When the wizard Shazam said “Billy Batson, I choose you” my first thought was “So that subway car is a Pokeball?”

We’re ALL pretending that Season 4 didn’t happen.

The potential slayer thing had already been implied back in Season 2. Kendra was raised since early childhood in preparation for her becoming the Slayer, indicating there’s some method of determining which girls will/might become Chosen one day.

Yeah, the best reboots are generally of properties that had great potential that they never fully realized (see Ocean’s Eleven for a magnificent example). Buffy is probably the best version of what it was trying to be.

You’ll need to buy the R-rated extended cut for that sort of action.

Is any tragic backstory better than that version of Robin’s?

They’re called Merry Men, not Gritty & Serious Men.

Yeah, that’s really more a “convenience store worker” stereotype than an Indian stereotype.

a) Those could just be references to other DC Comics characters without meaning to reference the Arrowverse. The same way Ra’s al Ghul can show up in both Arrow and Gotham without the two being related.

I still don’t think there’s intended to be any lead character on Legends. Note that, during the “Crisis on Earth-X” crossover, we had evil counterparts to the other shows leads (Oliver and Kara had their Nazi doppelgangers, and Barry had a guy literally called “the Reverse Flash”), while there was no evil version of a…

Aside from Pied Piper in Season 1, I can’t think of ANY gay or bi characters who have appeared on The Flash outside of crossovers.

Sara is a leadER, but she’s not really a LEAD, as Legends is an ensemble show.

It would make sense as a replacement: green Batman gets replaced with red-haired Batman.

Aside from Pied Piper in Season 1, I can’t think of any gay or bi characters who have showed up on The Flash outside of crossovers.

Assuming that (unlike Black Lightning) this will be part of the Arrowverse continuity, then that franchise will have put as many TV shows on the air as Star Trek (though most of them with far lower episode counts at this point).

Maybe go the route of that old Birds of Prey live action series and say that Batman has been dead/missing for a few years, so a new hero needs to step up.

It kinda sounds like his love for the Mission: Impossible films is based, in large part, on him being a filmmaker himself, giving him a deep appreciation for HOW the movies are made, with all their practical stunt- and camera-work.

I haven’t seen any of the Purge movies, but just going from the core concept, it seems like going in-depth on how the Purge got started is a mistake. Is there really any chain of events that would make such a setup believable?

You’re still in a situation where (odds are) the people making the movie, and most of the intended audience, don’t really know the thing being parodied that well. It’s something you see in a lot of superhero parodies of that time period, where most folks knowledge of the genre is fuzzy memories of their childhood, and…

So sort of Shaun Of The Dead kind of thing?