Lesley Goldberg with The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Smallville executive producers about the “great debate” on the Superman tights and cape in the show’s “Finale.”

I added a few excerpts from the article below:

“That is a great debate that’s going on,” Souders coyly told The Hollywood Reporter.

“What we wanted to do all along was show hints at where he was going because that is a whole different story that is yet to be told,” Peterson told THR. “It felt like it gave just enough without starting to tell a whole different story that is left for all the other media.’

Peterson, who penned Part 2 of the finale with Souders, noted that the series has always been about Clark becoming the hero from the famed mythos and that the adventures of Superman were stories that have been — and will continue to be told — via other avenues, including Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Man of Steel, set for next year. “[Showing Tom in the full suit] to me is just not super relevant and not what we were trying to do,” he said.

Read the entire article at THR here.