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Michael Barnes wrote: My interest in anything to do with Garth Ennis ended promptly with Preacher #60.
Ennis is one of my least favorite comic book writers. Preacher featured some bold ideas and a few great characters, but the story was often juvenile or even moronic. And that's the best I've seen from Ennis. The Preacher tv show is interesting in that it completely captures those great characters while ignoring or heavily adapting the source material. Based on preliminary reviews, I have better things to do with my time than watch The Boys.
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As best I can tell any "action" show has to have wide open machine guns now.
Plot delivered with a sledgehammer.
I finished the first episode but I had my finger on the Mute button the whole time to avoid waking the neighbors. Quiet passages and then sudden patches of huge noise.
Trying to decide if I'm going to continue. I've really had it with super powers, though I'll grant that this show is taking a very different approach. Someone watched The Incredibles and said, "hey, let's kick that up to an R rating and have some fun with it."
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No Heroics includes these ideas in the superhero world:
Sidekick taxes - all superheroes have to pay sidekick taxes even if they choose not to have a sidekick; these taxes are to compensate those affected when a sidekick makes a mistake such as blowing up a post office.
The SPA - the Super Powers Authority deals with abuse of powers cases, dealing out punishments including community service, such as mentoring an unruly sidekick.
Anti-cape leagues - parallel to neo-Nazi groups in the real world, anti-cape groups (such as the Cape Haters of Great Britain) are prejudiced against superheroes and tell "capeist" jokes, and sometimes go around "cape-bashing".
The Fortress - the bar of choice for the protagonists where most of the show takes place, with three fundamental rules: "No Masks, No Powers and No Heroics".
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ThirstyMan wrote: There is a, very hard to find, 2008 British TV show which postulates superheroes as assholes.
Sounds AWESOME! I wonder if I can find it on YouTube?
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TLDR if you haven’t watched Bloodline, remedy that.
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www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49446235
"Russia floating nuclear power station sets sail across Arctic"
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The Boys delivers a setting where high-profile superheroes all work for a major corporation. Their crimefighting is financed by extensive merchandising, including action figures, movies, commercials, and public speaking engagements. There don't seem to be any real supervillains, just the same kinds of normal criminals that we have in our own world. There are two major POV characters. One is an optimistic young female superhero who has just been invited to join the elite superteam known as The Seven. The Seven is clearly inspired by the Justice League, featuring versions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Flash, as well as a recently retired version of the Green Lantern. The other POV character is an ordinary young man who loses his girlfriend to a tragic accident involving a superhero. They both soon discover that the Seven and their corporate sponsors have some dark secrets. The cast is a bit large, but each character is memorable and interesting.
The Boys is often as dark and violent as I expected. There is some nudity and plenty of profanity. But I was surprised at the depth of the characters, even the most corrupt and vile ones. These characters have hopes, flaws, fears that drive them, and when their agendas collide, the emotional impact is tangible. The writing is good, and I suspect better than the original comics by Garth Ennis. The acting is very good, enough to really sell the story. The story itself is quite entertaining, with all kinds of promising directions for what might happen next. Karl Urban dominates his every scene, and Elizabeth Shue is great. Simon Pegg plays a minor role well, disappearing into part enough that I didn't even recognize him immediately. John Doman (best known as Deputy Commissioner Bill Rawls from The Wire) gets a scene and nails it. Co-producer Seth Rogen even makes a cameo appearance as himself. But aside from Urban the real stars are the younger actors playing the POV roles. Their stories are crucial for showing the setting and driving the story, and their performances made me care about the show.
There will be at least one more season of The Boys, because episode eight ends on quite a cliffhanger.
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However, i've now made it through episode 6 and it has improved. I'm not to the "You gotta see this!" point and it's certainly for a niche audience, but it's not as pedestrian as I first thought.
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