It took them 3 seasons to realize The Boys was making fun of them.
They literally had a fat racist redditor shoot a convenience store owner in the face because he was terrified of his own shadow in season 2
It's been holding up a mirror to them the entire time
they're so media illiterate and so trained to react to buzzwords that they couldn't understand the most obvious satire of Amerika-brand fascism until the exact moment somebody got punched for saying "blue lives matter". That's the point when this blew up, they only caught on to it all the moment Bootlick Falcon or however that guy was called showed up and used their exact dogwhistles, verbatim.
Rush limbaugh and fox news rotted their brains and distilled their ideology down to a handful of trigger words, it's wild how easy it is to get them to agree with literal communism as long as you don't call it that
They're anti-intellectual to the point that they make memes that are just a soyjak talking media literacy
People love what I have to say! They believe in it! They just don't like the word 'Nazi.' That's all.
Still amazed how much goes over peoples heads when they want to ignore everything about media. Ignorance really can be bliss
There's nothing worse than using your great television show to showcase how much you hate the political climate
I can't read this is anything other than the most grating whiny nerd voice, imagine being this media-brained while also thinking media shouldn't reflect the current state of the world.
There's nothing worse?
All media should just be like 80s sitcom where every conflict is about listening to your elders and breaking curfew
watching a female aryan ubermensch breastfeeding another adult aryan ubermensch
“He’s literally me”
So, I've been wondering, how faithful is the show to the comic book? Because the comic book came out in 2006-2012.
It's much better. I swing between thinking it's good and thinking it's leaning too much into shock gore, but whatever I think of it on its own merits, it's much much better than the comic
it isnt really, besides using some character names + basic plots, but also better for it lol. garth ennis really likes edgy/shocking stuff and in the boys (the comic) he tries so hard to be edgy and shocking that it just gets boring. i think the show balances out the shock humor much better
I feel like this show is getting worse. The drama elements have always been lazy as fuck. But the first two seasons had a pretty effective satire of capitalism as a system. Now Vought is just a hollowed out shell under Homelander and the connection between Homelander and Trump is becoming really explicit, so the satire seems to be getting more liberal - it’s not superheroes that are the problem, or the ideology they exist in - we just gotta stop Homelander.
That’s okay, I’ll still keep watching that garbage, because some of the actors are really good at chewing scenery and making the best of what the script gives them - but the show has always felt a bit lazy and it’s starting to feel like it’s running on autopilot now.
Well, the main creator of the show is also, to my knowledge, a zionist and one of the protagonists is played by Tomer Capone - an IOF butcher.
That’s the problem with trying to critique real problems using superheroes. They can literally fly across the world and kill everyone who annoys them. At that point capitalism, communism, liberalism, conservatism - none of that shit matters. It all becomes moot because the flying guys can laser you in half on a whim. The ONLY conclusion you can reach is great man theory because humans are powerless, unless you restrict your world to not have superman-level powers and just have shit like super speed, laser eyes, shooting webs - shit that won’t make human existence pointless because they can still exert change.
Andor does this well. They ditched the “chosen one” bullshit and the telekinesis nonsense to tell a story about revolution and imperialism that is actually grounded. The systems and technologies in place don’t make real life obsolete. Of course, if these shows existed in a vacuum then who cares. But they obviously exist to critique real life, so you can’t make everything more powerful than real life.
Right. But I think there was an interesting idea initially when the show seemed to be about, how can a bunch of regular humans systematically hunt down and kill these superheroes. I mean that at least is an interesting inversion. Whereas now it’s lost that element too.
I felt the last season was kind of crap.
Felt like they were just re-telling the same story/conflict. And I'm with you, the problem was always about hyper capitalist exploitation of powered people and how messed up that would be if it were real.
Now it's just "homelander bad".
When are they going to have the toxic yuri season between Homelander and Butcher. Two dudes so toxic they can only be together.
I feel like Butcher's screenshot of Hewey's files at the end of S4E01 was a direct shout out to this demographic.