‘Taigyaku Jiken’, a 1989 piece by Iri and Toshi Maruki, was inspired by the High Treason Incident of 1910
Kōtoku Incident (幸徳事件, Kōtoku Jiken), was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, as well as the execution of 12 alleged conspirators in 1911.
Uchiyama Gudō, born on this day in 1874, was a socialist Buddhist priest who opposed Japanese imperialism, oligarchic land ownership, and the rule of the Emperor. He was executed by the state in 1911 during the “High Treason Incident”.
Gudō was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1897. In 1904, he became the abbot of Rinsenji temple in a poor area of a rural region of the Hakone Mountains. Village tradition states that every autumn Gudō would invite poor villagers to divide the harvest from the temple’s only two trees equally among themselves.
Gudō was a self-identified socialist and outspoken advocate for redistributive land reform, overturning the Meiji emperor system, encouraging conscripts to desert en masse, and advancing democratic rights for all. He also criticized Zen leaders who claimed that low social position was justified by karma.
One of Gudō’s most widely read and circulated works was a scathing denunciation of the Imperial Japanese government. Contradicting official state doctrine, he argued that the Emperors of the Imperial family were neither divine nor the destined rulers of Japan, and that their ancestors “came forth from a corner of Kyushu, killing and robbing people as they did. They then destroyed their fellow thieves.”
Due to the popularity of Gudō’s subversive publications, he was arrested in May 1909 and charged with violating press and publication laws. When police uncovered an alleged socialist plot to assassinate the Emperor (known as the “High Treason Incident”), Gudō was accused of being a co-conspirator.
In 1911, he, along with eleven other socialists, were convicted and executed. In July 1909, before Gudō’s conviction, officials of the Sōtō Zen sect revoked Gudō’sabbotship.
“When I began reading the Heimin Shimbun at that time [1904], I realized that its principles were identical with my own and therefore I became an anarcho-socialist.”
Uchiyama Gudō
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my The Boys finale thoughts
I’ve mostly abstained from criticising the writing this season because I wanted to see were it would go, and a lot of stuff I chalked up to budget constrains, but they really spent 80%+ of the season on the Supe Virus and V1 plotline all for it to go nowhere other than a slight nod to an upcoming spinoff? but surely they could have had a ‘Clara would have wanted it’ moment without wasting all that time? I guess they felt the first Seth Rogen cameo in the series wasn’t long enough and need to fit in an other
In addition for Gen V to be robbed of any impact on the greater story, having Annie give them two instead one one ‘don’t be heroes save yourselves’ speeches don’t make up for that
While I thought the Starlight vs Deep fight was ok(if not a few season too late, and can definitely understand her fans being pissed she’s been portrayed as pretty lame power-wise even after gaining more control over her powers and not even contributing to the Homelander fight), but I was confused by something; the sea animals that killed him were saying ‘Justice for Ambrosius’ his Octopus gf he’d killed a season or two before but how did the rest of the sea life find out about her death?
And if he was killed because of the oil spill black noir II caused, how did they find out he was indirectly responsible? a single scene explaining the death of a character that’s been with us since e1 doesn’t seem like much too ask if it could have been a conversation
And I have to agree with the little bit of other reaction what I’ve seen from my cursory glances at the reaction so far: it was complete bullshit we never so Homelander go full psycho tearing apart crowds of ‘unbelievers’ or nuking cities from orbit with his laser(as explicitly implied in some promo material) and literally the largest instance of supe caused destruction in the show being BNII destroying the pipeline and it happening offscreen!
Well even if the rest of the aftermath(like buildings were getting destroyed left and right in earlier seasons and the all we got from the tip-e-top climax was a slighty un-ovaled office) was lackluster, at least de-powered Homelander breaking down and telling butcher he’d suck his dick and eat his shit was satisfying but it was carried by Anthony Stars’s acting, like 50+% of the show
Not as bad a fumble as GoT tho
There were other fish in the aquarium directly opposite Ambrosius’ tank. They could have seen Kevin kill her and somehow the news got outside the aquarium
That’s a fair point and plausible Kevin would overlook them as witnesses, and I guess its the ‘correct’ answer since her death was explicityly shown on ‘previously on’ , but there’s a year between the season she was killed and this one, you’re telling me the first momement any aquatic animal first decided to tell him ‘We know(that you killed ambsrosius)’ happened to be directly in the aftermath of the spill??
Like I could buy the knowledge of Ambrosius’s death combined with the spill showing he’s no defender of the oceans could cause a consensus among aquatic animals to banish him, maybe only the cephalopods were pissed about the murder and it took the spill for a ocean wide consensus to be reached, but if that’s the case why not just add a line or two of dialog explaining that? like I can’t explain it away as anything other than bad writting
I had heard people comparing it to GOT so had extremely low expectations, was pleasantly surprised. I might be an idiot but I was pretty sure deep was gonna get a semi redemptive ending where he dies but decides to turn on homelander first, this was better than that. I interpreted Annie not completely demolishing him as just stalling to try and get him to realize his folly. You’re right that not killing a bunch of the audience was an obvious biff and frankly I think a better ending would have been homelander winning somehow.
Idk, maybe I’m being too generous but I closed the series with positive feelings, the last 2 seasons, meh but they had their moments