God I hate the Superman Discourse and how congratulatory (Christian???) fans & writers about how they made Clark's Real Parents the Kents and how revolutionary this is *so fucking much*
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I love so many things about that movie but … holy unforced error, Batman
sep 3, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It wasn't unforced, it felt very deliberate.
sep 3, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
I felt that it emerged from Gunn wanting to play up Superman’s vulnerable human-ness in contrast to Snyder’s sensibility, so he locked off him turning to his Kryptonian roots without really thinking about Superman as a second-generation immigrant story.
sep 3, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
But I AM uneasy with it rhyming with the racist, authoritarian Krypton which Snyder offered us.
sep 3, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it's also because Gunn just loves that "family of choice trumps blood ties" theme. It was all over the GotG movies too.
sep 3, 2025, 11:47 pm • 3 1 • view
I would say it must make John Byrne happy but since I don't think he got a cut, probably not.
sep 3, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view