Honestly, putting Watchman even in the same catagory with The Boys, is like putting Interstellar in the same catagory as Ice Pirates. They share genres, but not execution and quality of story telling are just not the same.

One succeeded at really changing the landscape of superhero books at a time when they were trying to find their footing as a direct market item instead of mass market. No longer the books of children that bought them off spinner racks at the local 7-11. But transitioning to a more mature market ed by adults with discretionary income.

The other was a look at "Superheroes gone wild" Basically an Elseworld of "What if Superman was raised in a government lab" it wasn't really a new take by that point, We'd seen it in Elseworlds, in Mainstream comics with DC's own Ultraman, and Hyperion in Marvel. It also takes the whole "Heroes for Profit" from Booster Gold's original concept. There isn't really anything new or groundbreaking in The Boys just tropes we've seen for years pressed into a kind of iffy edgy 90's antihero story.telling. 🤷‍♂

It's not terrible, but it's hardly the last word in Superhero comics, it's barely even deconstructive, it's more dark parody.

Never discount the ability of readers to understand what they are reading, but also don't expect the readers to agree with your thoughts, they are used to sifting out the trash from the content they are looking for.

Wife and I did a rewatch of Monk towards the end of last year, after watching the Monk Movie. We both found we really enjoyed it (it holds a lot of sentimental value for wife as she and her father would watch and discuss the episodes online when it ran the first time. Her father died April of last year.)

To me it brings back memories of watching Columbo as a kid, the aesthetics are different, but that dogged determination. "Just one more question.." It always made me feel like if they were after me, I'd just turn myself in to not answer any more of the constant questions.

So true, I was saying this about a comedy the other day. It's nice to watch a comedy show where you don't occasionally feel like you are watching a drama. One that isn't serialized, that I can turn on and know I'll get a few laughs or at least chuckles out of. I mean I love serializdc TV for the most part, but at times it gets overwhelming and it really makes renew/cancel time of year a nail biter.

But, he said that if someone likes it they are tricking themselves, they actually didn't like it but can't realize it because their brains sense of nostalgia and familiarity are feeding their enjoyment, or something like that.. I could only make it about 1/2 way before my brain started reading the words in the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpson's and had to stop because I was getting the Black Shakes.

I liked Keaton, I thought his no nonsense style meshed well with Shaw. The Lawyer should contract him as a private investigator to keep him on board, but still give Shaw the ability to do his own thing

Ehh.. wife and I just finished a rewatch of the full series last week, sure we noticed the recasts, but it didn't really take from our enjoyment of the series. It's something that happens because people get roles or the move production and bringing a local actor to play the part is cheaper than flying in someone to do a few scenes. Same with recasting actors to play a different role, that's been around as long as TV shows have. Just now people have the internet to track it and complain about it. 🤷‍♂

Yeah, CR'z library is so much larger than Hulu or Netflix. I'd seen everything on Netflix and Hulu by the time the pandemic started wrapping up. All of them have terrible interfaces, with Netflix being the worst. It's almost impossible to scan Netflix's title listing, at least Hulu & CR you can scan most of their titles (Hulu lets you put them in alphabetical order which is easiest) None of them have a good system for separating Dubs and Subs though.