As with a few other videos we ran lately, we talked to Freeman on the red carpet at the SyFy/Entertainment Weekly party at Comic Con, where we did literally 35 interviews in a couple hours. Freeman gave us some great hints for the ninth season of Smallville, which starts tonight.

So if Lex does come back, Freeman isn't sure if they'd have a love connection or a brother-sister bond... but most likely, she thinks they'd fight it out. And as for Ollie, her relationship with him will keep on being back and forth... Ollie will rekindle some feelings for Lois Lane. But Ollie's connection with Tess is still there. And she is going to play a little "match of the minds" with Zod (Callum Blue). But sadly, she doesn't get to have any scenes with Brian Austin Green, who plays Metallo.

But the biggest question is — who will Tess find romance with? Ollie? Lex? Or maybe Lois, Freeman suggests. Yes — we endorse that last idea. Let Clark pout from the sidelines: We'll be Lois/Tess shippers.

Laura Vandervoort sounded sad to leave Smallville behind, but revealed that she would be back for one episode in the 8th season to tie up some loose ends for her character.

Vandervoort also showed her fan-girl side, when talking about her favorite memory from working on Smallville. Apparently going toe-to-toe with the cheekbones of James Marsters (who played the evil Brainiac) was the highlight of her Smallville career, because she was such a huge Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan. At a young age, Vandervoort wrote to Buffy creator Joss Whedon asking to be on the show, which he remembered when she auditioned for him later.

The Supergirl spin off series simply "didn't work out," according to Vandervoort. I'm curious as to why. She's gorgeous, and I tend to think there's a market out there for scantily clad superheroines. I think they should revisit this idea, with a 2 hour TV movie instead of a series. [The TV Addict]