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It's a Garth Ennis comic, so obviously Vought had him raped into submission.
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ah, he was acting out his trauma on hughie
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Thats it, thats the joke. Vought made a stronger, more unstable clone of homelander and left him to his own devices with no supervision and no guidance. It is the perfect parody of corporations doing retarded shit with zero hesitation and making the problem worse. A more scathing, cutting, and accurate critique of megacorporations than anything seen in the show.
I don't understand why people say I must be mistaken or mean something else.
I think most of the shit I say is very simple and unambiguous. So no, I didn't mean Ackles. Kripke said Starr pushed back on his drumpf shit hard.
Kripke literally wanted Homelander to be cardboard monster, and Starr was like "He has to live there too."
I'm not sure I buy that Kripke fully listened though, they acted like the plane footage was a kryptonite bullet and then he suddenly didn't give a shit. That's... not fantastic.
Back to Ackles, he absolutely refused to play the character as written. That probably resulted in both ambiguity in the audience AND the cartoon dipshit they reworked him as.
I think most of the shit I say is very simple and unambiguous. So no, I didn't mean Ackles. Kripke said Starr pushed back on his drumpf shit hard.
Kripke literally wanted Homelander to be cardboard monster, and Starr was like "He has to live there too."
I'm not sure I buy that Kripke fully listened though, they acted like the plane footage was a kryptonite bullet and then he suddenly didn't give a shit. That's... not fantastic.
Back to Ackles, he absolutely refused to play the character as written. That probably resulted in both ambiguity in the audience AND the cartoon dipshit they reworked him as.
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The rest of The Seven. Plus stinger missiles and DPU small arms ammo as per the Godolkin massacre and final showdown.
He’d also been (badly) psychologically conditioned to wait for Homelander to step out of line, hence pushing the issue.
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Of course the show has gone done in retardation. The source material is also retarded. Ennis is a shit writer who doesn't know escalation.
'Hey guys what if this character got raped but this time it's uh, it's with TWO guys? And one of them is eating a baby?'
The telling thing is you could say that about damn near any of his works and nobody would be able to tell. He writes like a 14 year old who might tell you not to come to school one day.
'Hey guys what if this character got raped but this time it's uh, it's with TWO guys? And one of them is eating a baby?'
The telling thing is you could say that about damn near any of his works and nobody would be able to tell. He writes like a 14 year old who might tell you not to come to school one day.
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Hope crushed.
Yeah well that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I thought the plot structure of the books was brilliant, and the slow revelations of plot, character and history were masterful. Of course people focus on the gore and edge, but as it turned out, it all had a purpose.
Can you explain in which ways the ‘escalation’ in the books was deficient or defective?
The greater a'tuin
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Shows the downgrade in philosophy that even for the comic being a deliberately milk-sopped superhero world, it feels whimsical compared with the show's muted tacticool slop. The seven had an actual space watchtower.
Homelander (comic) was explicitly noted as bipartisan. The cope that he was always like this is smothered in the crib for people who can read.
The only feasible way he reprises the role is if a full animated series reboot adapting the comic 1:1 just like I'm Your Pusher happens.
Bolo_the_Second
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Well, comics wise, I guess we can argue that he was built from the ground up to be entirely conditioned, devoid from any will or sense of self, a "human" robot if you will. That is why through the series he only grunts or stands in place, and when he finally speaks, he's barely eloquent.
Don't recall if Ennis was ever clear on what was the deal with this character other than being a kill switch clone.
Said that, the thing about Black Noir is that he represents yet another fuck up from Vought, a counter measure they developed to risk manage an asset that blew up in their faces... again.
The thing about Vought, at least in the comics, is that they were one of the most powerfull corpos in the world, representing all of a 100% of actual super-powered people, and yet the were comically inept, like, pants on head retarded.
The only reason Vought survived for so long in the market was their monopoly on supes and having half of congress in their pokets.
And I don't need to say that is the satire, a clear dig against DC and Marvel, and even the comics industry as a whole, as they are ineptly managed, but still survive due the iconic characters they have