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Click bait headline, totally misleading. Shame on the "writer" and Screenrant for going above and beyond the forced content model to dish out this rehashed material and frame it as "news".
I get you don't care that you're not actual journalists, but have ye no dignity at all?
Green Lantern's Powers In The Superman Trailer Show Exactly What Ryan Reynolds' Movie Was Missing
The only thing I don't (yet) 'get' is the costume switch. Maybe it gets explained narratively within the movie?
Other than that mildly jarring issue, I'll wait to see the actual product before whining that only Henry Cavill can ever be Superman, or that James Gunn is "ruining" everything. Snyder's era was good, but it did end, as all things do.
Would the children rather have no Superman movies at all? How about a compromise? You all don't watch anymore. If there are more of "you", they simply won't make anymore. Problem solved.
Superman Trailer Breakdown: 15 Biggest Reveals From James Gunn's DC Movie Trailer Explained
It's only a clip. Pretty good chance by the end of the movie, some of that is cleaned up (within the movie). It actually makes sense somebody would question it. This also happened in various forms of the various animated series. Marvel did this in their properties too.
It was unrealistic that somebody would have that kind of power, virtually unchecked, and nobody would worry, be anxious...just be...happy?
'We', the audience, knows he is a 'good guy'. The world he inhabits does not know that for certain. He is far too powerful for nobody to even ask the questions. I totally understand him getting defensive...he stopped a war, darn it! He is a god amongst humans. Humans...especially Americans, believe god anointed 'us' as some chosen country. All the power is supposed to be concentrated with us and our hand-picked allies. Not some rogue, random guy flying(!) in a blue pajama outfit, who does not seem stoppable. From the human standpoint, who is he to decide 'who is the bad guy'? Are bullies still 'bullies' if they are on your side?
Ultimately, he will save us all from the bad guy(s). Just not before, it seems, some nice folks have some questions they need answering.
Superman Trailer Breakdown: 15 Biggest Reveals From James Gunn's DC Movie Trailer Explained
First...I think you are reading too much into the 'uniform' thing. The 'weight of the fabric'? I'm sure they didn't use wool for a modern day costume. For a lot of reasons. Is it a bit stylized? Sure. Does it resemble a uniform? In what way? What uniform has ever looked like that, besides another superhero costume?
Moving on...I'm not so sure about your claim of "...even more old wood frame houses that have been generational homes of old families that have been on that land for 150+ years." There are a lot of mobile homes in America, particularly across the Midwest regions. (Why so many towns are devastated by tornadoes...oversized sheds up on blocks...I wonder how that will do in high winds?) As for those farmhouses...most farms have dozens to hundreds of acres, and only one or two (if related living) actual farmhouses. Also, a lot of those have been replaced by those double wides you mentioned because they were a century old and falling down. So probably not as many as you think. (Take a drive from one side of the Midwest to the other on I-80, stop off in some smaller towns, you will realize this is true. Entire towns of mobile homes, save a village hall/police station, gas station/mechanic, maybe the grocery store, if there is one in town. Also, as more and more farms are bought out by the ConAgras of the world, they are just knocking those homes down too.
Lastly...no way of telling from just this clip if they are 'poor white trash'. That is an interesting assumption on your part...that living in a trailer home instantly makes that true. That just being 'rural' equals being stupid or making trash decisions. Obviously it can be true, but the swapping of the housing being your tipping point? They weren't 'trash' when they lived on a farm, they were magically smarter and better humans, but once the trailer rolled of that flatbed, they lost IQ points are equivalent humanity...?
I'm Convinced The DCU’s Superman Being “Weak” Proves How Much James Gunn Understands The Character
Superman has long been one of my least favorite superheroes...
His set-up as a nigh-on invincible entity was always boring. Like an invulnerabilty cheat code, he is fun when you're young(/immature), but once you're older, you want more depth. The gimmick to nerf him (kryponite) is/was always laughably obvious, even when I was first reading way back in the 1970s. It was clunky plot-armor decades before we would call it that. Always conveniently available on story demand by the one person a non-idiot would make sure never had any.
I doubt Gunn is making him "weak" as is being so noisily whined about. A bunch of "alpha" wannabes, feeling bizarrely "threatened" in their most adolescent snivelling ways possible. They are already angry they can't 'cheat code' their way through life, now they are upset their cheat code superhero isn't as overpowered as they wish they were.
“My Least Favorite”: Charlie Cox Opens Up About The Daredevil: Born Again Episode He “Really Pushed Back On”
My biggest personal gripe about nearly all of modern television is the brevity of the 'seasons'.
8-12 episode runs are rarely enough to really establish most characters, let alone complicated, deeper story arcs.
This is not a criticism of just Daredevil, but why it matters to this story, to this post, is that as I was watching it with my older son, I realized (and he agreed) that if the season were longer, episode five probably would not stand out so much. It would be a more typical 'goon of the week' type story, which are sort of 'filler' for a longer season with the more old school '22-26' episode run.
In the real world, it meant a few characters might get a week off, or a chance to explore a side character's background more, explain the history of the premise...something. All it has done for some of us, though, is give me time to drift off to something else and maybe not become as 'entrenched' as a viewer.
Certainly, one example I can give is the original 'Suits'. Loved the show the first few seasons (five?), but eventually, USA split the 'season' into like...ten episodes? Then didn't bring it back for months. Effectively making it the sort of forerunner for these type of shows that pretend they will be of higher quality, but really...not really.
Give me 20+ episodes and a filler like 'five' isn't a problem. It wasn't, to be clear, a very well-written episode. Me and the kid paused it plenty of times to point out silliness or logical errors. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great at all, and it didn't fit with much of the rest of the show, except maybe as a transition of Murdoch into rebecoming Daredevil....maybe...a little.