What were your thoughts on all the new trailers comic con showed?

captainjackslog:

racefortheironthrone:

Wonder Woman – Gal Godot looks amazing, Chris Pine is funny (it’s been a good year for male leads being better as comically-doofy pretty boys, actually), although I still remain puzzled why WWI rather than WWII, when WWI is a much more morally ambiguous conflict and Wonder Woman was created in 1941.

Justice League – definitely looks to be an improvement over BvSDOJ, but I’ll still wait on people I trust before I go see it.

Suicide Squad – still looking good.

Lego Batman – best Batman.

Doctor Strange – really looking forward to this, even though I think they’re leaning a bit heavily on the ol’ Inception-by-way-of-kaleidoscope.

Iron Fist – might be good, even if it’s not John Cho.

Power Man – looks really really good. Especially from the stills I’ve seen of some of the actual episodes, I think this is going to be one of the most politically-charged Marvel shows ever, and that’s a good thing.

Defenders – not much detail, but I have to admit it hit my nostalgia bone hard to hear “Come As You Are.”

Did I miss any?

I think you missed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

As for your questions about Wonder Woman, I think part of the reason they went with WWI was to help distinguish it from Captain America but that’s just a guess. Also I think the fact that that conflict was more morally ambiguous might work to the story’s advantage but once again I’m just guessing.

I missed them because I can’t find those trailers online. If anyone has links, definitely send them my way. 

I don’t know about the WWI thing. Going over the top is not something that should be turned into super-heroics as opposed to a furious indictment of the nationalism and class privilege and idiocy of the generals who sent men marching into the machine guns from the comfort of the rear.

And how do you do WWI without talking about the Russian Revolution? Or the Treaty of Versailles? Or where the hell Wonder Woman was during WWII? Or why in the new DCU society hasn’t been altered by superheroes having been a thing for a hundred years, which you’d think would have come up in Man of Steel or BVSDOJ. 

Whereas WWII is so much easier, because the Germans invaded and occupied Greece in WWII. Steve Trevor crash-lands on Paradise Island, the Germans try to capture him, run into Wonder Woman and the Amazons. The Amazons are horrified by Nazi ideology and send out Wonder Woman to help liberate Greece.