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

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Starlight going off about how soldier boy is a menace is a weird flex considering out of the 3 times hes killed people

twice its been his russian brainwashing that forced him to do it.

like sure maybe he would have gone through with the latest one anyway after they gave up noir but well never know.

and the whole killing people is wrong angle would probably land better if you also werent actively plotting to murder someone as well?
The bitch also killed a father for the crime of not wanting to be carjacked then laughed it off as it being his fault for attempting to use a firearm to defend himself. Also her bitching out Soldier boy as a hero who never cared made no sense from a writing standpoint after the viewers saw him mention his WW2 accomplishments with pride rather than indifference or distaste.
 
So can adults not take compund V (the not 24 hour version) and gain superpowers?
Maybe? Seems completely random with a side order of enhanced strength and durability; theoretically it could make you look normal but have odd traits, make you look like a monster, or give you a useless mix like Bobby Boing.
 
Also her bitching out Soldier boy as a hero who never cared made no sense from a writing standpoint after the viewers saw him mention his WW2 accomplishments with pride rather than indifference or distaste.
It makes no sense from a writing standpoint. Soldier Boy doesn't know that he killed those people, and his pride at serving his country does show that he cared about the nation. Especially considering the fact that he allowed himself to be experimented upon so that he can become a supersoldier for the cause. He could've died from the V injection for all he knew, and he still took that risk and kept fighting for his country for 40 years. And he's somehow portrayed negatively because he thinks differently of women in combat? Sure, Mallory was pissed at the guy for treating her more like a floozie rather than a soldier, but to be fair to the man, he was an adult during the 1940s, and attitudes were different back then. Not to mention that he fought alongside Crimson Countess, so it's not like he didn't want female fighters on the field. He just had a different attitude due to the fact that he grew up half a century ago compared to most of them.

Maybe? Seems completely random with a side order of enhanced strength and durability; theoretically it could make you look normal but have odd traits, make you look like a monster, or give you a useless mix like Bobby Boing.
Stormfront and Soldier Boy were adults when they were given Compound V, weren't they? Soldier Boy was already a grown man, and Stormfront was Frederick Vought's wife.
 
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Stormfront and Soldier Boy were adults when they were given Compound V, weren't they? Soldier Boy was already a grown man, and Stormfront was Frederick Vought's wife.
Could just be the new versions of V are more stable if they are given to you around puberty or some shit, while as an adult it's more likely to backfire or some shit, I'm sure there's a throwaway line somewhere that explains this shit. Or not, because they are too busy planning the next girlboss moment, who knows.
 
It makes no sense from a writing standpoint. Soldier Boy doesn't know that he killed those people, and his pride at serving his country does show that he cared about the nation. Especially considering the fact that he allowed himself to be experimented upon so that he can become a supersoldier for the cause. He could've died from the V injection for all he knew, and he still took that risk and kept fighting for his country for 40 years. And he's somehow portrayed negatively because he thinks differently of women in combat? Sure, Mallory was pissed at the guy for treating her more like a floozie rather than a soldier, but to be fair to the man, he was an adult during the 1940s, and attitudes were different back then. Not to mention that he fought alongside Crimson Countess, so it's not like he didn't want female fighters on the field. He just had a different attitude due to the fact that he grew up half a century ago compared to most of them.


Stormfront and Soldier Boy were adults when they were given Compound V, weren't they? Soldier Boy was already a grown man, and Stormfront was Frederick Voight's wife.
It's a real shame that Solider Boy is likely to die in the next few episodes as he's the most interesting character this season and injected new life in the show. Characters like MM and Frenchie just seem like mandatory baggage at this point. I was ready to drop this show but picked season 3 up during a business trip and was surprised at how it was able to keep me interested, but I still had to skip the MM, Frenchie/Female love arc and Starlight scenes. Anthony Star seems to carry the show at this point. I'm surprised he's been acting for 20+ years. Goes to show that Hollywood doesn't know how to promote talent.
 
It's a real shame that Solider Boy is likely to die in the next few episodes as he's the most interesting character this season and injected new life in the show. Characters like MM and Frenchie just seem like mandatory baggage at this point. I was ready to drop this show but picked season 3 up during a business trip and was surprised at how it was able to keep me interested, but I still had to skip the MM, Frenchie/Female love arc and Starlight scenes. Anthony Star seems to carry the show at this point. I'm surprised he's been acting for 20+ years. Goes to show that Hollywood doesn't know how to promote talent.
MM and Frenchie are practically baggage compared to the main plot. MM's whole storyline about how Soldier Boy killed his family felt rather hollow since it's not like SB sought to kill his family; more like MM's family were just civilian casualties caused by collateral damage during a fight Soldier Boy had. That's unfortunate, but it's not like SB WANTED to kill them.

I told someone that the show would be far better if it was the Homelander and Soldier Boy show. Make the two of them the center of attention, and push everyone else to the side or make them ally with one or the other. Then you'll have a far better show with two main characters that can carry the weight of the series.

Hollywood elites tend to promote friends, or people who kowtow to them and surrender their dignity to them.
 
He went from a pathetic character who served as a stand in for the audience to a guy who went toe to toe with Homelander and naked.

I really like this Hugie. He isn't a pushoever, the weakest link or a lackey anymore.

Peak character development.
Hughie was willing to die in a nuclear explosion to kill Chudlander, I can't believe how based he is now. Fuck Starlight, she's a hypocritical bitch. Hughie should be with Maeve so that they can produce GigaChad-tier kids.
 
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I honestly believe that the best villains are the ones who we in some capacity secretly root for on some level. Homelander by all accounts is property and slave to a corporation which couldn't give a shit if he lived or died, only if he did something to hurt their image. He's so detached from reality that he regularly is fighting to not become the complete monster and weapon he was bred to be by Vought. Along the fact that only other "villains" were the only ones to treat him like a human and not some demi-god monster he is.

The tragedy of Homelander is that he truly in this show as doomed to be villain or some hazard some way or another by the method of birth, conditioning, and a sterile and uncaring environment perhaps even going as far to say that common people are just as involved in creating villains as their own actions. Especially now that Homelander is actually afraid of those near his level as deep down he knows he's just a fake with perhaps no real homelander to exist as normal people do with true relationships, experiences, and all the triumphs and follies it comes along with life.
 
I honestly believe that the best villains are the ones who we in some capacity secretly root for on some level.
That's absolutely true. The cliche line "We're not so different, you and I" strikes at the core of the dynamic of most interesting rivalries of the human condition - a hero who could be the villain and a villain who could be the hero, if only a butterfly fluttered it's wings in a single crucial moment. While Butcher's and Homie's downfalls happen at different times they complete each other - an abused child trying to take the childhood he never had back any way he could and a grizzled adult who had the remains of his child-like idealism and belief in a better world horribly twisted when his door into normalcy was violently shut.
 
This episode was by far the weakest
Makes me want the next season to be the last. I think it makes for a great setup, if the next finale ties up a lot of things with a more than an hour runtime. I can't stomach 5 season of this. But that twist was interesting for a non comic reader. How much comic content have we got left in terms of seasons?
 
Makes me want the next season to be the last. I think it makes for a great setup, if the next finale ties up a lot of things with a more than an hour runtime. I can't stomach 5 season of this. But that twist was interesting for a non comic reader. How much comic content have we got left in terms of seasons?

We have the g-Men ( bootleg X men ran by a very evil version of X-men)

We have super duper

And we also have the homelander storming the White House and the finale of the comics
 
I overall liked this episode even though it's mostly filler but I liked seeing Butcher's backstory with the abusive father and Black Noir's delusions.

I do agree that next season should be the last. Time to shit or get off the pot.
 
>lol, Soldier Boy didn't fight on D Day
>lol, A-train is alive
>lol, temp V gives you brain cancer
>lol, kimiko has powers again
>lol, Soldier boy also beat his innocent-killing asshole allies alongside being an innocent-killing asshole

this just undid the major events of the entire season
and made a terrible attempt to make soldier boy unlikable

what do i give a shit about punching huey for being a pussy in a combat situation?
 
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