The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

[Mayoush]

It never gets old to be lectured about "corporations bad" by people that are on the payroll of the biggest corporations on the planet, living lives of wealth and privilege on the company's dime, that the average prole can only dream about.

For real they will keep selling out until AI or robots replaces them

I think the show is worse since the creator is furious that people like homelander that's why he doesn't want to do the comic twist of black noir, there is not much depth to the comic either , what if superman was evil and ate kids alive and raped women and all of the characters are former nazi and also sexual deviants the show toned down all these themes and made it about the evil orange man instead not counting the countless gender and race swaps

 

[regalterry]

what if superman was evil and ate kids alive and raped women and all of the characters are former nazi and also sexual deviants

Which had already been done in Wanted from 2003, and it was just as crass and cringe there as it was in the Boys.

We also already had "Superman, but evil" with Miracleman from the 1980s by resident demon cocksleve Alan Moore.

I have no clue what the Boys had to offer that was so novel besides the explicit and in-your-face shock value.

 

[Not A Bunny]

It never gets old to be lectured about "corporations bad" by people that are on the payroll of the biggest corporations on the planet, living lives of wealth and privilege on the company's dime, that the average prole can only dream about.

Art reflects life. We've kind a reached a point where everyone's been trained to believe that whatever corporations tell us is good, so much so that nobody questions it when the message they put out is "corporations bad", and yet somehow, we accept that message without keeling over from the cognitive dissonance.

It thoroughly astounds me how often people cheer it when someone more obscenely wealthy than they are falls in line with the social agenda they were fed, yet it somehow never occurs to them that the same obscenely wealthy motherfuckers have no real motivation to adhere to that agenda except that it keeps the audience in their corner.

I actually had a point here, and that is, this is the reason that it doesn't astound me that Eric Kripke hasn't been called out for the sick motherfucker he is. He says the right words and pisses off all the right people, so whatever perverse idea he has for putting things onscreen (I'm not a prude, I just lost my taste for shock-value shit when I burned myself out on True Crime) is that same shit that's going to get amped up on social media.

Which had already been done in Wanted from 2003, and it was just as crass and cringe there as it was in the Boys.

And that's another thing that pisses me off about modern media. It's like everyone thinks they have an original idea. I suppose corporations will exploit this when all of their new-agey ideas get thrown out just to jangle the keys at consumers.