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

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This felt a tad gratuitous. Also it's weird they're making tek-knight such an asshole, he was IIRC one of the legitimately more heroic people in the comics if memory serves
 
Agent Snigger said:
This felt a tad gratuitous. Also it's weird they're making tek-knight such an asshole, he was IIRC one of the legitimately more heroic people in the comics if memory serves
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A lot of it feels as if they’re intentionally making “good” characters worse or disgusting. You can sense Seth Rogans gross humor in everything
 
Caligura said:
They have Stormfront be played by a Jewish actress because it's supposed to be a le epic own to da chuds. It's supposed to be a permanent-gotcha, "you can't claim this character she's played by a JEWISH WOMAN! Checkmate!" despite the fact they picked the most White-passing New York Jew out there lmao.
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A.) As if that's gonna stop anyone who wanted to claim her.

B.) Nobody wants to claim her because stormfront is completely and utterly toothless. If stormfront is their attempt to intentionally try to catch the same lightning in the bottle they accidentally did with homelander then they utterly failed, because she glows harder than the agent that went after terry davis.

The fact that they're unable to have her say any slurs unironically hurts her character and makes her look like a poser.

Furthermore, she has no edge, isn't funny and nothing she does comes across as genuine.

When homelander does shit like cripple the diversity hire and force the girl who suicide baited for attention to kill herself because he's mad she wasted his time, those are both edgy and funny. Nobody likes diversity hires, nobody likes attention seekers, but homelander takes it to the absurd extreme hence, comedy.

When he he tries to stop the terrorist in some third world country in a backwater mudhut village and accidentally lasers a civilian and it gets caught on tape he goes: "So what they're all starving but one of them's got a fucking cellphone?"

That comes across as a genuine off the cuff reaction/surprise, its observational humor with a twist.

All stormfront has going for herself is that she's racist but in a hyper sanitized corporate approved way, meaning any edge she could have possibly had going in her favour works against her because at no point does she actually come across as actually believing what she's saying, she comes across as a hello fellow kids tier glowie.
 
Kinda weird how all the designated Nazi characters are attractive women. Especially since Stormfront was a man in the comic that was genderswapped for the show.

Is this the writer venting his anger on women who wouldn't date him or something?
 
I've always hated superheroes, and I really hate shitty looking TV shows, so I have never bothered watching or showing interest in The Boys.
I say this because I really don't get how people waste their time on it. What's the appeal? How did it get so big that everyone of my normie midwit friends won't shut the fuck up about what seems to be a meh at best, beyond shit at worst capeslop? Am I missing something?
 
Sniperwoof said:
Kinda weird how all the designated Nazi characters are attractive women. Especially since Stormfront was a man in the comic that was genderswapped for the show.

Is this the writer venting his anger on women who wouldn't date him or something?
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Jewish writer probably gets all hot and bothered by the thought of an SS girl stepping on him.
 
Sniperwoof said:
Kinda weird how all the designated Nazi characters are attractive women. Especially since Stormfront was a man in the comic that was genderswapped for the show.

Is this the writer venting his anger on women who wouldn't date him or something?
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Considering the type of shit that "Male Feminists" love to do, it shouldn't be surprising. Or alternatively:
Chunky Salsa said:
Jewish writer probably gets all hot and bothered by the thought of an SS girl stepping on him.
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This again shouldn't be surprising as death camp prisoner X attractive female SS officer porn was apparently really popular in 80's Israel.
 
Sniperwoof said:
Kinda weird how all the designated Nazi characters are attractive women. Especially since Stormfront was a man in the comic that was genderswapped for the show.

Is this the writer venting his anger on women who wouldn't date him or something?
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I think that they don't want to risk giving the (predominantly male) nu-rightwingers a character that they can co-opt for memes and the like.

The showrunners know MAGA types will never get behind a woman in any form so having every Nazi character in the show be a woman is a very obvious "fuck you".
 
RA-5C Vigilante said:
What's the appeal?
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  1. The shows main premise was about "normal" people killing superheroes. The "superheroes" are a bunch of degenerate celebrities, so the appeal was to see them get killed off in creative and brutal ways. If you hate cape shit, it had the potential to be anti-cape shit.
  2. The "superheroes" and their associations are a representation of modern celebrities, corporations and politicians etc, so "the boys" are pretty much a representation of a covert militia group trying to just kill them off (mostly for revenge). I don't need to elaborate on this before going full FED post on why this could in theory have a certain appeal for some people.
That's the appeal that lured in the audience. But as you can see in this thread, we got non of that.

Because for reason nr. 2. the show got cucked (for obvious reasons) and inserted with lefty politics instead that made the whole plot retarded because it tries to be tied-in with real politics while trying to be "edgy" in this scenario, so the whole show is the cognitive dissonance phenomena in video format. The only edgy stuff in the show is the gore and the porn content for shock value. That's it, nothing more. Due the shows popularity (or because it's Amazon making the show...) it went full cape shit as well. No superheroes of significance actually dies off since they all got Disney™ level of plot armor, so the show is what it was supposed to parodize: just another Marvel/DC cape shit. It also got a lot of jewish shit as well, which explains how everything went wrong.
 
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snowdunes said:
  1. The shows main premise was about "normal" people killing superheroes. The "superheroes" are a bunch of degenerate celebrities, so the appeal was to see them get killed off in creative and brutal ways. If you hate cape shit, it had the potential to be anti-cape shit.
  2. The "superheroes" and their associations are a representation of modern celebrities, corporations and politicians etc, so "the boys" are pretty much a representation of a covert militia group trying to just kill them off (mostly for revenge). I don't need to elaborate on this before going full FED post on why this could in theory have a certain appeal for some people.
That's the appeal that lured in the audience. But as you can see in this thread, we got non of that.
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We got that in Season 1. Then they suddenly stopped doing it after the dude who helped write Breaking Bad left, and the show got dominated by the guy who wrote Supernatural.

snowdunes said:
Because for reason nr. 2. the show got cucked (for obvious reasons) and inserted with lefty politics instead that made the whole plot retarded because it tries to be tied-in with real politics while trying to be "edgy" in this scenario, so the whole show is the cognitive dissonance phenomena in video format.
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The difference is, the comics had the balls to stay edgy and go balls-to-the-wall with the degenerate superheroes and the corporation they represent, whereas the show decided that Trump fans are the world's greatest villains and they should be demonized; that whole plot of Vought being the main bad guy just falls by the wayside as the James Stillwell stand-in Stan Edgar is knocked off his high perch and replaced by a mentally unstable Homelander who couldn't run a corporation even if his life depended on it. Dude cracks down on all dissent, then he's pissed when nobody questions him after he tells one superhero to blow another. At the very least, James Stillwell had a fall guy, or in this case, girl, just in case everything went tits-up, and he had someone to blame.

snowdunes said:
The only edgy stuff in the show is the gore and the porn content for shock value. That's it, nothing more.
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Anyone over the age of 20 who has actually seen the darker parts of the internet won't be amused by that shit. They've seen it done someplace else. And most folks just don't really care for it.

snowdunes said:
Due the shows popularity (or because it's Amazon making the show...) it went full cape shit as well. No superheroes of significance actually dies off since they all got Disney™ level of plot armor, so the show is what it was supposed to parodize: just another Marvel/DC cape shit. It also got a lot of jewish shit as well, which explains how everything went wrong.
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The only difference is that Marvel/DC capeshit had the balls to kill off major characters. Zack Snyder killed off Zod and Superman. A lot of guys in the MCU bought the farm when they got Thanos-snapped. Meanwhile, ever since the first season, neither the Boys nor the major villains have suffered any casualty save for Stormfront and maybe Butcher's wife. Perhaps you could count Black Noir and Soldier Boy, but the latter was just put back in stasis, and the former was replaced post-haste.
 
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Wow. This season is pretty bad but the latest episode really should've had a ziohazard warning.
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newuser131 said:
is this true? the supernatural guy was always the showrunner from the season 1 pilot.
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George Mastras was the consulting producer for the first season of The Boys. After that, he left, and there was no one left to tard wrangle Eric Kripke from turning the show into an anti-Trump screed.
 
Corporal Lewis said:
I'll skip over the cake scene. It's not funny, it's not shocking, it's just nasty and unfunny. Actually no, I won't skip it, since all of the "BDSM" scenes are a special sort of safe-edgy. Farting in a cake while the dom erotically asphyxiates himself, the female dom touches herself while tickling someone and yelling out obscene shit? Show, don't tell. Just fucking pick up one of the fucking strapons in the room and pound Hughie to death. But no, we get safe-edgy-BDSM. In the comics, Hughie gets his ass thumbed by Black Noir instead. Sure, it was random, but it was way more shocking than whatever this is.
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This really nails why the episode was so awful. Safe-edgy describes it perfectly. Tickling, shots of mens' asses, gimp costumes, fart fetish stuff... come on. It was all just puerile.
Corporal Lewis said:
Homelander fumbles the ball with the politicians, since the smartest woman on earth is out of order at the moment, but thankfully girlboss Vicky Neumann is there to fix everything. She even mentions licking AOC's ass, even though everyone knows she's the AOC stand-in. So there's Vicky and AOC and they coexist in the same universe? But why?
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This was comical because Homelander gave a rousing speech, the billionaires raised practical concerns about how a takeover would work, he stammers like an idiot, then Victoria gives another rousing speech answering none of their practical questions and this time they clap like trained seals.
 
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