WordWolf

No, I rarely know what album is connected to what songs.

Any chance this was PHOEBE CATES? That Gail Berke clue reminds me of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

There were quite a few live actors The Muppets besides Jack Black. Actresses, too.

That's the movie. The teacher, Sloan, and Principal Rooney. If we all drew a blank, I was going to add Alan Ruck, and Matthew Broderick.

That's the line.

Apparently, you're Lord George now. Where did you get a peerage?

That's Pink Floyd. Hang on...... quiet desperation is the English way..... "TIME!"

John Cusack was in High Fidelity Jack Black The Muppets

Ok, next movie. Ben Stein Mia Sara Jeffrey Jones (Ben's lines in the script make it easy to remember he was in this movie, and what its name was.)

Oh. "Ursula Andress?" If so, I had no idea she was in so much stuff.

I had guessed that she'd completed her term of office while I wasn't watching the show (I watch less and less, nowadays.) But, yes, the scripts aren't going to be perfect. I'm not going to gripe over every little thing, and I can let things go as long as they're not persistent problems. In other news, we saw a glimpse of both the Canaries and the JSA. For anyone who had trouble identifying them, I can fill in the blanks. Stargirl was in the middle- supposedly she's getting a new series. We had Dr Mid-nite to her left (from our perspective, the left of the screen, but to her, on her right.) The big guy behind her is probably "S.T.R.I.P.E."- Pat Dugan. Formerly Stripesy, the non-powered companion to the Star-Spangled Kid, he put on armor now to try to keep Stargirl out of trouble. So, Stars and STRIPE. Hourman is obvious in the yellow cape, to the right (from our perspective.) To the far right is Wildcat. Ok, so Courtney is wearing the Star-Spangled Kid's Belt and wielding Starman's Cosmic Rod (from when the modern one retired. (I must say, I'm really glad they had redesigned that thing from when the original Starman wielded it in the comics- it really, really looked like something specific, and it was NOT a weapon- the original Gravity Rod and Cosmic Rod.) Doctor Mid-nite probably needs the goggles to see and can see in total darkness, carrying "blackout bombs" to blind others and assist in his own sight (that's been true of a few Dr M's.) Hourman is almost certainly Rick Tyler, Rex's successor. Rex's Miraclo pills allow for super-strength to the user, for 1 hour at a time. In the comics, Rick wears 2 wristbands. One delivers a very specific dosage of Miraclo to prevent overdosing and addiction problems- so he has the 1-hour strength. The other used to allow him to step outside of time for a TOTAL of 1 hour- but that hour's been used up so in the comics it should do nothing now. Additionally, Rick was given a slight connection to the timestream- which allows him to get glimpses of the near future- for up to 1 hour and often exactly 1 hour into the future. In the comics, the original Wildcat is boxer Ted Grant. (In the arrowverse, he taught Laurel to box- in the comics also, IIRC.) He went into retirment in CoIE when his legs were badly injured while rescuing people. Yolanda Montez, who admired him and also had some sort of powers, took up the mantle and called herself the new Wildcat- before CoIE ended. I'm not sure what happened to her in the comics, but IIRC, she survived. Her eventual successor was a student of Ted Grant's who put on the costume before he was ready- against Ted's insistence. He lasted for less than 1 issue since he went up against Killer Croc and was killed (Batman vs Wildcat #1.) Meanwhile, Ted Grant, despite his age, is the current Wildcat, still a dangerous boxer, and still a JSA member. When he was killed in a JLA/ JSA crossover, his secret came out. He had nine lives. ("Since when do you have nine lives?" "Since about 1945. Oh, come on. How old am I? Did you think I was still this good due to diet and exercise?" ) It's some sort of mystical ability, so he has 9 lives again, and if he loses one every once in a while, since they will regenerate. (If he gets killed 9 times in quick succession, that will be the end of him permanently, according to how they work.) Here's hoping that the Canaries and Stargirl series' aren't all dark, depressing, angsty things like Titans and Doom Patrol. Some people didn't recognize Swamp Thing in that swamp on Earth-19. We had the Green Lantern Earth as well as ones for the JSA, Swamp Thing, Titans and Doom Patrol. It was a nice touch that the Earth-96 Superman "went back" to the yellow in his insignia rather than the black (a la "Kingdom Come"). I hadn't caught that when I caught the nods to the movies. I'm curious if the current Lex on "Earth-Prime" is a normal human who's incredibly smart (as I hope) or if he was able to keep the energy projection powers. I hope not, since there's been no explanation as to how they supposedly work. Also, and more importantly, Lex as a supposed hero is motivated by a distrust of supers- aliens, those with superpowers, and so on. As a human who uses tech, he contrasts himself with those having innate powers. If he's claiming to be a good guy- and draws the line between humanity and supers, then having no powers helps his message but having powers and keeping them secret risks his secret coming out and triggering a backlash. Then again, that may be what the writers are planning.

"I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, 'Well, look what's telling me that.' "- Emo Phillips. Seriously, though... The good news is that we're not exceptions- everybody does this to some degree, whether a little or a lot, so it's not just us that can be fools at times. Furthermore, we can get better, and we can keep getting better, if we put some work into it. We won't "arrive"- there's no "destination". It's a little like Zeno's Paradox. We can eliminate 1/2 our faulty thinking and bad habits, then we can eliminate 1/2 of what remains, then 1/2 of what remains still, and so on. The effort is worthwhile, IMHO.

I'm a little annoyed about the US President's speech. She noted that Ollie was their FIRST hero. Supposing they connected all the dots and concluded he wasn't only the GREEN Arrow but was also "the Arrow" (aka "the Hood") and so on, he would have been active for 7-8 years. BEFORE that, we should have had Superman active for at least a few years, and before HIM would have been Batman and Black Lightning, since both either vanished or retired after some time as heroes, and their retirment/vanishing was more than a few years ago. I imagine someone saying Batman didn't count as he wasn't a "hero" (or was an urban legend used by the GCPD to deter crime), and someone else wouldn't count Black Lightning as either local or ethnic (not saying those are GOOD reasons- Ollie only covered one city also), but overlooking Superman??? Was this actually addressed in "the Bottle Episode?"

Wait- you didn't say it was a Bond girl, you said she was in a Bond movie. So, an actress who appeared in a Bond movie, who was in other stuff, and may NOT have been a Bond girl, "Dame Judi Dench"?????

Must be "AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON", then.

I saw that, having refrained from blinking at the right moment. I mentioned Huntress (the original comics version) as an example of what MIGHT happen in a merged universe. Mrs Wolf thought Black Siren/Canary- being the last survivor of her Earth and having passed The Monitor's tests- should have been in on the big stuff at the end, and wondered if she was still around. I warned her that a merged Earth meant ONE version of everyone- but that someone might no longer be a counterpart. The example I used from comics- Earth-2's Huntress had been Helena Wayne, Bruce and Selena's daughter (just like in the BoP show.) When the Earths merged, she and Earth-2's adult Robin had no place to be, and so were displaced when they appeared. So, they didn't arrive at home, they just appeared somewhere random. (They both died in the last push of Anti-Monitor shock troops.) There WAS a Huntress after that- Helena Bertinelli, who resembled Helena Wayne quite a bit. So, if Black Siren appeared, she might have had a different identity or something.

Having not seen the latest episodes, I ALREADY thought that's where they were going. A female Arrow and Canaries meant an all-girl team like "Birds of Prey." Supposedly, not many of us remember that show, so few cared if it was or wasn't a new version. BTW, Jonn didn't "reawaken" the memories because the old continuity was retroactively erased from the timeline- and thus their lives. So, they lived THIS lifetime entirely. BTW, John Diggle and Lyla once had a daughter, Sara. After Flashpoint, she was replaced with a son. In one future, they had a son who snapped and an adopted son who was a good guy- Ben Turner's natural son. Now, Sara seems back. Is her brother there John Jr like after Flashpoint, or is that Connor Hawke, their adopted son? The arrowwiki hadn't said. *checks* Actually, John Jr now has 2 different pages, one for pre-Crisis, one for after, and this is said to be John Jr. Ok, that settled that. I'd rather they just said that Cisco's device transmitted data rather than supposedly awakening "memories." Obviously, that's not what they said. Oh, well.

I was wondering what "NO" stood for. Thanks for clearing that up. BTW, I liked Iron Man 2, and didn't think #3 of IM or Thor 2 were bad. (Not GREAT, but not bad.) Then again, I WAS the target-audience of both- I'd read "Ragnarok-and-Roll" as well as the Justin Hammer/Demon in a Bottle IM story, and knew a little about Extremis.

Apparently, Raf and I remember Dana Plato from the same appearances!

"YOU have hurt so many, many people when you were top leaders in TWI and I have never heard any public apologies! I can give you specific examples in case you forgot what you have done to harm people through the years. You were awful, horrible people who blindly followed grave error while quoting these same scriptures to the lives of those good people you cast out." Just in case they decide to delete the original, here's the comment cut-and-pasted. https://revivalandrestoration.org/teachings/the-mystery-living-and-real

I'd never heard of this before. However, I think it's a good thing, The possibility of learning so many things for free online is, IMHO, one of the most fantastic things about the internet.

I heard some AWFUL reviews of both, so I'm not rushing to see either. I'll keep it in mind. But I doubt I'm going to think "Flash" when I see EM in the suit, rather than "what are you doing dressed up as Flash?"

That was indeed! Sinatra, Martin, and Davis, but neither Clooney nor Pitt.

Joey Bishop Peter Lawford Angie Dickenson

BTW, I think Elongated Man/ Ralph Dibny was cast fantastically, and reminds me of the character despite the changes (annoying party animal). They gave me enough elements of the original to work with (appearance, detective, makes his nose twitch at a mystery.) I was glad that, post-Flashpoint- this victim of the STAR Labs particle accelerator explosion turned out alive again. (SPOILERS!!!!!) Nice how everybody got what they wanted. Those who wanted Titans and Doom Patrol, etc to remain apart, will still have that. (Mrs Wolf pointed out that Green Lantern has to be separate since there's so much space stuff, they would have problems including GL in any crossover. Yes, all the over-powered superheroes make the street-level heroes a little obsolete, especially during the big events. So, no GL on this united planet. We can still have Earths with only Superman, etc and so on, but the Arrowverse has now merged their series into one Earth. "Oh, it's like that, huh?" - my favorite Black Lighting line from the last CoIE episode.