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I went through this show over the last few days and loved Homelander and the media satire (some of those parodies are so funny and so authentically shot and edited). Deep's arc is very funny. By season 2 I was sick of the Hughie/Butcher crew and was skipping their scenes. Butcher is grating and I hate that Jack Sparrow thing the actor does where he leans his head forward and says something clever out the side of his mouth. I came away from it thinking there's one very good and one very lame show in the one show.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:11
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It's refreshing to see a show where superheroes are so utterly terrible at using their powers. Only a minority of them actually use them effectively and it's only because they take if seriously. Like Deep having a whale beach itself to block the speedboat. Also seems like a running gag with the show runners to have Huey get blasted with human/whale/etc giblets in nearly every goddamn episode. Poor guy has gotta be so dead inside. Like he didn't even run out of the whale screaming in disgust, he was so resigned to it at that point he just needed a moment to sit down inside the whales guts.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:21
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snoremac posted:I went through this show over the last few days and loved Homelander and the media satire (some of those parodies are so funny and so authentically shot and edited). Deep's arc is very funny. By season 2 I was sick of the Hughie/Butcher crew and was skipping their scenes. Butcher is grating and I hate that Jack Sparrow thing the actor does where he leans his head forward and says something clever out the side of his mouth. Yeah, I've found myself skipping a lot of the Butcher and Hughie scenes. Not sure if I dislike the actors or the characters but I just don't find their story that interesting. Homelander has me glued to the screen though. I'd be hard-pressed to think of actors with more presence than Antony Starr.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:38
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I think Butcher is just a piece of poo poo human and his only redeeming quality is that he’s a protagonist. I wouldn’t skip his scenes on a first watch but on a rewatch if I ever do that I’d prolly skip everything he’s in just because I can’t stand him.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:45
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I'll be a voice in the wilderness and say that I like the wee Hughie - Billy Butcher scenes. I agree with Boris Galerkin that Billy Butcher is an awful abomination of a human being, and the show itself agrees with this read since Frenchie and MM both dislike him, too. What's interesting is that as the show goes on and wee Hughie develops a relationship with Starlight, who has a conflicted view of Vought and ultimately herself, she becomes a counter-balance to Billy Butcher being an awful monster all the time, but she also becomes complicit in his machinations.
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Jul 4, 2023 19:16
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snoremac posted:I went through this show over the last few days and loved Homelander and the media satire (some of those parodies are so funny and so authentically shot and edited). Deep's arc is very funny. By season 2 I was sick of the Hughie/Butcher crew and was skipping their scenes. Butcher is grating and I hate that Jack Sparrow thing the actor does where he leans his head forward and says something clever out the side of his mouth. I wouldn’t skip his scenes. His toxic personality is very important to the story. Butcher is a protagonist, but he isnt a good person, and is really just one side of the same coin to Homelander. The big difference with Butcher, that makes him an equally good character alongside Homelander, is that Butcher ends up regularly bettering other characters, especially Hughie. It’s just that he typically does it through being an absolute piece of poo poo. it looks like Butcher will be gone from the show by the end of season 4 anyways based on where his story is going.
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Jul 4, 2023 23:35
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I said come in! posted:it looks like Butcher will be gone from the show by the end of season 4 anyways based on where his story is going. What makes you say that?
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Jul 5, 2023 00:59
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I can see someone thinking that based on the very end of the last season, but I don’t think so
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Jul 5, 2023 03:48
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Open Source Idiom posted:What makes you say that? Butcher's brain liquifying due to Insta-V?
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Jul 5, 2023 05:31
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nah some supe with healing powers will fix him so they can do another season
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Jul 5, 2023 05:38
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Rewatching the last season and I feel the time skip with Hughie becoming a Wunderkind Fed under Victoria Neuman and his disillusionment would have hit a hell of a lot harder if we'd actually seen the progress they'd made during that time.
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Jul 5, 2023 11:17
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Rewatching the last season and I feel the time skip with Hughie becoming a Wunderkind Fed under Victoria Neuman and his disillusionment would have hit a hell of a lot harder if we'd actually seen the progress they'd made during that time. He was working with a politician. He wasn't making progress.
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Jul 5, 2023 11:38
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Yeah they weren't making real, actual progress. That's kind of the point iirc.
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Jul 5, 2023 11:45
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Rewatching the last season and I feel the time skip with Hughie becoming a Wunderkind Fed under Victoria Neuman and his disillusionment would have hit a hell of a lot harder if we'd actually seen the progress they'd made during that time. She was working with the opposition to make it seem like they were doing something while not actually accomplishing anything of note. See also: Washington DC
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Jul 5, 2023 20:30
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Whether or not butcher dies after killing homelander is low-key a really big deal for the themes of the show.
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Jul 5, 2023 21:47
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show, while still good, has declined in quality, especially season three hoping four turns that around because i can see a future in which we all watching boys season six wishing it had just ended gracefully years earlier
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Jul 5, 2023 23:31
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Open Source Idiom posted:What makes you say that? Abusing compound V, doctor at the end of the season gives him like 6 months left to live. But I can also see him not dying. I hope they don't go the route of curing him at the end after building up what could be an intense season waiting for his death. That would feel cheap. Wheeee posted:show, while still good, has declined in quality, especially season three Yeah, I would be completely okay with season 4 being the last season if it ends on a really strong note.
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Jul 6, 2023 06:28
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I said come in! posted:Abusing compound V, doctor at the end of the season gives him like 6 months left to live. But I can also see him not dying. I hope they don't go the route of curing him at the end after building up what could be an intense season waiting for his death. That would feel cheap. I guess I just don't see him dying before the end of the show, which is still on plan to be five seasons (I think).
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Jul 6, 2023 08:42
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It could just mean that seasons 4 and 5 both take place within the next six months.
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Jul 6, 2023 10:02
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In some months, seasons happen.
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Jul 6, 2023 14:04
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all the homelander fans need to go watch banshee btw
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Jul 6, 2023 18:31
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With how much has changed I really wonder how close this will hem to the comics original ending. We've already lost a few critical pieces to the puzzle, but that doesn't mean the broad strokes can't happen.
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Jul 6, 2023 19:51
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I think it’s heading to the same place more or less tbh
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Jul 6, 2023 20:43
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I can easily imagine a whole season of Homelander blacking out, then waking up to see photos of all these horrible things he supposedly did, like the baby eating and such the comics showed... ... And then since he already suffers from brief dissociative experiences, and is so awful to start with, he genuinely can't say those aren't things he wouldn't do... And, apart from Ryan, he already killed everyone keeping him remotely grounded... Thus a long period of getting gaslit and questioning his own sanity (probably by Edgar's doing).
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Jul 7, 2023 01:56
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christmas boots posted:It could just mean that seasons 4 and 5 both take place within the next six months. I'd wager that 4 and 5 take place in approximately "real time" because we have a visibly aging kid on the cast. Which I guess means that Butcher gets better by the season 4 finale.
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Jul 7, 2023 05:09
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That or the kid eats it next season
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Jul 7, 2023 08:43
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Wheeee posted:all the homelander fans need to go watch banshee btw I watched the first episode when it came out and it was poo poo. Re: the kid - kids grow pretty fast during puberty anyway, and they can always handwave it as Compound V accelerating the process so he gets two years of growth in six months. Jedit fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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Jul 7, 2023 08:48
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I want to like banshee but it's just... eh. Starr is good in it but it's pretty watery in consistency. It's a monster of the week show. A new person rolls into town. If it's a girl Hood fucks em. If it's a guy he fights them.
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Jul 7, 2023 12:48
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Owlbear Camus posted:I want to like banshee but it's just... eh. Starr is good in it but it's pretty watery in consistency. Yea. It's great.
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Jul 7, 2023 14:27
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Owlbear Camus posted:I want to like banshee but it's just... eh. Starr is good in it but it's pretty watery in consistency. I hope Hood gets mixed up every now and then.
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Jul 7, 2023 15:42
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Jedit posted:Re: the kid - kids grow pretty fast during puberty anyway, and they can always handwave it as Compound V accelerating the process so he gets two years of growth in six months. Yeah, one line from someone who hasn't seen him in a month or two covers it. "Whoa, you've gotten big. Guess those powers are really doing something for you." (Or something by someone who actually knows how to write.) And then you're good.
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Jul 7, 2023 20:39
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, one line from someone who hasn't seen him in a month or two covers it. "Whoa, you've gotten big. Guess those powers are really doing something for you." (Or something by someone who actually knows how to write.) And then you're good. How about a superhero who can age people up. You can call him.. the Adulterer!
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Jul 7, 2023 20:45
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Ryan was training in the hyperbolic time chamber, blam done.
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Jul 8, 2023 01:26
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Pull a G O T H A M and recast him repeatedly, each time older and sexier than the last.
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Jul 8, 2023 02:02
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oh jay posted:Pull a G O T H A M and recast him repeatedly, each time older and sexier than the last. Lol, I got confused and thought you meant Bruce Wayne, then remembered Ivy. Completely forgot about "We need her to be sexy but she's a child, so let's magically age her due to the magic pollution in the river. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW ACTOR CAN'T ACT WELL? gently caress it, she'll spin a cocoon and get recast AGAIN!"
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Jul 8, 2023 04:00
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What in the goddamn gently caress happened in Gotham
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Jul 8, 2023 19:25
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HebrewMagic posted:What in the goddamn gently caress happened in Gotham It was a glorious mess and I loved it. They even did the new-52 Joker variant with the cut-off face well, partially because the actor nailed the character. He was having so much fun. (he was dead for a while so a cult that was worshipping him cut his face off to use as a mask) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMr0DqqS9Fc&t=27s
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Jul 8, 2023 20:20
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How do you all feel about the show Invincible? I am going to start watching that soon, its on my list because its been described as being similar to the Boys.
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Jul 8, 2023 21:03
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I thought it was fun. Don't know if it had any episodes after the first season but it was a strong start.
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Jul 8, 2023 21:04
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I said come in! posted:How do you all feel about the show Invincible? I am going to start watching that soon, its on my list because its been described as being similar to the Boys. The Boys is satire. Invincible is sincere. Both are good.
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Jul 8, 2023 21:51
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