Comments by "TheSuperappelflap" (@TheSuperappelflap) on "Is The Boys Losing Its Way?" video.

  1. the whole team left and team right thing is completely ludicrous, it hasnt been relevant since the 70s. there are no progressives or conservatives left. just people getting paid by different corporations. there is no ideology in politics anymore. they just use the illusion of it to get votes from people who still believe in something. after 50 years it should have become kinda obvious.
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  2.  @jakemorris4302  its just that these days a lot of companies are trying to cash in on political movements by posting some stuff on twitter but really they will write anything that will make their sales go up and they dont care about the cause at all. So having a black actor read a line like that just to reference something and then moving on immediately, that can be seen by a cynical person as a big corporation trying to profit from this movement on screen while they are probably opposing it in their day-to-day business by preferentially hiring white people for every vacancy they have and only casting minorities in supporting roles in their productions.
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  3. Westworld was a nice story if they just kept it to the one season. You kill your lead actor in the final episode, and draw curtains. But it did well so they always make more episodes until it stops bringing in money.
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  4. thats not good character development, thats game of thrones season 8 character development.
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  5.  @joshtreola968  People who support Trump have been shooting people they see as their enemies for 4 years during his presidency and he refused every time to disavow it. He refused at Charlottesville in 2016 and he refused in the debate recently. Now it is like he said and there really is violence on both sides. Thats why he has to go. If Trump is re-elected the violence will get worse for everyone.
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  6.  Space Roamer  thats because the whole character is useless. think about it. the whole plot could work the same without hughie around to talk to people and react to stuff happening. he's just a standin for the male viewer.
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  7. just because this guy in his hundreds of videos has voiced a few opinions you dont like, i dont think you need to unsub, but i agree about the mild misogyny
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  8. i think they did it on purpose. what if we have a literal nazi as a bad guy in 2020. from 1945 until now it was okay to have nazis as bad guys in anything. apparently now we reached the point where that is changing.
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  9. seeing as its a german production he probably wont because american audiences really dont like foreign stuff so the video wouldnt get a lot of views. i like it though. greetings from holland!
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  10.  @BobExcalibur  i dont think stormfront being a nazi is a consequence of being mistreated by anyone, she seemed to be convinced about the whole thing. and the female characters do bad things in this show. they kill people. often without any remorse. much better than your typical mary sue story where the female characters do everything right and the male characters are just comic relief, like the most recent star wars movies. maeve deciding not to try to stop homelander from destroying the airplane, or at least distracting him, and then later feeling guilt about it because she knows she should have done something about it. it seems pretty nuanced for a mainstream tv show in how it handles agency and decisions of female characters.
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  11. yeah he's overdoing it
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  12. Starlight is the Mary Sue, Hughie (first of all would be a Marty Stu because he's a man) is just a blank slate character for teenage/twenties male viewers to project themselves on, so he cant have any personality or agency because that might alienate some viewers. He's just around to look like a regular guy and react to stuff. Everyone has to like him because he is the protagonist because he is a blank slate for the viewer to project onto. He never does anything.
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  13. yes more practical effects would make this show a lot better. if only to have the actors actually react to getting goo all over them
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  14. the whole reason for the deep is making fun of how useless aquaman is. south park did the same thing in their super best friends episodes with seaman. it got stale after a few episodes though. would be funnier if he was just done after they kicked him out of the seven.
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  15. yeah the "small insecure guy gets the girs because hes the protagonist" thing is bad and undermines a lot of the subversiveness and originality of the show, along with the agency of the Starlight character. Its also super annoying having this extremely wimpy guy on screen all the time complaining about stuff and being useless. The scene where Butcher punched him, it was super obvious it was going to happen, and the plot had to have Hughie let Butcher punch him. You can even tell from the body language that the actor knew he was going to get punched. I dont think im a super macho guy, im a big nerd. i like watching movies and reading books, not working out at the gym. the way that these beta male characters are portrayed, i find that personally insulting. Its like the Big Bang Theory. its a caricature of nerdy guys. its making fun of me. and to make it even more insulting they need to give this wimpy male character an unrealistically attractive girlfriend that falls in love with him for no reason. because thats what all nerds want, right? ugh. this was already an overdone trope in the 80s. thats 40 years ago now. Revenge of the Nerds handled this trope better than this tv show. the actor is typecast, the character is useless, there is 0 chemistry between him and the actress playing Starlight.
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  16. Hughie didnt get the truth out about compound V, starlight did. Hughie didnt save Starlight. She can handle herself. Him going into Vought tower is only a liability because she has to get him out again. He's 100% useless. Has been for the whole show. He's just a blank slate character for male viewers to project themselves onto. I'd rather identify with butcher but hey to each their own. anyway the show would be much better without that whole character in it. just have starlight and butch and frenchie and kimiko. mothers milk was completely useless in this season as well and in season 1 his only job was to get butch to keep hughie around, and we already established hughie is useless.
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  17. yup they shouldnt have done that
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  18. just like south park, i think the guys who made this will think: if we pissed everyone off, we did a good job.
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  19. funny how all these tv shows based on established and proven IPs turn to trash when they deviate from the source material. Game of Thrones, Artemis Fowl, everything that seems remotely fantasy related just gets butchered before the first cameras are turned on by these hacky hollywood screenwriters. if they were good at writing long form stories they would be writing books instead of tv shows. dont let them touch the plot arc.
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  20.  @hernanmartinez1258  if you consider world domination an evil intention. america does it too though.
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  21. if you read enough youtube comments, you cant seriously say that there arent nazis around every corner. theres a lot of pretty racist angry guys on the internet, dude.
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  22. cool then i can say that not only was i around in game of thrones season 2 when they started to deviate from the books and i already knew it was going to be shit and stopped watching, but i can say the same about this show. i have better hopes for this one after the 2nd season than for GoT though.
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  23. how so. she didnt say she is a conservative or a republican. all she said was "im literally an immortal nazi". how can you be offended by that lmao. weve had nazis as bad guys in comic books and movies and tv shows for 3/4ths of a century.
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  24. they are though. just look around in any youtube comments section. theyre easy to see. they just tell you openly that yes they believe everyone who isnt germanic race should be permanently removed from this planet. go look on facebook.
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  25. yeah the right arrow key on my keyboard got some extra mileage on it during the watching of this show, skipping ahead and reading subtitles like 50% of the runtime. The dialogue is too slow and the cinematography isnt good enough to make up for it. Too many shots of ppl sitting/walking/staring ahead of them/reacting to stuff.
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  26. its not entirely unjustified, i just think hes a bit oversensitive to this issue by now, after seeing it get worse for years.
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  27. what about the show was virtue signaling? it seemed to mostly make fun of the virtue signaling by having the character who does it the most turn out to be a literal nazi.
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  28. give one example of anti trump hate in the whole first 2 seasons
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  29. This shows pretty tame compared to some of the other things ive seen in american tv shows and movies. Theres a lot more sick stuff out there. Especially in the sci fi genre.
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  30. plot convenience
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  31. why is it noxious stink to criticize a cult that has enabled countless pedophiles to get away with their crimes by brainwashing children
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  32. because they are needed for the plot to happen.
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  33. why is having a literal nazi as the bad guy, PC justice warrior stuff? i thought it was okay to use nazis as bad guys in movies?
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  34.  @MS-wd3ls  the character is inherently incapable of development because he is just a blank slate for the male viewer to project himself onto. You dont want that character to have any personality. The best thing they could do is kill him off screen in between season 2 and 3. starlight and butcher dont need hughie, they have an interesting dynamic already, and the subplot of the french man slowly seducing the girl from The Ring is entertaining to watch as well. mothers milk is also completely useless this season, just send him back home to his family. with all the dead weight cut out maybe the show can actually move a bit faster.
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  35. where did you get the trump is a nazi storyline? i got it more as "people who run billion dollar multinational corporations are evil". Vought is a private company, compare it to Disney, not to Trump administration. Oh and Walt Disney was a literal nazi as well.
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  36. yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
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  37. i think the message there is that its okay to curbstomp people if they are literally nazis.
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  38. can you mention a few examples of that because to me it didnt come across that way at all
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  39. They could have done a better job on developing the relationship between Hughie and Butcher, past the dynamic established in the first season. I liked the way they did it with Frenchie and the girl from The Ring. Also it seems like there is no reason for Mothers Milk to be around anymore, he doesnt have anything to do all season. Just let him go back to his family lol. And I hope they get a less ridiculous outfit for Starlight. As for Hughie, he's just a blank slate for the male audience to project themselves on which is a crutch a lot of American movies and tv shows have nowadays. Keanu Reeves in the Matrix is often cited as an example of this. The whole show from the first to last episode could be almost exactly the same scene for scene without him around to react to stuff.
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  40. how is it falsely relating? the whole premise of the show is a very thinly disguised metaphor for American imperialism and military aggression, the militarisation of the police, the balance between liberty and security. Just replace "superheroes" with "the police" or "the military" and "superterrorists and gangs of people killing superheroes" by "anyone opposing the united states government" and youre done.
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  41. stranger things was just a cashgrab based on 80s spielberg nostalgia from the first episode, never got why anyone would like that show, or any spielberg movie besides Jaws.
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  42. oh is that what happened to mr robot? i stopped watching it at the end of season 2 and tried again with s4e1 but turned it off after 10 minutes. couldnt figure out how they could tank so hard.
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  43. gotta disagree on hughie, i didnt read the comics but in this tv show he's a wet newspaper from start to finish, would have been twice as good if they cut him out of the script. he's just along to be a regular guy reacting to everything like he's running a youtube react channel. anything he did in 2 seasons, starlight could have easily done herself.
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  44. guns are bad? there are guns on screen literally like 50% of the duration of every episode. and they get used frequently.
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  45. we will miss him when he is on that secret boat dungeon in the middle of the pacific ocean to realign his midichlorians
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  46.  @Arphemius  its pretty obvious even to me who she was meant to symbolize all the way from the other side of the atlantic.
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  47. house of cards was never any good though, it was just another cookiecutter tv show about people with important jobs who wear fancy suits and fuck a lot, like suits or mad men or any other drama. the only clever thing it did was fool people into thinking it was good. hell i even watched 2 or 3 seasons of it just for kevin spacey.
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  48. nothing is unfilmable. make it animated if you have to. A Scanner Darkly was made on a shoestring budget. Everyne said that was unfilmable. Well, turns out it wasnt impossible. Its not a perfect movie but it breathes the right atmosphere.
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  49. its not out of date because your government is still doing it, dronestrikes every day in countries you arent even at war with. whats the difference between homelander and a reaper drone to some goat herder in pakistan. also your soldiers havent left afghanistan or iraq last time i checked.
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  50. the problem is that too many of storm fronts comments seemed like a slightly exaggerated version of what you'd see from conservatives in England or America which made you recoil from the point she was trying to make thats not the problem, that was one of the best things about this season. they basically created a female ben shapiro with superpowers.
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  51. I think Starlight and Butcher can have an interesting dynamic that was already hinted at, where she becomes a bit more pragmatic and less goody two-shoes, and he tries to behave a bit more politely on occasion and try a diplomatic approach instead of shooting before talking every time. That would be fun. The problem is that Hughie is a huge dead weight, a third wheel that they have to drag around and he takes up a lot of screentime. Write Hughie out and the problem is solved. I dont think he's a great character at all. He's just a blank slate, a standin for the male viewer to project himself onto.
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  52. well it would be strange if that message was well received with the amount of propaganda that people have been raised on.
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  53. please dont pull that Greta girl into this. her issue, climate change, is actually important. its already killing a lot of people. compared to that, your party politics bullshit is really not important. also she's severely autistic so she cant help looking like that. you can really only lose with that reference.
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  54. well its pretty obvious what the Neuman character stands for, the actress even seems to me to have modeled her speech patterns on AOC
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  55. its made with digital and not practical effects and they didnt have a billion dollar budget so yeah it might look a bit off but i mean do you know what it would look like if a person was vaporized in an instant?
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  56.  @frocat5163  in that regard its actually kind of good in the long term that trump won in 2016 because now its more obvious how dysfunctional the system is. i live in europe and we have the same thing here with boris johnson etc etc. the inadequate handling of the pandemic will hopefully also have some consequences. to this day you can arrive at an airport in europe from a risk area and refuse a voluntary corona virus test. its ridiculous. i can get on a plane right now to greece or italy or croatia and have a nice holiday. anything for the airline profit margins.
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  57. why is everybody automatically assuming that the nazi is trump inspired? the founder of a multinational entertainment company being a literal nazi? hello? Walt Disney?
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  58. how is it left leaning when 2 of the biggest bad guys are virtue signaling leftists who turn out to be murdering assholes? i really dont get it.
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  59. just read through the average youtube comments sections and you will see several people literally saying they are literally nazis.
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  60. what messaging?
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  61. where did they do this though? because all i saw was a literal nazi character saying literal nazi things. things that people who arent also literally nazis, would disagree with, right or left or conservative or anything else.
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  62. who said it was okay to kill him?
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  63. Its more like Trump based his portrayal of a president on comic book villains. I watched every episode and didnt see a single Trump reference except when they said "make america safe again" which is pretty mild compared to the rest of the content of the show. I really dont get what ticked so many people off about it.
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  64. what sjw clown stuff did you see because i didnt see much of it in this show.
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  65. I interpreted it as him actually feeling compassion for another human being for the first time in his life because he actually identified with this kid. And besides that he's a complete psycho who was raised in a lab. He wasnt raised with values. The kid is just an extension of his ego and a way for him to get some catharsis for whatever trauma he suffered in his childhood. As soon as the kid wants something different than he wants, he would not pay any attention to it.
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  66.  @Fridaey13txhOktober  no, youre a fascist.
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  67. ​ @solan7978  those looting people arent "leftists". they are the same type of people as the people who are in the media identified as "alt right". the people who did the shootings at charlottesville, el paso, those just got the most media coverage but there are many examples. both those groups, the shooters with racial motivations and the people who dont peacefully protest but fight with police and riot and loot stores, are human trash. regardless of political color. they arent interested in politics, only in violence. stop looking at it as a red vs blue issue. its not. its an issue of decent people vs human trash. trump is also human trash. its time to take out the trash. and i dont mean you should vote for biden, i really dont believe voting any way can solve any of your problems. both parties are bad these days. the republicans dont represent conservative values and the democrats are hypocrites who act like they care about poor people and then take money from the same corporations as the republicans to screw them over.
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  68. They have an arc, there is source material, but they dont stick to it, because dumbing it down and pandering to the lowest common denominator of the audience means higher profits. These production companies will continue butchering fresh IPs until they cant find more and then they reboot an old one and butcher it again. Same thing happened with GoT, just like it happens to every fantasy movie that isn't directed by Peter Jackson. They always turn out trash. And for the past 10 years or so, it happens with comic book movies too. The Marvel movies are some of the blandest "entertainment" i have ever witnessed. the plots are nonsensical and always the same "take the macguffin from the bad guy of the episode" structure, there is no conflict except some short term melodrama between the heroes to give them an excuse to spout a more funny Joss Whedon quip lines that haven't been any good since Firefly got cancelled, there is nothing daring or new about it, its just brightly colored objects moving across the screen for 90 minutes. And the DC movies are just as bad in exactly the same way, only they have less brightly colored objects on the screen so their movies dont sell as well. What needs to happen is for these companies to stop buying exclusive rights to good source material and then butchering it for easy profits.
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  69.  @danielhicks4826  since the 60s american propaganda has been about the military and freedom spreading clusterbombs not about woke stuff. for the past couple years there is a little bit of pushback and suddenly every american i talk to on youtube is convinced theres some kind of conspiracy to brainwash you. you have already been brainwashed. peace.
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  70. why do all you americans automatically compare a literal nazi character to conservatives? she was actually shown to be quite progressive on a lot of issues. i dont get it. the character didnt say she identifies as a conservative. an actual nazi would not identify as a conservative in the USA today. nor as a democrat. they would approve of what youre doing in the middle east and south america though.
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  71. these worries about border control arent that legitimate. statistically speaking whoever they let in is probably less prone to violence than the average american.
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  72. that was obviously 100% intentional on part of the writers. and quite nicely done. it seems to have pissed a lot of people off.
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  73. What about this show was mocking Trump?
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  74. wouldve made me chuckle if they showed some fresh pepes onscreen
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  75. I thought the interactions between Butcher and Starlight hinted at something interesting but they have this third wheel/wooden plank to drag around called Hughie.
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  76. nihilism was basically invented by white people, how is that anti-white propaganda?
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  77. fiction has always been commenting on politics. its just that the fiction you have read or watched in the past, you didnt read while the political issues it was commenting on were occurring. so you probably didnt even realize.
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  78. i think that this website is a bit better known in Europe than in the US
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  79. also fun to see how many people get upset in this comment section about a literal nazi getting curbstomped
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  80. more episodes usually means lower quality
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  81. in that case it is appealing as social commentary just because its such an awful premise and yet its what the USA keeps doing in the middle east.
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  82. also having stormfront, who is the most SJW character in public, turn out to be a literal nazi imo counts as a heavy critique of todays progressive movements
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  83.  BHowardify  why do you associate a character that literally says she is literally a nazi with "the right". the nazis wouldnt want to associate with "the american right".
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  84. why cant you just see it as people beating up a nazi? everybody thinks nazis are bad right? whats the problem.
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  85.  @wun1gee  ive seen that same autocorrect error like 20 times in this comment section lol i like it though, i will call her storefront from now on
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  86. where in the show did they compare the nazi character to the president?
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  87.  @laurocoman  thats just a gotcha. a red herring. the hollywood writers were like; if we cast this Billy Mitchell knockoff and give him a fancy beard and lots of screentime, then people will think hes important, but hes nooooooot! gotcha! its star wars episode 8 all over again.
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  88. you didnt like Preacher? I love Dominic Cooper and I will watch anything that has him in it but even without that its absolutely nuts. A show that isnt afraid to change tracks and take things to their logical extremes. Beats having the same formulaic episodes over and over again. And it actually has a nice message as well.
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  89. actually the dominos started falling in late season 2/season 3 when they made the first changes to the story from the books. it was already obvious back then what would happen. tv writers cant do long stories. if they could they wouldnt be writing for tv.
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  90. what is SJW about this show?
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  91. 1. would have been interesting if they showed how much the nazi trope aligns with current US government policy (and policies of your private companies) both abroad and domestically instead of just going "look here: nazis bad". they could do it in 1 minute by just having stormfront list some stuff she agrees with, that you are already currently doing, that the real nazis would also have approved of. 2. yes lots of plot holes and lots of filler, this whole season could have been 3-4 episodes if they cut out all the shots of people sitting around silently, saying useless things, reacting to stuff, and walking. 3. yes but this is due to every episode being 60% filler so you get enough time to think about what they will do next.
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  92. Hughie was still in season 2. They should have written him out. He had nothing to do.
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