Thanks for understanding, Liv.

Thank you for mentioning those remake examples, which are all perfect examples of Hollywood trying to fix what isn't broken.

See, a good example of a movie that deviated from the source material and improved on it was Jaws. Jaws cut out a lot of Peter Benchley's subplots, like the mayor of Amity not wanting to close the beaches because his administration owed money to the Mafia, and they needed to make a profit to pay back the mobsters, as well as marine biologist Matt Hooper having an affair with Chief Brody's wife. Most of that stuff was unnecessary and bogged down the story, and it was rightfully cut out of the film. Also, Quint in the book didn't have a motivation for why he hated sharks and was a shark hunter, so the movie gave him the backstory involving the USS Indianapolis, which gave him motivation. That's how you make changes for the right reasons.

Too often Hollywood makes changes to things for ideological reasons, which sucks.

Captain Marvel cutting out Mar-Vell and his relationship with Carol Danvers, and replacing Mar-Vell with a female character? What was that for?

Cutting out Adam Warlock from his signature storyline involving his battle with Thanos for the Infinity Gauntlet?

Cutting out Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne from the Avengers when they're founding members, while Scott Lang is not an Avenger and Hope Van Dyne doesn't exist in the comics, and making Tony Stark Ultron's creator instead of Hank?

See, all of those were changes that did not need to be made, and were made mostly for reasons involving ideology and studio politics, not narrative necessity.



Well, they were stupid, and their rules were self-defeating. They didn't even make any Flash or Wonder Woman movies during Smallville's run, so why wouldn't they let Smallville use Barry or Diana? And I get that Christopher Nolan was making those two Batman films while Smallville was on, but Smallville's Bruce Wayne would've been a teenager and wouldn't become Batman until the end of Smallville and his own show, just like Gotham. WB execs were shooting themselves in the foot by doing that. Think of all the advertising dollars they could've gotten with a Smallville/Gotham shared TV universe.

But the Clark/Lois thing on Smallville really didn't make sense. Erica was in a limited amount of episodes, and wasn't even allowed to portray Lois as being attracted to Clark because of the Superman Returns movie? Why even have her on the show in that case?

Oh, and Tom kept the "no tights, no flights" rule after season 7? Okay, now I'm angry with him.

It was the scene that should've started the clock ticking on the end of Clark/Lana.

I kinda liked how they slowly introduced Lois. She was a breath of fresh air that was needed in S4 and I actually loved the love-hate friendship she had with Clark, it was a lot of fun. But there were moments even early on that hinted at them becoming closer. The one thing that didn't make sense was how they changed her from never wanting anything to do with journalism (because there was Chloe for the reporter things) and then doing a 180 and suddenly finding it's her calling after all.

Hey don't be too hard on Tom. He is the love of my life after all. All jokes aside, I actually have massive respect for him for sticking with that mantra. He always said that Smallville was about the journey, not the destination and I agree with him. Once that destination was reached, put on the suit and flies, that was the end of the show. He actually initially turned down the role twice because he thought it was just about a kid in tights flying around (kinda like that Superboy show, 'cause they weren't giving him much info about the plot but luckily they eventually showed him that it was much more grounded than that.

His wardrobe actually got more grown up from S8, thanks to Lois. He couldn't help getting that shirt dirty though, saving people and all.

Reliving Clark and Lois season 8 is special.