They didn’t need the “hero” to glorify this kind of behavior. It’s an excuse, not a cause.
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Guidy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s why you don’t make these kinds of shows.
No, seriously - do you think Antony Starr “knocking down” some fans is going to have the slightest impact or change anyone’s mind?
It won’t. People are awful and you’ve given some of them a hero. Congrats.
Zorque@lemmy.world 6 days ago
frostysauce@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Good thing you don’t decide what kind of shows can and can not get made. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It’s like what that one dude said about it being impossible to make an anti-war film that works because depicting war will almost always look cool to the masses. Or some shit like that I’m not a scholar.
terabytes@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I don’t agree that just not making these kinds of shows is somehow the solution. How is not having a conversation about such a character at all a net improvement?
It’s not the fault of the show, which has done everything it can to depict Homelander in the worst light, if certain people deliberately ignore or misconstrue the narrative because the character validates their awful world view. To say that is to say that humans cannot be trusted with the privilege of thought.
The sort of people who romanticize Homelander would still be there without him, and would pick other characters from history or fiction to idolize instead (if they don’t already idolize those characters in addition to him.) This only reveals a societal issue that we’ve known about for roughly a century, now.