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

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I thought it was ok. The first season is the best and probably the only season to get into the show in the first place. Both seasons two and three aren't bad, in fact they are pretty decent mostly, but they both reek of very unnecessary filler or random bullshit preachy moments (especially when it boils down to the show's satire and writing).

As for the comics, I've always loved the comics way back when.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Then we have that little outburst when a Starlight fan calls Ryan a fascist and throws a can at him, and Homelander strikes back to protect his son.
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I read some of the comics a few years after they came out and didn't much care for them so I don't know if this scene also happened in the comics.

What I do know is that what Homelander did was incredibly based. I'm seeing so many liberal dipshits in that comment section crying about how that guy totally didn't deserve to die for attacking a kid, it's okay because the kid has superpowers, blah blah fucking blah.
Guess what? Yeah, he fucking did deserve that. He was a subhuman stain that decided to go after a kid because he hates the kid's father. "Men" like that deserve to have their lives ended in a swift and brutal fashion. And Homelander delivered in a satisfying way.
 
I gave up 3 episodes into season 2, I could see where it was going. Just here to say that Karen Fukuhara is a competent Female, but after watching MI: Dead Reckoning, Pom Klementieff would have been spectacular. She's a Korean-Frog hybrid, but race-swapping is du jour these days and no one cares if the Japanese get mad.
 
The Hoh Rainforest said:
I gave up 3 episodes into season 2, I could see where it was going. Just here to say that Karen Fukuhara is a competent Female, but after watching MI: Dead Reckoning, Pom Klementieff would have been spectacular. She's a Korean-Frog hybrid, but race-swapping is du jour these days and no one cares if the Japanese get mad.
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HEY! Karen Fukuhara is an absolute goodness! you take that back!

but yeah, season 2 is when it all went downhill. atleast you did not stick around long enough for the cuck episode.
 
Still Exceptional said:
I read some of the comics a few years after they came out and didn't much care for them so I don't know if this scene also happened in the comics.
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It does not, since there is no Homelander child in the comics, well, not a grown up one anyway. Butcher's wife dies in bed next to him as the super-powered foetus rips its way out of her, and then tries to kill Butcher with its laser eyes, but he bashes it to death (been a while since I read it, but pretty sure that's how he kills it) and gets scarred from the lasers in the process.
As flawed as the comics can be at times, I feel like sticking a bit more to their story for these later seasons would have been more interesting/have a better payoff at least than what we got with the last season, which to me was just one big progress reset back to the start.
 
Mao Hao Hao said:
It does not, since there is no Homelander child in the comics, well, not a grown up one anyway. Butcher's wife dies in bed next to him as the super-powered foetus rips its way out of her, and then tries to kill Butcher with its laser eyes, but he bashes it to death (been a while since I read it, but pretty sure that's how he kills it) and gets scarred from the lasers in the process.
As flawed as the comics can be at times, I feel like sticking a bit more to their story for these later seasons would have been more interesting/have a better payoff at least than what we got with the last season, which to me was just one big progress reset back to the start.
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Honestly why didn't they stick with a similar format to the comics? It could actually work pretty well. Each episode could be them going after a super, discovering the skeletons in that supers closet, then figuring out a way to take them down.
 
Mao Hao Hao said:
It does not, since there is no Homelander child in the comics, well, not a grown up one anyway. Butcher's wife dies in bed next to him as the super-powered foetus rips its way out of her, and then tries to kill Butcher with its laser eyes, but he bashes it to death (been a while since I read it, but pretty sure that's how he kills it) and gets scarred from the lasers in the process.
As flawed as the comics can be at times, I feel like sticking a bit more to their story for these later seasons would have been more interesting/have a better payoff at least than what we got with the last season, which to me was just one big progress reset back to the start.
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Honestly for all it's flaws and edgy bullshit, the basic story of the comics wasn't bad.
Corporation makes superhero. Corporation clones superhero in case they ever have to kill him. Clone becomes obsessed with the fact that he was created to kill superhero but is never allowed. Clone uses the fact that he looks like the superhero to make photographs of him doing genuinely fucked up shit and sends them to the superhero, driving him insane and into villainy so he can finally fulfill the reason for his existence.
Isn't perfect, but it's actually a fairly compelling story. You start off thinking Homelander is the just worst person but end up kinda realizing he's kinda one of the victims here. Sure, he went bad, but he was more or less manipulated into believing he was already irredeemably evil and framed for crimes he didn't commit (Like raping Billy Butcher's wife.)
 
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Still Exceptional said:
(Like raping Billy Butcher's wife.)
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Holy shit, I completely missed that it was Noir not Homelander when I read the final collection 10 years ago. This changes my opinion of comics-Homelander, you're right it changes him to a much more sympathetic character. You've made me want to re-read them to see what else I missed.
Don't read the spoiler if you plan to read the comic, it changes the whole experience to know it ahead of time.
 
Given how much the show wants you to think Homelander is basically Trump, I doubt they'll do anything to make him seem remotely sympathetic, let alone go with the reveal in the comics.

Heck, the most horrifying thing is that these WMGs are more than likely gonna come true.

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JesusChristDenton said:
Honestly why didn't they stick with a similar format to the comics? It could actually work pretty well. Each episode could be them going after a super, discovering the skeletons in that supers closet, then figuring out a way to take them down.
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Instead of episode, it should be season, or sub-season plot.

But they dropped that so they can introduce the "generic nazi" antagonist.
 
First episode of Gen V synopsis:

HIV slinging protag murders parents with period blood and feels bad, genderfluid character's powers are a clusterfuck to edit, girl who gets small from bulemia climbs a penis, white man evil.
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Right, so, as someone who has no real idea of what exactly is going on with this show or who any of the characters are - I only really know about it because Homelander has been popping up in various things recently - can someone please explain what exactly the general consensus, plot, characters, etc., is? I'd appreciate it, thanks.
 
I didn't mind seasons 2 and 3, and am looking forward to season 4... until I heard the announcement there's gonna be a fifth season. No, you've got the perfect set up. Butcher's dead in a few months, Ryan might be going evil, and Homelander has learned he can basically do anything and be praised for it. Just finish the story by having Homelander lose his powers after a cure is developed from Soldier Boy's powers, have Butcher beat the shit out of him, and then he dies. It doesn't need to go on forever and ever.
 
Ignoring the @DankSmoker warning, I went ahead and watched Gen V and was pretty surprised. I think it had a great premise, but the retarded writing and the constant parody brand mentioning made it cringe.

The first episode had someone literally hero'ed himself, exploding into a sky with hundreds of students capturing it with their phones, and yet no one doubted that the blood niggress was the one who killed him and protected the school.

The troonswitch character is a forced diversity character. If his power could depend on what type of genetelia he currently has, I think it would make a lot more sense, or at least less janky. That scene where he switches genders mid-fight is nonsense and would be easier to edit too if he stay in one gender during the fight.
 
The main character of the show is dogshit. Truly. The actual bones of the show would be 100% improved by a lack of her. Seriously just remove her and the show could be salvaged.
Also I didn't give a shit about the shrinking girls desire to be youtube famous and chronically hate reading her comments. The idea that you couldn't somehow monetize being small enough to fuck around inside barbie houses, or other things like that. It would be able to print money like mad.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
The main character of the show is dogshit. Truly. The actual bones of the show would be 100% improved by a lack of her. Seriously just remove her and the show could be salvaged.
Also I didn't give a shit about the shrinking girls desire to be youtube famous and chronically hate reading her comments. The idea that you couldn't somehow monetize being small enough to fuck around inside barbie houses, or other things like that. It would be able to print money like mad.
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The only way the show can redeem itself is to have Homelander show up in the final episode and laser everyone to death.
 
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