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Neodegenerate on 11 April 2016
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Neodegenerate said:

I felt like Miller's interpretation of Superman, giving the tone of his book, was pretty well done.  After all, Superman is only working with the gov at that point because the options are to work with them or not help people at all.

BatVSupes should've been a movie where Superman found himself and started to become the hope that he has been known for throughout his history.  Instead what we got was a continuation of the concepts that were laid out (and IMO, done much better) in MoS.  I can understand the idea that without Superman the world would need a Justice League to compensate.  However, in this movie universe, I would think that they would just be glad to be done with Superman entirely and move on regardless.

Exactly. They dont need superman. Wonder Woman was the first person in the group to draw first blood on Doomsday to begin with.

I thought Wonder Woman was great in the film.  I initially had an issue with how little development and screen time she had, but with her movie coming out next after Suicide Squad it makes sense.

A while back I was at a comic-con panel with one of DC's writers and he mentioned that in the writing room they have this unspoken thing called "The Superman Dilemma."  What it essentially boils down to is "how do we keep Superman out of this fight to keep it interesting enough to tell the story?"  When the Justice League goes up against Darkseid or Doomsday, no problem.  Superman needs to be there the whole time as they are Gods/Kryptonians in their own right.  When they are up against someone with a little less power, like say Eclipso, Superman could just finish the fight in about 5 seconds.  So, how do you keep him out of it?  In this cinematic universe, killing him for a bit certainly solves that dilemma for them.  Now they can build the Justice League and show them doing well, then have Darksied or someone show up, and Supes comes in and save the day after all hope is lost.

My only hope is that the resurrected Superman has less angst and more hope himself.  I enjoy the look of Cavill as Superman, but after two movies the feel of him as Superman is starting to wear on me.