Dark One

Being in the galactic core is, IMO, the least reasonable position for Gallifrey. Lots of stars packed into a smaller space.

It is if you've got a big ol' mortgage. The worst the ghosts can do is kill ya.

Well...there's always the problem of finding someone to buy your haunted house. Price it too low and people wonder what's wrong with it. Price it at going rate and you may not find anyone for it. Try selling it yourself and people may think your nervous glances and whatnot are signs that you aren't being truthful with 'em.

Or it wouldn't be able to contain that much explosion in that small of a space. Allowing the bomb to explode lets it basically just wash over the bubble of non-explodey space rather than trying to bottle it up.

That's just it though...destroying the warehouse does not stop artifacts from being created and/or existing. All it does is destroy the one place that they could (nominally) be kept safe. It is also destroying a significant chunk of human history.

As big of a fan of lit. as Helena was, I couldn't really see her destroying that much of humanity's history. Even if the artifacts could be used for nefarious purposes, they represent a link to our collective past.

Yep, it was two separate episodes, just strung together. Part 1 was called "Emily Lake", directed by Millicent Shelton and written by Nell Scovell & Ian Stokes. Part 2 was called "Stand", directed by Stephen Surjik and written by Andrew Kreisberg & Drew Z. Greenberg.

Which one? Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (the animated one) or Mortal Kombat: Konquest (the live action)?

You can get the DVDs on Amazon, apparently. Not in a box set though.

I thought that they had a ship in orbit that was their bug-out location?

Don't they have a teleporter? Wasn't that how the crew escaped when Doctor Fez released the antibodies?

Aye-yup. That rope bit was kinda funny.

Every time I see Myka and Helena on-screen, it looks (to me) like Myka has a serious girl-crush on Helena. Heck, the slash practically writes itself.

I even forgot to mention the Pete-Cave. Figures that he'd have his own little hideout in there. Complete with Claudia-stocked cream soda!

Five years is NOT a long time. Especially considering the amount of work and training that goes into a Robin. A year is barely getting to the point where they are finally starting to click as a team.

I have a feeling DC doesn't know how the past events work with the changes.

NoooO! We still need the very special episode of her and Myka inna hot tub together!

Then it's not a "fresh start" is it? If you are keeping cherry-picked parts of the last 20-30 years, but forgetting that some of those parts simply don't work without the other bits, then it's not exactly conducive to making people not go, "Huh?".

Mention the names Batman and Robin. What do people, even those who don't read comics, think? Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. They are ingrained in the popular consciousness. Who is Robin now? Tim Drake? Damian Psychopath? Weeble Bronlix? Oh, there's been four different Robins in five years? Bruce must go through 'em like candy. It's not how you start off a "fresh start".

You especially don't placate your older crowd by saying that all your favorite stories, like Killing Joke, still happened, but then handwave away the consequences of those stories.

Except that is the exact opposite of what they are doing.

They are resetting the timeline to zero, essentially. While at the same time keeping things that don't make sense in context. Like Jason Todd still being alive. Combined with the number of Robins and all the mishmash of other stuff like The Killing Joke still having happened, but jettisoning Steph Brown and Cassie Cain.

If you are going to start from zero, then start from zero. Start with Bruce just becoming Bats, Hal Jordan just getting the Ring, Clark just starting out, Diana just coming off of Paradise Island, etc. Don't try to confuse people by saying it's a "fresh" start, but keeping cherry-picked parts of history that don't make sense without other parts of history.

Look on the bright side...there's an absolute ton of backstories that you can collect. Plus, you have definitive endpoints for those comics, meaning you can have a full run of comics for a particular title.

I've recently finished my Cassie Cain Batgirl series and am steadily working on the Birds of Prey. I know that I'll never have an Action Comics #1 (real number one), but I can have a lot of the others.

Hahah! Double Entendre...

As to the relaunch...

Stinks of Desperation.

It's like that guy who goes to the bar and hasn't had a girlfriend (or boyfriend, maybe substitute "physical contact"?) in five years. The women (or men) in the bar pick up on that and avoid him like the plague. Which in turn leads to even more desperate tactics on his part. It's a vicious cycle that can only end with the equivalent of someone in jail saying, "She didn't look like no cop...".

In particular, that aforementioned bit about Jason Todd. If he was dead, then rezzed, but there's no longer Superboy Prime throwing a hissy fit, then what rezzed him?

When has "knowing" something ever stopped someone from trying the impossible? Even a Dalek, if presented the opportunity, would IMO still attempt to kill the Doctor. Or if not the Doctor, then those the Doctor cares about.

And given the size of all time and space, there's any number of things that could be the Doctor. Clones, alternate universe versions, etc. All of which could be killed with impunity. So, while the main Doctor could die in 2011, there could other things that resemble the Doctor that they could kill.