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

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It's just very poorly written. "Intelligent" characters written by less than intelligent writers are usually executed poorly, and this is also the case, here. There are a ton of plots that go nowhere and lead to nothing. Male sexual assault is played up for laughs. The politics of the show pale in comparison to the other more glaring flaws.
So season 4 is a quick skip? Good to know, thank you for your service.

For as much as I enjoy to complete my shows, shit writing can make it easy to drop 'em. Ahem, Walking Dead.

Honestly, I wish they'd just go the route of the comics and kill everyone, then be done with it. Evidently, there's no hope.
 
So I'm guessing season 4 just sucks balls and I should just watch season 1-3 then? Because given the seethe of Trump-brainrot, I can see myself getting really annoyed by it.
I'd stop at the end of Season 1, Season 2 pulls the old "All the characters go right back to what they were in the beginning of the series, as if they learned nothing from the events of the last season" routine and majorly sucks.
 
I'd stop at the end of Season 1, Season 2 pulls the old "All the characters go right back to what they were in the beginning of the series, as if they learned nothing from the events of the last season" routine and majorly sucks.
Amazon should have taken notes from AMC as to why that is a good way to kill your golden goose.

Indeed, I just mentioned Walking Dead before but that show is a prime example of peak stagnation. Horrible pacing, no progression, constant repetition, Carl, plot threads that are abandoned and endless spinoffs no one asked for instead of just ending.

And that kinda hurt because I really loved that show.

I get the feeling that The Boys is going to suffer the same fate. Evidently, it ends after season 5 but spinoffs will be produced ad nauseam. How long before Boys NFTs?
 
I'd stop at the end of Season 1, Season 2 pulls the old "All the characters go right back to what they were in the beginning of the series, as if they learned nothing from the events of the last season" routine and majorly sucks.
The whole "Girls Get it Done" plot is kind of funny, though. I love how Vaught plays to both the "super religious" and the "super woke left" at the same time. It's just the way a real corporation acts. Instead of staying out of things, they just play to both sides, and fail all around.
 
The whole "Girls Get it Done" plot is kind of funny, though. I love how Vaught plays to both the "super religious" and the "super woke left" at the same time. It's just the way a real corporation acts. Instead of staying out of things, they just play to both sides, and fail all around.
But it is all stuff that's been said before, better, elsewhere, making watching The Boys redundant.
 
Crossposting, but check out this "totally clever" jab at Trump that show's creators just did.

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I was going to tap out after the abomination that was season 4, but Trump winning the election has made me morbidly curious on how much worse the writing quality will be for both The Boys and Gen V.
They supposedly had the ending already written last year. But with multiple new spinoff series and now Trump winning they have already signaled that "some stuff hasn't been finalized yet". Meaning that probably a bunch of characters will survive the end of the show to make room for more spinoffs. And they will likely lean more into the Trump and Homelander comparisons.

Also there is still the Soldier Boy and Stormfront prequel series. Stormfront will return for the final season alongside Soldier Boy. So expect them to rewrite her Nazi past and soften her character. I would bet that they make the character jewish like the actress who plays her. And that her being a secret jew will be the big storyline of the prequel alongside some Operation Paperclip and origins of Vought plot.
 
So season 4 is a quick skip? Good to know, thank you for your service.

For as much as I enjoy to complete my shows, shit writing can make it easy to drop 'em. Ahem, Walking Dead.

Honestly, I wish they'd just go the route of the comics and kill everyone, then be done with it. Evidently, there's no hope.
Whichever episode has Homelander visiting the place he was kept as a kid and the finale are worth watching. Read a wiki synopsis for the rest if you care to know.
 
I would bet that they make the character jewish like the actress who plays her. And that her being a secret jew will be the big storyline of the prequel alongside some Operation Paperclip and origins of Vought plot.
I was completely gobsmacked that they didn't do this in Season 2. When you foreshadow something like that so hard, and when it solves a character's problems (how does Stormfront regain the trust of the public after being outed as a Nazi), how do you not pull the trigger?
 
I was going to tap out after the abomination that was season 4, but Trump winning the election has made me morbidly curious on how much worse the writing quality will be for both The Boys and Gen V.
I definitely believe that Starlight (or one of The Boys) is going to scold a group of people who supported Homelander that are now in camps or something.

All I want is Butcher to commit full genocide, but I know I won't get that.
 
Sorry to double post but Kripke said something pretty cringeworthy

>Calls Himself Punk Rock
>Has show on Amazon
>Says he doesn't want the Boys to become what it's satirizing
>Has at least 3 spinoff shows planned for an expanded universe

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“I live in absolute terror of ‘THE BOYS’ becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for 5 years” it already has, you self-important hack.

>Makes fun of franchises having tons of stupid spin-offs and merchandise
>Show becomes a franchise with a ton of stupid spin-offs and merchandise

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Real "punk rock", there.

The show never had anything going for it beyond Starr's charisma as Homelander, (Despite everything else about the show, I think Starr has at least done a good job as a narcissistic but oddly compelling villainous version of Superman). Everyone else on the show is a grating disaster, including Urban and the face-bogged Erin Moriarty. Really a shame they've wasted Starr on a midwit show for liberal nerds, by liberal nerds like Kripke.

Kripke is a sell-out, but I think he lacks the self-awareness some sell-outs have about their status as sell-outs. A situation like that, it often just ends up with the non-aware sell-out believing he's actually a good person while raking in the money and just becoming more of a hypocrite as the days go by.
 
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“I live in absolute terror of ‘THE BOYS’ becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for 5 years” it already has, you self-important hack.

>Makes fun of franchises having tons of stupid spin-offs and merchandise
>Show becomes a franchise with a ton of stupid spin-offs and merchandise
I still remember that Episode in Season 4 where it was Voughtcon or whatever where they parodied the MCU announcements and timelines Disney has at D23, and what feels like the same exact week they put out that episode they announced there would be the Soldier Boy/Stormfront spinoff. Not even going to bother with that shit, although I fully expect Stormfront to continue being the most tame Nazi in existence where she doesn't call people niggers or kikes.
 
I fully expect Stormfront to continue being the most tame Nazi in existence where she doesn't call people niggers or kikes.
I really don't get this. There's all kinds of explicit everything (..except nude women) in this shitty show but God forbid an explicitly nazi character literally from the 1940s call someone a niggerkike faggot. Either the writers are complete pussies, or it doesn't occur to them at all, or they aren't allowed to, which wraps around to them being pussies. There's a fourth option, so retarded I hesitate to even suggest it; they want to rehabilitate Stormfront and, you know, being a superpowered nazi who genocides towns or whatever, that's one thing, but saying nigger? Kike? That's unforgivable.
 
I really don't get this. There's all kinds of explicit everything (..except nude women) in this shitty show but God forbid an explicitly nazi character literally from the 1940s call someone a niggerkike faggot. Either the writers are complete pussies, or it doesn't occur to them at all, or they aren't allowed to, which wraps around to them being pussies. There's a fourth option, so retarded I hesitate to even suggest it; they want to rehabilitate Stormfront and, you know, being a superpowered nazi who genocides towns or whatever, that's one thing, but saying nigger? Kike? That's unforgivable.
It's unlikely they can even say the word in the writers' room. Even when discussing real-world history. Even if the real-world history happened to them.

 
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