Smallville: Why the Spin-Off Failed

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  • @deadfIag
    @deadfIag ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Michael Rosenbaum is the best Lex Luthor to date, Smallville hit the nail on the head with that one.

    • @the_filthy_macgyver
      @the_filthy_macgyver ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Definitely

    • @EthanSnyman
      @EthanSnyman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Okay. It's Michael Rosenbaum wants it,
      he'd gots it from his head. Are on with
      Both, Zack Snyder's Justice League, or
      the same of DC in Aventure Infinity War

  • @moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115
    @moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love your videos! Comedy and information. It's just a great combination!

    • @MrVariant
      @MrVariant ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh sure lol Smallville fits in with sexy small town shows at the time. Can't blame Evil Allison Mack for the aquaman fail but hopefully she turns a new leaf given comic book short term jail lol though there's all sorts of reports for when or if she was already released.
      3:25 AC lol and I thought Welling not being superman and stuck in Smallville Steve Urkel style was ridiculous.

  • @candidgamera
    @candidgamera ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Smallville had so many heartbreaking close calls for me, a long time DC comics reader. It was always almost, but not quite, great.

    • @Fla5thgenTryMe
      @Fla5thgenTryMe ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly but it holds up. It's better then anything on tv now.

    • @michaelsasylum
      @michaelsasylum ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was intentional. WB behaved like they had greater plans for Smallville and were waiting for certain benchmarks like enough seasons for a high priced box set and merch, which didn't do so well, before rolling out an expanded universe. CW showed right from the beginning how doomed they were as there was a lot of potential to keep it going. CW's Arrowverse started off OK, but devolved rapidly and imploding in grand fashion resulting in CW having to be sold for $0. Smallville did cover enough bases to keep it good throughout and even had Christopher Reeve's stamp of approval.

  • @NottyGurlStyle
    @NottyGurlStyle ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love Smallville and was hyped for he Aquaman spin off.. When the switch happened with the actors I was so confused as to what happened.. it’s amazing how things going on in the background that we don’t see or know until videos like this come about.
    I’m just glad everything worked out for the actors and that were able to continue to do well in other shows

  • @teddyfurstman1997
    @teddyfurstman1997 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I watched Smallville a lot when It was on The WB and CW It was a fresh take on Superman and the DC Universe at the time alongside the DCAU Animated shows.
    Do more Videos on The WB and UPN Shows.

  • @marla591
    @marla591 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been saving this video to "open" on Christmas day. Thank you for this vid and hope you have a happy holiday season!

  • @ivanburden4658
    @ivanburden4658 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    With the flash ending soon, a back door pilots of the arrowverse might be an interesting video.

    • @marlonclark1896
      @marlonclark1896 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arrowverse spinoffs i would like:
      a kid flash spinoff
      a Roy harper spinoff
      a john Diggle spinoff
      a cisco Ramone spinoff

  • @ebartow66highlights
    @ebartow66highlights ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another masterpiece, Kevin! Keep it up!

    • @KevinGeeksOut
      @KevinGeeksOut ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks, I narrated the script that was written by Nick Nadel and Emily Menez. Plus it's edited by Frank Reynolds. And our EP, Tim Finn. We've got a great time.

    • @makaihuddleston3164
      @makaihuddleston3164 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KevinGeeksOut bro your voice is what makes me watch these videos😁

  • @anthonycerulli1423
    @anthonycerulli1423 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love your videos!

  • @marlandbell
    @marlandbell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fox crane from passions was EVERYTHING

  • @NeoN-PeoN
    @NeoN-PeoN 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How the hell did you not mention Thad Castle. That was CLEARLY Ritchson's breakout role.

  • @danielmontiel5876
    @danielmontiel5876 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who owns the complete series of Smallville there are only two episodes i enjoy watching over and over and those are the 2 Parter of season 9 " Absolute Justice " But it also has the Aquaman pilot and I Love it even tho Justine Hartly Played a real sexy green arrow he could've made aquaman a hit

  • @ericjefferson6249
    @ericjefferson6249 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was impressed by their slick incorporation of the waterball power from the old Aquaman cartoon!

  • @KitsuneAdorable
    @KitsuneAdorable ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It kinda has Baywatch Nights kinda feel to it. Very 90s cheesiness look to it.

  • @kenefdz
    @kenefdz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Alan Ritchson was hilarious in the Blue Mountain State series. He can pull off comedy, no doubt of it.

    • @President_Mario
      @President_Mario ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm surprised he didn't mention it.

  • @michaelbenn4912
    @michaelbenn4912 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Aquaman TV show was the number one watched pilot at one time..

  • @snramadhan
    @snramadhan ปีที่แล้ว

    such an underrated channel 👏👏

  • @Dimensioneer88
    @Dimensioneer88 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't know if you're still reviewing failed pilots but I have dubbed Marvel's What If series as "Backdoor Pilot, the Series" since the Marvel Zombies episode inspired a series. Also, a StarLord T'Challa series was planned but put in limbo after Chadwick's death.

    • @atomicabe
      @atomicabe  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, still doing backdoor pilot videos -- new one coming soon. And that's an excellent point about WHAT IF. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • @thebettingpublicsportsshow
    @thebettingpublicsportsshow ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ving Rhames never came off as the type to play the "old black sage" that a lot of movies and tv shows have

    • @johnpenguinthe3rd13
      @johnpenguinthe3rd13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      From what I've seen, I'm 100% certain that if this Aquaman series had continued, a plot twist would have occurred where the Ving Rhames character would have been revealed to be Black Manta, the # 1 Aquaman arch-nemesis. There were several clues that he's really Black Manta (the harpon gun that's seen in the Aquaman pilot being a prime example since that's Black Manta's weapon in the comics). So he's actually pretending to be a friendly sage type character in this first (and only) episode pilot... but he's really the main villain who is manipulating the hero and waiting for the right time to strike.

    • @dougvanminnen7537
      @dougvanminnen7537 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnpenguinthe3rd13 That makes sense actually, much like Clark Kent's relationship with Lex Luther in the beginning of the Smallville series.

  • @NostalgiNorden
    @NostalgiNorden ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good vid!

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The producers actually pitched a Bruce Wayne series. But Warner wanted to keep the Batman IP a film thing. The pilot made $ from the early days of paid downloads.

  • @dougvanminnen7537
    @dougvanminnen7537 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember watching the Aquaman Pilot, I can understand why it didn't work out. Also at the time Aquaman was not taken seriously as a superhero unlike Batman or the Flash, so that didn't help either.

  • @Attmay
    @Attmay ปีที่แล้ว

    A show with Tom Welling and Alan Ritchson ought to have a costume budget of zero dollars and zero cents. Then I would watch.

  • @rodmoore1577
    @rodmoore1577 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have the pilot on DVD

  • @FrenkTheJoy
    @FrenkTheJoy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine tuning in to "Tempest Key" expecting a Laguna Beach ripoff and it turns out to be a Teen Aquaman show.

  • @DuckAvenger
    @DuckAvenger ปีที่แล้ว

    At first I thought this said why Smallville failed I was like bs. Then I saw Aquaman and I was like there was an Aquaman show?!

  • @r.jackson7162
    @r.jackson7162 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nerd Alert: Aquaman used the water balls in the 1967 cartoon.

  • @EthanSnyman
    @EthanSnyman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Besides, there's a little bit of Changes to
    Avenger Infinity War, what I'm just thinks
    about DC Justice League? Of their Film:
    Is also, of Zack Snyder's Justice League too.

    • @EthanSnyman
      @EthanSnyman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But was it. Isn't it, about a Aventure
      Infinity War, as for sure it's rather it.
      First DC's Arrowverse, what Justice
      League for the Wave-Defenters were?

  • @hooligansgarage2883
    @hooligansgarage2883 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wasn’t Hartley Green Arrow in the Smallville series?

  • @thecytoniuschannel1052
    @thecytoniuschannel1052 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you do a video on the Dawson's Creek spin off

  • @phillybul30
    @phillybul30 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yo never knew he was on America Idol and did this man ever not workout?

  • @CyclopsWasRight616
    @CyclopsWasRight616 ปีที่แล้ว

    Smallville had its upsides and its downsides. Jimmy Olsen was Doomsday. Like, the big thing that killed Superman in the comics, Doomsday

  • @Kimoneeeeee
    @Kimoneeeeee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Smallville is the best

  • @brianjones7907
    @brianjones7907 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Justin Hartley has also gone on to voice both Batman & Superman in two cartoon projects..

  • @boomer2095
    @boomer2095 ปีที่แล้ว

    OMG -- JACK REACHER !!

  • @mandocalrissian4968
    @mandocalrissian4968 ปีที่แล้ว

    It didn’t work bc he was The Green Arrow in Smallville and both Were in the same Universe

  • @clintcountryman4849
    @clintcountryman4849 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tom Welling is so handsome

  • @PShawtx
    @PShawtx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    never said why it did not work.

  • @thecatwrangler9448
    @thecatwrangler9448 ปีที่แล้ว

    You need to do a failed super hero pilot episode

  • @LukeC2192
    @LukeC2192 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never could get into Smallville and the AC spinoff seems like it would have been boring.

  • @MrBeGood
    @MrBeGood 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    CHALLENGE: Try to spot the melanated people 😆. WOW, early 00's TV huh?

  • @gebronthomasson6960
    @gebronthomasson6960 ปีที่แล้ว

    Surprised you didn’t call the Aqua-man casting racist…since they didn’t use REAL Atlanteans …

  • @the_filthy_macgyver
    @the_filthy_macgyver ปีที่แล้ว

    Couldn't stand Lana.

  • @Fla5thgenTryMe
    @Fla5thgenTryMe ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Easy answer aqua man c tier at best.

    • @rodmoore1577
      @rodmoore1577 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have the pilot on DVD. It was pretty good

    • @Aster_Risk
      @Aster_Risk ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think Aquaman could be really cool under the right circumstances. I love Jason, but even his version doesn't feel right.

  • @voiceofreason1629
    @voiceofreason1629 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can answer this, it's because Aquaman sucks!

  • @sleepintight
    @sleepintight ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel ❤

  • @gelatinskeleton8745
    @gelatinskeleton8745 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aquaman is a lame character.