Mezla PigDog, on 27 May 2020 - 09:45 PM, said:
I'm generally confused and perplexed by Steppenwolf and Mother Box. And why Ben Afflecks Batsuit looks specifically designed to hold in his jowels. Why didn't they put him on a Hollywood diet?
Mother Boxes are dimensional tech from space. Think Infinity stones if they were tech-based. They are from a planet called Apokolips, and possess wonderful powers...some of which include boom tube “teleportation”...the relevance of them on earth represents the lord of Apokalips, a guy called Darkseid (think Thanos, but less altruistic, much more chaotic evil, and invented first), and his minions. Steppenwolf is one of his lieutenants, and is technically acting in JL as the harbinger of Darkseid. He is on earth to prepare it for his master. This would have all made much more sense in Snyder’s version, but Whedon dropped everything about the mother boxes, who Steppenwolf is beyond a generic cgi baddie, and most of all that Darkseid is the endgame for the heroes and earth. When WW is talking about “him”....Whedons cut makes it seem as if she’s talking about Steppenwolf, when in fact they are alluding to Darkseid.
One of the mother boxes on earth was found by Silas stone, who’s son Victor had been in a vicious car Wreck that left him almost dead. Through experiments to try to save him, Silas used the mother box which (mind of its own) basically encompassed Vic, and turned him into cyborg, he’s the powers of a mother box made into a hero.
But yes, you can think of mother boxes like infinity stones, and Steppenwolf was trying to use multiple of them to terraform earth to his masters liking, and subdue the native dominant race....humans.
Darkseid symbol and parademons are in the Knightmare sequence/dream/vision that Bruce has in BATMAN V SUPERMAN. It was meant to pay off in JL, but Whedon dropped that too
So yeah, I’m not surprised you’re lost on those things as Whedon cut everything related to making them make sense.
As to Affleck, if you’re careful, you can pick out the few scenes that made it into the final cut where Ben was being filmed under Snyder....but 90% of the final film is reshoots that Whedon did a fair 9 months after principle photography...so Affleck had gained back some weight and was not in the same shape. And the reshoots were done so late in production, and took so long that WB and production didn’t have a chance to re outfit the bat suit, so Affleck looks a little jowly in it for 90%.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 28 May 2020 - 01:12 AM
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