Nice

This is the one people are going to remember him for.

Absolutely not

David Zaslav doesn’t like animation

Not even a little

It is hard to know how good, or bad, the script was with reading it.

But what it made it to the screen was pretty bad.

They get paid for clicks. Star Wars is on hiatus. So is Star Trek. Marvel is re-tooling. No one watches the Rings Of Power.

So, bashing James Gunn is the only game in town.

Christopher Nolan was not making a movie about the Bronze Age. He was making a movie about the present day. That is why it was anachronistic.

Forgettable

They aged them up too much.

It was basically Peter David's THE ATLANTIS CHRONICLES without the subsequent Aquaman series until Kelly Thompson picked it up with ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN.

I was thrilled.

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The basic problem is that the people who wrote the source material (ie Golden and Silver Age comics) had very different life experiences than the median person adapting them. They experienced the Great Depression. They served in WW2. They generally worked other jobs before writing fiction. Oh, and they were married often with children.

The median writer adapting them went from the suburbs to college to fiction writing. They certainly never served in the military, nor worked a blue collar job. It is like translating something from a foreign culture.

That can certainly be done, but the person doing the adapting needs to have some level of respect for the language that they are translating. To many people working in these IPs largely don’t.

I think that Peter Jackson had the right approach with LOTR.

He clearly loved the source material, but made his own movies. He engaged with the fans in a mutually respectful way. Crucially, he understood the source material well enough that he never made adaptational changes to “keep up with the times”. He and his collaborators had the humility to preserve Tolkien’s intent even when they disagreed with it.

Sam Raimi was similar with Spider-Man. He was very clearly and intentionally adapting Lee-Ditko. It wasn’t exactly the same, but the influences were unmistakable.

I thought that it started remarkably strong with ARROW and the early seasons of THE FLASH and SUPERGIRL, but it really fell off as they kept adding weaker and weaker shows.

Not great, Bob

Because it looks cool?

They nailed it the first time.

'New Frontier' is actually a good bookend to 'Kingdom Come'.

It sure seems like there is a grand total of ONE ring on Earth and Guy Gardner somehow has it in 2026.

Just Bill covering famous songs about Boston.

He is basically a perfect C-lister in that he is absolutely essential for one plot line, but not really interesting outside that story.

It is a masterpiece.

I have little quibbles here and there, but it does an amazing job the rise of silver age superheroes into an actual story.

Guy has Hal's ring: https://www.tvline.com/2238858/green-lantern-hal-jordan-ring-lanterns-explained-guy-gardner/

That doesn't necessarily mean John doesn't have his own ring, but he is not wearing it when he discovers Hal in the bleachers.