For a guy who claims he doesn't want to defend Snyder you sure seem invested in doing exactly that. I'm giving my viewpoint man, and I'm not exactly alone in this. If you want to pull the "you just don't GET it pleb" card fine but I'm done discussing this with you.
That interpretation doesn't really line up with Snyder's own revealed plans. Things were just going to get more and more dark up until the very end. His plans were:
-Have the Justice League defeat Steppenwolf by killing him (remember when he said Zod was going to be the start of Superman's no kill rule commitment? Or how Batman was going to reclaim his old rules? Yeah that was bull).
-Darkseid is in the next film, he kills Lois, Superman goes evil, joins Darkseid, helps kill everyone
-Batman and Flash go back in time prevent that, Superman kills Darkseid, and then I guess Supes was going to name his kid Bruce which is the dumbest thing since Harry Potter naming his kid after the incel who bullied him and his friends in school and who got his mom and dad killed. Batman tried to murder him in cold blood and only stopped because he got to "save Martha" and go kill other people to sate his inferiority complex. I can not buy in any way DCEU Batman and Superman having the traditional relationship. Superman is never going to be able to trust this freak fully after that or at least logically he shouldn't.
Things were just going to get darker and darker up until the very end and Snyder never had any intention of portraying these characters as they traditionally are. I have no clue how he thought this plan was going to turn around public option on his Superman, his interpretation of the character would just get more and more unlikeable imo.
I get his fanbase wanting the movie but the problem is they're not going to stop there. They react incredibly aggressively to ANY perceived "slight" towards him or his vision. See "Shazam" where many of them were trying to attack it because it was so much lighter than other DC films, or how angry they got at Gadot and Jenkins when they said Diana "walking away" was a mistake.
Well, I take no issues with where the story was going. Lots of comic stories, including those characters go in weird directions or serious stuff. At the end of the day the characters were still going to win by being a team and having hope in each other and man kind and fighting against insurmountable odds until they win. Just because the story itself has dark beats doesnt mean the characters were ever giving up hope.
I love the idea of pushing characters so hard and so extreme to challenge their very core. Which is why BVS and MOS work for me. They challenged who Superman was as a person, what he stood for. Pushed him to the very brink and at the end, he always chose heroism and sacrifice no matter the odds. That's inspiring hope to me. That no matter what, how far he is pushed he always made the choice to save humanity.
I don't care about characters being portrayed traditionally or sticking to the comics though, at all. Personally I've always found it weird how people can take something as fluid as comic characters, which has so many different versions and interpretations of characters and distill it into a box and won't allow it outside of it. It goes against ths very nature of comics to be so rigid.
When Nolan was making his films my excitement was in how he would interpret and portray characters in his own vision, and I felt the same for Snyder. And most of these CBM take huge liberties and our their own spin on characters.
At the end of the day Snyder either vibes with you or he didnt, and everything else is just noise. It's cool that you didn't like it, I loved it and was fascinated by where he was going.
I think a creative giving stories and characters his own spin is far more interesting than anything else, above all. But that's me. Being beholden to something else or critiquing something for what it isnt or what I want it to be is just not something I care for.
I do appreciate that some people just want a character as traditional as possible, nothing wrong with that.
And I agree. The hardcore people of any fan base can be ugly. Snyder, MCU, Star Wars. I hate that stuff.
