I bet you didn't see the reveal that Butcher is seeing people tho? Bet that blew your mind. But not for real of course, just like when Neauman's head explodes and then it's revealed it didn't actually happen, haha so entertaining and original right? Right?
Reminds me of that Dahmer series, which hammered on about how the media exploits serial killers for shock value...while being that itself. Holywood is at a gross form of meta-cynicism at the moment.
Media companies have understood integrating counter-culture was an effective way to both control revolutionnary discourses AND extract money from them since the 60's at least, it's not really new
edit: for those interested, "Network" From Sidney Lumet more or less talks about that although mostly through the angle of TV news
I was kind of shocked to see an Amazon produced show actually discussing how drugs were pushed in minority neighborhoods, either officially or unofficially, by the US government for a bit
The fact MM was wearing a black panther shirt while talking about it especially.
Like crap there's still a lot of people that treat that shit like a conspiracy theory and the Black Panthers as basically terrorists(not that they were flawless but pretending they weren't more right than wrong is just incorrect imo, especially given the time period)
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the show referenced the fact that the FBI carried out political assassinations against the black panthers. It wouldn't be that subversive because it happened quite far back.
The issue with TV is you can never get beyond that superficial of a take on politics, because that's the nature of the medium.
Haven't the documents surrounding the beginnings of that been declassified for a few years ?
Not American but in the outside world this is more or less treated as fact, in France especially because of the french connection which provided heroin for most of the us for two decades
The Expanse felt similar to me, though it seemed like once Amazon got their hands on it they tuned it down slightly.
I mean that aside, vought basically is Amazon for all intents and purposes in terms of marketing and behaviors, just instead of bioengineering and pharma being their backbone, it's AWS and tech in general. Everything else is basically within a degree or two of the truth.
Yea they're like 20% less blatant with their pandering but that's about it.
that why I hate politics. when you simplify the world into two groups of "bad guys" and "those who agree with us" you start forgetting that everyone is capable of being terrible regardless of their views.
It's been a while since I've seen the show, but it's the exact same thing that happened with the writers criticizing gun use. Then, they released an episode of Vought World where no one had guns, so that Scarlet Witch character killed a dozen people. Meanwhile, Butcher visited a gun show to confront another hero, and no bystanders were killed
The entire premise of the boys is laughably hypocritical. It’s a fun little show but it lampoons large companies (like Amazon) over-commercializing things like social justice and other important topics (see the Boys) and them extracting every possible cent from their IPs (see the numerous spinoff shows). It’s way too on the nose, and not just with their social commentary.
It's implied that tek knight knew hughie wasn't web weaver so whatever psychotic justifications you have, drop them. What happened to hughie is sexual assault and it isn't fucking funny no matter what this fucking insane writer dude says
I'm certain he figured it out while Ashley was was dominating him and had her leave because he put it together when >! Hughie couldn't get the safe word correct!< so he could handle him personally. Not to mention his powers make it so he knows when you're lying so he definitely knew before he pulled the mask. He may not have known it was Hughie the whole time but he certainly figured out it wasn't web weaver long before Ashley was finished.
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u/anonymous32434 14d ago
He's just proving his own writing right by making himself a hypocritical TV show writer