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The Boys (2019 - ... )

So this weekend I started watching two diffrent series that floated by on the high seas. (yarrr 🏴‍☠️). I first wathed the first 8 episodes of Invincible, which was an incredibly well done animation series. It's not a 10/10 but it's like an 8,5/10. Then I started watching "The Boys" (s01 & s02) . And that blew me away.

I've never read the comic by Garth Ennis, but it's high up the list of things I would like to buy if a good hard copy becomes availble. So for those that don't know what it's about. It depicts a world where a large corporation, that dominates a lot of the media-landscape, is trying to break into the defense market to get a contract with the governement. Their product? Human beings with special powers that are being fed to the public as being "superheroes". These super-humans are not idealistic like people would think they are coming from the American stereotype. Instead, they are all troubled and corrupted by greed and power. Their powers cause accidents and create a lot of victims. Those "accidents" are then whiped under the rug by the media-empire that is Vought International. Some of the victims have radicalised and reach to extremism, trying to take the big corperation down and seek revenge. Some members try to kill all of the super-humans indiscriminately. Their anger and hate slowly devours them and make them loose what we could call their "humanity" (or humanism).

Mix this narrative with some excellent use of symbolism and satire on contemporary politics, and you have a show that will make you laugh and cry... but also will make you think. Also has some great actors and some of the shots are beautifull. It's pretty intelligent in my opinion and if you want to look at something else, well, this is a great watch.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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ScarletWitch · 31-35, F

FUCK YEAH! INVINCIBLE AND THE BOYS. BEST SHOWS EVER.

I FINISHED INVINCIBLE RECENTLY. I LOVED IT.

ScarletWitch · 31-35, F

@ScarletWitch I LOVEEEEEEE the boys. It's so dark. Watching shows is my favorite hobby. The end of the second season was awesome. I cannot wait. Homelander is my favorite. lolololol

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@ScarletWitch Well, I'm going to watch the 2 last episodes tonight. But it's one of the better things I've seen in a while.

SW-User

Oh yes love The Boys and Invincible (waiting for S2)!! Both were amazing.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@SW-User I wasn't that sold on invincible... maybe it's largely because it's not a thing that hasn't been done yet. It's pretty much a "what if" superman story, and so far, I think I've read better. But the animation and the series was pretty tight and well done. But the story, isn't as "wow" to me.

SW-User

@Kwek00 there were so many characters and it only started to make sense of them all till the end. I had no expectations from it so probably that's why I ended up liking it so much.

The Boys however, that's a completely different show. Corporate America explained well..in a way.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@SW-User Yeah, the boys is def a diffrent kind of show. It's political/social satire. I love how "Homelander" who is a representation of American Exceptionalism, actually hooks up with "Stormfront" which represents a NAZI counterpart. Mainly because they have so much in common. He doesn't understand it at first, but the moment he starts to understand how to play the masses by antagonism instead of pure idealism, things just click.

I kinda know what I was getting into with Invincible, I've read about the comics, just never read the comics themselves. It's pretty high up with people that like Image comics. It's ussually mentioned with things like Saga, Chew and The Walking Dead. But I never got into it, mainly because I already read stuff just like this, and I don't really see how Invincible adds more to the story. But again, for an animation series it was really well done. It's a pitty they fucked up the Amber storyline a little bit, you can't have someone acting all surprised and pissed off because her boyfriend leaves the group in a difficult moment to secretly save their asses from mortal danger. And have her go: "well I knew you were the superhero all along" in the next episode. But I think that's the only thing that buggered me.

BoobooSnafu

Thanks for the heads up.

Where did you access these?

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@BoobooSnafu send me pmg, and I'll give you the website.

BoobooSnafu

@Kwek00 oooh!
Cheers mate 😊👍

BoobooSnafu

@LordShadowfire thanks 😊👍

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

I love how both series' creators share my skepticism toward the idea that Superman could be this perfect moral figure, and never give in to the temptation to seize power.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire Actually, that already came to be in 1933. Superman would follow in 1938. The story you want to loof for is: "The reign of the Superman" by Herbert S. Fine.

And, for as far as I know my DC-mythos, Superman himself comes from a planet that has a history of conquering, militairism, imperialism and genocidal tendencies. That's why they put General Zodd away, because the man couldn't quit living in this myth of superiority and being born to rule. The only reason why Superman did okay, is mainly because his foster mom and dad (from earth) were kind and loving and teached by example. That's what Omni-man missed, he just came to earth from this superior-like setting, and he never had earth-mom and dad to give him another perspective. He did fall in love, which made him go into a bit of an identitarian crisis... but at the end, he just flies off vowing to be loyal to his home planet.

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