Like many TV exhibits with a unbroken story, the premiere of Peacemaker season 2 opens with a collection of flashbacks type the earlier season, reminding viewers how Chris shaped a friendship with fellow oddballs within the eleventh Road Youngsters, killed his abusive white supremacist father, and defeated the butterflies. Tellingly, this part comes with a title card that reads, “Beforehand within the DCU.”
However as an alternative of the Justice League arriving too quickly, it’s the Justice Gang seen in Superman: Hawkgirl, Man Gardner, and Mister Terrific, with Superman and Supergirl in tow. As with the unique model, solely two of the characters are absolutely seen and work together with Chris, as we see Nathan Fillion as Man Gardner grouch about being referred to as a “meathead,” and Isabela Merced cackles at him as Hawkgirl.
Some will definitely leap to the conclusion that we’re seeing the line-up of the brand new Justice League, full with David Corenswet’s Superman and Milly Alcock’s Supergirl as members, however that may be means too untimely, particularly as the primary episode finds Chris attempting out for the Justice Gang. Others will complain that Gunn hand waved one thing so enormous. The complete universe modified! This deserves a complete Disaster on Infinite Earths-style occasion! It could actually’t be only a couple seconds within the intro!
Seems, no you don’t. And Gunn is aware of this nicely as a result of he is aware of how comedian ebook universes work.
The DC Universe has been a unbroken storyline since 1938. The Marvel Universe has been a unbroken storyline since 1961—longer in case you depend pre-Marvel comics starring Namor and Captain America. Whereas DC has rebooted its universe a number of occasions, with the aforementioned Disaster and others, and Marvel had a pseudo-reboot in Secret Wars, even these occasions are a part of ongoing tales.
The continued story might be fantastic, because it’s enjoyable to see Flash pop up in a Batman journey or Spider-Man attempt to be part of the Implausible 4. However when writers should spend an excessive amount of time explaining how Flash might be in Gotham Metropolis when readers know he was trapped on Earth-2 that very same month, then they’re spending an excessive amount of time on exposition, telling as an alternative of exhibiting. And after they’re doing exposition, creators can’t do the factor that followers really need in a narrative: character growth and motion.
