I agree it was odd to move Cyborg from the Titans, and Stewart is more interesting than Hal. I just didn’t see any malicious intent, just a preference by Johns for (boring) Hal.

Doesn’t seem like he was so great during Firefly either...

No, they wanted him to say “Booyah” even in the original Snyder version. They were worried that when the film’s tone changed to a more comedic non-grim and gritty one, leaving the only main Black male character as a very angry character, would seem a racist stereotype. So they wanted the character’s line and attitude…

How is that insidious? He loves Hal and wanted him in the Justice League comic reboot (as historically Hal had been for the first decades of the comic) but also thought it was important for their to be a non-white character (one that wasn’t Martian) so he put another one of his favorites, Cyborg, in a much bigger spot…

Not at all the most important thing you wrote, but isn’t Vic in the Teen Titans cartoon also a teen like the rest of them? Did I miss that he’s an adult?

Nah, he’s super talented. MacGruber, Nebraska, Last Man on Earth, Clone High, tons of smaller roles in lots of movies and TV, his work on SNL, his writing on sitcoms before getting SNL... No need to put him down if you want to praise Hader. Certainly not something Hader would do.

Nice summary, Patrick! Thanks.

I’ve accepted the show’s not going to be great, but can at least be a dumb, fun ride with charming actors. Bring on the b-movie cliches!

And we’ve seen that Sam’s face is known around the world. At least give him a disguise of some sort. Hell, Logan always just wore a patch when in Madripoor and that somehow worked.

I wish there was a 1.5 hour cut. I thought the movie would’ve been a lot better with less.

I like the episodes with actual experts (Thursdays, as you point out), but do find Dax to be exhausting sometimes (although he seems very well intended).

Both Felicity and Bucky cut their hair too. She’s a bad influence!

I’m with you. It kind of feels they should build to that kind of relationship a bit more? The bit about the three types of threats felt like it came out of nowhere and reminded me of that bad Tarantino dialogue from “Crimson Tide” about the Silver Surfer. Just forced.

Stephen Colbert, on his old show which was mostly a satire of Bill O’Reilly, used to have the character take it literally. So when a Black guest would point that they were Black, Stephen would say, “Are you? I don’t see color.” Super well done.

https://jezebel.com/robin-givens-on-her-mike-tyson-abuse-allegations-being-1830590700

And here I was hoping he got caught doing something fun like calling Tucker an idiot or something.

They received a “Winter Soldier created by” credit at the end of the show, but I wonder if they also get royalties? Bucky was created way before any royalties for creating original characters was a thing, but Winter Soldier was after that kind of payment (finally) happened to some degree. I wonder if retconning and…

I wish that recap were in the series. It’s been a while!

It’s a second article about the premiere focusing on one aspect of it. They do that a lot with popular shows/movies. I’m sure there was more than on Justice League article as well (and like 100 Wandavision ones!)