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The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series
The boys went down the same route as another decent show with two good Season, Altered Carbon. Altered Carbine actually started out of criticizing basically psychotic ultra wealthy people. And the pitfalls of transhumanism, but then later turned into some gay communist Loyap.
I read the book and stopped the series after the first two episodes, by that time it *already* diverted enough from the source material for me to actively avoid it
Like other people on this site have already noted the show just decided to turn Homelander into a random Tails Gets Trolles minor antagonist in the end.
Also since I recently watched the animated adaption of The Dark Knight Returns I can positively say that the ending of that movie makes everyone in The Boys looks like complete chumps.
Like other people on this site have already noted the show just decided to turn Homelander into a random Tails Gets Trolles minor antagonist in the end. Wyświetl załącznik 9074235
Also since I recently watched the animated adaption of The Dark Knight Returns I can positively say that the ending of that movie makes everyone in The Boys looks like complete chumps. batman-vs-superman.mp4
I could not make it through season 5. The Kimiko TikTok speak makes no sense. She might have been mute, but she's been listening to other people talk and have conversations her whole life. She wasn't suffering necessarily from a social deficit. She should know what phrases are normal because she has been listening to other people. It's like they tried to shove a bunch of quirkiness into her because....uh??????? Profit?
I liked her better mute, that actress has an annoying voice, holy shit.
Like other people on this site have already noted the show just decided to turn Homelander into a random Tails Gets Trolles minor antagonist in the end. Wyświetl załącznik 9074235
Also since I recently watched the animated adaption of The Dark Knight Returns I can positively say that the ending of that movie makes everyone in The Boys looks like complete chumps. batman-vs-superman.mp4
Just to gush a bit about DKR, part of why the fight works so well is that it is heavily informed by the characters. Part of the reason Bats is able to pull half the shit off that he does, is because he fundamentally understands who Clark is, and that Clark's goodwill can be abused to hell and back in a fight.
And while as time went on (and his substance abuse got worse) Frank Miller started writing much worse, especially Superman, in DKR, I think he nailed the character, like when he figures out Bruce faked his death, and let's Batman get away with it, winking to Carrie, letting the audience know that Clark figured out, but he views it as a compromise that will let Bruce operate underground, and appease the government. Or when viewing Earth from space, he talks about his love for the planet where he was raised, ending with "Your adopted son will honor you".
In contradistinction Homelander has only survived so long, because everyone in The Boys universe is a fucking mongoloid.
I still think the best "evil superheroes" work is Squadron Supreme. Knock-off Justice League try to take over the world as a benevolent tyranny, and you just get to see how the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.
"Let's leave morality out of this for a moment. You want to know what's the biggest argument against what you and the Squadron tried to do? It's that you created a utopia that needs you to constantly maintain it. All of the things you've given the world — behavior modification, gun control, abolishment of the militia, hibernacles — all of those things only work for the good of society as long as you basically good-intentioned people oversee them. But what happens when you're gone? Can future generations be trusted to use what you've created as nobly as you did?
I think not. Your utopian system is a failure because it requires beings as powerful and good as you to prevent it's abuse. Today's utopia could be tomorrow's totalitarian state — all because you gave men the means to create it! Better to dismantle your 'perfect' system and let the government of that imperfect species — man — be an imperfect system he is capable of handling!"
The funny thing is that Superman at the time this scene happens is in a weakened state from literally face tanking a giant nuke, and since he and Batman are still friends that got into a fight because of conflicting ideals they are still holding back against each other. And yet they still make everyone in The Boys finale look like kids playing in a sandbox.
Hell if either of them would show up in The Boys the story would probably be over after a week of compiling evidence against Homelander and then spanking him into prison.
(Also even Garth Ennis himself admitted that he had to read the entire The Dark Knight Returns comic in one go.)
Nobody actually likes the fifth season or finale, they just see it as a low effort way to own the chuds.
I can basically guarantee that in a year or so when the show no longer has any cultural relevancy all the soyjacks will quietly delete their videos praising the finale and replace them with new videos with titles like "The Boys Was Always Bad" or "The Boys A Troubled Adaptation."
Kripke, a grown-ass man in his mid 50s, drove a 5 season show into the ground so he could win a twitter argument against Elon Musk.
As shitty as the finale is right now it's only going to get worse in retrospect. It actively harms the rest of the show behind it and the further away from Le Current Year political sperging it gets the more meaningless and dated all of the """satire""" is going to become. The finale, and by extension the entire show, is going to age like milk on top of it already being bad to begin with.
The only thing anyone actually cares about is shitposts and memes, and that cannot resurrect a shitty product that no one actually likes. "Owning the chuds" on Twitter is not a long-term creative or financial strategy, it's a quick dopamine hit that does not translate to success.
Fuck, remember Assassins Creed Shadows? The Twitter account EBICALLY RATIO'D Elon and all the lefty progs masturbated to it nonstop for like a week, then everyone forgot about it and the game actually came out, was complete dogshit, and then under-performed so hard that Ubisoft had to sell all their successful IPs to Tencent just so they didn't go bankrupt.
Pretending it was good to own the chuds didn't work. Twitter is not real life.
I still say that if I wanted revenge I would have left Homelander alive and without powers.
The guy just declared himself God on national TV, how is he going to live that down.
Remember how Goodfellas ended and how having to live a normal life with all the working class people he spent his life looking down on was worse for Henry Hill than prison? If would be that times a million for Homelander.
My question is why didn't A-Train have a more character fitting death like The Boys going to sabotage his Compound V injections and he dies from a massive heart attack taken seriously? I mean his reworked character is supposed to represent a declining superstar athlete and the radical steps he takes to keep his stop on top at all costs so why not have something thematic? Even could have him clutching his heart looking at Hughie in help, anger, and/or despair while dying with Hughie being mortified by this as while he's killing the man who killed his girlfriend, it's not cathartic all the while Butcher has a sneer or even a sadistic grin to really help sell he's a monster, just pointed at "right targets" at the moment.
My question is why didn't A-Train have a more character fitting death like The Boys going to sabotage his Compound V injections and he dies from a massive heart attack taken seriously? I mean his reworked character is supposed to represent a declining superstar athlete and the radical steps he takes to keep his stop on top at all costs so why not have something thematic? Even could have him clutching his heart looking at Hughie in help, anger, and/or despair while dying with Hughie being mortified by this as while he's killing the man who killed his girlfriend, it's not cathartic all the while Butcher has a sneer or even a sadistic grin to really help sell he's a monster, just pointed at "right targets" at the moment.
My question is why didn't A-Train have a more character fitting death like The Boys going to sabotage his Compound V injections and he dies from a massive heart attack taken seriously? I mean his reworked character is supposed to represent a declining superstar athlete and the radical steps he takes to keep his stop on top at all costs so why not have something thematic? Even could have him clutching his heart looking at Hughie in help, anger, and/or despair while dying with Hughie being mortified by this as while he's killing the man who killed his girlfriend, it's not cathartic all the while Butcher has a sneer or even a sadistic grin to really help sell he's a monster, just pointed at "right targets" at the moment.
I rewatched the first seasons to see if I was just looking back on them through rose tinted glasses, but they still hold up. Season one is where it peaked, and 3/4 is where it fell off.
Apparently they had to cut down the season from 13 episodes to 8 - and they still kept the dog/cat ass-sniffing scene, the retirement home long balled guy and all the Vought Rising promos instead of focusing on finishing the main characters arcs.
Andrew from The official podcast said something that I hadn’t thought off, he thought the post credit pictures of the crew flipping the camera off was like a ”fuck you, here’s your shitty finale” to the audience. Given the finale we got, I think he might be right lol.
I rewatched the first seasons to see if I was just looking back on them through rose tinted glasses, but they still hold up. Season one is where it peaked, and 3/4 is where it fell off.
Season one has a huge budget. They are at sports stadiums. Outdoor concerts. Homelander is constantly flying. Superheroes are using their powers in every scene. Two plane crashes. Fights with powers. And whenever they walk outdoors they are in these grand sweeping shots with giant Vought posters in the backgrounds and massive flashing billboards to fill the screen. It feels like a world where superheroes exist.
That's not true. They only had eight episodes. Most shows are that length now. The last HBO show to have a 13 episode season was The Wire season four which was 2006. Most networks are slashing their budgets to ribbons. You can tell that the last season of The Boys was made on the cheap.
