Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Vahlnir]

I liked the first two seasons but haven't started the new one.
I do feel like it's a bit over-relient on the gore tho.

It does feel a tad hypocritical when they criticize corporate pandering and commercialization of everything so much, when the gore in the show is very much commercialized and exaggerated for entertainment value.
I am not really offended or bothered by it but some of the stuff I've heard about in the new season makes me think that I am not too excited about seeing that.

The dude who plays Homelander tho is awesome, apparently he's a real asshole irl too I guess that helps with his acting lol.
He's like adult Joffrey from GoT.

There's a lot of gore in the show, for sure. It is meant to be dark, gritty and at times downright disturbing by default though (Seth Rogan is responsible for some of that). By that logic though I guess it might not be for everyone, and that's okay too. It is a satire of our modern world, with superheroes as corrupt celebrities. It is slightly hypocritical coming from Amazon though, but eh. lol But yeah, Antony Starr is truly on another level. He steals every scene he is in. He makes Homelander the character you hate to love but love to hate. His acting is absolutely incredible. The entire cast is very solid, but he stands tall above the rest.

[Kolsykol]

There's a lot of gore in the show, for sure. It is meant to be dark, gritty and at times downright disturbing by default though (Seth Rogan is responsible for some of that). By that logic though I guess it might not be for everyone, and that's okay too. It is a satire of our modern world, with superheroes as corrupt celebrities. It is slightly hypocritical coming from Amazon though, but eh. lol But yeah, Antony Starr is truly on another level. He steals every scene he is in. He makes Homelander the character you hate to love but love to hate. His acting is absolutely incredible. The entire cast is very solid, but he stands tall above the rest.

Yeah, what I mean was just that it's a commercialized form of grit.
Real life gore doesn't look like that, and I often see people justify it by saying that it's '' just being realistic ''.
I don't think it's a huge deal it's just something that kinda occured to me, they criticize a lot of stuff but then engage in it themselves in the show not just that either.
There's one scene from the new season of episode 1 in particular that comes to mind that I did watch just now since I thought if I was going to talk about it I should at least have watched it.

And yeah.
It's a bit rich to moralize about and criticize others for commercialization of everything but then engage in and pander to people with commercialized gross-out gore, I don't think it's any different really.
But yeah like you said it's hypocritical to begin with coming from Amazon.

Edit: The '' girls get it done '' stuff was hilarious tho, at the same time they've engaged in some of that themselves too.
But it's definitely a funny show for sure.
The Deep's storyline is funny too.