I’m not ready.
I’m just not. Because this is a saga that I’ve followed since childhood and through my teen and adult life. And ending it seems to tell me that I have to be an adult now.
And I’m not ready. I never will be.
Arrow Season 8 Premiere
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much. I had stopped watching about a season or two ago, I think. When was Michael Emerson first introduced?
Anyways, the episode was pretty nuts, with Oliver on a parallel world posing as himself, and all the slight changes on that world due to his absence.
I couldn’t follow the flash forward stuff because I don’t know the background behind these characters. I guess I can either read up or watch a few episodes from last season.
But what really got me was the ending, and the red skies and the antimatter cloud annihilating everything it touches, just like in the comics.
I’m really looking forward to the crossover.
Lemme ‘splain
*thwip*
1977
1977 was not just the year I turned 10.
Or the year Star Wars first premiered.
Or even the year I got Baron Karza for my birthday (he was in his box on the kitchen table when I came downstairs for breakfast).
1977 was the first year that I seriously started to pay attention to baseball.
I considered myself a baseball fan since I was 4-5 years old, because on weekends we seemed to live at the ballpark, especially if there was a Sunday doubleheader. I never paid attention to the games as much as my parents and my brother did back then. I was more interested in when the next time the food vendors would come by our section (General Admission 28).
But two things happened in 1977 that changed the way I saw baseball.
The first was the premiere of “This Week In Baseball”.
Aside from the occasional Giants game, and that day in 1974 when we saw Hank Aaron break the all time-home run record, I’d never seen anything like TWiB, a weekly recap show of baseball, much like the older “NFL Game of the Week” show that would come on in the afternoon on Saturday, after cartoons.
TWiB introduced stars of the game who I was not familiar with, since we only ever saw the Giants on TV. And the dulcet tones of Mel Allen’s voice made the recaps somewhat exciting.
How about that?
The other thing that happened in 1977 was Chris Speier being traded away from the Giants to the Expos.
Speier was my favorite player on the Giants since my first exposure to baseball, which started my ‘root for the Giants player with your first name and last initial’ thing.
I don’t know if I ever rooted for Tim Foli. I simply couldn’t, because he took the place of my boyhood idol.
I think I ended up picking either Johnnie Lemaster (another shortstop) or Jack Clark or Bill Madlock or John Montefusco as my new favorite Giants player, mostly because they had cool sounding names.
Years later Speier came back to the Giants, just in time to watch them become a contender in the late 1980s. By then my ongoing love for baseball had become a permanent thing.
Star Wars Day 09.15.2019
Familiar
Spider-Man: Far From Home
There was a moment during the film that I felt like I was in a Spider-Man/Mysterio comic book by Lee and Ditko. It felt THAT right.
And there was another moment that I almost stood up and screamed, “I KNEW IT!”
It was about as good as Homecoming, maybe a little better at some points.
Tom Holland continues to amaze (heh) me in his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. This guy truly plays the part as I remember him when I was reading the comics growing up.
And it does wrap up the Infinity Saga quite well.
Two thumbs up. Recommended.
Go see it!
Binge Watch: Designated Survivor, Season 3
Dear Dad,
I finished up Designated Survivor last night, staying up way past my bedtime.
Overall, I think you would have liked it, they didn’t linger on plots for 4-5 episodes like previous seasons would do. This was probably because it was a 10-episode season, instead of 20+ episodes where they need to add filler episodes, like they did in 24.
There were some plots that were difficult to watch, like Emily and her mother’s cancer. The resolution of that was extremely painful.
And they killed off one of your favorite characters, which was a bummer, but I kinda knew it was gonna happen before it did.
But the overall final result was pretty much as expected, except for Aaron’s story, that actually surprised me how the resolved that.
As for season 4, no word yet from Netflix, though to be honest, I kinda feel that this would be a good point to stop the series, but then again I said that after season 2 ended.
I do wish you were watching with me. Miss you a lot.