Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman?!?!

I need to stop lurking at Toon Zone.

So, I find out Lucy Lawless will be voicing Diana in the Justice League: New Frontier DTV on Toon Zone. This is great news, right? To be perfectly honest, I'd be happier if Joss Whedon cast Lawless as Diana in his new Wonder Woman movie but this is the next best thing.

I think if Lawless or someone other than Susan Eisenberg had voiced Diana on JL/U a LOT of complaints about Diana would have gone away. A LOT of Diana's worst lines on the first two seasons of Justice League would have gone down a lot better if someone more authoritive had said them and SOLD them and not seemed so lame. I'm sure Eisenberg is a perfectly fine actress but she didn't quite have the chops for Diana.

I'm not really looking that eagerly forward to the new DTVs that are out of DCAU continuity. I think it was a mistake to end the DCAU and I think if these movies are a success b.t. should probably see about going back to it for some of the future DTVs. However the casting of Lawless is nothing short of a HUGE win for New Frontier. I'm so impressed that my interest is now definately peaked.

So, why was I shocked to see people at Toon Zone actually CRITICIZING this brilliant casting coup? God, fanboys are impossible. I think this is as big a casting coup as if Christopher Reeve hadn't had his accident and been cast as Superman on Justice League. She's PERFECT for the role and I'm REALLY excited about this. Instead people are taking smacks at Xena because it wasn't exactly a brilliant show. But Lawless did SOLID acting on the series and any faults the series possessed weren't because of her.

Sigh. You can't please everybody. But sometimes I wish people would actually THINK about what they say before voicing stupid opinions.

Courtesy Dwayne McDuffie's website

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061201/lf_nm/usa_muslims_fear_dc_1




WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.
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The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us."

Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans."

At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America.

"I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland

"For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting.

"Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous."

The show aired on November 26, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and Klein said in an interview afterwards he had been surprised by the response.

"The switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes," said Klein. "There were plenty of callers angry with me, but there were plenty who agreed."





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It's sickening. And the 33 percenters wonder why we think they are all total f-ing morons. THIS is why.

Bible Belt, my fanny.