DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

Is the Comet in that story the exact same as the silver age version or is it a more modern take? I can't see how a cursed centaur from Earth would wind up in a space story, but if its a more modernized version maybe they could just tweak him a bit to work better for the setting without needing as much explanation.
Like I mentioned, King doesn't go into depth on Comet's backstory, likely assuming at least some superficial familiarity on the reader's part. But what is seen and said about him is broadly consistent with the Silver Age original.
 
Like I mentioned, King doesn't go into depth on Comet's backstory, likely assuming at least some superficial familiarity on the reader's part. But what is seen and said about him is broadly consistent with the Silver Age original.
I think one could do an excellent adaptation of the story without trying to retell the Silver Age version. Or Kara could briefly explain a story from her past about comet that reasonably brings the viewer up to speed. There is two much in that mini-series to adapt it in its entirety anyway, and ultimately it is a story about Kara remembering how to be a hero, if I'm remembering correctly. Ultimately, the important details for Comet is that he's an intelligent horse who was more than that at one point and has a strong bond with Kara.
 
Maybe. I just kind of feel like the super-horse who
transforms into a man in his final moments, and whose death is the last straw that pushes Kara past the emotional edge
might raise a lot of questions in the minds of uninitiated viewers. But yeah, you could probably find a way to fill them in (a brief flashback montage behind narration?) if you really wanted to.
 
Or they could find something else that achieves the same narrative and character goal. There are many ways a story can be reworked yet still arrive at the same key points. For instance, the '90s animated Spider-Man substituted Mary Jane Watson falling into a dimensional portal for Gwen Stacy dying. The show hadn't established Gwen, so they substituted another character that had comparable emotional resonance to Spidey and the audience. And IIRC, Spidey didn't see the portal and believed she'd died, so it hit him just as hard (though I could be misremembering). They later did a version of the original clone storyline, again with MJ substituted for Gwen and hitting a number of the same story beats.
 
Maybe. I just kind of feel like the super-horse who
transforms into a man in his final moments, and whose death is the last straw that pushes Kara past the emotional edge
might raise a lot of questions in the minds of uninitiated viewers. But yeah, you could probably find a way to fill them in (a brief flashback montage behind narration?) if you really wanted to.

I guess what I'm saying is that a version of his backstory could be presented in the movie, or the centaur story is abandoned and something is established to show the strong bond between them. People get emotional over their pets.
 
I guess what I'm saying is that a version of his backstory could be presented in the movie, or the centaur story is abandoned and something is established to show the strong bond between them. People get emotional over their pets.

Oh, good point. An animal doesn't have to turn into a person to affect an audience emotionally. Look at John Wick's dog, or to an earlier generation, Old Yeller.
 
I think any adaptation that's part of a shared universe needs to adjust the story to fit the needs of that universe. Trying to make the new DC movie universe just a copy of the comics seems like a very bad, uncreative way to approach it. It should define its own identity, its own voice and style. We should hope for its creators to be capable of innovating, not just copying what different creators did. I mean, Zack Snyder made movies that were slavish copies of comics, and his subsequent attempts at original movies were deeply flawed at best.

And it makes no sense to me for the second movie in a series to be done the same way as a story that was part of a well-established history. The different contexts bring different needs.
Yeah, a lot of people seem to be expecting an exact recreation of the comic, but I'm expecting this to be as close to the Woman of Tomorrow comic as the Winter Soldier movie and Civil War movies over at Marvel were to their comics.
Maybe. I just kind of feel like the super-horse who
transforms into a man in his final moments, and whose death is the last straw that pushes Kara past the emotional edge
might raise a lot of questions in the minds of uninitiated viewers. But yeah, you could probably find a way to fill them in (a brief flashback montage behind narration?) if you really wanted to.
But does it really need the whole spoiler part of it to work? Couldn't she just be really bonded to Comet and still get emontional. I know I'd be pretty damn emotional if something happened to one of our dogs, and neither of them has ever been human. Well, actually we do have our suspicions about Gracie, who I use as my avatar, she's scary smart.
 
Yeah, a lot of people seem to be expecting an exact recreation of the comic, but I'm expecting this to be as close to the Woman of Tomorrow comic as the Winter Soldier movie and Civil War movies over at Marvel were to their comics.
Expecting? No. Wanting? Yes. (Despite being advised at length on how wrong that desire is.)
 
(Despite being advised at length on how wrong that desire is.)

Not "wrong," just unrealistic to expect an adaptation to be verbatim. Besides, if you love the original story, you've already got something exactly like it, namely the original story. It's still going to be there. So you lose nothing if an adaptation takes a different tack.
 
Oh, good point. An animal doesn't have to turn into a person to affect an audience emotionally. Look at John Wick's dog, or to an earlier generation, Old Yeller.

And what happens if the movie makes Comet a survivor of Krypton then that also heightens the emotional impact on Kara.
 
And what happens if the movie makes Comet a survivor of Krypton then that also heightens the emotional impact on Kara.

How would that work? Did they follow up the launch of Kal-El and Kara's space capsules with a space horse trailer? Weird priorities there...
 
I'm realizing how many details in the series that I've forgotten. I will probably re-read it closer to the movie's release.
 
I have to admit, I've always been a little disappointed they never found a way to work Comet into the series, even if he was just a regular Earth horse Kara had at the Danvers' farm.
 
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