I Got Nothing

So I have no idea really what the kids did today. Because they were asleep by the time I came home. Sure, I was a little later than normal (seven thirty), but not that late. Apparently Ginger and Grammy kept the kids out all day and didn't come home till after 5. They also apparently ate lunch out again (I was shocked, anyone want to place bets on whether they eat out for lunch tomorrow also?).

I asked Ginger what they were doing all day and I got this: "They were busy playing policeman save the lady from the dinosaur all day and then we were a train going through the mall". That's a direct quote, no grammar was added to protect the innocent.

I've got bupkis to write about, so you're going to be forced to listen to me prattle on about TV and comics. Let me just say, ahead there be spoilers. So if you care about this stuff, don't read. First off, there was Infinite Crisis that came out this week, in which once again the Flash 'sacrifices' himself to save the universe. It's getting old, the silver age Flash did the same thing in Crisis on Multiple Earths back in the 80s. This time though, it wasn't good enough to just take out one Flash, they took out Flash and Kid Flash. This seems like a mistake to me. The Wally West Flash actually has name recognition now (at least a little) outside of the comic field. Justice League Unlimited (formerly Justice League) is now in it's 5th season with the Wally West Flash as a member. Kids are growing up knowing only this guy as the Flash. Same thing for Kid Flash, he was just recently on Teen Titans. It just doesn't make sense from a name brand recognition stand point if you ask me. And last I heard there was even a Flash movie treatment being passed around, now that comic hero movies are all the rage since Spider-Man broke all those records several years back. And then there is TV's Smallville. This week was the 100th episode, where someone close to Clark bites the big one. The show started out with Clark revealing his big secret to Lana. Finally! They're in college and dating for pete sakes. In the comics Lana knew back in high school. Here's my problem with this show, we all know he ends up with Lois, so why all the angst and buildup with Lana. Anyway, once Lana learns the secret, she goes the way of all those who learn Clark is Superman and ends up getting herself killed. At first I thought this was a novel approach. In the comics which this show is loosely (and I mean really loosely) based off of, Lana is still around, but basically a worthless character since Clark and Lois are married. Killing her off made a lot of sense. But there's a twist, Clark does some mojo and the day reverses and he gets to do things differently. There was a nice joke from one of the characters that's in on the secret, asking how he managed to do that saying "What did you do, fly around the earth and make it rotate backwards?", nice dig there. So the day replays and this time Clark doesn't tell Lana, she doesn't die, but then because 'the universe must be balanced' someone else has to die. And apparently some random guy on the other side of the Earth dying won't cut it, it has to be some other cast member. So it's bye bye Pa Kent, played by John Schneider (or Bo Duke as most of us will remember him). This once again was a deviation from the comics, but not as drastic as one might think. True, in the comics Ma and Pa Kent are still alive, but pre Crisis on Multiple Earths they had died when Clark was young. Personally I think having them alive works better because it gives Clark more of a tangible connection to humanity. Anyway, so they pulled a Dawson's Creek and killed off the Dad. And most people will agree that Dawson's Creek jumped the shark at that point, actually when Dawson's Dad died it jumped all the way out of the water over the shark and onto the beach. Oh, did I mention that Dawson's dad was also the actor that once played the TV version of the Flash. See how this all ties together.