*head-desk*

[serafina20]

really After all these years (what, 11? 12?), people still don't get this:

While it's not crazy to see a 24-year-old play 18, Tom Welling was supposed to be playing a 14-year-old version of Clark Kent when Smallville made its 2001 debut. That first episode becomes particularly absurd when the 6-foot, 3-inch Welling openly worries about starting his freshman year of high school.

Clark Kent wasn't just a 15* year old high school freshman. He was Superman as a 15 year old high school freshman. It made sense for him to look like a twenty-something (or late teens) because, well. He's supposed to be bigger/strong/etc. than everyone else because he's an alien. I always thought that was part of the point.


*I know it was retconned, but COTW canon will always supersede actual canon.

Comments

[firefox1490.livejournal.com]

LMFAO actually I always assumed that in the show his parents guessed his age wrong by a few years because well he couldn't speak English nor know how to interact with other children. I always figured they simply had him start school late having to relearn all the things children normally learn between the ages of 1-4, so when he started kindergarten/first grade instead of being like 6 or something he was really 8 or 9. Hence when Lex meets him Lex thinks he about 18 minimum not the 14/15 year old freshman he's pretending to be.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with that idea, too. I think that's actually what I did in COTW, too. But just flat out saying Tom Welling was too old to believably be Clark as a freshman is stupid.

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

Everyone was 16 in their freshman year in this reality. I mean, why not? It's not a documentary. It's fiction. If the creators wanted everyone to start kindergarten at 7 and thus be 16 their freshman year, why not? (And I seem to recall an interview in which either Al or Miles admitted that they didn't know that freshmen weren't 16).

Then a time warp hit Smallville and kept everyone from aging for three years. So Clark was 16 for Seasons 1, 2, and 3, and then the time warp ended and he went on to be 17 just in time for Season 4.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Even Lana being an older freshman made perfect sense because of the trauma she went through. Besides it being fiction, there were so many reasonable explanations for in text for everyone being slightly older. I never got the retcon.

[sam-gamgee.livejournal.com]

*I know it was retconned, but COTW canon will always supersede actual canon.

Of course it does, because COTW is much more awesome. :-P

(And I'm still hoping that one day you'll add more to that 'verse. :-) )