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Yeah this is a gripe that I have with a lot of contemporary speculative fiction, particularly horror and some science fiction that places its setting in the "contemporary" world.

It's one thing to have individual characters react in "dumb" ways to the threat... The classic "don't open the closet!" thing. But when there's some kind of mass public event, you expect certain things to happen by the authorities.... Questions to be asked, actions to be taken, etc.

When those things just get waved away in service of the narrative, which happens in this movie and many other movies/shows, it really bumps me.

Troy 1d ago 💬 2

It's rare in movies prior to 2010ish. It's been accepted, and has become more common as a result.

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Globe99 1d ago

This is what bumped me about "The Boys", right off the bat. The inciting incident in S1 E1 is the main character's girlfriend gets vaporized by one of the Corporate-sponsored "Supes".

And there's not even (a) any attempt to contact the police, (b) any attempt to contact the press, (c) any notion of what that girl's family was doing along the same lines.... nothing, just "oh nobody's going to believe you." The GF just gets "fridged" to serve as the inciting incident for the main character's revenge quest.

Troy 1d ago

After mega-corps took over studios in the mid 90's, they've mostly aimed their material at 15 year old males; the largest demographic of movie-goers at the time.