I absolutely love this review. This season made me realize how painfully average this show really is. Which has taken me a long time to accept. I loved how you analyzed the bad writing and inconsistent character arcs. Most people I've seen review this show always (For fair enough reasons) complain about this shows politics. I don't fully understand how American politics work. Neither do i want to. But I'm glad you also pointed out the many other flaws this show has. For me this was the most disappointing show of 2024
Thanks! I'm glad it resonated with you. I knew when I first watched the show that it's not a show I would ever consider rewatching, and while objectively there are some good things that they do, overall making this video and having to go back through and re watch some of the footage made me really start to dislike what I was watching. Politically, I think they do a decent surface level job pointing out problems in American society, but it's not in depth critique or analysis nor will it ever be.
Sure, that's fair, Erin Moriarty's acting in that scene was really good and helps to sell it. For me the issue was 1, the shifter doesn't really have a purpose for existing other than being Annie's mirror essentially and doesn't really have a personality beyond the snarky dialogue and therefore not really a reason to dissect Annie like in that scene, 2, the actual dialogue was really unbearable and badly written as they wanted to tell us Annie's internal struggles in one scene rather than showing us over the course of the season, and 3, this one scene and the shifter's death were essentially supposed to be the entire culmination of Annie's character arc which to me is really lazy to have Annie fight someone who literally looks like her to convey internal conflict and this makes it so she doesn't actually have to work to solve her issue.
All I gotta say is this... Frenchie Only issue for me aside from small gripes but those are fantastic problems to have but Frenchie nope that shit was ASS TURBO ASS
The real problem with this season is that they neutered the best character they have for political reasons. Since they are doing their absolute best to drive the idea into people’s heads that Homelander is somehow Trump they have to make him look as incompetent as possible at all times. It’s really. It’s really ruined any tension this show used to have.
The show has always been political, as some of the quotes in my video show, Eric Kripke has been influenced by Trump from the beginning. Also in the video with Antony Starr I clipped above he mentions how directly ripping off an existing person would ruin the character. I think the issue you're seeing with Homelander is rather a story issue: it feels like he's simply not very present this season compared to previous ones. He doesn't have much of an impact on the story because Sage is doing all the legwork, and The Boys are dealing with personal issues mostly very separately from the external threat of Sage's plan rather than weaving in their issues with a more concrete external threat.
please, take a breath or two (and not in a negative way, i mean this because it sounds like you're talking so fast you're going to tire yourself out by getting from one point to the next)
That's just how it's edited. I didn't record the whole thing in one take. In my experience if I talk any slower or leave gaps in the edit, people click off the video.
Well no, it's actually very accurate to reality. Much of the rhetoric used is almost word for word. However, that's where the show gets stilted because their commentary is very surface level. It's just exactly repeating what they see happen in real life except with superheroes.
"Radical Right" Let's get that right. The show makes fun of BOTH sides that are radical. Let's stop trying to pretend the show is only making fun of one side. If you're butthurt about what was shown...then you might be a radical. If the shoe fits 🤷🏾♂️
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I absolutely love this review. This season made me realize how painfully average this show really is. Which has taken me a long time to accept. I loved how you analyzed the bad writing and inconsistent character arcs. Most people I've seen review this show always (For fair enough reasons) complain about this shows politics. I don't fully understand how American politics work. Neither do i want to. But I'm glad you also pointed out the many other flaws this show has. For me this was the most disappointing show of 2024
Thanks! I'm glad it resonated with you. I knew when I first watched the show that it's not a show I would ever consider rewatching, and while objectively there are some good things that they do, overall making this video and having to go back through and re watch some of the footage made me really start to dislike what I was watching. Politically, I think they do a decent surface level job pointing out problems in American society, but it's not in depth critique or analysis nor will it ever be.
I have to disagree on the shapeshifter and Annie. I loved that scene and how it portrayed who Annie isn’t
Sure, that's fair, Erin Moriarty's acting in that scene was really good and helps to sell it. For me the issue was 1, the shifter doesn't really have a purpose for existing other than being Annie's mirror essentially and doesn't really have a personality beyond the snarky dialogue and therefore not really a reason to dissect Annie like in that scene, 2, the actual dialogue was really unbearable and badly written as they wanted to tell us Annie's internal struggles in one scene rather than showing us over the course of the season, and 3, this one scene and the shifter's death were essentially supposed to be the entire culmination of Annie's character arc which to me is really lazy to have Annie fight someone who literally looks like her to convey internal conflict and this makes it so she doesn't actually have to work to solve her issue.
All I gotta say is this... Frenchie
Only issue for me aside from small gripes but those are fantastic problems to have but Frenchie nope that shit was ASS TURBO ASS
The real problem with this season is that they neutered the best character they have for political reasons. Since they are doing their absolute best to drive the idea into people’s heads that Homelander is somehow Trump they have to make him look as incompetent as possible at all times. It’s really. It’s really ruined any tension this show used to have.
The show has always been political, as some of the quotes in my video show, Eric Kripke has been influenced by Trump from the beginning. Also in the video with Antony Starr I clipped above he mentions how directly ripping off an existing person would ruin the character. I think the issue you're seeing with Homelander is rather a story issue: it feels like he's simply not very present this season compared to previous ones. He doesn't have much of an impact on the story because Sage is doing all the legwork, and The Boys are dealing with personal issues mostly very separately from the external threat of Sage's plan rather than weaving in their issues with a more concrete external threat.
please, take a breath or two (and not in a negative way, i mean this because it sounds like you're talking so fast you're going to tire yourself out by getting from one point to the next)
That's just how it's edited. I didn't record the whole thing in one take. In my experience if I talk any slower or leave gaps in the edit, people click off the video.
The problem with the political content is it misrepresents reality and paints the right in a falsely negative light.
Well no, it's actually very accurate to reality. Much of the rhetoric used is almost word for word. However, that's where the show gets stilted because their commentary is very surface level. It's just exactly repeating what they see happen in real life except with superheroes.
"Radical Right"
Let's get that right.
The show makes fun of BOTH sides that are radical. Let's stop trying to pretend the show is only making fun of one side.
If you're butthurt about what was shown...then you might be a radical. If the shoe fits 🤷🏾♂️