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Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
Pfft.

Everyone knows the real ending will be the boys vs Homelander, and right when things are looking their worst, Stan will pop out from behind a pillar holding a giant plasma cannon model CHKV and he's gonna say "Looks like it's time to take back our homeland, gentlemen" and shoot Homelander and save the day.

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Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
homelander should be tried in a court of law and have to serve his full life sentences.

Ubersandwich
Jun 1, 2003

Homelander gets canceled by Vought Twitter and has to star in lovely Daily Wire knock off cape poo poo.

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
homelander should obviously throw ashley into a crevasse then die redeemed in ryan's arms

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Oct 15, 2012

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With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
This last episode really feels like it should be a "straw that breaks the camel's back" moment for A-Train



So I'm excited to see how he doubles down and becomes an even bigger piece of poo poo.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

spacetoaster posted:

I thought that would have been a funny name too.

But that's not his name.

Oh. Must have been some Mandela effect on me then :psyduck:. Probably someone in some comments section accidentally referred to him by that name and it just made my brain remember it as that.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

christmas boots posted:

So I'm excited to see how he doubles down and becomes an even bigger piece of poo poo.

"On the plus side, my brother being in a coma and paralyzed means I won't have to worry about him ambushing me outside of any more photo shoots trying to convince me to do poo poo without a profit motive." :v:

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

christmas boots posted:

This last episode really feels like it should be a "straw that breaks the camel's back" moment for A-Train



So I'm excited to see how he doubles down and becomes an even bigger piece of poo poo.

He just gives his brother a Pepsi as an apology.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

follow the white dove





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christmas boots posted:

This last episode really feels like it should be a "straw that breaks the camel's back" moment for A-Train



So I'm excited to see how he doubles down and becomes an even bigger piece of poo poo.

He doesn't have his powers and without them he's a coward, that's how

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Tbf to A-train, Homelander has a particularly nasty gripe with him and takes extra glee in threatening and bullying him (gee I wonder why). A-train's wealth, status, and safety relies entirely on staying on Homelander's good side. This puts him in the position of being the biggest bootlicker because he started out with an incredible disadvantage.

He could just retire at any time tho.

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Oct 15, 2012

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With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
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Cpt_Obvious posted:

Tbf to A-train, Homelander has a particularly nasty gripe with him and takes extra glee in threatening and bullying him (gee I wonder why). A-train's wealth, status, and safety relies entirely on staying on Homelander's good side. This puts him in the position of being the biggest bootlicker because he started out with an incredible disadvantage.

He could just retire at any time tho.

I'm pretty sure you're implying that Homelander has an issue with A-Train because of his race, but let's not overlook the ableism angle too. Homelander is a multifaceted character with several layers of bigotry

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.

Xiahou Dun posted:

I mean, that's not his name, but sure.

What about his teammate, Dyno-Mutt?

christmas boots posted:

This last episode really feels like it should be a "straw that breaks the camel's back" moment for A-Train.
So I'm excited to see how he doubles down and becomes an even bigger piece of poo poo.
It’s sad that Reggie has tried really, really hard to work within the system. It’s a different methodology than when he injected his ex, who was out of the picture at a tropical paradise, with insane amounts of heroin.

He tried rebooting his character, fixing his arc in the seven film, appeasing Homelander, even betraying the only other POC on the seven^.

Considering Reggie saw the Deep come back from a rape accusation, he knows he has to hit hawk hard, physically, not socioeconomically. The question is if he’s desperate enough to rely on the Boys again.


^ i’m curious who actually knows black noir is black.

Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jun 20, 2022

Nail Rat
Dec 29, 2000

You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!!

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Tbf to A-train, Homelander has a particularly nasty gripe with him and takes extra glee in threatening and bullying him (gee I wonder why). A-train's wealth, status, and safety relies entirely on staying on Homelander's good side. This puts him in the position of being the biggest bootlicker because he started out with an incredible disadvantage.

He could just retire at any time tho.

I'm not sure he *could* retire. I kind of feel like if you quit the Seven and he didn't ask you to, Homelander will just kill you.

I don't think The Deep, as lovely as he is, would have eaten Timothy if he thought there was any other option.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
Yea, I don't think it's racial with Homelander, I think he just sees a supe that managed to gently caress up so bad that he can't use his powers anymore, so he's worse than useless. If he was just a regular human he might be worth mild disdain, but being one of the "chosen people" and losing it all? That's unforgivable in Homelander's viewpoint.

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

Dongicus posted:

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Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Yea, I don't think it's racial with Homelander, I think he just sees a supe that managed to gently caress up so bad that he can't use his powers anymore, so he's worse than useless. If he was just a regular human he might be worth mild disdain, but being one of the "chosen people" and losing it all? That's unforgivable in Homelander's viewpoint.

I mean I think part of it is racial.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Congrats thread on graduating to the kind of thread where you have to unsubscribe a day or two after the episode airs each week.

GreatGreen
Jul 3, 2007
That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.
It might be a small critique, but I really don't like the writing around how judgy part of the team gets about Butcher and Hughie taking the temp-V. They're all on the verge of bearing the brunt of arguably the most powerful existential threat humanity has ever known, which would of course be Homelander finally snapping and nuking the world back into the dark ages, and right when they finally come across this tool that could give them at least sort of a fighting chance, half the team is like "whoa whoa stop you guys, you're better than that" and it doesn't seem believable because that kind of morality judgement is, for one, a luxury they really can't afford at the moment and two, it's a stupid and nonsensical message in the first place.

The messaging comes across almost as short sighted and shallow as one of those "if U kill a killer then there are just as many killers in the world when U R done so U R just as bad" messaging tropes. Because no, that's not how that works. If you kill a person that was about to kill a thousand people, then you've saved a thousand innocent lives for the cost of one selfish and evil one so no, you are not in fact "just as bad as them." We have watched Homelander callously torture and murder countless people for the pettiest of reasons. There are arguably no actions the Boys could take that would make them "worse" than Homelander even if they wanted to be.

Then again they're not directly being judgemental about the guys wanting to kill Homelander, but rather in them temporarily juicing themselves to do it, so it's not the same as the "if you kill a killer..." thing, but it feels like it's in the same league of "committing any perceived arbitrary immorality is a cost too great, even for the tradeoff of making the world an infinitely better place forever" ridiculous messaging that gets pushed so often by other media.

Of course, correct me if I'm wrong here but that's how it came across. Also I suppose this really stands out to me because of how stellar the presentation has been with everything else, but it's still worth mentioning I think.

GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jun 20, 2022

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
homelander is racist wtf are you on about thread

withak posted:

Congrats thread on graduating to the kind of thread where you have to unsubscribe a day or two after the episode airs each week.

if this were batch released this thread would be dead by now. write your local senator

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Oct 15, 2012

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
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GreatGreen posted:

It might be a small critique, but I really don't like the writing around how judgy part of the team gets about Butcher and Hughie taking the temp-V. They're all on the verge of bearing the brunt of arguably the most powerful existential threat humanity has ever known, which would of course be Homelander finally snapping and nuking the world back into the dark ages, and right when they finally come across this tool that could give them at least sort of a fighting chance, half the team is like "whoa whoa stop you guys, you're better than that" and it doesn't seem believable because that kind of morality judgement is, for one, a luxury they really can't afford at the moment and two, it's a stupid and nonsensical message in the first place.

The messaging comes across almost as short sighted and shallow as one of those "if U kill a killer then there are just as many killers in the world when U R done so U R just as bad" messaging tropes. Because no, that's not how that works. If you kill a person that was about to kill a thousand people, then you've saved a thousand innocent lives for the cost of one selfish and evil one so no, you are not in fact "just as bad as them." We have watched Homelander callously torture and murder countless people for the pettiest of reasons. There are arguably no actions the Boys could take that would make them "worse" than Homelander even if they wanted to be.

Of course, correct me if I'm wrong here but that's how it came across. Also I suppose this really stands out to me because of how stellar the presentation has been with everything else, but it's still worth mentioning I think.

Yeah, I mean I get that Hughie is starting to act like an addict and is maybe a bit too in love with the rush of power he's getting, but there really doesn't seem to be an alternative to using Soldier Boy right now.

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




Homelander is down with Black Noir though
Homelander has plenty of black friends!


(He probably doesn't know Black Noir is black)
e: (Or he thinks Black Noir is "one of the good ones" because he never talks)


e:
lol in the time it took me to edit this post

christmas boots posted:

Black Noir is One Of The Good Ones

Sockser fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jun 20, 2022

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

Nail Rat posted:

Weekly releases have literally nothing to do with discourse and everything about increasing the number of people who watch and subscribe, by people who have all the data. It is what it is.

That's 100 percent wrong lol

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Oct 15, 2012

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
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Sockser posted:

Homelander is down with Black Noir though
Homelander has plenty of black friends!


(He probably doesn't know Black Noir is black)

Black Noir is One Of The Good Ones

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Homelander hates weakness, and he sees any lack of privilege as weakness. If you're Black, queer, disabled - he hates that about you. If you care about someone besides yourself, that is weakness. Black Noir is strong, hides his race, and hides anything that might be important to him; Homelander respects that.

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Pfft.

Everyone knows the real ending will be the boys vs Homelander, and right when things are looking their worst, Stan will pop out from behind a pillar holding a giant plasma cannon model CHKV and he's gonna say "Looks like it's time to take back our homeland, gentlemen" and shoot Homelander and save the day.

poo poo i see someone else read the Better call saul spoilers

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
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Chamale posted:

Homelander hates weakness, and he sees any lack of privilege as weakness. If you're Black, queer, disabled - he hates that about you. If you care about someone besides yourself, that is weakness. Black Noir is strong, hides his race, and hides anything that might be important to him; Homelander respects that.

There might be a bit of a Stan Edgar thing too where Black Noir just doesn't respond to any of his provocations and therefore Homelander respects him for not being afraid of him.

alexandriao
Jul 20, 2019


Elephant Ambush posted:

Can't believe how dumb the last few pages have been

"Show don't tell" is idiotic pretentious trash for nerds. The show didn't show us all the ways people have tried to kill Translucent before. He told us in a couple sentences and that's all we needed. That's just one example of when the show has done that. Sometimes showing is a waste of time and this show doesn't waste time

No, it's literally screenwriting 101

https://thewritingasylum.com/2022/04/25/story-basics-101-show-dont-tell/

https://www.newbiescreenwriters.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/show-dont-tell-101/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%2C_don%27t_tell?wprov=sfla1

It doesn't mean you have to take up an entire scene with it, you don't need 5 pages of screenwriting to demonstrate it, but the ideal with film is showing, not telling.

The fact that the only ways to show that you and other people here can think of are bad (including some of the people arguing for it, tbh), tells us more about you than it does about the concept of using film as a visual medium

alexandriao
Jul 20, 2019


Charity Porno posted:

That's 100 percent wrong lol

You're both right though.

They want to drive up Engagement. Letting people stew and speculate increases the number of people talking about the show, which increases viewers, and makes number go up.

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.

GreatGreen posted:

It might be a small critique, but I really don't like the writing around how judgy part of the team gets about Butcher and Hughie taking the temp-V.

MM lost his entire family due to V & Vought, and is losing his daughter to a loser who worships homelander.

Starlight had her entire life decided for her because she took it unwillingly as an infant. We saw her singing in in pageants. She got Glammed up by her stage mom and had to sing sex songs, (ironically by Britney Spears who had been forced into the same situation after the Mickey Mouse club). That world ties into a rage just as powerful as her rage of being manipulated by Homelander to pretend to love him and forgive her rapist.

Star wants Hughie to be normal, not super. Two days before she got mad at him, her good hearted superhero ex was slaughtered by a more powerful supe. She thinks she can defend him by keeping him off the table.

It might not be logical, but people aren’t 100% logical. Super powers & the super powerful are deeply tied to the trauma of the people who hate temporary V.
Powerlessness and revenge motivate the people who take it.

(Kimmy hates it because of her backstory too, and Frenchie hates it because Kimmy does.)

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat
I don't care how bad a thread is that gets more than 6 posts a day.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Much like the Bechdel test, "show don't tell" is a reductive and overused heuristic that reduces critique to pattern matching, and also misses the whole point of what Chekov was getting at in the first place - it's about evocative imagery and has nothing to do with expository dialogue.

One of my favorite scenes in cinema is when Gandalf returns to Bag End to retrieve the ring and it is almost entirely telling and not showing.

zoux fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 20, 2022

BlackIronHeart
Aug 2, 2004

PROCEED

cake bunny posted:

It's not any more stupid than any other thread on TVIV, or really another other discussion of this show (and probably any other show) on the internet. Note that is not me saying this thread isn't full of dumb as gently caress takes. People being dumb as gently caress in their takes about not at all complex poo poo in tv shows is both part of the entertainment factor of these discussions and part of them being kinda loving annoying.

I dunno, there are people out there defending Hughie's Temp-V amplified inferiority complex with :biotruths: about how it's in his DNA to be protective, since he's a man, and Starlight should debase herself so he feels better. The dumb takes well for this show is bottomless and unfathomable.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

alexandriao posted:

You're both right though.

They want to drive up Engagement. Letting people stew and speculate increases the number of people talking about the show, which increases viewers, and makes number go up.

right but the subscriber thing is a side effect, especially considering this service basically comes free with Prime, which everyone has for free shipping

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem
Show don't tell is a CIA psyop

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
Show don’t tell is the philosophy that made me fail show and tell.

Just Chamber
Feb 10, 2014

WE MUST RETURN TO THE DANCE! THE NIGHT IS OURS!

Chamale posted:

Homelander hates weakness, and he sees any lack of privilege as weakness. If you're Black, queer, disabled - he hates that about you. If you care about someone besides yourself, that is weakness. Black Noir is strong, hides his race, and hides anything that might be important to him; Homelander respects that.

I agree that he hates weakness, but I don't think he hates anyone simply because they're say black or queer. I think if you're disabled yea he hates you because you're what he deems weak, but I think if you're black or queer but strong he doesnt give a poo poo but if you start making it a thing and it gets in the way of Homelander's plans for The Seven or his peace and quiet then yeah I'm sure he hates you for that. If you start caring about those around you he also hates that because everyone else is ultimately just an ant.

For Homelander The Seven is like a pantheon of gods and should only be those he deems worthy to surround him, a Supe there purely for their ability and strength alone, so what he does hate is someone he deems as weak or unworthy being there purely to push Vought's agenda, for example the blind ninja guy in the first or second season he deafens. So A-Train being in The Seven isn't an issue at the start because A-Train is one of the strongest Supes in the country, but he is now disgusted with A-Train who is now essentially depowered because he knows he's only being kept there so Vought can keep their numbers up with the black community. He didn't have any issue with Supersonic being on the team because he's Hispanic, because presumably Supersonic is strong, though he did enjoy making that a thing (like serving tacos) because he's an rear end in a top hat and loves to see the reaction.

I don't think hiding his race factors into the reason he likes Black Noir, it's because Black Noir firstly is still strong as hell and deserves to be on The Seven, but mostly it's because unlike the rest of them he doesn't cause any problems and just listens and obeys whatever Homelander asks of him.

Just Chamber fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jun 20, 2022

Eau de MacGowan
May 12, 2009

BRASIL HEXA
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black noir Gets Things Done and doesn't ask for a raise

e: if you watch the cartoon black noir bails homelander out on his first mission, and teaches him that it's okay to splatter the normies, so he probably respects that about him too

Na'at
May 5, 2003

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star
Lipstick Apathy
Ya know I thought it a bit regressive how folks were just A-OK with shows going back to a weekly release schedule but seeing how it’s improved the quality of discourse I’m all for it now.

However seeing all the people who seem to have trouble paying attention to what’s literally in front of their faces for a single episode have me thinking maybe Amazon could be doing more for us.

Perhaps a two to five minute break every ten to fifteen minutes would help a lot of the folks with absolutely zero attention span pay even better attention. Folks could stretch their legs, use the bathroom, get a snack, or check their phones without the show distracting em.

Hell Amazon could even inform us about new projects or even sell blocks of the break time to advertisers to help fund even better effects on the show so we can finally see Homelander being an invincible super monster. It’s basically a win win for everyone!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I think Homelander hates everyone who is not him, I don't think it has to do with any issues of race, politics, economics, etc. Much like Trump, I think the only reason he might not hate another person for not being him is if that person is utterly servile and obsequious. Then he just views them as pathetic.

Only man in the sky and all

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cake bunny
Oct 29, 2011

BlackIronHeart posted:

I dunno, there are people out there defending Hughie's Temp-V amplified inferiority complex with :biotruths: about how it's in his DNA to be protective, since he's a man, and Starlight should debase herself so he feels better. The dumb takes well for this show is bottomless and unfathomable.

Yep, it's pretty drat stupid, but it seems about on par with every other TVIV thread I've tried to read before! It's also not worse than the poo poo I've seen elsewhere. Like, when the "I dunno if Becca was raped by Homelander" thing popped up earlier here today, I facepalmed and was totally convinced there was no way in hell anyone who actually watched the show could have thought anything else happened. It wasn't just a one scene thing! It was reinforced repeatedly in multiple episodes in two different seasons! It had to be shitposting for laughs!

And then I did a search because I wanted to find the episodes with the CCTV scene and the scene where she straight up says it to Homelander, and I found about a thousand posts all across the internet from people either confused about if Becca was raped or outright convinced that she was having an affair or a one night stand with HL and then "regretted it". And then I remembered Breaking Bad and the hot takes that were blasted here and all over the net. And then several other shows.

So, yeah. Either you laugh at it or decide it bothers you because it's either too annoying or too outright evil to be funny. I've been in both spots before and probably will be again. When the dumb poo poo ceases to be a source of wtf-ery entertainment, or at least gets bad enough that I can't find the surrounding less egregious dumb poo poo entertaining, I just dip out of those discussions or places.

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