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Reply #105 on: October 14, 2020, 07:16:56 PM

Uh, think he's just referring to MediumHigh mistakenly calling Vought "vault".
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Reply #106 on: October 14, 2020, 07:43:22 PM

What are you imagining her escape to have been?

The kid grew up believing he was in a normal neighborhood.  So we're talking about maybe something like a wall and some guards hidden away.  Cameras, too, obviously.  But this was not Supermax.

She showed a cigarette and lighter to a camera in the fourth episode and just drove off.  Butcher was able to sneak in with no trouble and with no knowledge of the situation while she spent years seeing the defenses in place.

Not exactly Fort Knox, especially when the real prisoner was the kid.

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Reply #107 on: October 14, 2020, 08:06:38 PM

I guess I should have included the line about "the CEO of Vault", too.
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Reply #108 on: October 14, 2020, 10:48:52 PM

Look, I'm not trying to make him tow the line. I just didn't want to pass up a bit of comedy that we might take for granite. Really, vanilla and Manila are one in the same, so we can just nip that pedantry in the butt. At any ray, he's probably past the statue of limitations on gaffs of this nurture. I think we can stop trying to make him curl up in the feeble position as it's obviously a mute point, and we're really just trying to make him look like an escape goat. Buy and large, he'll just be biting his time to catch us fouling something up, so we should all do a 360 and forgive him. After all, it's a doggy dog world.

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Reply #109 on: October 15, 2020, 12:06:24 AM

I am awaiting his response with baited breath.

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Reply #110 on: October 16, 2020, 09:51:54 AM

bit of a damp squid

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Reply #111 on: October 16, 2020, 12:46:13 PM

… yeah. 

I was responding to MediumHigh.  Not the Fallout 'joke'. 

That was kind of … sad.

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Reply #112 on: October 30, 2020, 06:23:33 AM

Finished up season 2 last night. The middle bits did drag a bit, but the finale was well worth the wait. I bought the full run of graphic novels from Humble Bundle recently and started in on them. I'm through the first 3 editions (so like 18 issues or so) and I must say that Karl Urban's Butcher is a better developed character in the TV show. Maybe the comics gets to the Becca thing at some point after where I'm at, but the show actually trying to illustrate that Butcher is just as bad as Homelander is a good take. I actually think I prefer the TV characters to their comics counterparts, though I'd like to see more of the world fleshed out (without exploding bits covering everyone in the room).

I didn't realize the series creator was Eric Kripke, who was also the creator of Timeless. Makes a lot of sense though, considering the head of the Church of the Collective is played by Timeless's original antagonist and the Senator lady was one of the main engineer geeks from the show. Rufus the Pilot from Timeless also showed up as one of the image consultants in season 2.

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Reply #113 on: October 30, 2020, 07:24:04 AM

Finished up season 2 last night. The middle bits did drag a bit, but the finale was well worth the wait. I bought the full run of graphic novels from Humble Bundle recently and started in on them. I'm through the first 3 editions (so like 18 issues or so) and I must say that Karl Urban's Butcher is a better developed character in the TV show. Maybe the comics gets to the Becca thing at some point after where I'm at...
Yeah - Butcher's origin is a mystery in the comics for much longer.  And it is significantly different, although some key elements are the same.

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Reply #114 on: June 10, 2021, 06:03:15 AM

So I just started watching some clips of this on YouTube and want to say Homelander's actor is doing a very good job. This makes the character oddly likeable because he is so very flawed and weak.

Def worth torrenting the entire show I guess?

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Reply #115 on: June 10, 2021, 06:53:29 AM

I guess you could torrent it, but assuming you have Amazon Prime locally, it's streamable in 4k with just a month's Prime membership (as is the rest of Amazon Prime Video, such as The Expanse and other awesome shows). Especially useful if there's anything on Amazon you'd like delivered without any shipping charges.

I thought season 1 was very, very good. I'm 1/3 of the way into season 2 and finding it slower, but still quality.
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Reply #116 on: June 10, 2021, 07:06:52 AM

The show is pretty awesome. Worth it whatever the minimal cost is to stream/buy it.
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Reply #117 on: June 11, 2021, 12:01:12 AM

to stream/buy it.

to send Jeff Bezos to space.
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Reply #118 on: June 18, 2021, 05:26:58 PM

I would pay more if it was a one way ticket.

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Reply #119 on: June 20, 2021, 09:24:07 PM

Considering they've never stuck humans on this rocket before, it might.

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Reply #120 on: May 16, 2022, 10:21:26 AM

https://youtu.be/K-8VYKUZYiw

I like that the first season set my expectations for this show really fucking low.

Trailer looks quite good. And that is good enough for me.

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Reply #121 on: July 08, 2022, 05:21:28 PM

Starlight spent longer powering up than Goku just to pull a Krillin. Maeve on the other hand was a badass.

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Reply #122 on: July 08, 2022, 06:32:54 PM

Starlight spent longer powering up than Goku just to pull a Krillin. Maeve on the other hand was a badass.
They've been pretty clear Starlight is nowhere near Homelander/Maeve/Soldier Boy level. It took her the exaggerated power up sequence to mildly inconvenience Homelander at a critical moment.

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Reply #123 on: July 08, 2022, 07:55:54 PM

The fight scenes this season were great and I love what they are doing with Homelander.

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Reply #124 on: July 09, 2022, 08:18:52 PM

So this show has just become the thing it was spoofing? Everyone fights and throws each other around the room with no consequence or real risk of harm to either party. The political stuff was the only thing that kept me off my phone while watching it at the end there.

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Reply #125 on: July 09, 2022, 11:04:27 PM


"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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Reply #126 on: July 10, 2022, 12:52:23 AM

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Reply #127 on: July 10, 2022, 10:02:14 AM


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Reply #128 on: October 09, 2023, 09:05:30 AM

The new "Generation V" spinoff ain't bad.

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Reply #129 on: October 10, 2023, 08:01:32 PM

I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
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Reply #130 on: October 10, 2023, 08:54:28 PM

All the right wing chuds that loved the Boys for Homelander are getting mad at it because the women are a little too uppity.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #131 on: October 11, 2023, 05:04:24 PM

I can actually imagine right wing incels dipshits liking the Boys because Homelander is literally all their insecurities given powers, but then being turned off by all the women who beat his ass. Of course, I can also see them just not getting any of the painfully obvious nuances of the characters and how most of them are satires of the things they claim to be.

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Reply #132 on: November 01, 2023, 10:25:14 PM

I especially like how they have memory-holed the entire first season plot point of him having a breastfeeding fetish.   The show is goofing on them all so hard its genuinely funny they can't see it.

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Reply #133 on: November 05, 2023, 12:21:49 PM

Really liked how Gen V ended up tying in to the main plot.  If the idea is that the next season of The Boys is going to add these kids to the main cast, introducing them via their own little spinoff instead of trying to shoehorn them in along the way was a smart way to do it.

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Reply #134 on: November 05, 2023, 03:37:33 PM

I especially like how they have memory-holed the entire first season plot point of him having a breastfeeding fetish.   The show is goofing on them all so hard its genuinely funny they can't see it.

He had a mommy fetish with one specific woman, and he was still trying to "fulfill" it with the shape shifter in... uh season 2 i think.

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Reply #135 on: November 05, 2023, 09:18:36 PM

Really liked how Gen V ended up tying in to the main plot.  If the idea is that the next season of The Boys is going to add these kids to the main cast, introducing them via their own little spinoff instead of trying to shoehorn them in along the way was a smart way to do it.

I don't know, I was liking it a lot as its own thing that's obviously tied into The Boys but has its own story to tell. If it were to end up just as a prequel to The Boys season 4 I think that would be a massive disappointment.
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Reply #136 on: November 06, 2023, 08:13:01 AM

Yeah, not a huge fan of having to keep up with outside media to understand the plot of a show I'm watching.  Bit of a pain in the moment, huge pain when rewatching it down the road and having to remember when you need to detour to watch what season of which other show.

Minor case in point, I did a first time watch of the Stargate TV shows a few years ago and having to know when to set SG1 down to watch a season of Atlantis was irritating.
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