I was actually really surprised during the last season, when conservatives all got their panties in a twist over the show, “going woke” all of a sudden.
It was like they didn’t realize Homelander was the bad guy up until then, despite him raping Butcher’s wife, melting his “mommy fetish” boss-lady’s face in, getting into a romantic relationship with a literal Nazi, and murdering an entire plane full of people.
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.
I was actually really surprised during the last season, when conservatives all got their panties in a twist over the show, “going woke” all of a sudden.
It was like they didn’t realize Homelander was the bad guy up until then, despite him raping Butcher’s wife, melting his “mommy fetish” boss-lady’s face in, getting into a romantic relationship with a literal Nazi, and murdering an entire plane full of people.
Like, how did they not see this?
The conservative grifter accounts they mainline told them to be mad. They act mad like good little doggies. That’s about all there is to it.
It’s about 50/50 between:
They don’t see anything wrong with the things he did.
They haven’t watched the show and have only heard that he’s disliked by “liberals”, and assumed he’s great.
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.
There’s some truth to this but let’s not act like Homelander being the bad guy was fed to us through subtext.
He had an American flag cape. He’s obviously the good guy.
That behavior sounds almost presidential.
Wait, when did the murder an entire planet?
EDIT: Fuck me I can’t read, it is plane
The only abstract thinking they are allowed to train is making sense of trumps weird old man rambles.