Spoilers Peacemaker Season 2 (Spoilers)

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.
Johnson is charismatic and good at playing one character; The Rock. I haven't seen any range form him. Bautista is an obviously big and tough guy but he's played everything from a brooding and damaged vet ("Bushwick"), to comedy relief ("Guardians of the Galaxy"), to a thoughtful cultist (Knock at the Cabin Door"). Cena has mostly worked on his comedy chops and I think that he might actually be capable of doing stand-up, these days.
 
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It definitely would be nice if they had maybe 50% more episodes in a season, so they could have followed that arc a bit. As it was it's still a good quick twist, followed by a gut punch when dad gets shanked and that would have happened just as quickly, in order to maximize the effect on the viewer.
yeah a cameo from the Sons of Liberty and knowing where the People of Colour were would have been good when chasing Leota, Keith Smith reported "One got out", but we never learn out of where?.
Maybe they could have scripted it as Leota getting caught/arrested by Keith and then Chris teaming up with the Sons of Liberty to rescue her...
 

Johnson is charismatic and good at playing one character; The Rock. I haven't seen any range form him. Bautista is an obviously big and tough guy but he's played everything from a brooding and damaged vet ("Dushwick"), to comedy relief ("Guardians of the Galaxy"), to a thoughtful cultist (Knock at the Cabin Door"). Cena has mostly worked on his comedy chops and I think that he might actually be capable of doing stand-up, these days.
It's been a really long time since Dwayne played anything other than The Rock, but he used to try. He was a lot better in the days of The Rundown or Be Cool.
 

yeah a cameo from the Sons of Liberty and knowing where the People of Colour were would have been good when chasing Leota, Keith Smith reported "One got out", but we never learn out of where?.
Maybe they could have scripted it as Leota getting caught/arrested by Keith and then Chris teaming up with the Sons of Liberty to rescue her...
I think the answer to "where did the nazis put all the people who aren't white?" is pretty obvious, unless you guys mean the actual physical location of the camps, in which case I guess I just disagree about needing to know that.
 

It's been a really long time since Dwayne played anything other than The Rock, but he used to try. He was a lot better in the days of The Rundown or Be Cool.
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 think the answer to "where did the nazis put all the people who aren't white?" is pretty obvious, unless you guys mean the actual physical location of the camps, in which case I guess I just disagree about needing to know that.
assuming ww2 timelines are the same its been 80 years since the Nazis won, camps are likely historic. I'd be interested to see how the non-white community gets on with their own lives

- but then I realise that for the US and similar nations, that history of strictly segregated populations probably is a bit too close to home...
 

assuming ww2 timelines are the same its been 80 years since the Nazis won, camps are likely historic. I'd be interested to see how the non-white community gets on with their own lives
If the Nazis took over the US, then they likely built camps in the US. Depending on how long it took the Nazis to round up and eliminate the various populations they hated, the camps might not be all that historical. Given the size of the country and large number of isolated areas, it's possible they were or are tucked away and far from civilian populations. Probably a lot of out of sight, out of mind energy.
- but then I realise that for the US and similar nations, that history of strictly segregated populations probably is a bit too close to home...
Considering Hitler based a lot of his policies on US policies, it's not a stretch. Some things the US did were too drastic for the Nazis. But then we never had camps like Dachau. Japanese internment and genocide of Native Americans, yes. Murder camps, no.

Apparently James Gunn ran the whole thing by Danielle Brooks before finalizing the story.
 

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.
Given the results of "Black Adam" I would say it was a bad business decision.
 


If the Nazis took over the US, then they likely built camps in the US. Depending on how long it took the Nazis to round up and eliminate the various populations they hated, the camps might not be all that historical. Given the size of the country and large number of isolated areas, it's possible they were or are tucked away and far from civilian populations. Probably a lot of out of sight, out of mind energy.

Considering Hitler based a lot of his policies on US policies, it's not a stretch. Some things the US did were too drastic for the Nazis. But then we never had camps like Dachau. Japanese internment and genocide of Native Americans, yes. Murder camps, no.

Apparently James Gunn ran the whole thing by Danielle Brooks before finalizing the story.
Yep, it's important to note that not all concentration camps were death camps. And while yes, the latter would have likely not been able to last that long, there's no reason the labor camps couldn't still exist. And considering the language people use, specifically saying 'escaped' or 'got loose', combined with Vigilante 2's speech I don't think they're merely segregated.
 

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