Indeed, a historically popular cliché referring to the city was that it is for "the newly wed and nearly dead".
(The latter phrase has become a popular cliché in Russian culture hinting at happy or militant ignorance.)
In more complacent times, offering one's life for one's country has been a patriotic cliché, more popular among politicians than among mothers.
(say, 10,000 hours of practice ... a popular cliche but true).
However, like Lucas and Haley, he eventually became embroiled in the world of the popular cliche.
A popular cliché about finding a man in Alaska is, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
A popular cliché about breaking up with a woman in Alaska is, "You don't lose your girl, you lose your turn."
The genre also, like many Hollywood movies, uses popular clichés to appeal to a broader audience.
The environment you postulate is a popular cliché; it actually antedates in most particulars the advent of the giant saurians by several hundred million years.
If these were truly self-generated opinions rather than popular clichés, the phraseology would not be so mind-numbingly similar.