i am 30 minutes into episode 1 of The Boys. cautiously interested in what this show is doing so far
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i don't particularly enjoy #edgy comic book media, but so far this show seems to know who it's punching up against which is a good sign
aquaman stand-in named kevin literally just said "i'm the diversity hire"
so season 1 of The Boys was way less edgelordy than i expected. all its worst elements were pretty well outweighed by a surprisingly well-tuned sense of social satire. starlight and hughie are never the butt of the joke for being victims! ptsd is treated seriously! idk it's good.
feeling profoundly led on by the perception i'd gleaned of this being an unironic testosterone-fueled mark millar style grimdark watchmen clone. this show is actually pretty smart!
anyway on to season 2
anyway on to season 2
god the fact that the super terrorists were literally created by the corporation to sell their defense contracts is SO smart
season 2's color palette already feels so much more saturated, i love it
"for an extra grand i'll let you chop off my dick"
not a fan of when characters' heads randomly explode. feels cheap
VOUGHT IS A FUCKING OPERATION PAPERCLIP THING HOLY SHIT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
giancarlo esposito plays exactly one character and he plays it incredibly well
i hope hughie kicks butcher's ass soon
i wish we didn't spend so much time with the deep. like what the fuck is this mushroom trip
the deep's story would be a lot more compelling to me if he weren't, you know, a rapist. it's just really weird to do this like slapstick body dysmorphia angle on this guy. i'd rather just not see him at all
one thing i really like about this show is its portrayal of how power turns people into weird masochistic perverts. it's aligned with watchmen in that way
homelander is such a terrifying monster
hold up kimiko knew asl this whole time and never used it? :/
i have been informed that this may not in fact be it, chief https://twitter.com/hmsnofun/status/1334805312331640832?s=19
i knew when i typed asl that i should have just said sign language but i thought "it's just a watch thread, everyone will know what i mean" and i guess that's what i get for being lazy lmao https://twitter.com/hmsnofun/status/1334806495435710466?s=19
point still stands, she knew sign language the whole time? idk that really bugs me.
stripping away all cultural and metaphorical layers here, from a writing perspective i don't see the justification for kimiko not using the one language she has at her disposal to try to communicate to her comrades that the person they're going to kill is her brother. feels cheap
it's a minor thing, but little stuff like that starts to add up over time.
reflecting more on the show as i'm falling asleep, this really feels like a story from the bush administration. which fits if that's when the comic came out it's just weird that it hasn't been updated. idk
not a good or a bad thing there, just... interesting
there's a part of me that's like "pitch meetings can't be THIS insipid can they?" but it's such a pervasive trope i have no choice but to believe it's mostly true
black noir crying...
everyone but slaughter actually celebrating hughie and starlight breaking the story on compound v... love to see men kiss and hug platonically
that poor whale :(
they knew exactly what they were doing with her UGH
i want homelander ANNIHILATED
finally doing something interesting with the deep
didn't quite seal the deal there, unfortunately
this is exactly what it's gonna look like in the mcu when they finally have their first openly gay character in 6 years
me to my girlfriend every time we're about to kiss: i'm gay
her: :0
her: :0
my only hollywood gripe here is they'd *never* use a static backdrop like this anymore, it would just be a green screen
funny thing is i think they used the backdrop for this sequence because it was cheaper than *actually* doing green screen with a convincing hollywood-level composite. could be wrong though!
"pew research shows that two feminine women in a relationship sends a problematic message"
i want to flip my own desk and hurl my computer through the window. that's the effect good satire has on me i guess
i want to flip my own desk and hurl my computer through the window. that's the effect good satire has on me i guess
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hahahahahahahahahaha holy SHIT
it's fascinating how much this show's dramatic tension comes from blackmail. leverage is the only thing keeping half these characters alive at this point
these two regurgitating thin blue line talking points and touching each other while homelander crushes a dude's skull is the peak of social satire
repeated for emphasis https://twitter.com/hmsnofun/status/1334801472458948610?s=20
this is set-speak for going to the bathroom. that's obvious from context clues but i always like it when details like this make it into shows
so, okay, my guess is probably a solid half of the folks who get dosed with vought's drug wash out and get weird mutations that can't be marketed, so they lock em up and study them in this place
CINDY
as someone who put june egbert through several very miserable ringers, i quite like it when a story injures the protagonist.
i wonder if they're gonna find a way to pump hughie full of compound v...
i wonder if they're gonna find a way to pump hughie full of compound v...
meanwhile this dope is mad because his racist girlfriend has better things to do than get his shitty rose bouquet
i prefer my partners transfem but damn it i'd make an exception for this boy
any other show this scene would have been over already, but of course they're using it to make a point
hahahahaha of course there's a baby seat in the back
oh this is really sad
THAT'S A GIANT GESTICULATING PENIS
OH NO
all this focus on frenchie has me convinced he's about to die and i really, really don't want that
OH SO SHE'S LIKE A ****REALLY**** CLASSIC WHITE SUPREMACIST
oh my god i thought for a second she was about to say she was the wife hitler holy fuck
WOW THIS IS SO SILLY
this fucking hydra infiltration shit is more believable is so much more believable here than in captain america because they actually took the time to contextualize the company in history
so many of this show's missteps get a pass from me at this point because it has the balls to both literally and metaphorically state that superheroes aren't just fascist by nature but LITERALLY the nazi wetdream, with all that that implies
oh my god and then we're IMMEDIATELY jumping into how this shit inspires white supremacist terrorism aren't we??
we have DEFINITELY graduated away from bush-era satire
my most consistent gripe with this show's writing is that everyone says "fuck" too much, and this is coming from someone who writes homestuck fanfic for adults
it's just kinda lazy is all. it's a crutch in place of cleverer dialog
this fucking maga rally is spot on
"let's go fuck the wife. consensually" I AM TRYING VERY HARD NOT TO DISTURB MY NEIGHBORS AT 1:40 AM BUT THIS IS MAKING ME LAUGH A LOT
i love that everyone in his family has that same fucking accent
"for once in your life, be a fucking human being"
this is literally like "what if we did the same plot twist from batman v superman but it was actually good"
god damn it i need to sleep but i only have one episode left in the season but i took a melatonin but but but FUCK
COMPOUND V GOING TO ICE
CHRIST
CHRIST
FREDERICK HAD A SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING
"nothing ever changes or gets better, and i'm tired" is the mood of the century
butcher making promises he can't keep
"if you jump ship and let the assholes steer, then you're part of the problem" hmmmmmmmmmmmm
it's a little fucked they fridged butcher's wife twice
well they're certainly set up to do some solid work in season 3 critiquing a liberal america. we'll see how that shakes out
so yeah, overall, season 2 rules! definitely worth pushing through the edgier stuff in the first season. one of the first times in a while i don't feel like i wasted my time watching a streaming platform original