Board Thread:DC Universe Discussion/@comment-1038387-20130427185937/@comment-34954086-20130429090605

My preference is that DC, hell warner brothers in general, goes bankrupt and gets bought out by Disney. They handle their assets far better.

Eg. Traditional Animation. CGI is the new thing, it's cheaper, it's popular, it theoretically is more appealing. Disney lets off a traditionally animated movie in the vein of all the classics which are universal successes. Massive popularity. They see that, they commit to a traditionally animated movie every 2 years, despite the extra costs involved.

Then there's Marvel. There's two sides to it, yes, the shows they're producing aren't of the high calibre from the 90s, but, they're decent. With a high skew towards comedy,(Ultimate Spider-man), there's enough action and if it weren't based on the only character who can rival batman in having his themes worked to death, it'd probably be considered to have very interesting themes. Either way, they keep producing decent shows, they may cancel them before their time, but they bring back more, and in some case, the cancellation is probably a good thing. Avengers:Earth's Mightiest Heroes, a great show, in it's first season. Second season starts, shaping up to be amazing, and then...It ends. It flops. It tried bringing too much to the table too fast. If it had continued, it probably would've gotten even more disjointed as the cast had been expanded rapidly. Like the expanded Teen Titans roster, 70 guys to take on Doctor Light. Avengers Assemble is probably going to be made as a partial tie in to the cinematic, meaning it will probably focus on the main Avengers. I look forward to it.

The way USM's exposing lesser known characters, it'spossible that they're using it to setup the characters popularity for later productions. Ie Doctor Strange.

That brings me to the second point, Movies. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is doing what DC could have once done with Batman if they didn't JUST work with Batman. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Avengers, X-Men, Wolverine, Fantastic Four. The Big names have 2-3 Movies planned at the least. But, they aren't pushing the deadlines, producing those lineups continuously while exhausting their villains and storylines. Instead, they're panning it out with some exposure for lesser known heroes, who are quite popular in the fanbase, but aren't as public faces. Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange. And they only have the next 6 or so years planned out, yet they're already including some lesser names. Another thing is that they're being picky with what they produce. Ant Man, been in the planning stages for ages while the script was worked out. Working on a big stage, it needs to be flawless, especially when working with lesser known characters. Cramming the most ideal storyline (or Storylines,) doesn't always work. Case in point, Green Lantern.

So, in summary. ie, TL:DR: Warner can go belly up and DC'll probably be better off. They don't pay attention to their products popularity and quality over the cost, they don't take risks on smaller named products, they don't plan decades ahead and actually follow through with the plans, they ignore fans, they stick to Batman and Batman alone and they decide things like putting a show on hiatus for months at the last minute.

Come to the Dark Side, we have Lion King and Short Prickly Canadians.