If I'm honest it was pretty obviously bad and most of you guys swallowed 4/5ths of the giant turd like a snake before complaining about the taste of the last little bit
really heartwarming at the end, butcher's speech to hughey. "you were the boys...my boys, this whole time." before a genetically altered ant bursts out of his head, yelling "WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?" surprising place for a cameo by dave chappelle but i think it worked out alright.
I will never understand why they decided to gove homelander a tragic back story if you were just going to make him a sniveling bitch when he loses his powers
THats the kind of ending you write for a character whos never been powerless.
Instead we know he was locked in an underground bunker and routinely tortured for his childhood and young adolescence.
It's the common haughty leftist trope - "I can do better than the original artist". The show strayed away from the original so much that it's essentially unrecognizable at this point, and it's no wonder they failed to stick the landing. They were too busy jerking off to their own self-righteous drivel to tell a story faithful to source material.
Or they could have just directly adapted the fuckin’ books. Genuinely missed an opportunity to create context and depth for both Homelander and Butcher and have a real ‘Red Wedding’ moment that’d have the normies talking for years.
But no, penises everywhere and Orange Man Bad were more important.
This is an argument of degrees, based on subjective personal opinions. I say it was intended to demonstrate how irredeemably broken and twisted the members of G-Wiz are, you say “yes but did it have to be so extreme?”
There is no reconciliation of these two points. Could it have been toned down? Absolutely. But would it have conveyed the same message, if so? Almost certainly not. It was in line with much of the tone of the rest of the books, though.
If the books aren’t to your taste, that’s fine, but that doesn’t make your position ‘right’, any more than my position that the scene in question was thematically appropriate makes me ‘right’ either.
May be getting a bit too much into politics, but some are responding to the Homelander Trump comparisons in terms of how they reacted to being faced with death. They believe it shows the mentality of Trump fans, and the shooting was all staged.
"AAAAAAAAAASCHUALLY chud, if the secret service weren't there and the gunman was right in front of him Trump would've totally shit his pants and groveled and sucked their dick! "
Motherfucker you literally do not know that. You're just projecting your bizzare humilation fetish onto the man, not making logical deductions. Not only would the more normal reaction be simply running away or asking for help from the crowd, begging and offering to suck someones dick is not the automatic default response when faced with death for every single human being.
Benito Mussolini's final words were literally "Shoot me." Even evil people are not all going to immediately break and turn into a baby when they die, some people do genuinely just go out saying "fuck you."
"AAAAAAAAAASCHUALLY chud, if the secret service weren't there and the gunman was right in front of him Trump would've totally shit his pants and groveled and sucked their dick! "
Motherfucker you literally do not know that. You're just projecting your bizzare humilation fetish onto the man, not making logical deductions. Not only would the more normal reaction be simply running away or asking for help from the crowd, begging and offering to suck someones dick is not the automatic default response when faced with death for every single human being.
Benito Mussolini's final words were literally "Shoot me." Even evil people are not all going to immediately break and turn into a baby when they die, some people do genuinely just go out saying "fuck you."
Or they could have just directly adapted the fuckin’ books. Genuinely missed an opportunity to create context and depth for both Homelander and Butcher and have a real ‘Red Wedding’ moment that’d have the normies talking for years.
But no, penises everywhere and Orange Man Bad were more important.
My post does of course assume there was some reason they weren't allowed to just do a straight adaption of the comic, like the people paying for the show wanting something different or something like that.
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