Saturday, February 18, 2006
Good ol' TV
As many of you know, I'm a Smallville NUT. Now, none of us expect television to closely match reality, but sometimes there are trends that are hard to not laugh at.
For example, every Smallville character drives a brand spanking new fancy car - somewhat unusual for a bunch of high school kids with little to no income. Detective extraordinaire Chloe Sullivan drives a VQ Beetle. Smallville's sexy starlet Lana Lang generally speaking drives a nice brand new SUV. While this is a stretch, we could all easily pass it off.
Where I get amused is with Lana's tendency to "zone out" while driving, and end up in car crashes. This girl I kid you not has totally her car atleast 10 times in the past 5 seasons. minimum. And generally speaking in ways that wouldn't presumably jive with the insurance company "well you see...suddenly out of nowhere there was this alien...". Assuming for a minute here that she could afford to keep replacing these 30,000 dollar suvs, what kind of insurance company would possibly be crazy enough to keep insuring her!?
For example, every Smallville character drives a brand spanking new fancy car - somewhat unusual for a bunch of high school kids with little to no income. Detective extraordinaire Chloe Sullivan drives a VQ Beetle. Smallville's sexy starlet Lana Lang generally speaking drives a nice brand new SUV. While this is a stretch, we could all easily pass it off.
Where I get amused is with Lana's tendency to "zone out" while driving, and end up in car crashes. This girl I kid you not has totally her car atleast 10 times in the past 5 seasons. minimum. And generally speaking in ways that wouldn't presumably jive with the insurance company "well you see...suddenly out of nowhere there was this alien...". Assuming for a minute here that she could afford to keep replacing these 30,000 dollar suvs, what kind of insurance company would possibly be crazy enough to keep insuring her!?
# posted by Greg @ 10:05 AM 
