New Season 5 Secrets In CFQ Fall Preview
The Fall Preview issue (Sept/Oct 2005) of CFQ Magazine has new interviews with Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as well as actor James Marsters (Brainiac) about the upcoming fifth season of the show. The issue is now available on newsstands. Here are some highlights from the interview:

  • About Chloe working at the Daily Planet: "This will allow Chloe to actually help Clark," says Millar. "She will actually bring him into true crime cases in Metropolis. You know, 'Hey, Clark, you need to get up here, this is what's going on'. Which is not a structure that we've done before. Thanks to her job at the Daily Planet, she will be getting stories and feeding them to Clark and then will be helping to solve them. As a result, Clark won't be falling into things, he'll be getting into them directly. It won't be just another meteor freak, there will be crime solving."
  • Millar also reveals that things will be different with Clark and Lana. "Now that they're going out, the whole sex question comes up again. They are going to be together for a while. Then, eventually this season, we're going to play Lex and Lana to a degree. Until now, she hasn't been legal. The triangle of the show was always designed to be Lex, Lana, and Clark, but we've never been able to play it romantically. So you're coming into season five and you haven't beeen able to play the core relationship at all. I think that, for us, will be liberating and open up lots of stories. Which will absolutely trigger Clark's jealousy and anger. Hence friction, hence tension, hence enmity, hence you're my arch enemy."
  • And about James Marsters' role as Milton Fine, aka Brainiac: "We know that there was basically going to be something big in that ship," Al Gough told CFQ's Ed Gross. "The ship opens and Kryptonians come out, but they aren't the major ongoing threat. Brainiac comes out of the ship and takes human form, like in Terminator 2, and he's a being of artificial intelligence. He basically takes the guise of Dr. Milton Fine, a college professor who ends up teaching Clark. We call this the grand seduction of Clark Kent, where Brainiac is trying to turn Clark against humanity in general, and Lex Luthor in particular. He basically wants Clark to see that Krypton was better than Earth and that, basically, he's got the making here for a new society. Unlike Jor-El, whose intentions become clear in the season opener, Brainiac has a much more nefarious plan and he uses Lex in it."
  • And some hints from Gough on the behavior of young Arthur Curry in "Aqua:" "He is determined to save the oceans and Lex is doing something nefarious involving a defense contract. In a weird way, Arthur is probably two feet from being an eco-terrorist and Clark has to sort of real him back in terms of what he's willing to do."
  • "Aquaman is sort of the opposite of the Flash," Gough notes. "The Flash was a guy having fun and Aquaman is too extreme and needs to be pulled back."
  • James Marsters is looking forward to his character's psychological seduction of Clark. "I don't have to beat Clark at all," he offers. "It's very important I talk him into joining me. It's always a more interesting thing to watch. Frankly, there's a lot of ammunition on my side. Earth is a beautiful gem of a palnet and there aren't a lot like it around. But there's just one problem: human beings, who are ruining both the atmosphere and the topsoil at an alarming rate and there's no way we're going to be here in 10,000 years. There's nothing in human history that suggests the bare hint that we are about to make the moral leap into behaving the way the philosophers have been asking us to over the years. So the best thing to do, both for Kryptonians and Earth as far as Brainiac is concerned, is to eradicate these stupid, barbaric failures of evolution. His feeling is to just get rid of these humans and let's have a new Krypton, and he wants to use Clark as a tool to achieve his goals."

The magazine also includes many more quotes from Gough and Millar, and some sidebars, such as a look at Jor-El's intentions. The latest issue of CFQ should be hitting newsstands now.

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