Real Reason For Backlash

I'm sure wherever Tom Welling is, he will take every word you have written to heart, and I'm sure he has stayed up every night worried about how this has affected fans over a year later....not

Just a girl in the world

Of course he won't.

As far as I know the creators of Superman didn't allow the producers of Smallville to use the suit and was what we saw at the end of the finale episode all they were allowed to.
It's not as if Tom Welling made this decision.

It was a well known fact, from day one, that he was not going to be about the suit, he wasn't going to go near the suit, and that Smallville wasn't going to be about him becoming the suit. Why is the OP ragging about this?

I didn't watch every season of the show, but when I did watch, I am reminded of what David Carridine's character in 'Kill Bill' said about Superman VS Clark Kent. Superman was the one who was real, actual, out there...Clark Kent was the disguise. CW spent ten years exploring the man who was the disguise, and that was pretty cool.

Eliot: "Dammit Hardison!"

I honestly thought that the moment on the roof of the Daily Planet was the best possible way to end the show! We saw the glasses come off and the shield on his chest, personally that was all I needed. Does a part of me wish I could see Tom Welling in spandex? Uh...HELL YES! But, the show was about how Clark Kent learned to balance his humanity and the hero within. Superman has the powers of a god, and yet somehow he still manages to be just a man. That's what makes Supes my favorite hero. Whether he's Clark Kent, The Red-Blue Blur, or the Man of Steel, suit or no, he's always Superman. That's what Smallville was all about.

You also have to take into account all of the restrictions that DC and Warner Bros. put on the show. They wanted to include Batman and Wonder Woman, but were denied the rights to them because of the characters other projects that were in production.

Not to mention, that they had decided to do a full on reboot for Superman on the big screen. They may not have allowed them to show the full 'Superman Returns' suit (which is what they used in Smallville), because they were completely redesigning the suit for 'Man of Steel'.

The Smallville finale took place during a very transitional period for Superman's character. The logistics of character usage can be very complicated during such times. When Superman and Lois were married in the comics, they were forced to make it coincide with the on-screen marriage of the characters on Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman. Which resulted in a lot of stalling tactics for the comic writers.

Also, I don't know why everyone was so surprised when the we didn't see the full suit. Gough and Millar said from the VERY BEGINNING "No flights, No tights." I don't understand why people are so shocked that they held fairly true to their word.

The point I am trying to make is that I highly doubt Tom Welling had any say in whether or not he wanted to wear the suit. So, please stop blaming him.

If there is any reason to be disappointed in Tom Welling, it's that he's been hiding his ultra-sexiness behind the camera for over a year! ;)

I think the issue is that the show teased that Tom was going to wear the suit. That is what annoys some folks.

If they were going to stick to their no tights no flights rule, then they should not have shown the suit at all until the end (by end I mean the final scene on the rooftop of the daily planet).

If it is all about Clark excuse, then why not have him save the world in his other outfit instead of bothering with a piss poor CGI Superman???

If i remember correctly millar and gough left the show after the 7th or 8th season so im assuming the no flight no tights thing went with them, for the most part anyway. the show was never about the suit but about the man who would end up wearing it. from the 1st season to the last it was about the journey of clark becoming superman, it was called Smallville for a reason. I think having him don the suit earlier wouldnt have made as much sense as it did because the suit represents him letting go of the past and being the hero he can really be, he wasnt there at the beginning of the 10th season.