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

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The Frenchie/Kimiko plotline was brought to its conclusion in the worst possible way. This season spent multiple episodes underlining that they weren't compatible, that Frenchie didn't really understand Kimiko's wishes and Kimiko wanted stability and didn't want to try and "tame" Frenchie.

Then out of nowhere Frenchie pulls out a speech about settling down in Marseilles, having three children and look here's the dog we can adopt! Oh no he died. What a surprise. It would have been considerably more meaningful if they'd spent the season building up them planning a life together in the background of other episodes a bit more organically and then oh no, heroic sacrifice. Maybe Homelander locks Frenchie in the radiation chamber and they find him collapsed and burned, instead we get the hackneyed "Here's a photo of my sweetheart back home"/"I'm on week from retirement" plot beat. Credit where it's due, Kimiko's actress did a pretty good job, but the whole thing was crap and it didn't need a goodbye speech.

I was also exhausted with yet another "Butcher's a conflicted person who's maybe not such a great guy and Hughie you have to be his conscience because you can hope" story, I didn't need to see Catwoman and Dogman sniff each other and talk about what they had for lunch for what felt like 10 minutes while MM and Startlight mug to the camera "this is craaaazy". Nor did I need to see Frenchie and a lobotimsed Sage discuss the merits of Love Island. The show also has introduced a couple of characters from Generation V, but I have no context for who they are besides the black girl being super powerful but then dismissed as not being useful because oh no, Starlight is cynical and disappoints the idealistic youngster who looks up to her (they already did this with Maeve and Starlight).

I'll watch to the end mostly to know how Homelander dies (I assume that's the ending) but the only characters I'm still enjoying are Deep and Ashley, and Ashley's on thin ice after this episode. Thinking about it, Deep's been consistently the most enjoyable character because he's usually got his own separate comedic plot going on that's relatively unrelated to the "main" characters.
 
starborn427614 said:
I didn't hate Frenchie's death and how it was handled, but it's too little too late. This should've happened last season or early on in this one.
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Only thing that really bugged me about this is Sage was wasting time for no other reason other than she wanted to be a lazy nigger. For the World's Smartest Person why the fuck didn't she just go to her bunker and hide from Homelander? She had no plans to protect herself from Homelander? Like 1-800-COME-ON-NOW the writers of this show are lazy niggers too.
 
Gay Sex Enjoyer said:
I'm sure that'd be biting commentary if it was still 2003.
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Its stops getting parodied when it stops being true.
trent said:
Absolutely baffling that the last episode is next week. So little has happened this season.
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I HOPE that the finale is a super long episode like 2 hours, I hope that is what they are planning for the finale. a Ultra long 2 hour finale that does it.. If they do actually do that then I have hope.
 
I am gonna reserve my thoughts on the season once its over.

But it really is sad that the best parts so far of the season in terms of recurring elements are just how A-Train was handled, The Deep, and Oh Father

I like Homelander, but my god I hated how fucking stupid he became in the last two episodes from not bothering to kill The Boys and Sage when they were right there, or just fucking leaving their base after killing Frenchie even though his superhearing should allow him to be capable of hearing Butcher and Hughie entering the school or Kimiko/Sage leaving their hiding spot.

A lot of stuff in this season is just carried in isolated episodes or the acting performances as Karl Urban, Antony Star, and Jensen are really giving their all to such a dogshit script.
 
AssignedEva said:
I didn't need to see Catwoman and Dogman sniff each other and talk about what they had for lunch for what felt like 10 minutes
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Just remember, Kripke thought Dogshit and Shetard sniffing one another was an absolutely mandatory inclusion to TheBoys™ experience, but thought this scene was completely superfluous and completely cut it .

A scene that's massive character development for one of the main characters and extremely important for one of the minor ones was completely cut to put more dick and sex jokes in. Kravo Bripke.
 
AssignedEva said:
Then out of nowhere Frenchie pulls out a speech about settling down
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Most of the characters are retconned in some way. Soldier Boy was obsessed with Crimson Countess not Stormfront. Homelander was attracted to women sexually as mother figures not just an asexual weirdo. Frenchie had a fag lover named Colin and wasn't in love with Kimiko. Black Noir 2 could fly and had narcolepsy at one point. Marie was a Homelander level fighter who finally mastered her powers but is now useless. Firecracker was a bully who grew up rich but is now an orphan raised by her pastor.
 
The Frenchie thing was so stupid. He was obviously in love with Kimiko but then all of a sudden was made super gay for no reason at all when before it was the standard "when you do enough drugs anyone is fuckable" thing. I just know it was someone back stage that decided it was creepy or something so they pivoted even though a man and a woman trauma bonding like that happens every time if you have any real life experience with that.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
Just remember, Kripke thought Dogshit and Shetard sniffing one another was an absolutely mandatory inclusion to TheBoys™ experience, but thought this scene was completely superfluous and completely cut it .
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A scene that's massive character development for one of the main characters and extremely important for one of the minor ones was completely cut to put more dick and sex jokes in. Kravo Bripke.
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Wtf why wasn't this kept in this season? If anything it let's you know why Homelander dissolved the Seven and it adds tension to the Deep vs Black Noir 2 feud because BN2 being a theater actor on the side would've been the secret that he was holding back from Homelander. Also Deep was retarded for not telling Homelander that and he should've been scared that Homelander would kill him for killing BN2 because as Homelander says Black Noir was his favorite. Fucking Kripke. Obviously Seth Rogen has just made him more retarded with all the fart and dick jokes added in. Imagine being more retarded than Seth Rogen and Mark Millar combined? Oh right.
 
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