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

[Sirfaggot]

Just realized Sage had the same character arc as that monkey from Futurama who deliberately nerfed his own intelligence because he hated being smart. It would be good writing if it had actually been on purpose and that was her actual goal. It's a less stupid plan than "I am going to kill everyone so I can sit in a bunker and read books."

If I'd still been following the show at that point I would feel embarrassed for having watched it until then. What a stupid, caricatured, childlike portrayal of intellect. I've seen reviewers mention that this motivation felt poorly introduced or contrived, but people have yet to acknowledge just how... monumentally stupid this is. A fucking elementary schooler would come up with this. Really? And if you loathe humanity so goddamn much, what excites you about the prospect of reading its literature or history? Like it genuinely fascinates me that this explanation passed through the myriad filters between the writer's room and film set. What. The. Fuck.

It would've been better off if Starr had full control of his character.

It would have been better off if Starr had full control over the writing, period. Unironically. There's no way someone that invested in the believable portrayal of his character's inner life would be indifferent to the rest of the script if it became his responsibility. And while the man isn't a professional writer, I highly doubt he would come up with anything worse than the abysmal rendering of Sister Sage.

if they wanted a Teump parody, they should've done what they did with Elon Musk.

Casting Trump as an inept side character like Musk or, better yet, the comics' Vic the veep, would likely have irritated him far more than the grandeur of an overwrought parallel with genZ's most beloved villain anyway. And if it was satire they were going for, portraying him as an empty-headed avatar of corporate power would be more poignant (and accurate) than this trite cult motif they resorted to instead.

Here I respectfully disagree because I don't think it's about them having a different view on Good, but disliking the notion of Good all together. For someone to be good, someone must have agency, must have will and that opposes their blank slate philosophy, opposes their war on people you can look up to. Everything must be about the group and the system.

I wouldn't say they don't believe in the very concept of good. I think The Boys was going for a nihilistic fun house reflection of the modern west's most grotesque cultural vices, a la the GTA series; the podcast, the tiktoks, etc. The key difference that makes The Boys tonally inconsistent, however, is that its group of characters do not succumb to the world they inhabit in the same way GTA's protagonists do, and instead try - successfully - to effect change. As a result the show also vacillates very awkwardly between detached irony and mawkish sentimentalism, going from typical "hopeless clown world" commentary to played-out revenge narrative to a "the power of love conquers all!" scene in the finale.

 

[peepooman]

And while the man isn't a professional writer, I highly doubt he would come up with anything worse than the abysmal rendering of Sister Sage.

You'd have to try to write a worse script than this. Dialogue is shit, character writing is shit, overarching plot is shit, jokes are shit. Everything about this show's script is shit. Writing in this show is like a bunch of dicks twisted into a knot, cumming on each other's balls (this might actually be a line in the show).

 

[Psyker]

It’s actually so pathetic that it hurts to look at, Jesus.

We found the one person on this entire planet who Elon Musk can bully.

 

[Mac Monster]

My problem is more so that Homelander is way too weak and incompetent even before being depowered and is defeated too easily.

Homelander can barely break through wooden walls, and yet the show kept trying to constantly present him as this world ending threat that no military could take out. A single tank or jet figther could kill Omelander and the US has thousands of them.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

Holy shit I completely forgot about that, yeah Butcher has fucking late-stage terminal cancer.

Even without his powers Homelander is a completely healthy dude and is in decent physical shape, even if he has zero training compared to Butcher just in their default unpowered states Butcher is in way worse shape than Homelander is, but he just beats the fuck out of him like he's the Mountain anyway, pulling Mortal Kombat fatalities on him with zero effort lmao

God the powerscaling in this show is nonsensical

I think we are supposed to assume his tumor was zapped away, which raises several questions (where did the tendrils go? why is he still desperate if he's no longer near death? can Kimiko just cure cancer now?), but Uroboros Butcher is poorly handled overall. The Jeffrey Morgan hallucination disappeared, he didn't commit to finally going rogue, his power level bounced around from sub-Soldier Boy tier to trading blows with Homelander, it's not clear if the mutation even counts as a supe, and the whole subplot only spawned so Starcunt could be right about toxic Hughie.