Let’s All Pretend There’s a Smallville Movie
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There’s not, but since Entertainment Weekly announced that the two Geoff Johns-written, Justice Society-featuring episodes of Smallville would be aired back to back on January 29th — much like a TV movie, although it won’t be a TV movie — people have been freaking out, Smallville fans as if this is some bold new chapter in Smallville‘s terrifyingly long run, and folks like Great White Snark as if this was a punishment from a cruel and vengeful god. Besides mentioning the two-parter (which, if the previous Johns-penned episode was any indication, should be pretty good), I wanted to assure everyone that no matter what CW does or how it promotes it, this is not a Smallville TV movie, and it does not pre-sage a Smallville spin-off starring the Justice Society. There’s no way. Everybody just settle down.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.