The Boys Season 4

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Looking forward to it this fall

[JackDidley]

Fun show for sure.

[herr_oberst]

I watched for a season and a half. It got way creepy for me. That Superman guy is like nails on a chalkboard.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

^^^ exploring the possible dark side of super heroes is definitely creepy.

[zakthor]

I met a guy that loved the show and thought homelander was awesome. He didnt realize that homelander was the bad guy. That was funny.

Not saying another season cant be good but i mostly fast forwarded through season 3. Better than avengers which wasnt even worth a fast forward.

The corpo / hr / superhero thing got old, and i thought the protagonists were really annoying.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by zakthor

I met a guy that loved the show and thought homelander was awesome. He didnt realize that homelander was the bad guy. That was funny.

Not saying another season cant be good but i mostly fast forwarded through season 3. Better than avengers which wasnt even worth a fast forward.

The corpo / hr / superhero thing got old, and i thought the protagonists were really annoying.

That's funny, I went to a movie with a buddy once and when we were leaving the theater he said "I felt sorry for that guy". I initially thought he meant the unjustly murdered innocent guy, no - he meant that he felt sorry for the murderer. We later had a falling out, he was just too weird to hang out with.

When Do We Identify with the Bad Guy?
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/identify-with-the-villain

This research, conducted by Derek Rucker, a professor of marketing, and graduate student Rebecca Krause, suggests that, unlike with real villains, when fictional villains are more similar to us, we actually feel more attracted to them.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by kach22i

That's funny, I went to a movie with a buddy once and when we were leaving the theater he said "I felt sorry for that guy". I initially thought he meant the unjustly murdered innocent guy, no - he meant that he felt sorry for the murderer. We later had a falling out, he was just too weird to hang out with.

When Do We Identify with the Bad Guy?
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/identify-with-the-villain

what is funny is that sympathetic villains is not supposed to be something we cheer for.

its supposed to be a message that we could have decided to be villains. and that villains in real life, have reasons for what they are doing, often with laudable goals. and that spotting villains in real life is trickier than you might think.



homelander is a great example.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by zakthor

I met a guy that loved the show and thought homelander was awesome. He didnt realize that homelander was the bad guy. That was funny.

Not saying another season cant be good but i mostly fast forwarded through season 3. Better than avengers which wasnt even worth a fast forward.

The corpo / hr / superhero thing got old, and i thought the protagonists were really annoying.

I completely agree on the protagonists getting really annoying.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

I watched for a season and a half. It got way creepy for me. That Superman guy is like nails on a chalkboard.

it gets waaaay creepier.

i'm dropping out. at the end of the last season butcher betrays his nature and does something makes him look like a pussy and an idiot. they close standing around lookinglike the team from buffy the vampire slayer but without the edge.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

^^^ exploring the possible dark side of super heroes is definitely creepy.

it's not about superheroes. it's about hollywood celebrities.

millar's basic point is that heroes behave like hollywood celebrities and need to be killed because of that. and his true stroke of genius is that he got hollywood celebrities to fund it.