Yeah, I can see what you mean, I thought that the whole point of getting him away from Homelander was about giving him a chance. Even as much as it was deserved IMO, I am guessing that image is going to be burned in his mind for a very long time without therapy.
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Hahaha yeah that is what I thought, but then I wondered why it was only one.
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Absolutely loved Stormfront being the personification of alt right and then get rejected wholesale at the end. They even had her bust out the term white genocide with a straight face. Not sure if the character is a white supremacist in the comics but even the name Stormfront is so on the nose.
Totally agree. The series has a lot more depth and complexity to it than the comic- which was all plot at times in place of characterization.
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Absolutely.
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Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the correction. Its been a long time. I read this in issues.
If you didnt know there is a 6 issue mini-series of The Boys called Dear Becky set some 10+ years after the main comic ended.
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Eh to me I thought it was the opposite. And one of the few scenes in the whole series that made zippo sense, at all - unless your whole point was to reduce women to 5 year olds on a playground.
The start of the fight when they are using some powers on each other I was like - YEA! KICK HER A!!. This is gonna be good!
And then the're just... hitting and kicking her on the ground? WTF is that suppose to do? At all? All these superheroes are fighting and all they can do is - kick at her in a circle on the ground? Really? How incompetent and ineffectual can you possibly get? Not even supe-kicks on the ground shooting her around like a pinball - which would have at least made sense given the power levels of the people we're dealing with.
Would only have been more stupid and offensive if they had resorted to hair pulling instead. But "empowerment?" Not at all.
That scene just doesn't work for me, at all. There's no reason why any Superhero fighting another Superhero - much less 3 on 1 - that they all stop using powers and are reduced to kicking someone in the fetal position on the ground. Someone who won't be affected, at all, by their punching and kicking. They know that doesn't hurt her (?!) so wth? They could have actually damaged her and instead they were useless.
I mean maybe the point is to say they are all acting like children in a playground fight? Maybe they were just killing some time between the two scenes - because it was certainly pointless otherwise. Stormfront takes off - unharmed - to go have the actual plot point with Ryan et. al. off in the woods. Surely the point of the scene was't to show how stupid and ineffectual female superheros are (?).
I just don't get it.
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Makes no sense to me how three super-power women kicking one on the ground - instead of doing anything with the powers they actually have that would hurt her - is empowering or "feminist". At all.
"All female" Superhero fight - and that's the best they could do for them? Really?
And this is empowering?! How?
I'm so confused. lol.
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100% Disagree.
It started out awesome. But it ended poorly. All 3 superhero females losing their intelligence and being entirely ineffective at hurting Stormfront in any way at all. Instead they de-volve to a bunch of 5 year olds kicking someone in the dirt, until she leaves.
How is any of that 'awesome.' NOW - IF they had been normal humans; absolutely awesome. But the fact that they are superheros leaves me feeling we were all insulted. (not 'we' as in females, but 'we' as in the viewing audience.)
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I guess people have forgotten episode 1 already where vought were making an all female movie that looked like infinity War. Had maeve/star light/stromfront all posing together arms crossed.
"girls get it done". They were directly taking the piss out of how woman are represented in modern films. The over the top cheesy empowering moments. Hell they even had a nick fury/agent coulston type character handing over a beacon like the one that paged cap marvel in infinity War. Sexism and how woman are represented is a major theme for the TV show boys like star lights costume for example
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The entire point of that scene is to be bookended against the "Girls get it done" PR malarkey in the early episodes, where everything's image-based. This beatdown wasn't about looking flashy for the cameras. It was about pounding a Nazi into the dirt in the most time-effective manner possible, and using teamwork to keep her rattled as you do it. If they'd made it a big flashy special-effects bonanza with Starlight firing light blasts all over and Maeve and The Female doing super-athletic triple-backflip kicks, it would have been exactly what the show started out in those early episodes mocking.
People who wanted that big Endgame style power-fight aren't the audience this show is aimed at. They're the audience this show is mocking, for desiring empty spectacle over meaningful action.
They were doing fine until Stormfront bolted, and none of the three can fly, so there wasn't a hell of a lot they could do at that point.
Maybe spoilers in the vid.
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Zero budget = empowerment
Also the Supes are not really trained in hand to hand combat, most of them are lazy and rely on their powers instead.
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