Chick Tracts were right wing comics where the author portrayed ever leftoid character as a strawman and all the dialogue and themes consisted of subtextless, author worldview-affirming storylines about how playing DnD made you a satanist and stuff like that. The Boys does the same thing except watching Fox News will make you shoot up a school and every rightoid character is written by a guy who thinks he still lives in 2004
And yeah it is indeed really odd how they mix republican stereotypes from 20 years ago with modern ones, it's not very coherent. Twitter progs DO like to pretend the christofascist takeover is imminent and the Real Power still lies with boomer evangelicals though, so I guess if you're plugged into that worldview it makes sense.
I think a big part of it is that they're working off a twenty year old story that was pretty explicitly satirizing the War on Terror (meaning lots of stereotypes of neo-cons that haven't really been relevant to the Republican party in over a decade), while also trying to tie it into the Current Threat to Democracy that is Orange Man (who, love him or hate him, is decidedly not a neo-con). It creates this weird mix of the religious right, hawkish politicians, and comically fascistic types.
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i frickin' love chick tracts. i've got like 30 or 40 of them around here somewhere because they used to be left around the local grocery and i always picked them up.
the old extremely religious lady who used to leave them died so my chick tract supply dried up. :(
It's just "edgy" capeshit but in the most inoffensive and pandering way possible. I gave up on the show when the Nazi woman didn't even use real slurs.
I know what I watched and I will not be gaslit. It was the safest show marketed as "edgy" I'd seen. Wooooow they're degenerates doing weird s*x shit oh woooooow I'm so shocked by some hollywood hack inserting his depraved filth for the fifth episode in a row. Oh my is that a little gore? A head popping? How daring to air violence of all things on the television amazon. A slight at Marvel movies for a couple minute? Making fun of Disney in a scene? Absolutely ground-breaking.
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Just the first 2 seasons.
You could also just watch a "Sigma Homelander" montage on youtube instead.
The new one doesn't seem quite as offensively poorly written as s3 was (the wingcuckery is somehow even more in-your-face and obnoxious but the actual plot seems better). Then again we're only halfway through it.
It started out good and has fallen in quality over time. It becomes more preachy and r-slurred as time goes on but I think it's still some good r-slurred fun
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I wonder if she broke any part of her contract. They've got to have general stuff that implies you can't get face tattoos or get hugely fat for filming.
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She looks like a plastic surgeon's project car.
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I know it doesn't look good now but I'm going to a pick and pull this weekend... She's going to look cherry if I can find a matching quarter panel
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yeah, butt like the project car youre still learning how to do mechanics on.
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Is this worth watching?
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Its chick tracts for leftoids
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Lmao, most accurate "The Boys" description ever
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Were there a lot of rightoids in the comics? I don't even remember. The most I remember is the Bush/Cheney parodies.
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A few, but they weren't meme characters straight from a brainrotted shitlib. Simply put, the comic was a lot less hamfisted than the series
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It's hamfisted, just in a different way and targeting different things. Obviously it was a different political environment 20 years ago.
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Elaborate.
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Chick Tracts were right wing comics where the author portrayed ever leftoid character as a strawman and all the dialogue and themes consisted of subtextless, author worldview-affirming storylines about how playing DnD made you a satanist and stuff like that. The Boys does the same thing except watching Fox News will make you shoot up a school and every rightoid character is written by a guy who thinks he still lives in 2004
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Guess I made the right call in never watching it and gave it too much credit thinking Homelander was just a frickin' weirdo
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It used to be passable. S1 was fun but fell off towards the end. S2 and S3 were both nosedives. S4 doesn't seem better
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*shoot up a ('jeet-owned) convenience store
And yeah it is indeed really odd how they mix republican stereotypes from 20 years ago with modern ones, it's not very coherent. Twitter progs DO like to pretend the christofascist takeover is imminent and the Real Power still lies with boomer evangelicals though, so I guess if you're plugged into that worldview it makes sense.
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I think a big part of it is that they're working off a twenty year old story that was pretty explicitly satirizing the War on Terror (meaning lots of stereotypes of neo-cons that haven't really been relevant to the Republican party in over a decade), while also trying to tie it into the Current Threat to Democracy that is Orange Man (who, love him or hate him, is decidedly not a neo-con). It creates this weird mix of the religious right, hawkish politicians, and comically fascistic types.
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The Boys is the greatest comic adaptation in history
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it's like the writers of The Boys looked at GTA satire and said "this is too subtle, i dont get it"
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Yes, it's called having media literacy
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i frickin' love chick tracts. i've got like 30 or 40 of them around here somewhere because they used to be left around the local grocery and i always picked them up.
the old extremely religious lady who used to leave them died so my chick tract supply dried up. :(
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It's just "edgy" capeshit but in the most inoffensive and pandering way possible. I gave up on the show when the Nazi woman didn't even use real slurs.
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Bullshit
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I know what I watched and I will not be gaslit. It was the safest show marketed as "edgy" I'd seen. Wooooow they're degenerates doing weird s*x shit oh woooooow I'm so shocked by some hollywood hack inserting his depraved filth for the fifth episode in a row. Oh my is that a little gore? A head popping? How daring to air violence of all things on the
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What is bravery in art if not trying to see how many times in a row they can do this would losing my viewership?
Shit what's not safe edgy if depravity and violence don't make the cut
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If it's not something that would risk alienating the writer, actors, and director from their buddies in Hollywood it doesn't count as edgy
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Its completely controversial to promote healthy lifestyles
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but does that count as edgy
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Yes now it does
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What would you do to make it more pandering?
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Remove the onscreen sexual assault and torture
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I think she called one of the Asian characters a yellow bastard once.
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A true racist would have called him a chink or a gook
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No
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Just saved me 40 hours
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Just the first 2 seasons.
You could also just watch a "Sigma Homelander" montage on youtube instead.
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For me it's Firecracker musical numbers
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Season 1 is passable for cape shit but past that it gets worse every season.
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The new one doesn't seem quite as offensively poorly written as s3 was (the wingcuckery is somehow even more in-your-face and obnoxious but the actual plot seems better). Then again we're only halfway through it.
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as youtube clips yes. as something to watch in entire episodes. no.
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It started out good and has fallen in quality over time. It becomes more preachy and r-slurred as time goes on but I think it's still some good r-slurred fun
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I always hated that this character was named Alex but spelled wrong
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gigachad film director lmao
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I wonder if she broke any part of her contract. They've got to have general stuff that implies you can't get face tattoos or get hugely fat for filming.
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Holy shit lmao.
What she deserves after putting herself through that willingly.
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Maybe it's therapeutic?
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