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

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lol I wake up to see the entire internet hating on the finale.

Apparently there wasn't even a scene of Homelander finally losing it completely and causing a massacre? Way to have absolutely zero weight, zero payoff, and zero stakes.

One of the big reasons why I stopped watching the show after season 2 was because every character at the end of that season appeared to be at the exact same spot as they were at the beginning of season 1. Everything I've heard about the show since, it looks to be that trend continued.

But anyway, I'm sure Drumpf was totally owned.

Also, it's been over a year since Cobra Kai's finale ... And Cobra Kai fans are still sitting pretty, completely overjoyed and satisfied over how our show ended. Had to hear from other fandoms how "cheesy" and "for kids" Cobra Kai was, so it's been a real hoot to watch how much more "intelligent" and "mature" shows like Stranger Things and The Boys worked out for everyone. :story:
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
Apparently there wasn't even a scene of Homelander finally losing it completely and causing a massacre?
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There should be a scene showing how much CGI budget they spared saving on a big final superhero battle/Homelander massacre.

I mean, Avengers Endgame did so well because, instead of having a long CGI battle where everyone fights it out. Thor, Iron Man and captain America all went into a small room with Thanos and took off all their clothes, and started oil-wrestling. Either that or I pirated the wrong movie...
 
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Gotta give credit where credit's due when it comes to Kripke's writing, it takes rare talent to have so many underwhelming leaks about the show's final episode and somehow manage to shit out something that is worse than any of those.
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The great irony is that The Boys comic would've worked better if it was set in a futuristic, cyberpunk world where governments barely exist, if at all, and corporations in some cases buy the government or take over the role of the government, like Shinra in Final Fantasy 7, or the Trade Federation in Star Wars. You can have entire swathes of the country ruled directly by Vought corporate magnates, patrolled by Vought soldiers, and Vought superheroes act as the local law enforcement leaders. Then you can have the Boys be a remnant of some old CIA unit that refused to die as the US government fell apart, and they're working against the Vought heroes and the Vought company.
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Not necessary at all considering that Vought is loosely inspired by real-life mega-corporations like the East India Company who were a force unto themselves and wielded so much influence that the American Revolution was kicked off primarily because they were getting financially screwed by the colonists and convinced the British government to go in and try to stop it. Except imagine that cranked up to eleven because Vought has a monopoly on the creation of superpowered individuals and if anything the show massively underestimates how insanely powerful and influential a company like that would be.
StarkRavingMad said:
Also, it's been over a year since Cobra Kai's finale ... And Cobra Kai fans are still sitting pretty, completely overjoyed and satisfied over how our show ended. Had to hear from other fandoms how "cheesy" and "for kids" Cobra Kai was, so it's been a real hoot to watch how much more "intelligent" and "mature" shows like Stranger Things and The Boys worked out for everyone. :story:
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Cobra Kai's final season was pretty ass too and I remember a lot of people complaining that a lot of the characters didn't seem to get satisfactory endings at all it's just that Stranger Things and The Boys shat the bed way harder.
 
Mad as a Swan said:
There should be a scene showing how much CGI budget they spared saving on a big final superhero battle/Homelander massacre.

I mean, Avengers Endgame did so well because, instead of having a long CGI battle where everyone fights it out. Thor, Iron Man and captain America all went into a small room with Thanos and took off all their clothes, and started oil-wrestling. Either that or I pirated the wrong movie...
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I overall look back on Avengers: Endgame positively (with a few big asterisks in there, mind you).

I enjoyed the first act of that movie, where it makes you feel the weight of what happened in Infinity War, and everyone enjoyed the big battle at the end (would have liked to have seen some Hulk smash instead of faggy professor Hulk but I digress, it was overall really fun).

When the media you are parodying and mocking the audience for liking (because it's "for kids") ends up being more adept at basic-ass storytelling ... Then you're a hack. Plain and simple. The writers of this show are nothing more than degenerates who got off on displaying their fetishes without have a lick of sense of what storytelling is.
 
StarkRavingMad said:
lol I wake up to see the entire internet hating on the finale.

Apparently there wasn't even a scene of Homelander finally losing it completely and causing a massacre? Way to have absolutely zero weight, zero payoff, and zero stakes.

One of the big reasons why I stopped watching the show after season 2 was because every character at the end of that season appeared to be at the exact same spot as they were at the beginning of season 1. Everything I've heard about the show since, it looks to be that trend continued.

But anyway, I'm sure Drumpf was totally owned.

Also, it's been over a year since Cobra Kai's finale ... And Cobra Kai fans are still sitting pretty, completely overjoyed and satisfied over how our show ended. Had to hear from other fandoms how "cheesy" and "for kids" Cobra Kai was, so it's been a real hoot to watch how much more "intelligent" and "mature" shows like Stranger Things and The Boys worked out for everyone. :story:
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Imagine making 5 seasons of a show and everything in season 2-5 didn't matter whatsoever outside of introducing the power-erasing beam via Soldier Boy and grafting it onto Kimiko.

If they introduced a way for them to erase powers in season 1 this could've been the finale to that season and almost nothing would change. All the characters are the exact same with the same motivations and dynamics. Nothing mattered in the end.
 
All things considered the finale was fine. It was underwhelming but inoffensive. The issue with it was really just that the whole final season was abyssmal dogshit. They could have had this episode as a standalone after season 4 and nothing would have changed. They could've had it after season 3 and nothing would have changed. Nothing that has happened in this show really mattered for a long time, and thats a problem when the journey sucks too.
 
Gay Sex Enjoyer said:
Imagine making 5 seasons of a show and everything in season 2-5 didn't matter whatsoever outside of introducing the power-erasing beam via Soldier Boy and grafting it onto Kimiko.

If they introduced a way for them to erase powers in season 1 this could've been the finale to that season and almost nothing would change. All the characters are the exact same with the same motivations and dynamics. Nothing mattered in the end.
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A nice ol' mix of postmodernism, nihilism, and incompetence.

Historically proven to be the best approach to storytelling, obvs. :lol:
 
A man is born in a cage, he has no mother, and no father. Every day they torture him, from sun up until sundown. They vary it, sexual humiliation, psychological abuse, conditioning, physical pain. They tell him how to speak, how to stand, they give him a placeholder name, a thing that sits behind his Hero name. They watch his every move, plan his every hour, hour after hour. One day he finally snaps on the inside, and slowly but surely he kills them off. Until at the end he's on top. A rapid animal off its leash and now in the house. Then they take away his power, and he collapses back into that weeping child, willing to do anything to make the pain stop.

What does this story tell us? What was the author saying? Oh, nothing? Nothing. Lmao.
 
ArthuriusMartyrius said:
Not necessary at all considering that Vought is loosely inspired by real-life mega-corporations like the East India Company who were a force unto themselves and wielded so much influence that the American Revolution was kicked off primarily because they were getting financially screwed by the colonists and convinced the British government to go in and try to stop it. Except imagine that cranked up to eleven because Vought has a monopoly on the creation of superpowered individuals and if anything the show massively underestimates how insanely powerful and influential a company like that would be.
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The EIC got shackled and deposed by the British government rather easily the moment they started screwing up in India. In the same vein, if you applied this to Vought, the moment people started hearing of Vought scandals, the US government would nationalize them and seize all their assets.
 
Why is the superheros but with gore genre so cursed?

It should be the easiest win ever but both of the big ones (Invincible and The Boys) are absolute shit and crammed with awful writing and cringe woke politics?
 
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