Maybe “impact” is a good term to use to characterize the show as a whole. It’s never didactic or patronizing, it manages to maintain relevance without being too zeitgeisty.
More than this, the time-travelling and dimension-hopping address something that fans of The Flash know well: Flash is secretly the most powerful character in the DC Universe.
The Neon Demon is a film that delights in presenting questions it has no intention of answering, of telling you a story you only think you’ve heard before.
So settle back, pour a drink, and relax as Dave Hearn, Adam Barraclough, and Lexi Wolfe have a spoilery-as-fuck discussion about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice!
Though I haven’t seen the full run of the franchise, I was very impressed by these five, particularly in their ability to appropriate genre and to add fresh blood to the Power Rangers formula.
Yes, this is a blockbuster action film and teen romance, but thanks to careful allegiance to the source material and a screenplay that carefully balances social commentary with more conventional storytelling, it manages to do more than simply pander to a target demographic.
