Everything the New DC Universe Needs to Define a Generation, Trounce Marvel, and Make All the Money
[WARNING: Here there be SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , The Flash , and also the latest Doctor Who Christmas special!] Previously on DC's half-assed attempts at film adaptations... Look, we all know the score, but just to recap: Marvel made a shared Universe of cinematic brilliance, made all of the money and defined a generation. DC did the exact opposite and it predictably imploded. Marvel hit the 15-year limitation on good stories with homogenous casts. Disney refused to let them make stories about people who aren't straight white men, so Marvel imploded. Then DC gave Marvel's fourth-best and most progressive writer the reins, so now DC is doing a cinematic Universe that will also make all of the money and, since, again, most progressive, probably define at least three generations. But first, DC needs to not explode immediately upon taking off, so let's go over what DC's gotten wrong, what they've gotten right, and what's still up in the ai...
