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

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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
Edit: Forgot to mention, love how Starlight’s moment ultimately amounts to nothing against Soldier Boy. There’s this big build of of bad CGI light power bullshit and I’m sure it was meant to be a big deal but all it does is knock Soldier Boy over briefly. So that was fun.
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Yeah I forgot to point that out. Shit, if anything it seemed to have knocked her out more than Soldier Boy, which is hilarious
 
I learned a lot of valuable lessons from the Boys finale. White men are evil and will always kill an innocent retarded black ninja man with a gut punch, like how jew writers will kill viewers with a gut punch in the end. If you are in a relationship with a woman the best thing to do is always give her more power (literally), she will use it to move evil white men 3 feet away from her saving her abortion rights. The only person who can truly stand up to Trump Homelander is a strong lesbian.

The best organic farm food comes from lesbian owned california farms. Trump Homelander really can kill a man in Times Square with a gun eye blast and his supporters will still love him. None of them will in fact be shocked or surprised but all Trump Homelander supporters will cheer.

Thanks, Eric Kripke!
 
I started laughing when they shoehorned how Maeve was helped and crediting the protest outside as being instrumental, all to pander to the degenerates.

I don't know if I misheard it, but I thought Maeve labeled the protest as "LGB", was the T deliberately omitted?
 
skippy said:
The best organic farm food comes from lesbian owned california farms. Biden Homelander really can kill a man in Times Square with a gun eye blast and his supporters will still love him. None of them will in fact be shocked or surprised but all Biden Homelander supporters will cheer.
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FTFY

I really fail to see why people get a neutral vibe from the show. I get a lot of lefty's republican bad vibes and fuck why pepo but not any LGBT are bad or BLM is retarded or what not.
 
The wildly varying power levels of the various characters kind of fucks up the basic story.

Noir was treated as being as dangerous as Homelander to the point that he was the only one of the 7 that Homelander respected because everyone else in the group was afraid of him as well. Then this episode comes around and Homelander tells him he won't even be able to hurt Soldier Boy and the punches a hole in him. What even was his superpower?

Maeve was always shown as going along with whatever because she realised that Homelander would just kill her and replace her if she stepped out of line. This episode she's going toe to toe with him and could possibly have won if she had a weapon from the start. Why was she so afraid of him?

Soldier Boy is the only man who can beat Homelander but he could barely handle Butcher and got stunned by Starlights shitty power.

All this stuff breaks important elements of the plot and is Marvel-movie as fuck.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
FTFY

I really fail to see why people get a neutral vibe from the show. I get a lot of lefty's republican bad vibes and fuck why pepo but not any LGBT are bad or BLM is retarded or what not.
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I had a neutral feeling in season 1 and its went downhill since.

The villains in the show have without fail been white, right wing and usually "racist". Even side characters that are bad are racist, like the supe that A-Train killed. Characters can be murderers or despicable people like Butcher (murderer), A-Train (murderer) or Frenchie (murderer for the Russian mafia, killed innocents) but at least they're not racist so they won't die.

Soldier Boy's big crime was being an alleged racist and the writers made sure we were reminded by MM, despite the fact that he's probably not as bad as Homelander, Maeve, Butcher, Frenchie or Kimiko when it comes to body count.
 
Prince of Crows said:
I had a neutral feeling in season 1 and its went downhill since.

The villains in the show have without fail been white, right wing and usually "racist". Even side characters that are bad are racist, like the supe that A-Train killed. Characters can be murderers or despicable people like Butcher (murderer), A-Train (murderer) or Frenchie (murderer for the Russian mafia, killed innocents) but at least they're not racist so they won't die.

Soldier Boy's big crime was being an alleged racist and the writers made sure we were reminded by MM, despite the fact that he's probably not as bad as Homelander, Maeve, Butcher, Frenchie or Kimiko when it comes to body count.
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Isn't Soldier Boy from the 1940s?
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
I suppose Stan Edgar is the last hope to root for, but when will he return?
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From what I understand, Edgar is the shows rewrite of James Stillwell who is apparently an influential part of the comics. In the comics Homelander
is kinda freaked out by him and goes to see him one last time before flying a super army to launch his overthrow
so we will likely see him at least one more time.
 
Prince of Crows said:
I had a neutral feeling in season 1 and its went downhill since.

The villains in the show have without fail been white, right wing and usually "racist". Even side characters that are bad are racist, like the supe that A-Train killed. Characters can be murderers or despicable people like Butcher (murderer), A-Train (murderer) or Frenchie (murderer for the Russian mafia, killed innocents) but at least they're not racist so they won't die.

Soldier Boy's big crime was being an alleged racist and the writers made sure we were reminded by MM, despite the fact that he's probably not as bad as Homelander, Maeve, Butcher, Frenchie or Kimiko when it comes to body count.
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Soldier Boy at least gave you the sense that he knew he was off his rocker unlike everyone else. What he does isn't normal, healthy, or sane yet neither is he anymore. World he's in is a complete 180 from the one he knew so even trying to go back to what was normalcy for him is impossible.

Hell, Soldier Boy didn't give so much as a wink at anyone being a different color than him or even women trying to fuck him up.
 
They really subverted my expectations (my expectations were that this episode would be good)



So much shit went wrong this episode its not even funny. They literally botched everything they were setting up throughout the season.

-Black noir killed suddenly with no setup immediately after developing his character for the first time (they could change this by resurrecting him for next season but I find this unlikely)

-total asspull regarding Ryan, he is magically a huge homelander fan and doesn't mind seeing him kill people in public, just because homelander was nice to him once and butcher was mean to him once

-weird ass marvel tier fight at the end that accomplished nothing, all characters are suddenly bust buds like the avengers

-souljaboy shelved after changing nothing and being betrayed by butcher for doing what butcher told him to do. Somehow he's also racist?

-butcher 100% cucks out and loses all of his badass vibe, literally gets cancer (le epic breaking bad inspired season coming up?)

-lazy and hamfisted portrayal of homelander as trump 2.0 continues in a very direct and gross way, expect season 4 to be a retelling of trump's "greatest hits" with a superhero twist.



I feel like there was some sort of corporate/Hollywood interference with this episode kind of like how ABC forced David lynch to reveal Laura's killer at the start of season 2 of twin peaks.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
* She can tank soldierboy's fully charged explosion (something even Homelander is afraid of) and walk off with a couple of bruises and her powers intact.
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She lost her powers. Surviving the blast point blank was kind of plot armor but we already saw Kimiko survive a close range blast and Maeve was established as an high tier supe, the real plot armor was surviving a 50-story fall without powers
 
I'm getting really pissed off that I spend my time watching shit like this for then to shoehorned a really stupid fucking idiotic message at the end about how "inclusiveness" can save the world or how women are stronger (physically mind you ) than men, and how being white is really problematic, and how blacks are all about family, and stuff like that.

I liked The Boys first two seasons, they were really well done, but this last one was shit. Was incredibly pandering and retarded.

Fuck season 4, not even gonna torrent it.
 
Saint Agustin said:
I'm getting really pissed off that I spend my time watching shit like this for then to shoehorned a really stupid fucking idiotic message at the end about how "inclusiveness" can save the world or how women are stronger (physically mind you ) than men, and how being white is really problematic, and how blacks are all about family, and stuff like that.

I liked The Boys first two seasons, they were really well done, but this last one was shit. Was incredibly pandering and retarded.

Fuck season 4, not even gonna torrent it.
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I support your decision and hope the entire thread follows your example. Actually watching it seems like an unnecessary formality we can do away with and retain the exact same calibre of criticism.
 
This show taught me an important lesson. That when your creators do not live in reality they shouldn't do commentary on contemporary topics. Also Trump memes age very badly.
Otherwise better than season 2, not close to season 1. I feel sorry for Karl Urban and Antony Starr, two great actors that have to work with mediocre material.

I don't swear said:
If their piss poor decisions make this a 5 season show, then what a waste of time this show'll be. As I said before, next season needs to be the last.
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From the writer/producer of Supernatural? They're going to ride this show until the wheels fall off...

Kramer on the phone said:
was mostly wheel spinning until the last episode. every episode after the premiere and before the finale could be compressed into one and everyone would have been better off.
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After watching Stranger Things season 4 and then The Boys I think the problem with The Boys is that none of their pay offs really feel built up and earned. Now Stranger Things is as subtle about their build up and pay offs as a hammer to the face but at least they try, at least there characters have something like a arc and every episode isn't just random shit happening until they have some kind of epiphany.

It feels like they didn't ask a very important question: where are our characters at the start of the season, where will they be at the end of the season, and how do we get them there?
 
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