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Party Like It's Your 100th Birthday!
Fri January 27th 2006 @ 2:00AM - James - Tom Welling - 2 Comments
Which means you probably won't really party all that much, but still. Do what you can. If nothing else I'm sure we can all join Tom in raising our water glasses ...
A few hours ago I made a post about tonight's big 100th episode of Smallville, 'Reckoning', where you can go to discuss the episode, spoilers and all. Whether you liked the episode, absolutely loved it, or even loathed it, that's the location to be at. This, on the other hand, is party central! Even if the episode turned out to be a little underwhelming for you, this is still a milestone, and everyone has their story to tell about how they became a fan of both Tom, and the show. If the 100th episode isn't a good time for reminiscing, I don't know when is!
I'll start the ball rolling:
I'm incredibly sad and pathetic, and have nothing better to do than watch TV and surf the 'net. It was January 2002. The New Year was as uninviting as ever. And then something happened: I turned on Channel 4 and promptly became apoplectic: how dare they have started this brilliant new show ten minutes before I deigned to switch the TV on! I'd missed the beginning of the Pilot, and much sadness followed. But I got over it, and in April 2002 I wandered on to KryptonSite and Smallville News for the first time.
The world was such a different place, and the bestest, most amazingly wonderful and fantabuloso Tom Welling website (sorry, please smack me before I get too carried away with hyperbole) was as yet nowhere to be seen. Sometimes I slap myself for ever having started it to begin with ... but start it I did, in May 2002. And that's how we get to now. Smallville has been on the air for just over four years and three months, and TomWelling.org – in one form or another – has been along for the ride for three years and eight months. And I'm not done yet!
Comments
Fri January 27th 2006 @ 5:37AM GMT - D'Arcy - E-Mail
Tom Welling is the reason I started watching television again after a 2-3 year dry spell. I saw the commercial for the show, and being a comic book fan, thought it would be a cute thing to watch; I wanted to see what they had come up with, and hoped it wouldn't be overkill.
At the moment Tom looked up (on the commercial) I was hooked! You can ask any of my close friends and relatives ... you'd think I worked in the marketing and advertising department of the WB just for this show! I love it! A new spin on the "untold" story of Clark as a teen - not Superboy.
I used to look for info on a different web site until I saw a link for this one. This is the one to get up-to-date specifics and even "just becauses" - that's a true fan.
Thanks for all you do, and much luck to Tom in his career. I hope to see him in more things soon. Anything Tom-related, I'm down for.
Fri January 27th 2006 @ 4:31PM GMT - Erica
I am an "old" Superman fan, addicted to Sci-Fi and Fantasy, so when my son and I saw Smallville being promoted we decided to give it a go. We loved it from the start. I especially loved getting to see the "why's" of the Superman I'd always loved.
And right from the start, I was intrigued with this new young actor named Tom Welling. I have seen all the talk online about how he wasn't a great actor in the beginning, but I disagree. I felt that if he'd had more experience coming into this role, he would not have been able to sell the character, with all it's insecurities and immaturity, as well as he did.
My family never missed an episode until the network showing it here in Australia axed it half-way through Season 2! After weeks of trying to get answers, and then being told it wouldn't be coming back, I started going through major withdrawal. We purchased Season 1 on DVD and pestered every DVD site in Australia about when we could get Season 2! No luck. We finally got sick of waiting and headed to Amazon to buy them from overseas. By that time you could pre-order Season 3, which we did, and then last year we also got Season 4.
Now, thanks to the magic of the internet, we are able to keep up with the series. Even though it has started up again here in Australia, it is only up to Season 3.
It is also because of the internet that we were able to keep up with all that was happening with Tom Welling. I have been visiting TomWelling.org for a long, long time now and still find it the best place for up to date and interesting articles about all things Tom. Not to mention the great quirky attitude and sense of humour James has! Very entertaining. I also really appreciate the integrity he shows in what is posted and what is not.
I hope you will still be around hosting this site, James, when Tom is old and wrinkly. 