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When we had people insulting each other, and people who came here to castigate us for refusing to fall prostrate before wierwille's asinine personage and practices, it was a LOT busier. I remember the opening episodes of the original "Melrose Place" were slice-of-life, but people found it more exciting once they started up the soap opera business and throwing people into the pool. (I liked the first few episodes, and lost interest after that.)

If you'd scrolled down to the Games forum, you'd have found posts the day before you started the thread, as well as posts from the same day.

Picture "Bringing in the Sheaves." Now stop picturing it being SUNG and picture it being PLAYED. Now picture the scene around it. One line should spring to mind. What movie are you seeing?

Some prints of this movie omit the final line from a scene- one of my favorite lines from the movie- "Every one of them has a mother." There's some prints that leave out part of the scene where 2 of the characters reach a boat. What was Jack La Lanne doing in this movie? Some of the characters have odd histories. One had a last name of "Beagle" before it was rewritten into the now-familiar last name (and middle names "Thaddeus Crane"). Another was visually based on the comic strip character "Broadway Bates." (With a middle name of "Chesterfield.") Another has the middle name "Worthington." (None of the middle names appeared in the movie.) It's not stated in the movie, but it's thought the bulk of the story took place in New Jersey. The Spanish-language version of this movie included characters named Bruno Diaz and Ricardo Tapia Someone parodied Nikita Krushchev's famous "bang the shoe at the UN" moment in this movie. A Chrysler Imperial and a Lincoln Futura prototype both appear in this movie A former Miss America appeared in the cast. References to Robert Louis Stevenson's novels were snuck into the movie, but not into the dialogue. This movie was NOT distributed by Warner Brothers (making it peculiar). Once you've seen the scene where "Bringing in the Sheaves" is played, it's hard not to have the song stuck in your head whenever thinking about that scene.

Ok, caught part of an episode of Titans. Apparently, it's another gritty show. Man, DC seems to have 2 flavors right now: extreme grit and violence, and extreme left-wing. And then there's this season of LOT, which actually has some light stuff in-between some grit and some left-wing. I hope Flash lightens up a bit more, it was drifting into Arrow territory.

I'm working my way through BL, and Titans is next. I'll mention when I catch up on BL and start Titans. Gotham is back? Thanks, keep me posted on when seasons begin.

For the curious, we finished the episodes to date of "Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow." I finished "Arrow", and am working through "Black Lightning", with "Titans" and "Supergirl" to watch afterwards. The mid-season for LOT was a lot of fun. For the record, I think "POT" could totally work as a kids show. It was even educational- we had someone teaching history, and someone teaching math and science.

True. For those who did not say (most of the posters who left), we won't know PRECISELY for sure. I still consider their numbers, as a whole, as success stories. They got what they needed from here, and moved on with their lives. They "took their revenge" on twi by living well. :)

Some prints of this movie omit the final line from a scene- one of my favorite lines from the movie- "Every one of them has a mother." There's some prints that leave out part of the scene where 2 of the characters reach a boat. What was Jack La Lanne doing in this movie?

Oops. Hope everyone had a happy holiday. Ok, let me think of something....

Ah, she's a former poster who left because of people complaining. Well, she is free to do that. Nobody's required to agree with you or to disagree with you. We would, however, like to understand what you're trying to say. This is yet another request for you to make an effort to focus on one of your points and make it clearly. Or, at least clearly state what you were trying to communicate even if you don't include the rationale or support for your position.

I agree that those are all reasons the GSC has fewer posters. However, a few posters have posted that they were leaving specifically because this place was too argumentative and so on. I'm prepared to take their words on why they took off.

My actual answer.... With both of them mindful of how the other worked, I thought that Ollie was trying to be more like Barry and just ACT. Also, I thought that Barry (being Barry) wouldn't actually put remote launchers in place. Then again, he WAS trying to be more like Ollie.

The "Smallville" theme was cute. BTW, I almost never watched that show, but I recognized the theme instantly. I apparently didn't have the audio up enough to make out Gotham music. It was announced that the intention was to get a lesbian actress to play this lesbian character. For the sake of discussion, supposing that was a sensible reason to cast, the absence of a process was offensive. Really, with all the lesbian actresses out there, this was the one they chose for the role? She was ill-suited for it other than "She's a lesbian? Ok, she's hired. We don't need to do an audition or anything." Also, let's keep up on our terms. She more recently announced herself "gender-fluid." When her gender switches to male, then she's heterosexual. By the "logic" used to cast her, she should be rejected because she's not a lesbian part of the time. If I were gay and looking to see gays playing gays, I'd be offended at the suggestion that this poor fit was the best they could do. Then again, who cares what I think? I don't imagine there's anything left to say on that one. Moving on.... I caught the name "IVO" immediately. Cute that MIRAKURU came up with this Ivo just as in Earth-One, when his ship, "the Amazo", was at Liang-Yu, housing mirakuru experiments. Mrs Wolf also pointed out that J'onn around would have made the fight unmanageable. Shapechanging, phasing, invisibility, mind-reading.... I have trouble picturing a TV still working but unable to render the names. Ok, let's see..... Room 341, O. Cobblepot, Room 342, P. Isley, Room 343, B. Karlo, Room 344 E. Nigma (has a riddle scrawled to its right), Room 345 M. Guggenheim, then Deegan's "office." Yes, John was obvjously a GL on Earth-90, whether as Diggle or Stewart (just as Jay Garrick's Earth-1 counterpart wasn't Jay Garrick.) The AMAZO fight was needed for the audience's sake. It also looked cooler than a strict depiction of the original Amazo in the comic books. Later versions had him look more robotic. Yes, the "scan to copy" thing made a lot of sense and looked cool. The only description Flash-90 gave of CoIE was that the Monitor's predicting a crisis, and thinks the Elseworlds "approximates the collision of realities we are facing." So, Earths will collide, and the Monitor thinks that their collisions will warp what's going on in the Earths that collide, resulting in status quo changes, some of them radical. I'm suspicious this will be a lot of build-up, and the results will be less than epic. I don't think they have a cast big enough to begin this, nor enough heavy-hitters, nor will they devote enough episodes to really develop the story. (I liked "Invasion!" but it fell FAR short of the "Invasion!" comic book storyline- and THAT felt rushed with everything happening.

One does not have to agree with something to understand it, and it's not impossible to fairly represent something with which you disagree. Naturally, I think I'm in the minority on that, but, as we see, I'm not the only one who says that. (Even when we disagree on other things. Then again, who agrees on EVERY thing?)

" I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this." "Never in my life have I received such treatment. They threw an apple at me." "Well. Watermelons are out of season." "I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock." "Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay." "Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlour. Play, Don." "Do you have everything, Otis?" "I haven't had any complaints yet!" ""You live here all alone?" "Yes. Just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit." "Oh. A hermit. I notice the table's set for four." "That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing."

Ok, minimal spoilers until I hear something else. I'm sure you recognized Arkham Asylum's inmates. The only name I didn't get instantly was Mark Guggenheim- writer of Batman Confidential, some of the Arrowverse episodes, and probably that very same one. I tried to reserve judgement on Ruby Rose's performance until I saw it. I already had a partially-lowered opinion of her from previous information (making a professional name out of a cartoon character, deciding to go into acting with a LOT of tattoos-which limits your role potential, Australians saying they didn't know why Americans gave her a job acting after she was unable to find work in Australia due to being a bad actress, etc.) Having seen her in the role, both the Mrs and I think she was a horrible casting choice, and we both have different lists of reasons for it. (I assume they overlap, but I'm unlikely to subject her to a separate discussion about why a bad actress is bad. ) Assuming that "she's a bad actress overall" is not a reason (even though it's enough by itself), let's look at her and that role. She was a POOR FIT for playing Kate Kane. They had to rewrite the character to make her work at all- after there was already a vision for the character. That, to me, is a sign the wrong actor was picked. Look- the remake of "Clash of the Titans" wanted an actor for Perseus. He accepted- but wanted major changes in the tone and meaning of the movie for him to play it. Changing the whole movie to cater to one actor is a bad sign for the movie, and, IMHO, should NEVER be done. It's a sign they have the wrong person for the job. "I can do it- but you'll need to cater to me first" means we need to screen more applicants! Things only go downhill from there- ask any supervisor. But they used that same actor, and made major changes to the script for him. RR looks nothing like KK- so they changed the character A LOT to say "and this is what the character looks like." Assuming she only has one voice she can act in- otherwise, she was an idiot for not using 2- RR is a poor choice for ANY character with a secret identity. In this intro, Kare Kane sounds EXACTLY like Batwoman and like what Batwoman should be expected to sound like. I don't know if she was a poor choice for someone wearing the Batwoman costume, but she's an awful fit for Kate Kane. Simply put, they could have found a BETTER actress that fulfilled their list to fill the role. As far as the crossover goes, other than that, I liked it. Even there, I appreciated little things like the Shakespeare head. I felt there was a major loss with a failure to use the line "would you care to step outside" in Part 3. I was expecting it when we got there. As the crossover began, I asked about characters who were brought into it a bit later. "The Trigger Twins"? I'm almost sorry we missed the cowboy hats.

Jesus TOLD his disciples that they would have trouble. There was no "but if you believe, there will be no trouble" or "if you believe, the trouble will vanish" or anything like that. As has been said before, by putting the blame on Job, twi aligned themselves with his miserable comforters. Look- trusting God, believing God, is one thing. Believing in your own believing is something entirely different. Your will be done.

Ok, we saw the 3-parter a few days ago. Are we all OK to discuss all of it, or is anyone concerned about spoilers of any kind?

It's of a piece, also, of the magical "Word Faith" system. They rewrote songs to include it. I also noticed recently that when they used parts of traditional songs, they always skipped any verse that suggested we might have trouble. Actually, I noticed it a long time ago with "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow." The missing verse says that tomorrow "may bring me poverty, but the One who feeds the sparrow is the one that cares for me..." Can't speak of any kind of trouble- or you're blamed when it arrives. Can't plan for trouble, either, that's "thinking negatively."

It's not symbolic of anything, but I like to hear "Christmas Rapping," by the Waitresses.

Next movie. " I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this." "Never in my life have I received such treatment. They threw an apple at me." "Well. Watermelons are out of season." "I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock." "Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."

Must be "Dudley Do-Right." I think you may have been the only one who saw that movie, though.

"THE THREE AMIGOS." The lasso reference made me think in the right direction. The long note confirmed it. But most of all, my kid was at a party Friday afternoon, where a piñata appeared. I checked. Nobody ever asks the staff there if they have a "plethora of piñatas." However, I mentioned that to another Dad, and he cracked up almost instantly. So, the movie was sort-of on my mind lately.