watch it

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    ugh a fucking superhero show really? how much dumb superhero shit is in it and how much of it is actually culturally relevant

    • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I hate super hero stuff and I like The Boys, because it's kinda a parody of the other ones (I think, haven't seen many). Like, it's exactly what superheroes would actually be like if there were such a thing in America: sociopathic, managed by a multi billion dollar corporation with idpol PR that monetizes everything about them, integrated into the military industrial complex to do war crimes, etc etc

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The CIA opposition to the supes seemed more like a "hey, only we're allowed to do assassinations an coups, back off our terf!" Type rivalry. Not really overt CIA apologism like most capeshit.

        • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Haven't seen it! As I said, I try to avoid the genre, but I heard Abby Martin saying good things about this one, so I checked it out. Would love to hear other people's opinions, should I watch The Watchmen too?

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Everything is extremely culturally relevant

      What if superheroes did US imperialism in the middle east against super terrorists manufactured by the West but mostly just for collateral damage?

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I guess The Boys is adapted from a comic I haven't read, but the show feels like it was written by people who hate superhero stories.