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Linda B.

While we’re usually on this same page, on your Tom Welling point I gotta disagree. For the rest of his career, he’s going to be branded as Clark/Superman. He might as well milk this sucker for every dollar it’s worth. It’s not like his film career’s taken flight? And take a look at how Dean Cain is doing.

All these actors who are so keen on jumping ship should talk to some colleagues who’ve done the same…and never been heard from again. If you’ve got a show that keeps your face in front of millions each week, why throw it away for the “hope” that your career will just skyrocket afterward? It ain’t that easy to get good parts, folks. Stay with your series thru its natural conclusion.

Allison Mack has been the only good thing in Smallville for years! Maybe next year could be the Justice League season? How is the show even going to explain all of these exits? Lex, Lana and Chole all dying is some freak accident? Knowing this show, Clark will probably forget they all exist within a few episodes.

They should put a fork in it Smallville is done. I can’t even imagine how next season would be without Lex and Chloe. Chloe is my favorite character on the show and if she wasn’t there tonight someone would be a dead duck right about now.

The CW/WB are complete idiots if they think Smallville will succeed without Allison Mack’s Chloe.

She’s given them credibility & is their most popular heroine & critically acclaimed actress.

What a way to crap out the show for longtime fans.

BOOOOOOO! Pay Allison what she deserves & respect the status she’s earned on the show!!

She’s worth every single penny. If they don’t get her back I hope the whole show crumbles in a few. The show can’t take losing Chloe at the same time it loses Lex.

Let me get this straight. Nobody said anything about Micheal and Kristin fighting for every penny even though in the last few seasons their characters have practically been non-existent, yet Allison should not fight for what she’s worth even though she’s been the shows female lead without the title since at least season 5?

This article is crap and an insult to Allison.

Dear ‘what?’

I’m all for actors and actresses fighting for what they believe they’re worth. I just think that holding the network hostage and negotiating in the press (ie, leaking the news to Michael Ausiello) is not the right approach, because let’s face it, CW/WB has a track record of letting people go over money. See: Amy Sherman Palladino.

Yes, I’d like to know where you get the idea that Allison’s people would leak this story. The article suggests she is using KK and MR’s exits from the show as leverage. That doesn’t sound like the spin her representatives would have on it. They’d be focusing on how they aren’t treating AM fairly given how long she has been on the show, how much she contributes to it and how she hasn’t ever been treated well by the CW especially how she was one of a handful of full time castmembers from their shows who were not invited to do their image campaign to launch the network. Everyone on the much less successful VM was invited to participate. That really stuck out when it happened.

The CW has never treated AM well and I hope she get them to pay her what she’s worth which is a lot.

Well, if the CW was smart they would pay her what she deserves. She has been on the show since the begining and then need to give her what she wants. I think it would be a big mistake not to keep AM as CHloe.

If Chloe is gone I am gone, so Please pay her what she wants and listen to the fans this time!!!!!!!!

Allison Mack is a real treasure and the character she portrays has been there from the start. AM hasn’t leaked anything that I can see; rather she has been keeping mum throughout this and I think she deserves to be treated right. It’s an actor’s perogative to ask for the money or place in the credits or whatever if they feel they deserve it. MR has refused to return and it was due to both other interests and money so where are those complaints?

Truth is, without Chloe and with no possibility of a real honest relationship between Clark and Chloe, which should have happened long ago before we had to suffer through seven years of nauseating Clana with zero or even retro-growth for the supposed hero while he fixates on the Lana the kidnapper and torturer. Lately, episodes making no sense at all with characters being retconned into something they aren’t like ED’s Not-Lois suddenly being shoved down our throats as Clark’s good friend and real reporter when she has never been either of those thingsl is just crap and I don’t want to watch any more if this is the pathetic payoff we get after seven years.

The CW is lucky to have TW, MR AND Lex and if they squander that then it’s their loss. THey should divest themselves of usless characters in whom most fans are not interested and stick with the basics that have gotten them to year seven. The core four, Clark, Lex, Lana and Chloe are the characters we need to see finish the show and without them, or the payoff with Clark seeing Lana for what she really is and finally flying back to Chloe as he soars to become Superman, this show has wasted too many years of my viewing life.

I would rather have MR back than AM. MR has made Lex an interesting character in the past 7 seasons. The Kents Vs Luthors is the core of Smallville . But Chloe knowing Clark’s secret is only digressing Clark’s character. Until S4 where Clark was able to handle all his issues by himself suddenly has to run to Chloe for everything. No thanks.

If the CW doesn’t want to pay Allison Mack what she deserves, she’s better off. She’d be doing Smallville a favor by doing Season 8, NOT the other way around. She’s beautiful and talented, and for those of you who are comparing her to Mischa Barton and Dean Cain, take into consideration that she’s been a successful actress since she was in *preschool*. She did fine before Smallville, she’ll do fine after it.

I sincerely hope the CW did leak details to the press, if their intention was to see how fans would react, cos the majority of comments are telling them that SV won’t last 8 episodes without Allison Mack. They are already losing a huge fanbase with Lex’s exit. I love Tom Welling, but people don’t really care about the comics kids who appear in every other episode and joined the show a few years ago. No Chloe, no me!

I am not sure how you can read the article from Michael Ausiello and get the impression that Allison Mack’s agents leaked the story. The “sources” said “Allison’s camp used Michael leaving as leverage in the negotiations with [Warner Bros.]…They need Chloe now more than ever — and Allison’s people know it.” It also says Ms. Mack’s reps declines to comment on the article. So, from that, how did you possible come to the conclusion that Ms. Mack’s reps are leaking a story that is make sher look like a greedy, money grubbing opportunist? Please enlighten me, becasue I am not seeing it.

Now, this is not to saw Ms. Mack is not pushing for more money, the formal position of female lead, a better place in the credits, or the chance to direct (which she was scheduled to have before the writers’ strike). For all intensive purposede, Ms. Mack has shared the (uncredited) role of female lead with Kristin Keruk for the past 2-3 years. She has had more screen time than anyone except Tom Welling for the past two years. In my opinion, she is entitled to try for a good deal, especially if the new showrunners want to promote another actress (Like Lois Lane / Erica Durance) above her this late in the show’s run.

Frankly, I’d be surprised if Mack returns. Because, let’s face it, the CW is a broke network that pours its money into Dawn Ostroff’s new vision of “Lifetime for teens.” Smallville is barely getting a budget as it is - just watch how the special effects degrade despite having better technology as the years go by. While I may not necessarily like how everyone except for Welling, Durance, Ashmore, and Vandervoort is leaving; it does create more opportunities to explore more special effects-laden storylines, like a possible continuation of the Justice League. And I think everyone agrees that last season’s Justice was a high point for the entire series.

I know that plenty of people want Rosenbaum back more than Mack (I happen to fall within this group), but it was his choice not to come back. Unless he’s offered an obscene amount of money, he’s not coming back. But, luckily, the writers were able to develop his character into the iconic Lex Luthor that we all love to hate, so I’m not so worried about him. More focus on the growth of Clark into Superman, that’s what we really need.

And while I agree that Mack is a good actress, the character of Chloe is getting extremely worn out. It seems now that her main purpose on the show is to provide exposition and to think for Clark, preventing him from using his “genius intellect” (yes, Superman has that). I want more scenes like that last Clark scene in Apocalypse, when he was actually looking up stuff on the computer himself. He is supposed to become an award-winning journalist, and unfortunately Chloe has ultimately prevented him from doing so.

I’m not saying that Chloe can’t be written well - season 4 is my favorite season because of the Chlo-Lo and the great characterizations of pretty much all the characters (please, disregard the entire witches/stones arc that dragged the season down). But the mean/jealous/fronting Chloe is not an enjoyable character, and, IMO, is bringing the show down.

Is anyone else thinking “Bitch, please” at AM and her team? Because if fans and the writers should fight for ANYONE to come back, it would be Lex Luthor/Michael Rosenbaum and Lana/Kristin Kreuk.

She’s utterly replaceable. Just have Jimmy teach Clark how to do that “magik hacking”, or better yet, don’t because then I’d be bored with Clark too.

Frankly I’m tired of that characer and the actress is pitiful. She’s always arrogantly lecturing Clark or doing unbelievable hacking into Homeland Security. She had no business taking away Lex Luthor’s screen time either.

When the dust settles, they should re-approach Michael for guest star episodes. Let this joke of a character go.

with no allison mack, there is no smallville. period. maybe they should just call it quits. Or do like a 5 part episode series which caps off smallville, i konw it would be good to see it go out with a bang

” it looks like the CW putting out a feel on how fans would react to her exit. Let me tell yah, its not pretty. Nobody wants to see a show about Nois and Clark or not the old school fans that have stuck with it from the beginning.”

I think it’s the CW too, & from what I gather it’s not about money, but Allison’s position on the show. GO ALLISON! She deserves top billing & she’s one of the major reasons Smallville became a success. I have NO interest in watching bimbo Nois & Clark show.

AM has made watching Smallville a pleasure. Thank you, Allison, for bringing Chloe Sullivan to life! Hopefully, the CW does not bring about her premature death.

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