How based was this show? And, do you have faith that the reboot will do any justice to the previous seasons?
>>9404>it became an exercise in stating the obvious.Sometimes the obvious is what needs to be stated.
>>9422I agree that it felt like it went for too long. Apparently Aaron ran out of steam on a personal level and that's part of why season 4 sucked. The comic always had the benefit of riffing on current events. Even with as big a topic as racism and black culture there's only so much (network approved) material to make TV episodes out of.
>>9401>How based was this show?It's very based. I have trouble thinking of a time where it had a bad take, although obviously the radical leanings had to be toned way down.
>And, do you have faith that the reboot will do any justice to the previous seasons?On the one hand I think the show mostly ran its course. On the other I think that times having changed somewhat on the topic of race may have opened up what the network will allow them to do.
>>9401>how based was this showthe most based show on tv ever
- anti capitalist
- anti american
- anti liberal
- drops the word "nigger" 40 times an episode
- anti white
- directed by a black man
all your instincts tell you that this show would never be allowed to air, and yet it somehow beat the odds.
>>10746I think it's just anti-capitalist.
It's supper missanthropic,
I think to be a leftist you have to be a little optimistic that a better world is possible.
The main character is supposed to be a revolutionary but it's just athletic, I was hoping that they would develop this but they never did.
Iv not read the comics, maby there more optimistic.
Half the Tubesteak promos were based.
>>9642>Apparently Aaron ran out of steam on a personal level and that's part of why season 4 suckedPretty sure he wasn't even involved in Season 4
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=aaron%20mcgruder%20season%204>>11160Tbh I think it is leftist, it’s just that the current generation of leftists probably can’t comprehend the world of the post-Soviet collapse
Remember, Cockshott himself writes that around the 90s most leftists had given in and accepted the supremacy of liberalism and the Market. I think Boondocks is representative of that first generation having grown up when neoliberalism came to power and defeated the worldwide socialist movement.
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Black Dynamite was also great, Head Ninja In Charge lol
>>19525I mean Uncle Ruckus was sort of self-criticism of some aspects of Black culture, and that's fine, /pol/ ignores that in favor of stanning him as "le niger-h8r" with no nuance whatsoever.
>>19531They probably didn't use it because even with an R rating they probably didn't want to risk saying a hard r. That being said from personal experience among Black acquaintances, the hard R (at least in my area) is used to be specifically offensive, while uygha is more like "dude", although, like in Boondocks, tone and emphasis on the word also dictates different meanings.
>>21793Man I remember that event, it was so fucking funny.
>Alterman walked out. “I turned to Joe and said, ‘I can’t listen to this crap anymore,’” he remembers. “I went out into the Metropolitan Club lobby—it’s a nice lobby—and I worked on my manuscript.”
>Newfield joined in the heckling, as did Stephen Cohen, a historian and the husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel. “It was like watching LeRoi Jones try to Mau-Mau a guilty white liberal in the sixties,” Newfield says. “It was out of a time warp. Who is he to insult people who have been putting their careers and lives on the line for equal rights since before he was born?”
>By the time McGruder had finished, and a tipsy Joe Wilson took the microphone to deliver his New Year’s Resolutions, perhaps half the guests had excused themselves to join Alterman in the lobby. A Nation contributor estimated that McGruder had offended eighty per cent of the audience. “Some people still haven’t recovered,” he said, sounding thrilled.
>“At a certain point, I just got the uncomfortable feeling that this was a bunch of people who were feeling a little too good about themselves,” McGruder said afterward. “These are the big, rich white leftists who are going to carry the fight to George Bush, and the best they can do is blame Nader?”McGruder rocks.
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