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Living For The Future

December 2017

  • 2017 Year In Review

    2017 will go down as one of the darkest years starting with President Obama’s final days as President and Donald Trump sworn in as the 45th President. From there, many of the decisions made by President Obama were undone by the Trump Administration. Natural disasters such as Hurricanes and fires hit Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and… Read more

  • When The Force Awakens ended, it ended with Rey finding Luke Skywalker on the planet Ach-To where he embarked on a self-imposed exile. We see that storyline immediately continuing where she finds him and hands him his old Lightsaber. The moment he discarded it, he challenged Rey’s and the audience’s expectations of him. Mark Hamill… Read more

  • Today is the birthday of original KISS drummer, founder, and Hall of Famer Peter Criss who turns 72 as he recently completed his own farewell tour this year. We look forward to the long-awaited rock album. Read more

  • Former wrestler Tom Zenk has passed away at the age of 59. Was in high school with Rick Rude, Curt Hennig, Barry Darsow, Nikita Koloff, and Brady Boone. He broke into the wrestling business in 1984 with a background in bodybuilding. Zenk competed in many organizations in Japan and the AWA with Rick Martel before… Read more

  • Rock singer Pat Dinizio passed away at the age of 62. He was the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of the Smithereens, who gave us hits including Too Much Passion and sold millions of records in the group and solo. He will be missed by all worldwide. Read more

  • The crossover affected both The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow as it also continues in Arrow. The midseason finale shows us that there is betrayal in the team. Unfortunately as others pointed out, there was no lead-up to this at all. It came out of left field in the midst of Oliver and Felicity’s wedding… Read more

  • Legends is another show that is directly affected by the crossover, where they lost the older Professor Martin Stein. This is about Jax dealing with the loss as he has not overcome it nor did he came to terms with it, so he tries to find a loophole that will allow Stein to survive. They… Read more

  • The Flash midseason finale sees the aftermath of the crossover where Barry and Iris celebrated their honeymoon. In that honeymoon, Iris was actually unhappy with the double wedding. I don’t blame them for taking a shot at that because many of the viewers, including myself, were also unhappy and it made Felicity came across as… Read more

  • The midseason finale of Supergirl hinged on weak foundations. The setup for this episode was weak in that they talked about Reign wreaking havoc, yet we never saw it. Instead all we see are her symbols she leaves behind. I was hoping for a lot more. What we got was exposition after exposition from Kara’s… Read more