Smallville Producer Reveals Big Plans for Chloe

TV Guide – As one of the executive producers of Smallville, Brian Peterson has had to deal with everything from angsty superheroes to exploding planets to a legion of other well-known DC Comics characters—like this week’s guests, Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna. And now, he’s dealing with our geeking out. In the first half of an exclusive interview, Peterson opens up about what’s coming up for Clark and company. TVGuideMagazine.com powers, activate!

First off, I cannot believe you have the Wonder Twins this week!
The Wonder Twins are really fantastic! They are so fun, the way we have them is really fun, because we don’t overburden the whole show with them. They’re just perfect in it.

And last week, news broke that you have Serinda Swan coming back as Zatanna…
Yes, we are really excited about that. She’s coming back in an episode called “Warrior,” about Warrior Angel and that is a very Chloe-centric episode. It’s a great light spot in a kind of very heavy [storyline] run for us. It’s going to happen in the Winter.

Speaking of Chloe…
Chloe has been and always will be the lynchpin in Clark’s arc, I would say. What we’ve talked about in the writer’s room, is that for anyone who has been in the highs and lows of love over the course of their lives, there are a lot of different kinds of love. And we really see Chloe as the Mary Magdalene to Clark’s Christ. She may not have romance now, she may not have romance in the future, but how she loves him and the way she helps him grow as a character is paramount to him becoming Superman. And that is never going to change.

Some would say she’s been underused this season.
As for her role this year, she has stepped out of the sidekick shadows and she has owned Watchtower and she is taking it upon herself while Clark is busy with Kandorians and Lois and being the Blur. She’s started to create the fledgling group that will eventually become the Justice League. So she’s basically in some ways running the show behind the scenes.

I think that’s the problem…she’s in the background.
And we will start to unveil more and more of that as the season progresses. Chloe is a huge part of the back section of the season.

Now, what about these sparks we saw between Chloe and Oliver at the end of “Roulette”?
The great thing about Chloe and Oliver is that they are oddly in similar places because they have both been through the wringer. They have both been damaged, they aren’t superhuman and yet they’re trying to be heroes in their own right. They have so much to bond over that I think the sparks just come naturally out of their characters and what they have been through the last couple of seasons.

That would be a hot pairing!
I can say this, this is something you can drop that I don’t think we have said anywhere else : There will be a relationship for Chloe in the near future.

It’s Tess’ tech boy, Stuart, isn’t it?
I can’t say, but there will be a relationship for her in the near future.

He’s so her match!
Yeah, they were great together. All I can say is she will have a relationship.

And it won’t end with anyone having a pipe through their chest?
[Laughs] Oh…you had to go there?