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

[Gurney Halleck]

These Gen X guys - Ennis, Millar, got away with being huge assholes under the guise of being edgy and I'm glad ppl are reappraising. Grant Morrison is insane, Neil Gaiman and that Dresden doll chick are just more creepy aging goths, and Alan Moore is a blowhard but they at least like people, care about real art in their spare time, and wanted to connect with humanity in their stories.

Getting a bit off topic, but of all the edgy 'Superhero deconstruction' comics I always had a soft spot for Warren Ellis's Supergod solely because of the plot point that India builds an AI powered superhuman and gives it the mission to save India, and said superhuman promptly concludes the best way to do this is to eradicate 90% of the Indian population. Even better is that it's actually stated this would've worked out in the long run.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Getting a bit off topic, but of all the edgy 'Superhero deconstruction' comics I always had a soft spot for Warren Ellis's Supergod solely because of the plot point that India builds an AI powered superhuman and gives it the mission to save India, and said superhuman promptly concludes the best way to do this is to eradicate 90% of the Indian population. Even better is that it's actually stated this would've worked out in the long run.

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That's totally on-brand for India. I love it!

 

[BiggestKai]

On another tangent, am I the only one who thought the Amazon version of The Tick just wasn't silly enough? Sure, Tick acted like a big blue doofus, but the rest of the show was too real-world natural compared to the comic, cartoon and Patrick Warburton series.

I'm watching it right now. I vaguely remember the tick comic since I've read it ~2017 ish but while I like The Tick himself, I feel like this is doing the Mad Max Fury Road thing where they nail the main character's casting but he's a secondary character in his own show.
What I'm trying to say is that this is focusing on Arthur a lot and it feels like Arthur's origin story more than it does a The Tick show.

 

[Cryogonal2]

is your idiot brain getting fucked by stupid?

are you nine years old

 

[ProudSkibidiTolietAryan]

are you nine years old

What? that's from the show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OOM21FchEU

That was like a highlight moment from the show?

 

[Corporal Lewis]

Just found out about Ozymandias' plan bro...damn that shit sucks man.

 

[Choco Latte Pocky]

I'm watching it right now. I vaguely remember the tick comic since I've read it ~2017 ish but while I like The Tick himself, I feel like this is doing the Mad Max Fury Road thing where they nail the main character's casting but he's a secondary character in his own show.
What I'm trying to say is that this is focusing on Arthur a lot and it feels like Arthur's origin story more than it does a The Tick show.

I think part of it is that they were hoping for a second season so you get these minor hints that there's more to the tick than meets the eye (along with other characters getting their own little gimmicks and things to expand on for later seasons) but womp-womp on that so you're left with a show that's more about Arthur getting dragged along by his friendly tulpa into being a hero the city needs and the people that get caught in the orbit of these shenanigans.

 

[N Man]

Homelander? More like Homolander, haha, amirite broskis?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I'm watching it right now. I vaguely remember the tick comic since I've read it ~2017 ish but while I like The Tick himself, I feel like this is doing the Mad Max Fury Road thing where they nail the main character's casting but he's a secondary character in his own show.
What I'm trying to say is that this is focusing on Arthur a lot and it feels like Arthur's origin story more than it does a The Tick show.

There is that problem too, but the main issue is that the world of the show is just too normal for The Tick to be used to his true potential.

I am also not sure Serafiniowicz was that well-cast, he's never been one to cut loose in the way that a huge, indestructible blue twit really should.

Fun trivia, the voice of Arthur in the cartoon was Micky Dolenz of The Monkees.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I think part of it is that they were hoping for a second season so you get these minor hints that there's more to the tick than meets the eye (along with other characters getting their own little gimmicks and things to expand on for later seasons) but womp-womp on that so you're left with a show that's more about Arthur getting dragged along by his friendly tulpa into being a hero the city needs and the people that get caught in the orbit of these shenanigans.

They did two seasons.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Snyder totally missed the point of the book. Ozymadias was completely miscast, costumes were Batman and Robin-level awful, but Jackie Earl Haley as Rorschach is so good he deserved to be in a much better movie.

Anyone who doesn't think the alleyway fight scene with Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre against the street gang was completely inappropriate in tone and style when compared to the comic probably didn't get the point of the whole thing. Snyder took something that should be disturbing and makes it into a cool, stylized setpiece and the movie only gets worse from there.


On another tangent, am I the only one who thought the Amazon version of The Tick just wasn't silly enough? Sure, Tick acted like a big blue doofus, but the rest of the show was too real-world natural compared to the comic, cartoon and Patrick Warburton series.

The Tick forever suffers from the fact that they had to create OC characters for the cartoon that are legally owned by the studio who made it (and Ben is too cheap to buy them off the studio ala Mattel buying Orko and other Filmation creations from that studio) because Ticks supporting cast outside Arthur just couldn't appear on a kids show due to Standards and Practices saying "no just no" to them. And those OCs turned out to be more popular than Tick, leading to any further adaptations having the issues of people bitching about the lack of American Maid, Fleur De Maus, Sewer Urchin in the show.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

God, imagine if Homelander wins though

If they really want to deconstruct the genre, do that. Have everyone fail to stop him. And then have Homelander say he's bored of being President already and fly off to a tropical destination. Have him hanging out on a beach with a bunch of hot milfs while everyone else is seething but there's fuck all they can do. That would be hilarious.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

Snyder totally missed the point of the book. Ozymadias was completely miscast, costumes were Batman and Robin-level awful, but Jackie Earl Haley as Rorschach is so good he deserved to be in a much better movie.

Anyone who doesn't think the alleyway fight scene with Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre against the street gang was completely inappropriate in tone and style when compared to the comic probably didn't get the point of the whole thing. Snyder took something that should be disturbing and makes it into a cool, stylized setpiece and the movie only gets worse from there.


On another tangent, am I the only one who thought the Amazon version of The Tick just wasn't silly enough? Sure, Tick acted like a big blue doofus, but the rest of the show was too real-world natural compared to the comic, cartoon and Patrick Warburton series.

I feel like making it so that Manhattan was the scapegoat instead of random fake alien corpses tied the plotlines up a lot more snugly

Like, to me, that's just a straight-up improvement. I never liked the squids.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I feel like making it so that Manhattan was the scapegoat instead of random fake alien corpses tied the plotlines up a lot more snugly

Like, to me, that's just a straight-up improvement. I never liked the squids.

I prefer the big blue dick sitting things out, it is more in line with his philosophy.

The fake alien plot makes more sense, since it was something that Ozy could convince regular people was a threat that could be fought. Dr. M is omnipotent, so people would have no hope of survival, let alone victory and wouldn't go for Ozy's plan as easily.

 

[TheHarbinger]

This was probably the worst episode in the series. The budget has to be under half of a season one episode now. And the writing is just riddled with plot holes and forced coincidences. The world also feels so small because of the budget. Not a single reaction to Homelander killing the President.

 

[dcss]

That was fucking shit. I have no idea how they're going to pull off the finale unless it's 3 hours long or something.

 

[Memes Cat]

Oh man you just know the finale is gonna be shit from this past episode. They're not only roping in Gen V characters that no one cares about in this but for some fucking reason they're keeping Sage around despite her not serving the plot well whatsoever and killing off more interesting characters instead. This is so shit.

 

[BiggestBuford]

Spoiler: Episode 7

Wow, watching MM and Starlight kill a couple supes was actually kinda neat. Honestly pretty funny that MM shot the water jug to get the cat hero wet. This whole time I thought she was doing the cat thing as a le quirky gimmick but the fact that she was truly cat brained was funny. Hughie and Butcher got lucky that the mental supe that got them was one they knew had a sad backstory. Would've been better if they sought out Synapse instead of the writers letting them get lucky with it.

Why the fuck wasn't the whole show like this? Hunting supes? All the back stories Butcher gave in seasons 1 and 2 had me hopeful the show could be a supe hunting show! Also why the fuck would they ruin a screening room to kill 24 people? They couldn't move them into a dedicated kill room? Do they not want to screen test more people to see if they'll follow Homelander as a God?

On to the end of the episode, I'm fine with Frenchie dying, hell more of the main cast should have been killed/maimed. I do have a problem that Homelander didn't crush his skull and the only reason why Frenchie didn't die this way is because the writers wanted him to say some gay shit to Kimiko before he died. Gay and stupid episode, the only difference from now and 40 minutes ago is Frenchie is dead. Nothing in universe has been affected, 1 character died, and The Boys are literally all standing in the same exact location they were in at the start of the episode. Pretty much no movement AT ALL!

Non spoiler. Episode was nontent, you can watch the last 5 minutes of it and be equally caught up on the show as anyone who watched the entire episode

 

[N Man]

Wow, this show fell off hard, huh?

 

[Jerk Sausage]

Non spoiler. Episode was nontent, you can watch the last 5 minutes of it and be equally caught up on the show as anyone who watched the entire episode

I haven't watched an entire episode since S1, I just scrub through them until there's a scene which isn't:

• Poopy Penis Gore Humor
• Dramatic dialogue in a single room across an entire episode between the dullest people with the worst plans/motivations
• We wuz geniuses
• Christians and Trumptards are the real megalomaniacs.

The penultimate episode is pretty much all of the above. I don't even know why I bother, I usually drop shows/books when they initially dip in quality. I suppose The Deep and Homelander are interesting performances. Everyone else has had their character raped into unrecognizable boring blobs.