@ninjathrowingstork That was my impression also, it felt like there should have been a full JSA movie first to actually build up these characters, maybe give a stronger reason why Carter was so adamant that Adam stand down when he was defending his homeland. I wanted more backstory on him and Fate and their friendship, since they showed everyone being a team and working together, but it's just three people and we could have done with another movie first (1/)
Where they have to iron out team dynamics and lose 1-2 teammates somehow to another supervillain so we get a better motivation why it's so urgent they contain him and give us an explanation why they suddenly have jurisdiction now. Also I felt like they just dropped the whole thing about Adrianna's pendant being an heirloom and her also looking like his wife like is she also a descendant of his somehow? Or of a relative? It would have been a fun parallel to Ishmael. (2/2)
no you're so right! a JSA movie where we're properly introduced to Carter Hall and Kent Nelson and the idea of the JSA - a super powered org that answers to a governing body as opposed to the JL who answers to no one (as already established in prev DC films). Then there would be reason for the tension with Black Adam and we would understand why JSA was called in. Plus Carter Hall's backstory as an archaeologist who is actually the reincarnation of an Egyptian king is so cool!!! Could’ve had a lot of fun with that as a concept for a movie. And just Thanagarian lore is really cool and badass and necessary to establish Hawkman as a warrior who does not back down (and the like reincarnation thing is a pretty big part his character, so him being the potential death could’ve had a lot more emotional stakes if he had only just gotten his memories back??) Plus, like Dr Fate! C’mon man! So many missed opportunities there with his powers. What we got of him was really neat I just wanted more.
there were just too many characters to introduce and storylines to balance to give proper weight to any of it, which sucks because that means we also got less of Black Adam’s story which resulted in a lot of story threads being dropped too. Now, how much of this was classic WB meddling post-production issues? only time will tell. but at the moment i feel like we got half a movie and I’m still waiting on the rest.
