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Gunn’s def got the finger on the pulse for the oddball group of heroes stories. It’s been a reaaaaaaally long wait for this but I’m betting it’s gonna be worth it.
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It appears they are expanding on the multiverse stuff already started in DC.
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Yep. Not sure I like that at all with this show. Leave what works alone.
They had no choice once Gunn took over and he decided to do his own thing. The Justice League cameo at the end of Season 1 is a different continuity than Gunn's. By keeping some of the stuff going they sort of mucked it up. Now, Justice League we have been watching is one universe. Suicide Squad he wanted to tie into his universe (including Peacemaker) which is a different universe. No telling how or if the new Batman fits into any of it.
"The truth is almost all of Peacemaker is canon with the exception of Justice League… which we will kind of deal with in the next season of Peacemaker,”.
Sounds like they are going to address the inconsistency in Season 2.
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Ah, if only Gunn had stuck to Suicide Squad and Peacemaker we would have been much, much better off. Oh well.
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Lol… I love that you say with this with so much certainty without even seeing what Superman ends up being.
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Not commenting on Superman at all, although I have serious reservations. I just don't want Peacemaker tarnished by the same "shared universe" brush that is eroding a lot--not all, but a lot--of comic properties these days. I'd rather it just be its own show.
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Okay… but your comment implies he’s already failed with Peacemaker Season 2 without even seeing the show yet.
The guy hit home runs with Suicide and Peacemaker 1, not to mention the best trilogy in the MCU. He’s been… kinda good so far in all his live action comic book stuff. There is something to giving someone the benefit of the doubt.
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Not at all! It in fact looks epic. I simply didn't want shared universe stuff. You can kindly leave my opinion alone now, please thanks. Or we can continue a pointless argument.
I don't know about the Home Run part of SS (although Harley was awesome) but GG was epic. Which is why I was so shocked at how much I hated SS2 and surprised how good Peacemaker has been despite coming form that universe. I am still skeptical he can save DC and the mess they created but I will give it a shot.
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Evidently they are going to untangle the Snyderverse with the Gunnverse this season. Curios to see how that plays out.
"It’s not that big a deal"
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Ugh, really? Can't get away from it in Marvel, and now it's infecting the best DC property. Gunn better not have fudged up Peacemaker for his Gunniverse BS.
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I liked what Gunn did with Supes enough, but he’s really at his best when he’s doing the freaks in the superhero genre.
OK. How did JG fix the end on season 1? The end of season one had the Justice League. All he did was replace that scene with a flashback of the gang from Superman.
That didn’t fix anything. He either thinks we are idiots or really forgetful. That’s not a fix at all. He just made things even messier unless there is something else coming.
That didn’t fix anything. He either thinks we are idiots or really forgetful. That’s not a fix at all. He just made things even messier unless there is something else coming.
Stout
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Yeah, James Gunn just took a giant dump on my hopes for this show. That was absolutely abysmal. There was some really good content in there, the seeds of what could be a good season, but it was vastly overshadowed by absolute garbage. Not a good start.
freaking retconning? Seriously? freaking with a great property to make it nothing more than a DCEU tie-in? Peacemaker S1 was 1,000x better than Superman, but oh by the way, we need to freaking retcon Peacemaker to kowtow to the movie? fudge that noise.
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And you know what freaking means.
Dude is a hack
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He didn't used to be.
Thankfully my friend and I also had some Rick and Morty to watch, and the first one completely mocked James Gunn. Snyder too, but mainly Gunn. At least he could poke some fun at himself.
A retcon like this is pure laziness. I really hope there is more to it than that. There might be. I mean, they hinted that the Peacemaker's quantum closet was causing anomalies. I would be perfectly OK with an explanation being that it's altering reality or something like that. That's where I thought it was going to go. If not? Yeah..that sucked. We shall see.
The Justice Gang tryouts were funny though.
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Yeah. If this wasn't a lazy retconned tie-in to the movie, and the Justice Gang really had been there at the end of Season 1, no biggie. That was funny stuff, but hard to enjoy when thoroughly pissed off.
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The second one wasn't as bad as the first, but was by no means great. The one guy was suuuper annoying and just not funny.
