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It occurred to me earlier that this is the perfect movie for Tom Holland. The story is literally thousands of years old so his tendency to accidentally spoil whatever movie he’s working on won’t be an issue.

I'm hoping Nolan decides Damon's Boston accent should be even more pronounced. Hell, have every actor playing a character from Ithaca sound cliche Boston. Could be fun.

I think Matt Damon can do a good job as Odysseus PROVIDED he doesn’t attempt any kind of accent. I wonder who Zendaya is playing? I assume Calypso or Circe but who knows? Maybe a siren, a human hybrid Scylla, or maybe we’ll even see the visit to Sparta and she’s playing Helen. I do enjoy Nolan casting her and Tom which has me thinking he ships them and it’s fun picturing him browsing the fan photos and videos of them and Awwing l.

Ah I missed the blurb about the movie. Looks like the famous moments should remain which is nice. Do we know who Tom is playing? My first assumption is Telemachus but I’d love to see him play Polyphemus.

Impossible. The story is so detailed it should be a five season series so at best we’ll get a decently done truncated version. More likely we’ll get some Troy nonsense where no gods exist and poor Odysseus spent ten years just trying to get back to Penelope rather than having affairs all over the place. I do expect they’ll keep Scylla and Charybdis and cyclops scenes so I hope those are good.

If it were a modern novel I’d say it was for sure Caroline doing some reverse psychology on Lizzie. I guess it still could be but I don’t know. Good question.

Any chance this means the season will start later this year or are we still assuming spring 2026?

I don't know if anyone has read Paris Is Always A Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay. I finished it a couple days ago and I really enjoyed it. I was ready to give it 4 stars on Goodreads until the final line which I hated and dropped it to 3 stars. I'll get to that. So the premise is Chelsea's father is getting married seven years after her mom passed away from cancer, Chelsea's opposed (I'll get to this too), she eventually realizes she's allowed her life to come a halt and decides to recreate the year long trip she'd been on when she got the news of her mom's cancer. She's doing a three week version in Ireland, France, and Italy and hoping she can reconnect with the three men she dated. If there's a renewed spark, great, but it's ok if there's not. She also has a coworker who joins her in France and then Italy to try and get a rich guy to donate to the book version of the American Cancer Society. I liked the basic story and I liked how the characters played out. Rock solid premise and execution. HOWEVER. Now I'm picky about what I give a 5 star rating. For me a 5 goes to the books I love so much I not only make sure to own a copy but I will also purchase a second for when I travel. They get reread regularly and I end up having them almost memorized. My 4 star rated books tend to be the ones I enjoyed so much I'll definitely be rereading and will own but not a second copy. My 3 is for books I genuinely enjoyed and will recommend (with caveats when necessary) but won't necessarily own and may reread but rarely. So, the reason this book didn't hit the 5 star rating is because of the instigating subplot of Chelsea's dad getting married again. Here's the thing: her dad comes to her and reveals his engagement to a woman he's known for literally 2 weeks and then the whole book Chelsea is presented as being unreasonable for thinking they were rushing things and not jumping for joy. Chelsea does accept the wedding will happen pretty quickly, and a part of her concern does come from the place of thinking of her mom as still being her dad's living wife even though she's been dead seven years, yet everyone is all "who cares if we've only known each other two weeks (three months by the time the wedding happens)? We're in love!" Why the hell couldn't they just write it as her dad's been in this relationship for over a year and Chelsea just refused to accept him moving on? At least then the characters and book acting like she was the bad guy in her family would have some validity to it. If anyone I knew in real life came up to me and revealed they were about to marry someone they'd know for two weeks I would absolutely be trying to talk them into a year long engagement at the least. Chelsea's reaction was perfectly normal AND reasonable so no 5 stars. Now, the very end of the book, and I mean literally the last line, further dropped my rating to a 3. The book's almost five years old but I'll still spoil bar it just in case: Whew, rant over.

He did cameo as a crew member in the episode where Clark revealed himself as Superman.

The name of the series finale is It Went By So Fast. Ain't that the truth. I love this show so much and I will miss it even more. I had almost no complaints about it and the few I did have, when compared to other Arrowverse shows, were just passing annoyances rather than major story or character problems. From start to finish it was a family show with powers rather than the other way around and that made it the best of the Arrowverse shows. We open on Lana and Irons on a bar date. Good choice. I suspect Lana is kicking his ass. Sarah doesn't have to pay for airfare so at least you saved some money there. I love angry Lois. Rip Amanda a new one! Frog and Toad kick Dooms away from Dad. That was cute and the CGI made it look ever so slightly goofy which I enjoy. I think Lana can heal Irons with just her stubbornness. Apparently the boys new Super Saying is "Fraternals". I love it when this show is silly. Nice sequence of the boys splitting off, Clark watching Dooms go by, and Irons hammer knocking it the fuck out. That was cool. Lex is the Final Bad so I assume, at most, Dooms will come back seconds before Clark throws him into the Sun. That or he throws him in no problem and being that close to the Sun will give him a major power boost. Then he comes back to deal with Lex for good. There's no getting around how goofy Doomsday looks but Clark carrying him to the Sun looked really cool. Hee, Irons is going after Brainiac to get revenge for taking his suit. Go Steel go! Looks like Bizarro has returned to his body and accepts his death. Bye Dooms! Bye Biz! Brainiac stopping Lois from broadcasting while Lex goes after the boys. Clark you better get back asap. But soak up those rays first! Then kick Lex's ass! The sun healed his hearing! Just fly to the sun Clark and get some more of those rays. Jordan saved Jon but I can't tell how. Did he blow him up like Lex did with Bizarro? Doesn't really matter because the boys are both alive. Brainiac isn't so tough when he's not by his computers now is he? Clark revealing his identity means he wears his wedding ring when doing his superheroing and I love that. The nice thing about Lex stealing the suit is Clark gets to freely kick his ass without worrying about his health. And then he immediately saves Lex when the suit is gone. That's Superman. Episode is half over and Doomsday is dead and Lex defeated. I'm scared to hope we get a lot of quiet family time to close out the show. Quiet family time would be an AMAZING way to end the show, and completely in line with how this series has been, but superhero shows don't like to do that in their finales. Maybe five or ten minutes of it but otherwise it's action all the way. A year later? Nice. Looks like Lana's marrying John Henry at the Kent Farm. I really hope they turned it into an events venue in the last year given how often they've hosted. I love Lana's dress. Not wild about those glove things but they're still pretty. Hi Sophie! Blink and you'll miss it cameo. Chrissy's pregnant AGAIN?? Nice scenes with Lana and Kyle. They pulled off being sweet and bittersweet which is hard to do. Hee, Sarah's convinced the barn is cursed. Ok, sure, but it's also the only place to have a party in this town so go have fun kid. We didn't get to see it, for which I blame the season 4 budget, but I hope Nat and Lana have a good step relationship. Nat's almost an adult but I think she'd love to have a second mother to lean on from time to time and we know Lana would love that too. Lex is in prison for life. And expects the same accommodations and string pulling as last time but it looks like it's not working this time around. HA! Bruno's running this show and Lex is now regretting ever decision he ever made that led him to the moment. Enjoy your new career as a chair Lex. So Clark lived 32 more years. And Clark got himself a Super Team during that time. Don't know how I feel about new actors for the boys adult versions but I guess it's for the grandkids. And is that David Giuntoli playing Adult Jon??? Stupid cancer coming back and taking Lois from us. The show's first episode had the death of Martha so I guess bookending with the death of Lois makes sense. Aw, Clark managed to get Krypto after all. Clark's heart starting to give out in the same place as his dad is another understandable bookend. Ok, the show is going hard at the emotional stuff and it's working (on me). It's so Superman for him to find the positive in dying. Goodbye show. You were the best from start to finish.

There's a kids menu item named after Jordan so of course he gets a complex about it. Jordan, call your therapist and work on your need for fame. Ok Jordan's curly fries in that bucket are hilarious and totally looks like him. I like how Supes is working Lex with regard to Amanda's influence. If he can plant the seed correctly Lex will get suspicious and turn on her. Clark's eternal dorkyness helping Lois calm down and focus is his greatest power. If Amanda has any ulterior motives where Lex is concerned becoming the second largest shareholder should help her along. Training at the Fortress! I love a good montage. I think the issue here is the boys are approaching head on as if their fights will always be straightforward. They need to start thinking of the many paths their adversaries may take and plan as much as they can. Well hey there Bruno. Hope you have some legitimate dirt on Lex so Lois can win. I guess if Lois takes Lex out for good Amanda's in a position to take his company from him in response even if she's not intending to do that now. Shame there's only one episode left after tonight. I would love to see Milton put on the suit and go full Brainiac but that would require more time. I will laugh so hard if Doomsday has managed to return to his Bizarro state. Lex wouldn't know what to do. Logically at least one of these guards should be on Lex's payroll but I think we're supposed to assume Bruno managed to get locked up in a prison with his own people. Especially given Bruno's "I take care of my people while Lex only looks out for himself" comment. This is not important but the way Jordan's hair is styled I can't tell if it's to match the curly fries or if it's a wig. Given her expressions I think Amanda has been genuine in being up Lex's ass so I'm curious if she'll turn on him or just wait for her moment. The boys are teasing Clark. Everything is ok. Their greatest strength is being twins. It's how it should be and it fits the show we've been watching this whole time. Looks like Lois got to Amanda after all. And she has a line in the sand with regard to Lex using Doomsday to level Smallville. Interesting. I LOVE watching Clark easily handle the boys in training. I would watch an entire season of this. Aw Dooms is trying to go home. This time don't kill Supes and just leave instead. Lex would hate that. I hope they get Luthor Corp to pay to repair the town when the fight's over.

Knowing the Oscar voters they'll nominate Part 1 for only a few categories or they'll nominate generously but not grant any wins on the grounds they know a Part 2 is coming and won't want to reward it too early. This is the excuse some voters gave for waiting to award Lord of the Rings until Return of the King. Oscar voters choose some of the stupidest reasons to not vote so anything's possible. Right now the best bet is it wins big at the Golden Globes and hope that gives it momentum for SAG and Oscars. Even the Globes aren't a guarantee as those awards are bought and paid for. For what it's worth my copy of the cast album has Glnda saying "at school" but I've never seen it on stage so it's possible the Broadway, touring, and/or local productions have changed the line.

I've gotten to the Cassidy episodes and the whole Detective Beauty Queen insult/nickname would make way more sense if she was shown to care about that stuff. The actor they hired is attractive but, other than keeping her hair down, looks like a normal woman cop. If they'd made her up to look like Carrie Underwood, Christina Aguilera, or Kim Kardashian (in other words: three feet of makeup, designer clothes, and not a hair out of place) then the nickname would make sense. Instead it seemed like the nickname, and subsequent derision, was purely because she was a woman. As there was no follow through about sexism in the NYPD I think it was just another reason the show wasn't very good after the first ten years.