I don't suppose I have a question, just an observation. I noticed on the first episode that Smallville's population was 25,000 during the meteor shower, then 12 years later it is 45,000. That is a big population increase in 12 years for a town that size. Now I know for those of you who live in a city, 45,000 is nothing. But it's not exactly a one horse town where everybody knows everybody either, but that's how they play it out. I am familiar with various size towns, and it just doesn't fit what I know. Smallville's main street looks like a town I know with about 1800 population. Towns I know with 45,000 have Wal-Marts, Shopping Malls, 100s of restaurants, and certainly more than one high school. Smallville looks like Mayberry. I'm not poking fun because I love the show, but this just puzzled me. Does anyone else have any comments.

I haven't really paid attention to the population stats. But since you mentioned
it, yes, that figure does seem more than a little bit off. In fact, with all the
freakish things that have happened there, I would think the population of
Smallville would be decreasing, not increasing. After the meteor shower, I would
think that a lot of people would want to move somewhere else (if they could).

Would it have anything to do with the new jobs that were available at Lexacorp when it opened in Smallville? I think that would be a big part of it...but I guess that would still be a lot of people, but they're suppose to be one of the largest and advanced companies in the world...and then you have people who quit/get fired and stay in the area afterwards...so yeah. I think that could be the reasoning behind it. They came to the area the same time of the meteor shower, correct?

Would it have anything to do with the new jobs that were available at Lexacorp when it opened in Smallville? I think that would be a big part of it...but I guess that would still be a lot of people, but they're suppose to be one of the largest and advanced companies in the world...and then you have people who quit/get fired and stay in the area afterwards...so yeah. I think that could be the reasoning behind it. They came to the area the same time of the meteor shower, correct?

That's a good point, but I know a town that has 6 major factories, a Super Wal-Mart, Lowes, K-Mart, 50+ restaurants, etc. and its population is only 13,000. Perhaps I've missed something, but they play Smalville out to be a one horse Mayberry town, but 45,000 people is not that. I can assure you the streets of Smallville would have a lot of traffic with that many people. Instead, they show it as very quiet and laid back(except for the weird events of course).