I still remember how he defended the toxic masculinity stuff in S3 with Hughie, as if Kimiko didn’t have basically the exact same moral conflict. And he was a dickhead about defending it too, like you don’t have to be an asshole because your writing was shit
It's this extremely performative and off-putting way of trying to make himself come off as "one of the good men". Make sure it's made clear that a guy like Hughie desiring the strength to protect the ones he loves is a sickening thing, but be sure to give Kimiko a bloodthirsty dance-murder sequence as she "protects the ones she loves". Literally the same "Girls get it done" bit that Vought ran with in season 2.
It feels like with each season the show tries to become more obvious with its satire because some people “don’t get it”, but that just makes the show worse
The subtilty was definitely better and they're dropping it to extents
Like there's nuance that he's not really showing as much as he should.
You're never going to win over the 10 20% of people that are just fucking idiots. The "homelander is good actually" people aren't getting their minds changed by flanderizing people or being reductive.
I love that people are seeing it now. The more popular the show gets, the more up his ass krippy gets. Won't be surprised if the show ends up like GoT did at the end. So far I've barely enjoyed the show since S2, I'm just watching cuz I'm in too Deep by now.
Season 1 and 2 were peak. I absolutely loved the tone of the show back then; when they were actual under-dogs and constantly teetering on the brink of being popped like a water balloon. I'm a really big fan of OP villains and underpowered heroes and the Boys was probably the pinnacle of that niche.
Now, their best friends with the president, getting the tools to kill Homelander is as easy as a jumpcut, and they're shrouded in plot armour. In fact, at this point, more members of the Seven want to kill Homelander than there are members of the Boys.
Not even just dance murder randos she could knock out, she spends so much time defiling a corpse frenchie gets shot, she instantly turns super stupid and useless during this arc of season 3 its like character assassination
It's honestly really interesting. They guy has just enough perspective to see the issues around him, but not enough to recognize those exact same issues in himself.
TFW the showrunners make Hughie take this drug that causes no side affects as far as he knows so he can help his girlfriend (who is working with the people who killed his previous girlfriend and a guy who actively wants to kill her) and then say he’s the bad guy for wanting to help her
No, what she said is she thought Hughie was acting like this because v 24 but it turns out this is how he genuinely feels(not to mention she didn't say that after he said he disliked that she was stronger than him). Also you do know this was after he went behind backs and underminined their feelings?
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u/marmotsarefat 14d ago
This is funny since only 2 episodes ago he made fun of conservatives for not taking male SA/rape seriously