I'm done. Trying to be a fan of this shit is too exhausting. I don't have another reboot in me. What is the point in investing my heart in something that I know is just going to get ripped away in five years?
Being a DC fan is like owning a pet. Some of it is fun but it's mostly just years of stress knowing eventually it's going to die and break your heart. Then when it dies you get a new one and you're left asking... why am I going to willingly put myself through that sadness again? I don't want to. I don't have any room left in my yard to bury another DC Universe.
I think if you read between the lines of the announcement it gives a very good idea what happened.
Gunn has always been adamant that DC Studios was it's own studio. He didn't have to answer to middle men. He and Safran ran the studio and the only person they answered to was the boss. Zaslav and now Ellison. He literally just did that Suicide Squad podcast and made a point to reiterate that and really hammer it home.
But the announcement reveals that this is no longer the case. DC is now under the Skydance Motion Picture Group and the new guy is no longer the decision maker, he answers to Goldberg and Greenstein.
I 100% believe Gunn when he says it was hard and trying and time consuming. But I also 100% believe that only truly became an issue once Ellison decided to take away their autonomy and put them under Goldberg and Greenstein. Suddenly they wouldn't have the same power. They would have to start fighting for projects. Instead of Gunn/Safran green lighting projects, they would have to go through a corporate ladder. The same type of setup that destroyed the DCEU. Suddenly the job was going to get much harder and not be the job they signed up for. It was worth the hassle when he knew it was his vision. Once that was no longer the case, it was no longer worth the hassle.
Anybody with a brain knew this Paramount shit was going to be very, very bad for DC and WB. I don't know why we bothered to have hope. Hoping for the best never helps DC. Now here we are with DC being ran by a guy whose rule he had at Marvel was you can't put anything in a movie that his "meemaw" won't like. I'm done.
