Last week, Herc at Ain’t It Cool News revealed that, after the character Arthur Curry made an appearance on “Smallville” a few weeks ago, The WB is now in talks to put together an “Aquaman” pilot. Except that they won’t be calling it “Aquaman,” the character of Arthur Curry won’t know Lois and Clark (even though they clearly just met on “Smallville”), and he will apparently have absolutely nothing in common with the character on which he’s more or less based. Instead of having a mother from Atlantis and a father who’s a lighthouse keeper, Curry will be an environmentalist based near the Bermuda Triangle, where his mom disappeared. Exposure to water will give him superstrength, and he’ll be able to breathe water as well. You don’t really have to be a comic geek to know that, when you’ve got about fifty years worth of established mythos for a character and you opt to throw all of it out the window to make things match up to whatever the demographic research says is the way to go, it’s probably going to suck. Criminey, people, have we learned nothing from “Catwoman“?