{"id":3780,"date":"2011-05-28T01:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2011-05-28T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T05:07:15","slug":"brian-peterson-on-why-we-didnt-see-tom-welling-in-the-superman-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/brian-peterson-on-why-we-didnt-see-tom-welling-in-the-superman-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Peterson On Why We Didn&#8217;t See Tom Welling In The Superman Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After  ten years of waiting we never got a full shot of Tom Welling in the  Superman suit. Smallville Producer Brian Peterson explained their  reasoning behind the decision.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.comicbookmovie.com\/images\/users\/uploads\/22178\/smallville_banner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smallville ended a couple weeks ago and a lot of people were unhappy  that we didn&#8217;t get to see Tom Welling in the Superman suit, show  producer Brian Peterson talked with The Hollywood Reporter about their  decision to keep Welling out of the full costume.<\/p>\n<p>Said Peterson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cWhat we wanted to do all along was show hints at  where he was going because that is a whole different story that is yet  to be told. It felt like it gave just enough without starting to tell a  whole different story that is left for all the other media.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peterson also went on to say that Smallville has always been about  Clark becoming the hero from the famed mythos and that  Superman stories  and will continue to be told through other places like next years Man  of Steel.<\/p>\n<p>Also Adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201c[Showing Tom in the full suit] to me is just not  super relevant and not what we were trying to do. We were actually  thrilled that everybody came together and was on board with the shots  that we specifically picked. We all wanted it to be the end of Clark  Kent\u2019s journey because it\u2019s a show about Clark Kent. In the days when we  saw him in a flannel shirt, the suit was the furthest thing from his  mind.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you guys think was you satisfied with the way the show  ended? Or are you upset that Welling never actually put on the suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After ten years of waiting we never got a full shot of Tom Welling in the Superman suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}