You can find Smith’s script online and it’s pretty solid. It has its flaws and I don’t see how it would have been made for less than $100 million, but it certainly would have been better than the last few Superman movies.

Kevin Smith was brought in before Tim Burton. He completed a script, was doing rewrites and then Burton was hired and decided to do a completely different script with Nicolas Cage wearing the cape.

That’s true. In the Incredible Hulk, he’s a rumor. That carries over to the Avengers and then the Hulk is (mostly) under control in Age of Ultron and then he’s off-world. The next time he’s seen on Earth, he’s Banner’s mind in the Hulk’s body and wildly popular. We never really got the hunted and feared, rampaging…

There’s a huge difference in their mission statements and power levels, though. The Suicide Squad is relatively low-powered black ops while the Authority can go toe-to-toe with the JLA (and probably win) and their goal is making the world better, no matter the cost.

I really dug Kelly and Mahnke's JLA run. It was really inventive.

Which is how the Marvel G.I. Joe series was conceived! Fury formed a special unit to go after Hydra. The pitch didn’t land or it didn’t make it that far before Hasbro came knocking about the idea for the toyline and adaptation.

For the American Transformers comics, that’s why Bumblebee was rebuilt as Goldbug.

I loved the Ellis/Hitch run of the Authority, despite the diminishing returns of the latter stories, but I have no idea how you can slot them in the DCU without fundamentally altering their mission statement or severely changing the other DC heroes. Either Superman is okay with the Authority killing their way to create…

I never understood the logic behind faking the moon landings.

That’s the double-edged sword of only having two people doing the majority of the creative work. Doc and Jackson have talked about how they could do more episodes if they had a writers room, but the show wouldn't be the same and that's not something they were willing to sacrifice.

I really hope it’s not. That subplot/joke was dropped in the third or fourth season and it’s irrelevant at this point.

Seems like a safe bet.

It’d be fitting if they brought Tobey Maguire back (again) for one last round and ended it with him retiring and passing the webs to Miles. I think Tom Holland’s Peter being just out of high school and getting killed (because him quitting so young is a stretch) is a tad too dark for general audiences.

That was pretty much destined to happen. Every X-Men script written in the last forty years focuses on Wolverine. He's one of the most recognizable comic characters on the planet and has been front and center in practically every adaptation for over thirty years.

Supposedly, test audiences were confused by his Batman showing up, so they reshot the scene(s?) with Affleck.

So Olivia Coleman is going to play the third descendant of a Howling Commando to appear in the MCU? It’s probably too much to hope for to see her or any of her relatives as Union Jack or Spitfire.

I wanted the season after the island flashbacks ended (season six, I think?) to just flashback to the first season scenes with Ollie returning to Star City.

There’s references to Ollie sacrificing his life in the first season and apparently a photo of Kara Zor-El on Lois’ desk but the shot was cut; the first season was filmed with the intention of it being canon with the Arrowverse. COVID definitely killed the crossover potential and it was easier to cordon the series off…

If the Arrowverse shows had been 13-15 episodes, that would have helped. There’s a lot of treading water in most of the series, except maybe Arrow’s last season, but that was short and all CoIE-related.

Ruby Rose quit because of a broken neck sustained while filming and was forced to return to work ten days later without concessions for the injury.