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The Boys
Deserves it's own thread.
Couple episodes in and I'm loving it. Great adaptation of the comic. Cool that they got Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad, since Hughie was based around Pegg. |
Im starting it tomorrow. Very hyped for it
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Think I read about the comic years ago, "Mothers Milk" is definitely a memorable name. Amazon Prime too, so one I can definitely watch. :y:
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Most of the characters are spot on, and really great. Hughie isn’t Scottish but they still captured the personality of the character really well. Butcher, Homelander, and Starlight are the standouts so far. Theyre adapted from the comic excellently. Only disappointment is Frenchie. He’s not the happy go lucky crazy guy he is in the comics. In this, he’s more or less just really strung out.
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It’s not quite as over the top as the comic, but some of that stuff wouldn’t work as well on screen anyway. I think they found a really good medium in between keeping the story grounded and the crazy shit from the comics.
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Hughie isn't how it would be pronounced in Scotland anyway.
Shoe or Shoe-E is how we say it. Like what you put on your feet. Like if you're calling a pig. |
I was talking about the character, not the name.
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Also, What is calling a pig?
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Suuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeey
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Uhuh, or maybe I was mucking about |
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Going to re-subscribe and dig in after Ip Man 3 finishes.
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Just watched the opener. Kripke has a homerun on his hands.
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I like what they've done with Stillwell here. In the comic (where the character is a male) he is a perfectly flawless, corporate machine who is always ten steps of everyone else, allt he way to the end. Which is very impressive and all that, but it also leads to him being a bit one dimensional.
They gave Madelyn just enough vulnerability to be more interesting, while keeping that cool calculated strength needed to give orders to living gods. |
Also holy shit, that ending goes way off the rails from the book. Not a bad thing depending on where they go with it. It's definitely got me interested to see what happens with it.
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Jesus fucking Christ dude.
Right just a warning to anybody who hasn't seen or read about this... this is mental. SPOILER: show |
Everything's going to be fine now, Karl Urban will fix it.
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First episode is totally bonkers...
Good casting, particularly Anthony Starr - his expression looks so nefarious for a hero :lol: Erin Moriarty is good casting too, vulnerable yet formidable is a tough one to pull off. Take note Marvel, this was missing from *Cap'n Maveral. I'm enjoying this, it's all upside down and back to front but it all seems familiar until you're shown what's up. This one is going to lead me down dead ends and false corridors before it's over. |
*Overheard a foreign guy say this the other day, was fantastic.
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I thought this was going to be extremely bleak but it's hilarious too. I mean I'm not one for gore but I can handle it if it's as ridiculous as what I just saw.
I'm 3 episodes in and this programme hasn't settled into one definitive style yet. It's like a comedy and a thriller with occasional extreme violence. |
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Kripke has really taken what he learned from supernatural and harnessed it here. He manages to juggle genuine levity without compromising the sting of the razor sharp social commentary. I dont know how long they can keep the stakes this high but right now the show is aces. |
Elizabeth Shue probably doing her best work since "Leaving Las Vegas" here.
She's not chewing scenery either, she's completely at ease in the character. Erin Moriarty is equally adept at this as is Anthony Starr and the more I see him I really quite like the Quaid guy playing Hughie. Karl Urban is solid as a rock and carrying a sizeable share of the comedy on his shoulders, it's always great to have Karl Urban as he is shamefully underrated. |
Episode 6
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Ahahahaha the cameos are appropriately brilliant.
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But yeah, that was a great scene. |
The deep is probably my favorite character. Lost my shit at both of his attempts to save sea creatures.
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I like how all of the superhero names are total shit. The Black Noir, The Deep, Homelander...
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I keep thinking the wrong people are responsible for the shit that's going down... I'm well impressed with the way this has been put together. So creepy and grim and I am leaving with some weird, weird boners.
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"Never has a man thrown his life away so completely as you have today"
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Romeo and Juliet had nothing on these two.
You think you're getting one thing, you get another. You assume the tone and they flip it on you every time. This is a perfect show. |
That ending is going to make waiting for the second series a real bastard.
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this is the ep i was waiting on. First two establish the world and the stakes. 103 slows things down and lets us see the characters live in the world they set up. This is more representative of what the show will be long tern. Well paced show. Really knows what its doing. Structurally this is very well constructed tv. |
I love the way it flips through genres, some scenes completely mislead me into thinking I was going into a horror, comedy, thriller or action scene and then completely changed within moments.
I haven't read the source material but I take it there is an ending to all of it because the wiki page says it ran 72 issues and hasn't been continued. That's a positive sign to me after the way GoT ended. |
I do prefer shows that have an ending and build toward it. Its hard to see past success though. Most shows end up stretching for extra seasons even after their story is ready to end. How I Met Your Mothers final 2 seasons for example.
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It has an ending and it’s an awesome twist, though developments in the show kind of contradict it.
BIG TIME SPOILER FROM THE COMIC SPOILER: show |
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Arghhh I have to check the Wiki page now
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The show is a lot better than the book to be honest. The book is pretty good for a laugh most of the time, and there are genuinely great characters, but it's a bit up it's own ass, and at times feels more concerned with shitting on superheroes for the sake of it instead of telling the story.
It's a common problem with Garth Ennis cause at times he's more concerned with using his characters as his own personal soapbox. Butcher and Jesse Custer are literally the same fucking character. Two hard bad asses who constantly go on rants about something or other because something triggered Garth that day. Like, don't get me wrong, Garth Ennis is a great writer, but he'd be a lot better if he wasn't so concerned with constantly telling people his opinions on everything. |
Okay so the show must be diverging slightly on some points just to keep it surprising for fans of the comic book yet to retain the theme for the fresh audience.
I can dig it and despite how fanboy I am about "my things" I am reaping the benefits of how well prepared this is without being so into the comic that the slightest change annoyed me. Very glad I read the Wiki before the spoiler tag, now I'm kinda just waiting... |
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This show was awesome. Finished it up today. So fucking good. Seanny is right, every time you think you're going in one direction, they make a hard turn in the opposite.
The zingers and comedy bits are great. Karl Urban is so damn good. Absolutely magnetic as Butcher. The season finale really ramped it up. Wasn't expecting the ending at all. I'm excited for the next season. But it sucks we have to wait. |
Karl Urban brings gravitas to the whole thing before you've even seen it. Then he has the humility not to steal the show.
I think Elizabeth Shue just had the best role of her life. |
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Spicegirls. Lul to the Nth This show needs to be careful. Im begining to think there will be no bad eps. |
Spoiler alert: there aren't.
Seanny is right. Starlight is everything Captain Marvel should've been as a character. |
There really aren't. I can't think of an episode that wasted any of its run time.
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I got Prime now so i might watch this soon.
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Thoroughly enjoyed the show. Karl Urban and the person who plays Homelander were amazing. Can't believe I had some sympathy for The Deep after the first episode. Quality stuff.
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I'm super late to this party, but still glad I came all the same.
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SPOILER: show You say Starlight is what Captain Marvel should have been; I say this is the douchebag Injustice Superman we deserved to get in the movies instead of wasting effort in edited mustaches. Unrelated to anything mentioned in the thread: I wonder how many times Billy Zane is going to pop up? Also, he's another guy who doesn't age along with Karl Urban. Throw them in a Highlander reboot with Paul Rudd. |
OH MY GOD THE PALM READING GUY WAS HALEY JOEL OSMENT IM SO FUCKING OLD KILL ME NOW
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Also of note on Billy Zane again... he plays himself. And he plays himself in Zoolander... Zoolander and The Boys share universes, and you can't tell me otherwise. If one of the Supes busts out the tiny cell phone next season, I told you so! Also also, I like that this universe subtlety dropped that 9/11 never happened in it. |
He seemed familiar but I couldn't place it. Wasnt an important enough character that I felt like looking it up.
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I've him in other works so there was nothing to be shocked by.
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For me.
Plus he does voice work for Sora so he was all over the place promoting that earlier this year |
I had to watch it again. I mean that as complimentary as I possibly can.
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I firmly believe The Boys to be Elizabeth Shue's greatest performance.
That was inspired casting. |
I heard that Jack Quaid is in this so I want to check it out at some point.
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You will not regret it
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Just finished episode 2. Elizabeth Shue still has it! All those 80's boner memories are coming back. The Karate Kid boners. The Adventure's of Babysitting. I think I once jacked off to her banging the Thor guy in that. Cocktail... hard to jackoff to because Tom Cruise is being all weird flipping bottles and smiling and shit. Leaving Las Vegas... who doesnt want to drink themselves to death with Elizabeth Shue riding your limp dick?
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Just started watching this, it's really good.
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I'm four episodes into the series; I don't know why I held off from watching this show, as it is fantastic. Karl Urban, Elizbeth Shue and Erin Moriarty are owning it.
The Deep having a lover's quarrel with the dolphin in the back of a van was priceless. |
That scene with the dolphin was amazing.
And this series just further endeared me to Karl Urban. |
I thought Karl Urban was bad casting, but I only hear good things now. Huh.
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Karl Urban is never bad casting
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Shut your fucking face, Butcher looked way different in the comics.
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Way different... They may as well have cast Tony Cox |
His forehead vein isn't even in the right place.
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I've finished the first season; I want more you glorious fucks!
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The new season starts on 4 September, with the first three episodes to be released that day, and then one episode a week until 9 October.
I'm ready you glorious fucks! |
Should be good.
New Umbrella Academy is out next month too. |
Boourns at releasing it weekly. Ah well.
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However, in the bounds of this show, I'm like "Why the fuck not?" |
Boys is the best comic based show since Constatine.
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I was swaying between it and The Umbrella Academy for my top comic book show. They are both outstanding so either way the viewers win.
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I regret to say I still need to watch The Boys....
My top comic book show still prop gonna be Legends of Tomorrow or Doom Patrol |
Doom Patrol is too cheesy and daft.
Alan Tudyk is great in it though, as always. |
Id have to go with the easy answe and say daredevil
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I fucking love legends tho
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You told me it was Krypton
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Ive never seen krypton. Wasnt it dropped after like 3 eps?
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Daredevil season 1 and 3 were fantastic and 2 was pretty good.
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Still never watched Daredevil S3
Krypton was dropped after 2 seasons. I dropped it after like 3 eps though. |
Are we counting animated shows?
Cause Batman The Animated Series is greatest of all time, for me. |
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That's just unfair. Should stick to the live action comic based stuff. Otherwise, Batman TAS would overshadow a lot of other shit in a lot of categories.
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Batman TAS isn't on any streaming is it?
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Maybe on DC Universe?
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Lock Jaw: Season 3 of Daredevil is probably the best Netflix ever put out. It's really really good. I've seen it twice. |
Yeah, I hear it is really good.
Never watched Punisher S2 either.... really liked the first one. Also, I think there is a S3 of Jessica Jones, but S2 was a chore so dunno about that one.... |
I too found season 2 of Jessica Jones a chore and I think I only watched a couple of episodes from season 3 before moving on.
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I would have loved to have seen a season 3 of Luke Cage; it looks like it was going to go in a really interesting direction with Cage essentially becoming a crime boss.
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I, too, only got thru a few episodes of Jessica Jones. S2 wasn't great and I couldn't get into s3 because of it.
S2 of Punisher was pretty good. Bit of an underwhelmingending but once it got going I really killed it. S3 of Daredevil was fucking stellar. The scene with him yelling at Fisk in their final brutal, bloody battle, was so damn good. |
Just watched it again. Damn it I love that scene.
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Season 2 looks relevant to say the least.
Race riots and superheroes... |
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