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Well, they're not going to do her in CGI – though I wish they would do the whole movie that way – maybe Rotoshop the whole thing to give it a comic-book feel. 

So it's most likely that he'll cast a live-action, A-list actress who can (and will) beef up enough to play the role, and also has the height to be convincing in the role.  That narrows it down quite a bit.  Katherine Heigl could do it, as I've suggested her before. 

There's also a slim possibility that he could cast a well-know athlete in the role, such as the beautiful and uber-buff Gea Johnson.  (She's 38 but doesn't look it.)  That's been done in the past, especially in the early days of Hollywood.  Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Krabbe and of course Esther Williams were all famous swimmers before they became movie stars.  Bruce Jenner had a notable movie career, as have numerous football players.

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Posting tracings or manipulations of other people's work is legally murky, I think.  (I'm not a lawyer.)  But people who do post those tracings should at the very least give credit to the original artist.

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Yeah, that commerical turns me off. It's supposed to make men's ego feel threatened, so they have to fix it with some spray. Has Jitka responded to the commerical?

After watching innumerable Jenny Jones shows in which FBB's are serially treated like freaks, it's obvious that many FBBs prefer the opportunity to be on TV to being treated well by TV hosts. 

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Good to know. 

(Boy, will you guys be pissed if I ever get married.)

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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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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.

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Because I'm not sure where posting a link to an entire episode falls under Lingster's rules about file-sharing.

A link to a whole episode would not be covered by fair use.  It's outside the bounds.

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How did you not post the Teen Titans?  Wonder Girl is not hard on the eyes.

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A lot of free weight exercises can be performed inside a "cage" or "rack" which have "spotter bars"
or "safety pins" in place.  So if you don't have a spotter for the more dangerous movements, you can perform them inside a cage so that you can't drop the weight on yourself, or get pinned beneath it.  This is really important with the bench press and variou squats.

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