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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talaysen" data-source="post: 199797" data-attributes="member: 340">Various replies, in no particular order...Re Lana Lang: Kristin Kreuk is on next season's cast list, so I'm darn sure Lana will survive. However, it has been hinted that someone will discover Clark's powers, and in the comics - Lana knows he's Superman. Granted, she learned about it when Clark left for Metropolis, but the producers may change that.On a similar note - I'd say all bets are off when it comes to who lives and who dies on this show. The producers have followed current continuity to an extent, and traditional continuity to an extent, but they've made it clear that they're not afraid to go in new directions. If Kristin Kreuk, or Sam Jones III (Pete Ross), or virtually anyone else aside from Tom Welling and (perhaps) Michael Rosenbaum (? - Lex Luthor) decided to leave - I imagine the producers would be perfectly willing to kill them off if that seemed to be the best course of action.Regarding Ma and Pa Kent: still alive in current continuity, though recent developments have led some readers to believe that Pa Kent might be leaving us soon. In Superman's original origin story, the Kents did indeed die, but Crisis on Infinite Earths and the subsequent reboot changed all that.Re the "Kryptonite freak of the week" thing and next season: my understanding is that they will be moving away from that somewhat, and in fact, they have already begun that process. "Stray" - the episode with the telepathic kid - had nothing to do with Kryptonite; the season finale had nothing to do with those mysterious green rocks; the episode before it ("Obscura") MAY have involved Kryptonite, but I don't think that was ever explicitly stated. "Rogue" (corrupt cop tries to blackmail Clark) and "Zero" (a man killed in Lex's presence comes back, apparently, to haunt him) had nothing to do with Kryptonite either. I think the idea of Kryptonite as a somewhat unpredictable substance which can also affect humans is somewhat interesting - particularly when you consider that it often gives said humans superpowers, where it weakens Clark - but I think they have overdone it, and I don't think they've handled it very well. Virtually everyone affected by Kryptonite, for example, has used their powers to ill purpose. I actually had an idea for an episode which would have involved Kryptonite but explored the reactions of certain townspeople to it - but I don't believe Smallville is accepting scripts from freelancers, agented or otherwise, at this point in time.And yes, as far as I am aware, the "no flights, no tights" rule does remain in effect. No guarantees about leaping tall buildings in a single bound, though - we might see a few superleaps next season, for all I know. (Wouldn't have to involve flight, just the proper application of existing abilities.)</blockquote>

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