The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

[God of Nothing]

Deconstructing the superhero is dead, in part because it's been done so many times before at varying levels of ineptitude over the years, they've been deconstructed, reconstructed and re-deconstructed. Anyone that used this to say anything of even mild interest or tell an entertaining story within a setting has already done it. There's nothing left to say. There've been seemingly hundreds of comics titles devoted to this, oh what if superheroes were murderers, what if superheroes destroyed the world, what if they were egotistical celebrities and big jerks, and so on. I once read some alt-comics person say, after seeing the seemingly thousandth take on this from some small press outfit or self-published mini-comic at a small press expo that even if you really hate supers and comics about them, you're still making more superhero comics, making more of what you hate and it's not going to be the work that exposes the weaknesses of the sub-genre and brings it down.

i feel like everyone has lost the plot since the new wave of retarded fanfic "writers" came in where they try to do this shit in lieu of actually having a good story and being able to, you know, write

The reason why Miracle Man works is because Moore took the time to actually explore what being an extraordinarily powerful labrat that cannot even begin to grasp their own nature due to thinking its human, albeit in many flowery monologues I've complained about before, is like. Same with Watchmen. There's story beneath the "deconstruction." It's not entirely about "Durr-hurr, capes r stooooopiiiiiiiiiiid."

some rando on /co/ telling everyone about his premise of a normal assassin in a beautiful fantasy world who hates his job but it's the only thing he's good at was more entertaining than most modern slop

we're getting to the point random peoples' ideas are more interesting and enjoyable than year long multi million dollar shows

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Not surprised to hear Starr added those elements, even even beyond the writing his sheer mastery of facial expressions and all of Homelander's twitches and clear hesitation and depression and angst at times always to me made him sympathetic.

Yes, yes, he's my favorite character and I'm a simp for him and Starr, so I'm biased, but it really doesn't make logical sense to me that Kripke & co were so set on the worst shittiest pathetic ending ever for him (I haven't watched it yet... I actually don't want to bc I know I'll cringe and just feel grim. I will, but god I'll need a stiff drink) as a nose thumb to any fans who liked HL best (& as the clear reason most ppl watched the show and its success), but bc of their Trump derangement syndrome, they seem to have cognitive dissonance that... of all the characters, don't they fucking realise they consistently gave him flashbacks or scenes detailing his horrific backstory more than anyone else?

But we're not meant to have any empathy for that bc lol #TrumpBad? And we're apparently idiots for having any empathy? Well then why did you have endless scenes about that, then!

Yes he's a monster and I always knew they'd write he deserved to die, and he did, I can go with that, but the humiliation torture I'm just not satisfied by at all when other characters did fucking horrendous shit too and got away with it.

I'm glad Starr changed things where he could, but the Trump/Leftie good guy stuff soured the show for me when it's so clearly biased. "It's a just moral universe in the show", erm, no it fucking isn't. It's just when the writers wanted it to be that it was.

There's no doubt that Starr sold the character. He made Homelander feel threatening, you could just feel how close he was to snapping in any given situation. Or how at times you couldn't read him at all with with that blank stare, which was even more terrifying.
He's on a whole other level, compared to writers. Kripke doesn't deserve to command such talent.

i feel like everyone has lost the plot since the new wave of retarded fanfic "writers" came in where they try to do this shit in lieu of actually having a good story and being able to, you know, write

Yeah. It's been an absolute disaster for the Western entertainment industry.