Spoilers Peacemaker Season 2 (Spoilers)

[Meech17]

If you told me a few years ago who out of John Cena, Dave Bautista, and Dwayne Johnson would be your favorite wrestler turned actor, I would’ve said Johnson no doubt. But in so many ways, I think Cena and Bautista have lapped Johnson because of their willingness to choose different projects that allow them show their acting chops or appear vulnerable, while Johnson really settled into that action role that felt more openly like personal branding.

Yep, these were the two movies I was thinking. Pain and Gain was another. I’ll be interested to see how he does with The Smashing Machine. End of the day, I think he can do it, it was just more of a business decision from his standpoint.

I agree wholeheartedly, and it's kind of funny. I think I have given Johnson extra charitability unfairly in the opposite way. I absolutely loved Pain and Gain, and I feel like that leads me to always finishing movies feeling let down by him. Like "Man.. I remember him being better than this."

Back on topic, Judomaster is my new favorite character. He's grown considerably and the scenes where he both:

Spoiler: Season 2, Episode 6 Spoilers

1. Saves Adebayo.
2. Backs Chris's version of events re: the return of the gateway.

Are great.

Judomaster really grew on me, and also, leaves me disappointed that we don't get a few more episodes. Just like back in season one when he and Peacemaker had their parking lot rematch, and he starts trying to make an appeal to Chris about the butterflies before Adebayo shoots him.

On one hand I think it's nice that Gunn treats us like grown-ups and let's us piece things together ourselves, like seeing Peacemaker save the butterfly, likely due to Judomaster telling him that they aren't what he thinks.

On the other hand, I think it would have made for enjoyable B-Plots to see what Judomaster was up to after he escaped in season 1, and before he saves Adebayo in season 2.

 

[gnarlygninja]

That keeps getting said, and really people run with it, but when you really look into it, it was a pissing game between him, Statham and Diesel and they had similar wording in their contract to determine who came out on top in these movies that had all of them in it. He's done several movies where he's taken a licking or lost a fight on screen. I'm sure if they play the Smashing Machine as it is supposed to be played, he will have to lose a fight on screen.

It's also not really that different from a thing that actors have always done, just turned up a few notches. William Goldman talks about actors being overly concerned with their image, and trying to exert control over the movie to protect it, in Adventures in the Screen Trade.

 

[Kaodi]

I wonder how much better the film would have done had it come out before Johnson's fall from grace.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I just realized that tomorrow night will be the ... last episode of the season.

Woah. That makes me sad. I really enjoy this series. I also don't know how they will possibly wrap it all up in a single episode! Which, of course, means that they probably won't? Assume there will be dangling threads for a Season 3, which is fine by me.

I'm not going to bang the drum and say that this great art or anything, but it really hits that mixture of comedy and ... earned pathos that makes me look forward to every single episode. The characters feel real and stay true to their motivations, while also growing and changing in response to events. For a silly superhero show starring one of the ... let's face it ... worst DC characters, it is supremely satisfying.

It is comfort TV of high quality, and I mean that as a compliment.

 

[Morrus]

I just realized that tomorrow night will be the ... last episode of the season.

Sad times.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Sad times.

There is so much out there (gesticulates around) that makes me unhappy, that I dread losing one of the few sources of happiness that I regularly look forward to.

Might as well take away the gin at this point.

 

[Ryujin]

I just realized that tomorrow night will be the ... last episode of the season.

Woah. That makes me sad. I really enjoy this series. I also don't know how they will possibly wrap it all up in a single episode! Which, of course, means that they probably won't? Assume there will be dangling threads for a Season 3, which is fine by me.

I'm not going to bang the drum and say that this great art or anything, but it really hits that mixture of comedy and ... earned pathos that makes me look forward to every single episode. The characters feel real and stay true to their motivations, while also growing and changing in response to events. For a silly superhero show starring one of the ... let's face it ... worst DC characters, it is supremely satisfying.

It is comfort TV of high quality, and I mean that as a compliment.

Gunn hasn't confirmed a season 3 but he has teased that character from the series would be seen in another series. "that isn't Peacemaker."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Gunn hasn't confirmed a season 3 but he has teased that character from the series would be seen in another series. "that isn't Peacemaker."

Look, I have no issue with spinoffs. Or cameos (yeah, I saw Lex Luthor ... and I'm not saying that Nicolas Hoult is my lord and savior, but I'm also not NOT saying it).

But if Gunn doesn't give us another season of Peacemaker, he is as dead to me as any bard.

 

[Ryujin]

Look, I have no issue with spinoffs. Or cameos (yeah, I saw Lex Luthor ... and I'm not saying that Nicolas Hoult is my lord and savior, but I'm also not NOT saying it).

But if Gunn doesn't give us another season of Peacemaker, he is as dead to me as any bard.

After the season 2 opener, I want a Justice League HR series.