So, right. I literally just saw the boys season 3 come out on prime video. I remember having a cool discussion with this group earlier when we discussed how what Homelander symbolized, how AOC was in the story fictitiously, that kind of stuff. Was just wondering if anyone would take the bait (so to speak) again

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I thought where they went with the AOC stand in was great, there are also some undertones of unionization and retaliation in the latest episode.

    • Zuki [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Thanks (for biting )! 😂 So, what is the latest episode, if you don't mind me asking. Because I quite literally just started season 3 episode 1, and I remember with season 2 at least, they were rolling episodes out in the one-episode-at-a-time fashion. So what's the latest episode?

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago
        spoiler

        Starlight tries to recruit fellow supes to stand up against Homelander with some very similar rhetoric to union agitation, one of them commits but is ratted out by another only to wind up murdered by Homelander. Also the AOC stand in turning out to be just another supe and Hughie losing faith in electoralism and admitting that Butcher's way is the only way is a whole mood

        • LeninsRage [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I legit love how they've portrayed A-Train in this series. He's such a worthless, narcissistic piece of shit wholl never change no matter how much Homelander shits on him. You just knew instantly he was going to snitch to Homelander immediately as the easy way to get ahead.

        • Zuki [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Like that's legit that

          spoiler

          Starlight dies. That's what reminds me of why I liked season 2 so much. They're not afraid to be bold in their writing.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            2 years ago
            spoiler

            No she doesn't die one of the people she is trying to turn against Homelander does though.

            There's also a side plot about one of the supes murdering innocent black people in a poor neighborhood because of paranoid white people in a very obvious commentary on police brutality.

            • regul [any]
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              2 years ago
              spoiler

              And the Seven decide not to do anything about the over-policing because it wouldn't poll well with white people

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I caught the union vibes in the newest episode too, I definitely think that's what they were going for