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WillyTheNewGuy posted:Eh, the thing is, it isn't a government's top secret facility, it's a corporation's. Even the need for security can never seem to matter more to gigantic corporations than increasing profitability. They probably use staffing sub contractors, and pay most positions as little as possible, thus they most likely have a decent turnover rate. Then again, maybe I'm the idiot for looking for realism where people shrug off .50 caliber rounds to the chest and shoot laser beams out of their eyes. I just thought it was funny, because they make a big deal about their grand plan, but it amounts to them bum rushing the hospital while hoping no one sees them break in.
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Sep 25, 2020 21:43
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PostNouveau posted:I got that off the wiki because I only vaguely remembered what the deal was the comics. Could absolutely be a mistake on the wiki. If I remember right, in the comics he was in the French Foreign Legion and had some crazy poo poo happen that caused some serious mental problems, and so he just decided he was French. Historically the Legion took anyone, even if that's changed recently so he could be from anywhere. The lovely French was because Ennis hates the French, so he had him speak in lovely, lovely Franglais I think they called it. Most of this info was kind of hinted at in the comics, with some one off panels showing Frenchie in the past and the way people talked about his past.
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Sep 25, 2020 21:53
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It's a secure hospital trying not to look like anything more exciting than a secure hospital. The fence and security is for keeping people in, not keeping people out.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:01
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WillyTheNewGuy posted:They probably use staffing sub contractors, and pay most positions as little as possible, thus they most likely have a decent turnover rate. I figured the "turnover" rate would be the mortality rate IRL. "Well, Cindy just greased a few more orderlies. Don't forget to clean the hall before the temp agency delivers some more."
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Sep 25, 2020 22:03
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Alchenar posted:It's a secure hospital trying not to look like anything more exciting than a secure hospital. The fence and security is for keeping people in, not keeping people out. It wouldn't have been much of an episode if Kimiko just punched a hole through the wall like the Kool aid man. 
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Sep 25, 2020 22:04
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SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY Does the church have a pure moods CD?
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Sep 25, 2020 22:06
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seaborgium posted:If I remember right, in the comics he was in the French Foreign Legion and had some crazy poo poo happen that caused some serious mental problems, and so he just decided he was French. Historically the Legion took anyone, even if that's changed recently so he could be from anywhere. The lovely French was because Ennis hates the French, so he had him speak in lovely, lovely Franglais I think they called it. It's got nothing to do with Ennis hating the French. Let's Parler Franglais! was a famous series of satirical articles written in the 1970s by Miles Kington for Punch magazine, in which he parodied British tourists on the continent and their habit of speaking Foreign using a bastardised grammar and dropping in the English word whenever they didn't know the correct one in the local language. Frenchie speaks the same way, and his "origin story" - along with the Female's, which he tells later - is a work of fiction that he made up because Hughie broke the fourth wall and asked about it. All of which is the evidence for the thing you mention about him having a mental break while serving in the Legion.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:31
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Megillah Gorilla posted:One thing is bugging me - before the revelation of compound V, how did Vought explain to the world that every single supe worked for them? Season 1 covers this more, but they are said to be born gifted, some claim God did it, but Homelander has like a whole episode of him shooting a show about his manufactured back story as an all-american boy while he has flashbacks to his real young life in a lab
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Sep 25, 2020 22:37
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Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:40
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VagueRant posted:Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat. Yeah implication that he was dead seemed pretty clear I think
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Sep 25, 2020 22:41
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VagueRant posted:Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:45
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VagueRant posted:Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat. He was dead on the spot from the impact to his head.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:47
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VagueRant posted:Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat. He dead.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:48
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This episode they were really spelling out that Starlight gets her power from sucking electricity from around her. Makes me think she's going to be a big part of taking down a supe who makes electricity... Also car dude is definitely dead, but I kinda got the impression Love Sausage might still be alive?
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Sep 25, 2020 23:31
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hell yes Love Sausage is safe. knockout with blood = dead. knockout without blood = totally fine
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Sep 26, 2020 00:05
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Beef Stew posted:Was that it? I remember reading somewhere that his French is so bad in the comics because he's probably not actually French. His backstory is full of crazy poo poo that doesn't make any sense, thinking he's French could just be another delusion. His backstory is that his father died in a baguette bicycle joust against his rival, Black Pierre. Its indeed implied to be so nonsense he may not actually be french. On the topic of bad accents I absolutely cannot read Karl Urbans as cockney rather than kiwi. massive spider fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 00:26
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What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois I'm getting bi vibes from Frenchie, they've dropped a few hints throughout the show
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Sep 26, 2020 00:43
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massive spider posted:On the topic of bad accents I absolutely cannot read Karl Urbans as cockney rather than kiwi. I honestly thought for half the first series that people calling him English were either taking the piss or stupid, I was convinced he was meant to be a Kiwi.
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Sep 26, 2020 00:44
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BurritoJustice posted:What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois I thought that was very obvious.
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Sep 26, 2020 00:51
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Alchenar posted:I thought that was very obvious. I thought it was explicit. Something interesting about Sage Grove that you may not have noticed: The fence is angled outwards at the top. It's there to keep people out of the "secure psychiatric facility", not to keep them in.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:03
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The cult playing enya in the background was just hilarious to me. So much little stuff in the episode.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:22
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Sail away with the fish man. The way the music directly comments on the scene is always great.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:26
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VagueRant posted:Settle a bet, observant fellow goons. Starlight definitely killed that guy, right? Lotta blood pooling behind his head, she didn't look relieved when she checked for a pulse, guilt shot of the baby seat. Dude is toast.Impacts to the base of the skull just kill you.You need a lot of luck to be close to a hospital so they can operate and stop the brain bleeding and relieve pressure. He could have make it with mild brain damage but he was discarded like garbage. It's how my father died, he made it to the hospital but his brain got crushed due to the blood pooling inside the skull.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:39
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Mameluke posted:hell yes Love Sausage is safe. knockout with blood = dead. knockout without blood = totally fine What about BoysDaredevil? There was a lot of blood coming out of his ears.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:40
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I just realized I didn't have the thread starred after last season and after watching today's (or like, yesterday's with the early release I guess) episode I popped in and caught up the past like 60 pages. Glad to see both the show and here are still glorious hot messes, like Akron. The last episode was just fuckin' stellar, just like the whole season. I like, instantly knew going in that the subtext, text, and metatext that's all been saying "If you get the feeling they're a Nazi or a Racist or Something Else(TM) you're probably right" wouldn't be enough to stop people from (willfully) misinterpreting/misrepresenting everything as Well, Actually(TM) as they can, but I'm glad the writing team pretty clearly expected that and is at least giving us overtly textual examples to prove us right. Homelander continues to be the scariest TV villain I've ever seen outside of a series explicitly framed as horror and Starr deserves an EGOT for it, I will not settle for an Emmy. edit: Somehow the last couple dozen shows I watched I managed to avoid any plothole  in places that I talk about TV and hoo boy has that streak been laser'd through the loving eye.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:40
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BurritoJustice posted:What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois Probably the same chances that Starlight killed that guy, or that Stormfront is a Nazi.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:44
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Jedit posted:It's got nothing to do with Ennis hating the French. Let's Parler Franglais! was a famous series of satirical articles written in the 1970s by Miles Kington for Punch magazine, in which he parodied British tourists on the continent and their habit of speaking Foreign using a bastardised grammar and dropping in the English word whenever they didn't know the correct one in the local language. Frenchie speaks the same way, and his "origin story" - along with the Female's, which he tells later - is a work of fiction that he made up because Hughie broke the fourth wall and asked about it. All of which is the evidence for the thing you mention about him having a mental break while serving in the Legion. It's almost certainly both - lots of the comic's subtext (and actual text) is just that gross flavor of post-9/11 "patriotism" and there's no way Ennis wasn't at least partially wrapped up in that "the French are all cowards for not helping us invade" given all the other other asides he makes.
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Sep 26, 2020 01:51
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BurritoJustice posted:What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois I felt like the show answers this by having him specify that Jay was his best friend. Not lover. Not boyfriend. But best friend. Does the comic go into any details about this at all?
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Sep 26, 2020 01:55
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Bioshuffle posted:What kind of hints? You can have sex/be romantically in love with your best friend, but regardless a Ménage a Trois is a catch-all term for a polyamorous relationship involving three people, it doesn't necessarily mean Frenchie and Jay were also boning down, it would just mean that the three of them were in a relationship of sorts with Cherie. Which isn't far-fetched given how often Frenchie and her hook/hooked up.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:02
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Probably my favourite episode so far. Highlights for me: - The smash cut from Homelander staring at the flowers to his obliterated trailer. - Homelander failing to intimidate Stormfront by squeezing her throat. - "You said you don't break easy. I've been thinking about that a lot." I feel like this is as close as he's come to a 'world of cardboard' speech. He's a guy desperate to let loose with everything he's got, and she's (seemingly) the only thing in the world that might pose an actual challenge. - Butcher and Starlight bonding over how Hughie is too good for both of them.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:04
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Bioshuffle posted:What kind of hints? 1) The opening scene when he's talking about Golden Girls. Frenchie says he started his own family, and Cherie is Blanche, and Jay is his Dorothy and Cherie says "ah cause you're a little gay". 2) The long pause when he says "my uh... my best friend", when telling Lamplighter about it, like he's debating what to call him. 3) After MM gets choked by the trouser snake, and MM is freaked out and says "that's his loving dick" and Frenchie says "don't be so close minded".
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Sep 26, 2020 02:11
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BurritoJustice posted:What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois He also asked MM if he minded getting transvestite strippers for this bachelors night.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:22
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Keltar posted:He also asked MM if he minded getting transvestite strippers for this bachelors night. Transgender but yeah. His joke about MM not being open minded about getting choked by a huge dick was good as well Also what was the blade on the Dremel that Frenchie used to remove the chip from Starlight made of? The diamond compound identical to Translucent's skin he synthesised in the first episode of the series? It felt a bit strange next to Butcher thanking her for the .50BMG shot to the chest BurritoJustice fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 02:25
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BurritoJustice posted:What are the chances that Frenchie, Jay and Cherie are in a Ménage a Trois Him turning tricks on the street wasn't a big enough clue for you?
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Sep 26, 2020 02:33
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VegasGoat posted:1) The opening scene when he's talking about Golden Girls. Frenchie says he started his own family, and Cherie is Blanche, and Jay is his Dorothy and Cherie says "ah cause you're a little gay".
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Sep 26, 2020 02:35
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Terror Sweat posted:Him turning tricks on the street wasn't a big enough clue for you? Look man I just want bi dude rep in shows, I worry I over-assume 
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Sep 26, 2020 02:35
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BurritoJustice posted:Transgender but yeah. His joke about MM not being open minded about getting choked by a huge dick was good as well I try not to think too much about the realism in my fantasy entertainment though.
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Sep 26, 2020 02:46
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Just watching the episode now "Brave Maeve Pride Bars"  this showE: LOVE SAUSAGE OMG Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 02:58
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Plus, bullets do different damage than knives. You can stab through a kevlar vest. Makes sense that a diamond blade can cut through something a bullet just dents.
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Also nobody said Starlight was as strong physically as Translucent. V superpowers seem to be really idiosyncratic: the supes in the clinic seemed to have highly variable toughness levels.
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