Peacemaker on HBOMax: Cena and Hair Bands and Eagly OH MY

Bailed after episode 2, my wife wasn't feeling it, it might be too dumb and not funny enough. The house style is fine in small doses, but the pacing gets old pretty quickly (ie, stop the action for a banal conversation that goes on longer than would be conventional, and would ideally be funnier). I get why people like it though, it's fun and all.

tbh it improves a lot more once Vigilante is fully integrated into the show

Disagree, I think if the first two eps aren't your bag the show's not your bag

Yeah, the pilot was incredible and the tone doesn't really change after that, it just adds layers of emotion while still delivering absurdity and hyperviolence (and rawk).

Vigilante def helped though I liked it from the getgo.

i would get why people DON'T like it, my partner loathes it. Except for the opening. And the fact that I watch it with obvious glee. But it is very much a cilantro show

I need to watch this. I remember the character from the old Charlton days.

lol, there was a nice easter egg in the last episode when a news conference was being broadcast on Charlton News

That's a nice nod. It's remarkable what fertile ground those comics have been. The characters in Watchmen were all based on Charlton characters. They provided a platform for Steve Ditko, and I still remember first encountering a very young John Byrne in their series Doomsday +1 and Space:1999.

... "cilantro show"?

meaning some people will love it and others will think it tastes like soap, metaphorically

If I could somehow summon the powers of a real life #Peacemaker I think this would be a great time to do so.

— John Cena (@JohnCena) February 24, 2022

o_O

uh

NGL though I wouldn't mind if the last words V Putin ever heard on earth were "activate human torpedo"

Uh indeed

God bless him and all but Cena is a deeply weird guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maL6gq6qME

I haven't been following the thread because I've been taking my time and am only on episode 7 and in fact (correctly) figured that even though it might not be her thing my wife would enjoy it so started the series from the beginning, but ... man, it's so key that Gunn writes every episode himself, keeps the through-line of the vision intact.

this is pretty great

No kidding, we shot the actual opening in a school auditorium not so different from that. #Peacemaker https://t.co/S9IsLv8ReU

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 26, 2022

Apparently Season 2 has begun filming!!

:D

I need this