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the Ukraine line in the most recent one almost broke me.
eh, it's on the same level of finding hipstery ways to describe bad smells
I'm more upset that they are dragging their feet so much and I hope the last 3 episodes make some major changes to the world and move towards the climax
You got past the part where they tortured a billionaire by giving his money to Elizabeth Warren's PAC and Ukraine got you?
There was another earlier in the season and I just laughed it off because it makes absolutely no fucking sense in the context of the show's world building
Ashley the VPOTUS screaming on the phone (presumably at Zelensky) "it's your own fault you got invaded! You were wearing too short of a skirt!" It was amusing on some level but my god was it a reminder of the vapid lib mindset.
You've got this evil admin that is basically a coup of the "real" America where the fascist ruler is totally hands-off international affairs (the horror) and who in many ways (some of them pretty accurate) is a stand-in for Trump. But not aiding Ukrainian fascists is painted as this evil thing to do here, using the trope that epitomizes victim-blaming where the victim is widdle smol bean Ukraine against the vicious Russians.
I'm pretty sure in this silly world of their's NATO doesn't even exist since the US has all the supes, so Russia wouldn't have had any reason to invade. I can't fault them for not going into that kind of geopolitical nuance of course, but still, the way they do portray it is nothing more than "Russia just did that" no doubt because Putler, and their method for showing the audience how evil and narcissistic this Homelander-led admin is, is to show how uncaring they are of poor Ukraine's plight, and how flat out unwilling they are to send military aid to Ukraine. That's what is supposed to show us they're obviously the baddies. They're so evil and incompetent, they're victim-blaming Ukraine! And they do this multiple times.
Whoever the showrunners are, they clearly have a deep and abiding hardon for Ukraine.
I feel like a thing that kind of has to be addressed here is that the early seasons focused on the horror that would be throwing a privatised military at foreign conflicts, especially when said military was a bunch of superpowered untrained manchildren who do tiktok dances. And now we are supposed to see it as horrifying when Homelander (And Ashley) pull them out.
Just watched some clips and they try to shove the whole "trump/chuds loves russia" which is weird cuz i thought in the early season the culture in the boys is permanently stuck on 9/11 bush paranoia
That's mostly because the comics were written in the Bush era, as things have gone on and they've diverged more they've incorporated modern politics instead.
They had a point where they tortured a billionaire by giving his mo eyes to Elizabeth Warren
Yeah they’re forcing some stuff this season without any relevant plot points. Like when they stomped out that Nazi, that was great, but at least they had a plot to frame it around.