Smallville fans pretty much know and accept that Superman will not making an appearence in Smallville anytime soon. The producers of Smallville have stated since the beginning that the series is about Clark, and Clark alone. None-the-less, as the series progresses forward and Clark, and Tom Welling, age, and the milestones drift by (the death of Clark's father), the question of when Superman will appear on Smallville continues to be asked. In an October 4th article in the Seattle Times, Tom Welling again put the question of Superman in Smallville to bed, one more time: "This show will always be about Clark Kent. The transition to Superman is so catastrophic that it's a whole new show once he starts flying around." Welling said. Regardless of this, it seems that without the man in tights making an appearance on Smallville , the show may be just counting down to its own finale, right? Wrong. Smallville has already taken many liberties with the Superman universe, casting most of its characters as near-by residents to Smallville and often times, (like Lex Luthor), blurring and re-imagining the relationship to the, uh, teen-age/young man of steel. It's a course the producers and writers of Smallville don't intend to change. So if you're still waiting for Clark to become Superman, it might be good to accept that in the alternate universe of Smallville, Superman may never take flight.