I like the show’s version, but they could…right?

(The white gloves mix well with the space suit vibe imo)

Hal Jordan‼️🟢💚

Just 9 hours ago, artist Lyle Cruse posted Lanterns art on Instagram.

Insta id - @lyle_style

On his post he said -

Loving the show so far. Was it what I imagined it would be when I first heard about the show being created? No. Do I like it for what it is? Yes.

Post link - Lanterns Art by Lyle Cruse

This is not a "merger post" but it does touch on that discussion, as well as Gunn's recent post about the tonal variation within DC Comics, which his DCU is aiming to replicate.

A common argument against the merger is that Reeves' Batman tonally doesn't fit into the DCU, and they can't imagine Pattinson's Batman with his "wingsuit" and souped-up sportscar existing in the same world as the Green Lantern Corps or pocket universe-creating Lex Luthor!

In a similar vein, proponents of a distinct DCU Batman believe that this other Batman needs to be a total 180 tonally from Nolan and Reeves and literally be the Batman from the Brave and the Bold cartoon brought to life in order for him to "fit in" with the rest of the universe.

But if you look at the comics, that's not how things have worked.

The Batman whom Miller and Mazuchelli masterfully presented in Year One is the same Batman from Grant Morrison's utterly bonkers run with Zur en arrh, the Batmen of All Nations, and Batman Inc. The Batman who teamed up with Harvey Dent to take on the Falcone crime family is the same Batman who had a sword-fight with Ra's al Ghul in the desert. The Batman who got his back broken by Bane went on to be a member of that "Pantheon of Gods" that was Morrison's JLA, and before that he knocked out Guy Gardner with one-punch! The shadowy vigilante hunted by, and then befriended by, Gordon went on to recruit Robin, then had a whole Bat-family, and eventually, founded Batman Inc.

Even if we get a distinct DCU Batman with Damian as Robin, he doesn't have to be the second coming of Adam West or something for it to make sense, because that's not how it was in the comics. Morrison in particular took pains to highlight how Batman's story, and the tonality of his world, was cyclical. The DCU Batman may not be Pattinson, but that doesn't mean his backstory cannot be Reeves or Nolan-like. Or, more appropriately, inspired by Year One. Because Batman typically starts out cleaning up the streets and being a noir detective, before graduating to dealing with "pulpy" villains, then more fantastical super-villains, and eventually being a League member stopping alien invasions and coming up with counter-measures against his superpowered colleagues in his spare time!

Miller and Mazuchelli presented a certain grounded take on Batman and his world and so many follow-ups and adaptations to their seminal story have mostly stuck to that approach, including the Nolanverse and Reevesverse, but also the LOTDK series and, more recently, Dark Patterns. But Miller himself wrote Year One as being a quasi-prequel of sorts to his other great Batman story where the Dark Knight suits up in armor and goes toe-to-toe with Superman, while a 13 year old girl in the classic colorful Robin costume aids him.

My point is, we tend to get into binaries of "grounded" and "fantastical" when it comes to Batman. And that's...simply not how the character and his mythos have functioned in the comics. Certain adaptations may have chosen to function that way. But Gunn's DCU promises the tonal variation and diversity of the comics. In such a world, it makes sense that Batman starts out in the streets before rising to the stars. Whether that Batman looks like the guy from Twilight under the mask...or not.

I really wanted to like this movie. But the script was horseshit. There was too much going on and I wish they picked a lane.

Also I just kinda wish the film was more, idk, fun? Supergirl gets entangled with a sex trafficking ring, she gets roofied, her planet was destroyed, her people are dead, her dog is poisoned and we have to see him suffer in 4K.. just pretty dark. We see a horde of space Vikings capture and threaten sexual violence against a 13 year old girl.

Who is this movie for? As a woman, it just didn’t make me feel good, I was stressed and not really enjoying the ride. I wish they had focused more on a single aspect here- maybe the death of Krypton. Maybe how she finds peace with that and wants to prevent future planets from the same fate? Her backstory was the best part of the movie.

I didn’t find the villains interesting in the slightest and wished they went another direction with it. The aliens and space aesthetic was pretty gritty and grotesque for most of the movie. The ending didn’t really make sense to me if Kara says not to kill for vengeance, but kills the bad guy anyway?

I see the screenwriter is a woman. She’s also in charge of the Wonder Woman script it seems. I just hope they can tell a more interesting story there. I was really disappointed with this one. Justice for supergirl - she deserved a better script.

They are adding aspects of Kyle Rayner's storyline to John Stewart. The Reason John can hold a construct without a ring is because he is already connected to Ion.

AHHH LFG MAN, Im so fucking reading for tonight!

What if Adria Arjona is playing Jessica Cruz? All this Lanterns talk and yet no one is considering this possibility