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Fascism is only applicable when you need the public’s cooperation. Homelander could literally be a one-man natural disaster. He could cause a hundred 9/11s in a single day, roast the fighter jets we scramble out of the sky, and we’re not even sure if a Nuke or MOAB would kill him. Homelander doesn’t need anyone or anything, he IS the movement. I’ll be interested to see how he reacts to Stormfront and her obvious army of online incels
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Mar 30, 2020 14:00
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At this point the only question about Stormfront is how obvious they're going to make the MAGA comparisons and how far Amazon wants to go with promoting it this season
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Mar 30, 2020 14:41
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You can also only promote the ideology so far because at its core this show is about a terrorist insurgency attacking the corporate oligarchy being used to bolster fascism. Billy’s wife is a metaphor for the environment, and furthermore
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Mar 30, 2020 14:43
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Straight White Shark posted:Homelander doesn't really give a poo poo about power in the political sense, though. He doesn't particularly care about controlling what other people do or don't do, as long as he gets to do whatever he wants on a personal level. Yeah at the fundamental level he's pretty much driven by selfish and narcissistic goals. Antony Starr was incredible in the role.
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Mar 30, 2020 15:57
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We can't say it enough. Every little twitch, fake smile, change in body language was perfect. Starr was far and away the best thing about the show, and I'm saying that as a guy who lurrrvvvess Karl Urban.
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Mar 30, 2020 16:33
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Anyone who watched Banshee knew he was gonna be great but nobody could have expect this. He just loving slayed every scene he was in.
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Mar 30, 2020 16:36
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He reminded me a lot of Fassbender, in a good way
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Mar 30, 2020 18:28
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The eternal little barely-controlled half-sneer in scenes where he's not wearing his public face is just 
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Mar 30, 2020 19:48
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Rhyno posted:Anyone who watched Banshee knew he was gonna be great but nobody could have expect this. He just loving slayed every scene he was in. Yeah, absolutely this.
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Mar 30, 2020 23:24
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Having been on the Starr train for years, if he doesn't blow the hell up after this I will be shocked.
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Mar 31, 2020 04:42
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can't wait for the clickbait articles asking if the character literally named Stormfront might be a Nazi 
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Mar 31, 2020 06:10
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precision posted:can't wait for the clickbait articles asking if the character literally named Stormfront might be a Nazi Well, does she have weather powers?
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Mar 31, 2020 09:20
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Grendels Dad posted:Well, does she have weather powers? She does  ( )
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Mar 31, 2020 09:44
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precision posted:can't wait for the clickbait articles asking if the character literally named Stormfront might be a Nazi It is a never ending mystery to me why Apple stores here in the uk are called Stormfront. Surely they knew? Perhaps they are happy with the association.
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Mar 31, 2020 13:06
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Collateral posted:It is a never ending mystery to me why Apple stores here in the uk are called Stormfront. Surely they knew? Perhaps they are happy with the association. Don’t other countries typically care less about what Twitter and bloggers think and say than the US does? Like, the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the Earth’s population is probably not online enough to understand that Stormfront even has a racist connotation.
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Mar 31, 2020 15:51
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Collateral posted:It is a never ending mystery to me why Apple stores here in the uk are called Stormfront. Surely they knew? Perhaps they are happy with the association. Maybe they (somehow) accidentally typed an "m" instead of an "e" and thought it would work as a twee misspelling 
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Mar 31, 2020 16:58
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Bust Rodd posted:Don’t other countries typically care less about what Twitter and bloggers think and say than the US does? Stormfront (the Nazi one) predates Twitter and blogs 
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Mar 31, 2020 17:57
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"Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1996 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white supremacist Don Black. It received national attention in the United States in 2000 after being featured as the subject of a documentary, Hate.com. Stormfront has been the subject of controversy after being removed from French, German, and Italian Google indexes, for targeting an online Fox News poll on racial segregation, and for having political candidates as members. Its prominence has grown since the 1990s, attracting attention from watchdog organizations that oppose racism and antisemitism." I mean it's pretty well known
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Mar 31, 2020 17:59
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Yeah, I remember "Stormfront" being used as a general term in the late 90s/early 00s in the way "alt-right" or "white nationalist" is now.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:47
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Collateral posted:It is a never ending mystery to me why Apple stores here in the uk are called Stormfront. Surely they knew? Perhaps they are happy with the association. Apple stores in the UK are called Apple Stores. Stormfront must be some reseller
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Mar 31, 2020 18:54
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DangerZoneDelux posted:Apple stores in the UK are called Apple Stores. Stormfront must be some reseller It's a licensed reseller, yeah. They can do repairs on Apple warrenties and such. It was the closest we had to a real Apple Store down in Cornwall.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:55
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Anyone remember this show? Its like Watchmen except, fun to watch. Some news -- https://www.thecinemaspot.com/2020/04/29/exclusive-the-boys-lands-early-season-3-renewal-at-amazon-season-2-episode-titles-revealed/ - Season 2 did finish filming, won't be delayed and should be out in a couple months - Season 2 episode titles revealed -- they're super vague as expected but still, some people like to go in fresh!! - Season 3 has been approved already
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Apr 30, 2020 04:16
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Supreme Allah posted:Anyone remember this show? Its like Watchmen except, fun to watch. Amazing! Glad it was in the can before this poo poo broke out. A few of my other shows had to stop fliming but I can't wait for this to come back.
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Apr 30, 2020 04:41
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Supreme Allah posted:Anyone remember this show? Its like Watchmen except, fun to watch. Nice! I was just wondering if they had this season finished before the outbreak.
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Apr 30, 2020 06:27
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Supreme Allah posted:Anyone remember this show? Its like Watchmen except, fun to watch. Some of those titles are potentially quite revealing. No spoilers, but expect S2E7 to be Butcher's origin story.
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Apr 30, 2020 08:21
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I think we already had that in season 1. Can't imagine them going into more detail on it. They covered pretty much everything.
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Apr 30, 2020 08:27
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 I had fun watching Watchmen
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E: ^^^^^ also this.Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I think we already had that in season 1. Can't imagine them going into more detail on it. They covered pretty much everything. In the comics at least there is a flashback to Butcher's youth/formative years. I haven't looked at the titles cause I like to go in fresh (even if I read the comic, this is probably going to be quite different in structure), but I presume the title for s2e7 to be a series of nouns.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:55
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"The Bloody Doors Off" A quote from The Italian Job, so a heist, with explosives or an explosive supe.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:16
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Bust Rodd posted:
The only good thing about it was the Lube man chase scene.
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precision posted:He reminded me a lot of Fassbender, in a good way He physically looks a lot like Fassbender, sure. They can both do menacing evil and subtle weakness quite well. Starr has an incredible talent for portraying barely-restrained malicious glee, something which I can't recall Fassbender ever doing but that's more because none of his roles have been as Chaotically Evil as Starr's Homelander.
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Like this show, I think it's a good critique of the dual lives that those with power and influence live and the indifference that they're afforded with their wealth (or super power). The boys themselves are very laconic; sort of a lemonade out of lemons group. I also thought that the dynamic of super heroes having to deal with lovely parents rings particularly true to Hollywood, who love to indulge themselves on their own self import.
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Collateral posted:"The Bloody Doors Off" its one of the chapter titles from the comic, as are most of the episode titles. Spoiler from the comic It centres around a bioweapon that causes supes to explode violently massive spider fucked around with this message at 22:38 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 22:36
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massive spider posted:its one of the chapter titles from the comic, as are most of the episode titles. They seem to be out of order from their comics appearances too, though obviously that doesn't really mean anything as they could just be using the names.
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May 1, 2020 22:47
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The Clowner posted:He physically looks a lot like Fassbender, sure. They can both do menacing evil and subtle weakness quite well. Starr has an incredible talent for portraying barely-restrained malicious glee, something which I can't recall Fassbender ever doing but that's more because none of his roles have been as Chaotically Evil as Starr's Homelander.  
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massive spider posted:It centres around a bioweapon that causes supes to explode violently
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May 4, 2020 13:04
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Swollen Member posted:If so, do you think we'll see Love Sausage? AFAICR, Vas was Billys Russian contact when the Boys went to Moscow to investigate exploding supes.
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May 4, 2020 14:14
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SardonicTyrant posted:On the one hand I think he's a bit too juvenile for this show, on the other hand they managed to make an rear end bomb into a serious threat. There was also using the baby as a laser gun
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MizPiz posted:There was also using the baby as a laser gun my wife has never read a Garth Ennis comic and did not understand why I was so visibly hyped when a fight started in the laser baby's nursery
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