KnightWing

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  1. And according to Berlanti, it's also supposed to have a lighter tone. Which may be evidenced by the not-entirely-dark picture up there. I think that's the first press photo for Arrow that hasn't been taken either in a dark room or outside at night.

    Also, that new costume looks pretty rad. I like that the original green hood that Ollie's been wearing for the first three seasons is finally gone; maybe he's actually letting go of being a damaged stiff-ass from the island.

  2. When "kinda fun" is the best that can be said about it, and "pretty lame" is the average takeaway, that's still not good, especially when you need to sell the entire Lantern Corps as a franchise. But that being said, I think the tone and style of the Man of Steel DCU will actually fit the Corps really well. As much as Green Lantern can be fun, when the Corps is involved I actually tend to like the grittier and more epic stories.

  3. I love that Batman has a motivation for attacking Superman other than "Superman is dumb and wrong." It's been a good while since we've seen Batman have to deal with something this personal.

    I also like the side character bits: Alfred outright telling Bruce he's wrong, Perry White calling out Clark for his journalism war on Batman, Ma Kent being a good mom, etc.

  4. Now THIS I like. This looks awesome. It's basically what I figured the movie would be when they announced it: Batman is the vengeful misguided antagonist, and Superman is basically just standing his ground and doing whatever he can to help, regardless of what anyone else thinks. Lex is a scheming manipulator. No idea what Wonder Woman is doing in there but okay.

    I'm kinda psyched now.

  5. Even with realism aside, Aunt May is kind of a useless and boring character if she's so old she can't tie her shoes without Peter. Making her younger and/or more able is different from the norm, but it's interesting. And it's not too different from what Ultimate Spider-Man did.

  6. I think the problem with that, though, is that season 1 already did that with Matt. He didn't want to kill Fisk, then he did, then tried to kill him, then finally went back and solidified his Daredevil identity by choosing not to kill.

    I think now the conflict might be Matt dealing with the consequences of either his choice not to kill or of others killing. If Matt can't persuade Elektra not to go down a darker path, he's gonna end up holding her corpse at some point, right?