re: The Boys on Amazon Prime - Out now

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You’re probably a bad person.

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I am but that doesn't change the fact that she wasn't raped. Not even close. Coerced? Yes. Raped? No.

She wasn't assaulted or in any way forced to do jackshit. In fact, she could've vaporized the guy if she wanted to.

She was given a choice. Blow me or leave the club. She blew him.

There were parts of the ending I saw coming, but definitely not the last scene.

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As of now, does Homelander even have a beef with Butcher?
I mean, he's insane, he's cruel and sadistic, etc... but he seems in a weird way to actually be 'attempting' to be the hero.

I mean, when he discovered that Butcher was coming after him, he didn't just go snuff Billy, he did the investigating and figured out why. And what he discovered was that both Butcher and he were played. And he respected that Butcher seemingly had a legitimate gripe... so he went out of his way to "save" him. Both literally, and by showing him what he did afterwards.

Same thing with creating the super-terrorists... a necessary action to guarantee the superheroes' increased involvement in military acts. And you gotta admit, his takedown of the terrorist base in Syria was pretty sweet. It's all just a game to him, one he loves playing, but at the same time the Supes can definitely make a difference. You get them integrated in international policies, and then you don't have to manufacture things to keep them popular.

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I wish it were a weekly show, and I didn't just watch the whole thing in two days. I want more.
I didn't see That ending coming.
Homelander may be the best supervillian I've ever seen.

Dark yet cheery.


The superhuman were created. Voight has to have something on each one.

The seven is just three, or two Queen Maeve will turn against Homelander.

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As of now, does Homelander even have a beef with Butcher?
I mean, he's insane, he's cruel and sadistic, etc... but he seems in a weird way to actually be 'attempting' to be the hero.

I mean, when he discovered that Butcher was coming after him, he didn't just go snuff Billy, he did the investigating and figured out why. And what he discovered was that both Butcher and he were played. And he respected that Butcher seemingly had a legitimate gripe... so he went out of his way to "save" him. Both literally, and by showing him what he did afterwards.

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He's doing it to torture Butcher. Thus the "she came three times", "you're my son", and "we're a family" comments in the last two scenes. He's just dangling what Butcher wants in front of him, not helping him in any way.

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He said he would ruin her name so she could never be a superhero of any kind. 

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He did and then her moral flexibility and questionable integrity came shining through.

So I take a job with a law firm and then i'm given the choice by my employer of doing something highly unethical or having my reputation smeared and not practicing again in the state of Louisiana.

It's a vile choice and it's illegal. I shouldn't have to make it but i do nonetheless. Now if it's "do what we say or harm will come to you or someone you love", that's a different matter entirely.

She made a choice. She was coerced into that choice but she was far from forced into it. But if this is now the definition of rape. So be it i guess.

Before long, the definition of rape will broaden to where a drunken one night stand meets it. A sober walk of shame is damaging and traumatizing to a womans self esteem. Someone will have to be held accountable for the choices that led up to her anger for being taken advantage of and her feelings of self loathing and shame.

Anyway, blondie was employed by a large corporation. She should've gone to human resources. She chose however to give a blowjob.

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Before long, the definition of rape will broaden to where a drunken one night stand meets it.

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Already happens on college campuses sadly.

Still don’t think it’s the same as being hired by a big law firm. These superheroes are pretty much worshipped and more then willing to cross the line to get what they want. Going to HR wouldn’t have meant anything because it would have been her (a newbie) word against his (the no.2 guy and once again highly revered by the public).

And like I said, her and mother’s personal lives would’ve been ruined as well. He even brought in the how the children might feel if she being their role model was said to have attacked another hero.

Again I don’t think it’s rape, but it’s sexual assault at the least.

This show is fantastic. Had to force myself to stop watching last night. The A-Train scene and dolphin scene are VERY memorable. May be better than any of the Marvel shows.

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LOL. The dolphin and lobster scenes were both hilarious.

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Just guessing, The Deep is going to become an eco-terrorist. We're seeing that laid out pretty openly-

He's increasingly resentful of losing his lavish lifestyle and forced to go to Sandusky. We can call that a negative personality trait, the "evil white male privilege" if you will.
He's increasingly disgusted and horrified by mankind's treatment of the sea creatures. This looks funny onscreen, but quite frankly: he describes them as having regional dialects and good sense of humor. It WOULD be horrifying to have coherent conversations with something, only to watch them casually killed without a second thought.
He's already unstable, as evidenced by his going to therapy even as a member of the Seven.

He's got personal grudges against both Starlight and Homelander, so that puts him entirely out of the loop. He has neither spectrum to ally with.

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I think a more reality based outcome would be her going to human resources, telling them what happened. 

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So, in IRL, sexual assault is more likely to be reported than not...?

You haven't really thought this through.

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In todays social climate though, which this show is set. Was the outcome of her having to give that blowjob grounded in reality?

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Except you don’t know it features the same climate ours does. In addition, there’s nothing like them in our world like that. Yeah there are celebrities and powerful rich people, but nothing like in that world in which there are actual super heroes. The famous in our world aren’t actively saving the world and people on a daily basis, and thus don’t have the nearly the same level of love and trust those superheroes do.

Again you keep mentioning HR but how would it even get out? They would quickly cover it up and say she’s the one with serious issues. Deep has probably helped save tons of people through several years. The public in THAT world will more than likely believe him over some nobody.

That’s one of the main points of the show. That these guys are pretty untouchable and easily get away with things like murder of innocents extremely often. One of the reasons being they do a really good job of covering it up. So some event like this would be minor to them.

Butcher even mentions how he thinks the public really doesn’t want to know what they really do. Again showing how revered this superheroes are.