i mean... zach snyder seems to have attempted to make a gigantic, sprawling movie, with lots of characters, side plots, and background. then whedon, a completely different director than snyder, was charged with getting the film done and getting it released. so he cut a bunch of stuff, changed a bunch of stuff, and…

It’s almost like all movies have to be colour graded.

Seriously - the “Don’t like their skin tone” bit cracked me up, when I saw that Whedon shot on digital and Snyder shot on film.

I’m sure this is the first instance in film history where an overstressed director or producer has ever blurted out “you’ll never work in this town again!” in a fit of pique.

Yeah, nothing in there was particularly specific. All the characters listed that had their screen time reduced were side characters, so it’s not like that’s a surprise. 

Ray Fisher’s talking loud and saying little style of delivering his plight doesn’t make him a sympathetic figure either.

So in case anyone was wondering, I read the entire article specifically with an eye toward any specific allegations about Whedon. There was only one direct and one indirect. The direct one:

I’m still waiting for Snyder’s next superhero film where Batman gets raped in prison.

How is it “both sides are bad” when both bad people are on the same side? 

But... One clean up reboot is understandable. Gold/bronze/Silver age superman was just obnoxious. The same idea with the fantastic four reaching space in 1961, or Captain america being unfrozen after 16 years or so and being out of the ice almost 60 now. You do need to tweak things from time to time because of the…

Tom King has done some very good work, but from the beginning of Heroes in Crisis I have felt I was relieving Identity Crisis all over again. “Important” writer tells “Important" story tackling "important, mature" subject while making characters act wildly out of character to tell it; everyone oohs and ahhs because…

“if they had kept discipline and tweaked things instead of zero hour, infinite crisis, new 52....” 

Crisis was fine, if they had kept discipline and tweaked things instead of zero hour, infinite crisis, new 52.... It’s the problem with an industry that’s run 80+ years.

COIE was needed and was successful for a decade and a half. The problem was Silver Age fanboys getting DC jobs and undermining it 15 years later.

I’d argue this is a sizzling hot take as it utterly ignores that Crisis is probably one of the core reasons we still have a DCU and the company didn’t fold due to financial reasons.

i think it will be interesting to see how things like the digital archives offering unlimited access to decades of previous stories impacts things like line-wide continuity.

One of the problems that always seems to plague DC—on the comics side, anyway—is their absolute insistence that every single bit of continuity inconsistency/change must be addressed, often in an event comic. On some level, it’s interesting in sort of a meta “how will they write themselves out of this predicament?”…

It’s striking how much the Doomsday Clock pages above are intertwined with the actual publishing history of DC Comics’ characters — when you’re playing to an audience that aware of it, is there that much point in trying to do deck-clearing exercises on the continuity?

To be fair, that wasn’t Batman’s sole purpose in that story as he was also to be the antagonist hero questioning Hal and constantly shown in a negative light despite having completely valid concerns. Not that that doesn’t make Hal knocking effing Batman out with one punch any less ridiculous.

With 30+ years of hindsight, I think Crisis has proven to be a mistake. For DC, it’s probably had worse effects than the grim and gritty 90's that grew out of Watchmen.

I know most creators consider continuity a pain in the ass, but for a long running shared universe, a few narrative ground rules are probably for the…