{"id":40985,"date":"2014-02-03T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/dc-attempts-a-coherent-movie-universe.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:52:25","slug":"dc-attempts-a-coherent-movie-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/dc-attempts-a-coherent-movie-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"DC attempts a coherent movie universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Except it's in their animated direct-to-video work. Which is clever of them, because that's been some of DC's best media product. It's less clever, because the continuity is going to be built on the New 52 universe (more or less), which I consider a hot mess, but which DC is betting the farm on.<\/p>\n

Anyway, good thinking, even if dubious direction.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Except it's in their animated direct-to-video work. Which is clever of them, because that's been some of DC's best media product. It's less clever, because the continuity is going to be built on the New 52 universe (more or less), which I consider a hot mess, but which DC is betting the farm on. Anyway, … Continue reading “DC attempts a coherent movie universe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131033,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn.html","url_meta":{"origin":40985,"position":0},"title":"If we can't have more Captain Jack, I'll settle for more Malcolm Merlyn","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Jul-16 4:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"John Barrowman gets a cross-CW-DC-hero contract. Excellent.Actually, this (like the Wentworth Miller \/ Captain Cold contract) is pretty clever. It's a lot easier to have villains cross-over between Arrow \/ Flash \/ Legends of Tomorrow (and, maybe, Supergirl?) than heroes. 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