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Granted they probably couldn't, but I wonder if having Dawn just show up in that epliouge would have been an interesting way to cliffhanger the season. Basically after Tara's voiceover, Buffy looks back into the room, there's Dawn, and the two just share a sisterly conversation about the movie that the Scoobies were trying to watch, and then credits.

Hoboken International Film Festival 2012 Yes I realize it's in Jersey City, despite it being called Hoboken. Last year it was in Teaneck, so I guess they figure "close enough." A friend of mine has a hand in couple of short films in the fest. His co-producer wrote and directed two shorts in the Sunday evening programs. But check out the entire slate, should be...entertaining at least.

BTW, just realized that I haven't seen anyone say they hated the way Thor just appeared out of nowhere with just a throwaway suggestion (not even a real explanation) about why he was able to appear back on Earth since you know the bridge between realms was destroyed in Thor, keeping Thor on Asgard. THAT's called being able to explain things well without over exposition!

BTW, is it me, or does McGann from this shot give anyone else an Alan Rickman as Snape vibe?

Just thinking about this. Unless between now and the planned catchup the BBC decides, for some unknown reason, pulls the plug on the show period, and not just "we'll do a specials only series again" this is going to be the only chance you guys are having, for now anyway, to have a full scale series retrospective. Kind of interesting thinking of the possbility of BOTI being a "covering a currently airing series" podcast as opposed to simple review and recaps of long gone programs or series with a finite end like most of the shows on the Earth-2 network. Of course aside from For Your Ears Only's return to cover the next Bond film.

It could be that I watched the movie before listening to E-2TS #500's review of Superman, but I couldn't help but see some simillar things with how The Doctor got Grace and Chang back to life and the infamous spinning the world backwards affect at the end of Superman. Just seems a bit out of nowhere, and how did that bring only them back to life as opposed to everything else that happened.

Just FYI. Bulls did win 6 titles with Jordan/Scottie Pippen/Coach Jackson. It was split between 2 different 3-peat reigns, 1991-1993 and 1996-1998. The Houston Rockets actually slipped in between to win back-to-back titles during the year Jordan "retired" (tin hat wearing conspiracy theories surround him being suspended due to gambling) and his comeback half season.

Just to add, there is the thing about the Donner Cut essentially being a completely seperate project turned out decades later due to...probably just demand after years of fandom wondering just what Donner would have done if he was allowed to stay on the project. As opposed to Return of The Joker where the cuts had to be made due to various reasons that had nothing to do with clashes of personel, and the original version was released soon after. Yeah they do have stark differences, but it's the same movie. Mike & James were right in doing a single review and just noting the differences as they went along. Superman II: The Donner Cut kind of deserves to be treated as a seperate review, just because of how it came to be, not to mention its ties to Superman Returns, and that it does get treated almost as a different film.

Anyone up to be in a...ehem...New York State of Mind for New York Comic Con in October?

Alright, somehow I forgot Dying In The Gutters before Saturday Morning 101: I was drinking several Blue Moons while listening, sadly I don't think wheat ale has the same effect as mind alterning drugs! Great trip, ummm pun intended, into Bronze Age wackiness, and yeah I guess it's the closest Superman can get to a horror story without Batman being involved or an Elseworld. There is the Red Glass story from the very early 1990s (I want to say 1990 itself) where Superman is under a halicionic from an ailen and seemingly goes bezerk.

Saturday Morning 101 -Alright, a fun segment. I know it's beyond Dan & Jon's era (and sadly, well in terms of same Saturday morning experience, everything from Superman: The Animated Series forward really is more weekday afternoon, after-school, cartoon fare, yes I say there IS a difference) but have either of you've seen the Ruby Spears late 1980s cartoon? -Waiting for The Trade -Hmmm, I wonder what the take on The Death storyarc would be if read in installments, or in conjunction with the Funeral For A Friend and Reign of The Supermen stories (The Omnibus does this, though it hacks up the Funeral For A Friend bridge) rather than isolated in it's own trade paperback. BTW, check out the podcast From Crisis To Crisis a Superman Podcast, episodes #s 117-122 for a take on the single issues of the storyline.

Oh my. Who said this? If it's Wilson, I'd understand, given the whole UK thing. Admittedly, I haven't seen much of any of Pryor's work, but I don't base my opinion of his entire body of work solely on Superman III. It'd be like judging The Daily Show/Community's John Oliver solely on his turn in The Love Guru! But no, I've no problem with Richard Pryor. BTW, to be fair, I haven't heard anything to suggest that you, Mike, James or anyone on the show had engaged in the manner that Delete is suggesting. Granted I have an hour and a half to go, but other than James just simply saying he isn't a fan of Richard Pryor (which most likely is based on Pryor's career period as Mike asked such as much rather than one movie role) I'm not hearing what I think Delete is saying.

Granted the episode is a bit shy of 9 and a half hours, but I'm surprised no segements on live action TV was produced. Oh yeah the George Reeves show and Smallville were brought up in passing, but it is a major part of the whole Superman in the media that is missing. But again, it would have stretched the show out even further, so I guess its hard to say what segment should have been removed for it.

Oh my. Who said this? If it's Wilson, I'd understand, given the whole UK thing. BTW, you do know the reason why Pryor was off his game right? One of the Salkinds saw him do a bit about "Black Superman" on...I want to say The Tonight Show and thought his raw and edginess wouldn't be a bad thing to go with. Unfortunatly Pryor nearly kills himself freebasing, so he spent a little while trying to reinvent himself and be a bit less of what made him the legend that he was.

How about a group whom one of it's members once described as being "...just a band. Who made it very, very big, that's all." The Beatles. I would also suggest other British Invasion era groups, some already mentioned, but for some reason Rolling Stones aren't Would you consider Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band a group? How about Wings as usually, sadly, their albums get lumped with all Paul McCartney solo stuff.

For the lack of a better title, Will Ackerman on the Radio Show -Great segment, hit just about all the major points, though I think the kryptonite used for Bud Coiler to take a vacation may be more of an urban legend. As well, there was an unpublished story called The K Metal From Krypton that was written in the very early 40s that predates the appearance on the radio. -Have you've heard clips of the promotional previews that they did for potential advertisers? They even made dummy ads for a cereal called "Blank-os" to give a feel for how the ads would go! -Has nothing to do with anything, but I had to smile at the aircheck used at the end, specifically the mention of Captain Midnight. There is a sports radio show host in New York who used to have the Grave Yard Shift, as it's referred to in that business, of roughly 12am-5am. And he'd use the opener for that Captain Midnight radio drama as part of the opener to his show.

Dropped D -Fun stuff. I wonder what did not make the cut? -BTW, if Mike ever comes to you two and says he wants to do the same thing for a Marvel character, STAY CLEAR OF ANYTHING BY ICARUS! There is a reason why that album apparently was released as an Asian bootleg. I want to say it surfaced in Japan, there is a whole backstory about why the project was shelved, and not because it sucked. I've also heard a rumor that Paul McCartney was commissioned to write Magneto & Titanium Man for the project (1971), but that has not been confirmed, and possibly could be based on one man's opinion of McCartney and trying to make 1+2=4 or some shit.

Loving the episode so far, fitting that it's 9 and a half hours saluting a superhero whom simply is, well I think a certain wrestler from Canada puts it best with THE BEST THERE IS! THE BEST THERE WAS! AND THE BEST THERE EVER WILL BE! Grumpy Old Fanboys: -Surprised with the coverage Mike & Dan gave for the JLU episode "For The Man Who Has Everything" that the fact that Action 775 is the basis for the upcoming Superman vs. The Elite DC Animated Film. -Love the line "You can tell this is pre-Crisis because Jason Todd is not a douche! -I don't know if Mike knows this, maybe Dan will, but there is a Silver Age story, I want to say this was written by a returning Jerry Siegel before everything went completely south for his relationship with DC, where Kal-El was thrown back into time, and back on Krypton before it exploded (before he was born even). And he met his parents and fell in love with an actress friend of theirs. THAT is whom Alan Moore had Superman married to in the story! Well, thinking about that, and granted the whole point of the Black Mercy is your heart's desire and all, but considering she is introduced as a contemporary of Jor-El, and if Superman's desire was Krypton never exploded...well lets just say it's very Demi Moore-Ashton Kutcher! -Quick note, there is one other star of the Action vol 1 (sigh) #1 non-Superman strips beside Zatara that at least survived the pre-War era. Tex Thompson was brought back in various Justice Society Earth 2 stories during the later part of the Bronze Age Justice Society/All Star Squadron stories. BTW, anyone interested in those stories, a great podcast called Golden Age Superman goes in-depth on Superman's co-stars (well, not as much as the Superman story of course, but enough to get what is going on issue-by-issue) and the creators behind them.

I just said this in an email. but how about seeing Matt Smith's image in the opening credits? I liked that touch with the classic series, even if it got cheezy with McCoy at the end, and looked woefully out of date with Tom Baker's first season/series look being used during his later seasons.

Suave, I wasn't confusing Rikisihi with anyone. He hasn't been on my radar in quite sometime so I had to do a quick search to make sure I wasn't about to make an actual tateless joke.

Yeah I know I'm responding to a post almost a year old. But I was thinking about this in respects to a joke I was making on Facebook after a friend joked about The Rock being responsible for Cena's car accident Monday. My first thought was to make a wisecrack about Rikishi's* whereabouts at the time, then just before posted I checked Wikipedia to make sure Rikishi was still alive at this point. The latter really is a sad commentary of the mortality rate of professional wrestlers. *For those too young to remember the storyline from 1999-2000. The champion heading into 1999's Survivor Series, Stone Cold Steve Austin had been set for neck surgery, so they kayfabed him being run over by a speeding car during the show. When the time came to bring Austin back, they returned to that night to do a whole "who done it" angle. Turns out it was the happy and overweight dancing fool Rikishi, turning heel, who said he "did it for The Rock!" Unbenownst to The Rock (they are real life family members, not sure what generation of cousins) of course.

Watching some of the beginning off of YouTube, and the point where the TARDIS lands on Sarah-Jane, you see a random person just run out of the TARDIS. Obviously it's not, but damn the guy running off does pass for Christopher Eccleston a little bit! So you can fanwank that somehow the Ninth Doctor managed to get himself into a story featuring other Doctors! Eh, maybe? =

Kind of hard to believe there are only two more episodes covering the classic series left. So, Episode 91 is going to be the start of the NewWho? What about the shi...I mean stuff inbetween like Dimensions In Time and Fatal Death?

When I saw that sequence for the first time, my thoughts were that it managed to check off every cheezy and corny mid-late 1980s television title sequence cliche you can think of! I mean it's almost like watching a sitcom's title sequence, like Third Rock From The Sun (yeah that's mid-1990s, but I needed something with sci-fi elements) or something! We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, but I really love the TV movie sequence and theme. It just had a grandness about it that screams "THIS IS A MOVIE!" Maybe I'd be all "HEY TONE IT DOWN A BIT" if everything carried over to the show that it never was, but for a movie it works.

Pretty sure Chris' rage from episode 80 got subsided with your statement that it wasn't Colin's fault! Should be fun with The Trial of A Time Lord season.