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

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Stabmaster Arson said:
If you're reading this Seth, you drug addled, hook-nosed hack - have Homelander keep lowering SB's knockout gas so he's weak enough to wake up and talk, but not fight back. So they can talk. And eventually team up.
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That would be great, but they are such fucking hacks that if SB ever wakes up, most likely it's going to be because ~global warming~ caused rolling blackouts or some shit and as a result the machines keeping him sedated failed or some gay shit like that.

Or maybe literally two gay Vaught employees assfucking next to the machines controlling it and accidentally hitting a comically large 'RELEASE' button.
 
Thirteenfifty said:
This part really fucking sucked, it's an obvious reference to trump's "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose voters" quote. There's no way people could see someone get their head blown clean off in public like that and not immediately start freaking out and panicking. Ryan's reaction was also really out of place for witnessing someone he feared committing a gory murder right in front of him.
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I agree Ryan's reaction is out of place, as is most of Ryan's writing. But damn if that kid didn't deliver a really good slow creepy smirk in the last few seconds.
 
A Beached Whale said:
I agree Ryan's reaction is out of place, as is most of Ryan's writing. But damn if that kid didn't deliver a really good slow creepy smirk in the last few seconds.
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I think that whole arc was believable. Remember, the kid did accidentally kill his mother. HL turning up and saying shit happens, I'll always love you, I'm the same, probably won him over.
 
That last episode sucked but at least there is an iota of hope they can get some less agenda minded writers as they do have the ingredients for a good final season with Soldier Boy being alive and a wildcard as he isn't affiliated with either side. Same thing with not AOC, she turned out to be less annoying then expected. A big problem with this show is how unaware it is at times. I'm supposed to empathize with MM for his parents being killed by accident but I'm supposed to laugh when Starlight kills a father trying to defend himself form a car jacking or Bucher murdering a supe who's supposed to be evil for being a gun rights advocate as a side gig? I'm glad I pirate this shit. Amazon seems to have a trend where they get a good show off the ground but crash it after a couple seasons due to agenda pushing or brain drain (looking at Man in the High Castle).
 
The problem with the show is they have scenes where your post to route for the heroes yet the heroes come off as assholes. Like seriously it's bad that a father was trying to protect his son?

No wonder everybody loves Homelander out of all the characters in the show
 
Oats12345 said:
The problem with the show is they have scenes where your post to route for the heroes yet the heroes come off as assholes. Like seriously it's bad that a father was trying to protect his son?

No wonder everybody loves Homelander out of all the characters in the show
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The scene where HL eye lasered that dude, then all the crowd going wild - that crowd is who actually watches The Boys, mostly.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
And the writers fucking hate it you can tell.
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You know, I had been enraptured by Homelander up till now, but not really on his side. Now they brought the whole family angle into it a bit more, and showed he isn't invulnerable, I'm starting to warm to him more. Given his lab upbringing it's no wonder he's nuts.
I was pretty much on Soldier Boy's side, even though he's a prick because he's at least a normal prick, if you get me. After he denied that family offer though, I thought what the fuck? You're an idiot.
 
A Beached Whale said:
I agree Ryan's reaction is out of place, as is most of Ryan's writing. But damn if that kid didn't deliver a really good slow creepy smirk in the last few seconds.
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I believe the smirk was CGI. It was extremely subtle, something that kid can't do (he is a really bad actor). Same as his quivering lip when talking with Homelander.
 
Stabmaster Arson said:
After he denied that family offer though, I thought what the fuck? You're an idiot.
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It makes complete sense though.

Imagine a hardened WWII veteran who lived through the Great Depression frozen in time, and then he wakes up and a fucking weak-kneed millenial with a skrillex haircut who cries a lot and his zoomer kid who can't stop watching tiktok and with a tear in his eyes the millenial goes FINALLY I CAN HAVE A DADDY, it's not hard to imagine he'd go 'I wish I died in Normandy'
 
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Internet War Criminal said:
Or maybe literally two gay Vaught employees assfucking next to the machines controlling it and accidentally hitting a comically large 'RELEASE' button.
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Just saw on Wikipedia the creators are trying to release a porno from the series :/
Typical Hollywood said:

Supe Porn[edit]​

On October 3, 2020, Eric Kripke confirmed that the in-universe pornographic superhero film scenes briefly glimpsed in the second season The Boys episode "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" had been produced in full, expressing interest in releasing them under the name Supe Porn to the website of the same name, registered to Sony Pictures,[140] as well as formally requesting Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Antony Starr and the other followers of his Twitter page to join him in petitioning Prime Video and Amazon Studios to allow the potential web series to be uploaded.
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Saint Agustin said:
I believe the smirk was CGI. It was extremely subtle, something that kid can't do (he is a really bad actor). Same as his quivering lip when talking with Homelander.
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Damn, I didn't think of that. It's so stupid but it wouldn't surprise me, they use CGI to hand-hold everything in film now. No need for creative workarounds for effects or bad acting apparently.
 
Thirteenfifty said:
That last season was so insanely bad I was left traumatized. Is this some sort of a humiliation ritual they have to do at Amazon where they make writers ruin the show in final seasons/finales?
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No, I think it's a combination of the writers not knowing where to take things and hatred of their audience and political events.
Both Man in the High Castle and The Boys are adaptations, the setting and characters were written by different people. First season is usually just exploring the setting written by someone more competent.
The longer the adaptations lasts the more it starts deviating from the source material, and the messier it becomes.
The writers were likely not happy with the consensus that their protagonists are boring and unappealing compared to the villains. Homelander stealing the show in the Boys, and John Smith and Inspector Kido stealing the show in Man in the High Castle.
It's obvious that the writers were not happy with the Trump election. The first two seasons of Man in the High Castle were made before the 2016 election, and comparing them to the later two seasons it's obvious how much the election broke them and forced them to triple and quadruple down on the "fascism is bad" angle.
The boys came out in the tail end of the Trump presidency, but it's obvious that the further they move away from the original comic the more the show just becomes Trumplander and the 2016 election but with superheroes
 
So Soldier Boy sees Homelander as an attention starved lunatic, calls Butcher a cuck, and believes a man should raise his family, but I'm supposed to see him as a bad guy?
 
A Beached Whale said:
Damn, I didn't think of that. It's so stupid but it wouldn't surprise me, they use CGI to hand-hold everything in film now. No need for creative workarounds for effects or bad acting apparently.
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I got wise with the quivering lip in that scene with Homelander (which by the way, Anthony Star is fucking amazing expressing sentiment). The lip moved without the eyes accompanying the expression ( I'm someone who knows body language, let's just say that for the record) and it really made me think about it for a second: How many times they corrected a character expression in post? After thinking about that, the smirk (fuck me, the whole expression of ryan) was CGI due to the subtlety of tonal shifting of his face not matching or going into uncanny valley.

I watched the scene 3 times already and can certainly say it was CGI.

Not that it really matters, but cool to know nonetheless to me.
 
One thing I noticed is how they couldn't resist putting in another small side plot this season showing a soyish white guy getting radicalized by the evil heroes. They always cast an actor that looks like the stereotypical nerdy white loser. It's funny that these characters end up looking pretty similar to the show's writers.

Random guy from Season 2 who murders an Indian convenience store clerk because he listened to Stormfront's ideas.
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Todd the stepdad, loves Homelander so much that he cheers when he murders someone right in front of him. He's obviously being set up to do something stupid next season.
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