From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Derek Janssen  writes:   
      
   >Doug Elrod wrote:   
      
   >> On Jan 11, 10:45 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>        Things I didn't anticipate having need to say when I woke up   
   >>>this morning:   
   >>>   
   >>>        `Aquaman just had a blowfish inhale a genie.'   
   >>>   
   >>>        I'm not entirely sure that I am awake by now.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Hmmm, that *is* pretty weird.  Maybe you're having some sort of   
   >> psychedelic dream!  What's the status of the "Justice League" movie in   
   >> your reality?   
      
   >(Um...I THINK he's referring to the Superfriends short-form series   
   >hitting DVD this week--Just a theory, though.   
   >And as the featurette on the box points out, would we have even *gotten*   
   >the cooler next-generation JL's, if the old-school hadn't been there first?)   
      
   	As it happens, I was finally watching the rest of the   
   Filmation Aquaman DVD set, which included an episode in which Aqualad,   
   doing his best to out-Zan Zan, runs across a genie merman.  Aqualad   
   quickly burns off his wishes in as stupid a fashion as possible, and   
   Aquaman ... calls on the help of a blowfish to contain the mer-genie.   
      
   	That's not the strangest plot, although it doesn't make my   
   head hurt the way the aliens throwing fireballs underwater does.   
      
   	I didn't know that there was a new Superfriends DVD coming out,   
   but happily, I ran across it in Borders not two hours ago, so I'm quite   
   looking forward to their wonderful plotting style.  I really, *really*   
   hope this set includes the episode where a problem docking the Space   
   Shuttle to Skylab causes the space station to go flying into the sun.   
   You don't get narrative like that now that cartoon writers are given   
   whole hours to think up their plots.   
      
      
   >Derek Janssen (and if Craig McCracken hadn't spent so many years   
   >school-bullying Aquaman, would we even be rushing to the show's defense?)   
   >ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
   	Well, I always liked him, though not quite as much as I liked   
   Plastic-Man.  Aquaman comes across much better in the Filmation series,   
   probably because, as one of the people on the feature trying to build   
   him up as a Really Great Mythological Figure [1] pointed out, when you   
   have Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Batman there already   
   it's hard to find something unique for Aquaman to do.  Challenge Of The   
   Superfriends had a hard time finding stuff for the Atom or Flash to do   
   too.   
      
   	[1] I liked it better as ``wouldn't it be neat if you didn't   
   have to leave the water, and you could talk to dolphins and stuff?''   
   Generally I'm opposed to putting heavy mythology on comic book   
   characters partly because that clashes badly with the many, many goofy   
   ideas that any comic book character accumulates over sixty years.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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