The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

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Jace on ice said:
"Homelander attempted to bigotedly enter the oval office to commit additional racisms but sadly his tiny orange hands and even tinier penis made him too weak to open the door."

"Brilliant! Here's 100 million to make more shitty content! ~ Amazon probably
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"He bigotedly bigoted all over the place. Bigoting the bigot with his bigoted powers of bigotry."

"I liked when homelander bigoted in and then bigoted all over the place."

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Butcher should have tried to kill the entire team like in the comics to release the virus, only leaving Hughie and Annie.

Anthony Star is a great fucking actor who atleast kept his professionalism during it and calling the writing team out for making his character a stand in for trump.

Its like everyone in hollywood wants to become the next "Revolutionary" story against the bad man in politics, but jesus fucking christ.

Hope it was worth ruining your career over Kirpke.

The ending is probably the most abysmal one I have seen for a show.
 
Rungle said:
Anthony Star is a great fucking actor who atleast kept his professionalism during it and calling the writing team out for making his character a stand in for trump.

Its like everyone in hollywood wants to become the next "Revolutionary" story against the bad man in politics, but jesus fucking christ.
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If they wanted to dunk on Trump so badly, they could've just had a Trump-expy being backed by Soldier Boy and Homelander because he's the main conservative candidate and Vought's link to the Evangelical Conservative movement. But then have the guy be such an insufferable cunt that Soldier Boy and Homelander rip him to shreds. You can even have Homelander take over that way; have him come to power as the guy who "brought sanity back to America" after killing Not!Trump.

Turning Homelander into Trump is just stupid, especially since unlike Trump, Homelander had a traumatic childhood where he was literally experimented on like a Holocaust camp victim. Trump is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who rarely had to encounter any real hardship. Homelander was experimented upon and tortured like a lab rat. The two are not the same.

Rungle said:
Hope it was worth ruining your career over Kirpke.
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The IP is pretty much going to get fucked after this. Who's going to tune in to Vought Rising with the IP having this kind of shitty reputation?

Rungle said:
The ending is probably the most abysmal one I have seen for a show.
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Man of Steel Superman did it better. When Superman and Zod had that fight of theirs, buildings and entire city blocks were getting decimated, thousands of people died. That is how you write a fight scene with an unhinged supe that could destroy entire cities.
 
Blazeuser56 said:
Feels like the show could've run for more than 5 seasons, the ending feels rushed as hell, with so many character arcs feeling rushed. All this hype for a fight that didn't even last for 5 minutes.
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This season was incredibly wasteful . They threw away the Soldier Boy and the Gen V girls plotlines for nothing. The ending was obviously supposed to be Soldier Boy and Marie showing up and yoinking Homelander's powers, but instead it was the complete out-of-nowhere bullshit that we got so their shit prequel series could be setup.

Homelander's pathetic begging at the end wasn't it and also Ashley's line "Homelander will pull my tits through my vagina" was also lame.
 
ratduckowlgymnastics said:
This season was incredibly wasteful . They threw away the Soldier Boy and the Gen V girls plotlines for nothing. The ending was obviously supposed to be Soldier Boy and Marie showing up and yoinking Homelander's powers, but instead it was the complete out-of-nowhere bullshit that we got so their shit prequel series could be setup.
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Homelander's Supe army is parked outside the White House, engaging the military. While this happens, the Boys, Soldier Boy, and Marie go to the White House. The Boys kill a few Supes standing guard, while Marie and Soldier Boy proceed to Homelander's location in the Oval Office.

Marie holds down Homelander through her blood-bending powers, keeping him still. Soldier Boy powers up his chest ki blast, grievously injuring Homelander de-powering him. But they refuse to kill Homelander outright, since they want to bring him to justice and show the world that they don't need to fear him any longer. The two then proceed to drag Homelander out to be tried by the law, but then Butcher comes in, his tentacles throwing Marie and SB away, and he proceeds to kick the shit out of Homelander.

Seeing an opportunity, and wanting a quick death over getting tried and humiliated by the plebs, Homelander taunts Butcher over Becca's death, so Butcher proceeds to beat Homelander to death with a crowbar. Soldier Boy and Marie go "WTF!?" at Butcher, but Butcher soaks in the satisfaction of killing Homelander and saying that Becca is avenged. He then walks away with a smile.

There. I just rewrote the ending so that Gen V and Soldier Boy mattered, but kept it so that they can be used for future shows.
 
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God of Nothing said:
Ennis would make him a raving lunatic and nothing else. A character with actual depth and legitimate flaws that don't serve to make them more of a brooding anti-hero is vastly out of his reach. We've gone over his writing and fake tough guy armyfag shit before. The idea of someone who is legitimately fucked doing the right thing is alien to him who envisions people who are superficially fucked doing the wrong thing because it can be rationalized as the right thing through sheer contrivance.

I'll still hold to Stillwell despite Ennis ruining him in the unnecessary cash grab sequel.

This worked more because it was the Punisher than it was Ennis writing him. Family man who lost everything to gang violence has a zero tolerance policy towards crime. Impossible to fuck this up if you actually, you know, let him be that instead of whatever the fuck nonsense they're trying to pull now because muh "problematic."
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Weirdly enough, the most racist quotes I can recall from Punisher Max were about European Ethnic groups.
God of Nothing said:
The first season was alright. I struggle to say good because on rewatch I lose interest around the Christian festival or whatever. The second was when the cracks really began to show. And then the third was just dogshit. Barely anything of actual consequence. Also, the magic of blackmail. Just stopped watching after that. Let everyone else experience 4 in my place besides watching clips on youtube. Now 5.
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I stopped watching after the end of Gen V season 1.
 
SITHRAK! said:
Hard disagree.
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People are and always will be way too hard on the comics. The darkly comedic writing style definitely features a gratuitous focus on sex, but that's quite typical among a certain genre of UK comedy I and many others grew up with (Looking at you, inbetweeners). I imagine it's far better received by people who are more thoroughly acquainted with that cultural context. As for the absurd and caricatured backstories... it's a superhero comic whose intention is to satirize the genre. MM's history reads exactly like that: a brother whose head grew so fast it was crushed by the football helmet he was wearing? A baby that lasers its way out of a woman's womb? The objective was to take the piss out of the archetypal "superhero backstory", wherein the protagonist's childhood is marred by extraordinary talents/biomarkers that strike fear and wonder into the hearts of their peers. It's a bit juvenile but, for what it is, it's fairly decent.
 
Rungle said:
Its like everyone in hollywood wants to become the next "Revolutionary" story against the bad man in politics, but jesus fucking christ.

Hope it was worth ruining your career over Kirpke.
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They all think their story will be the one that exposes to the masses that Trump is actually a bad guy really and sway opinion but the problem is they do it in a way that makes their side look like histrionic queers. Which, admittedly many of them are but I'm speaking in the proverbial sense.

Kripke probably made his money and certainly doesn't care he ran it into the ground over the idea of people he doesn't like liking his show. Not his money he burned to do it.
 
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20 min in and they do a HAHAHAHA LOOK IT'S ELON MUSK BEING A WHITE SUPREMESIST joke.
*seal clap*

Edit: TITS VAGINA BITCH PENIS is literally the dialog in this
 
Game of Thrones Season 8.

Modern Star Wars.

Man of Steel and BvS.

I can't count how many series and movies that got panned which did way better than this crap.

Game of Thrones Season 8 at least went full-throttle with Daenerys going nuts. She burns down a city, its soldiers, and its people, and she holds a Nazi-style military parade over the capital that she burned, with her forces cheering in the presence of the city they slaughtered through.

Man of Steel did the whole "nutbag Supe" fight way better with Zod, especially with his complete disregard for human lives, causing thousands, if not millions of deaths, as he and Superman turned the city into Ground Zero during their battle. The fight between Batman and Superman was way more entertaining than Homelander obviously getting nerfed just so he can be beaten.

The modern Star Wars shows? Sure, they struggle with making relatable heroes, but at least Moff Gideon and Darth Vader aura farm like hell while committing genocide or smashing things up. Shit, I was expecting Homelander to be as threatening as Vader was in the end of the first season of the Darth Maul show; when Vader was causing entire buildings to fall apart with his brain as Maul and friends ran away. They buried him under tons of rubble, only for him to burst out like a horror movie villain and keep attacking them. You had a trained Jedi Master, his Padawan, and Darth Maul all ganging up on Darth Vader, yet he couldn't be more bored when fighting them, blocking their attacks as if they were nothing and tossing them about like they were kids.

At the very least, Washington DC should've looked like Mandalore after Moff Gideon nuked them to hell. Or Metropolis after the Superman/Zod fight. Make it so that the Supes like Homelander feel like an actual threat.

CaptainAutism69 said:
20 min in and they do a HAHAHAHA LOOK IT'S ELON MUSK BEING A WHITE SUPREMESIST joke.
*seal clap*
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They did to Elon Musk what they should've done to Trump. If they were going to have a Trump parody in the first place, have it be someone else, then get him out of the way once the real fighting starts. Let Homelander be his own character, his own villain, with his own motivations.

Imagine if, instead of playing God, John spills the beans on how Vought made him into Homelander in the first place. Recounts every single agonizing detail of how he was made. All the experiments, all the brainwashing, all the pain and suffering. Then imagine he comes out with a new version of Compound V that would work well with adults or mature children, and he offers it for free, in exchange for loyalty and helping him build a better tomorrow.

Not only would the people rally to Homelander's side, due to his sympathetic backstory, but with him becoming a source of power for the people, that would make Butcher's job that much harder, if more people are invested in keeping Homelander alive. Not to mention he can't release the virus without it going airborne and killing an entire nation's worth of people who would've taken the V and become Supes.

Tyronneasaurus Rex said:
They all think their story will be the one that exposes to the masses that Trump is actually a bad guy really and sway opinion but the problem is they do it in a way that makes their side look like histrionic queers. Which, admittedly many of them are but I'm speaking in the proverbial sense.

Kripke probably made his money and certainly doesn't care he ran it into the ground over the idea of people he doesn't like liking his show. Not his money he burned to do it.
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Their version of Trump was a poor kid who was brainwashed and experimented upon by a big pharma corporation to turn him into a monster they can make toys out of. And yet that corporation gets to walk away free, no litigation, no limits, no forcing them to hand over all stockpiles of V to the Federal Government, no show trials for the Vought Executives who approved of all the evil shit they did.

They even have the very same CEO who approved of all the icky shit that created this mess in the first place.

Not A Bunny said:
I have been saying this since Season 3, when Homelander was taking the brunt of the blame for Stormfront, as if ANYONE at Vought (those shareholders that Edgar made a point about pleasing to Homelander) had no beef with Edgar about hiring her in the first fucking place.

Homelander didn't advocate for her being in The Seven. Edgar did.

Someone in this thread called this show "mean-spirited", and I don't really think there's a better way of putting it.
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Stan Edgar approved of the operation to replace Soldier Boy with Homelander.

Stan Edgar put Stormfront, a Nazi, into the Seven, over Homelander's protests.

Stan Edgar worked for the same Vought company that tortured and experimented on an innocent young kid, turning him into the monster that became Homelander.

And now he's back in power at Vought. Hopefully, Singer will hold him to his promise of leaving the superhero business and just giving Compound V to loyal soldiers. Otherwise, it'll be a whole new mess down the line.

Not A Bunny said:
It makes me want to bathe myself in the glow of the LOTR extended versions to wash the stink off.
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As for me, I was just playing Marvel Cosmic Invasion. A superhero story not written by concussed orangutans. Funny how a superhero story that plays it straight is so much better than modern "deconstructions" of the genre.
 
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Tyronneasaurus Rex said:
If I remember the comics right, there were Supes that wanted to genuinely do good but were way out of their depth when it came to actually doing so and caused more damage than they intended.

But that's a level of nuance that Kripke was never interested in pursuing because I feel like he has a bigger hateboner for capeshit than even Garth Ennis does.
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The only real hero supes were the special ed team.
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AHAHAHAHA IT TASTES LIKE DIRTY COCK.
Fucking hell, when was the point in that the show just turned into pee pee poo poo jokes? S3? 4?
 
SITHRAK! said:
The thing that a lot of people miss in the comics is that everything happens for a reason, and those reasons are often not revealed until very late in the story. You should never pay any attention to the comics’ critiques by anyone who didn’t read the whole run, preferably twice. Be especially wary of people who dismiss the comics as edgy slop, they’re just proving they either didn’t read them or don’t understand them.
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I will admit I don't understand. I'm just retarded yoh honoh!
Please explain this to me. I'm sure there's some hidden esoteric meaning here.
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