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I don't disagree that TV is predictable and shitty. And Homelander and the entire situation is absurd, but it's also true to life and extremely accurate in its depiction of what happens when people like him achieve power. That's the point. The fact that he's surrounded by douches doesn't make him right or worth rooting for. It's evidence of how shit at the top sours the entire ecosystem, and how good people will do horrible things to stop it, blurring the lines of who the good guys are. But at the end of the day, he's the assholiest of assholes and extremely weak, deserves to die.
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I can’t believe you just wrote that a poorly adapted TV Superhero show is true to life and extremely accurate in any fashion. I almost Lol’ed. People are almost always a bit more nuanced than UIltimate Bad Guy!

Lots of evidence above that these guys can’t write worth a fuck. Can’t even follow a basic guideline and definitely improved nothing with their adjustments. I don’t cheer for Homelander but fuck if I’m going to cheer for their half assed storyline. “Good people will do horrible things to beat the bad guys!” Is the most cliche garbage ever written. This show went to shit in Season 2 and they thankfully finally put the golden goose down.
 
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I don't disagree that TV is predictable and shitty. And Homelander and the entire situation is absurd, but it's also true to life and extremely accurate in its depiction of what happens when people like him achieve power. That's the point. The fact that he's surrounded by douches doesn't make him right or worth rooting for. It's evidence of how shit at the top sours the entire ecosystem, and how good people will do horrible things to stop it, blurring the lines of who the good guys are. But at the end of the day, he's the assholiest of assholes and extremely weak, deserves to die.
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You say that like the person being this show isnt pushing an agenda they've outright admitted to in interviews.
 
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what happens when people like him achieve power
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Hopefully most humans agree that everyone has a duty to hold to account anyone that has power, not just homelander types, because even with infinite wisdom power causes inevitable corruption.

If we ignore the usual politician corruption of cracking down on free speech, endless laws curtailing freedoms, graft, massive taxation to increase bureaucracy, control of media, etc., all we have to do is look at the hotlines they set up to let karens rat people out during covid. Suddenly, you have people wanting you jailed for not wearing a diaper on your face, wanting you unable to buy food if you don't get a clotshot that somehow doesn't protect you unless everyone else gets multiple doses of it, and suddenly you're not a good parent and your children should be seized by the state.

There's no need to make homelander so comically evil, we can see evil always lurking in the mirror.

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Damn foreign language not transposing in the link : Translation :

At the end of The Boys, Hughie is a psychiatric patient admitted to a clinic, being treated by Dr. John and nurse Billy. Hughie has fallen in love with nurse Annie, who works another shift, and all the other patients and visitors he sees, he calls Supers. The admission was due to trauma from seeing his girlfriend run over by a car, which he believes was a super speedster.

Note: Dr. John has lactose intolerance.
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Amazing that 38 years after the St. Elsewhere "all a dream" ending was considered so divisive for how dumb it made the whole series feel that we are now at a point where writing is so bad that the same exact ending would make the show 100x better.
 
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Amazing that 38 years after the St. Elsewhere "all a dream" ending was considered so divisive for how dumb it made the whole series feel that we are now at a point where writing is so bad that the same exact ending would make the show 100x better.
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I think the Wizard of Oz did it first. It's an old trope.
 
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Amazing that 38 years after the St. Elsewhere "all a dream" ending was considered so divisive for how dumb it made the whole series feel that we are now at a point where writing is so bad that the same exact ending would make the show 100x better.
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Don't forget the ending to Newhart, that one I liked lol.

 
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Amazing that 38 years after the St. Elsewhere "all a dream" ending was considered so divisive for how dumb it made the whole series feel that we are now at a point where writing is so bad that the same exact ending would make the show 100x better.
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Yeah its funny I went through exactly that series of reactions -
"this would actually be a better ending than I was expecting"
"wait this used to be considered a total copout and shitty way to end a series"
 
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Completely without irony its worth noting that almost every major "ranch" show you see these days are basically one Dallas plotline or another.
 
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Completely without irony its worth noting that almost every major "ranch" show you see these days are basically one Dallas plotline or another.
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Cursed show for the actors, but a hell of a legacy.
 
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Ehhh, could have been worse.

I will say though - 'What the fuck Hughie ?!'
Naming your daughter after your ex-girlfriend is the work of a sociopath
 
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Ehhh, could have been worse.
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That was pretty much my take as well, it was as satisfying as a one-hour episode after a season of mostly nothing happening could have been.

It resolved most of the important stuff, if quite predictably.

I feel this won't go down as another Game of Thrones ending.

I did NOT expect the way they took out Oh Father.. even when they showed us the tool of his demise in the same episode, I didn't see it coming, it was funny.
 
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Well, the show needed an ending...and technically this was it.

That is the nicest review I can give.

FYI: no spoilers, but I believe the dog died in real life after filming, RIP bro.
 
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The Morrigan said:
I don't disagree that TV is predictable and shitty. And Homelander and the entire situation is absurd, but it's also true to life and extremely accurate in its depiction of what happens when people like him achieve power. That's the point. The fact that he's surrounded by douches doesn't make him right or worth rooting for. It's evidence of how shit at the top sours the entire ecosystem, and how good people will do horrible things to stop it, blurring the lines of who the good guys are. But at the end of the day, he's the assholiest of assholes and extremely weak, deserves to die.
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This show is basically "the Aristocrats". and we have people trying to argue its a biting political satire.
 
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The ending was deeply mediocre, bordering on sucking, with limited scale, nonsensical motivations, and terrible blocking / action, but it wasn't in the GOT tier.

Frankly, my biggest problem was it made Seasons 4 and 5 even worse, as giant chunks of their runtime did not matter (e.g. V1).

All in all, great Season 1, good Season 3, and the rest of the seasons are utterly skippable. No interest in any spinoffs with the current writing crew, and can't imagine ever watching the entirety of this show again.
 
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