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If Henry Cavill and Ben Affeck do leave the DCEU, the people who have been so relentlessly and unfairly critical of the franchise, demanding that WB alter it to be more like the MCU and treating every rumor as absolute fact, have only themselves to blame for it.

“More like the MCU” yeah in terms of ORGANIZATION. In terms of patience and properly establishing characters and having authentic growth of the world. No one wanted the exact same style of scripting or themes or tone, no one asked for quips every 5 minutes. All any one ever wanted was for Kevin Tsujihara to stop demanding terrible reshoots and re-edits that butchered the narratives. They wanted WB to stop forcing absurb time contraints on production (you know that Suicide Squad was only giving 6 weeks for script writing?). They wanted them to actually establish major characters as whole in their own right before shoving them into team up movies out of nowhere. Dont blame the fans who were let down for the shambles caused by studio mismanagement.

Except that people did say that the tone needed to change on multiple occasions to be more like the MCU. I lost track of the amount of times I saw people praise MCU films for being ‘’fun’’ and saying how DC films were ‘’grimdark’’ and all that shit. To say that people didn’t demand a change in tone to more accurately reflect the MCU is just blatantly false. I was there. I read the reviews and the fan posts so don’t try and revise history on me.

That’s in addition to how people have and still believe every rumor and clickbait headline they come across, regardless of how absurd it is or if it’s been disproven. They’ve been saying Ben Affleck is going to be gone soon for a year and a half and he’s still here, the torrent of ‘’he looks tired at having to answer questions about the subject for the 678′ 998th time today so he must hate it and want to leave” nonsense notwithstanding.

Another thing that annoys me is that no one ever mentions the trade off of the MCU approach to organization. You must know that Ike Perlmutter, the guy who ran the MCU until 2015 and who still runs the shows, was an absolute tyrant who didn’t want female or non-white leads. A film like Birds Of Prey, being produced by a lead actress in the franchise, would never happen with an MCU approach to organization. That’s in addition to frequent complaints about formula and isolating directors like Edgar Wright as well as dropping James Gunn at the first hint of controversy, regardless of the source wo really shouldn’t have been trusted, to protect their image. If those are acceptable prices to you, that’s fine. But I’m sick of no one ever mentioning the flip side of the MCU approach or the benefits in going a different way.

I’m also not going to address the ‘’characters need solo films before a team-up’’ because that’s nonsense that the MCU has proven isn’t true on multiple occasions.

Warner Bros aren’t blameless, since they cut up BvS and JL worse than a victim on Dexter, but these films aren’t made in a vacuum. People said how they needed to ‘’listen to the fans’’ and listen to criticism. This is what it looks like when a franchise has to readjust itself in a major way, both in tone and power structure, to appease the arbitrary wishes of people on the internet who, frankly, don’t seem to know what they want most of the time. You can’t demand something and then complain about it as it happens.