DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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With the latest episode, the Peacemaker podcast has made it through the first season:
They will now switch to companion mode for season 2.
They will now switch to companion mode for season 2.
Cast him as the live-action version too, you cowards:
I finally got around to watching Superman and found it quite enjoyable. Rate it an 8.
I still wont be diving all in like I did with my beloved Arrowverse and how it started with the old DCEU but the potential for the occasional good time is present. I still have no intention to watch Peacemaker.
I still wont be diving all in like I did with my beloved Arrowverse and how it started with the old DCEU but the potential for the occasional good time is present. I still have no intention to watch Peacemaker.
Me neither -- it sounds like very much not my cup of tea -- but I read the reviews of the premiere to see how they handled the universe change. From the trailers, where the character talked about a parallel universe, I'd expected that they'd have him cross over from the DCEU to the new DCU and stay there, perhaps along with his supporting cast. But it sounds like they've just retconned the ending of season 1 and are treating it like it was in the DCU all along. I'm a bit surprised they'd go that route, because modern audiences seem too literal-minded about continuity to be able to cope with a change that doesn't have an in-story alternate-universe handwave to explain it.
Watching that show with your kid? Somebody should call child protective services.
It begs the question how much of the previous universe is canon since each small inclusion ripples backwards.
No.
We used to watch similar stuff with our kids, explaining things along the way. If a child wants to watch something, they’ll figure it out whether you’re part of the experience or not.
Children aren’t stupid.
No sons. But my youngest daughter is in her thirties and the mother of four kids - who probably should not watch Peacemaker.
"And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple."
I thought that Gunn was basically just treating his own stuff from the DCEU as part of DCU canon and excluding the rest.
It's not unheard of for two or more different continuities to have certain stories in common but not others. Between 1954 and 2004, there were seven different Godzilla movie continuities in Japan, all of which had the original movie in common but otherwise contradicted each other (and occasionally rewrote the ending of the original or reinterpreted the nature and origin of Godzilla, so even their versions of the original film's events didn't completely agree). Similarly, there are horror franchises like Friday the 13th and Halloween where different sequels ignore each other and branch off independently from the first film. And there were at least three different Knight Rider revivals that treated the original series as canon but ignored each other.
It's more unusual, though, for a new continuity to include only one or two later works from an earlier continuity, rather than taking a different branching from the inaugural work. Offhand, I can't think of another example besides Gunn-DC.
Well, for those who really care about every little bit, Gunn did a "Is it canon" section during the Peacemaker podcast for season 1. For instance, he declared the references to Bat-Mite and Green Arrow as not canon anymore, simply because they might introduce them at some point and not want them be pre-established.
People would say that about Ghostbusters if it had been released today.
Huh? Hardly. That was a PG-rated film.
Well, that's a very interesting logo...
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