The Boys

nettripper said:

only 1 episode left and this place is dead just shows how shit this is. This fucking sucks.

the show runner pussies couldn’t make us hate the characters they wanted us to so the best they could do is take their ball home and make it boring as everything they tried backfired

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I was so happy to see a main cast death. God I wish we could watch homelander eviscerate every last one of them. Especially Hughey. I hate all those assholes but him extra especially!

I'm kinda excited for the prequel, already know Jensen can hold the show and Bombsight or whatever should be able to play off him it seems. Going to be a lot of shit talking I'm figuring, power wise soldier boy already bested him but he had pretty much given up mentally in that fight.

I really don't know how they can do any justice to the show in just 1 hour.

Bald Brah said:

I was so happy to see a main cast death.

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Shit dog can I interest you in the comics?

Homsar said:

I'm kinda excited for the prequel, already know Jensen can hold the show and Bombsight or whatever should be able to play off him it seems. Going to be a lot of shit talking I'm figuring, power wise soldier boy already bested him but he had pretty much given up mentally in that fight.

I really don't know how they can do any justice to the show in just 1 hour.

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It's way past being too late.

For me, this has approached GoT season 8 territory.

Everything up until the final episode of season 3 was at least solid and oftentimes good or great.

I was fine with the general idea of where the show was going, especially with homelander, but they never gave anything enough gravity and constantly repeated the same loops for characters and plot. It's hard to believe this is the final season and there's only one episode left with how little genuine buildup and tension they've created. Why is the second to last episode featuring a dog and cat supe fight? Sigh.

Just look at butcher. He goes through all that stuff in season 4 and you think he's going to be truly barbaric but he's basically the same he always was.

Soldier boy is played brilliantly but they made his character a flip-flopping idiot just to end up on ice again.

They gave up all attempts at trying to keep actual power differences between characters so now every fight is just determined solely by plot armor. I remember when Black Noir hunted down butcher in, I think, season 2... That felt more tense than any situation in the last two seasons.

There's an occasional laugh and the actors are generally good but it's just so unfortunate that this is how this ends. Zero chance I will watch any spin-off.

I think the homelander issue has more to do with all the boys being so unliked that you by default have to side with homelander.

The comically evil persona they try to attach to homelander is just too stupid to have any weight. He has no comparison to actually well played evil antagonists like voldemort or goeffry or that evil little potato face from last of us.

He's comic book evil like joker or lex luthor but still has more style and presence than any of the assholes he's up against. Making him full on Maga 2nd coming is just an addition to his fan base.

Homelander is an ego narcissist in the comics and the show. Given one is in the White House, comparisons are inevitable even if the show writers didn’t fully lampoon RL stuff

They mostly diverged on everything else. The “clone” plot from the comics was always lame, so no issue dropping that, and they also dropped a lot of the edgelord shit from the comics (like Homelander sodomizing Soldier Boy, which is why they made a joke referring to it this season when he gets uniced and asks Homelander if he did that). They definitely have flip flopped on Butcher - comics Butcher basically is a villain unto himself. Show Butcher they have flirted with it, but they always pull him back.

It feels like they’re mostly going for a less bleak ending than the comics and more of a “all the people we say are bad get their due”