I'm still reeling over the fact that the full name for "Metropolis" is "Metropolis Kansas".
Smallville: T-4: 10x17 "Kent" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Yeah who would have thought Kansas would have one of the biggest cities in the world.
In the first season we're shown that the fringes of Metropolis are visible from high points, like a windmill, in Smallville. It's just on the horizon, which if the tower was 300 feet tall (pure guess) the Horizon would be only be 33 miles away, a hell of a lot closer than a the 2-4 hours we're told it takes to get there (which would be closer to 120 or 240 miles.)
But, yeah, not it seems like the distance is more consistant with that horizon shot. I still don't see how commuting would be any problem for a man that can run to anywhere on the planet within seconds.
It was mentioned in the series that it was about a two or three hour trip into Metropolis. I think Lois herself bitched one episode what a pain in the ass it was just to drive out to Smallville from Metropolis. LOL. Yeah, setting Metropolis in Kansas is a bit weird. So in the Smallville DCU Kansas state has two large cities? I believe it's common knowledge that in the comics Metropolis is on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
^ Indeed what I typed. I'm aware of the analogues for both Gotham and Metropolis.
It was a first-season episode where some flower was making people act all nutty, Lois was "infected" and started acting like a slut. Anyway, at the end of the episode Clark takes her to the top of a windmill tower in a field and they look out across the horizon and see Metropolis, Lana's hometown. It was just on the horizon making it a lot closer than 2 or 4 hours away.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who's been thrown by the whole Kansas/Metropolis thing.
Yeah I started tuning in again for the "exciting buildup" to the finale, but except for the cool flashforward episode, it's all just been the same dull, tedious stuff as usual (with the same mopey, un-heroic, and thoroughly uninspiring young Clark as usual).
I have developed a new appreciation for Durance's Lois though. She's been the only thing really worth watching this whole time, and I hope she gets to move on to a much better show when this is done.
Yeah I started tuning in again for the "exciting buildup" to the finale, but except for the cool flashforward episode, it's all just been the same dull, tedious stuff as usual (with the same mopey, un-heroic, and thoroughly uninspiring young Clark as usual).
I have developed a new appreciation for Durance's Lois though. She's been the only thing really worth watching this whole time, and I hope she gets to move on to a much better show when this is done.
I don't have a problem with Metropolis being in Kansas it, more or less, follows. But the portrayal of it is odd. There's many times when we see the city-scape establishing shots we see it's got a very large and apparently active water-front! The Missouri River is not that impressive. 
^ That's because Vancouver has an active water front
Yeah, I've spent my whole comic book lifetime under that same impression. But maybe this is really Earth 3 or something where there is a small sea in the middle of North America?
There's many times when we see the city-scape establishing shots we see it's got a very large and apparently active water-front! The Missouri River is not that impressive.
I thought Metropolis has an area called "The Narrows" and a monorail system?
In the comics (at one time) there was a bridge between Metropolis and Gotham City. Central City was the Chicago equivalent, but Gotham was always east coast (maybe Jersey?)
That's mostly how I had taken it. Metropolis was Manhattan and Gotham was somewhere in Jersey.
Metropolis will always be Vancouver to me now lol.
All cities are Vancouver now.
(Someday, just to be perverse, somebody needs to make a movie set in Vancouver--and film it in Manhattan!)
But according to The CW, having black kids playing basketball outdoors turns Vancouver into Detroit.
.........^This
BTW, I've never been either place, so, the distinction would be lost on me for the moment, but, I'd love to watch others discuss it, for one day when I may visit them.