https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/comments/kdw2v9/obama_capeshit/
I was just listening to the last Chapo and read your comment in Matt's voice and it was perfect
Watched a few episodes of the boys and I was like hmm this is an interesting somewhat anti-consumerist angle, I wonder why Amazon aired it and then boom, the CIA are the good guys trying to take down the super people 🇺🇸🔥
It's still good. You just have to look past the CIA stuff. It's fairly minor to the overall story.
Kinda reminds me of Mr. Robot, I liked the show but then the bad guys are China and the FBI is the good guys..
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also the only trans character was the main villian but that might have just been a coincidence idk
My takeaway (admittedly trying to look at it from a leftist perspective) was that their attempted revolution was a failure because they knocked capitalism down a peg and expected everything to fall in place. Their organizing was shit.
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That's all true, you're definitely right that the overall message of the show is very much not leftist.
Still, it seems like there exist a lot of people who are effectively dedicated to upholding the existing power structures today who were at one point (apparently) sincere activists of some far left variety. I mean "A far left activist getting disillusioned with the prospects of a true revolution eventually shifting focus to working with the powers that be to try to reach a marginally better outcome within the constraints of the seemingly inevitable status quo," could be talking about Mr Robot, or it could be talking about a particular senator from Vermont.
But yeah, the show seemed to portray this process as good though hard to accept, rather than the tragedy that we'd regard it as.
is it a game of thrones situation? i watched the first couple mr robot episodes last week and enjoyed them. do you think it's worth carrying on?
EDIT: by game of thrones situation i mean is it bad overall or is it bad politics? because i can ignore bad politics if the show's good enough
Not as bad but goddamn there’s a couple of characters that had such shitty endings,
sick i'm glad. barely have enough time to watch tv shows these days and i don't really want to waste my time on something i won't enjoy lol.
Unfortunately any "anti-consumerist" criticism is easily deflected by lib brain, it literally doesn't register as anti-capitalist. Easily solved by individuals not succumbing to the personal individual sin located only in their own head, and not consuming (as much).
Sorry Obama, you aren't allowed to like The Boys. It's too good for you.
Why the fuck can't these people keep their capeshit out of my politics?
Is he talking about the original graphic novel of Watchmen or Zack Snyder's lolbertarian take on it? Or the HBO show I never watched?
Now that we're talking about it, season 2 of The Boyz was a real letdown, poorly paced and I thought the story telling / writing was subpar. I've no idea what the critics or other fans thought.
It felt more like an anthology to me. Season 1 was telling one cohesive story that kept building on itself, Season 2 felt like it was telling 8 stories at once and they're all kinda connected to each other.
Not necessarily worse, just different. It felt like it was laying the groundwork for a show that's going to run for a long time, because it was very heavy on the worldbuilding as opposed to the straight up hero's journey of season 1.
Marvel and superhero films in general just reinforce the status quo and remind us that the capitalist system, billionaire corporations and war is all A-OK.
Disney needs to make an Avatar crossover movie where Marvel heroes show up to tell the Navi it's all OK having corporations mine out their natural resources.
Then thanos says he’ll kill all the Americans and the avengers stop him.
