The DC hero’s origin tale has flashes of potential but fails to supply enough interesting backstory to make it worthwhile
Patton Oswalt does a sharp comedy routine about the inexplicable fanboy impulse to memorize how all of their heroes came to be. He rails against the Star Wars prequels in specific,bemoaning the unbearable kid versions of Darth Vader and Boba Fett, before finally extending this logic to declare Jon Voight’s testicles an uninteresting precursor to a living Angelina Jolie. His point is simple: there’s nothing self-evidently compelling about a known characters origin narrative. Merely cueing up a set of proper nouns already familiar to an audience makes for thin gruel when the narrative cannot stand on its own without them. Related: Jessica Jones: season two review – Netflix’s difficult moment outing for its mould-breaking superhero Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk