New TV Guide interview with Smallville executive producer, Brian Peterson! I hate to sound like a broken record peeps, but this season ROCKS!

Before Smallville flies off until 2010 tonight—in an amazing episode, no less—here is the second part of our exclusive Q&A with exec producer Brian Peterson about what and who is coming up after the holidays. Here’s hoping this helps make the wait for new episode a little more bearable. And for more on Smallville, check out TV Guide Magazine.

OK, so “Society” sounds huge!
It is. We have Michael Shanks playing Hawkman [and] he is perfect. It is one of the most exciting things we have done in the nine years we have been on.

Tell me everything.
We have an enormous [episode]. Geoff Johns is writing the big Justice Society of America episode for us, and when we got into it, we realized that is so much bigger than just one episode. We have basically turned it into a mini-movie. And from the footage that is coming in, it looks as good if not better than any hero movie that has been out in the last two years.

How do you introduce them?
We wanted to make their entrance into the series relevant, so they show up in a time when our fledgling League, that has not named itself or coalesced into anything, is having a few growing pains. So they are coming in to teach all of our heroes a lesson about family and leadership from the mistakes of their own past.

They’re from the future?
They are actually from the past. When we meet them they have been underground and are an older generation of heroes that Clark and Chloe and our generation of heroes didn’t even know existed. They kind of come out of the woodwork and there are a few sparks between our characters and the JSA members at the beginning of the [story].

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