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Friday Fun Thread for September 09, 2022

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I realized this week The Boys season 3 was released this summer. Four episodes in, I have to say I am still quite enjoying it. It's sufficiently different from the comic book that I can relax and stop worrying about the original plot, but it keeps enough of Garth Ennis's love of random squick. Urban, Starr and Crawford are all great.

I'm trying to remember where the plot was 4 episodes in. I think it might have been shortly after that point some TDS broke the 4th wall and really turned me off. Homelander was always a bit Trumpish, but they had him directly quoting Trump covid lines in situations that made absolutely zero sense in the context of the story. You just had to understand they were reaching as hard as they could to criticize Trump.

The verbatim Trumpy railing against fake news is also weird -- like, isn't the whole meta-point of the show that VoghtCo pretty much owns the media?

Heavy hands make bad art -- it's a shame things have moved in this direction because in a world where there aren't really any good guys (and a number of pretty clear analogies to be drawn with politicians on all parts of the spectrum) there would be a lot of more nuanced things to say than "orange man (with red eyes) very very bad"

It's still pretty fun to watch, so doesn't go in the 'ruined by woke' bin for me -- I'm having serious issues with The Sandman though.