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

[LORD IMPERATOR]

The difference is that the CW was always on a shoestring budget due to the abominable viewership numbers, meanwhile Amazon is a gorillion dollar company and The Boys is the most popular show they have besides Invincible.

That doesn't mean they won't cut corners now and then. Especially as they're rushing to the finish line.

Between the two, Invincible seems to have a better fan reception; the Boys always seemed to be too edgy, whereas the edgy shit in Invincible serves the theme of the show.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

When Butcher was talking about how the spice girl couldn't smile, and the camera panned to Boggedlight, lel

 

[Bolo_the_Second]

the writers and show runners have decided to make holy law one the most retarded aspects of the comic, which is that Voight has a monopoly on all super heroes and their creations and no one cares challenge them, not even world governments because fuck you that's why.

Does the show also wants us to believe that comics were supposed to be the medium to sell the public on the origins of super-powered people and their "exploits", just so the other issue they have parents selling their children to be injected with compound-V to be a cash cow and Supes being very public with their hedonic behaviour?

Obviously I get that Ennis didn't give two shits about logistics here, even if the motherfucker wrote entires books with nothing but exposition. The point of "The Boys" comics was simple: to shit on superheroes comics, so whatever, I guess Ennis took the path of least resistance and just made everything Vought centered to represent the whole comics industry. Dumb? sure, but I get it.

But the series seems to diverge from the comics, and seems more focused on...

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:


It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:


It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

A little bit of both. They're just adding the "Orange Man Bad" to the message, but they pretty much portrayed superheroes consistently as scumbags and hypocrites, and the eradication of supes is pretty much a positive development from the show's perspective. The very franchise of superheroes is so toxic, even their James Stillwell stand-in, Stan Edgar, wants to do away with superheroes entirely and replace them with soldiers powered with Temp V. The show obviously took the comics' message of "superheroes are bad" and continued to run with it, just adding some modern pop-culture references to it, like how the first season made fun of Disney MCU fans.

Notice how every supe who went fully good discarded their costume and their identity and cut ties with Vought. And even the supes' boss sees the supes as retarded manchildren or old prostitutes.

 

[Not Funny]

Butcher escapes and lives alone peacefully in Hawaii.

So did they forget that without V, Butcher has super cancer? He couldn't live without it? His tentacle powers are a manifestation of that?

I guess they forgot one of the major plot points of season 4 huh. Not that it fucking matters.

Christ, this show really dropped the ball hard towards the end of Season 3. It's the same shit with game of thrones. The creators want out so they rush a shitty ending so they can go work on something else. Too bad for Benioff and Weiss their star wars project fell through. And nobody will want to work with them now since they ruined game of thrones.

Same thing is going to happen to Kripke. Guarantee it.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Does the show also wants us to believe that comics were supposed to be the medium to sell the public on the origins of super-powered people and their "exploits", just so the other issue they have parents selling their children to be injected with compound-V to be a cash cow and Supes being very public with their hedonic behaviour?

Obviously I get that Ennis didn't give two shits about logistics here, even if the motherfucker wrote entires books with nothing but exposition. The point of "The Boys" comics was simple: to shit on superheroes comics, so whatever, I guess Ennis took the path of least resistance and just made everything Vought centered to represent the whole comics industry. Dumb? sure, but I get it.

But the series seems to diverge from the comics, and seems more focused on...

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:

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It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

When the comic ended, for a couple of years afterwards, a popular hipster scum cancer within the comic community interpretation of the series and it's message was "toxic masculinity=bad" and Butcher's pre death monologue basically being him ascribing masculinity and being "manly" to being a "boy" and that people like Butcher were stunted man children who never grew up to be proper soy boy bitches and that Butcher envied how Hughie and his wussy soy boy nature was right even as Butcher only managed to get Hughie to kill him by manipulating him one last time like a beta bitch. Which is hilarious given that the final issue basically has Hughie turn into Butcher 2.0 and filling out Butcher style punishments and threats left and right....

 

[Me•cha•ni•cal]

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.

I felt this way about the episode where Soldierboy gave Homelander the V1, I was actually pissed off and dumbfounded me that goons were giving it 8/9 on IMDb.

I thought this episode was fine and it’s getting roasted to bits. It reminded me of when the show had its momentum back in season 1/2. It felt like their lives were actually at risk when Homelander showed up. I liked how Butcher needlessly fucking destroyed Posh Spice in his pep-talk, Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s cameo, the pre-screening massacre fight, MM returning to his old self and Frenchies death scene (although I think it could have been handled better but that’s the case for the whole season).

The GenZs finally showed up, and the first thing they do is erase all the hype they built around Marie. She can’t control her powers all of a sudden but afaik she’s the only one that has managed to kill a V1 supe. It’s so lazy. We got a scene where the cat woman and dog man sniffed each others asses though - COMEDY GOLD *insert Seth Rogen hhhuu hhhhuu hhhuu laugh*

Had this been episode 2 of this season I think it would have been great. The steaks would have been higher and the Boys would have been more motivated to avenge Frenchie. How they’re going to tie up all the loose ends in one hour, I don’t know and I don’t fucking care.

Where were these leaks originally posted? I’ve seen some claimed leaks so far that are massively different

If the ones above are true, that’d be kinda kino

There’s a subreddit dedicated to the boys leaks. Apparently some reviewers/critics who watched pre-screenings have been posting the leaks which is why they were mostly accurate. However, there has been no pre-screening of the finale so any leaks coming out about it are unreliable (according to the subreddit).

All the psychics are bald.

Alopecia ass looking niggas scare me. Why they ain’t got no eyebrows??