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).

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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!