{"id":980376,"date":"2025-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980376"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:45:40","slug":"peacemaker-season-2-finale-wasnt-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/peacemaker-season-2-finale-wasnt-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker Season 2 Finale\u00a0Wasn\u2019t\u00a0Homework\u2026And\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-spoiler-alert\"><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 23\"><path d=\"M15.713 6.511c-2.41 0-4.376 2.057-4.376 4.591 0 2.527 1.96 4.591 4.376 4.591 2.41 0 4.375-2.057 4.375-4.591 0-2.527-1.966-4.591-4.375-4.591z\"\/><path d=\"M15.713 18.358c-3.88 0-7.04-3.253-7.04-7.256s3.16-7.255 7.04-7.255c3.879 0 7.04 3.252 7.04 7.255s-3.161 7.256-7.04 7.256zm16.085-7.961C27.63 3.709 22.015.027 16 .027 9.985.026 4.369 3.708.202 10.396c-.267.43-.267.98 0 1.41C4.37 18.495 9.985 22.178 16 22.178c6.015 0 11.624-3.683 15.798-10.37.267-.432.267-.98 0-1.411z\"\/><\/svg><em>This post contains spoilers for <strong>Peacemaker<\/strong> season 2.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big cameos! 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And they shouldn&#8217;t be, because <em>Peacemaker<\/em> is more interested in telling a story about a person than it is interested in building a franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I always thought the first season&#8217;s about Peacemaker and the second season is about Chris Smith,&#8221; Gunn said in a press conference after the show&#8217;s finale. &#8220;By the end of season one, Chris is aware of his trauma. In season two, he&#8217;s aware of it and it actually makes his life a little bit hard&#8230; So this second season is about that internal journey of Christopher Smith. It was always about the way he relates to himself and the way he relates to the rest of the 11th Street kids from a perspective of the potential for healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That character-first approach really differs from the superhero storytelling popularized by Marvel. Thanks to its world-building strategy, Marvel movies tend to treat cameos and post-credit teases as character building. 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We&#8217;re finally going to get the Spider-Man we know and love&#8230; in the next movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse yet are the story beats that don&#8217;t happen on screen at all. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/avengers-infinity-war\/\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/a><\/em> tells us that the Hulk has been so scarred from his battle with Thanos that he won&#8217;t let Banner transform. But the next time we see them in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/avengers-endgame\/\">Avengers: Endgame<\/a><\/em>, not only is Banner the Hulk, but he&#8217;s figured out how to live with his monstrous side! The entire conflict of his character has been resolved\u2014off-screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it relies so much on cameos and events between movies, Marvel seems to tell the viewers that they need to watch everything in order to properly appreciate their films. That may have been fun for a while, but now it too often feels like homework, which is exactly what Gunn wants to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I really want to make it so that you can watch anything by itself,&#8221; Gunn explained. &#8220;So, for instance, I&#8217;m not expecting people to go into <em>Man of Tomorrow<\/em> and know what Salvation is. We will say it in the movie and you&#8217;ll find out anything you need to know about metahumans disappearing.&#8221; He admits that it is &#8220;a very delicate balance,&#8221; and that he needs to tell the story in a way that &#8220;people who already know the information are not going to be bored.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Gunn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/peacemaker-finale-superman-2-forgotten-dc-comic\/\">reference to Salvation<\/a> indicates, the <em>Peacemaker<\/em> finale does set up the future of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/dc\/\">DCU<\/a>. Salvation gets introduced in the episode, and it will be further explored in <em>Man of Tomorrow<\/em>. And at the end of the episode, Adebayo and the 11th Street Kids form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/peacemaker-james-gunn-dcu-checkmate\/\">Checkmate<\/a>, an intelligence organization that will be a going concern in the DCU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <em>Peacemaker<\/em> isn&#8217;t about how Checkmate came to be or about how Rick Flag Sr. discovered Salvation. It&#8217;s about a guy named Chris, a fundamentally good man who had a terrible past and has done some really horrific things. And it&#8217;s about how that guy learned that he could be loved and how he can love others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you went into the <em>Peacemaker<\/em> finale expecting to see David Corenswet as Overman, doing battle with a live-action G.I. Robot, while Detective Chimp solves a crossword puzzle and Catherine Cobert looks for Power Girl&#8217;s cat, then, yeah. 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