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

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Never read this comic series though I do love the Ennis run with The Punisher so I enjoyed his style there, but the show certainly has my interest, I'll probably check out the comic just to see the absurdity of the story there now that I've finished watching it.
 
This is probably the single most virtue signaling superhero genre show I have ever watched. From a cuck soyboi hero to christfag female turning into feminist victimz, and obviously metoo shit and antichristian shit thrown in there, I couldn't believe how woke this show was. Did I mention anti corporation?

I kept watching but it never got any better. It was the same tone same shit over and over again.
 
Stoned Alex Jones said:
I just want to thank this thread. It talked me into watching the boys and it now one of my favorite shows.
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It doesn't do the comic justice. Never was into comics, but gifted the watchman, V and the boys from a sibling and the boys stood out. As someone mentioned before, the series is watered down. In the comic the whorehouse bit explored the physical dangers of supes fucking prostitutes to death, the adaptation was milktoast in comparison.
 
Douglas Reynholm said:
It doesn't do the comic justice. Never was into comics, but gifted the watchman, V and the boys from a sibling and the boys stood out. As someone mentioned before, the series is watered down. In the comic the whorehouse bit explored the physical dangers of supes fucking prostitutes to death, the adaptation was milktoast in comparison.
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I think I'll give the comics a try then.
 
Just finished watching this, that was fucked up. I'm seriously impressed and slightly disturbed all at the same time, think I'll stick around for season two. One question is the cliffhanger ending anything like the comics?
 
Clown College said:
Just finished watching this, that was fucked up. I'm seriously impressed and slightly disturbed all at the same time, think I'll stick around for season two. One question is the cliffhanger ending anything like the comics?
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Nope. The show made me want to read the comics, so I went through all of them in a few days, and the show went in a completely different direction. Surely there will be things that will be explored in s2, even though I'ma bit disapponted that the "spy story" part of the plot was neglected. I appreciated the bits of humor, tho, like The Deep's bad luck with marine creatures.
 
TungstenCarbide said:
Nope. The show made me want to read the comics, so I went through all of them in a few days, and the show went in a completely different direction. Surely there will be things that will be explored in s2, even though I'ma bit disapponted that the "spy story" part of the plot was neglected. I appreciated the bits of humor, tho, like The Deep's bad luck with marine creatures.
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Thanks I'm not much of a comic fan but I might pick this one up to compare the two when the show run is up.
 
Got two episodes left to watch but overall, after reading the comics I gotta say I'm liking the show a bit better.

Keep in mind I'm a stupidly huge Ennis fan. I love his work on Preacher, Punisher, Crossed, Fury, War Stories, Battlegrounds, and Hitman, and I enjoyed The Boys a good deal as well, but I will also admit that The Boys for me was a mixed bag. Some parts were fantastic satire, but there was a lot of parts where it felt like "Time for Ennis' Soapbox," where characters did nothing but sat around in an empty office and talked at each other.

The show however has been a lot more accessible, albeit some good, some bad. I appreciate extra attention to characters like Frenchie and the Female, I'm also liking How they adapted Billy, keeping the core of his identity but somehow managing to wash off what I felt was essentially Ennis making a cockney Punisher fanfiction character. The parts with Queen Maeve in the show felt pretty superfluous and uninspired. I also miss Terror.

But yeah, the comics and the show are starkly different in tone. Best way I can describe it... The Boys (TV) is a strong cup of coffee with half a creamer thrown in. The Boys (comic) is a coffee that has been left on the burner overnight, served with a chaser of everclear.

OmniousAttributer said:
This is probably the single most virtue signaling superhero genre show I have ever watched. From a cuck soyboi hero to christfag female turning into feminist victimz, and obviously metoo shit and antichristian shit thrown in there, I couldn't believe how woke this show was. Did I mention anti corporation?

I kept watching but it never got any better. It was the same tone same shit over and over again.
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Funny thing is that the comics were first released back in 2006 and the parts you brought up were basically in there too. I will admit there was some obvious woke pandering (Queen Maeve, Starlight's only real character flaw being that she was naive for like ten minutes before becoming Captain Marvel - Iowa Edition), but I'm surprised by how much they allowed.

Also the part about it being anti-corportation? Dude, fucking Amazon is pushing this show.

All the same, sorry you didn't like the show. They all can't be winners.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
How long until some tard screams that the Pray Away The Gay bit was "MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER"?
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I like this show.

But Ennis is one of the most try hardiest of the try hards plus fedora wearing atheist. If you’ve read preacher you’ve largely been exposed to most of his tics, tricks and entire repertoire. As soon as I saw Starlight I knew she was going to get sexually assaulted upon entry in the Vought 7.
And what Ennis had originally planned for her makes me cringe.

I much prefer the direction the show is taking Starlight. I also like the characters better. Someone commented elsewhere that Ennis’ villains are usually so maniacal and gross that they’re caricatures more than anything else.

And yes, the whole super hero deconstruction thing should go and die in a grease fire.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Out of curiosity, what did he have originally planned for her?
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Starlight was originally supposed to keep getting subverted and tricked into more and more degrading situations. I supposed she would have eventually turned in a crack head who was going to get passed around.
A sick joke who was never supposed to be character. Ennis changed his mind with her meeting Hughie in the park. He decided to actually create an arc for her then.
 
Liked the show, mostly more than the comics. Where changes were made, they almost always made sense. The writers also added in scenes and dialogue not in the original comics, but which were in the spirit of the comic. Although I doubt it was intended, when I saw they made Stillwell a woman and A-Train black it occurred to me you could interpret that in an amusing way that was in keeping thematically: that modern, image-obsessed companies like Voight will fill any slot they can with a woman or non-white/Asian person as diversity hires.

Much as I like Karl Urban, though, God is his accent terrible.

mr.moon1488 said:
Just watched all of season one the other day. Pretty good, but it seems like it was trying too hard to be edgy at some points, and the main chick is a bit obnoxious.
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If you think the show was trying too hard to be edgy, I recommend not reading the comics, or anything by Ennis (but for maybe Hitman and his Punisher books - anything where he is under heavy editorial control, basically). As others have already said, his modus operandi is juvenile excess.
 
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Yes, The Boys Will Film the Comic's Infamous Herogasm Storyline

During a Reddit AMA, The Boys co-creator Eric Kripke revealed he would like to adapt Herogasm for Season 3 of the Amazon Studios series.
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For everything Amazon Studios' adaptation of The Boys accomplished in Season 1, it still barely scratched the surface of the expansive source material. However, co-creator Eric Kripke revealed a fan-favorite element from the comics is already penciled in for a future season.

"We JUST figured out how to do Herogasm!!" Kripke revealed during a Reddit AMA. "It'll come in Season 3 maybe (if we get picked up for Season 3). I've really wanted to do it, but needed to figure out our twist on it, so it's not just an hour of hardcore porn. But I think we got it!! Super excited about that."




Herogasm was a six-issue miniseries by Garth Ennis and John McCrea set in The Boysuniverse that saw the titular team infiltrate Vought's annual weekend-long orgy. In doing so, they discover more about Vought's plans to infiltrate the White House.

The Boys is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. The series stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad.
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