[00tree]

Dude, Galatea's dead, remember?

And I agree, Question's discovery of the 32nd flavor was the best part of the episode, with Sonar's "Chickapalooza" suggestion as a close runner-up. 😀

("The Great Brain Robbery" was still funnier, of course.)

She was a clone so there could be another… 🙂

[AlexG]

(And by the way, what kind of idiot wears a long flowing cape on a motorcycle?)

True, just remember what Edna Mode from The Incredibles had to say on the subject of capes . . .  😉

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Essey]

Guys, I believe there's a good quality file containing the episode in the Xtreme strength FTP server, at the stormdoor folder.

[Lingster]

Lingster, on the main page, you wrote "Note to Viacom:Wonder Woman is mad at you" or something like that. Um, why would she be angry at Viacom?

I thought Viacom owns Cartoon Network.  Turns out it's Time Warner.  Corrected.

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

Yeah-I figured that's what you meant.

[MaceWindu]

A damn good episode. Everything you'd hope it to be. Within reason of course. It's good news that JLU is finally back on the regular schedule again with new episodes, too.

Oh, the Wonder Woman-Hawkgirl-Vixen fight was the best one, BTW.

[AlexG]

Dude, Galatea's dead, remember?

Heh, like soap operas, never say anyone is "dead" in the DCU or the MU, either for that matter . . .  😎

Or to paraphrase Miracle Max from the Princess Bride: Oh, there's mostly dead and then there dead – with the first, you're still a little bit alive, with other, you go through their pockets for loose change.  😉

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Lingster]

Yeah-I figured that's what you meant.

Well, the neglect would be easier to understand if Viacom owned it.  Since DC is owned by Time Warner, it makes no sense at all that the show only airs once per week, irregularly, on the Cartoon Network.  Time Warner owns the rights to the show – one of its most popular –  yet airs it at 10pm on Saturdays, when the kids are in bed and most adults are away from the TV. 

In Time Warner's shoes I'd run it at 8pm on one day between Sunday and Thursday, to go up against regular network programming, and then again late at night once per week. 

It's not as if TW aggressively markets the DVDs, either.  The only possible explanation is that they're worried about brand dilution or over-saturation given the Batman, Superman and (possible) Wonder Woman movies, and the newer "The Batman" cartoon. But if that's what they think, whoever is managing those characters (as brands) doesn't grasp the nature and draw of the characters.  The characters are iconic – people can wrap their heads around more than one version at a time.

I've heard that when the X-Men movies started going, Marvel directed all its artists not to draw Wolverine as "ugly" anymore.  And so now if you look at him he's consistently very good-looking.  In the Astonishing X-Men title, he's even drawn to look a bit like Hugh Jackman.  So there's a danger to letting TV people and movie people dictate the presentation of these iconic characters, because they clearly don't understand that the wellspring of interest is the comic books, and that as long as they generate quality interpretations for video distribution, the consumer audience will at least equal the comic audience, which probably works out to a few million people.  And today a few million is more than enough – when you hear about a movie grossing $100 million at the box office, that means 12 million people went to see it.

Could Marvel or DC produce a 100 minute, high quality animated feature twice a year for each of its major franchises, for under $10 million a pop?  Of course they could.  Would three million people pay to see each one?  Probably, which would cover the production and distribution costs, and probably bring in a little net profit, too.  Would Blockbuster and Netflix stock the DVDs, and would people rent or buy them?  Of course, and that would be almost entirely gravy. 

So why don't they do that?  I know why Marvel doesn't – their cheapness makes them second-rate in every thing they do.  But DC is owned by a major media company, and I just don't understand why they don't do a better job with this.  Hell, nearly every episode of JLU is better than the Ultimate Avengers piece of crap that just came out.  They just need to be a little bit more ambitious.

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