Yeah you're spot on, Feige and co. are just the show runners, always keeping an eye on things and setting out the overarching narrative. It would be nice if they were a bit more hands off, but at the same time you don't want to be gambling with the success of $200m films

It wasn't safe but at the same time it wasn't really anything new, usual superhero trappings dressed up in Snyder's trademark dourness.

If AoU is a mess then I dread to think what you make of BvS, which I've been referring to as a bit of a mess all this time.

I've seen it a few times since and it is a pretty enjoyable film, outside of the random Thor bit and the slightly by the numbers end fight, Whedon definitely nails all the character moments in between.

I've always liked Joss, and his comments about how hard the film was to make made me like him even more.
Here's a guy who is passionate but also lays out the problems with big studio filmmaking, and as much as Marvel like to keep things interesting with different directors there's always been an air of behind the…

I agree 100%, what keeps the MCU fresh is their ability to bring in different directors who play to their strengths for each character (Branagh for the grandiose Thor, Favreau for Iron Man, James Gunn for the cheeky GotG). DC had a good idea with Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman, but the fact that they're entrusting JLA…

Something tells me that if BvS so much as breaks even then WB are going to see it as a sign that they should keep him on when, as you say, they could be doing so much better in the hands of someone else.
Nolan jumped ship early after the whole MoS Exec. Producer thing, that man can clearly see a disaster coming a mile…

Then again, eggs and baskets and all that, perhaps WB should have been a little more wary of diving into this whole DCCU project so unreservedly. If they backtrack now it'll look even worse.

The thing I find most astounding is that it's projected to make them less money than Man of Steel after tax and all that, and this is a film with Superman AND Batman AND Wonder Woman, essentially three of the most famous fictional characters ever.

It's not deep, it thinks it's deep, really it's just a bit silly.

A thoroughly entertaining and rather surprising episode of AoS. I'm a sucker for wibbly wobbly timey wimey episodes of television and this one, though it stuck to some conventions, was great in terms of how the premonition was dealt with once Daisy saw it. The May training sequence was pretty fun (and Ming Na Wen is…

That border crossing scene is hands down one of the best things I saw all last year, unreal tension.

I honestly think I'm enjoying this series more than Breaking Bad. Whereas that series showed us Walter White's gradual slide into being a complete monster, BCS deals so perfectly with Jimmy's human and caring nature wrestling with his trickster side, and how it affects everyone around him.
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The shudders after Prius and woman had me in stitches.

I loved Moe's bit at the end about the "Bogart kid," and Ralph walking into the locker was just a great little moment. I'd probably give this one an A actually, there were plenty of laughs, some real heart, and none of the cynicism that has occasionally crept into latter day Simpsons.

Then again I think Marvel had an in universe path to doing that with SHIELD in the background of everything, DC doesn't really have a similar organisation that it can use to introduce characters, except maybe STAR Labs for Flash and Cyborg.

And some sulking, preferably with some moping and grumbling thrown in too.

They've gone too far to pull back now, with JL filming very soon, WW almost done, and the teases for Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg in BvS, audiences are not expecting these films to happen.
They really didn't help themselves with that weird Kevin Smith TV special thing either.

Sort of for Aquaman, but mostly because I think Momoa is some inspired casting for the role, I want to see how they do it.