"... I dunno Sheldon, I really think I'm just a Marvel girl at heart. I know you love your DC characters, but these movies just aren't doing it for me. Since I'm unfamiliar with the characters the movie background is all I've got and DC is just not there." Penny rambled, as they walked to the car.
"Penny, as you know, I have been reading and collecting comic books for many years, so am fully familiar with the characters and what we were presented with just now in that the theatre was a travesty." Sheldon continued, "They obviously cut a lot if stuff out of the movie for whatever reason. It was very choppy and in some places it made little to no sense. Slipknot was literally just there so we could see that they were fully invested in destroying the squad members if they stepped out of line."
Penny nodded, "Even if it was a crap editing job, it was still fun to watch. But I was really confused by Joker and Harley Quinn's relationship. It's not very healthy is it?"
"Yes Penny," Sheldon answered, "even I could see from the beginning that their relationship was a farce. Joker is a sociopath and incapable of caring for anyone. Harley fell in love with him in Arkham where she was supposed to be treating him and he twisted that love to his own ends. To Joker she belongs to him, like any of his weapons, so he has to rescue her because only he is allowed to destroy her."
"Man when the Enchantress shows her with the babies, my heart went out her. Did she really have babies or was that just a 'what could be'?" Penny asked, sighing.
"In one alternate universe story she did indeed have a child with Joker. But there is no way of knowing if the movie creators considered this information, or ran in another direction and figured Joker might want an heir." Sheldon told her, he cocked his head as he considered. "There were baby clothes in the one scene with the knives. It is hard to say what they might have meant with the scene, especially since the whole movie was so choppy. They may have commentary and/or deleted scenes in the dvd sets, but we'll have to wait until at least December for that."
They reached the car and started home. "At least it was more fun to watch than Captain America: Civil War. That movie was not my favorite Marvel film. The best bit about it was the fight scene in the airport." Penny giggled.
"Indeed," Sheldon deadpanned. "You always are most interested in the parts that go boom versus the tiny minutiae of the story lines and plots."
"Oh my gosh Sheldon, that is the best use of sarcasm you've had all week. Well done!" Penny tried to high five him but one glance his way to see him glaring at her hand off the steering wheel and she desisted. "Oh but are we going to see Doctor Strange with Lumberdink Bumbersnatch?"
"Penny for the umpteenth time, he is called Benedict Cumberbatch," Sheldon bit out.
"Aww Sheldon, I love that you still think I don't know Bunnylick Lumberjacks name." Penny giggled, glancing over at Sheldon, to find him giving her a sweet look. "Oh no, you got me again! You... you... sarcastic genius."
"Eyes on the road Penny, the night is not over until we are home safely." Sheldon groused, "The inanity that is the general public's fascination with the mishandling of a man's name escapes me."
"It's like, what do you call them, a meme, only it's live action!" Penny laughed.
Sheldon grumbled quietly, "That Dawkins has lot to answer for..." then louder, "and I will see all the movies Marvel and DC deign to release, if only just to judge them as unfit to be allowable as canon."
"Aww Sheldon, you're so cute when you get up on that high horse and ride. Whoo hooo we gotta get you a cowboy hat!" She glanced over at Sheldon speculatively, imagining him wearing a cowboy hat and, well, not much else. She licked her lips and forced her eyes back on the road. She squirmed a bit in her seat, damn her imagination getting her all worked up while driving.
Sheldon, not fully aware of where her imagination had ran with that mental picture, helpfully added, "Of course I own a Stetson. I'm from Texas, it's almost as ubiquitous as jeans and a side arm."
The car shimmied a bit, causing him to squeak in alarm, he glanced up at her, intending to lecture her, but caught sight of the gleam in her eye and the predatory way she was eyeing him and shut his mouth quickly. He gulped. "Oh. I see. You find the idea of me dressed as a cowboy sexually arousing," he deliberately drawled, knowing what that did to her. "Did you want to skip the ice cream tonight and go straight to dessert?"
Penny's chin shot up and the car picked up a few miles per hour before she regained control of herself and dropped back to the speed limit. Her toothy grin however did not dissipate, she threw him another predatory look and said, "Oh Doctor, the things you do to me."