Believe me, I'm trying.
It appears you're the only one.
Do we? The DOJ board handled separate positive, negative, and neutral threads reasonably fine. There were a few upstarts, but generally, everyone stayed in their own corner.
I think we may have different definitions of "reasonably fine" - but you may be right. Suffice it to say that after BvS though people have departed from "reasonably fine" IMO. We're in full on "Snyder/WB are ruining my life mode", there are a number of particularly vocal posters that seem to have reverted to their angsty teen phases over DoJ.
I haven't had an issue with you in the past, but lately, you've been taking a lot of shots at other posters, and a lot of it has been - in my opinion - unwarranted. To be totally honest, it's taken me a bit by surprise, because I remember you being pretty reasonable and easy to speak to before the DC boards went to ****. But I understand being frustrated, especially if you liked MOS/DOJ and are excited for JL.
Fair enough, but I'm not taking shots at individual posters, I'm busy pointing out how bad the general discourse is on the DC forums. I'm easy to speak to all the time - when the person I'm speaking to isn't running around a circular room trying to find the corner. I could probably discuss any opinion or observation with you and a handful of other posters and I'll be perfectly polite and most likely agree with a lot of criticisms of any number of things of the DCEU, but the "end-is-nigh" crowd have completely taken over the majority of the DC boards.
I compartmentalize things well, I
enjoyed MoS/DoJ even though they're a far cry from what I would've wanted, ideally, and they have significant issues in many departments. Tonally I appreciate something more serious, but the serious tone could've been kept while eliminating the somber atmosphere in both movies. My view is, I'm glad to be able to see these characters in live action and done with a certain amount of passion for the source material, and I can separate that from the fact that I don't exactly like the decisions they've made all the time. Lots of posters on here though, for them anything not matching their magical idea of the perfect DCEU is apocryphal.
The problem is people aren't really willing to say "Wow, DoJ really missed the mark for me, and I'm disappointed in the direction the DCEU has taken so far. Hopefully we get an improvement with JL, and at least we've got cool solo movies to look forward to!" - no, that's not what happens. All the positives get eradicated so that people can, pedantically and repeatedly, drag everything DCEU over the coals on about a daily basis in multiple threads. People on here are going to spend a year projecting and forecasting absolute failure and then wonder why they walk out of their JL show only having noticed the flaws that they spent a year telling everyone they were going to be explicitly looking for.
I mean Suicide Squad looks to be relatively decent and despite facts pointing to the contrary the overall atmosphere on that board is also descending into fits of barely contained panic
Maybe. Maybe not. I personally think cooler heads will prevail. But (and I mean this in the nicest way possible)...no one's forcing you to be here.
Perhaps, hopefully you're right, don't worry I'm not going to be around here much longer.
