No.10812
Just started season 2 this show is amazing so far.
No.10814
I have seen a lot of right wing normies try to cope and say the show makes fun of everyone. But nope, the show is pretty firmly leftist just like most good media.
One valid criticism i did see on /tv/ is that the show seems to lean on black mail over and over for solving shit/advancing the plot.
No.10816
>>10814I noticed that too but I don't think its unrealistic thats how things move in the corporate world.
No.10820
>>10810Haven't started the show yet but I read the comic a couple months ago; looking back on it I think it's okay. It's definitely a product of the post-9/11 era. I was too young to be seriously affected by that event, so a lot of Garth Ennis' attempts at sincerity kinda fell flat for me. It's hard to take anything seriously when you have things like
Jack from Jupiter getting cancelled for having orgies with trans sex workers or
Black Noir's rape baby bursting from the womb of Butcher's wife, alive and with laser eyes. Any commentary on the US military industrial complex gets squandered by Ennis' own quaint patriotism. I've heard that this is more apparent in
War Stories, but that's pretty far removed from the kind of setting
The Boys originally took place in. As far as capeshit satire goes, I'd probably place it third next to
Marshal Law and the Rick Veitch's
The One. No.10822
>>10820Oh, and it shouldn't go without saying that Darick Robertson's artwork is an acquired taste. His tendency to go off-model can be jarring for some, but I think this along with his transition to digital color, it works. If I had read this at the same time I read Transmetropolitan in high school a decade ago, I would have absolutely fallen in love with it.
No.10827
>>10826It’s funny to me to think that Alan Moore has been lambasting capeshit for decades and it’s only gotten more popular. I was never a comic reader, so this has all just started to annoy me in the last 10 years. I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to have your career based in comic books, be loudly criticizing the proliferation of super heroes throughout the medium, only to have that continuously elevated until half of mass entertainment is just capeshit. Moore must have accidentally unleashed this demon with whatever magic bullshit he is tampering with.
No.10828
>>10826>>10827Garth Ennis gets meme'd a lot for his outspoken hatred of capeshit, though. He originally pitched
The Boys to DC using their characters. When DC said no, they put him on Wildstorm instead (an imprint of theirs that had become known for creator-owned titles). It was cancelled after six issues because.. have either of you read it? The plot revolves around a guy joining a clandestine CIA group to get revenge against the superhero who wronged him. All of the members of this group have similar intentions and so together, they set out to kill as many superheroes as they can. There's commentary on capeshit becoming the pop culture zeitgeist (including the comics industry's role in exploiting and propagandizing certain things and people) to weapons research being used as a cudgel for US imperialism in general (similar to what the US Military was actually doing in the late 90s/early 00s). There's even a great flashback scene where the corporation responsible for the mass production of superheroes trying to field test a bunch of their "prototypes" at the Battle Of The Bulge during WW2 and failing spectacularly. There are jabs at Marvel, as well: the X-Men exist as the G-Men, and
The Boys' equivalent of Professor X is a literal pedophile. There's a whole arc dedicated to their extermination by depleted uranium bullets. I'm not sure how much of this has made it into the show (again, I've yet to watch it), but if that doesn't interest you then I don't what will.
No.10839
>>10814>One valid criticism i did see on /tv/ is that the show seems to lean on black mail over and over for solving shit/advancing the plot.I mean, what else can they do? They're up against a guy who can kill everyone on earth, the only way for them to handle it is to appeal to his narcissism.
>>10814Rightoids seem to not understand satire, just like they think Starship Troopers and Warhammer40k are unironic. The Boys makes fun of liberal IdPol as well but from a clearly leftist angle, but maybe /tv/ thought it was their show because they did that.
>>10819It makes fun of capeshit. I'm not autistic enough to seriously debate whether or not a capeshit satire counts as capeshit but it's way more than just "superheroes but if they were real".
No.10840
>>10820I think they sufficiently updated the comic in the show, it definitely does not feel like a post-9/11 or Bush-era product. Actually I like the show a lot more than the comics. If you think the comic was "okay" you'll probably enjoy the show. Spoiler: unlike in the comics The Boys don't shoot up Compound-V so they have no powers, putting them and the audience in a perpetual worm's-eye view, forcing them to improvise and be creative. Many of the characters are also given an actual arc instead of the cardboard versions from the comics.
No.10845
>>10810I really enjoyed it and i don't bother with capeshit in the last 6-7 years.I'm just a sucker for the "the villians are off the chart strong and can kill anyone in a moment's notice" trope oh and the conservative/alt right dynamic in season 2
No.10847
>>10845
> I'm just a sucker for the "the villians are off the chart strong and can kill anyone in a moment's notice"Yeah I watched some of it last night and was getting anime vibes. I guess I associate that trope with anime. Like the villains just look insanely powerful at the start but slowly become more vulnerable until the protagonist finally gets their revenge. It’s a fun trope.
No.10848
Talked about it on the /tv/ thread a bit.
TL;DR: I don't like the show because it's crass and does the same edgy "superheroes revealed to be dirtbags" trope that was all the rage in the 90s. There are some parts I liked, but I wasn't all that enthused.
It makes /pol/ seethe because they're morons who think political satire is aimed at them and only them and can't bear to reflect on themselves, because they'd melt into a puddle of goo from their own toxicity.
No.10852
Honestly, some of the best political satire of the period. The main political Aplot of the first series is very post-9/11, but the Bplots work so well and the second series is some of the best stuff i've seen about the relationship between the media, the alt right, traditional conservatism, and corporatism that might actually exist (remember, it's only been 4 years since that shit started). I mean there is a bit [Spoilers] where the literal personification of american conservatism starts fucking a literal OG nazi and it is just perfect. Like it somehow manages to make REALLY OTT political statements while just not making them feel handfisted, like because the characters are so well developed that even if you analysed it purely as political archetypes, you can read any interaction as metaphor and proper character development.
I am interested to see where they take the !NOT AOC char, if she turns out to be a corporate stooge/controlled opposition, I think it wont stick the landing but it is 1 million times more interesting than anything the right could critique her for. Personally I think the line will be she was a vought baby that broke the conditioning and now just wants to get revenge.
No.10853
Oh yeah, and Queen Maeve's entire arc for season 2 is an amazing critique of corporate "pride" culture, it's incredible. Like you never actually get to see that shit called out for what it is.
No.10854
>The Stormfront actor is Jewish
kekekekek
No.10857
>>10819>I don't care if it's supposed to be serious 'n sheetlol what
It's made by someone tired of superhero shit. The original comics though, the TV show is bad.
No.10858
>>10856I loved Vas;
his death was kinda weak, though.
>>10857This sequence was great.
No.10932
>>10810I haven't finished season 2.
Some criticism with spoilers:
I generally liked this much more than normal capeshit stuff. The profit motive of characters was good and fresh but also lacked better presentation. The CIA is "good" or has good elements that want to fight terrorism instead of creating it and mainly destabilizing third world countries. The shining light which sounds like shining path is shown as bad when they killed their parents and trafficked people, but are also liberators. This is the common trope that communists are dangerous and criminals, which is kinda lame.
Overall, I've enjoyed it.
No.10952
>>10827>It’s funny to me to think that Alan Moore has been lambasting capeshit for decades and it’s only gotten more popular.Even worse, his brand of deconstruction pretty much spawned the "serious" wing of the capeshit spectrum, a significant chunk of the entire industry. Capitalism finding a way to recuperate critiques at its most sublime.
pic unrelated
No.10956
>>10847>I guess I associate that trope with anime.Any examples ?only hxh comes to mind but i don't really watch
japanese micky maus No.10960
>>10857>tired of something<make more of it but ironically and self conscious, that'll show em
we should know better by now
No.10974
>>10960Tbh The Boys isn't ironic, ironically: it plays most of its stuff pretty straight.
No.10996
>>10848Honestly I feel like it's pretty obvious that it's less about superheroes but celebrities the way they portray the Seven. It's more like "what if celebrities had actual power" instead of "what if were superheroes were celebrities".
I dislike edgy shit too but whenever they are crass, it kind of lands, like, you never get the feeling that they're exploitative. It's the right amount of edge that carries satire - like, the fact that Stormfront is a bona fide Nazi is actually kind of hilarious when it's revealed.
No.10997
>>10852Heh, if they portray totally-not-AOC as a plant they're actually far more left-wing than I gave them credit for. Not sure if they're going for this, the reveal in the end felt a bit like a forced cliffhanger.
There is a Russia subplot in the comics so hopefully they're not going down the Russiagate road, that would be disappointing.
>>10854Yeah, and visibly Jewish, no idea why they did that.
>>10857>The original comics though, the TV show is badThe TV show is better.
No.11000
>>10997They won't do Russiagate, in part because they have Stormfront do direct media manipulation that Russiagaters thing Russia does.
>Heh, if they portray totally-not-AOC as a plant they're actually far more left-wing than I gave them credit for. Not sure if they're going for this, the reveal in the end felt a bit like a forced cliffhanger. "AOC is a corporate plant" doesn't really land IMO, "AOC is an idealist trying to fix a unfixable system" is a better take, but that's obviously not what they are doing now. It could also be a "AOC has realised to fix things she needs to do accelerationism", which is interesting but does not reject the real AOC.
No.11030
>>10856>Communist supe has the biggest dick in the universe but yeah it sucks that they did that
i kinda feel the show is lib
No.11031
>>11000Russiagate is just propaganda.
also what is AOC I thought tht was referring to the president candidate but apparently not.
No.11049
>>11030>i kinda feel the show is libThey're taking the shit out of libs too, especially corporate IdPol.
No.11050
>>11049Yeah, there's literally a point where they just shit specifically on Joss Whedon
No.11052
>>11050>>11049Really? What episode(s)?
No.11054
>>11052The Joss whedon bit is episode 3 of season 2, but shit like that is peppered throughout.
No.11058
Welp everything that shits on capeshit and is of quality deserves a reading.
Tx for the recomendation!
Godspeed anons!
No.11081
>>11049that is true
but they are making fun of everything so even potentially themselves is not exactly out of question
the beginning made me also think that it was leftist or something i.e the concept of the show being that everything in capitalism is a commodity and how vapid it is and the first episode begins with hughie's girlfriend encouraging him to ask his boss to get what he deserves for his labor and the boys being some underground armed resistance group against the giant corporation and supes
But as the shows goes on it starts to feel lib.
Billy's killing of supes starts being developed to imply that it is toxic and destroying everything around him and hughie starts to doubts his ways
i.e the classic lib take of well killing is actually bad, reform can actually be achieved!
the entire reputation being important which causes the blackmails against politicians and supes to work aspect in the universe is also what makes me feel it is idealistically lib. in the real world several politicians got caught being friends with epistein and literally nothing happened to their reputation.
Sure the nazi cunt being stomped was based as fuck.
And of course in the end where
the reformist progressive politician is shown to also be poisonous and actually just a plant for vought implies otherwise although one could argue that many american liberals do see such
aoc type politicians also as dangerous as rightoids and plants for russians or someshit so this could be just a projection
It's all nothing concrete. Will have to see where the show ends. This show at it's core is anti-capitalist but I'm very confused as to what it seeks to imply the alternative or solution is. It feels cynical and I guess that's the point
Don't know anything about Garth Mcinnis or the guys who developed this show so I could very well be wrong about it being lib
No.11082
>>11081It is a burger show, i don't think it can espace being lib entirely, even if the creators wanted it. Still i think the main message is quite clear. I especially liked how black capitalist didn't mind even using a nazi as long as it was profitable. That is quite commie-pilled i'd say.
No.11087
>>10856Yeah, this was the one thing S02 really botched. Love Sausage was one of the best character of the books.
No.11091
Looks like love sausage will show up in season 3
https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-love-sausage-return-confirmed/Given how season 3 was green light before season 2 was even released im pretty optimistic this show is going to get based now that they've established everything. I still want to know Not AOCs role and if she's really a plant for Vaught.
No.11092
>>11087I hated him. He is a walking shitty stereotype.
No.11094
>>11087>omg epic soviet penis mancringe, glad he was left out.
No.11099
>>11092>>11094He was a
massive comrade regardless.
No.11186
i read a spoiler for this comic's ending for billy butcher le tragic ending and it is moronic
in the comic billy is a massive prick so whatever
but i fucking swear the show better end with billy tearing and ending shitlander literally apart in the most gruesome hateful way and then retire peacefully somehow or at least with a happy ending
i hate that the nazi cunt survived. what the fuck are they going to come up with some weakness for the both of the Nazis??
you know what he should do is train his uhm "wife's son"
and use him like that baby he used in season 1 when he was trapped in vought labs and laser eyes garbagelander to death with his own son
kill him with his own misdeed
cheesy but kino ending
also still don't understand why the politician chick was blowing people up
is she working for vought? what is the implication???
is there another secret organization inside vought like hydra?
No.11188
>>11186>i read a spoiler for this comic's ending for billy butcher le tragic ending and it is moronicspoilers for comic ending:
black noir is homelander's clone; his sole purpose is to kill homelander if homelander goes rogue and, I dunno, attempts to overthrow the US government. this didn't happen at first, so he went insane. all of the events in the comic are implicitly caused by black noir so he can fulfill his sole purpose of killing homelander. billy has gone his entire life thinking his dead wife's rape baby was homelander's but no, it was black noir's. throughout the comic's run homelander gets increasingly bored and eventually decides "to do what he wants"—this includes overthrowing the US government. homelander and black noir fight in the white house; homelander dies, black noir is wounded. billy finishes off black noir by carving out his skull with a crowbar. that's not where the comic ends, though.
billy can't stop butchering, and gradually kills off the the boys one by one until it's just hughie left. hughie, who's had a highly contentious relationship with the boys from the start, decides to confront billy. they meet at the top of the empire state building, of which billy is threatening to bomb. billy gets a rise out of hughie one last time and forces hughie to kill him with a piece of glass to the heart. flash forward a couple months: hughie gives one last ultimatum to vought and makes up with Annie. the end.
No.11204
>>11094There was one joke that had to do with his dick in the whole comic.
No.11205
>>11188if they do that twist or that tragic liberal ending in the show it would be so fucking stupid
the dickless wuss new guy ends up surviving and getting the girl while everybody else dies
"you either die le hero or live long enough to be le villain"
billy should really kill every major powerful supe or neutralize most of their powers with the exceptions of trusted allies
that is the most logical conclusion
they're all killing superheroes or actively helping in doing it
if any of them suddenly become pacifists next season or butcher ends up becoming the villain i will drop this goddamn show
i would literally have no problem if they do any other twist like
"omg starlight is actually hughie's long lost sister and he gets depressed and becomes a lumberjack"
or that "the entire show was actually a dream billy had after falling asleep on that christmas party he went with his wife to vought"
or that M.M is actually a figment of frenchie's imagination
No.11213
>>11205They're not gonna go for that, because in the show Homelander has a son so that's Chekov's gun. Plus we've seen show Black Noir being too weak to be Homelander's clone, and he's taken out by an Almond Joy, and his face is fucked, he is their Deadpool knock-off.
Plus most people hated that ending in the comics.
No.11230
>>11188>>11205I feel the poster missed that Butcher did that stuff because:
Butcher literally wants to genocide everyone who has Compound V in them with a gaseous bioweapon released globally to remove the threat of supes from the Earth forever; he's been planning to do so for a looong time.The problem with that is in the comics is that V is literally everywhere; plenty of it's practically in the water as toxic waste; meaning he'll genocide most living beings as a whole; not to mention he and Hughie are V'd up in the comic tooButcher is fine with this because it's worth the price in his mind, idk, I think it's kind of in character, but it's waaaay over the top and edgy in all honestySo Butcher kills all of The Boys (and Love Sausage man) because he knows they'll stop him (but also because Ennis was being edgy LOL)So he and Hughie who's not been killed yet end up facing off on the Empire State, where Butcher is threating to detonate all of the bioweapon bombs around the whole world, not just bomb the building;I honestly hated that all of the other Boys died in this ending, and I thought it was stupid, but Butcher just being that fucking awful kind of made sense to me.In any case, I don't think the show is going that way
at all.
Butcher is if anything constantly making compromise and growing as a person, even if much of his deep-seated isn't just whisked away.
In the comic however, he was wholly without compromise.
No.11251
>>11213thank god
if black noir was the guy to takeout homelander in the comics
who was supposed to takeout black noir? did he have a brain chip or something
No.11252
>>11230That's understandable. The only time in the show Billy really felt evil to me was when he hammered that kid from sixth sense.
There wasn't much else to do with that character since his kid doesn't really care for him or anything but damn that scene was graphic with him begging to butcher to spare his life in exchange of him helping to find his wife but he still just kept bashing his skull onto the sinks. He had to do it to 'em.
No.11253
>>11230Oh man,
I completely forgot about the bioweapon stuff; thanks for reminding me.
No.11260
>>11251They never explained that. Maybe they thought that a confrontation between Homelander and Homelander's clone would destroy them both, which sort of worked,
in the comics you have Homelander slowly losing his mind because he is blackmailed with atrocities he didn't seem to recall, including some horrifying shit like eating (!) a family, which drives him over the edge to the point where he storms the White House, killing the President, and then Black Noir reveals his secret identity in the Oval Office but also seems like a complete nutcase, in that moment Homelander realizes he could have been a "good guy" so he immediately attacks his clone, seemingly severs his arm off with his laser eyes. The next time we see them is Black Noir coming out of the White House seemingly having killed Homelander but being half-dead himself, with a part of his brain hanging out of his skull. He then gets shelling by an entire US Army division with special anti-V ammunition, and only then Butcher is able to finish him off by destroying his brain. Butcher is strong and jacked up with V himself but Homelander and therefore necessarily his clone are ridiculously overpowered and it takes a half-dead Homelander clone being shelled by artillery having half his brain exposed to finish him off.A brain chip or some artificially built-in weakness seemed to be a most logical contigence plan,
in the comics they keep a nuke next to the room in which Homelander grows up. No.11270
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/reviews?sort=submissionDate&dir=descCheck out some of the lower star reviews there, those people are very dumb. Constantly bemoaning "leftist propaganda" in season 2 but how season 1 was political flies right past them. The main villain is literally called Homelander who wears an American flag for a cape and holds speeches on a Christian festival about how he's gonna punish America's enemies, how the fuck is this not political? Plus, they complain how the show inserts forced "diversity" into season 2, I don't think they are understanding how they make fun of corporate work culture as well? Maeve's coming out as gay is literally commodified into a candy bar, do those people think that this is supposed to praise shit like that? Also this constant bemoaning of "this show divides us" and makes things more "polarizing when we need unity", Christ, how sensitive are Americans? It's a satire what do you think satire is supposed accomplish? Also there is one guy who gives it a 1 star rating simply because they took the shit out of teachers being armed due to constant school shooters in the last episode and there one that thinks Stormfront represents the Democrats because Democrats hate people based on the color of their skin.
No.11271
>>11270corporate woke culture*
No.11274
>>10810comic was genius (and a lot more hardcore than the show), but, well its garth ennis so ofc its gud
only seen season 1 so far, was very good, hope it doesnt eventually become garbage weak libshit, but they handled starlight great so far
No.11275
>>10827Im into european comic (am french), and garth ennis is one the very select few US comic author I actually like and buy his shit.
>>10828> I'm not sure how much of this has made it into the showthe show is much more tame, but there are still a lot of epicness, and as the plot is pretty different you wont be spoiled by your knowledge
No.11277
>>11260lmfao that's fucking wild
so season 3 is going to either start introducing anti-v weapons or the boys taking the v compound themselvesdoes the prick have disturbing mommy issues in the comic too?
No.11278
>>11277i'm watching the youtube story version of the comics because i don't have a mouse and scrolling every 10 seconds with a track pad is annoying
currently at the part where the legend guy is telling hughie about the origins of supes
the way people were complaining about lamplighter getting killed so soon in the show i thought he was alive for long in the comic but he just got shown in one panel dying as peace offering No.11279
>>11277none of the mommy issues exists in the comics, he also doesn't have a kid. This entire storyline never happens there which leads me to believe that we will get a very different ending. Also, the Homelander in the show seems to be smarter and more cunning than the comic version.>>11278Yeah but he'll come back for a brief moment
as a zombie. Vought sometimes resurrects superheroes who got killed with Compound-V which turns them in zombies who are then dressed up for a photo op to give away the illusion that they're still alive in the eyes of the public. but yeah, I've read that even the showrunner regretted that they killed off Lamplighter so quickly.
No.11297
>>11278>scrolling every 10 seconds with a track pad is annoyingEver heard of a spacebar?
No.11300
>>11270Being a Gr*ngo is being mentally diseased.
One can only lose the Gr*ngo condition by knowing basic shit and the role of Amerikkka in the world.
A comedian I follow complained that the show practically doesn't give a fuck about killing supes in S2 focusing more in having investigation plots and big reveals that doesn't alter the plot in the absolute
(showing the sense of apathy that one can sense in the streets, if not recall Wikileaks, the Epstein airplane, etc,etc.)>>11279It was a good way to show how they resurrect those fuckers in the real life comics as the Stan Lee allegory put it in the comic No.11309
>>11270Amigo you've know way of understanding just how bad it is here in Burgerstan.
Let me tell you this:
There was this girl in my class in High School. She was in this thing called 'The Gifted Program;'
I believe this program has its origin in Victorian era eugenics, and it cordons off students who are tested to be high-IQ as a sort of absolute inverse of 'Special Education' for the (literal) retards.
We were in AP English class, that's 'college-level' in High School classes (i.e. normal HS level in any other country).
We got to the unit where we were learning about satire and read Swift's
A Modest Proposal,
and this student who is at the highest tier within American education, who even has the IQ meme and everything, reads the work and takes it ""wholly at face value"".
Completely incapable of
perceiving the satire in one of the most blatantly satirical works ever written, while in a class
actively teaching what satire
is; believing that Swift was, in earnest, ""advocating for the cannibalization of Irish babies as an official proposal"",
and not criticizing the fact the English may as well already be, or are already well on their way to, doing that to them given the shear monstrousness of their colonization.
Perhaps it is idealistic of me to claim, there is no statistics to back up a material assertion on the matter, but it truly seems to me that the average American is incapable of comprehending satire in any form,
I do not know if it is cultural or educational, as I cannot materially prove this either, but I believe it is an assertion that most would agree with based on shared experience.
Additionally, rightoids claim oftentimes "It was just a satire bro" when they screech nygger at any old walking-negro, but this is, if anything, a rejection of even attempting to understand the concept of satire,
done in order to smokescreen their being retarded as actually being "intellectual," even if it is not remotely so.
pic unrel.
No.11314
>>11309Not a day goes by where I don't fantasize about an alternative future where Frank Lloyd Wright
didn't design for suburban America. That pic looks like an office building done in the prairie style of architecture; just gorgeous. It reminds me of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building which was designed by Kenzo Tange of the Metabolist movement.
No.11329
>>11297HOLY FUCKING SHIT
I JUST FOUDN THIS OUT
damn thanks anon
No.11330
>>10810it's good they really made fun of brands in the most recent season, the lgbt shit had my sides
No.11331
>>11091>Not AOCs role and if she's really a plant for Vaught.Dangerously based.
No.11339
>>11099he put the D in the C, as in Democratic Centralism
No.11354
>>11309Fuck the Gifted Program, all my homies hate the Gifted Program. Do you know if you talk to most any burger with knowledge of this they will fervently defend the segregation of students into different ability castes? WHICH IS ALL BASED ON SHITTY ASS IQ? GRR. People implicitly know the education system is absolute garbage for most people, but this shit gives bourgeois parents an out to identify their shitty kid as special, and be able to hoard the scarce educational resources onto a small section of the student body.
The irony is that this shit doesn't work, studies show kids will learn more by being all integrated regardless of ability, the kids who are singled out as "gifted" just learn to give up at the slightest adversity because they couldn't possibly need to struggle to learn something.
Rant over, sorry for offtopic post.
No.11373
>>11354>Fuck the Gifted Program, all my homies hate the Gifted Program. Based.
No.11399
>>11354I don't remember too well, but when I was in second grade they put me in retard segregation for a day because I would ignore everything the teacher said and stare into the abyss.
Then I guess I did well enough there that they took me out and gave me and IQ test, I got a big number, and then I got put in the 'gifted' program for the rest of my days.
I don't necessarily know if there really is a Bourg element to the 'gifted' program, but it is absolutely an exercise in IQ-based segregation likely with roots in eugenics (if I had to guess)
I would definitely agree that 'gifted' did absolutely nothing to help me nor my fellow students in it in terms of developing intellectual capacity, but the program also did get more resources than the rest of the school:
great efficiency there, eh.
If you were in the program of course, you would get priority if you applied to go on any field trip or outing, which is some real IQ-based caste shit.
I always did pretty shit at half of the gifted stuff anyways and was always really bad with socializing compared to the rest of my 'fellow ubermenschen,' so I'd guess my 'magical big number' was more a side effect of a certain
spectrum if you would.
Or some other manner of non-neurotypical disorder; I would say they should have kept me in 'special' for some help instead of 'gifted,' but I doubt they actually help all that much, and just serve to keep you cordoned away from the normals.
Pic unrel again
No.11400
>>11314Couldn't agree more.
That is an actual design from the man himself for the National Life Insurance Building in 1923-25 that never got built.
The few buildings he designed that weren't suburban houses commissioned by bourgs were truly splendid.
Makes me think how nice it'd be to have Soviet style mass-production of real Prairie stuff, that doesn't abandon FLW's actual style and aesthetic.
Folks here are quick to judge him I feel since he did do mostly suburbanshit for bourgs, but it was his intention to build stuff for working folk.
Just couldn't actually work out that way due to material conditions.
An architect is allowed to be a bit of an idealist damn it.
As long as they're not a fucking NAZI like a certain Herr Speer.
sage for off-topic
No.11401
>>11400Respectable Ted talk anon, I liked it
No.11537
>>11440could have saved it if he hadnt lasered both the control panels and the people with the knowledge to use it. Sadly he is so lazy, complacent and stupid he dooms the whole siuation in seconds
No.11657
>>11656The Boys has installed bugs.
No.11667
>>11656Hughie fudged the cameras in the apartment, including the smart TV, I'm not a tech guy but A-Train must have accidently pulled up the footage.
Now, where the real fuck up is, it's pretty damn sloppy to not come back to the apartment, uninstall everything, and delete the footage. They must have known A-Train or literally anybody at Vought would come back and check her apartment out if she would defect, right?
No.11683
i've seen nazifags unironically agree with stormfront's white genocide speech, just a perfect encapsulation of these people missing the point
No.11689
>>11683Am I the only one who cringed whenever she said race? Not as in the acting or writing is bad, but in character it sounds kind fucked?
No.11696
>>10810They got buttmad cause the boys fucked Stormfront in the ass.
No.11697
>>11683They actually took it from these rightoids themselves.
>>11689I think you would have same visceral reaction if any internet nazi said that shit irl.
No.11707
>>11683>>11689at first i thought "oh they fucked up naming her stormfront", then i saw it
No.11708
>>11707I'm honestly really curious how Garth Ennis came to be aware of the oldest neo-nazi forum on the internet—assuming that's what the name is in reference to.
No.11711
>>11667Still, why would the footage be saved on her tv? I thought it the boys tapped it on their laptop, why would it move from laptop to tv? Also, in the beginning, why would Vought seek to compensate Hughie and not Robin's legal guardians like her family which we don't hear of at all? He's just her boyfriend, almost irrelevant legally.
No.11712
>>11667>>11656There was a secret camera teddy bear filming everything. Nobody noticed it.
Hughie was fucking with the security webcams. Not the teddybear.
>>11440I think yes, he could've, but as you say, he was a lazy bastard and fucked shit up.
>>11711They were bribing Hughie to STFU, not for anything legally. If it were in this reality, I don't even think it would be legally binding, but that doesn't mean lawyers wouldn't pressure you to sign it anyways and threaten you if you break the NDA. Presumably, they also bribed Robin's family, if she had any.
I liked The Boys. I'd definitely recommend it. Curiously, a friend who likes cinema as well as trash avengers movies didn't like The Boys. I don't get why, this is clearly superior to any Avengers trash. For me, one of the best series I've seen this year. Granted I don't watch too many.
The political commentary was usually on point. The second half of the second season progressed a little too quickly, but I think it's fine. I liked it anyways. The characters are great, lots of character development, etc. The political commentary is also really fresh, with fake AOC, Stormfront, fake feminism, etc.
No.11713
>>11708i assumed it's pretty common knowledge to anyone who knows american far right politics
No.11732
>>11689>We are in a war for the culture.Seems like a perfect encapsulation of these annoying suburbanite /pol/yps. "It's not breads and circus if the massive multibillionaire Fortune 500 CEO is a part of the volk."
No.11741
>>11712>Curiously, a friend who likes cinema as well as trash avengers movies didn't like The Boys. It's because the political commentary and the more subtle elements of satire flies over their head, but they know deep down that it takes the absolute shit out their favorites so they dislike it. It's the normie consoomer equivalent to when you try to present /pol/yps actual theory and they react like "you are trying to deceive me with those big Jew codewords!!!"
No.11746
>>11741I mean, I don't think the bit about the "pray the gay away" hero being gay himself is that subtle.
No.11754
>>11732I like how some time after she said this they took the boy to fucking Vought Land. This is the culture they're "defending". And "bad guys want to hurt just 'cause of what we look like" the irony truly escapes her. Guess this was intended. Watching this show honestly felt like an exercise in seeing how the writers will write themselves out of this, their presence was palpable sometimes, but it was enjoyable nevertheless.
No.12027
>>11440He was completely right about trying to catch it not working. It's a common point made about superman, just like catching a falling person somehow being less destructive than hitting the pavement with the same deceleration. Planes are not designed to be caught by somebody. They hold themselves up by the landing gear when on the ground, and you need 3 points of contact there. In order to lift a plane you'd need 3 supermen to grab the plane by each piece of landing gear.
But if he didn't blast the controls they could have just flown it. Modern planes are not hard to fly, and usually just use autopilot. The human pilots are basically there in case the computer can't handle it like with self-driving cars.
No.12046
>>12042Commercial jets are literally on autopilot 99% of the time, including landings and takeoffs.
No.12048
>>12046That doesn't mean you can just take the stick and wing it. You couldn't have had even protract the landing gear.
No.12062
>>12042You can literally teach someone to land a plane through an intercom, Airplane was accurate.
No.12073
So with Biden winning the election, and the last two seasons building on a Trump-style America, and the third season probably being about totally-not-AOC being a corporate plant, plus the return of Soldier Boy being a disillusioned cynic, this show might accidently hit the zeitgeist again with the third season.
No.12085
>>10826Ugh, my homeric epics. This is what they took from me? :^)
>>10827In that sense, Moore is just an old grouch that can't own that he and Miller wrote two of the 80s best superhero comics. (Also, have anyone seen
Born in Flames? The technique in
The Dark Knight of having this tv news inserts seems to be have been inspired of that film.)
>>10952>Capitalism finding a way to recuperate critiques at its most sublime.No, it's just esthetic.
Alos, brands aren't anything mystical. Just because someone is having a product etc it is not a religion. If you think it's a religion, it sounds like you're sad that the old religion has fallen aside.
And the origins of brands is just a function of larger societies. Back in the old days, you hanged your wares outside the shop. A broom maker a broom. A cobbler a boot and so on. And from that it's easy to make a metallic or wooden representation of the goods. And this was in a society where you could know pretty much everyone in the manufacturing process.
But when you can't do it, it's important that you have a brand that guarantees that the quality will be even.
Therefore, hanging goods outside the store or having a brand is nothing stranger than a road sign. But who is talking about "road fetihshism" or "reification of roads"?
No.12086
>>12085https://coolerinsights.com/2014/06/transcendental-marketing/Not the person you are replying to but I think the fetishism of branding is to actually treat brands as some kind of natural phenomenon of society
>But when you can't do it, it's important that you have a brand that guarantees that the quality will be even.Right, that's why Apple's electronics is so desired & the branding so well known. Because of the quality is far & beyond anything else out there on the market.
/s
No.12089
>>12073AOC as a corporate plant almost makes me think the writer is a tankie lamo.
No.12097
>>12089More like the writer has eyes.
No.12716
The episode where they kill the whale made me sad.
No.12784
>>12716The killing of sea mammals is a bit too edgy for my part, feels a bit like South Park. However the Deep works as a comedic relief imo.
No.12786
God can you imagine the horny that is going to come from !NOT AOC being the focus of the series…
No.12798
>>12784The Deep in general is handled really well IMO because it's showing what actually happens with the metoo/cancel thing. Those people don't go away, they just become jilted has-beens with a drive to try to redeem themselves and perfect material for groups like scientology. The dying animals is edgy and offputting but I think it helps keep the audience from being endeared to The Deep despite the shit he goes through. It's harder to find someone sympathetic if even when they're at the low point they're still being abusive and causing harm through their negligence.
No.12916
Honestly surprised that shows like it and "The Expanse" and "Mr Robot" are even on Amazon Prime.
No.12920
>>12916Amazon Prime outbid netflix on very specific shows so they can get the prestige. Remember the first major work of alt history of the Golden Age of Television was Amazon Prime…
No.12937
>>12916Apparently Jeff Bezos personally liked The Expanse so he got it for Amazon.
No.13016
The New Mutants is also trying to pull the same thing as The Boys but not as well TBH. A lot of dumb shit in it, though the effects are decent
No.19706
Reviving the thread!
I watched this show this week. Season 2 was incredibly boring, I loved the butcher-MM-frenchie trio in S1 but I just didn't care after that. Hughie+Starlight scenes were also incredibly boring. I don't know why so many shows make main characters so fucking boring. At this point i'm just watching it for the Homelander, who is my new >LITERALLY ME character (and they had some decent plot twists tbf). One thing that pissed me off and what nobody ever talks about, is that fucking twink Hughie throwing away check worth 45 grand. I think since he didn't even go to the bank, Vought didn't even lose that money. He could have given it to random by-walker and instantly improve their life, pay for someone's medical debt, pay for someone's collage, lift a family out of poverty or just donate it to save some African kids but that fucker just rips it apart. How am i supposed to respect him after that?
Also if you go to the subreddit, the show is mostly liked by democrats who think that they're some sort of radical leftists. Producers probably fall into that category too.
No.19707
>>13016>New Mutants I gotta say it bores the fuck out of me. I'm not really into The Boys either but it's still better. There's another similar DC TV series that has Brendon Fraser voicing a Robot containing the imprinted mind and memories of his character - an 80s racecar driver that died in a crash, but the brain got preserved.
No.19862
Looks like for season 3 they'll be doubling down on the political implications.
https://twitter.com/TOFilming_EM/status/1398996909944053767Also, they did some funny song with the A-Train actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcd-rwe-SEwGives you some 2005-2010 vibes.
No.19863
>>19706>i'm just watching it for the Homelander, who is my new >LITERALLY ME characterThat is concerning anon.
>Also if you go to the subreddit, the show is mostly liked by democrats who think that they're some sort of radical leftists. Producers probably fall into that category too.I mean, it's reddit, but they seem to be pretty oblivious to the fact that they also took the shit out of Democratic woke politics. Producers are probably somewhat liberal but they are not too on-the-nose with it. I mean, "AOC" literally turned out to be a master villian.
No.19864
>>19706>Also if you go to the subreddit, the show is mostly liked by democrats who think that they're some sort of radical leftists. Producers probably fall into that category too.Agree with
>>19863I thought it showcased how rotten and insane capitalism/capitalists is/are, and how powerless people are. It really drove the idea that no leader can really fix capitalism, and no scandal is big enough to make capitalism collapse.
Also that everything is manufactured, from AOC to heroes to wars to public outrages. The AOC bit was really prescient, she hadn't yet betrayed her constituency as blatantly and openly as she does now.
No.19866
>>19862>DEEPER Ted CruzLewd.
No.19867
I only watched the first season but it was kinda fun
No.19914
One thing that bothers me is that they use touch screen phones which i don't know if there are burner phones with touch screens but regular android/iPhone phones would expose their location easily to a corporation of super heros.
No.36186
This was probably made in a lab to be as bad of an attempted subversion of superhero media as possible
I'm actually hatewatching it for that reason
The dialogue is very quippy and can be slightly funny at times
No.36189
>>36186>made in a lab to be as bad of an attempted subversion of superhero the original material was better (and edgier), but theres still plenty of good critique in it (they even critique rainbow capitalism and cooption and neutering of popular struggles)
I usually like garth ennis works and their adaptation
No.36232
>>36189The original material was absolute garbage
No.36242
>>36232as opposed to the neutered tv show lol?
No.36342
>>36242It's less edgy but they gave all characters more layers and development. Deep and A-Train are basically extras in the comics.
It's a good show but the writers seem to struggle to tie things together very well, season three finale was such a letdown.
Also, fuck Garth Ennis. The guy is a hardcore cocksucker for the US military.
No.36343
>>34900Omniman is ridiculously overpowered, but let's be honest Invincible is pretty bad compared with The Boys.
Also I get the feeling that they nerfed Homelander in the show compared to the comics.
No.36344
>>36343>Also I get the feeling that they nerfed Homelander in the show compared to the comics.Powerscaling these kinds of shows never actually makes any sense. "Who would win" is only really interesting if you are trying to come up with a story.
No.36347
>>36343i like invincible but only if you read it as "what if saiyans were featured in western comics" and not as "superman but LE BAD" which makes the characterization of omniman a bit more compelling
No.37094
anybody watching gen v? i like it so far
No.37101
>>36347They should have just made a series about Irredeemable instead
But I just looked that up and apparently Invincible came first, so, eh, never mind I guess
No.37102
>>37094It's better than I expected it to be, but they already announced s2 is in production and I'm fully expecting the season finale to just be a reset to the status quo where nothing substantial happens.
No.37410
The finale of Gen V wasn't bad at all, and it wasn't a reset. Better than the usual finale of The Boys that usually fails to tie things together. They are doing their own thing while still making enough references to the main show to keep fans interested.
I haven't heard anyone of those young actors before but they are really talented. Cate might be one of the coolest young villains I've seen in capeshit in a while (well The Boys is more of a satire of it).
No.37411
>>37410Also, it's often hard for mainstream productions to find the right mix between humour, gore and story - for example, Deadpool fails miserably regarding this. Gen V does a good job here.
No.37413
>>36343The ending of Invincible really feels like the MC started some sort of space UN bullshit lol
No.37415
>>37413iirc he's destined to become god emperor of the universe, so this is just his young libcuck phase
No.37416
>>37415God I hate superhero comics.
No.37440
>>37410I wasn't expecting much so I was pretty surprised how the finale turned out. Hopefully s2 doesn't end up floundering.
>>37413When it was revealed
he and nolan had royal blood or whatever I was just tapped out of the comic at that point.
No.37442
I was watching some of the new Invincible the other night, the episode where the dimension hopping smartman made a big machine to concentrate all his other selves into his own mind. I have some questions. Maybe they answered some in the show, but I was high so I might have missed them.
1. The secret government agency oversees teenage superheroes. Why? Why do people think this is okay?
2. The secret government agency sends an unstable teenager to investigate an energy surge? I guess in this world the likelihood is that its super science fuckery but why aren't the cops handling this shit.
3. The unstable teenager bursts right into a situation where he has no idea what's going on or why, and even though he nor anyone else seems to be in any immediate danger he starts a fight with two people for no other reason than he's in a bad mood. This results in thousands of deaths. Why wasn't literally anyone else put in charge of this?
4. Brain guy doesn't want "his utopia built on blood" and stops the procedure for no reason, directly causing thousands of deaths instead of just one which might have happened if he'd just done nothing. If he's so smart then what the fuck is that all about, especially when he had the power to just send all the blue guys away instead of just letting them beat Invincible to death.
5. How does anyone think that a massive explosion and hundreds of deaths, hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and the destruction of all that other dimensional technology, the culprits, and any evidence of what was happening is an acceptable solution to the problem?
No.37447
>>37442>why aren't the cops handling this shit.To busy busting some union or killing some black guy is my guess
No.37448
>>37442>4. Brain guy doesn't want "his utopia built on blood" and stops the procedure for no reason, directly causing thousands of deaths instead of just one which might have happened if he'd just done nothing. If he's so smart then what the fuck is that all about, especially when he had the power to just send all the blue guys away instead of just letting them beat Invincible to death.Yeah, that was incredibly stupid, especially since he can do his portal shit to avoid unwanted attention by just putting the machine in some uninhabited dimension. There was zero reasons for it to happen in the first place.
No.37449
>>37442>he starts a fight with two people for no other reason than he's in a bad mood. This results in thousands of deaths. Why wasn't literally anyone else put in charge of this?Actually that is not true. He followed the Cecil order to stop it. He even asked what to do first.
No.37450
>>37449I remember him talking to cecil, but did cecil tell him specifically to go in there, start a fight, and smash everything up, because I thought he went in, told them he was there to stop them, they were like "make us," and he was like "I was hoping you'd say that" because he's all pissed off about his dad going to get space groceries.
No.37456
binged gen v a bit
kind of put off by the generic school young-folks-figuring-themselves-out angle, it's just tired as fuck with all of the usual cliches
No.37457
>>37415>>37440Oh shit I had completely forgotten about that. Invincible has very strong 2000s liberal vibes.
No.37459
>>37450More or less. Besides he had contact with Cecil all that time and he never told him to stop. So i imagine he was all for it. Which at least maks sense, after all being extremely paranoid is his job description and when you see shit like that, with two dangerous criminals who are also technical geniuses, you start to think "doomsday device" so it's safer to just dispose of that than to start asking questions and miss the opportunity. After the murder of their version of avengers/justice league and betrayal of omniman i imagine his mistrust and paranoia are off the charts. So i at least understand where they are coming from. The brainman on the other hand was absolutely fucking moronic.
No.37460
>>37457It really does. Mostly it's a teenage drama tho.
No.37487
>>37459>superhero doing illegal as shit work for a secret unaccountable government entityhey wait a minute
>Publication dateJanuary 2003Yeah, I thought so.
No.37501
>>37456The way I get it is that they were making fun of those cliches by contrasting it with gore.
>young people figuring themselves out You mean like becoming a genocidal mass murderer like Cate? That's a bit away from the norm.
I think it's fun and I will stand by it. Sometimes it's better than The Boys.
No.37502
>>37440>Hopefully s2 doesn't end up floundering. After all the show is kinda dependent on The Boys so it sort of comes down to whether they fuck it up in season four. I hope they don't take anymore Temp-V, it makes Butcher OP and takes away the fun from the superheroes vs underdogs theme. It was fun for one season but if the Boys can easily overpower every superhero except Homelander, then what's the point of the show. They already fucked up with A-Train and The Deep by the end of season three with their storylines culminating into… nothing? And why would it be anything different, they are completely useless now. At least in season two The Deep beached a whale.
Also, Cate and Sam will be in the Seven in season four, won't they?
No.37506
>>37501How is it making fun of cliches by contrasting it with gore? The mass murder stuff also plays into school shooting paranoia which some teen dramas have also done. The superhero stuff in this is just an add-on tbh.
No.37527
I can't handle the time investment of a TV show, but my friend mentioned to me that the villains are apparently Patagonia wearing SV bourgeoisie, which I like
No.37875
im reading the comics and theyre even worse than the show lol
billy butcher is even more of le epic cool guy, and literally walks into raynor's office and fucks her in the first issue
hughie is even more of a loser nerd with no real reason for his role in the story
No.37876
>>37875>hughie is even more of a loser nerd with no real reason for his role in the storywait for it
No.37881
>>37875oh yeah and it trivializes the war on terror and stuff like gitmo while moralizing within this basically fairy tale
No.38777
>>10810the only capeshit thing i've seen that looks remotely decent, and even then it looks kind of mid
No.38794
>>38775>Ennis or the comic, they ironically do a much better job on consistent character work They are cardboard characters, that's why they are "consistent". Honestly saying that the comics had better character development is laughable. The characters in the show are way more developed, how can this even be debatable. Homelander alone, but also Maeve, Starlight, Butcher. Deep and A-Train practically don't have speaking roles in the comics.
You complain about plot holes, which is fine, but this a satire show right? And for that their writing is pretty gripping. Like, if you dislike the jokes, the story is still overall not a bad one.
I also liked that The Boys didn't have power from the beginning. It creates a much more interesting dynamic, instead the Boys being stronger than anybody except Homelander and beating everybody up, there are underdogs as normal humans having to try ingenious and creative ways to stand a chance against superhumans, with like blackmail and exploiting weaknesses.
I liked season 2 and 3 as well, except for the last episode which was shit. And season 4 looks as well.
>spin offs Yeah but the Gen V spin-off actually worked and did it's own thing by still making references to the main show.
>only successful streaming show on Amazon You can not be serious about that. It prolly blew up the most, that come on.
No.38799
>>38777>777Checked and based take
No.40197
Just caught up with it, and I liked it, though season 3 was a drop in quality.
Whole season is getting a weapon to killing Homelander, they find him, and at the end neither him or Homelander die – almost nothing really changed except stuff in the beginning of the season and a few stuff in it.
Overall: nothing beats yugioh gx in super hero shows.
Except in length, The Boys atleast doesn't over stay it's welcome, (but still fuck the 1h episode format).
>>38777It's much better than you think it is.
Super hero media, like horror movies, just make me dredge to watch them since of how underwhelming they can be – but this one was better than I thought.
>>38775>>38794Is the comic good?
People say it sucks because it's just a anti-hero wank fest, which makes it interesting in the sense of calibrating a comparison scale for shows that critique their genra.
>>30964Shout out to this anon who was the only person to post in this thread in 2022, only to just say, "No horny".
A shame this board is so dead.
No.40200
>>40197>Whole season is getting a weapon to killing Homelander, they find him, and at the end neither him or Homelander die – almost nothing really changedIt was just the finale that sucked, also A-Train's and The Deep's storylines were nowhere. Rest of the season is as good as the other ones.
The reset they did at the end of season two and three is annoying but else can they write this when it's a show based of excessive stimulation and everyone knows Homelander or Butcher can't die before the end of the show - which goes for five seasons as stated by the producers. Next seen is about the election, just in time for the real one, let's see where they are going with this. So far the social commentary has been up to date and isn't afraid to throw heavy punches against rightoids and libshits just the same.
>comics It's more crass, it also shits on corporations and celebrity but in a more vulgar way. I prefer the show.
No.40201
>>40197>it's just a anti-hero wank festAnd that is what makes it BASED.
No.40202
>>40200>It's more crassIT'S GRIMDARK, ANON, YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!!
>>10814To rightoids leftism is "when SJWs" so saying that rightoids think The Boys makes fun of "leftism" is fundamentally misunderstanding the level of their political ignorance.
No.40276
>>40200They could've at least committed to more changes.
Like how the fuck did Mave survive? Soldier boy was pushing it, but mave got blown up.
I was enjoying season 3,(until half way in which I was kinda getting bored), but the ending sucking just hurts the season in retrospect, (at least for me).
(Also, I didn't know it was going for 5 seasons, so that's nice, especially with following up on the commentary).
No.40277
>>40201>>40202Maybe when I go through vagabond I'll check it out.
I don't think I'll prefer it to the show, but it'll be a nice source of inspiration for anti-hero hate.
No.40401
Just started watching. It's already made pretty clear how it is merging satire of superheros in art/culture and cops, and the Vought International presentation/speech is making me sick in that way an effective critique should. It feels like an Ancapistan private security force wet dream.
I'm not going to pretend the premise, the concept of superheros as powerful corrupt figures or copaganda is novel in itself, but they're exploring it well and that's good to see. And of course, modern high production eye candy and sugar is fun.
No.40410
How the hell did they manage to get Assad to act the landlord?
No.40527
How did they manage to copy Captain Jack Sparrow in something so gritty?
No.40682
/co/ 2006-2018
>wow Totally Spies is just an excuse for writers inserting all their fetishes
/co/ 2019-present
>wow The Boys is just an excuse for writers inserting all their fetishes
No.40683
>>40682I mean are they necessarily wrong? /co/ may be full of idiots, but that is one thing they got right.
>>40527 >>40410 ???
No.40692
>>40683How was it possible to cast AOC as an actor in a superhero film?
No.40693
>>40683That's also one thing /co/mrades never said. I made it the fuck up. It's a literary technique often called 'humour'.
No.40700
>>40693Actually /co/ has said both things, it's like the oldest joke on the board, pic rel.
>>40692 LOL
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