Friday Five – Fictional Places You Wouldn’t Want To Live

All my stuff was in that building. . .

Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a bit better through the magical art of a top five list! This week: Fictional Places You Wouldn’t Want To Live.

A lot of the media I love happens in cool tricked out locales, like spaceships, flying cities, or futuristic pleasure planets. But while some of my favorite stories take place in awesome settings, there are certainly some other ones I would stay far, far away from.

1. Hoth – I can deal with the heat, but I hate the cold. And those wampas are none too friendly.

 

2. Angel Grove – Why do they keep rebuilding all those buildings? You know they are just gonna get smashed by a giant monster next week. Can you imagine losing your job because your office building was destroyed when the some douche monster threw a MegaZord through it? And I’m sure they aren’t too careful where they walk. It would suck to die getting stomped to death by a monster of the week. It’s something the show never really addressed, the effect all the fights and destruction have on people who aren’t Rangers, but I imagine it would be totally stressful worrying about your safety all the time.

 

3. Gotham City – Metropolis is at least a bright shiny city, and has a super powered protector. Gotham is a god damn dump in comparison, it’s practically a slum, and their protector is just some dude. Sure, he’s an awesome dude, but he just one man with no superpowers who draws supervillains to town like a moth to a flame. I’d certainly never take the ferry, that’s for sure.

 

4. Los Angeles in The Terminator – No matter the media, it’s been pretty much implied that Judgement Day is inevitable, it can only be postponed. So every day until it happens is just waiting for the bomb to drop, or avoiding time travelling assassins. Assuming you live through Judgement Day, you then have to deal with all the crazy robots trying to kill you all the time, on top of a nuclear apocalypse. Talk about overkill. I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords.

 

5. The world of The Walking Dead (TV) – I think is pretty much the bleakest of all the zombie apocalypse stories, as they’ve basically said everyone will turn into a zombie on death now, even if they haven’t been bitten. I’m a slow fat old man, so I probably wouldn’t last too long.

JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company. You can Email or follow on Twitter @NotEnoughScotty or Facebook