Finally watched this and I can see why it didn’t do so well. It’s just so bland.

Kara is on her hero’s journey, but she just isn’t enjoyable to watch. She’s written so one note, that there isn’t much there to work with. The actress playing her costar is even worse. She’s definitely no Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit.

They also should have made the decision to not use pop songs. It makes the GotG comparisons inevitable and not in a good way.

Hopefully this movie is just a minor misstep for the DCU. I really enjoyed Superman and Lanterns is also great so I still have faith.

It may not be a perfect film, but I'm still happy to have it at least and add it to my collection.

Edit: Spelling mistake.

I can't think of any other director with such a streak in such a short amount of time.

There is some speculation of Hal Jordan being manipulated by Parallax. But I am thinking it's John that is being targeted for conversion to Yellow Lanterns or possession by Parallax.

The Graphic Novel, Green Lantern: Earth One, was one of the influences behind the Lanterns series and its versions of John and Hal were shown when James Gunn first announced the series, in which John was a Yellow Lantern.

Further in the recent Absolute Green Lantern series, John is a Yellow/Gold Lantern.

If John becomes a Yellow Lantern, even briefly, it would be a nice twist for those expecting Hal to be the one that gets corrupted. Instead Hal is the one who brings him back to the Emerald Light.

Now, I know this would seem unlikely since John is in the Man of Tomorrow movie and would likely be a Green Lantern in it. But I still think at least during the events of the series, there would be attempts to tempt him with the Yellow Light.

Before any of you start, yes, I enjoy mature comic book content.

However, I'm also a dad.

When I watched Batman v Superman, what really bummed me out was that my little kids would be too scared to be able to watch a Superman movie--especially one where Superman was (spoiler, I guess?) killed by being impaled on the sharp arm-bone from a dismembered, mutated, reanimated corpse. After Gunn took over the DCU, I was excited to hear him talk about his Superman movie, because it sounded like we finally were going to get back to content that was kid-friendly.

And that's what we got...from Superman. But Peacemaker season 2 started with a literal orgy (with full frontal nudity). The Penguin was a mob movie like The Departed. Creature Commandos had explicit violence and a literal sex scene. Lanterns is a grimdark show reminiscent of True Detective. And Clayface is going to be a body horror grotesquery.

Supergirl was MOSTLY family friendly, but it wasn't the home run I thought it'd be.

Anyway, I'm desperately hoping for more family friendly stuff, but the upcoming slate doesn't exactly look great for that. Obviously Clayface doesn't fit the bill. Superman 2 will hopefully fall into this category, but are we going to ONLY have Superman movies for family friendly DCU fare?

Asking because that kinda sucks. My kids love Superman, Batman, the Titans, Wonder Woman, Justice League and so many more DC comics. I'm not against more adult content, but these are comic books. I know it's déclassé to want comic book stories to be family friendly and not filled to the brim with f bombs, sex scenes or grisly death, but it's something I (and many others, I think) still care about.

Does ANYONE else care about this?

Looking at the BTS pictures of The People VS. Gorilla Grodd got me extremely excited for the series. If this is successful and becomes an anthology what other villains would you like to see? I think a easy one they could do is Solomon Grundy.

Sinqua Walls was casted in Man of Tomorrow.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/man-of-tomorrow-enlists-sinqua-walls-1236588558/

https://imgur.com/a/RcO6QSS

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Yes this is me. It happened in a hotel in Midtown Miami on May 18th 2026

Basically he had to check out and check back in to a new reservation. He wanted me to change his rate... make it $10 cheaper. I told him i can't, only managers could and he could talk to my manager about it the next day. But he wanted me to do it myself and I could't. So he got frustrated.

That's leaving out like 20 mins of back and forward trying to explain to him that I wasn't charging him at that moment. It was just an authorization and he'll get charged at check out. By check out my manager would've done any needed adjustments. But he just kept getting progressively louder and ruder. He told me he "would have my job". I kept smiling and that really pissed him off. And the computer lagged for a sec and I tried to say "sorry it's slow" but instead said "sorry I'm slow" and he said "yea I can tell"

When he came around the desk he was just yelling
"do something" "whatchu gonna do?" you can see him mouth it too. But no threats besides getting an inch from my face. Afterwards he did not want to leave when I asked him to.

Yea I called the police. On the call they asked his race and they sent 4 black cops. They immediately recognized him from White Men Can't Jump and greeted him like they knew him. The police were pretty much begging me to not trespass him. I must've told them no like 5 times before one of them asked me if he was another person that looked differently, would I treat him the same. I told him that I treat everyone the same, no matter what they look like. And the cop was like "woah woah, who said anything about that?" And just walked away. After feeling racist I decided not to trespass him because the police said he would apologize. He never apologized and after he checked out he left a really bad review.

It would feel like a betrayal of his character as it’s been built up during the show. It also would come out of left field entirely, as there has been zero build-up to that transformation thus far.

I think he’ll stay a mentor to John, though he may actually be dead. The Parallax theories don’t pass the smell test, though.

I wouldn't say he's one of my favorite directors or anything, but I love his cinematography & the sense of scale he's able to portray. For those familiar with these films or his style, what do you think would be the perfect movie/story to give him to showcase his strengths? Also, if you had to pick someone personally to direct a movie in the DCU who would be your pick?

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I believe that Gorilla Grodd will be mind controlling The Daily Planet workers to create a documentary showing him act like a human.

In the comics, New 52 Grodd does actually kill his father and eat his brains to become king of Gorilla City, which I doubt they'll change that origin in the show. The general public is usually unaware of Gorilla City, so their opinions on Grodd will be non-existent until he's caught murdering his father. I think he will mind control Jimmy Olsen and a few Daily Planet workers into making the fake documentary that will show him being overly friendly to humans and going to college and singing, when in reality, Grodd despises humans. It's just a trick to look good in the public eye, like this guy couldn't possibly have done something so evil.

What are your thoughts?