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

[Irregardless]

Sage turns out to have been lying all along about her intelligence. She's not super smart but a super with a healing factor and vague precognition powers she's exploited for years to create the illusion she was a genius. She admits this to Homelander and he disintegrates her when all she can tell him about his success/failure for his takeover of the planet is that "it all ends in an explosion".

I would say this is actually a decent way of writing yourself out a shittily written character.
Then I remembered Ashley was given powers last season, and her power is essentially mind reading... So you'd think that having the ability to read minds would sort of expose that lie...

 

[starborn427614]

I would say this is actually a decent way of writing yourself out a shittily written character.
Then I remembered Ashley was given powers last season, and her power is essentially mind reading... So you'd think that having the ability to read minds would sort of expose that lie...

Maybe Sage can block telepaths? Either that or Bashley likes her too much to check. I'm leaning more towards the latter since Sage was oddly friendly with the tumour.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Maybe Sage can block telepaths? Either that or Bashley likes her too much to check. I'm leaning more towards the latter since Sage was oddly friendly with the tumour.

Maybe the true realization is that the writers of the show would be out of their depth in a rain puddle.

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

I genuinely don't understand why the freak of the week format from the comics wasn't adopted for the show.

The first season largely stuck to that formula and it was the only good one.

They had built up Frenchie as this genius madman with all kinds of creative ways to take down supes... We ended up barely getting to see that and instead he spends most of the show being a crop-top wearing sex symbol/supportive boyfriend softboi. Total wasted potential.

 

[Irregardless]

Maybe Sage can block telepaths? Either that or Bashley likes her too much to check. I'm leaning more towards the latter since Sage was oddly friendly with the tumour.

I don't believe she'd be able to block telepaths because this isn't Marvel or DC.
The Boys universe isn't like Marvel and DC where there are endless different ways to get powers, way higher power ceilings, less limits on what powers someone can have, how long powers have been around, etc and with that comes a deeper exploration of the capabilities and limits of those powers, if that makes sense?

Like the reason you'd put the ability to block telepaths in a Marvel/DC story would be because there are so many examples of characters or even entire races who can use telepathy/mind reading, it would be bad writing in a lot of circumstances to not have the bad guys just go "we need to know something this person knows, grab one of the million telepaths and have them read persons mind".
So in order to not have that be the obvious go to every time, a writer will limit the in verse ability by making it so basically anybody can have anti-telepath protection.

This sorta thing doesn't work in the boys because the only way to get powers is V, the powers are usually pretty limited in scope, and they don't really come with protections past just being more durable.
So it's like, why would any supes ever need to develop defenses against something if there's never a logical narrative reason to do so.
The only reason sage would be able to block telepaths would be specifically because the writers needed her to in that moment.

Then there comes her being friendly to the tumor, and it's like, ok, that could make sense, but it's like why should be give them that?
Oh yea the tumor just decided not to say anything. sure. We shouldn't give these trash writers the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Sasmate]

WTF is going on with this show? The latest episode was more filler, with plenty of 'hey guys look at these celebs you know!'. Also they had that fucking gay jeet in it, because he has to be in everything these days.

Chiming in to say that jeet with the lisp and abnormally gargantuan jawline is probably one of the most insufferable mfs I have ever seen on a tv screen and I was only vaguely surprised to see him weasel his way into an episode

Idk who he even is but he’s everywhere lately

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Should note that the recent rumored leak about the finale addresses this

Spoiler: Spoiler

Sage turns out to have been lying all along about her intelligence. She's not super smart but a super with a healing factor and vague precognition powers she's exploited for years to create the illusion she was a genius. She admits this to Homelander and he disintegrates her when all she can tell him about his success/failure for his takeover of the planet is that "it all ends in an explosion".

Also, Butcher guts Deep like a fish when Deep kills Terror, Homelander and Soldier Boy get depowered and killed with Butcher sacrificing himself holding Homelander in place so Ryan can kill them both and the ending has Starlight and Hughie raising Ryan, Voight rebranding as a media company also Paramount, and all the supes having to go underground and take on secret identities and shit and the few like Starlight that don't being actively feared and mistrusted

Spoiler

Does that mean the story about curing cancer is a lie too? Because that's kind of important to her character and makes her previous scenes even dumber.

 

[TheHarbinger]

They had built up Frenchie as this genius madman with all kinds of creative ways to take down supes... We ended up barely getting to see that and instead he spends most of the show being a crop-top wearing sex symbol/supportive boyfriend softboi. Total wasted potential.

This the show reduced to a character. The original pilot episode is about the CIA taking down superheroes using their best intelligence and technology. Each episode or season would be about killing a rogue superhero or group of violent heroes. We'd see how the CIA would take down a parody version of Captain America, Batman, Magneto, and so on until finally the superheroes start fighting back against the CIA and you get a giant national civil war. The planning and intelligence gathering would be the central part of the show.

Instead we get five seasons of rape and sex jokes. Homelander being Trump with super powers. And a plot that goes nowhere.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Should note that the recent rumored leak about the finale addresses this

Spoiler: Spoiler

Sage turns out to have been lying all along about her intelligence. She's not super smart but a super with a healing factor and vague precognition powers she's exploited for years to create the illusion she was a genius. She admits this to Homelander and he disintegrates her when all she can tell him about his success/failure for his takeover of the planet is that "it all ends in an explosion".

Also, Butcher guts Deep like a fish when Deep kills Terror, Homelander and Soldier Boy get depowered and killed with Butcher sacrificing himself holding Homelander in place so Ryan can kill them both and the ending has Starlight and Hughie raising Ryan, Voight rebranding as a media company also Paramount, and all the supes having to go underground and take on secret identities and shit and the few like Starlight that don't being actively feared and mistrusted

How does soldier boy get depowered?

If homelander is depowered why does he need to held down at all?

What about the big explosion sage predicted? This also doesn't explain why sage would come up with the cure for cancer at 3 and her wanting to be lobotomized for sex if she isn't actually super smart.

Also, there's no big explosion like sage predicted.

This makes 0 sense and not in the way the show usually makes no sense. Yeah its complete ass but its not complete ass in the way the show usually is complete ass.

 

[TheHarbinger]

How does soldier boy get depowered?

There are two rumors about the final episode.

First is that Soldier Boy becomes so disgusted with Homelander that he de-powers him and leaves him alone in the White House without his powers. Homelander then has to bluff his way through other superheroes, pretending like he still has his powers, until finally Butcher shows up and instantly kills him with a crowbar as he assumed Homelander still has powers. Homelander supposedly dies praying to Jesus for his powers back. Soldier Boy survives and is in the epilogue running another Herogasm orgy.

The second rumor is that Kimiko is exposed to radiation by Sister Sage to gain the super de-powering ability of Soldier Boy. Frenchie is killed by Homelander and so Kimiko goes on a suicide run into Homelander as revenge. She uses the radiation attack to weaken him but he fights back and kills her. But when she dies her body releases the superhero virus and it kills him. A couple of these scenes are actually in the trailers. Soldier Boy is not involved in the final fight against Homelander according to this leaker.

And most of the people posting leaked information have said that Ryan and Marie from Gen V are not really factors in the final battle. All that buildup of Ryan being the savior and first real superhero will likely be nothing. And with Gen V season three being canceled Marie is just a giant waste of a character. This show is probably going to be up there with legendarily mediocre endings of series such as Lost or Game of Thrones. I'm not even hate watching at this point I'm just looking for the despair of the fans after each episode premiers.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

First is that Soldier Boy becomes so disgusted with Homelander that he de-powers him and leaves him alone in the White House without his powers.

Soldier boy has zigzagged on homelander about 80 times throughout the course of the series. A little bit of zigzaging is fine to show inner turmoil but at one point it stops being a deep nuanced multifaceted character and just starts being an indecisive cunt serving the writers.

But when she dies her body releases the superhero virus and it kills him.

This makes even less sense, how does her body have the superhero virus without killing her? She was infected once and they literally had to cut her leg off BEFORE it reached the rest of her body, she's absolutely not even remotely immune or a carrier.

 

[Buckaroo]

This makes even less sense, how does her body have the superhero virus without killing her? She was infected once and they literally had to cut her leg off BEFORE it reached the rest of her body, she's absolutely not even remotely immune or a carrier.

I could see them being dumb enough to do that. "Well she had the virus and survived, that means her body would be able to create a defense against it."

 

[Salt_Merchant]

This makes even less sense, how does her body have the superhero virus without killing her?

could be misinterpreted and instead be a dead mans switch, she releases the virus when she dies, so either she kills homelander or dies and takes him with her

 

[Oilspill Battery]

could be misinterpreted and instead be a dead mans switch, she releases the virus when she dies, so either she kills homelander or dies and takes him with her

The virus instakills everything its exposed to how do you set up a dead man's switch?

 

[Salt_Merchant]

The virus instakills everything its exposed to how do you set up a dead man's switch?

they have those containers they were holding the virus in?

 

[sixuglymidgets]

Why would homelander want to have sex with a dog as someone earlier said?

 

[God of Nothing]

Why would homelander want to have sex with a dog as someone earlier said?

eric kripke is a degenerate jew
oops, tautology

 

[Maker's Mark]

Eric Kripke put more time and effort coming up with a way to get Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins on the show than anything else.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Why would homelander want to have sex with a dog as someone earlier said?

Its a fantasy by the dog having sex with a homelander plushie, its not real.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

One thing I do like about The Boys is it still gives their irredeemably awful characters moments of pathos.

I hate this. Subversive liberal hypocrisy pretending mass murders warrant sympathy, but someone who said nigga on twitter once 10 years ago is irredeemable. Only makes sense to soulless nihilists who hate human life.