I knew it.

[burnunit]

We live in Metropolis, muthafuckas! Watching Smallville tonight, they had a shot of the "college stadium" where the Metropolis Bulldogs play. Ahhh Metropolis, my home sweet home. The shot looked an awful lot like this:



Not only that, they had scenes shot inside of a domed stadium... the seats were all blue. I wonder how many other "Metropolis" scenes in my favorite guilty pleasure show were shot here.

I do not overlook the delicious coincidence that the google search for metrodome images found this picture on the LEXpix.com website. It's all falling into place.

I also found this dude's post proposing, among other things, that they should put a Daily Planet on the top of 225 South 6th Street (unless he's talking about the shorter building in the foreground).

Comments

[433.livejournal.com]

It's just not big enough. Isn't Metropolis the third-biggest city in the DC United States?

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

I believe you may be correct. Does that make Gotham and Star City 1 & 2? Or ...?

Anyway, I'm skeptical to think it's "too small", if a 20 foot greenscreen is big enough for Coruscant, Minneapolis + CGI is probably plenty big. I'm just a big homer, a booster of our skyline.

[433.livejournal.com]

No, after New York City and LA. Remember, they exist now!

Actually, now that I think about it, it has been said that Metropolis and Gotham are the same size - they're just the light and dark sides of NYC.

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'd always assumed Gotham and Metropolis were just shades of New York. I hadn't noticed NYC & LA were real now. Seemed like it was easier to keep track of the universe when there was more than one earth...

[433.livejournal.com]

Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, and Jade live in NYC. Yeah, a big GL hangout.

[chipmunkninja.livejournal.com]

We were wondering what stadium that was.

A non-trivial percentage of the "Metropolis" shots are from Montreal, Quebec. I did some searching on the net, and it looks like the show is mostly filmed in Vancouver, but there was a bunch of stuff in Montreal back in the third season (whenever that was).

Smallville might best be summed up as:

- AWESOME idea for a show.
- some good acting (Michael Rosenbaum, Alison Mack)
- some terrible acting (Kristin Kreuk, I'm sorry).
- some terrible, terrible dialogue.

And yet we watch it more often than not ....

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more.

Yeah, I looked in IMDB and noticed a lot of Canada locations (Minneapolis was not mentioned on that site). I figured ground level Metropolis shots must have been Canada- it didn't look like a US city somehow.

Michael Rosenbaum's performances are what kept my wife and I interested in the first season. But I've also found Tom Welling to really grow on me. Some of the scenes he's done with Alison Mack have been first rate, like very subtle and mature. Every week I cheer for Lana to get in a horrible disfiguring accident, where she's so badly mutilated that they choose to replace Kristin Kreuk with a physically disabled actor rather than pay the expense of putting the original star in 11 hours of makeup everyday. She is appallingly bad. As is the dialogue. But I can't. tear. self. away. or. speak. at. normal. rate.

But how could you leave out John Glover?! LOVE John Glover. Loved him from way back. All the way back to the Brimstone days (of which I have come to believe I'm the only living fan).

Long ago I decided that the dialogue was an attempt to both thematically tie it to the awful Dawson's Creekizing trend of teen tv shows while also imitating the stilted conversational rhythms of Golden Age comics. I like Jeph Loeb's plotlines and story arcs, but he's no Bendis or Straczynski when it comes to unvarnished, mature dialogue.

And yet... it's on the schedule to tape, EVERY WEEk. I'm not ashamed anymore. I'm not alone!

[lokey.livejournal.com]

I was noticing the Metrodome shots myself. Funny.

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

I just wish they'd somehow gotten the LRT into the picture...

Ha!

[gesture23.livejournal.com]

I've participated in a religious viewing of Smallville with the same group of friends since the very first episode. I became immediately homesick upon "recognizing" Metropolis. My friends thought I was crazy. Thank you for validating me. *grin*

I'll miss this Wednesday's episode...I'll be in surgery. Say a prayer for me. xo -S

Re: Ha!

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

Hey! I got your earlier comment about a pre-surgery event-- which, regrettably, I'll be unable to attend., But goodness! What's happening?! Email me or something ASAP and give me info about your life (I'm just sure I emailed you a while back but I don't recall and I don't remember getting anythign from you in so long). I miss you! I'm remiss, I know, but I Miss you Susane!