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

[God of Nothing]

Defences of bad media have basically devolved into "Well, it was utter dogshit, but the showrunner didn't break into my house and go to town on my dick with a chainsaw, so it could have been worse. 8/10"

what was it?
I forgot who said it but it was about shitty writing and retarded audiences who eat it up and reinforce it. Why bother putting effort into writing when retards will make up the story for you? We saw this with every excuse under the sun made for Rey being ridiculously competent despite being an untrained malnourished peasant scavenger.

 

[LightDragonman1]

And people are still saying that Homelander's death was the only way it should've been portrayed as.

 

[Not Funny]

The consensus of people that liked this slop seems to be "If you disliked homelander's death you must be just like him".

I'd say that only redditors would have these opinions but the entirety of the boys subreddit, and the circlejerk subreddit hilariously enough are shitting on this. They think its awful. How small must your brain be if you think this was good?

 

[StarkRavingMad]

What? At this point, the Game of Thrones Season 8 finale is nowhere near as bad as this. It was rushed, but it didn't have filler up the ass.

Both are laughably terrible for different reasons.

The Boys has been garbage since the first season ended (and I thought the first season was pretty good, not amazing or mindblowing or anything). GoT's fall from grace was from an exponentially higher pedestal, which is most likely why GoT Season 8 is "the bar" for how shit a tv show becomes.

From my perspective, if you put a gun to my head and demanded which final season I *had* to watch, I would undoubtedly pick the show that didn't involve two people sniffing each other's asses and figuring out what each person ate for lunch.

I will also say that at least shit happened in GoT Season 8. Granted, it was stupid shit ... But shit happened (and the same cannot be said for The Boys).

GoT Season 8 is in the history book for how not to end a series, and that reputation is well-deserved ... But the final season of Stranger Things was SO much more excruciating to sit through, and based on all of the clips and spoilers I've read about The Boys season 5, it falls into the same category of garbage as Stranger Things. Lots of monologuing and bullshit without much happening, wasting hours of my life.

GoT ended with the mercenary being in charge of the economy, no questions asked. That's fucking hilarious, at least I can laugh about that.

 

[Jace on ice]

And people are still saying that Homelander's death was the only way it should've been portrayed as.

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There are a lot of troon flags in that reply chain.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

If I remember it correctly, Butcher's cancer turned into tentacles after he took V and I guess when Homelander lasered those tentacles off that means Butcher doesn't have cancer anymore.

The cancer came from the Temp V, didn't it?

 

[Tyronneasaurus Rex]

I understand that the world is incredibly shitty right now and people need an escape but there is an endless backlog of fantastic movies, games, TV shows, anime, comics, manga whatever from the 80s, 90s, and early to mid 2000s

There is no need whatsoever to consoom degenerate Jewish humiliation rituals.

Tell that to the legions of normies with severely ingrained FOMO

 

[God of Nothing]

Tell that to the legions of normies with severely ingrained FOMO

niggercattle do not think
they only consume

 

[Buckaroo]

The cancer came from the Temp V, didn't it?

I think the Temp V gave him holes in his brain and he just had cancer independently of it, or maybe the Temp V sped up his cancer's growth? I honestly can't remember.

 

[Not Funny]

The cancer came from the Temp V, didn't it?

The cancer came from temp V. It's not even just cancer. It's a super aggressive brain tumor and he only had months to live. He took actual V to cure himself but it gave him the tentacles, which were a manifestation of his cancer. He got the V burned out of him in the last episode... wouldn't that mean he would just die from the super cancer he has?

 

[CrunkLord420]

I only watched this slop because of the over-the-top fucked-up ultraviolence. The gore is the point.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

GoT ended with the mercenary being in charge of the economy, no questions asked. That's fucking hilarious, at least I can laugh about that.

Also keep in mind that mercenary didn't even know what a loan was.

 

[斯尼 德之王]

I'll have to admit it.

Anthony Starr would be a great Ozymandias.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

I just realized something, was the only person Homelander even killed in the finale the 10 second random Elon Musk stand-in character?


They teased Homelander "finally snapping" and going on a rampage at the end of every single season and then never followed through with it a single time, even in the series finale kek

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Both are laughably terrible for different reasons.

The Boys has been garbage since the first season ended (and I thought the first season was pretty good, not amazing or mindblowing or anything). GoT's fall from grace was from an exponentially higher pedestal, which is most likely why GoT Season 8 is "the bar" for how shit a tv show becomes.

From my perspective, if you put a gun to my head and demanded which final season I *had* to watch, I would undoubtedly pick the show that didn't involve two people sniffing each other's asses and figuring out what each person ate for lunch.

I will also say that at least shit happened in GoT Season 8. Granted, it was stupid shit ... But shit happened (and the same cannot be said for The Boys).

GoT Season 8 is in the history book for how not to end a series, and that reputation is well-deserved ... But the final season of Stranger Things was SO much more excruciating to sit through, and based on all of the clips and spoilers I've read about The Boys season 5, it falls into the same category of garbage as Stranger Things. Lots of monologuing and bullshit without much happening, wasting hours of my life.

GoT ended with the mercenary being in charge of the economy, no questions asked. That's fucking hilarious, at least I can laugh about that.

Like I said, Dany Targaryen in Season 8 is what Homelander should've been. Burning down the capital of the world just to prove a point, to prove one's power. Then have the villain make a speech to his or her faithful followers, saying that they will bring "order" or "freedom" to the rest of the world. It's funny how despite the fact that the ending was rushed to hell, GoT Season 8 managed to be more substantial than Season 5 of the Boys did.

I'll have to admit it.

Anthony Starr would be a great Ozymandias.

Anthony Starr is a great actor, and probably half the reason why a shallow character like Homelander was even remotely interesting to begin with.

I only watched this slop because of the over-the-top fucked-up ultraviolence. The gore is the point.

And even then, other shows did the violence better.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

Anthony Starr is a great actor, and probably half the reason why a shallow character like Homelander was even remotely interesting to begin with.

I mean he's on record saying that he had to push back on Kripki's retarded desire to just make Homlander a direct Trump parody and tried to give him some actual depth as a character.

I hope he knows that despite how fucking atrocious the finale is he still gave a decent performance through the awful material.

 

[CrunkLord420]

And even then, other shows did the violence better.

Sure. This latest season was particularly bad. I was particularly disappointed in the Deeps death. I heard he was gonna get raped to death by an octopus but it didn't really come across that way when I watched it. I was expecting total reverse-vore or something.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

The Boys died with Hailey Joel Osmont's character in it.

 

[Cleverbot]

I will never understand why I stuck around to the very end. It's like growing old with a girlfriend you stopped loving a long time ago, but you never break up for whatever reason.

 

[SITHRAK!]

Please explain this to me

Spoiler: Your explanation, sir.

These are Godolkin Supes. Godolkin recruits his supes by abducting poor, abused and neglected children that aren’t as likely to be missed as rich or middle-class kids. Then he rapes them repeatedly to mindbreak them before they are V’ed up. Once they develop powers they are encouraged to revel in disgusting sex acts, jerking each other off, doing drugs etc as it keeps them apart from humanity and on the Godolkin ‘ranch’ as it were, where they can do such things without judgement. It aligns with the observation that an unusually large proportion of gay men were raped as children, and it was slyly based for Ennis to insert this implication into the comics.

People are and always will be way too hard on the comics

In order for the whole comic to work, supes needed to be shown to be largely and willingly beyond redemption.

Spoiler: Rationale

It’s why Hughie tries to prevent the Godolkin team he infiltrated from being killed (because he comes to understand that they’re victims of horrific abuse and didn’t choose to be evil). It’s also why he goes up against Malchemical to defend Superduper- because he knows that they may be supes but they’re also not, as Butcher puts it, ‘cunts’. Hughie standing up for these people also validates Butcher’s hope and trust in him that he will always strive to do the right thing, because Butcher needs Hughie to do something Butcher can’t- which is stopping Butcher from genociding every unstable-V powered person on earth.