When I was watching The Last Starfighter a few years ago, I pulled up the Wikipedia article about its cutting-edge computer graphics on my iPad 2. I did a little searching, and confirmed the iPad 2 had a faster CPU, more RAM, more storage, etc. than the Cray X-MP they'd used to render the CGI for the movie.

And whatever you're reading this on is substantially more powerful in every respect than that Cray.

"There's no way Lindsay's ACTUALLY keeping the baby, right? Please?"

They can all team up against Livewire, while observing the curiosity that she's the only melanin-deficient lightning caster around. Unless the flight ring tease in Supergirl brings in the Ranzz siblings, anyway.

See, if Thomas has been running the show, we'd have shortly learned that Jim Gordon's wife's sister had briefly been married to Alfred.

Well, we could also turn to that other explicator of myth, Walt Disney. :-)

Don't tell me, tell Seneca: "that god has felt them who fashions the three-forked thunderbolts, yea, he who tends the hot furnaces ever raging ‘neath Aetna’s peaks is inflamed by so small a fire as this".

Vulcan/Hephaistos forged the lightning bolts that Zeus threw.

Not so much a dispute as "if we use his character, we owe him royalties, but if we use a slightly different character, we keep all the money."

the woman is called "The Wall" for a reason.

IIRC, the Soul Power episode of Static Shock was originally supposed to feature Black Lightning, but I think that foundered on the issue of Tony Isabella's royalties.

"While we're arranging the deposit, I could use some walking-around money. Can you give me twelve Tildens as change for a Burr?"

I'd say they're aimed at children, not young adults. YA is a broad category these days, but it's still skewed older than Narnia's target audience.

"The Jo-Mon festival won't be the Jo-Mon festival without any Rao-bounties," grumbled Josa Rom-ar, lying on the float platform.

"I think this line's mostly filler."

It would be a hilarious (if cruel) troll if it were.

The whole thing is weirdly out of place to begin with. Even if Shasta's white, why would anyone think he's from Narnia?

(I understood it was more aesthetic than anything else, apparently based on Lewis's distaste for The Arabian Nights, the more fool him).

Though if they keep the end of the Dark is Rising series as written, there'll be a riot in the theater.

Lewis wrote that in response to a boy writing and basically saying "settle an argument between my mom and me". It's not a considered opinion, it's him being indulgent to a young fan. That Douglas Gresham took it as gospel is a shame, because putting The Magician's Nephew before the other books is answering questions…