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

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

They’re making a TV series based off Crossed.

 

[TheHarbinger]

They’re making a TV series based off Crossed. I have no fucking idea how they’re going to make that fit for TV short of toning it down to The Crazies levels of violence.

It's only a movie. They finished filming it last year and it's in post production (supposedly a lot of CGI).

 

[trent]

Are you new to Garth Ennis? Crossed has a scene where some guy gets his young daughter graphically torn to pieces because he thought salt repelled the zombies. This scene is framed like a comedy.

Ennis is Northern Irish so he is basically the closest thing to a cave dwelling savage that exists in the Western world.

Backwards mutants from a forbidden zone that no civilized country wants to take responsibility for.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

My post does of course assume there was some reason they weren't allowed to just do a straight adaption of the comic, like the people paying for the show wanting something different or something like that.

The comics are very anti-corporation, I would argue even more so than anti-superhero. All of the themes and evil characterisations of Vought in the comics can also be easily applied to Amazon in real life. They had to make it about Orange Man Bad or some other current day bullshit instead of publishing a work that is obviously extremely critical of their own existence (the megacorp who owns the show)

It's actually disgusting how a corporation took this venomous critique of corporate America and turned it in to more goyslop. Fuck Amazon.

 

[Estate]

OK fella, you keep being mad about The Boys and others’ opinions and I’ll keep being amused by your uncontrollable emotional issues.

Now that you are channeling your true self, a limp wristed redditor who got bitch slapped, it is time to SUCK MY DICK and EAT MY SHIT.
But don't worry, it's ok, because it's not edgy

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Holy shit I completely forgot about that, yeah Butcher has fucking late-stage terminal cancer.

Even without his powers Homelander is a completely healthy dude and is in decent physical shape, even if he has zero training compared to Butcher just in their default unpowered states Butcher is in way worse shape than Homelander is, but he just beats the fuck out of him like he's the Mountain anyway, pulling Mortal Kombat fatalities on him with zero effort lmao

God the powerscaling in this show is nonsensical

I think this begun with the introduction of temp V, which I thought was utter fucking nonsense that I'm pretty sure wasn't even in the comic book. The way people in the show just acquire and lose their powers constantly like it's not a big deal is retarded as hell, it completely changes overall dynamics and stakes. It's layers upon layers of contrivance that render all their worldbuilding moot.
The very concept of compound V is supposed to be a bit more realistic as far as superpowers go. Once you take it, it changes you forever, you're not a human anymore, you become a mutant, inhuman - that's one of the reasons Butcher is capable of doing anything to them, he simply doesn't see supes as human, no matter who they are. He sees them as a mistake to erase.
I knew they lost the plot completely when they brought in Soldier Boy with depowering emissions. At some point this started to feel like CW capeshit.

 

[regalterry]

At what point are these people going to ask themselves "Are we the baddies?"

That would require the ability for introspection, which all leftists lack.

Twelve years on from John Wick and five years on from Nobody and most directors still haven’t figured out that audiences want long-take, coherent, contextual action scenes.

Oh, they know, they just think making those is too hard, so they just go the lazy way.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Are you new to Garth Ennis? Crossed has a scene where some guy gets his young daughter graphically torn to pieces because he thought salt repelled the zombies. This scene is framed like a comedy.

At least with Crossed, you know there's no pretense for any sort of commentary. Unlike The Boys, its purpose is to be as gross and degenerate as possible, that's the entire theme. That one is indeed just shock content through and through, at least as I remember it.
The only reason for a normal person to read it is morbid curiosity.

 

[SITHRAK!]

temp V, which I thought was utter fucking nonsense that I'm pretty sure wasn't even in the comic book

It’s not. There is basically The Boys’ CIA-procured ‘stable’ V which gives the user super strength only, and what you might term ‘wild V’ which has random effects (including nothing at all).

Vought administers ‘wild V’ to kids and uses ‘talent shows’ to rank kids’ usefulness to them depending on which powers, if any, manifest in them. Get great powers and you have a lifetime job as a top-ranked supe. Get shitty ones and you join a team like Superduper. Get ones that make your eyes explode or your arms and legs fall off and you’re on your own.

But as with Mother’s Milk, a lot of supes are people who happened to be randomly exposed, as Vought doesn’t mind random supes popping up that they can recruit. The books also show that Japan and Russia had their own programs with arguably less success than Vought.

 

[Payne in the Max]

Media literacy is supposed to mean your ability to dissect and understand media. What it ends up meaning, the way the internet uses it, is "You don't like this so you don't get it and this is my way of not having to explain myself"

It's usually used to say "waah waah, chud. You're not supposed to like that character. We're making FUN of you. reeee!"

 

[trent]

It’s not. There is basically The Boys’ CIA-procured ‘stable’ V which gives the user super strength only, and what you might term ‘wild V’ which has random effects (including nothing at all).

Vought administers ‘wild V’ to kids and uses ‘talent shows’ to rank kids’ usefulness to them depending on which powers, if any, manifest in them. Get great powers and you have a lifetime job as a top-ranked supe. Get shitty ones and you join a team like Superduper. Get ones that make your eyes explode or your arms and legs fall off and you’re on your own.

But as with Mother’s Milk, a lot of supes are people who happened to be randomly exposed, as Vought doesn’t mind random supes popping up that they can recruit. The books also show that Japan and Russia had their own programs with arguably less success than Vought.

Yeah, the comics handled the entire concept of V much better.

The Boys pretty much had to take it to be able to combat Voughts supes because, logically, even a lower tier one could kill all of them easily without the strength/durability it gave them.

It was a decent way of leveling the playing field without having a to write the villains in the story as utter morons who just end up dying of stupidity despite being vastly more powerful than the motley crew of normal humans that are trying to take them out.