View attachment 9037924 >is CEO of Vought
>biggest investment is a ticking timebomb
>betrayed by daughter
>she gets murdered
>biggest investment tards out and is murdered by the guy trying to take down your company
>that very same guy is murdered as well
>the rebels trying to destroy Vought give up and move on with their lived
>reinstated as CEO and it's business as usual for TPTB
>did nothing
>won
And you people say this show has bad political commentary.
View attachment 9037924 >is CEO of Vought
>biggest investment is a ticking timebomb
>betrayed by daughter
>she gets murdered
>biggest investment tards out and is murdered by the guy trying to take down your company
>that very same guy is murdered as well
>the rebels trying to destroy Vought give up and move on with their lived
>reinstated as CEO and it's business as usual for TPTB
>did nothing
>won
And you people say this show has bad political commentary.
That there is what makes this such a shit ending, Edgar is the true villain of the show and he basically won, he's free to do this all over again.
The "heroes" did all of what they did for nothing and that's probably because we know Kripke is a nihilistic person, you notice it in everything he's ever worked on.
At this point the most subversive thing a show could do these days, would be to have a violently dark borderline villain protagonist turn good. Where they go from being a horrible shithead to becoming a hero.
The only example I can think of from wayyyyyy back, was the manga Gantz
It is a violently exploitative work, that for a while is just an excuse to show tits and gore. But at around roughly the half way point, the main guy goes from being an abusive little shit, to actually caring about the people around him. Its a shockingly unexpected turn-around that made the book infinitely more memorable.
Im not going to tell you it's perfect. There's a decent amount of dropped plot threads (The vampire brother) Not to mention plenty of explicit rape, but it was memorable for being subversive in the opposite direction. Maybe like going in tone from Boy's to Independence Day.
In anycase I will remember Gantz, I wont remember the Boys.
(The plot is a bunch of guys dying and being resurrected to kill literal illegal aliens. It's kinda based)
That's the "themes and such" you're feeling. It played out exactly like The Chicken Man said it would. It's supposed to be unsatisfying. Capitalism won. Capitalism always wins. Aren't you mad? Go out and do something about it.
At this point the most subversive thing a show could do these days, would be to have a violently dark borderline villain protagonist turn good. Where they go from being a horrible shithead to becoming a hero.
He wasn't even a bad guy. He just had nothing in his life. It wasn't until his best friend and literal human pet died did he realize shit was not nice. A shame his personality became only about his girlfriend though.
>Media literacy is cooked
I'm not exactly sure what this media literacy meme is. I see it everywhere with online fags, so what was I supposed to be reading into the death of Homelander, according to them?
Maybe it's because I don't carry an obsessive, rent free in my head, hatred of Trump. I may not like the guy or some of the faggot grifters who make their entire personality being MAGA, but I don't seethe at the notion of his mere existence, which Kripke and Rogen clearly do. So much that they have to make their show about how much they hate the audience.
Maybe that makes me a well-adjusted person but all in all I think media literacy is a meme and a gay one at that.
I'm not exactly sure what this media literacy meme is. I see it everywhere with online fags, so what was I supposed to be reading into the death of Homelander, according to them?
Many of them it seems are mocking people who had an issue with how Homelander was treated just before his death. Saying that it was the best and most fitting way for him to act and die, and wanting something less pathetic is missing the point.
At this point the most subversive thing a show could do these days, would be to have a violently dark borderline villain protagonist turn good. Where they go from being a horrible shithead to becoming a hero
The problem with that is that too many terminally online fags piss and shit themselves over characters doing bad things because they convinced themselves that characters doing bad things is an endorsement of those actions by the writers. Would be incredibly cool though but leftists don't believe in forgiveness.
It's why villains today are horribly neutered and watered down. These people would fucking kill themselves if they watched characters like the Trinity Killer or Armadillo Quintero
This is basically another reddit phrase repeated everywhere but it has no meaning. Anyone who has any talent in media production or writing wants to work on actual shows or movies. They don't want to waste their lives as movie critics or social media influencers. It's trying to equate media literacy and knowledge with being an online journalist or blogger instead of real content creation like book authorship or movie direction. If you were truly media literate you would make literature yourself. Not write snarky faggot comments on reddit.
At this point media literacy is just another term for astroturfing. Because the only thing online journalists or movie critics do nowadays is promote every piece of mediocre slop and garbage as if they are the next Godfather or Sopranos. If a show is abysmally made it will still get a 7 or 8/10. If a show is passable it gets a 9/10. If a show or movie is even barely above average it gets a 10/10 review. Same thing happens with video games and music and books.
The entire ending is a set up for three more shows. Two probably are never going to happen. And one might not even get renewed after its first season. In the end this show just went in circles. There is still Vought. There is still Compound V. Edgar is still CEO. Most of The Boys are alive. Nothing changed. The next Homelander could already be alive and just waiting to take over.
The comic book was written by an edgy middle-aged dude who hates comic books and the show was made by edgy middle-aged dudes who hate the audience.
Both are made out of spite and that is evident with their lack of quality on all fronts.
Someone liking edgy media is whatever, but then claiming moral and intelectual superiority because of it is beyond retarded.
Give it a few years, people will unironically think that Kripkes subverting of expectations was genius.
If I had a nickel for every time a showrunner/director found out they had the "wrong kind of fans" and made their work retroactively shit I'd have two nickels. Which isn't alot, but its weird that its happened twice.
I'm talking about Joker of course. Both Kripke and Todd Phillips have severe TDS and were willing to tank their works to spite the people that originally liked it.
