Season 2's new antagonist has revealed herself as turbo Hitler, as expected, but it's really the subtext that is so pernicious.
Stormfront (yup...) complains about "the other races" overwhelming and destroying "us", an obvious strawman of anyone who dares question the overt and deliberate demographic reform enacted within majority-white countries by liberal Western governments over the last half century.
No other peoples would see their concerns over such treatment dismissed so casually as hate speech and bigotry. I can only assume as much, of course, because no non-white cultures are being systematically targeted in this fashion. Strange, right?
I tolerated the show to this point because it was reasonably subtle with it's messaging and even occasionally mocked the empty virtue signaling of corporations and media. Most of the human characters have become increasingly unlikeable, but the corrupt supers are genuinely interesting. This episode shattered all that. I'm out.
I quit at the end of season 1, as soon as it was revealed that Butcher's wife was still alive.
There's far too many liberties taken with the comic for me to mention, but I'm not surprised that people remain incapable of adapting decent comic series (cough cough, Preacher).
Just waiting for them to turn the Sandman adaptation into a bullshit wokefest.
Please, no-one touch Transmetropolitan.
That was just about the dropping point for me, too. I can handle them deviating from The Boys hitting themselves up with V to put themselves on an even playing field, but as soon as the show takes a left turn into new plot territory with a major hook like that, I check out.
Considering Seth Rogen is attached to both of them, and Preacher was shit, I can't say as I'm surprised that The Boys has gone straight down the tube, too.
Gaiman himself is working on the project. Just write it off, now, as he went full woke a long time ago. Go back and re-read the comics, and pretend like the adaptation never happened.
You'd think it would be a slam-dunk for them, they could make The Beast a Trump analogue, right? Nope, because that would make The Smiler the leftist analogue, and they're not going to let that happen. No left-wing producer in their proper mind is going to touch Transmet with a ten foot pole, because there's no way they can spin that and make it work without broadcasting the message that all politicians are corrupt assholes and none of them deserve to be in office.
On the last point, since when has maintaining any semblance of through-line stopped them from adapting a series? They'll have their Trump and make the other guy Turbo-Trump or something. Nothing will make sense, and every important idea will be destroyed, but they'll do it anyway.
No one currently in showbusiness cares about making a good product at all.
i thought thd first season of preacher was good especially the scenes with hitler but then it went to shit
Just finished Transmetropolitan, and for all of its "shocking" profanity and content, it struck me as hopelessly naive in the end.
SPOILER: The fact that Spider just had to get the story and get it out to other journalists, who all bravely published it, made me actually laugh out loud. The world is horribly corrupt, and they didn't corrupt the media? Absolute clownshoes.
Thanks for letting me rant.
It's a matter of time.
With Regina King as Spider and a Lena Dunham as Yelena.
I checked out because it is was becoming increasingly obvious that Butcher was written as a 'ponce' and after that reveal with wife and highnoir kid done dealing with this train wreck.
Maybe I'm just blind to the propaganda, but the comic-book character that Stormfront is based off of was an actual Nazi, so I thought it wasn't too forced into my face. And it wasn't like this was out of the blue for Stormfront. Starting from episode 3, we see her do subtle and not-so-subtle racist remarks/actions. And don't forget that Gustavo Fring is still the head of Vought, so I want to see how they play this out.
prolly just being optimistic about how they will handle all of this tho. At least the Love Sausage cameo was funny lol
It's less the message and more exactly how it's being spoken.
Anyone who has read the comics knew this was coming despite them gender bending Stormfront for the show.
The important parts of what she was saying in the episode was her use of words like "Destroying our culture", a fairly common approach atm from more Left leaning outlets trying to dismiss/downplay the idea of a 'culture war' taking place.
There have been other moments in the show which have used very topical language choices when making a point, see MM in ep 4 or 5 talking to the black women about needing to come in to her house and hear her story. MM specifically mentions his OCD father going up against Vought in a legal issue and uses the phrase "they put their boot on his neck" [slightly paraphrased but it's pretty clear where that message comes from in the current news cycle].
The fact they used a superhero/geeky/nerdy platform to do it just reeks or irony, however.
It's nonsensical that Stormfront was based in Portland, and clearly supports leftist talking points. Almost like the producers are imbecilic.
i could see it coming in episode 4, thats when I stopped watching. It was the last show on tv i watch.
I dunno, I'm going to wait it out and see what happens.
Honestly I'm not entirely convinced, there's some less-than-subtle jabs at corporate virtue signaling and forced "inclusion and diversity" with "Brave Maeve" and the marketing around her, and Stormfront herself acts very much like a Portland feminist who just happens to also be racist.
I can't recall "forced diversity" ever even being acknowledged as a genuine complaint with leftists, much less portrayed in scathing accuracy.
Hell, even the fact that "Women can be racist sociopaths too" is somewhat against the leftist grain.
I have been reading the comic book. I love it. I’m wary of any adaptation after 2014
I bet if it had right wing propaganda you wouldn't be complaining...
Wut lol
The entire KIA2 thing is about SJW invading escapism like games and movies. Is kind of the entire idea.
I'm still confused. Are you on a gaming/entertainment culture war forum telling people that they should just be outside all day instead? Because that's pretty fucking retarded of you lol
That's a bold move, Cotton.
You could just like, leave, if you're so disappointed. Why are you even here? To be mad? Die angry.
If you say so, snowflake
It's amazing how the reasoning behind the use of the insult against the left was completely lost to them.
They never know this. It's quite amusing.
I'm just saying that this guy is way too upset about a tv show.