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- Aug 7, 2018
The issue with The Boys is that the source material had several decent ideas in theory, but so horribly executed them, that ANY changes to the source material would be an improvement.Reading the article, I find it humorous that the showrunner actually thinks that the criticism about Stormfront was that you can't have Nazis as a bad guy, and not that it's just fucking tiresome to beat the exact same dead horse that every other entertainment property has already pulverized into the dirt. The first season was great because it was predominantly corporate satire, and thus relatable to pretty much everyone who's got a bone to pick with the megacorps running the place. Once the second season decided to go more into politics, it was a real damper on an otherwise good show.
Also, the showrunner apparently thinks that the glut of Marvel movies led to Trump, because they trained people to wait for someone strong to save them, and that's why Trump won. Ironically, I'm echoing Bobby's sentiments up there, though applied to all the non-political stuff (no surprise Bobby actually loves that): I'm increasingly convinced that anything about The Boys that was good was made in spite of its creators and not because of them, if they're this retarded. This is literally as dumb as "Gamergate caused Trump," possibly dumber.
As for Stormfront, since they already radically changed the character by making her female and tech savy, they should have just made her an out and out super-villain (something the comic never properly explored in the Boys Universe) and a super-powered supremacist at that. Someone who doesn't care about race, just if you have power or no powers. and that those with powers are living Gods who can do whatever they want and what Stormfront wants, is to rule the world with the normies as slaves. Basically Magneto minus the maudlin "Holocaust" backstory that Claremont came up with, that serves as the the ultimate worst case scenario for Compound V and it's users.
It would give Butcher purpose after they revealed that his wife was alive and had left him/was over him, give him a tangible reason for caring/giving a shit about her son with Homelander (fearing that Stormfront will get her hooks into him and use Butcher's hatred of the kid to turn him to her side), and give Homelander and company a true existential threat, a proper super-villain who wants to conquer the world and who demands the Seven join her or die violently at her hand. And quasi-preserves the thematic elements of the plot point that the the main villain of the series is Homelander's dark double; not a literal one as in the comics with Black Noir being a clone of Homelander, but in Homelander's double being an evil female counterpart who not only shares Homelander's super powered supremacist views, but is unrestrained by Homelander's public standing as a "hero" that keeps him from publicly acting on them and actively HATES Homelander because he would rather be loved and a "hero" than kill/enslave the normal people of the world and create an Earth controlled and ruled by super-powered beings.