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Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero' (ew.com)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think you missed the third option: they are borderline illiterate and/or completely lacking in creativity, and are literally incapable of "reading into" anything beyond surface level, "powerful man blow shit up with his eye lasers wow so cool!" type thinking. It is beyond their grasp.

They don't see or understand subtext... which becomes obvious when you see the media that is popular with these types of people.

[–] III@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's some truth to this but let's not act like Homelander being the bad guy was fed to us through subtext.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

He had an American flag cape. He's obviously the good guy.