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HBO Max’s announcement that they’re going to complete and release the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League met with applause from the fans and scorn from the anti-fans, the ones who consider themselves the tastemakers and anything that goes against the favored directors or the studio suits that get them all the exclusives and interviews are to be shut down. They complain that Sonic The Hedgehog changed the main character’s character model for the movie because fans raged against it. How dare the plebeians not take what they get and learn to praise it as the second coming. It’s why people rallied to HBO Max’s defense and praised the original director’s vision finally being seen. (I guess when it comes to director versus studio the studio will win unless the director is particularly beloved, and while Snyder has his fan base I guess he isn’t James Gunn.)

Myself, I tried to give the fans what they wanted. While I still maintained I don’t want to see the Snyder version and didn’t readily hate the version that came out why not stand up against the aggressive stance the creators and performers are making against the fans. Of course, it’s not like Synder cared what the Superman fans wanted when he made Man Of Steel, which I still say is a good superhero movie but a terrible Superman movie. I still can’t bring myself to watch Batman V. Superman because I already know what happens in the movie and that everything got screwed up royally with the lore, and the famed “director’s cut” of that movie didn’t change anyone’s opinion of the film.

Well, leave it to a professor who has studied modern mythology and how it affects our culture the same way ancient myths affected and was shaped by the culture of their time. Professor Geek put out a video over the weekend pushing back against the Snyder cut because people forget just WHY the Snyder vision was so disliked by DC universe fans. It sparked a few thoughts in me as well, so read that when you’re done watching the video.

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