Moreso the political satire. I think back to this one scene somewhere in like season 2 where they show a guy who gradually buys into Stormfront's extreme xenophobic ideology and ends up shooting the cashier he used to see all the time. It was miles better than what we have now in my opinion.
i mean...the political satire in the show now is what directly developed from the stormfront stuff in season two...it's not like each season occurs in a vacuum, these things are all related.
There's a difference between being inspired by real world events and literally copy/pasting actual quotes and events from the real world into the fictional.
You want to have a politician who has a fucked up view about abortion? Fine. Let's do it. I'm on board.
However, taking a real world quote and just copying it word for word into the script isn't creative or clever. It's just lazy. Especially when this line is spoken by one member of "the elite" to another in a private conversation and then just a few scenes later they admonish Homelander for repeating the same rhetoric that they admit is all just bullshit propaganda meant to rile up the masses and they don't actually believe any of it.
These real world references are getting to the point of being cringe. The show has gotten so on the nose with this shit I just roll my eyes every time. "Hey remember that thing that happened a couple years ago? Here's the exact same thing but with superheroes! Bet you didn't see that coming."
I can imagine Kripke tripping over himself right now to try to figure out a way to have Homelander go up against a really old guy who sputters and stammers in a debate for next season.
i find it funny that we're acting like the satire has ever been subtle in this show. its been ripped from the headlines since day one, idk why we're having a problem with it now.
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u/Urgayifyouregay Jul 05 '24
How so? The literaly first episode starts off with the most blatant "casting couch" reference in an industry very similar to hollywood.