Meet Smallville’s Speedy

Elise Gatien on Smallville

Green Arrow will be getting a sidekick on this season of Smallville and we now know the actress who will be playing the part. Elise Gatien (In the Land of Women) will be Mia/Speedy, a street urchin who Oliver (Justin Hartley) will train to be his bow-and-arrow-toting partner in the fight against crime.

I think my version of the synopsis sounded pretty good, but you’ll probably want to check out this official statement from the CW anyway:

OLIVER TAKES DC COMICS’ CHARACTER SPEEDY UNDER HIS WING — Oliver tries to help a young street girl, Mia AKA Speedy (guest star Elise Gatien), get out of her dangerous life by offering to train her, but Mia double crosses him. Lois asks Clark to help her land a job as an on-air television host, but the two are shocked when the station wants to hire them as a team.

Allison Mack, Cassidy Freeman and Callum Blue also star. Posted on KryptonSite. Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Holly Henderson and Don Whitehead.

Speedy

If you’re wondering which episode you need to tune into to catch the lovely creature pictured up top, Gatien will guest-star on Smallville season 9’s sixth episode, entitled “Crossfire”. The episode is scheduled to air (by my count) on October 23, 2009 @ 8pm on the CW.

What do you think of Smallville’s Speedy? Does she meet your standards?

Source: The CW

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Russ

but she was the second speedy. there was one before her

Russ

yeah. speedy was a boy

ssf

@ Tasouli- I noticed him looking at Lana in that episode as well, but it seemed like it was more a symbolic goodbye-he put her picture in a scrapbook and closed it. I get the sense the Lana thing is officially in the past.

WyGee

The actress looks hot! But that's not the point!

First Impulse and Cyborg, now Speedy and Stargirl! Please, these guys (and girls) should still be in their diapers at this point in Smallville.

Also, not to mention the fact that the first Speedy was a guy! They're just introducing her because of her HIV status.

Foopher

Vin, to back up your theory, Speedy was a boy on Teen Titans anyway. And "he" did look like Robin.

tasouli

So far the season has been MUCH better than the last two. I hope they keep Clark in that suit and I like all the new characters that have been coming in. I wouldnt go as far as to say that this season is spectacular by any means. But it sure has improved. I still do not by into Lois and clark's chemistry, especially since they keep throwing in signs of Clark's feelings towards Lana (last episode he was looking at a picture of her)
At some point I would like to hear something about Lex and if they could get Michael Rosenbaum to come at some point in the season and team up with a fully powered General Zod, that could save the franchise and end it on a positive note. So far the Metallo episode was great, teh suit looks really good, and the guy playing Zod is perfect. For the first time in years I am being optimistic about Smallville's future