skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Well they said he was looking for away out... I wonder what his drink of choice is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I thought he was an atheist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Your link doesn't seem to do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Dammit Fox News: Ben Affleck's reign as Batman may come to an end due to post-rehab insurance costs.http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/28/ben-afflecks-reign-as-batman-may-come-to-end-due-to-post-rehab-insurance-costs.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said: He actually became Batman at 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 10 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: He actually became Batman at 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Also Gotham City is in New Jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: Also Gotham City is in New Jersey. It used to be... now it's basically Oakland. Metropolis is San Francisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Anyway, the real news is Affleck is probably out as Batman moving forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 18 minutes ago, RedSoxFan9 said: And they're wrong btw... he was 25 according to Year One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said: Anyway, the real news is Affleck is probably out as Batman moving forward. That insurance bond stuff is bananas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Just now, sblfilms said: That insurance bond stuff is bananas. I know... he's THAT uninsurable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: It used to be... now it's basically Oakland. Metropolis is San Francisco I'm utterly astounded that Gotham and Metropolis are essentially separated by a bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Just now, SFLUFAN said: I'm utterly astounded that Gotham and Metropolis are essentially separated by a bay. It's ridiculous... and they've made it canon in the comics now. Damian Wayne goes to a private school in Metropolis with Jonathan Kent. Alfred flies him there by chopper every morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's ridiculous... and they've made it canon in the comics now. Damian Wayne goes to a private school in Metropolis with Jonathan Kent. Alfred flies him there by chopper every morning. It's bloody stupid. I'd always just associated Metropolis with Chicago and Gotham with NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 minute ago, SFLUFAN said: It's bloody stupid. I'd always just associated Metropolis with Chicago and Gotham with NYC. You and everyone else... DC's geography is all kinds of fucked up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 It’s fitting that an actuary would make casting decisions in a series that probably has abused test screening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: It's bloody stupid. I'd always just associated Metropolis with Chicago and Gotham with NYC. Always the other way for me, since the Animated series architecture feels so much more like Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Sucks about Affleck, though. I hope he is able to get his shit together. His career had been coming back pretty strong for minute there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: You and everyone else... DC's geography is all kinds of fucked up Arrow has also been super inconsistent with where Star City is supposed to be. They've shown on-screen maps showing it in a kind of Chicago-ish area, yet the show starts with Oliver getting on his father's yacht to sail to Asia (which would heavily imply being coastal, presumably west coast). I prefer the Marvel method of mostly doing fictionalized versions of real cities...I just find it way less distracting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Jason said: Arrow has also been super inconsistent with where Star City is supposed to be. They've shown on-screen maps showing it in a kind of Chicago-ish area, yet the show starts with Oliver getting on his father's yacht to sail to Asia (which would heavily imply being coastal, presumably west coast). I prefer the Marvel method of mostly doing fictionalized versions of real cities...I just find it way less distracting. Star City in the comics is basically Seattle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number305 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 40 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: It used to be... now it's basically Oakland. Metropolis is San Francisco I don't keep up with comics so in no way am I trying to start an argument which I am sure I would lose... However I remember a quote from Frank Miller that said something like Metropolis is New York in the daytime, and Gotham City is New York at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 25 minutes ago, Jason said: I prefer the Marvel method of mostly doing fictionalized versions of real cities...I just find it way less distracting. And somehow real-world cities also exist in the DC universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 29 minutes ago, number305 said: I don't keep up with comics so in no way am I trying to start an argument which I am sure I would lose... However I remember a quote from Frank Miller that said something like Metropolis is New York in the daytime, and Gotham City is New York at night. Pretty sure he was speaking figuratively in terms of the tones of each city. Originally, both Metropolis and Gotham were stand-ins for New York. In modern times, Gotham became DC's New York and Metropolis became Chicago. Both have been all over the place to be honest though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said: It used to be... now it's basically Oakland. Metropolis is San Francisco The more you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: The more you know. Thank Zack Snyder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 36 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: And somehow real-world cities also exist in the DC universe. Which is part of why I find DC's approach so distracting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Just now, skillzdadirecta said: Thank Zack Snyder. No. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Having Metropolis and Gotham practically staring at each other across a body of water totally messed up my DC universe head canon. In my head canon, I associated Superman and Batman as being the "guardians" of their respective cities (yes, I know Superman technically is Earth's guardian, but whatever) and that each hero "respected" the other's territory unless the need was absolutely dire. With this new canon, why on Earth would anyone in Gotham look to Batman to be their guardian when the practically omniscient Superman is literally just across a freakin' bay?!? Superman could easily act as the guardian of BOTH Metropolis and Gotham which makes Batman pretty superfluous. Yes, I've given way, WAY too much thought to this (probably at least an hour), but Snyder totally obliterated my well-considered intellectual framework. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 15 hours ago, SFLUFAN said: Snyder totally obliterated... ...Batman's mythos. ...Superman's joy. ...Lex Luthor's stature. ...Jimmy Olsen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 People in Gotham are twisted and want a billionaire to beat up lower class criminals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 18 hours ago, SFLUFAN said: Having Metropolis and Gotham practically staring at each other across a body of water totally messed up my DC universe head canon. In my head canon, I associated Superman and Batman as being the "guardians" of their respective cities (yes, I know Superman technically is Earth's guardian, but whatever) and that each hero "respected" the other's territory unless the need was absolutely dire. With this new canon, why on Earth would anyone in Gotham look to Batman to be their guardian when the practically omniscient Superman is literally just across a freakin' bay?!? Superman could easily act as the guardian of BOTH Metropolis and Gotham which makes Batman pretty superfluous. Yes, I've given way, WAY too much thought to this (probably at least an hour), but Snyder totally obliterated my well-considered intellectual framework. I cannot state enough how stupid it is that all of this is true as of Batman v Superman... Clark Kent was a reporter for The Daily Planet... saw Bruce Wayne show up at an event... AND HE DID NOT KNOW WHO BRUCE WAYNE WAS. So I assume that in the Snyderverse, Superman doesn’t bother to protect Gotham because when he sees it, he thinks it’s the background in a video game or something and he can’t actually go there. It’s the only thing that makes sense, and it tracks with everything that Batman and Superman do in these movies being the stupidest possible thing they could possibly do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdyb1 Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 3 hours ago, Wild said: ...Batman's mythos. ...Superman's joy. ...Lex Luthor's stature. ...Jimmy Olsen. You simplified it perfectly. But the Snyder defenders refuse to see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 STOP THE PRESSES! I just discovered that this ludicrous geographic proximity of Metropolis and Gotham has been effectively canon for a couple of decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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