Starkville’s House of El Podcast

*UPDATE* 7/28 The entire Smallville panel is shown below.  This was filmed by our good friend Jeremy (@snowsoldier).  If you haven’t seen the panel in it’s entirety (minus the trailers) this is it! Enjoy

It all comes down to this! Tomorrow – Sunday, July 25th at 10am PST, the Smallville cast and crew will take the stage at San Diego Comic Con to bring us our first look at season ten, answer fan questions, and share some big surprises for the final season.

We’ve got three ways you can join in on this momentous occasion, as SHoE crew members Joe, Kim, and Brian will be in attendance and in the press junket this year.

Check out after the jump how to have up to the minute information from the Smallville panel!

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Following up from our last article, a bit of news that was probably best suited to come straight out of Comic Con this Sunday, has now hit the news.

James Marsters, aka Milton Fine, aka Braniac, will be reprising his role for the 200th episode of the final season entitled, ‘Homecoming’. The title of this episode could mean a lot for several characters from the series that have left us, and I doubt Braniac is the only big suprise awaiting when 10×04 hits. Brainiac (as far as James Marsters goes) was last seen in the seventh season finale, but the character lived on through the Fortress of Solitude and Chloe Sullivan in season eight, until he was removed by Clark and the Legion.

Marster’s fan Facebook page broke the news this morning. My gut tells me this was one of the big casting announcements we would have been hearing in Sunday morning’s panel. Is this good news or were you expecting something else for the 200th episode of the series? Sound off!

With the final season of the series looming, it’s natural to want to revist people and places of the past. There are reunions and scenes we’ve wanted to see for nearly five years that will hopefully culminate within the final twenty-two episodes that span from September 2010 to May 2011.
Some of these familiar faces, we already know about, and some we are just speculating on, but check out our thoughts after the jump to find out who is coming back, and who we want to see return for season ten!

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It was reported earlier today by EW.com ’s Michael Ausiello that we now have a few confirmations for the Smallville Panel that is taking place at San Diego Comic-con on Sunday July 25th at 10am in Ballroom 20.

• Tom Welling WILL be there, this is only his second appearance and presumably his last in connection with Smallville. (that makes me sad to type)
• He will be Joined by Erica Durance, Cassidy Freeman, and Justin Hartley
• Showrunners Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson will be there on the panel as well
• Writer of episodes Legion, Society, and Legends and current big cheese at DC Entertainment, Geoff Johns will be moderating the panel
• There WILL be a preview trailer for season 10 shown

This is my first year going to SDCC and I couldn’t be more excited and I am really looking forward to meeting my fellow SHoEligans at the convention. Remember the code word is MOLE

Leave a comment below about this news and make sure to mention if you are going to be attending the Con.

DC has done a fantastic job with their direct-to-DVD movies in recent years and the next  two releases look to continue that successful run. There have been some misses along the way, Green Lantern: First Flight and Wonder Woman did not achieve the level of success that I’m sure DC was hoping for. However New Frontier, Crisis on Two Earths, and Superman/Batman: Public Enemies were very successful in the eyes of DC.  The next two animated films have me very excited mainly because the stories that they are based on are some of my favorites.

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Amazon.com has listed the complete ninth season of Smallville on DVD and BluRay for pre-order pricing. Expect this to street date around September 14th or 21st. Extras will include deleted scenes, commentaries, and new featurettes: most notebly (we believe) on Zod and about the JSA two-parter: Absolute Justice. We’ll keep you updated. Remember pre-ordering from Amazon through SHoE helps support this website and podcast to continue, so please – order now!

Season Nine DVD

Season Nine BluRay

IT’S CLARK VS ZOD IN THE SEASON FINALE – Zod unleashes his army upon the world, forcing Chloe to call in reinforcements from old friends.  Zod tells Lois he is The Blur and asks her to steal the Book of Rao from Clark.  Torn between Clark and The Blur, Lois asks Clark to come clean with her about everything but he refuses.  Chloe and Oliver attempt to reconnect Watchtower’s satellite system in order to fight the Kandorians but to Chloe’s horror, Oliver gets caught on site and disappears.  Tess attempts to stop Zod but he leaves her clinging to life.  Clark and Zod battle for control of Earth.

It all comes down to this! The ninth season finale of Smallville and a long break ahead of us before we get into the tenth and potentially final season of the series.

Before we get to ‘Salvation’, check out the last couple of episodes of SHoE to catch you up on what’s going on with our favorite heroes. And, in the meantime, when the episode is over come back here and let us know what you thought, or email us so we can read your thoughts on the air! We’ll be back with the 150th episode of Starkville’s House of El soon!

Much like Brian said in his last post, with the big finale tomorrow night, we thought it would be neat to look at some of the greatest battles between Superman and Zod in the comics. While Brian wanted to look at a less recent battle between Zod and Superman, I figured it would be better to take a look at a more recent conflict between these two, but first some context for those who haven’t read World of New Krypton, the most recent story arc that has woven its plots all over the Superman family of books for the past year and a half or so.

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