Erin B.
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I have not as yet formed my own opinion as to Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but my seven-year-old cousin has. He likes it. When I asked him why, he said because Batman did not scare him. You see, a few months ago, we watch an episode of Batman: The Animated Series (Heart of Ice) and it scared the crap out of him (I think it was a combination of Batman and Mr. Freeze that really scared him). It reminded me of the scene in The New Frontier where the little boy is scared of Batman. But at the same time he loves watching superhero cartoons with me, but we haven't watch anything else out of the DCAU since the Heart of Ice fiasco. We've stuck to Superfriends and the like, but my cousin is beginning to see them as very lack-luster. Then Batman: The Brave and the Bold came along and I think it just it may redeem Batman in my cousin's eyes and make him want to try B:TAS again. I can only hope.
As for me, well I think I'm going to straddle the fence a little bit longer about whether or not I like the show as an adult of one and twenty years. But I do think that we, the people of Earth-2.net, might be looking at the show through our adult eyes and not through the eyes of a seven-year-old. Yes, most of us might be kids at heart, but those kids are probably about nine or ten. We need to bring our inner children to about age seven, then re-examine the cartoon. If we did that, maybe we would see what my little cousin sees: a kid friendly show. I think we can all agree that the DCAU may have started out as a dark kid show, but over time the target audience became people our age. Now when we see a new Batman cartoon, we expect it to live up to the standard B:TAS has set for it. But kids are not going to expect that. All they want is a show that takes them on an adventure. I personally think that Batman: The Brave and The Bold might the venue in which to get a new generation into cartoons like the DCAU and into comics once they are a little older.
Okay, I'll get off my soapbox, but not without this final thought. Don't judge it too harshly after only the first couple of episodes. Remember even B:TAS had to test the waters and even they had some bad episodes (re: The Terrible Trio).
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I guess I should consider myself lucky. We don't a Circuit City up here.
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But what if the bulb has been burned out completely?
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You would think that an e-mail asking for credit card, passport, driver's license, or bank statement copies would be send off alarm bells. Apparently not.
Maybe if we borrow Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass and show everyone the fine print, they would get a clue.
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I'm envious. I couldn't draw a picture to save my life. Maybe that's why I sew. No drawing required.
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Like many of you I use my iPod to drown out co-workers, siblings, annoying people on the bus, but I also use it to multi-task. See when I work late, I listen to one of my audio books in order to "read" what I need to for class the next day. I know it's cheating, but I eventually read the books because I ending saying "What the fuck did the author mean by that?"
Oh Mike, get an iPod video.
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I think I need to go to walk away.
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I think a better question is do we REALLY want to know what is one Adham's list things to do before he's thirty?
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Dan I would have to say very probably, especially when the Red Sox are playing.
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Relax. All I do is have some chocolate and I'm fine. What can I say, it's my kryptonite.
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I hope you're not lumping me into that crazy female category. Just because I have tits does not mean I'm fucking crazy. That only happens once a month, during a full moon.
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Methinks that the human race in general is just fucking crazy.
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Hey D.W.
I know my college has a creative writing minor, but it works well with an English literature major. As far as jobs, may I suggest working in a bookstore, which can only help your writings (trust me on this), working finding a job on campus like in a writing lab as a tutor, or getting some of your stories published. I know it's a tough time D.W., but you'll get through it. Believe me, I've been there, though I cannot say that any of my ex-boyfriends ever became a porn star, then tried to convert me. The worst any of them did was to tell my friends that we were breaking up, before telling me. If you need an ear to bend, I've got two and there is no waiting.
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Holy Fuck! I hate my university! Why, you may ask? Here's why:
Today was registration for classes. No big deal, just hop on the computer, enter in some numbers and you're done, right? Wrong! Not only could I NOT register for classes, but I come to find out that because a jackass of a professor not handing in my grades last semester, I am academical disqualified (re: I was kicked out of school). So now I have to run around for the next week and a half trying to get this matter cleared up, BEFORE I can even register for classes, which means by the time I can, all the classes I need to take this semester will be full.
You would think that the university would have told me, but NNNNOOOOOOO, I had to find out half way through the academic year. Not only that, I now have a new academic adviser, who I have never met before in my life and has no idea how to help me.
Fuck, I am so ready for this day to be fucking over!
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I'm watching the episode 'Heroes' and that general the douche bag of a friend keeps talking to, General Norman I think and I am picking up a Hitler vibe. Could be his beard? It looks like the toothbrush style as worn by Charlie Chaplin and sadly Adolf Hitler. Am I just making this up or did anybody else pick up on this too?
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When in danger or doubt, bust out a monocle. At least you go out with style.
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Hmmm... new episode. Just in time for my morning walk. Care to join me for a six-mile walk guys?
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And it's ALUMinum, not aluMINinum.
Got my speaker fixed by the way. Let's see Adham try to blow it out this time. There. The gauntlet has been thrown.
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They've moved on from B:TAS. Yes Batman Beyond starts next week, but Joker only appears in the movie Return of the Joker. I see no need to back track and recover B:TAS. If you want to start your own podcast hosted by The Joker, more power to you, but I honestly do not think that WFP is the place to do it. But I'm not the one who makes the decisions, so I will defer to the powers that be.
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I thought you already had "Christ I need a fucking long nap" Syndrome, Mike. Christ knows I need a fucking long nap after the week I've been having. Now if only I could find my teddy bear, I'd be set.
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Hey guys,
I feel remiss that I haven't been e-mailing or posting. I have an excuse for last night, because we have had our first snow of the winter in here Anchorage (I take this moment to jump up and down gleefully), but with the first snow usually comes with the first power outage of the winter, so I have been without power until all of twenty minutes ago and then I had to reconfigure my wireless. That being said, I should have responded sooner, but I've been shamefully lazy...well maybe not shamefully.
Well guys, not just one, but TWO series have come and gone. I was listening to the B:TAS retrospective recently, closely followed by the S:TAS and Gotham Knights retrospective and I have this observation. It really does feel like the shows are kids being sent off to college. You know that they have to go, but you don't want them to. So when you guys finally finish the DCAU, will you be suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome? Just a thought.
Kudos to Ian for yet another uproariously funny splicing and twisting of Mike and James' words. If Ian brought being dubbed The Segment Monkey of WFP, then Mike and James bring it on themselves for giving him the ammunition to create his roll-on-the-floor funny segments for the retrospectives. Besides monkeys are cute!
Can't wait for Episode 39 of World's Finest Podcast and hope that Ian will not delay Episode 6 of For Your Ears Only.
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If a lady might chime in...
I personally am looking forward to Diamonds Are Forever and For Your Eyes Only. But as far as favorite Bonds go, I rank my list by sex appeal (as a Bond should be ranked):
1. Daniel Craig (Mmmmm...be still my beating heart).
2. Pierce Bronson (He's attractive).
3. Roger Moore (He's suave).
4. Sean Connery (I know I shall be flogged for this, but Connery is just a little too hairy for me).
5. Timothy Dalton (He's nose is too big to be the least bit attractive, he is far from suave, and he's spy antics are so obvious that you would have to be dumb, deaf, and blind not to know he was a 00 operative. Needless to say I hate Dalton!).
Of course this is from the female perspective or at least this female's.
Until next time, gentlemen.
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I agree with James. Let them be a committed three-some and let us be done with it.
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Welcome to the forums!
I look forward to Mike and James too. Why? 1) I love the DCAU. 2) When there is a new episode of World's Finest Podcast, I know that payday is two days away!
I'm surprised that you did not include 'The Great Brain Robbery' amongst your favorites in Season 2 of Justice League Unlimited. How could you not love it?
As for they guys never being able to interview Timm and company, well maybe when the planets are all aligned and the moon is full, we will get an interview. Remember if you believe anything is possible, then anything is possible.
-Erin B.
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James, I dare you to come up here and try that igloo crack. Expect many snowballs.