Okay, so maybe I didn't notice that Lex went bald in "The Phoenix". It's not so easy to concentrate on little details like that, with all those men in white coats running around all over the place here, and with that nice flourescent greenish bug-eyed young man see-sawing about, munching glowing green chicken and singing "They're coming to take me away, HA HA, they're coming to take me away, HO HO, HEE HEE, HA HA, To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time..." Do you know how hard it is to concentrate with so many distractions going on around you all the time? Particularly when those men in the white coats are looking at
me for some reason. I wield my Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy at them, or maybe it is "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" (it
is hard to concentrate, particularly on little things like what I'm reading), and I repeat the magic mantra:
Harmless. Mostly. Harmless. It's worked so far, I guess.
Ah, but the story is coming along nicely, Paul, Timmy! Having the Enforcer go bust serves those snotty FX people right for thinking you can get everything out of a computer. Me, I remember the good old George Reeves show, man, those were the days. Sometimes I coulda sworn they got old George flying by making him lie down on a glass table and getting a fan going in front of him to make his big red bath towel of a cape start flapping. Ain't no computer crash in the world coulda stopped
that kind of flying, believe me.
And who cares about the Enforcer anyway? And who misses Lex, who's off to have his hair grown back, just take it from me! The timely arrival of Doctor Chronian (yay!!!! to that name!!!!
) more than makes up for missing computer animations and absent Lex-boys. (So what if there's more than one of him?) And I just love the George Reeves-style expedient solutions you give us instead:
The small, sleek, and stealthy craft was hard to see, even under the bright work lights.
Yeah, it was so hard to see that it was hardly there at all, was it? Way to go, Timmy! You know why they keep babbling so much in all of Shakespeare's plays? It's because they hardly had any props at all back then, so the actors had to keep telling the audience what they were seeing all the time, when they really weren't seeing anything at all. And that way, they saw what they didn't see. Well, Timmy - or, in this case, probably Paul - if old Will could do it, so can you! Tell us about the craft so we can see it! And tell us a bit more while you are at it:
"Lucky for me, I planned for this contingency. I have a handy escape plan ready. A pocket time window generator. Don't leave home without --"
LOL!
The Royal Shakespeare Company is awaiting you, my dear Tempus! The way you said your line, I could just see that pocket time window generator in my mind's eye. Looks like a pocket calculator, with little chicken feathers growing out of it, for some reason.
And there wasn't much of a fight before Superman had defeated Tempus, was there? It was the best the shell-shocked computer guys could come up with, wasn't it? Well, so much the better. I don't mind at all if the violence on Lois and Clark stays G-rated, as long as we get a few R-rated snuggles! (WHAT??? You won't give us any? PAUL!!! TIMMY!!! You two so owe me Superman in a hawaiian shirt now, you know that, don't you?)
Ah, wow, though. It's been such a ride, being middle-aged Ms. Mary Sue in Paul's story. But on Sunday it will all come to an end. And.... I feel nervous, somehow. Don't know why. Something's bugging me. Well, consider... every new episode has had some absolutely crucial element missing. First it was Lois, then it was Clark... or his voice, anyway... then it was the sound, then it was Gotham City and Batman. Then it was Lex and the Enforcer. Now, there's just one episode left, and what can go missing from that one? Could it be.... Could it be.... ME??????
/me runs away, screaming, an endless line of smiling men in white coats running after me, possibly shining just the faintest shade of green, munching feathers and beaks and chicken's feet, oh my ....
Ann
