re: 'Peacemaker' Season 2 Discussion Thread - EP 2 now playing. SPOILERS!

Overall this season was mediocre at best.

I’m curious if he’s going to acknowledge the massive disappointment that was this season. He can’t help himself but respond to people online and I’m seeing a lot of negative reaction everywhere

Or whether he’ll go on podcasts and pretend he made a good season of tv and the hosts won’t call him out

What a joke nobody cared about that relationship and the only scenes they were in were together. The wife literally never interacted with anyone else. Why even put that in the show except for DEI?

I especially like that on his podcast Gunn said the interesting thing about multiverse stories is exploring the dimensions in detail rather than like Marvel showing bits and pieces then proceeded to do a montage of them all.

In my opinion, season was good, not as good as season 1. I understand what Gunn was doing. I am not a comic person and do not know the in-depth details of the stories.

Peacemaker season 2 (episodes 1-7) had 2 goals:
1 was story telling and building more backstory of the characters- Gunn said that the cast might not be in a season 3, but they will be involved in another show. That show will be Checkmate (which could have been the Waller show remade). I do not know the details of checkmate but it’s popular in the comic books. It’s easier to start a new series with characters we already know and like while slowly working in new characters into the universe

2: explains more of the different dimensions. One thing I’ve constantly see is how marvel dropped the ball on their multiverse for multiplayer reasons. I think Gunn saw this, and took the time in peacemaker to somewhat explain the dimensions in more detail. DC seems to use the different dimensions a lot in there storylines


Now episode 8 is a one off episode, does not really have much to do with the season. This episode helps set up where the future will go. Salvation kinda reminds me of the movie Predators, metahumans get dumped on this mystery planet with a threat bigger than them lurking.
Salvation run seems like a pretty big deal and has ties to darkseid. I would think that salvation will be a miniseries in the next 4 years once they kinda establish some villains to throw there

So was the season good? Yes and no. Depends how you look at it thinking it will be exactly like season 1.

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I do not know the details of checkmate but it’s popular in the comic books.

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I wouldn't describe any of these characters or storylines as "popular in the comic books." That's part of the appeal.

Looks like instead of season 3 we are getting a tv show about Waller and Checkmate.

Two musical numbers by acts no one cares about, on top of that.

I’m more confused than angry about this season finale. It was just bad storytelling top to bottom. Still like the series… just not this episode.

I thought it was fine. You knew he wasn't going to get his happy ending.

I was kind of happy to see Nelson but then they played a song from 2010 and not the 80s then the other band played a song we hear every episode. That should have been the credits maybe.

Then i was hoping we saw a large threat. Darkseid, braniac, Some one.

Also I thought they casted the Bride. Though I also think some would really dislike Monsters being added to the show. Though two of the team King Shark and Weasel were in the movie.

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