Mainly, I guess while I haven't watched it The Boys looks from the OUTSIDE like 1) a bunch of cishet guys who want to be seen as smart 2) a bunch of cishet guys who think clever is what it meant on South Park in 2000, but who know they can't be mask off bigots now
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Marcprice21 and
I just...Like if they cared about lesbian representation, why didn't they just make a show where their lesbian characters face normal prestige TV problems, like being surrounded by competing drug dealers or being the corrupt US president or fighting yourself from another timeline
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Marcprice21 and
I think you've drawn a lot of concrete conclusions about the show based on Twitter conversations which arent a fair presentation of it. I think Maeve's arc here was thoughtful and maps onto real things. Feeling the need to hide her sexuality due to career ambitions and...
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Replying to @TalieLow @BootlegGirl and
An abusive guy/ex that will hurt her/her same sex love are both things that absolutely are still going on. The former perhaps is cast more in a way that would be true of celebrities, but it's still present for others as well. The cynical exploitation comes later in the arc
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Replying to @TalieLow @Marcprice21 and
I'm just saying, the conversation on here seems to invariably go "hah! Look at the dunk on the capitalist pigs for having queer people in their stuff, unlike this Amazon show which is enlightened and knows gay people only exist to serve OUR agendas"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Marcprice21 and
And I'm saying that isn't remotely how it came across to me. That's an incomplete description of what goes on, and Maeve and her gf are centered in the story being told there. It doesn't even say the cynical representation has a bad outcome
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Replying to @TalieLow @BootlegGirl and
It felt completely compatible with my view of real life equivalent. The suits behind it are cynical as fuck, but I still will take their support and hope that it's still going to help overall
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Replying to @TalieLow @BootlegGirl and
As I said on one of the other replies, the key to something being edgelord and harmful is also the same as what I'd say about South Park. The idea that caring is laughable or the problem. It just doesn't have that to me. Still caring and fighting is what's laudable & heroic
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Replying to @TalieLow @BootlegGirl and
That other scene of the team up on the Nazi came after the two non cynical characters appealed to Maeve to stand up and fight because there's a lot that's bad and it's necessary. She initially says no because she's tired and ground down. That scene is then the climax where...
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Replying to @TalieLow @BootlegGirl and
She winds up being moved by their appeal, decides to care again and shows up for them. And it's triumphant and it works.
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The major change between the comic book and the TV series, as I understand it, is that the comic book was way more cynical - the superheroes in the comic really literally never helped anybody and were just actors/corporate mascots/circus freaks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TalieLow and
Whereas the TV show *does* have superheroes saving lives and stopping disasters and whatnot They do have the potential to do good, it's just been corrupted and undermined by all the bullshit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah. What I've read of the comic book is what I expected the show to be and would have dropped it after an episode or two if it had been
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