Don’t be (too) ashamed. What’s the slop you’re getting into this week? Games, movies, tv shows, etc.

I’ll go first I suppose. I’m watching Burn Notice. I’m on season 3 episode 3. Some of the dialogue is so painful I’m embarrassed to watch it but then I power thru it and finally get to a high quality action scene. Former spy works w former girlfriend, his mom, and a fair weather friend to solve some problems in sunny Florida. It’s completely believable and socially redeeming.

So let’s hear it.

  • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Ashley the VPOTUS screaming on the phone (presumably at Zelensky) “it’s your own fault you got invaded! You were wearing too short of a skirt!” It was amusing on some level but my god was it a reminder of the vapid lib mindset.

    You’ve got this evil admin that is basically a coup of the “real” America where the fascist ruler is totally hands-off international affairs (the horror) and who in many ways (some of them pretty accurate) is a stand-in for Trump. But not aiding Ukrainian fascists is painted as this evil thing to do here, using the trope that epitomizes victim-blaming where the victim is widdle smol bean Ukraine against the vicious Russians.

    I’m pretty sure in this silly world of their’s NATO doesn’t even exist since the US has all the supes, so Russia wouldn’t have had any reason to invade. I can’t fault them for not going into that kind of geopolitical nuance of course, but still, the way they do portray it is nothing more than “Russia just did that” no doubt because Putler, and their method for showing the audience how evil and narcissistic this Homelander-led admin is, is to show how uncaring they are of poor Ukraine’s plight, and how flat out unwilling they are to send military aid to Ukraine. That’s what is supposed to show us they’re obviously the baddies. They’re so evil and incompetent, they’re victim-blaming Ukraine! And they do this multiple times.

    Whoever the showrunners are, they clearly have a deep and abiding hardon for Ukraine.

    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      I feel like a thing that kind of has to be addressed here is that the early seasons focused on the horror that would be throwing a privatised military at foreign conflicts, especially when said military was a bunch of superpowered untrained manchildren who do tiktok dances. And now we are supposed to see it as horrifying when Homelander (And Ashley) pull them out.