The scene itself is weird enough, but the timing was way more baffling. No one releases deleted scenes from a movie three days after the opening! If anything, they get tied to the Blu-ray release, which would mean it should’ve been released now, three months later. So, what was the thinking?

“I kind thought, ‘Oh, that would be a cool after-credits sequence,’” director Zack Snyder said on the set of Justice League. “But then I was like, ‘I don’t know, can I do that?’ because Marvel kind of does that. ‘Is that a thing?’ So we were like, ‘Oh! Well, maybe there’s another way to do it.’” And they decided to release it online.

So instead of putting the scene at the end of the credits, they put it online immediately after opening. Considering Luthor was already in jail at the end of the movie, it didn’t make much sense as an after-credits scene. But either way, it was a very interesting way of thinking. You could almost call it progressive, if the scene wasn’t obviously shot for the middle of the movie.

For more on Justice League, read our full visit to the set.