The conflict in Aquaman manages to be about issues:
pollution;
environment;
land and sea;
personal loyalties versus social obligations.
Where is Earth's Core? Is it ERB's? Are the absurdities part of what makes the film good? I would not go that far. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller transcended comic book absurdities.
There are good DC continuity references to Galaxy Broadcasting and Coast City. There has been no Green Lantern in this movieverse yet although there have been intimations.
What more appropriate meeting place for a surface dweller and an amphibian than a lighthouse?
The Atlanteans are like an anthropomorphized environment striking back but does their undersea technology pollute?
