WB and Zach Snyder should probably have made a $100,000,000 Cyborg movie before Justice League. Then they could have made a 2 hour Justice League. Instead Zach Snyder made a 4 hour movie that couldn’t possibly get a theatrical release and left Joss Whedon in an impossible situation. Cut the POC’s screen time or…

It’s a bit of a loaded question in my opinion. There’s no way of telling if I’d be interested in a movie without knowing what the plot would be, who would be directing it, who else is in the cast, so on. And also, there’s not really an easy way to tell if people were excited for a Cyborg movie regardless of how he was…

The investigation claims it found no sign of racial animus yet the only people out of the six JLs who got chewed out by Whedon were the two men of color and the woman.

Putting aside all the controversy surrounding the Justice League film and just looking at the character, Cyborg doesn’t inherently thrive as a solo hero. Like The Thing or Kitty Pryde, he functions best as the symbolic heart or emotional center of a group. As Cyborg currently exists, there is not enough of a unique…

This is an above the individuals observation, but the booyah exchange strikes me a particular exchange that in the aggregate of everything else Fisher or any marginalized person can experience feels indicative of more. In most particular incidents, there can be reasons for this or that, but when they always go against…

Easy content at the expense of $70 million additional dollars. That’s a prestige mini-series right there.

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Just curious: is there anyone out there who has seen the Snyder Cut and came away excited about a Cyborg movie?

The Jezebel post is a bit more expansive on the problematic racial issues:

WB already brought him back for The Nevers. They only got rid of him once they basically had to.

I think we’re all learning the magic of setting a very low bar and clearing that bar by as little as possible.

The worst thing actually making the Snyder Cut did is launch a million thinkpieces. Beyond that the cast and crew seem much happier, most people agree it’s a better movie, and WB got some easy content for HBO Max in the middle of a pandemic.

I bet Samuel L Jackson could.

Once the dude went after Cordelia Chase he was dead to me. Do NOT fuck with national treasure Charisma Carpenter! If he’s the reason she didn’t do more projects... :(

Okay, you won me over with Krypt-o-nite.

The actor says this made him think of Black actors like Gary Coleman and Jimmie Walker, who became synonymous with the catchphrases of their TV counterparts.

Maybe the Snyder Cut and Joss Whedon were bad ideas for the DC Universe.

Maybe the Snyder Cut and Joss Whedon were bad ideas for the DC Universe.

Yeah, see, this shit is why I went from “the Snyder Cut is a stupid idea” to “maybe excising Whedon from this thing is warranted if it’s viable.”