The showrunners of ‘Smallville’, Al Gough and Miles Millar, were responsible for “Clana”, or the way in which the fans of the series called the fictional relationship between Clark Kent and Lana Langand in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter for their Netflix series, ‘Wednesday’ have broken the silence about one of the most recurring criticisms of their 21-year-old creation.
A romance longer than it should.
When asked if Gough and Millar would have done anything differently today with ‘Smallville,’ Gough took the opportunity to talk about “Clana”:
“Clark-Lana went on too long. Something else had to have happened there. I think it was one that got a little repetitive. My youngest daughter now, finally after ‘Wednesday’s, she’s going to watch ‘Smallville’ again and it’s in the second season. She says, ‘What’s with these two?’ I say: ‘It was a different time.’ There are things there, if we were to go back, probably, we would be a little more adventurous with some of those relationships and take them to certain extremes and let them play out.”
In 2001, television sitcom romances were common, but Millar also affirms that I would write all the female characters differently:
“We were definitely cautious and very conscious of the fact that we wanted to go to five seasons, and we ended up with 10, but we thought, ‘OK, if we break them up, what are we going to do? Again, as a father of girls, I think the characters We would do them differently today. I think Lana, she had no autonomy. She could have been a much stronger character, and she always seemed to be put in positions of weakness. It’s a different era, a different time. So, that’s something I think that we could have done and would definitely consider doing better.”
As is often the case, they admit they could never do the show today because No one wants superhero shows on the CW anymore. When asked if they would visit Superman again, Gough said:
“I think we already told that story, and they’re always revamping Superman. I just read last night that James Gunn is writing a new younger Superman movie, and I said, ‘OK.’ I feel like we were very, very lucky to do the show. when we did it because we were able to do the show that I wanted to do and, frankly, there was no committee sitting on top of us telling us what we could or couldn’t do….We wouldn’t be allowed to do that show today. There were so many deviations from the canon. The heresy of one generation is the gospel of the next generation.”