SV: a comfortable place?

[PowerofFlight]

I am posting this at risk that somewhere, it might be construed as a duplicate? I try not to break rules, but when I offer my own opinion, it tends to be a thread on it's own. I am still not sure what it was that I allegedly "duplicated" in one of my threads. But anyway:

Smallville seems to me like a comfortable place to live. It's nothing like the 1938 or 1978 version. It's just over 45,000 people. A lot of them, very attractive and ethnically diverse.

The place is shot in shades of amber. Kind of a warm, and comfortable atmosphere. The infrastructure of the town seems like it has everything that Colorado Springs (pop 500,000) or maybe Atlanta , Georgia has on a smaller scale. It is NOT a typicial dustbowl farm town.

Anyway, I'd like to live in a place like that. Nice multicultural populace, and a place like the talon to relax. The Talon has more customers, and more attractive women than any starbucks I ever visited. I'd like a place like that.

Smallville high is much larger than my wee little town in Vermont. I had 30 in my graduating class. Smallville had probably 50 or 100. And many very good looking female students. Alas, Vermont was not like that. It was more attitude than attractive.

I think that SV is a place that pulls you in, and makes you want to be part of it.
I wish my hometown was like that. The biggest "city" in vermont has 36,000 people. That's 10K less than SV.

SV seems like a comfortable, and reasonably happening place to be.

Mods: I tried to find a thread that this was like, but it didn't mirror anything exactly. Feel free to move it.

[UpandAtom]

Smallville is a comfortable place if you discount the meteor freaks, homicidal maniacs, deadly meteors, and teen deaths.

[Coyote]

Yes, Smallville High had a lot of good looking female students. But the chance of making it out of there alive doesn't appear to be that great.

Smallville does give the appearance of being more of a shiny west coast suburb than a Kansas plains farm town. This is partly a consequence of the show being shot in a west coast suburban area instead of real Kansas. It's also a conscious choice of the producers, who remarked in one of the DVD commentaries that they wanted Smallville to influenced by encroaching Metropolis suburbia, instead of being a tiny isolated small town in the middle of nowhere. Apparently this is part of their attempt to modernize the Superman story.

[tw190]

Well, the reason Clark and Chloe came in contact with these meteor freaks is sorta because they went looking for them. Tracking them down, I can't name how many times they did that at the Torch.

If you were just a regular Smallville kid or person trying to lead a normal life, most of the time (excluding the meteor showers) it would be fine. That's what I think.

[UpandAtom]

Pretend you're Jenna Barnes from "Cool". You're gonna get back with your boyfriend. You don't think anything is wrong. Then.. WHAM! You're a block of ice.

[Clark's Angel]

Smallville might be a nice place to live, if you like little towns, but considering the two meteor showers, and the fact that half the high school age population has either died or is now residing at Belle Reeve, I think I'd have found a new town by now if I were a citizen of Smallville. However, Smallville is the home of the "Pretty People", so it might not be too horrible of a place after all. And Clark would always (hopefully) get to me in time before anything truly horrific happened. Maybe not such a bad place after all.

[chosenone76]

I agree that it's not really what my idea of a "small town in Kansas" would be like, but it does seem like a nice place to live, if only because of the beautiful people that live there. Hee. Really, though, I would not want to live there, like others have said before me, the chances of me surviving would be slim. I do not want to be a victim of a FoTW.

Clark would be too busy saving Lana, Chloe or Lois to bother much with me, I would think.

I would rather live in Metropolis. :D

[SuperVan]

The chances of making it through Smallville High alive are not very good.

[UpandAtom]

The only appealing thing about Smallville is that you might end up getting superpowers, althought you would end up going crazy after.

[PowerofFlight]

Smallville has:

- Attractive people

- A nice high school with sports programs

- An industrial complex (Lexcorp)

- A social center (both talon and smallville youth center)

- A lot of kryptonite that affects a lot of people.

But maybe it's the show. Seems like a nice place to be that is like a major city, but...smaller.

And like Poughkipsee, NY, it's countryside not far from the big city.

[KryptonX81]

If you forget all of the meteor freak stuff, Smallville is a great place to live

-everyone is attractive and friendly
-the community is very close knit
-everything that you could want is found in one of the small shops in the center of town. so you never really have to venture far out
-great town history
-everyone knows everyone else.

Maybe a town should be started like that. It would be a farming community, about 70 miles outside of New York city (that place is great for farming), big enough to house alot of people, yet small enough so most people know eachother. Im sure atleast one major company would be willing to put a facory in that area. The perfect thing uis, that there is alot of emptey unused land in that place too so it would be perfect to start a town.

There would have to be both commericail and residential zoning restrictions to insure that the town does not become overun and crowded (a problem that most small towns are facing. including my own). The town colors would be warm autum colors to promote the atmosphere and buisnesses would be encouraged to use those colors.

It would be the idyllic small town.

[Daddylion]

I'd be nice to stay at for maybe a few months but I'm a big city girl at heart, can't sleep if it's too quite outside. Feel weird if it's too dark out the window at night. Plus I've been living in a nice apartment all my life, it'd be weird having a house and the wholesomeness (or seemingly-wholesomeness) might just be the death of me.

I'd be tempted to stay if only to help chloe solve a smallvillian mystery though.

[KryptonStones]

I'd probably stay and investigate some of these..."meteor freaks." but this is due to my curiosity for the weird and bizzare. But it seems like a cool place to just chill out and stuff.

[LexLuthorMetropolis]

Personally, I'd prefer Metropolis.

[Mistryman]

Oh id love to live there. How cool would it be to be around such crazy events. And the metoer rocks lying in and around smallville would be cool, id so make a ring out of it like lex did. You never knw could have an accident and i would become a meteor freak. Naturally i would use my powers for good if they were powers. Help out clark now and then. Maybe impress chloe with them. :-P

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by PowerofFlight
Smallville has:

- Attractive people

- A nice high school with sports programs

- An industrial complex (Lexcorp)

- A social center (both talon and smallville youth center)

- A lot of kryptonite that affects a lot of people.

But maybe it's the show. Seems like a nice place to be that is like a major city, but...smaller.

And like Poughkipsee, NY, it's countryside not far from the big city.

I wouldn't call Poughkeepsie, NY a countryside. It's suburban, but not to the point where it could be considered countryside (at least to me--I associate farms and flatlands as countryside).

But Smallville would be nice to live in if all those FOTW's weren't out to kill people.

[Odysseus]

Smallville's Pros:

-A nice homey atmosphere

-An unbelievably high amount of ridiculously good-looking people (an unexpected side-effect of the meteor rocks perhaps? :cool: )

- A nice place to relax (the Talon)

The Cons:

-If I had kids I would NEVER want to send them to Smallville High, seeing as how half the student population there becomes meteor freaks and go homicidal, and the other half ends up being victimized by the meteor freaks and/or by the extremely aggressive football team and cheerleaders

-Knowing Lionel's and Lex's business practices, the LuthorCorp plant probably emits all kinds of unhealthy toxins.

-The town has been host to a tornado ("Tempest"), been pummeled by two meteor showers ("Pilot," "Commencement"), targeted for nuclear annihilation ("Hidden"), and even been ground zero for an alien invasion ("Arrival," "Vessel," and "Zod").

Yeeeah I think I'd rather live in downtown Metropolis lol. :D

[xrayvision]

Don't forget about all the Martha Kent gooey pie goodness. :)

[geoff2005]

lol no asians in smallville, all of them died or rarely seen. so i couldnt possibly exist in smallville