# Peacemaker series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, hbomax-wb-dc\ **Created:** [January 15, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829 "2022-01-15T04:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/281 "2025-10-10T15:15:05Z")
> [@Nauplius](#): > > But nope, I guess they’re just going to leave that thread hanging. When Chris shut down his door, it meant his brother, no matter how pissed off he was, had no way to get to this Earth. But now, with Flagg using the door as a way to get rid of metahumans, he has unknowingly given Chris’ brother access again. I expect we’ll see the fallout of that. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/282 "2025-10-10T17:02:57Z")
This Flagg and the Flagg from Creature Commandos are hardly the same person at all. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/283 "2025-10-10T18:31:41Z")
After reading that this was likely the end of the show, and that everything would be wrapped up in this season’s finale, I was surprised by the cliff hanger ending. We have no idea what happened to his brother in the other dimension, he is stuck in the prison world, and we don’t really know what the others will be using their fancy new office for. I really enjoyed season 2 and I want more. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/284 "2025-10-10T18:49:24Z")
It felt for a while now that this season was heading towards the formation of Checkmate especially since in the comics Mr. Terrific is a member so I imagine the next season if there is one would be called Checkmate and not Peacemaker. I got viscerally angry watching the Management guys laughing and have having a grand ol time while the boots on the ground suffered and died exploring the doorways. If there is never any sort of comeuppance for that either in a Checkmate show or Man of Tomorrow I will be very disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/285 "2025-10-10T21:27:57Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I got viscerally angry watching the Management guys laughing and have having a grand ol time while the boots on the ground suffered and died exploring the doorways. Yeah - I was getting Lex Luthor vibes from Flagg. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/286 "2025-10-12T01:37:10Z")
Finished Season 2. Loved it. Even the little candy land vignette. Oh it was so funny and so grisly at the same time. I think this is one of the best things on television right now. I’m just not sure how I feel about watching a bunch of DC movies. I want more of _this show._ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/287 "2025-10-12T08:53:25Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I got viscerally angry watching the Management guys laughing and have having a grand ol time while the boots on the ground suffered and died exploring the doorways. If there is never any sort of comeuppance for that either in a Checkmate show or Man of Tomorrow I will be very disappointed. I was pissed off by how half-assed their explorations were. Haven’t these people heard of drones? Even _Stargate_ - a rather stupid show that ran 30 years ago - remembered to use drones. Open a door, spend a week looking through it with telescopes and sensors, then stick an antenna through and fly drones around for a month, then throw some guinea pigs in to see what happens, and only then, very carefully, send some very heavily armed and armored people through to explore in person. I guess it was supposed to be on purpose, to show how evil Flag was becoming, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/288 "2025-10-12T09:40:43Z")
Something that only just now occured to me: since the band Foxy Shazam is canon in the DCU, does that imply that Captain Marvel is present there and everyone knows his magic word? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/289 "2025-10-12T13:17:15Z")
So evidently I watched the series finale and didn’t even realize it was a series finale? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/290 "2025-10-12T14:36:31Z")
I think that is only on a technicality. I would be shocked if there isn’t a Checkmate TV show (or movie) coming. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/291 "2025-10-12T14:44:49Z")
But that’s the sort of loyalty that Marvel started expecting. I guess I feel that this season was sorta fun and then ended without any satisfaction, and I don’t want to watch a bunch more TV just to keep following these characters. I’m not _that_ invested. I should clarify, I was also surprised that this was the _season_ finale. That it’s a series finale just makes the story arcs more… disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/292 "2025-10-12T15:23:43Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > So evidently I watched the series finale and didn’t even realize it was a series finale? I guess? I mean they aren’t planning for more. But Peacemaker will show up again. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/293 "2025-10-12T15:31:29Z")
I would think of it more as the show being retitled since the focus is expanding beyond the title character. So it essentially would be a season 3 (if any of this actually happens of course). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/294 "2025-10-12T15:56:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I read last night that Gunn said that in the original script the episode ended with the happy walking out of the building, and the additional scenes were added at the insistence of someone up the food chain at the studio. The walking out of the building would have been a weird ending, I think. They started some new company that we know nothing about and Peacemaker is still out on bail? That’s not even a cliffhanger, it’s just unresolved plot threads. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/295 "2025-10-12T16:07:44Z")
I’m of mixed mind. It definitely could have had a more solid landing but the major characters have had their arcs, their growth, wrestled their demons, had their epiphanies … once they’ve mostly all come to peace with the ways they are each fucked up? Would probably be less fun. Not saying it’s impossible that new shows would be fun but I would be surprised if these characters kept being as fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/296 "2025-10-12T17:24:12Z")
[quote=“Alessan, post:287, topic:957829”]I was pissed off by how half-assed their explorations were. Haven’t these people heard of drones? Even _Stargate_ - a rather stupid show that ran 30 years ago - remembered to use drones. Open a door, spend a week looking through it with telescopes and sensors, then stick an antenna through and fly drones around for a month, then throw some guinea pigs in to see what happens, and only then, very carefully, send some very heavily armed and armored people through to explore in person [/quote] I think Economos mentioned that no signals, whether radio or via wired would work through the door. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/297 "2025-10-12T17:53:28Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I think Economos mentioned that no signals, whether radio or via wired would work through the door. Then shove a heavily armored telephone booth one foot through the door and operate the drone from inside it. There are always workarounds. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/298 "2025-10-12T18:03:40Z")
Obviously that’s the smart move, but ISTM that Gunn made a point of showing that those in charge were clowning around, and clearly had no oversight. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/299 "2025-10-12T18:35:28Z")
The point was they treated the people exploring as expendable nothings. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829/300 "2025-10-12T19:04:37Z")
Drones cost more. Even Luther cared more about his workforce. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peacemaker-series/957829.md?page=16)