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The most unintentionally funny part of the season for me was the Gen V cast humiliation that kept on going.

Like after two seasons of building up Marie Moreau's importance and her powers as arguably beyond Homelander-level (resurrecting dead people, splattering the walls with Godolkin after like 20 aspiring supes couldn't even touch him), she gets called useless by her personal inspiration and hero, Starlight. THEN at the end of that episode, Starlight goes back to Marie Moreau and tells her they need her help after all, and it turns out the mission was to go drive a truck with a few people in it to Canada and get the fuck out of my TV show.

I know they didn't really know Gen V season 3 was going to be cancelled until very late into this season's shooting, but goddamn.
 
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What reddit thinks of the last season(s):
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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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I don't even remember anything worth re-watching in Season 3. Season 1 was great though and had so much potential. They got the menace of (secretly) evil superman right but then just kinda threw it away with inconsistent powers (most egregious example I remember: Hughie crawling thru vents 4ft above him). Also, Starlight's powers being a wet fart and the actress mutilating herself with plastics surgery didn't help.

I stopped watching after the Hughie rape episode made the show feel like they were just doing stupid shit, that made little difference/sense, to try to out do the previous seasons "shocking" cringelord shit. Maybe that will improve things if I ever get the urge to rewatch some of the show.
 
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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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Krillin from DBZ would be proud of Hughie carrying on that tradition

Fuck, I just realized the parallel: weaker dude that is frequently comic relief hooks up with a much more powerful blonde

Ending was fine - they kept some of the main elements of the comic ending (Hughie and Butcher). The writers also seemed to be inconsistent with why the fish were mad with deep: first it was the pipe, then they suddenly knew about Ambrose his octopus girlfriend that he killed. The later makes more sense than the pipe since he didn’t cause the spill, but odd they only referred to that now
 
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Homelander going Macgruber was unexpected and I have to believe an intentional callback.

Not the worst ending in the world give how terrible most of the preceding was, but that's just clearing the lowest of bars. I actually enjoyed All Father and the way the actor played it -- one of the few bright spots in this season. I'm fine with Butcher never fully losing his humanity, since they never really showed him being all that ruthless, tbh.

The episode and the season felt like the effort of people who just wanted to finally move on. I'll definitely never watch anything from Kripke again -- even in this episode where the stakes should be highest, you get his 14 year old teen boy dialogue and humor infecting it to an over the top degree.
 
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The only thing I liked about the ending was

Butcher's gravestone. Oi, fuck off, you cunts.
 
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Actual text convo with my brother this morning when I was watching the end.


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Also I think the end when the filming crew were being shown was to let the rest of Hollywood know who not to hire.


So now that this turd is over, you comic book readers who keep mentioning it, how did it end in the comics?
 
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Homelander going Macgruber was unexpected and I have to believe an intentional callback.
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That was an amazing homage to one of the most under-rated comedies. Definitely must be Forte fans after having him on a few episodes ago playing a complete rat-fuck (which he's amazing at). If he had mentioned toner or white-out I would've made an imdb account just to 10/10 the episode.

Episode was better than previous episodes, though that doesn't say too much. The way he begged forgiveness before it released I expected some huge shit show. It basically turns out like you think it will.

I will say when Sage left and had a big smile on her face I thought for a second she was faking being dumb and was sending them into a trap. That should would've been wild and we would've needed a Soldier Boy showup to blast Homelander into normality.

Figured Hughie would kill some one being the softy. Butcher makes more sense than Homelander and definitely would've made less people mad.

Also LOL at the end if you look at Annie's face when it is a full cam shot during her talking to Hughie while preggo they CGI'd her face back to normal. She looks human. There's 0 chance that's not heavily altered, but if it isn't maybe they just used the wrong camera angles on her 99.9999% of the time.
 
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So now that this turd is over, you comic book readers who keep mentioning it, how did it end in the comics?
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To be honest, the ending of the comics is worse than the series.

The story arcs are quite different, but the jist of it is that Homelander goes insane in his lust for power in both the comics and the series but in the comics it's because he keeps receiving pictures anonymously of himself doing the most horrible shit possible (killing pregnant women, eating babies, etc..) but doesn't remember doing any of it. He thinks he must be going crazy and he thinks himself above the laws of men since he can apparently get away with doing all this, but in a plot twist, it is revealed at the very end in the White House confrontration that this was all done by Black Noir, who is in fact a Homelander clone under his black suit. He was created by Vought as a safeguard against Homelander just in case, except he's even crazier than Homelander. They fight, Noir kills Homelander, then gets wrecked by the military outside and finished off by Butcher (with the crowbar). Then the last arc of the comics is Butcher going on a rampaging crusade to destroy all supes, using a radio signal he found from some russian experiments that can blow up supes' heads, and attempts to broadcast the signal from a skyscraper, only to be killed in a fight with Hughie. Oh and Butcher also killed all the other Boys himself except Hughie and Annie.

I think the series made the right call not following that plot, Homelander going crazy because he thinks he has a god complex makes sense, he's been crazy since season 1 and progressively more and more delusional. I think Butcher killing the Boys would have been hard to swallow because series Butcher is a lot more likable than comics Butcher. They stuck to the comics plot where they could, but the changes were good in my opinion. The main issue with the final season really is the pacing, it was a lot of nothing going on and then pretty much most of it gets resolved in one hour or swept under the rug (what happens to all the other evil supes? is the whole group of the Boys going to die from ass cancer due to Kimiko's radiations? what was the fucking point of Gen V?...)
 
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I agree - I don't mind many of the changes they made from the comic. The clone bit in the comic was kind of fucking dumb tbh - Homelander just getting more and more deranged as time goes on is a better arc, especially since you can draw parallels with many powerful dictators/kings/rulers in history where they succumb to paranoia and delusions/depravity towards the end...anyone from Nero to Henry VIII to Stalin is a perfect example.

But it did feel rushed and the writing was pretty bad at parts. It was almost like a porn plot where shit doesn't need to make sense, they just need a reason for a scene to happen that gives the money shot. Like why did Starlight bring Deep to THE BEACH for their showdown? How the hell did the sealife find out about Ambrose getting killed by Deep, especially when no one mentions it at all until that point? While it was funny, how did MM's hold that ballgag without his arms getting ripped off? Homelander was shown being able to keep up with A-Train and fly the Elon Musk stand-in to space in a few seconds that same episode, but in the final battle he is just moving normal ass speed. Butcher's virus plot somehow forgets they showed the virus works instantly, so how could the supes at the tower spread that shit all over the globe to wipe them all out? Generation V crew being sidelined for weak reasons, but the real reason was "lol you're just cameos".

Season had a lot of that to be honest. Finale was fine for what the rest of the season was. It isn't GoT bad. I think one advantage they had is they still had the comics to inspire parts, whereas with GoT they basically just made shit up.
 
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Like why did Starlight bring Deep to THE BEACH for their showdown? How the hell did the sealife find out about Ambrose getting killed by Deep, especially when no one mentions it at all until that point?
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Yeah, it was like they couldn't make up their mind whether all sea life has some kind of hivemind. If they do, you'd think no fucking fish would ever come at Deep's call because they keep fucking dying every time he summons a creature to help him, or tries to help them. The whole "blame Deep for the oil spill" was already a little tenuous but I could get that was the point of Black Noir II's whole thing, to put the blame on Deep. But for all of sea life to know about Ambrosius' death when it happened in a bedroom means they have to have some kind of telepathic link, unless they just figured since Ambrosius never came back to the ocean she must have died I guess? Then why not have Sharkmuel L. Jackson mention her in like the immediate previous episode during his rant to Deep?

Anyway, Deep dying was more sastisfying than the comics where he just kind of fucks off to do something else, it was also a callback to the first Supe who died in the Boys, Translucent. We learned from Translucent's death that the supes have ultra-resistant skin but they're still squishy on the inside (he died from a bomb inserted into his ass), and Deep dies from a tentacle inserted into his ass and all the way through to his mouth.
 
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Not a great ending but at least they did it by the numbers. No subverting expectations bullshit. No emotional payoff. The only thing that left a tiny emotional mark was
Terror's
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Just a piss poor show overall. No rewatchability and not looking forward to the trash spinoffs. I did lol at how they just made the gen V cunts fuck right off with their useless selves.
 
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To be honest, the ending of the comics is worse than the series.

The story arcs are quite different, but the jist of it is that Homelander goes insane in his lust for power in both the comics and the series but in the comics it's because he keeps receiving pictures anonymously of himself doing the most horrible shit possible (killing pregnant women, eating babies, etc..) but doesn't remember doing any of it. He thinks he must be going crazy and he thinks himself above the laws of men since he can apparently get away with doing all this, but in a plot twist, it is revealed at the very end in the White House confrontration that this was all done by Black Noir, who is in fact a Homelander clone under his black suit. He was created by Vought as a safeguard against Homelander just in case, except he's even crazier than Homelander. They fight, Noir kills Homelander, then gets wrecked by the military outside and finished off by Butcher (with the crowbar). Then the last arc of the comics is Butcher going on a rampaging crusade to destroy all supes, using a radio signal he found from some russian experiments that can blow up supes' heads, and attempts to broadcast the signal from a skyscraper, only to be killed in a fight with Hughie. Oh and Butcher also killed all the other Boys himself except Hughie and Annie.

I think the series made the right call not following that plot, Homelander going crazy because he thinks he has a god complex makes sense, he's been crazy since season 1 and progressively more and more delusional. I think Butcher killing the Boys would have been hard to swallow because series Butcher is a lot more likable than comics Butcher. They stuck to the comics plot where they could, but the changes were good in my opinion. The main issue with the final season really is the pacing, it was a lot of nothing going on and then pretty much most of it gets resolved in one hour or swept under the rug (what happens to all the other evil supes? is the whole group of the Boys going to die from ass cancer due to Kimiko's radiations? what was the fucking point of Gen V?...)
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After reading that, I think they could have done something with Homeland clone/black noir to be interesting, maybe have starlighters have social media vids of him killing but he also has public appearances at same time to confuse him and middle of the road peeps. Could also use that with his god complex as reasons people don't believe he's a god.

I didnt really get black noir or maybe forgot what he done in the first seasons to remember him by.
 
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