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2022-01-18, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Boys Season 3: Boys Will Be Boys
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Short, but deeply unsettling. Anthony Starr is phenomenal. The ad with The Deep seemed a bit heavy handed, though.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-01-18, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Boys Season 3: Boys Will Be Boys
"Rabbit has Brain. That's why he never understands anything."
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2022-01-18, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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They're not, though. The marketing around them hides everything pretty well, it's a carefully cultivated image. We see what it's really like because we see the things that aren't marketing. The ad in that teaser is marketing, though, and it's significantly different from all the other marketing. From an innocent viewers standpoint, it's a terrible ad and The Deep had to know wouldn't present the image he wants.
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-01-18, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Rabbit has Brain. That's why he never understands anything."
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2022-01-18, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-01-18, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd say it's in line with Vought's typical obliviousness personally.
Absolutely, he's phenomenal in this role. He looks like he's hanging on by a thread. Haven't read the comics, but I wonder if this is the season where he finally snaps and lasers an audience?Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2022-01-18, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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When has Vought ever been oblivious like this regarding branding?
I also haven't read the comics, but I've had some of the highlights told to me. The show seems less dark than the comics, I gotta say. But yeah, Homelander is just terrifying. They're doing a great job of making it seem like he can snap at any point.Last edited by Peelee; 2022-01-18 at 01:03 PM.
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2022-01-18, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Off the top of my head, weaponizing Starlight's trauma after being sexually assaulted by Deep to turn it into a #girlboss moment came off pretty tone-deaf, especially since they forced her to still wear the skimpy superhero outfit she was openly objecting to while having her go on tour - trying to position her as being empowered and strengthened by the experience they failed to prevent.
Note I'm not saying Vought is incompetent - but in general, where they don't have to go out of their way to avoid being callous without impacting the bottom line they usually won't.
Yeah it had to be; the sheer levels of edgelord cringe in the comics version just wouldn't fly on-screen. (For example, the assault scene above was several orders of magnitude worse in the comics - instead of just Deep, every single male member of the Seven participated including Homelander.) The show managed to get the same message across in a much more measured way.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2022-01-18, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-01-18, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd say that was more Deep being his usual dumb self, and Vought not wanting to waste resources on a reshoot for something that's barely valuable as a tax writeoff when they can just send out their trashboy even if he ends up in frame. The speed with which the kid ran out there was almost certainly predicated by angry hisses from Ashley
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2022-01-18, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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The boys not only had no subtlety, it actualy has negative subtlety.
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2022-01-18, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would agree.
The hypocrisy is quite front and center, it's not something any viewer is likely to overlook.
It's not a bad thing, it's more just the chosen style, and probably more tastefully presented than the comics.
Most of the previous merchandising was pretty darned heavy handed. Very over the top corporate exploitation of pretty much every angle. Like, look at the guy pitching the movie concept in S2. It was so over the top it was basically parody.
As an aside, if you enjoy watching Homelander in this, and you should, because Anthony Starr's acting is fantastic, check him out in Banshee. Only four seasons, show's entirely over, but it's glorious. Though full warning, it's not really any less graphic/violent than the Boys. I totally see why he was cast in this role.
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2022-01-18, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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... What? I just rewatched that scene on YouTube. It's bog-standard superhero movie stuff, something I'd expect straight out of an Avengers movie. It's trite, sanitized corporate schlock at worst. What it is not is on the same level as talking about trash cleanup and immediately chucking an empty can onto the beach completely obliviously. That's nowhere near on the same level.
Also, I'm not talking about the backend. The ad is the finished product, what the public sees. Of course the entire show is off the rails with what Voight and the supes do off camera. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a supposedly completed and seemingly aired marketing spot designed to manufacture endearment which is a blatant failure and so glaringly obvious that it can't possibly have been missed by the marketing team.Last edited by Peelee; 2022-01-18 at 05:47 PM.
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2022-01-18, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-18, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Boys Season 3: Boys Will Be Boys
Doesn't most aluminum cans now a days have a small plastic liner to prevent the acid from interacting with the metal, and about 4 other "positive" benefits concerning consistency and other food metrics?
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2022-01-18, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-19, 04:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-19, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Seven at Seven with Cameron Coleman series is very well done. Not exactly subtle about who they are parodying, but it is very effective advertising.
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2022-01-19, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-19, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-19, 04:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Do you remember the S1 interview with A-train and the cancer survivor? Cmon, that was ludicrously bad. And it still went out to the public.
The show isn't afraid to have Voight display their arrogance and financial motivations pretty blatantly. Subtlety isn't really on display anywhere. Hilarious show, though.
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2022-01-19, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, a live feed is notably different from a scripted and edited production. Again, that I could see IRL.
Look, I didn't mean for that very small complaint to take up like the entire thread so far. It's not huge. It was just noticeable, for me. The bigger take is that Homelander is going to ****ing murder everyone in that room in like two seconds. Perpetually. That's what his character seems like it exists in a permanent state of. Antony Starr is knocking it out of the park.Last edited by Peelee; 2022-01-19 at 04:35 PM.
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2022-01-19, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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This thread will go down as the time Peelee said the words "heavy handed" and the forum would not stand for it!
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2022-01-19, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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I could see a real corporation doing this, as a joke to add some humor to the commercial. Obviously the kid wouldn't really be choking on smoke when they shoot it though.