The CW's annual Arrowverse crossover event, an adaptation of Marv Wolfman & George Perez's epic 1985-6 limited series, Crisis on Infinite Earths, is underway, with chapter 3 airing tonight on The Flash. The final two chapters, however, won't air for another five weeks, on January 14, as the network felt it was necessary to do a cliffhanger leading into the holiday break.
Obviously, due to limitations on character availability and the context of the story, it's not an accurate interpretation of the original story. We'll have a more comprehensive review next month.
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Last night's Giants-Eagles game was another piece of evidence that the NFL's current overtime rules still need fixing.
Under the current system, each team is meant to have at least one possession, unless the first possession ends in a defensive safety or offensive touchdown.
I'm dropping a flag on the NFL for lack of common sense.
All the league suits need to do is see how well the overtime system works in college football, where each team is allowed a possession in overtime, an equal opportunity to win the game. Philadelphia won the coin flip prior to OT last night, and marched down the field for the winning score, sending the Giants to their 9th straight loss, and sealing coach Pat Shurmur's fate for sure, 23-17.
The Lords of Football will have their excuses, but the time for waffling is way past over. Adopt the college system for overtime ASAP.
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Here's something else that doesn't make sense.
After dropping three of their last five, the New England Patriots play their last road game of the regular season at Cincinnati on Sunday. So what was an independent film crew, hired by the team with no ties to coach Bill Belichick and his staff, doing taping the Bengals' sideline during their loss to Cleveland on Sunday?
Like, Cincinnati, on the surface, poses no threat to the Patriots. They've won just one game this season. 8 minutes of video footage? For a promotional video? I'm figuring New England would take out their frustrations on the Bungles, anyway, so there's no need for such chicanery.
I've heard of kicking someone when they're down, but this is ridiculous.
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As Wheel of Fortune approaches its 45th anniversary, the series had to make a temporary change.
Host Pat Sajak was sidelined for three weeks of tapings after emergency surgery, so co-host Vanna White moved from the letter board to the wheel itself, beginning with Monday's episode, taped last month. As part of a promotion with Disney, costumed characters will share the stage with Vanna this week. Like, for example, Minnie Mouse last night.
Sajak will be back, no later than next month, I believe.
2 comments:
I've seen the first three episodes of Crisis - and lawdy is it painful!!!
It looks like it was written like bad fan fiction! I don't know where they got their writers from, but they definitely didn't know anything about structure and logic (even for comic book based stories!) and essentially expect the viewer to handwave anything that came their way.
I tuned in mostly to see the cameos, which were nice. I was disappointed at how Kevin Conroy's Bruce Wayne was treated here and a little sad at the fate of 1990's Flash, and really pissed at WHO was the "Paragon of Courage" on the team of heroes. That one was not earned!
Here's hoping Conroy will appear one day on Batwahman - however long it lasts.
Wouldn't mind seeing Conroy on Batwoman as a better frame of mind Bruce Wayne.
Some writers are also experienced in comics (i.e. Jay Faerber, Sterling Gates), but when you have to fudge things to accomodate network mandates, things are bound to be screwed up.
FWIW, the fate of the 1990 Flash corroborates what had happened to Barry Allen in the original Crisis story, so that part they actually nailed. Even a broken clock gets it right sometimes....
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