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The Trades and Movie Web.com interviewed Al Gough about the debut of Black Canary on tonight’s show, but give insight on the season.

Here the highlights from both interviews.

Can you explain in simple terms how the movie projects tie up the
television series, when the properties and medium are both owned by the same
corporation?

They just do. We’re just told that we can’t use that character. It’s a
corporate decision. Again, Greg Novack at DC is our biggest advocate, and we’ve
certainly run up the hill on both Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince, but haven’t had
any success so far. With Bruce Wayne, we won’t because of the movie franchise,
and that’s sort of an arbitrary corporate decision that we have no control
over.

Well listeners/commenters, were going to have accept the fact the future Batman and future Wonder Woman will not on the show.

Are there plans for any other recognizable characters in the future? The
Superman gallery of rogues is a little shallow, but there are still unused heavy
hitters like Darkseid or Mongul.

We’re always looking, and we’re always asking. There’s nothing I can reveal
at this point, but those things are always in process.

I’m glad they addressed in the interview, like Rob and I were talking about that they aren’t enough supervillians on the show to form The Legion of Doom.

Black Canary arrives this week and Green Arrow is back for the time being.
How much are we going to start seeing each character in the show, from this
point, through to the episode 15 cliffhanger, and beyond?

This season, due to the strike, there are only plans to have them in this
one episode. If we make episodes beyond the 15 you could potentially see them
more, but I think season 8 (fingers crossed, no guarantee) would be a more
likely place for their return.

Gough makes it sounds like season 8 isn’t gonna happen. Please let the reports of the stike ends next Friday are true.

Bizarro seemed to be destroyed by the Martian Manhunter in the season
opener, then he returned in Gemini.
It seems like he was destroyed again in Persona,
but with his record for returning, is there any chance that we might see more of
Bizarro this season?

There is ALWAYS a chance that this guy could show up….also, it didn’t
make the episode but was in the script for Persona,
Bizarro was released because of the eclipse that Zor-el started in episode 8.
With the sun blocked, he was able to escape…thought you might find that
interesting especially for you continuity junkies! See, regardless of what they
say about us on the boards, we DO actually think about this stuff…it just
doesn’t always make the episodes for various reasons.

Now that Brainiac has repaired itself, what does it plan to do next?

It’s original plan to summon Zod are obviously no longer on the table, so
what sort of trouble will we see it causing Clark in the future? Let’s just say
that Kara figures into that plan…..and he’s gonna take his game to a whole new
level.

Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, The Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg and now Black
Canary. We’ve seen a lot of Clark’s future Justice League allies show up during
the past few seasons. Who’s next?

If I told you that, then there wouldn’t be ANY surprises left! Stay tuned,
we have a few more up our sleeve….again, maybe not this season due to the
strike, but there’s always season 8 (fingers-crossed-no-guarantee disclaimer
still applies)

Green Lantern was mentioned by Steven DeKnight as a possibilty, but which direction would they take? Him just as the test pilot or him still learning how to use his power ring. Again Both of my fingers and toes are crossed that the rumors are true that will be one more season.

Last we saw of her, Kara was in Detroit, without her memories or her
powers, presumably as a result of Clark destroying her crystal in Blue.
When are we going to find out what’s happening with her?

That ball gets rolling in this week’s episode span >,
but really takes off in Episode 12,when you’ll get filled in on what the heck happened to her and how she gets back
to Smallville.

Good, Clark going to do something about it and I’m very glad that this amenesia crap is going to get cleared up early.

Are we ever going to see Jor-El? (Even through a flashback)?

Sorry, this
probably won’t ever happen…you’ll just have to use your
imagination (think
an older General Zod-ish circa Superman II
looking
fella)