Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.

Couple of notes for our American members; today is a local election day across the USA. You can check to see if you have anything going on locally here.

Also, enrolment for the 2018 Affordable Health Care Act started on 1st November and ends 15th December, advertising for this program was slashed by a certain someone in the White House, and the website is down "for maintenance" at times during the weekend, so keep trying if you need to register.

Trump is in Asia... and it's going about as well as one might expect. But have no fear, he's back on Twitter after being cut off from it for 11 minutes last week due to the actions of an employee of Twitter on their last day. I think around of applause is called for for this anonymous hero.

The woman who flipped the Presidential motorcade the bird has been fired from her job because she used the photo of the moment, which she didn't take, as her profile picture on social media and that apparently violated social media policy at her workplace.

Another week, another shooting tragedy, this time in Texas. As other, more trenchant observers have noted, one immigrant killing other people by driving a truck, and there was immediate high level talk of cancelling the visa scheme which that person used to enter the US. Another white guy murders dozens with guns... not a word about changing a damn thing. Anyone might think there was a double standard.

The UK Government continues to convulse under a double whammy of sexual misconduct allegations finally being listened too after decades of being ignored or hidden away and the release by a German Newspaper of a list of the great and the good who are using "Tax avoidance" loopholes to squirrel away their earnings without paying tax (This includes the Queen, it would seem). Whilst not illegal it's certainly viewed as being ethically dubious and not really appropriate for those who are supposed to be representing the country and it's governance.

Also Theresa May and co are being forced to publish 58 impact studies over what Brexit might do to aspects of the economy, which they had sought to keep buried. I suspect we'll find out why soon, but we're already getting pre-emptive damage control from our Minister for Brexit, so who knows.

PS: And it turns out they're trying to worm their way out of it, despite very clear instructions

I've finished listening to podcast series EOS 10, which I loved, and was delighted/relieved to find that it will be returning for a third season at some point.

Lego's set of minifigures of "Women of NASA" has become an instant best seller

The Walt Disney Company is looking to purchase most of 21st Century Fox (though not Fox News)

Scientists in Scotland are developing a technique of breeding "Low emmission" cows. So that's a thing that's happening.

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

The Shazam! movie is in the works, with Zachary Levin and Asher Angel cast. I expect the "tie-in" to the Wonder Woman movie will be that the Greek gods (and other pantheons) aren't dead, just limited to helping the world through proxies like the Wizard and Billy Batson.

I hope the movie has Courtney "My stepdad is a mecha!" Whitmore. She can be friends with Billy and have a crush on Shazam/Captain Marvel. When she finds out the truth she's angry, but not at Billy. I hope they use that scene at the end of First Thunder, only replacing Superman with an angry teenage girl.

Wizard: You are here at the Rock of Eternity under invitation and as a favor, Courtney Whitmore. I expect you to...
Courtney: What did you do?!
Wizard: To protect this world from various dangers, I bestowed the powers of the gods to a mortal. I realize that...
Courtney: HE'S JUST A KID!!! This isn't supposed to be his life!

[bruinsfan]

I liked that she developed a crush on Billy when she found out he was actually her own age, and that the carryover from that had old guard JSAers like Jay Garrick concerned about the vibe they were sensing between Captain Marvel and a minor. Did they ever find out that he was actually in his mid-teens too?

[squarepole]

I don't think they did. If I'm remembering it right both Courtney and Billy (but mostly Courtney) decided Captain Marvel's secret was more important and they broke it off rather than tell the truth.