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

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TheArtilleryman said:
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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The deep should have been the most serious of The Seven to contrast with the rest caring about the image of the Seven the most getting pissed at Homelander for ruining a good thing.
 
TheArtilleryman said:
I don't understand why they blackened A-Train
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Because black people run faster, duh. They need to so they can outrun lions in the Saharas and the police in the US.

So it seems like the leaks are more or less legit. This weeks episode sucked, I rolled my eyes at the ballsack retirement home fight. I’m so fucking sick of the stoner humor. The only really funny bit was when Noir broke the pipeline to get back at Deep. How Deep overpowered Noir though, I don’t get.

At least the story progressed a bit, but it 100% feels like they’re just setting things up for the spin-off at this point.
 
Me•cha•ni•cal said:
The only really funny bit was when Noir broke the pipeline to get back at Deep.
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That storyline was awful. It just shows the tiny budget this series has. Everything happens off screen. Characters just announce what happened and there's no visuals. This show is performed like an audio book. You can listen to the show and get everything as they don't have the production level to build sets for the big moments.
Me•cha•ni•cal said:
How Deep overpowered Noir though, I don’t get.
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Deep can survive the lowest pressures of the ocean so he's resilient. But Noir can fly which the writers clearly forgot. All Noir had to do was simply fly away when the Deep started choking him. Every superhero fight on this show is just two people throwing each other into a concrete wall or someone strangling someone to death. Gen V had better fight sequences as people at least used their powers.
 
TheHarbinger said:
That storyline was awful. It just shows the tiny budget this series has. Everything happens off screen. Characters just announce what happened and there's no visuals. This show is performed like an audio book. You can listen to the show and get everything as they don't have the production level to build sets for the big moments.
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All the storylines are awful. At least this one gave me a chuckle because it was such a bizarre and over the top way to get back at him.

TheHarbinger said:
Deep can survive the lowest pressures of the ocean so he's resilient. But Noir can fly which the writers clearly forgot. All Noir had to do was simply fly away when the Deep started choking him. Every superhero fight on this show is just two people throwing each other into a concrete wall or someone strangling someone to death. Gen V had better fight sequences as people at least used their powers.
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Idk why he didn’t just flip him over his shoulders onto the table. It’s probably for budget reasons like you said. It’s a lot cheaper to film him getting choked out compared to what it would cost to choreograph, rehearse, shoot and edit a ’real’ fight scene. There was still room for the retirement home fight in the budget though 🙄
 
I keep forgetting this is the final season and they're trying to finish loose ends. I mean "trying" because obviously they're limping to the finish line in a GoT way. They're obviously totally rejecting the comic series ending so it'll be even lamer. If they do totally cancel Gen V and The Boys (not retroactively decide to do another mini season for either) BUT want some gay ass Vought Amazon Universe where they shit out spinoffs I'm pretty sure making this season end stupidly won't do that series any favors. For any kinda good ideas this show had they always had to double down and bring retarded things in too. A lot of characters are so redundant and useless that it really doesn't matter if they get killed off later. I'm expecting the finale to be stupid as fuck so let's see how bad it'll be. Apparently they're screening the last episode in theaters too just imagine the audience's reaction to whatever dumb shit Eric Kripke comes up with?
 
You know, the more I think about it the more I find it rather funny that theyre playing the Homelander religious angle, considering how much contempt theyve had towards Christianity throughout the shows run. Last episode they tried to make Firecracker seem sympathetic for being loyal to Christianity, but even back in season 1, when the show was significantly better, they had an entire episode basically dedicated to shitting on those people. It kindve adds to how little direction they have, because their final plotline is largely predicated upon the nostalgia and sympathy for a group of people they very obviously dislike and have expressed as much throughout the shows run.
 
To those who read - what point/issue/etc should I jump to now, or did live go way the fuck off-script at this point and I'd just have to ride it out?
 
TheArtilleryman said:
They already had a black character in The Deep
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Yeah but Aquaman (outside of the Jason Momoa interpretation) has frequently been disregarded by people that have never picked up a comic as a joke character whose only ability is talking to fish. So to cash in on that they made The Deep a joke character, but you can't make a black man a joke character because das raycis n shieet, so now he's white.
 
I actually really liked the pacing of this season up to this episode. There's a constant ratcheting up of the tension in an unpredictable race against the clock where people are dropping left and right. If they would have kept that pacing up until the last episode with either the boys or homelander getting V1, then this season would have been a lot better. I'm doubtful the next 2 episodes are going to have this tension.
 
Memes Cat said:
I keep forgetting this is the final season and they're trying to finish loose ends. I mean "trying" because obviously they're limping to the finish line in a GoT way. They're obviously totally rejecting the comic series ending so it'll be even lamer. If they do totally cancel Gen V and The Boys (not retroactively decide to do another mini season for either) BUT want some gay ass Vought Amazon Universe where they shit out spinoffs I'm pretty sure making this season end stupidly won't do that series any favors. For any kinda good ideas this show had they always had to double down and bring retarded things in too. A lot of characters are so redundant and useless that it really doesn't matter if they get killed off later. I'm expecting the finale to be stupid as fuck so let's see how bad it'll be. Apparently they're screening the last episode in theaters too just imagine the audience's reaction to whatever dumb shit Eric Kripke comes up with?
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The comic ending was off the table as soon as they killed off Noir V1, and so easily too. But to be fair, it would have retarded implications for the rest of the series I think, if Vought could just shit out another Homelander except this one actually follows orders even at his own expense. So much of this series is because Homelander is the big one. The comic series got away with it, and the whole twist happened in the first place because clone plot twists were in vogue. It doesnt have the same relevance now; but the show is always going for a different tone. Well, and now it's unironically going for it's own extended universe, so I dont think that mockery of capeshit trends is as important to them. I don't think The Boys EU has any longevity either. Who wants to know more? This is a shitty world to live in.

macrodegenerate said:
I actually really liked the pacing of this season up to this episode. There's a constant ratcheting up of the tension in an unpredictable race against the clock where people are dropping left and right. If they would have kept that pacing up until the last episode with either the boys or homelander getting V1, then this season would have been a lot better. I'm doubtful the next 2 episodes are going to have this tension.
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This episode might as well have been the finale for me. The two biggest questions have been: 1. Will Soldier Boy come through in the clutch, and 2. How do they stop Homelander?
The first one is obviously answered. The second, they've made it pretty clear how they're going to handle Homelander in this episode. They spent the entire episode preaching about how immortality is a curse, and the protagonists overcame their internal conflict by accepting their mortality and sacrifice. They hyped the fuck out of Bombsight and he just showed up, begged to be mortal again, and then fucked off so he could die a human. Somehow Homelander is going to get some "Eventually Kars stopped thinking" fate worse than death, probably with the help of Gus Fring. I dont think there's really any questions left for me anymore.
 
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