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I can't wait to read about whatever fucked up shit happens. It's an interesting show and I'd like to watch it, but I can't really stomach it. Just reading the things that happen has me kind of sick.
cw: some of the fucked up shit that happens
The exploding heads thing triggers some sort of extra empathetic response in me. Like they didn't just die, their entire being (as in, their brain) was completely destroyed out of nowhere.Also the circumstances and magnitude of the event would change politics forever, but nah just use a convenient scapegoat and don't worry about it.
I'm kinda with ya, I still watch the show but the more extreme stuff really grates on me. I used to feel frustrated, like I was being coddled, when things like that were only implied and not shown, but some of the shit that goes down in this show (and in Invincible, as someone who's read the comic all the way through) is so grotesque it actually turns me away a little, makes me hesitate before queuing up an episode. Maybe I grew out of wanting to witness such things, I dunno.
At least they get into that in episode one so you know what you're in for
The train scene
Cartoon violence doesnt really do it for me, except if they go way over the top like with Cyberpunk Edgerunners. My dudes would punch a cop car and blood would just squirt out like it's a Ketchup Pork Piñata. In those cases I just get annoyed mostly.
With real people though? Shit goes into my brain and refuses to leave. Just reading about The Boys and I see the first scene of season 1 quite clearly in my mind. The one where that dude ran through the woman