>I'm a huge Banshee fan from pretty much season 1 so I have
>always liked Starr but had NO idea his abilities extended this
>far. In a just world this should be a career/star-making
>performance for him.
>
>In fact, the entire cast is uniformly excellent in this. I
>read the comic in prep for this and absolutely hated it. It's
>chock-full of mean-spirited cynicism but devoid of any
>substance or useful commentary on pretty much anything. It's
>the kind of white male rage that I have absolutely zero
>tolerance for. Thankfully, the show takes the premise and
>molds it into something that, while not perfect, at least
>attempts to have something to say about power and celebrity
>and what it means to be a good human being much less a hero.
>
>It's gory and problematic no doubt but there's a humanity at
>work here that the comic never had and frankly Ennis, from
>what I've seen, is utterly incapable of.
>
>This is basically what I wanted from the film adaptation of
>Watchmen. It's faithful but not slavish and understands what
>the source material is ultimately getting at all and therefore
>ends up being vastly superior to the source material.
>Thankfully they have a great creative team involved in this
>instead of a Randian moron who can only ape but not interpret.
>
>
>I'm very much look forward to season 2.


I wanted to read the comics after binge watching the first season, but the less than stellar art style that I saw on various youtube reviews for the show turned me off. I also am a little disinterested after hearing some of the differences between the comics and the show from some Youtube comments as well. It seems as if the violence in the comics is there for shock values sake and I dunno how much of that I can stomach before getting too bored. The comics don't seem to have the nuance that the show has. I'm of the opinion that the show will be worthy of watching even if you have full knowledge of the comics since I have the feeling the show will diverge a ton from the original source.