Man, between this and the Biden one, the Democrats sure are acting... Totalitarian.
Nothing says there is no threat that removing a military commander who mentions said threat.
This is hardly a new phenominon, but it used to be disguised. Look at the past 20 years of television. Take Scrubs, for example. The relationships are "Divorced white couple" "Bickering and separated white couple" "Happy and healthy black/mexican couple" and the titular "Cuckboy and bitch white couple".
Boy I wonder how recent massive fantasy epics have done when they shift from being directly adapted from the material to going off brand. On an unrelated note, remember how poorly recieved the Hobbit movieS and the last GoT season was.
It's always European stuff that needs to be for global audiences. Let Nigerians watch Nigerian media, don't colonize their viewing habits.
I can agree with you on becoming a police state as a result. But the sudden violent and massively public execution of thousands of american citizens in the largest city on the world is both horrific from a humanity perspective, as well as a massive blood in the water moment.
"Our greatest foe of the 2000's was perfectly happy with this figure in the government. What a glowing endorsement of a valuable enemy!"
They expected them to be armed. That's the biggest thing, think about every photo they've shown you of the loitering. The most "Threatening" images are of someone looking up at a window before getting murdered, some dude with a weird bear pelt, and some dummy who carried a podium around. Now, imagine if these republicans, the 2A party, loitered with rifles and handguns, open carry. How many many many many pictures there would be of ARMED insurectionests. The very fact that they don't use that word tells you all you need to know. The biggest threat any of those people posed was wheeling a walmart southerner to sit on someone's face.
I can't believe that we live in a world where THAT is offensive. Like, I get faggot mentality, I understand why they say no to redskins and wahoo, but T H A T?
Good shit good shit good shit!
I, too, can chop my fingers off one by one and say I did the most cooking.
fugggggg xd
A MASSIVE, MASSIVE problem is that the show was written in 2003. Back then, comic book edge was confined to Watchmen (which was just some 30 year old comic book), and a few comics that had no hope of ever being made into mainstream media like the Bane arc or Killing Joke. The movies being made were X Men, Spider Man, a reboot of Superman, and the most recent Batman flick was either the animated series or & Robin.
Nowadays, the idea of a subversive series is old as shit: The Last Jedi ruined an entire word as did Among Us. Edgy flicks are all the rage. "Superhero... bad?" Is cliche. The MCU made a hundred billion dollars and is now on a rapid decline. Sure you'll see a few more super hero movies, Mildly Successful Man 3, Obscure Man, Spinoff of Hero Team, Reboot Man, Girl Team, Minority Squad, but all of the A, B, C, and D listers are all basically done. So releasing a series of "Man what if super heros bad?" Is soooo fucking passe to do after End game. Hell, Amazon already has The Boys Season 2, so to release Anime The Boys Season 1 is such a cash grab.
The best time for Invincible to be released was 2003. The second best time was 2014.
It's... close to being ok. A big thing is that every couple is race mixed, like they took the MC's original girlfriend and expanded her role and made her black, the MC is half asian and half alien that looks white. The real best character isn't human, but looks white.
Nolan, aka Omni Man, is from a genocidal race that due to a disease, he's one of 50 pure blooded (Let's just call them Sayans) left. The Sayans spread across the galaxy, interbreed with populations, and conquer. When Nolan is with his son, he's legitimately a loving father. Rough at times, like his idea of training involves punching him because "Bad guys aren't going to go gentle on you, that was just a love tap", but he legitimately cares. Nolan is, from humanity's point of view, legitimately evil, dude wiped out the Justice League (that was race and gender swapped from their original Invincible iterations, White Batman and male Green Lantern became black Batman and female Green Lantern. Nolan gets outed because he's cocky as hell (throws the evidence in the garbage) and has his plans rushed to hell so he basically just is left to yell at his son that it's time to wipe out humans (and shove his face into a train. His son's face wins that fight.)
A quick glance at what's coming, Nolan and Invincible reconcile in the comic. MC legitimately forgives his father for using his face as a battering ram to gore a hundred people, and the father becomes a good guy eventually, which is a shockingly deep look at forgiveness and stuff like that. If the show is going to follow that path, no idea.
Worst that could happen is whatever boy he violates grows to hate himself so much that he becomes gay, or even better, trans identifying as well. Or another suicide, that's just as well to these people.
I always feel sorry seeing a group be under the microscope. But that group being China, its katmatic.
Even without the context of who the journie likes, the last part is striking. "those who supported new (could be literally anything like spaghetti tuesday) and those backed by a political action committee that was formed last year to defeat the plan."
My favorite part is that there is no word on when the one group formed, who formed it, anything but the word support, while the second group is "a political action comitte", and "formed last year to defeat". What, was this group supposed to be founded in 1538 AD to be able to properly be opposed to something? "If you were established after the year 2000, get your weak shit out of here, even though the thing you don't want only came around at the most recent proposal committee, you're trash."
"London was 50% black in 1608"
If you play this, spam reports. Get everyone listened to, accelerate and shit everywhere.
One post I read was like "If the world was really going to go extinct in 50 years they'd just detonate a few nukes and shut down the internet and tv for good". Think about how many millions of dollars and everything goes into making movies for no reason. Ban films ban tvs ban computers, suddenly we're shipping a shit ton less plastics and metals and less manufacturing. But that's not what it is about, it's about making people scared, so ban straws.
It cracks me up that the "Greatest and most advanced" army in the world... uses literal spears and bodyarmor, just with a times ten million damage and defense added in. It's honestly the most racist thing out there, that no matter how advanced an African nation can get, it's only that advanced thanks to sitting on unobtanium and they STILL fight with spears.
Internalized misandry
Jesus, even just the editing, the style of humor, it's all so different from how his old brand used to be. "No, wordplay is out of the question, as is dry sarcasm. We need big visible camera jokes to make everything seem less stiff, and slapstick humor so that it translates well from China. Act more stupid, and the title needs to be a list of numbers!"
The greatest victory the international inteligence spooks pulled off is damning the idea of a conspiracy. For every one "The earth is flat" and "tap water lobotomizes the brain", there's a few "What if government officials were friends with arms manufacturers" and "Hey I'm not so sure I like there being a massive database of my search history and viewing habits in a big server"