James Gunn did exactly the right thing with the DCEU

By Drewsch
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Pacifist Season 2 is underway but it has been a while since term 1 (almost three years!), So it was nice to have a significant repetition for the first season at the start of the season 2 premiere. But, in something that initially amazed me, the characters had been replaced by the current DCU justice gang.

Naturally, this has led to a tonne of justification and nerds by nerds on alternate universe and cannons and all that they are not remotely interesting about storytelling. In my opinion, James Gunn Did the right thing with this moment to set up the DCU and put the DCEU in the rearview mirror.

Just go with him

DCEU Justice League Seconds appear Pacifist A fun little moment, but it is by far a piece of sacred text. The realignment for Dc In the films was a small deal that James Gunn gave. He had already contributed to the process with The suicide squad and first season PacifistBut then he got the keys to the kingdom to run his way. He had to make sense of a different strategy for the DCEU and move on with his DCU artistic plan.

I appreciate James Gunn even entertaining the catching factors of the DCEU, but it is now clear that he has paved over any eerie threads of those films. It is a mindset that needs to be better embraced with the DCU moving forward because reasonable adults know how to go with the flow alone. One of the things I was worried about with the DCU was that he would recognize the DCEU canonical in some sort of panro road for that fanbase. Instead, James Gunn went on with the kind of mature storytelling that understands.

Canon is the enemy

The obsession with a cannon and being able to link each individual piece of storytelling universe has become a pest on discourse. James Gunn has indicated that the DCU will include a true variety of films, and while they will respect the canon of other films, they will feel different for themselves. I hope this is true as the cannon comes the thing I am least concerned about a superhero cinema. I want movies that tell their own stories and don’t feel disadvantaged, narrative or stylistic, by some sense of canon.

By complete transportation over the DCEU in the Pacifist Repeat, James Gunn has already shown that he is not going to feel visible to some imaginary sense of Canon’s responsibility when the story is more important. I know this will get much more difficult to manage as the DCU marches on, but I all want to ignore Canon when the story benefits from doing so. Feds that can not always be used in Canon, but they will always have their wiki dungeons to crawl back in while the rest of us adults enjoy a story is a good story.