This show is just The Boys but worse, and animated badly. And the main character wants to be a cop.
In episode three there's a guy who wants to destroy Mount Rushmore and talks about how the presidents were slaveowners, but he's the bad guy and an evil doctor.
The show loves gratuitous violence and bloodshed like being an animation with blood makes it cool, but this has been trash so far.
Give me Castlevania any day over some shit like this, and why oh god are the episodes an hour long to do nothing with that time?
It's got nothing in common with the boys except blood, future season spoilers but he doesn't want to be a cop and the entire series is a commentary on how being a superhero is bullshit. Marcs based as fuck when he teams with dinasaur later in the comics.
You just described multiple ways in how it is similar to The Boys besides blood.
Is so disappointing. I actually like the boys. Maybe it's on the nose, and doesn't speak to systemic solutions to the setting, but the parallel to cops and things like qualified immunity made it engaging for me.
This meanwhile, feels like it's trying to be edgy, but more in an attempt to react to superhero tropes instead of challenging them.
Yeah The Boys does a lot of like "The system is bad but there is an honest good ideal with superheroes" and shit like that which kinda sucks but what can you do, the parallels to cops is good and also the parallel to Hollywoods rape culture and manipulation of mass media is good too.
At least it isnt some dogshit like Brat Pack where its just "what if Batman was a gay aids pedo, what if Wonder Woman was gross and hated men, what if Captain America was in the KKK" and people praised it for somehow being deconstructive of superheroes, though it is kinda funny that their Iron Man expy is still just an alcoholic but this time he crashes into shit and does a fuckton of collateral damage and just pays it off.
Add 'deconstruction' to the list of words that have lost all meaning in online conversation.
Exactly. It's like someone at Amazon saw the success of The Boys and saw this comic basically similar in tone and violence then figured it would be perfect to make.
At least The Boys is critical of the cops/MIC the series is about. In this series it's supportive of the cops/MIC/America World Police shit, and it's already obvious that the end is going to be "There's nothing wrong with that system, just Omni Man is a bad apple. The good cops will save us."
It's so needlessly edgy. Every fight is filled with blood for no reason, certainly not for impact.
And they just keep coming. On a lark, I watched an episode of Jupiter's Legacy and the superhero leader goes on about a nebulous code and how it's bad to try to actively change things in systemic ways.
I doubt it's going to become nuanced later on and dropped it entirely.
Like, if 'villains' are disrupting the status quo and you're maintaining a status quo steeped in oppression, you're not much of a hero at all.
:homelander:
The code thing does remain an issue the entire show.
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___ in the final episode there is a "twist" where one of the good guys decides the code isn't working so he should take over to force the world to be better, he then needless kills some one so you know he's the bad guy.
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Okay, they go the Marvel route of ruining nuance and theme.
Thanks for saving me the time.
I watched an episode of Jupiter’s Legacy
God that show looks terrible, I saw the trailer for it
It looks like something that should be on the CW.
I found the part of the story that takes place in the '30s pretty interesting but yeah the modern part is just a CW show with swearing.
@Bugger linked me the Chainsaw Man manga a week ago and that series uses so little time to build up some awesome character moments, it's genuine and creative.
Invincible is the opposite.
I only pray they don't end up using a similar half-3D style for the anime coming out soon, but I've seen that suggested a lot for the more complex monsters.
And god, this series is so painfully unfunny. Not a single joke has been good. CSM's humor is actually humorous and its jokes that are based on the character's personalities give it life.
It's being produced by MAPPA, so it could be anything at all lol. They handled the last season of AoT, Dorohedoro, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Yuri on Ice.
The CGI in Dorohedoro seems kind of wooden when they use it for characters, but looks fine for environments and so on.
Yeah, I watched some clips from Dorohedoro so if they end up doing that I'd be disappointed. The fight scenes are the most fluid part of CSM and the stagnant quality of 3D would really take away from them.
Twitter has some awesome fan animated versions of fights, it's really impressive what some people have made adapting the panels.
@Bugger linked me the Chainsaw Man manga a week ago and that series uses so little time to build up some awesome character moments, it’s genuine and creative.
:sicko-yes:
I like the harddrive article Jeff Bezos Sees Nothing Wrong With Funding Two Shows About How Lex Luthor’s Arch Nemesis Is Actually the Bad Guy
And holy shit they use so much 3D and it looks so completely garbage.
I haven’t watched the show, but I watched a YouTube video that I explained all the comics. Anyway I think the memes on Reddit were initially some kind of marketing ploy that caught fire. I remember one day randomly every single major meme sub was using all different kinds of Invincible memes, even specific subs like the shitpostcrusaders who have no connection to the show.
I was maybe interested in it but the animation looked bad, like those DC animated movies.
Exactly, it's lifeless and the use of 3D to save on animation just makes it so much worse. Every time there's a 3D asset in a 2D scene it's so jarring and cheap looking.
I liked it for the most part, but I don't watch any capeshit generally and don't read comic books. I only watched it because jason mantzoukas does a voice part and he's pretty funny.
That's one of the things I don't like too. Hiring screen actors instead of voice actors. The entire time it just sounds like Rafi, and the animation can't match Mantzoukas' voice.
Going down the voice list it seems like more of them are screen actors than voice actors. JK Simmons is good though.
that's funny, for me jk simmons' voice was the one that brought me out of it the most, every time he talks i just think about how hilarious it is when old guys suddenly get yoked on a cocktail of the best drugs
Don't get me wrong, I constantly hear JK Simmons, but it fits the character well enough, Mantzoukas doesn't fit at all for me.
Ahh and all the background characters look like PS2 NPC models it's terrible I'm losing my mind
