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 - WilliamDrakeMcGregor
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Re: Peacemaker
Junko wrote:I read IGN and sometimes other sites for the shows I watch but never comment, even though I do often read the comments. This is probably the first time I've actually written about something I've watched. Why? Because I'm mildly emotional and this community seems pretty okay. I... feel lied to. Did Gunn tell me this was going to be a standalone story with only mild references to a universe I, as of yet, have no reason to care about? No, he didn't. But Peacemaker season 1 and everything but the end of S2 made me feel that way. Please don't tell me I'm the dick. Nobody is the dick. I'm just venting. 15 episodes of these two seasons were great. Fun, interesting, deep-enough characters and fun, interesting, deep-enough sci-fi, political, action shenanigans. But that last episode? Come on. I wanted them to do something cool. I wanted them to wrap up waaay more of the story, beyond one major relationship and a less seen one. Just, what?? Why did Gunn suddenly nuke his own show to do conceptual world-building? Haven't we seen a million useless building moments from other shows and movies? I was led, perhaps by myself, to believe Gunn wasn't do that to us with this show. I believed we were being shown a cool story, which would end. It did not. Thank you for reading.
Welcome to the forum  The only thing I can think of is that Season 1 was before he became head honcho of the new DCU. There wasn't that kind of pressure on him to tell a big, decade enveloping, story. With the might of the MCU hanging over him he probably thought everything has to fit together and over-corrected. As we know Gunn reads comments...so let's hope he acknowledges the feedback for the final and considers it in the next projects. Would be a real shame to see this happen again.
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 - graybags
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I still think the worst of this show is better than the best of some of the other shows I still watch. It's ridiculous and over-the-top and funny, and that's just what I need sometimes.
2020. Meh.
 - afrokiwi
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graybags wrote:I still think the worst of this show is better than the best of some of the other shows I still watch. It's ridiculous and over-the-top and funny, and that's just what I need sometimes.
what he/she said :-)
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Junko wrote:I read IGN and sometimes other sites for the shows I watch but never comment, even though I do often read the comments. This is probably the first time I've actually written about something I've watched. Why? Because I'm mildly emotional and this community seems pretty okay. I... feel lied to. Did Gunn tell me this was going to be a standalone story with only mild references to a universe I, as of yet, have no reason to care about? No, he didn't. But Peacemaker season 1 and everything but the end of S2 made me feel that way. Please don't tell me I'm the dick. Nobody is the dick. I'm just venting. 15 episodes of these two seasons were great. Fun, interesting, deep-enough characters and fun, interesting, deep-enough sci-fi, political, action shenanigans. But that last episode? Come on. I wanted them to do something cool. I wanted them to wrap up waaay more of the story, beyond one major relationship and a less seen one. Just, what?? Why did Gunn suddenly nuke his own show to do conceptual world-building? Haven't we seen a million useless building moments from other shows and movies? I was led, perhaps by myself, to believe Gunn wasn't doing that to us with this show. I believed we were being shown a cool story, which would end. It did not. Thank you for reading.
Welcome to the forums, great to have you here! Pretty ok, I agree, we're pretty ok. Santah will be so proud of us. lolz. As per your comment, I in no way thought James Gunn was writing a cool story, if anything I thought the ending was completely on brand. Peacemaker is carnal levity that attempts yet often fails to provide catharsis, which is why we watch it...for stupid fun, you know, turn brain off and watch with beer and nachos, and a happy meal, and a party platter, and.......maybe I'm just hungry.....
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 - TheFizza
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Re: Peacemaker
Soooo good... can't wait for the next season 
- WilliamDrakeMcGregor
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TheFizza wrote:Soooo good... can't wait for the next season
You saw that they cancelled it, right? Or are you being ironic?
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 - Deke
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WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:You saw that they cancelled it, right? Or are you being ironic?
I Just started S2, I was gutted when I got the notification from the phone app today 
- graybags
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Cancelled? I just think there are no immediate plans for a season 3 and that the Peacemaker story will be continued in other shows/films. Bit disappointing, but here's hoping for a season 3.
2020. Meh.
- WilliamDrakeMcGregor
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graybags wrote:Cancelled? I just think there are no immediate plans for a season 3 and that the Peacemaker story will be continued in other shows/films. Bit disappointing, but here's hoping for a season 3.
Here a little bit more info on the subject
https://forum.next-episode.net/viewtopic.php?id=12812 Yes, it is not entirely out of the question that there will be a Season 3 but there are no plans for it right now.
The story will be continued in other films, which is however what many people criticized...that Peacemaker should've been it's own narrative and not a stepping stone to the new DCU. On that I agree, with Season 1 they managed it perfectly, to make it feel like a part of the universe but keeping the story "local". Season 2 not so much.
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 - lighton
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Re: Peacemaker
WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:The story will be continued in other films, which is however what many people criticized...that Peacemaker should've been it's own narrative and not a stepping stone to the new DCU. On that I agree, with Season 1 they managed it perfectly, to make it feel like a part of the universe but keeping the story "local". Season 2 not so much.
He probably felt that he had to do it in this way, but it kinda ruined season 2 for me. That and too much navel-gazing.
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