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Why don't you make a video essay about it?

>>34594
Writing things out to me is much better than telling people my thoughts

My "MAGA libertarian" boss love this show for some reason, he seems to believe it's one of the few shows out there that's "not woke or political". Media literacy is dead in America

>>34596
There are people out there who didn’t see Homelander as a villain until season 3, that makes sense

>>34597
It’s worse knowing it’s likely that same demographic never read the original comics. I did and he’s considerably less shitty there than in the show, in the comics he’s just a rapist with an ego but doesn’t do fucking anything up until the comics about to end because he’s not enough of a lunatic to carry out anything evil on a general basis. Like actual abusers. In the show he’s satirically evil and the writers have to keep bullshitting excuses to make him seem even slightly realistic even though any of his real world fans just self insert as him anyways and couldn’t care less about his character. At least in that cartoonish evilness the show writers did use his character creatively to represent that despite how much damage he could cause he’s still disposable like every other supe something you wouldn’t see a lot of in the comics

It was weird because the supers are so cajoled in society without much explanation until its half heartedly dropped to advance the plot. But one figures the superpowered obsoleting the police and the military would not be a development that stays aside form the state. The show however does exactly that. The supers are entirely a private thing that the government is mostly uninvolved in except as customers.

The state would be all over that because it is among other things, a huge tthreat, and there is no way the secret of supers would remain a monopoly of the USA even from it's inception. Which itself seem like another contrivance. Not to speak of the portrayal of glowies like just higher ranking cops.

This would all be fine to handwave if it was a superhero kind of story, not one deconstructing the trope.

It feels like the show is so bent on individualism that world-building had to be thrown out of the window to preserve the plot making sense. The plot has to advance but when it does, since barely anything that happens is explained, put into context or developed beyond the basics, it feels arbitrary when events are picked and chosen to actually move the plot forwards and robs the characters of agency.

Which is just as well because the thing is so stretched out you'd think it would take 1 or two seasons to develop them, not 3 watered down seasons that end in a cliffhanger.

>>34599
>supers are so cajoled in society without much explanation
beside the massive marketing and the consumerism built around them you mean ?

>half heartedly dropped
but its not ?

>But one figures the superpowered obsoleting the police and the military
not what happens, overpaying private companies for a shitty job and good pr is not making anything "obsolete"

>The state would be all over that because it is among other things, a huge tthreat
and indeed, we see the security apparatus hating it and sabotaging it, and the politicians rolling with it coz money and marketing.

>portrayal of glowies like just higher ranking cops
yeah they should have used fbi rather than cia, which actually are higher ranking cops

>>34600
He didn’t read the comics. Like half this garbage doesn’t happen since Garth Ennis speant a lot of time documenting how exactly supes could form and why their would be so many in NA

>>34593
My favorite is the idpol. They've got the silent north Korean refugee feral woman, the lumpen negro black panther millitary veteran, the lumpen fbi agent, and the woke crakkker in the middle lol

>>34602
she was supposed to be from nk?

>>34602
Having nonwhite people in the cast is not idpol
>woke
Please fuck off

>>34595
Video essays are usually written first

>>34604
Actually it basically is

>>34595
reading things is much better than watching some guy mumble for hours too