The CW Sets Season Finale Dates For THE FLASH, ARROW, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, TVD, & More

@GhostofFortune - maybe if it is one of those Oliver Queen trick arrows?

A penis arrow? A Vagina arrow?

just saying

@blackandyellow - iZombie has a different running schedule than Arrow and Flash.

@KingJazza - It’s got the 3rd Highest ratings for the network. I suspect it will return with some tweaks to bring the reportedly prohibitive costs down.

@FishyZombie - Bastard!

@PrincessLeather - how many years will you be by then ?

Just curious. A lot of male fans on here are between 10 - 50

But I am curious about the scarce female fans age range

@PrincessLeather - hahaha probably that is the way it is!

Good! I am a little bit older than you, this year I will be 35

It is strange that you are a comic book fan, there are just a few female fans out there, what are your favorite comics/characters/movies?

@KingPatel -

How the filmmakers are managing Henry Cavill’s more complicated Man of Steel

Superman will be flying across movie screens once again when "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" hits theaters on March 25. The film is the latest entry in the Man of Steel's legacy on television and in the movies. Photo: Warner Bros.
By Michael Calia
Updated March 10, 2016 2:05 p.m. ET
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In “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” Zack Snyder continues to redefine Superman for the 21st century, as he did in “Man of Steel” in 2013. Some fans didn’t like it then—will they come around now?



The character, played by Henry Cavill in both films, is still faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive. He’s still a refugee from Krypton who grew up in Kansas and works at the Daily Planet.

He has always been the boy scout in blue tights, so it was unsettling for many to watch him kill his adversary, General Zod, and not do more to rescue bystanders while Metropolis crumbled. It was like readers of “To Kill a Mockingbird” learning that Atticus Finch is a racist in Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman.”

“I don’t know if we’re 100% there yet, but we’re definitely on the road to bringing the world a modern Superman that they can understand, that they can relate to,” says Mr. Snyder, the director. He knows the culture has changed. “Have we lost our innocence alongside him? Maybe a little.”

Superman first appeared in 1938, spawning a superhero craze just as America was about to teeter from the Great Depression into World War II. “Every other superhero that’s out there is, in a way, a riff on Superman, and that includes Batman,” says Gene Luen Yang, who writes the current version of Superman for DC Comics.

Early Superman writers and editors developed an ethos for the character that included no killing, no quitting and always protecting others. Larry Tye, author of a 2012 history of Superman, thinks “Man of Steel” got some things right but still violated some taboos. “There are certain basic things I say you don’t mess with after 75 years, and one of them is his caring about the little people who are getting hurt as he’s waging the big battle,” he said.
Superman, once the most pristine of superheroes, is growing vulnerable to criticism as well as kryponite. ENLARGE
Superman, once the most pristine of superheroes, is growing vulnerable to criticism as well as kryponite. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

“Batman v Superman” gets this, and incorporates the criticism of its predecessor’s mass destruction into its plot.

One of the earliest scenes in the new movie envisions the climax of “Man of Steel” from the earthbound perspective of Bruce Wayne, Batman’s billionaire alter ego, as he rushes to save people below the city-flattening brawl between Superman and Zod. Batman ( Ben Affleck) rages at Superman’s omnipotence and lack of accountability: If thousands died in this cataclysm, what’s to stop millions from dying the next time?

Mr. Affleck sees the conflict between Superman and Batman as a reflection of managing fear in a post-9/11 world.

“That’s a very hard thing to escape, that urge to just feel that fear and say in order to protect ourselves and our families we’ve got to [be] more merciless than our enemies, or forgo some of our principles that make us who we are,” he says.

“I’m not just spouting liberal platitudes. That’s the tendency everybody has: liberals, conservatives, whoever.”
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Mr. Snyder wants to make it clear that his Superman, despite all the gray areas and grit, remains a hero. In “Batman v Superman” the character is more than a fighter: He’s depicted as an angelic figure, bathed in light, who rescues people from fires, explosions and floods.

“Being good has not gone out of style. It’s still cool,” Mr. Snyder says. “We haven’t gotten that jaded yet.”

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