Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

We start off with the old-school Paramount logo dissolving into a groundhog mound. It’s quickly driven through by a group of American teenagers in a roadster. How… respectful. They’re playing that one “rock” song that always plays when time-travelers show up in the fifties and acting like such completely stereotypical teenagers that if this were the seventies, Jason and Freddy would be pretty much obliged to show up and start killing people. And we get our first dreadful hint that this takes place in THE FIFTIES. It’s the Cliff’s Notes version of verisimilitude, with lots of references that probably took thirty seconds to find on Google. “Quick, what’s a song that was popular in the 1950s and utterly familiar to today’s audiences as well?”

Which wouldn’t be so bad, but this goes on throughout the credit sequence. If you thought the musical opening to Temple of Doom was out of place…
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Fic: Welcome Home (New Gods)

Title: Welcome Home
Fandom: New Gods (DC Comics)
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Scott/Barda, Oberon
Word Count: 1,052
Summary: Scott really thinks having his wife back is reason to celebrate.

( With Barda gone to deep space for three months on a BOP mission, Scott had coped remarkably well, aside from that time he’d been unable to free himself from a set of Green Lantern Corps shackles for two days and just gone through his daily routine handcuffed. The Superbuddies had also come to dread his “team-up?” phone calls, which usually ended with Scott, Booster, and Beetle in Mexico. )