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I felt exactly the same as you: the show got interesting in Season 2, perfected its formula in Season 3 and then tossed [i]everything[/i] out of the window in Season 4 to align with ‘The Walking Dead’.
It’s as if ‘Black Summer’ reverted to ‘Z Nation’ - that’s what the gear shift in tones felt like.
[quote] You're missing the subtext of his post.
They AMALGAMATED Peacemaker's father into [b]a current day iteration of what the Left tries to fear-monger people into believing is a problem in modern day America.[/b][/quote]
They amalgamated a character created in 1988 with a character created in 1987.
That subtext you’re so angry about only exists to a tiny amount of very online people in 2022 who are outraged by … white supremacists as villains? ANTIFA? “Left-wing propagandists”?
[quote] The guy who performed the modifications was also quite cringe.[/quote]
“Stephen Lee Bruner, better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and actor from Los Angeles. In 2016, Thundercat won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for his work on the track "These Walls" from Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. In 2020, Thundercat released his fourth studio album titled It Is What It Is, which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album.”
If you go to bed warm and non-hypothermic and then start to become so cold that you start developing hypothermia, the shivering to try to warm your body would become so violent that it would wake you up.
However, if you already had hypothermia and had stopped shivering and were drifting off to sleep, the odds would be higher that you would never wake up (unless someone started raising your body temperature to revive you).
Jackie was already freezing from spending all of that time trying to light her campfire, but stubbornly stayed outside and drifted off to sleep in the cold. Then the temperature dropped even further when it started to snow, which killed her.
[quote]While in reality I doubt that any writer of those shows saw any real alive nazi in their life. They all exist only in their heads like uniconrs and tooth fairies. [b]And its getting out of control in the last 10 years. Because they have to be politically correct so they cant have black criminal now.[/b][/quote]
‘Peacemaker’ is based on a comic created in 1966. The character’s father was established as a Nazi in 1988.
For this TV series, Peacemaker’s Nazi father was amalgamated with a neo-Nazi character, White Dragon, created in 1987.
The show is adapting material that spans back 56 years.
If you enjoyed Fear the Walking Dead and thought it got better and better from Season 1-3 (like me)… Season 4 is simply awful.
The pacing, cinematography, characterization and tone was rebooted to be almost identical to The Walking Dead (at times it feels like Z Nation). There is a big time jump after Season 3. They also kill off most of the remaining FTWD characters.
I stopped watching around this point, even though I still think Strand is the most interesting person in The Walking Dead universe.
The Warriors.
He was a red herring.
Just the fact that he’s playing Swordsman, a criminal who is part of Hawkeye’s comic book origin story, is supposed to lead us to believe that he’s the bad guy here, too.
Unfortunately, it was blindingly obvious to anyone over 15 years old that Eleanor was the villain from the outset, just like it supposed to be a twist that Mysterio was a baddie in ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’.
I agree.
They didn’t do enough to foreshadow that Peacemaker was a fanatic (to the degree that he’d betray the team he had befriended) aside from having him jokingly say “If this whole beach was completely covered in dicks, and somebody said I had to eat every dick until the beach was clean for liberty…”.
When he flipped, I was left wondering if he was a double agent working for Waller or if upholding America’s reputation was part of his psychotic pathology.
Likewise for Flag. There really wasn’t enough foreshadowing that the veteran field leader of Task Force X would be willing to betray Waller and the US government over this particular mission. If Flag had been the character with a young daughter, and he’d witnesses children being experimented on for Project: Starfish, maybe his decision would have felt more organic.
It’s a nice story, but it seems like baloney after watching the end product.
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I’m not sure if a feminist action film that’s written and directed by men can even be considered “woke”. It seems misjudged at best, cynical at worst.
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Yes, I loved Lisey’s house as well as the alien world, particularly the waterside location.
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I thought the show was really well cast aside from Karli, which is a bit of a big deal since she’s (arguably) the villain.
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What did you think?
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Yes, there were a few lighting issues in the forest and underground lair.
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One film failed critically but made a massive amount of money (and won an Academy Award), and the two other films succeeded critically but failed financially due to COVID.
I’m not a huge fan of the character and I think she’s out-of-place on the Suicide Squad (Harley Quinn is too popular to be killed off), but Margot Robbie is likable and has made the role her own.
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Bloodsport was just an assassin and wasn’t as crazy and quirky as the other villains, which is why Waller wanted him to be a leader.
I didn’t have that many problems with the characters, but I agree that the tone of the film jumped around from being funny to gross, serious and sentimental. That’s how James Gunn’s last film, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ was as well.
Personally, I could have done with less humour and sentimentality, but it wasn’t a big deal to me. At least it was better than the previous film and ‘GotG Vol. 2’.
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All of that information is from the movie, not any comics.
Personally, I didn’t really understand the motivations of Flag (as Waller’s second-in-command, he turns on her way too easily over Project: Starfish) or Peacemaker (was he a secret government agent on the team or did he attack Flag because he was psychotically patriotic)?
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He had a troubled relationship with his daughter, and he revealed that he was groomed to become an assassin by his own abusive father.
His friendship with Ratcatcher allowed him to finally form the emotional father-daughter connections he’d been denying himself. Her friendly rats also helped him move past his childhood trauma of being tortured by his dad.
He was also friends with Flag from some previous black-ops missions together, so he had some loyalty there.
Bloodsport actually had a big character arc, even if a lot of it recycled Deadshot’s story from the first movie - Idris Elba was originally cast as Deadshot, replacing Will Smith.
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When they attacked the guerilla camp, they just assumed that Flag was being kept prisoner by the Corto Maltese military.
Bloodsport, Ratcatcher, Killer Shark, Harley Quinn and Polka Dot Man were the most sympathetic of the villains. By the end, they’d bonded, sparked some humanity in each other and revealed that their origin stories all stemmed from traumatic circumstances, like abusive childhoods, being experimented on, the loss of family and the feeling of being an outcast.
When Flag, ostensibly their “good guy” leader, was killed for trying to expose the US government’s horrific experiments on innocent people, that was the final straw for them to push back, too.
Ultimately, they didn’t expose the US, like Flag had tried to do, and used the information on the disc to buy their own freedom instead. But none of them were completely villainous enough to leave an entire country to be enslaved by Starro, or to abandon their teammates to fight it alone.
It’s a deliberate riff on the ending of ‘The Wild Bunch’, where a handful of bloodthirsty outlaws decide against riding off into the sunset and choose to go on a final suicide mission to avenge their comrade and end the threat posed by the Mexican army.
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