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

[trent]

Homelander in the comics is essentially a WMD that is being controlled by a mega-corp. Sure he acts like a piece of shit sometimes but he was literally born and bred to be a soulless tool and doesn't know any better.

Anthony Starr is doing a great job of playing the version that the shows producers have decided to go with but the character is a bit too different from the source material to make the story make sense.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

pictures of him committing atrocities, like eating a baby

who the fuck enjoy this shit

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

who the fuck enjoy this shit

I liked the book. Believe it or not, as horrible as the book could be, it had moments of comedy and heartwarming that felt that much more effective because of the contrast. Ennis is capable of doing that, and did so well in Hitman and Preacher.

He's like one of the proto edgelords; he did it well enough that he kept getting work. He's also damn good at writing fucking awful, bleak situations. Many came after to imitate him and I'd argue few did it with half the quality he was capable of managing sometimes. He wrote some things I never want to read again, but I'm enjoying his current swordnsorcery comic.

 

[Estate]

I liked the book. Believe it or not, as horrible as the book could be, it had moments of comedy and heartwarming that felt that much more effective because of the contrast

Comedy sure, it had some batshit insane dark comedy moments that made me laugh, but heartwarming? Nah, no way.
Care to list a few you had in mind?

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

I gotta ask is this a good TV show ?

 

[DeadwastePrime]

They just want Frenchie killed off because the actor was part of the idf

fixed it for you

 

[Cryogonal2]

Hughie's rape was meant to be funny

maybe he really does understand ennis lol

 

[TheArtilleryman]

who the fuck enjoy this shit

Don't pretend you're above it because your shock entertainment comes from the TV screen instead. It isn't that graphic in its depiction, but it really does hammer home the idea that Homelander believes himself way beyond the point of no return because he thinks that he has already committed perhaps the most despicable act of evil imaginable. It's better than another motherfucking Trump allegory.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

Garth Ennis is a faggot who hasnt made anything good ever

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Garth Ennis is a faggot who hasnt made anything good ever

Nigger thinks I have personal allegiance to the writer. Go argue about the topic of "favourite people" with some redditors you fucking rube.

 

[Bolo_the_Second]

Comedy sure, it had some batshit insane dark comedy moments that made me laugh, but heartwarming? Nah, no way.
Care to list a few you had in mind?

In the book's specifically? I would say the start of Butcher and Becky's relationship.

They had a bit of a meet cute with Butcher having two black eyes and being called a panda by her.

Sure, it was a bit sappy, and the whole "bright girl lights up the brooding man's life" is a bit eye rolling, but Ennis plays it straight and shows that Billy took a good influence and turned his life around, not letting his worst instincts take over.

In terms of relationships, like Hughie and Annie? yeah, as far as romance goes, Ennis isn't all that great with this stuff.

But there is a moment when Ennis drops the cynical act a bit, and shows a genuine appreciation for super-heroes and what they should represent:



Sure, the Super-Duper are portrayed as incompetent retards (if we are being brash), and their bright eyed idealism comes from being stuck in a arrested developed chilhood, and Ennis doesn't pull any punches by making fun of them (one of them piss themselves and the whole team).

But the Super Duper sorta represent the golden age of comics, a naive idealism that was left behind in this cynical age of revisionism

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Is the Female talking this season because Erin Moriarty fucked up her face so badly she can't talk and they needed to give dialogue to someone else to stretch out the run time?

The actress who plays her is American and they initially had her try to do an Asian accent but it turned out to sound horribly stereotypical so they quickly ADRd ALL her dialogue and did a terrible job at it so it's extremely awkward like the 80s dubs you'd see of asian movies.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

The actress who plays her is American and they initially had her try to do an Asian accent but it turned out to sound horribly stereotypical so they quickly ADRd ALL her dialogue and did a terrible job at it so it's extremely awkward like the 80s dubs you'd see of asian movies.

"Oh my gawd; we can't have a stereotypical Asian accent in our Edgelord show about cocks and rape jokes!"

They better release the un-dubbed version some day.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

In the twist we found out who committed the real atrocities in Homelander's name (including the rape of Butcher's wife), which was caused essentially by a corporation micromanaging an investment asset (which, to Ennis's credit, was a funny dig at "le capitalism").

I do find it funny that, in such a bitter and cynical story about almost every superhero being psychotic, edgy clowns; the inciting incident is basically that the Superman expy wasn't enough of a psychotic edgy monster and Noir felt gipped.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Samir really destroyed the virus despite Homelander being a global threat? How the fuck does translucent’s son get killed over Hughie? Doesn’t her powers involve having to focus on a specific target? You can’t focus on what you can’t see!

Every episode has featured a Hughie fake death scene this season. Soldier Boy also had a bait and switch death scene, with the plague infecting him, but it was a false alarm and he instantly recovered. And Ryan is shown to be fine after Homelander pummeled him despite the way it was cut making it look like he might be killed.

Supposedly every main character survives until the last episode. And one of the episodes this season is a Soldier Boy flashback episode to set up the new Vought Rising prequel. So expect even more filler and fake deaths and stalling. This season is seven episodes of plot armor and maybe something actually happening in the finale. Though I expect more than half of the cast to survive.

I do find it funny that, in such a bitter and cynical story about almost every superhero being psychotic, edgy clowns; the inciting incident is basically that the Superman expy wasn't enough of a psychotic edgy monster and Noir felt gipped.

The show is the same. Homelander wipes out a senator and his family in the first episode. Then spends the next three dozen episodes worrying about mocking memes on his twitter feed. Kimiko has probably fifty times the kill count. Even Ryan has probably killed as many people. If Butcher and the Boys stopped bothering Homelander he'd probably just go back to making reality television shows.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

Care to list a few you had in mind?

In the Boys?

Out of order:
The bit where Butcher explains what happened to him and what he actually wants Huey on the team for
The bit where Huey and Annie meet in the park
The bit where Huey holds Annie after her moment in the church
The moment where Frenchie and the Female are playing reverse strip poker with Huey and MM trying to figure them out
Vasily and the boys meeting up again in Russia
The moment Butcher sends MMs' Daughters' friends fucking running and tells her to get back in the house and stop being a twat to her dad
The bit with MM trying to calm Hughie down after killing Blarney Cock and the immediate aftermath where the hamster crawls out of Blarney and Hughie tries to help the lil fella
Pretty much every interaction between Hughie and The Frenchman
Vas and Hughie saving the boys and Vas stocking Hughie up on whatever brake-fluid drink that kept them from being poisoned

There's more but the damn thing is 70+ issues long plus the herogasm mini and that hughie mini.

 

[starborn427614]

I gotta ask is this a good TV show ?

It was at one point. Personally, I liked the second and third seasons more than most here but the fourth season was an undeniably crater in quality. The current season has been...mixed. Every time it feels like it's picking back up it goes and does something to undermine itself.

 

[TheHarbinger]

It was at one point. Personally, I liked the second and third seasons more than most here but the fourth season was an undeniably crater in quality. The current season has been...mixed. Every time it feels like it's picking back up it goes and does something to undermine itself.

The third season was great until the finale which is the worst episode in the series. It undid the entire progress of every episode before it.

 

[Star Classic]

I gotta ask is this a good TV show ?

no

 

[Estate]

In the Boys?

Out of order:
The bit where Butcher explains what happened to him and what he actually wants Huey on the team for
The bit where Huey and Annie meet in the park
The bit where Huey holds Annie after her moment in the church
The moment where Frenchie and the Female are playing reverse strip poker with Huey and MM trying to figure them out
Vasily and the boys meeting up again in Russia
The moment Butcher sends MMs' Daughters' friends fucking running and tells her to get back in the house and stop being a twat to her dad
The bit with MM trying to calm Hughie down after killing Blarney Cock and the immediate aftermath where the hamster crawls out of Blarney and Hughie tries to help the lil fella
Pretty much every interaction between Hughie and The Frenchman
Vas and Hughie saving the boys and Vas stocking Hughie up on whatever brake-fluid drink that kept them from being poisoned

There's more but the damn thing is 70+ issues long plus the herogasm mini and that hughie mini.

Most of these, if not all, aren't what I consider "heartwarming" moments, but if you wish to categorize them as such, that's fine. I won't split hairs over this with you.