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

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The greater a'tuin said:
I hate this. Subversive liberal hypocrisy pretending mass murders warrant sympathy, but someone who said nigga on twitter once 10 years ago is irredeemable. Only makes sense to soulless nihilists who hate human life.
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I saw writer of the boys saying that this is a fair universe where you get punished for doing "bad" things and rewarded for doing "good" and you can see it with vought on ice where the actors who mocked the happy holidays trend got immediately executed. I think it's a pretty telling example because they didn't bother demonising them so the only thing that warranted their execution was singing a conservative song. If I were the intended audience my reaction would be anger at the actors and the glee when they were murdered, which is kinda jarring if you think about the implications and how it relates to their behaviour in real world.
 
It's actually kind of striking just how little The Boys themselves actually influence the plot, like 90% of the forward plot development is pushed by The Seven or just Homelander himself.

The Boys involvement in any particular season basically goes like this.

Butcher says "We have to fookin kill O'mander to avenge me fookin wife and wife's boyfriend's fookin son whom he dun fookin killed!"

Six filler episodes where nothing happens.

They find a mguffin that can kill Homelander

The mguffin doesn't work

Season ends.
 
Jace on ice said:
It's actually kind of striking just how little The Boys themselves actually influence the plot, like 90% of the forward plot development is pushed by The Seven or just Homelander himself.

The Boys involvement in any particular season basically goes like this.

Butcher says "We have to fookin kill O'mander to avenge me fookin wife and wife's boyfriend's fookin son whom he dun fookin killed!"

Six filler episodes where nothing happens.

They find a mguffin that can kill Homelander

The mguffin doesn't work

Season ends.
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You would think they'd buck the trend with the final season, but besides A-Train none of the heroes have even died yet. I guess there's Firecracker, but she wasn't good in the slightest.
 
Jace on ice said:
I genuinely don't understand why the freak of the week format from the comics wasn't adopted for the show.

The first season largely stuck to that formula and it was the only good one.
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Honestly this show is one of the most egregious examples I've ever seen of the writers giving in to all of their worst instincts. The first season was good, and seasons 2 and 3 were still pretty entertaining even if they lacked direction. Season 4 was a mess and a sign they had no idea what they were doing, and they aren't even trying to write a decent ending with season 5. Its like the writers room is perpetually high and just think "what would be funny" while scrolling twitter. Thus, nothing really has any coherence, you have alot of things that are vaguely entertaining if you completely turn your brain off, and random references to whatever the topic of the day was when they were writing it. They're pretty much coasting off the fact they have a few great characters (homelander, butcher, to a much lesser extend the deep) that people like. All of the writing around them sucks though, and it shows. I think it really shows how little the show has actually progressed when they're using the plane video from season 1 as blackmail still, when we're in the 5th and final season.
 
Irregardless said:
The show has essentially devolved into Homelander = Trump, Trump = bad.
Then there's also the "let's act like everyone who makes fun of woke shit is insane, then let's unironically show support for that exact woke shit".
Also they're parodying redpill podcasts, as if anybody has given a shit about them in 3 years.

This season is literally just "The reason Democrats lost the 2024 election". It was written right before the 2024 election, thinking they were going to win and that everything they believed was totally true.
They started filming right after Kamala lost so I have no idea why they didn't take that as a sign to maybe chill the fuck out.
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Not only that, they're as subtle as a train crashing into an airplane with their contempt for Christians.
 
Wesker said:
Not only that, they're as subtle as a train crashing into an airplane with their contempt for Christians.
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Yup and it's the same "As a Godless heathen let me tell you how you a Christian should be acting" schtick it always is, as if the opinion of literal Satan worshiping faggots means anything to a religious person.
It's like look, I have no room to instruct these people on how their bull should fuck their wives, so I don't want to be told what a "good Christian" should believe.
 
Homelander trusted Black Noir, got betrayed, trusted A Train, got betrayed, trusts Sister Sage, is about to be betrayed. Is the real moral of this story that you should never trust niggers?
 
I CLAPPED FOR DEEP FLOYD, HE SAID THE LINE GREEN REDDIT, HE SAID "I CAN'T BREATHE!"

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Cryogonal2 said:
oh so NOW blackface is ok
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Listen, this show has all sorts of unintentional double standards, I absolutely adore it. Not in the way that it's meant to be seen. It's also made a lot more enjoyable to just skip through the main Boys stuff. Like you know, how the Deep was originally black but now he's white. Presumably because water.

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And then this is the original A-Train

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I know this point has been made countless times. Still funny.
 
Was alright this week, if only because shit is actually happening. Imagine if this was the second episode of the season instead of the fucking sixth.
 
ConsentAccidentVictimNo98 said:
Listen, this show has all sorts of unintentional double standards, I absolutely adore it. Not in the way that it's meant to be seen. It's also made a lot more enjoyable to just skip through the main Boys stuff. Like you know, how the Deep was originally black but now he's white. Presumably because water.

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And then this is the original A-Train

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I know this point has been made countless times. Still funny.
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I don't understand why they blackened A-Train. They already had a black character in The Deep, and he was arguably the most innocent of The Seven. They could have done anything with him, made him to be more of a significant villain, or have him switch sides and become a good guy later in the story for extra virtue points. All I can think of is perhaps the optics of repeatedly humiliating the black aquaman ripoff was too triggering for whatever brand of faggot worked on it, so they made him white instead. And also a rapist.
 
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