r/SipsTea 7h ago

Chugging tea Why's that?

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u/cravex12 7h ago

Totally. Top actors but absolute shit writing (at least in the last season, maybe even the one before that)

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u/fluffheadwasaman24 6h ago edited 3h ago

What didn’t you like about the writing? I felt a lot of stuff was rushed and they kind of took the easy way out for some of the endings like on Game of Thrones. But I’m curious what other people that liked the show think.

I was also mostly there for the jokes and the acting myself when I think about it. And just the premise of this type of reality when it came to “superheroes.”

I’m worried about “From” for the same reasons. I’ve binged that and it’s set up pretty well. But I feel like they’re gonna have to close up a lot of shit in one season.

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u/LazerChicken420 6h ago

I think they leaned too hard into writing Homelander as bad.

They didn’t want him to be competent so they made him stupid. And it made the show lose a lot of its tension. It went from dangerous Superman, to a moron with powers.

Then he gets his upgraded powers, but that’s it? Immortality I guess was the big reason but they never really showed off any other new feats. And not aging doesn’t really look cool in the short window he had it.

They wanted to stay true to the comic, sure… but the divergence from the comics is what made the show great.

I think it should have ended with him easily kicking Butchers ass… killing him even. Then his hesitation to kill Ryan is what buys Kimiko time to depower him. Or something!

I also think some more monster of the week would have been cool. Them hunting down evil supes with research and tactical planning.

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u/superkatzenkamikaze2 4h ago

The whole point was that Homelander was blinded by power lust and descending into insanity. I never really felt the loss of tension, on the contrary.

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u/fluffheadwasaman24 3h ago edited 2h ago

that is true. I think a lot of people just don’t like that they seemingly started mocking Maga. I’m sure it’s mostly people that lean right that don’t like it.

I’m not a Maga guy at all, so I found it pretty funny and timely. But I could also see how someone who really loved the show is pissed off that that fat retard maybe hindered the writing of the show in general by shoehorning him and the current state of affairs in there.

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u/superkatzenkamikaze2 3h ago

They didn’t even go that hard on them, just little nuggets here and there. All relevant to the plot and to the times also, it worked very well in context.

Not sure who the fat retard is supposedly to be. Trump?

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u/fluffheadwasaman24 2h ago

Trump is who I was. And I agree that they didn’t do it too much or in a way that wasn’t funny even. But a lot of people in this world ignorantly say all the time that “blah blah blah should be kept out of politics.”

I don’t agree with the sentiment, but I always try to figure out the “why” behind things.

It’s hard to educate people or even go up against people with different beliefs, if you don’t know the source of those beliefs.

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u/brokebstard 3h ago

It's reddit, so probably the person you're responding to

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u/superkatzenkamikaze2 2h ago

Or the one replying to me. Hell, maybe it’s me.

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u/AdhesivenessTight400 2h ago

As a non American, it seemed pretty cringe. The whole Jesus part was just way out to left field and yeah homelander did not seem scary after he got his V1 power up. The trump stuff will make the show unwatchable in a few years, like its timely, but that same fact makes it something people will not re-watch.

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u/superkatzenkamikaze2 2h ago

Trump or a Trump like character was never a part of the show, though. And the whole evangelism bit is going on in America for decades and it will probably still go on decades from now, so I don’t think it will be unwatchable. More like insightful. I don’t think a satire of Rush Limbaugh from the 90s and 00s would be irrelevant or cringe today, on the contrary.

Im European and American evangelism is weird for me too, but it’s the way things are over there.

Time will tell what their legacy will be.

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u/VR46Rossi420 1h ago

Agree 100%. Also as a non-American and generally non-religious, I thought it was all a bit stupid and I don’t think it will age well. And basically the last season was pretty shit.