and comics. These are exclusive to everyone’s favorite villain Lex Luthor,  or in Smallville’s case people connected to his legacy since he’s DEAD. He is dead right?

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It seems like it’s been an eternity since we have had a new episode of Smallvile. Well in a few short weeks we will have a new episode to get us excited about the second half of season 9. The CW has released an official description for the mid-season premier “Disciple” , and Speedy fans can rejoice because Mia will be returning to the cast for this episode.

NO LOVERS, NO ALLIES, NO DISCIPLES – INTRODUCING DC COMICS CHARACTER THE DARK ARCHER
Oliver’s (Justin Hartley) past comes back to haunt him in the form of The Dark Archer (guest star Steve Bacic), Oliver’s former teacher, who seeks revenge on his student by taking aim at Lois (Erica Durance) and Chloe (Allison Mack). Oliver faces down The Dark Archer after his former mentor kidnaps Mia AKA “Speedy” (guest star Elise Gatien) but is pushed to his limit and Clark (Tom Welling) races to stop him from making another deadly mistake. Mairzee Almas directed the episode written by Jordan Hawley.

Here we are again with a SHoE File of epic proportions. General Zod has been a character in the DC Universe for a very long time dating back to the the early 1960’s. While he wasn’t used very much in the beginning, Zod has become one of Superman’s most formidable adversaries over the years and as of late even an ally in the comics. The character and look of Zod is most defined by Superman I & II. Those movies are really what gave Zod the exposure to make him a mainstream character. His famous line “Kneel before Zod” has definitely become a part of pop culture. Smallville has had a few different incarnations of Zod inorevious seasons, but season 9 has given us the corporeal form of the character on the show.  Let’s get into this character and see what his history is.

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Brian Peterson recently had an interview with TV Guide writer and SHoE guest host Damian Holbrook to discuss the direction of the remainder of season 9 and the possibilities of a season 10. While the interview was filled with tasty morsels of Smallville news, there is nothing here that I feel would spoil you for the rest of the season. If you are interested to know about Zod, Absolute Justice, or  if we will see Clark will fly just click the link for the summarized interview.

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