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Good shout
Yep.
I think the final villain may end up being Butcher after his kill all supes speech in the most recent episodes
Very good quality so far this season
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Show does a massively ironic character people lap it up directly.
Or Hughie. He seems like the one with enough complexes to actually turn into the next homelander.
Are we supposed to like SB or not?
Yeah not surprised. The thing is that many of these people decided to take a side, and that means you *have* to be against certain things.
I thought this was going to be about Homelander, but it's about Blue Hawk?
You'd have to be so fecking far into the rabbit hole not to realize he's straight satire the first time he comes up. Never mind sitting through the speech thinking "this guy is really cool".
It's actually incredible people got this far into the show before they realized. It's like people who go onto gaming discussion forums and complain about the new woke trend of making games political, unlike all their old favourites. Fallout. Deus Ex. Wolfenstein. BioShock. Warhammer 40K. Unpolitical games.
I keep seeing this thread and thinking it is about me and then being let down.
They just love dickheads. And these people are allowed guns!
Deus Ex is the most wonderful game ever made and will never be topped!I thought this was going to be about Homelander, but it's about Blue Hawk?
You'd have to be so fecking far into the rabbit hole not to realize he's straight satire the first time he comes up. Never mind sitting through the speech thinking "this guy is really cool".
It's actually incredible people got this far into the show before they realized. It's like people who go onto gaming discussion forums and complain about the new woke trend of making games political, unlike all their old favourites. Fallout. Deus Ex. Wolfenstein. BioShock. Warhammer 40K. Unpolitical games.
Human Revolution is amazing as well, and I quite liked Mankind Divided too.
Unfortunately I don't have an OS capable of running MD but I really liked Human Revolution, even if the colours in general were just far too.. yellow. So much yellow in every urban space in that game. But they got a lot right.
I wouldn't go as high as that but it's a great great game indeed. Such an interesting story
I think it was so good that they had to downgrade certain aspects of it for the 15yr later sequel (Invisible War doesn't count) such as the full body health counter where you could end up crawling on broken legs or the points system or the hacking system.
Couldn't agree more, it's fantastic.
I think so? He can go a lot of ways. Hero, antihero, sympathetic villain, psychotic villain. The guy playing him is doing a decent job, anyway, which I think helps. The casting for this show really is spot on.
Or people who complained that Star Wars - a story inspired by the Vietnam War of all things - suddenly became woke and political because they put a wimmin in a prominent role. And I'm not talking about the ones who hide behind the "I support strong female characters *insert picture of Ripley from Alien*" but the ones who immediately hated that their entire world came crashing down simply because the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy didn't have a huge flapping cock.I thought this was going to be about Homelander, but it's about Blue Hawk?
You'd have to be so fecking far into the rabbit hole not to realize he's straight satire the first time he comes up. Never mind sitting through the speech thinking "this guy is really cool".
It's actually incredible people got this far into the show before they realized. It's like people who go onto gaming discussion forums and complain about the new woke trend of making games political, unlike all their old favourites. Fallout. Deus Ex. Wolfenstein. BioShock. Warhammer 40K. Unpolitical games.
Media illiteracy doesn't just apply to films and TV either:
wtf were these people thinking watching the first two seasons if now is when they complain about The Boys being political.
Feck'd if I know.
I mean It is a lot more in your face with the Fox, NRA and Proud Boys parodies this season I guess. I think it's hilarious but then I was always in on the joke. The Pepsi Max Commercial cracked me up.
It will never be not funny to see right wingers realise they are the machine that was being raged against. Somehow it took 30 years, which is even funnier.Media illiteracy doesn't just apply to films and TV either:
Incredible season so far, absolutely topnotch tele.
Surely this is the year that Starr lands some major awards for Homelander?
Surely this is the year that Starr lands some major awards for Homelander?
He's brilliant but I imagine The Boys is too vulgar/cartoonish for the types who give out awards.
I wouldn't really call The Boys a 'woke tv series', but I suppose that's the issue with 'woke', it means different things to different people.
It’s been taken from black culture and bastardised beyond recognition. Woke meant to open your eyes to things like racial prejudice but now people use it as a weapon to bat away anything remotely resembling human kindness or anything left wing.
The boys definitely isn't "woke" just because they touch on current events. It's ridicules far right ideology and therefore fits the modern pejorative meaning of woke.
As an aside, I call people who've adopted "alt"right terminology and insults ***** in my day to day life.
Yeah the word they’re looking for is satire.
Great answer by Tom Morello. And yes it is hilarious like you say.
I love how this show takes the piss out of right wing America, but I like my satire a little less on the nose if I'm honest.
You say that, but there are loads of right-wingers who didn't realize this was satire until last episode. Many still don't, no doubt.
It's barely over the top any more, compared to reality. Actually, take out the superheroes and it might be downright grounded.
That's say quite true. Gunpowder talks about the globalist agenda and Soros which is word for word what these Trumpist republicans say.
I get that some lunatics are so thicj they don't realize it's satire, but for me it's a bit on the nose.
I enjoy the show though. Homelander is such a fantastic psychopath. And he looks like Jason Bateman's evil twin.
I think the fact that the satire might feel so "on the nose" sometimes goes to how insane and crazy the actual rhetoric is. That even in a fictional show with superheroes it's hard to go farther than reality right now.
It still works in part because of how good Homelander is, amongst other things.
I‘m not surprised they’re just now realizing it is satire. These people I’m surrounded by could come away from Dr. Strangelove not realizing it’s a black comedy and thinking the warhawk generals were the heroes.
I‘m not surprised they’re just now realizing it is satire. These people I’m surrounded by could come away from Dr. Strangelove not realizing it’s a black comedy and thinking the warhawk generals were the heroes.
I really don't know what "Herogasm"(the next one) episode is going to be all about.???
I think this episode will absolutely hit it out of the ballpark with regards to boundaries! This will be seismic!
I think this episode will absolutely hit it out of the ballpark with regards to boundaries! This will be seismic!
Just got through series 1 this weekend. Where have I been?? Always saw the thumbnails on Prime and skipped over them until my barber persuaded me to watch it. I didn't jump on the Game of Thrones train until series 4 so had to binge watch that too.
I'm such a fool!
I'm such a fool!
Lengthy post just to brag about how cool your barber is.
I forgot that the seasons are 8 episodes long and not 6, thinking this week was the finale.
Wow, we have a lot of major things still to come. Love it
Wow, we have a lot of major things still to come. Love it