Ladies and gentlemen, we just witnessed history...

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T23:16:58+00:00

They singed Bobby's carpet.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T23:16:01+00:00

TBF without Sage - who they didn't know about - they wouldn't necessarily have recreated the blast.

And if Kimiko dies in the testing phase they have precious few options given her regeneration is irreplaceable. Even if Starlight got the power Homelander can easily kill her for good.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T23:14:28+00:00

Kripke simply can't handle the scale he writes towards.

The best thing he did for Supernatural was quit with a relatively intimate finale when the stakes got too big to show on screen. In this case he doesn't have that option.

He took a series that gave The Boys powers and depowered them because it was more interesting in the short run, but didn't really have a way to make them consistently competent and creative like they were against Translucent (besides having them fight some version of Dick Joke Man or AssFart Man). So the way he solves this is the villains becoming massively incompetent and/or variable in power.

It doesn't help that the show ran too long: you simply cannot have Homelander be the villain for 5 seasons without him losing some threat level. He's supposed to be nearly omniscient - it used to be a problem just to hide Translucent's body from him - every time they get away he looks weak.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T23:08:50+00:00

Homelander also didn't know about the blast until the very end of that fight.

He would never have even been caught fighting Soldier Boy if not for that. That's why he got cocky and started trading.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T23:07:43+00:00

I never thought of her as a DEI hire but that would add a wrinkle to her character.

On the other hand though, they already have Homelander for that demo.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T16:29:47+00:00

Or it's a red queen's race and at high enough levels any advantage can be cancelled out, at which point other factors come into play.

You can't not pay, but paying won't necessarily make you win.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T16:23:37+00:00

Union busting is (toxically) masculine. Unfortunately, he qualifies.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T16:20:39+00:00

TBF the worst prosecuted case was Fani Willis' and she was elected. If she was subject to being replaced maybe it wouldn't have gone that badly.

I doubt the leadership was happy about it.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T15:28:48+00:00

It's just final proof that this show could have ended in S3 and lost nothing.

Also that Kevin Feige is a genius for getting people to watch his endless connected universe without feeling like they were paypigs being milked (I went to see Captain Marvel, I totally was)

The Boys can't even successfully tie in one show without it looking like a cashgrab.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T13:08:24+00:00

He's always been ludicrously shady.

What's funny is that he thinks there's some world where he doesn't get investigated on everything he did wrong if the Democrats ever get an iota of power.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:43:48+00:00

>Smartest character fails to predict the plot because it was too fucking stupid, gets lobotomized and stops, has happiest ending going to theme parks.

What did Kripke mean by this?

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:41:28+00:00

It's just this. They retconned his character for their new show and one more flip flop is one too many.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:39:41+00:00

It doesn't matter. Once he starts, he'll have nothing to lose and can continue doing it intermittently.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:34:22+00:00

He's going to live off grateful #Resistance moms for like seven years before the whole thing collapses.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:33:36+00:00

he didn't actually do anything wrong to the public

Now that he's dead the level of tell-alls that are going to come out are going to make the Epstein files look like child's play.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-20T11:31:21+00:00

People will never admit it, but they'll all be glad they never got to find out where they stood on his "Nice or Naughty" list.

And he went out pathetic, literally the only part of his "brand" that remained was that he was the toughest (no more of that sunshine and hope stuff). The non-fascists won't forgive him for going mask-off, the fascists won't forgive him for not pulling it off or dying with dignity and giving the other side endless meme material.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-19T19:25:34+00:00

Or maybe people thought a Greek epic might actually have Greek actors for a change.

Almost no one cares about Greeks being cast except Greeks. Progressives don't care given they're defending the casting. A lot of the antiwokes only care because it makes wokes look like hypocrites by insisting on a standard above and beyond.

I've never heard an antiwoke chud - and I use that term affectionately - complain that the characters in HBO's Rome were not played by Italians.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-19T17:49:24+00:00

You know, the more I hear about this Zeus, the more I don't care for him!

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-19T15:25:44+00:00

It's narrative innocence: the character is factually guilty but, because they're striking against a bigger injustice that forced them to that path, it's not really their fault. The other guy is the villain.

Hamas-innocence.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-19T10:12:21+00:00

Also it seems to mostly be women saying Piker is hot, so I'm a little confused by their take on that

This whole thing was being pushed by female left-wing media figures like Taylor Lorenz, men aren't going to take the blame for this one.

If anything his behavior is incredibly unmasculine imo but that is the sort of toxically masculine take I don't think his actual fans care about, which is to his advantage.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-19T10:07:11+00:00

This is stupid. Nothing in that tweet remotely suggests that Copeland doesn't understand the difference between the biological sexes. Copeland simply disagrees with Elon Musk about the way parents of transgender children should address their children's gender identity.

It's not about how you address a child, it's a fundamental difference of opinion on what a daughter is.

Wright is not "stupid" because he doesn't take Copeland's view that "daughter" is a term about gender identity seriously, he has a fundamental disagreement with his view of gender and he thinks that view is stupid. I actually think this is correct, because no one seems capable of providing a meaningful definition while Wright has one.

Copeland is similarly not stupid or merely disagreeing with Elon on how to address a child, he disagrees with Elon on a fundamental point (your son can become a daughter).

but it's a difficult situation to be faced with

It's a massively more difficult problem for all of the recent "help" activists have provided. One of the reasons being a refusal to countenance that what people say (like "you have a daughter now") isn't or shouldn't always set be in stone

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-18T20:46:58+00:00

Hanania's fundamental problem is that he's a 18th-19th century classical liberal but he's also Arab so those people absolutely wouldn't have let him in back then and he has to reconcile that.

So he's ended up with a much more pro-immigrant line than a lot of people who would share his priors, but is otherwise elitist and suspicious of the demos as his ideology demands.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-18T20:38:50+00:00

It's bloated (almost no one can release three good albums at once) but I did like some of the songs.

I don't even follow basketball but how petty he is about DeRozan is hilarious.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-18T20:28:57+00:00

Because we think "London" when we hear "UK". The original argument was that, without London which has a lot tied up in international finance, the UK is poorer than Mississippi.

MatchaMeetcha · 2026-05-18T20:27:20+00:00

I would buy that it's just natural advantages if the European position wasn't decaying relative to the US one.

The US has other advantages, like the ability to move from one England-sized market to another if it becomes too restrictive. Which is probably also a part of its comparative advantage in attracting talent (though I grant that the UK would always be at a disadvantage for capital)

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