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

[demicolon]

I still say that if I wanted revenge I would have left Homelander alive and without powers.

Give him a gun and 1 bullet and after you turn back to leave, say "ask yourself if you find a second bullet before they find you".

 

[BubbaRobot887]

Give him a gun and 1 bullet and after you turn back to leave, say "ask yourself if you find a second bullet before they find you".

Now that is a great idea.

Sounds like something a Clint Eastwood charater would say.

 

[demicolon]

Now that is a great idea.

Sounds like something a Clint Eastwood charater would say.

Bonus points: give him a blank if you're sure he'll try to shoot you in the back.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Never thought I’d say this, but having Homelander suffer a similar fate to Skull Face (or at least, what Venom and Miller wanted for him) in MGSV would’ve been much better.

 

[ChampFantana]

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.

I'm not sure what's more pathetic, the fact that Kripke tanked a show or the fact that he didn't even win the argument he tanked the show for in the first place.

 

[Me•cha•ni•cal]

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.

My mistake, then. Maybe it’s propaganda the writers have put out to make it seem they didn’t have enough room to work with. I don’t think the season felt crammed at all, there was plenty of stuff they could have edited out without impacting the story at all.

Like what was the point of Annie’s gooner half brother? And the whole dad story line? It felt so out of place.

You can tell that the last season of The Boys was made on the cheap.

Absolutely, I noticed that too. In the earlier seasons there were scenes on so many different locations, set builds, and a ton of extras used on set. It made the world feel more alive. I guess there’s no use in investing in a TV-show that’s ending so they slashed the budget and probably put it towards Vought Rising.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

My mistake, then. Maybe it’s propaganda the writers have put out to make it seem they didn’t have enough room to work with. I don’t think the season felt crammed at all, there was plenty of stuff they could have edited out without impacting the story at all.

Like what was the point of Annie’s gooner half brother? And the whole dad story line? It felt so out of place.


Absolutely, I noticed that too. In the earlier seasons there were scenes on so many different locations, set builds, and a ton of extras used on set. It made the world feel more alive. I guess there’s no use in investing in a TV-show that’s ending so they slashed the budget and probably put it towards Vought Rising.

I seriously doubt they cut the budget, more likely they hit the obstacle all ensemble-cast shows do eventually, where all of the cast have escalator clauses in their deals and their salaries are 4x as much by the end, leaving less and less of anything else every season.

 

[Me•cha•ni•cal]

I seriously doubt they cut the budget, more likely they hit the obstacle all ensemble-cast shows do eventually, where all of the cast have escalator clauses in their deals and their salaries are 4x as much by the end, leaving less and less of anything else every season.

Oh for sure. Anthony Starr isn’t cosplaying as evil Super Trump for a season 1 salary. Less money still ended up going towards production, set design, fight choreography, etc., which definitely shows. The Deep was able to take Noir out with an HDMI cable? Really?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Oh for sure. Anthony Starr isn’t cosplaying as evil Super Trump for a season 1 salary. Less money still ended up going towards production, set design, fight choreography, etc., which definitely shows. The Deep was able to take Noir out with an HDMI cable? Really?

I am sure the shitty, unimaginative writing is as much to blame for the lack of interesting places and setpieces as any financial considerations are.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I was skimming the comic.

They actually foreshadow/allude to the Black Noir twist in issue #21.
Yeah, the comic is better than the show, even if it's only marginal.

 

[BiggestKai]

I was skimming the comic.
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They actually foreshadow/allude to the Black Noir twist in issue #21.
Yeah, the comic is better than the show, even if it's only marginal.

I am curious if anyone did that "superheroes but trained" part in extreme detail well.
I realize it'd be a tall order to have someone not only be proficient at law enforcement, warfare or disaster relief and then try and think of interesting ways to tie superpowers into that.

 

[Buckaroo]

I am curious if anyone did that "superheroes but trained" part in extreme detail well.
I realize it'd be a tall order to have someone not only be proficient at law enforcement, warfare or disaster relief and then try and think of interesting ways to tie superpowers into that.

I think someone could probably do something interesting by having supercops and supervillains as a stand in for the North Hollywood shootout and how police departments had to rapidly improve their armories in response to it.

 

[TheHarbinger]

I think someone could probably do something interesting by having supercops and supervillains as a stand in for the North Hollywood shootout and how police departments had to rapidly improve their armories in response to it.

This is the plot of Marvel Civil War. Some superheroes are making a "Super Cops" reality show. One of the villains named Nitro blows up 600 people including an elementary school to avoid being captured again. This results in the government finally going after both superheroes and villains. As well as vigilante groups leaking the secret identities of many heroes online out of hatred for these human weapons flying around without any oversight.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

I am curious if anyone did that "superheroes but trained" part in extreme detail well.
I realize it'd be a tall order to have someone not only be proficient at law enforcement, warfare or disaster relief and then try and think of interesting ways to tie superpowers into that.

They've taken stabs at it, some better than others. One of the more successful examples is Moonstone in the early Thunderbolts run, where they really leaned into the fact that she's a psychologist as well as a supervillain. Meaning that she's always trying to get her hooks into people and especially adept at manipulating Jolt, a young, idealistic teenager who doesn't realize she's joined the Masters of Evil in disguise

 

[Buckaroo]

This is the plot of Marvel Civil War. Some superheroes are making a "Super Cops" reality show. One of the villains named Nitro blows up 600 people including an elementary school to avoid being captured again. This results in the government finally going after both superheroes and villains. As well as vigilante groups leaking the secret identities of many heroes online out of hatred for these human weapons flying around without any oversight.

That's not really the same thing at all? Civil War is kicked off because dumb teens/young adults go after supervillains that weren't actually doing anything in the middle of a neighborhood and one villain juiced up on super roids kills a bunch of people and this leads to superheroes having to register or get branded as criminals.

The event I'm talking about is a bunch of cops showing up to a bank robbery where the robbers had body armor strong enough to protect against the standard issue police weapons of the time and high capacity weapons. This led to the current nonstop militarization of the police today because no one wants a 44 minute long shootout with nearly 2,000 shots fired in their city.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I realize it'd be a tall order to have someone not only be proficient at law enforcement, warfare or disaster relief and then try and think of interesting ways to tie superpowers into that.

Uber tried that, by turning superhumans into essentially 'tanks', by needing them to have scouts and forward elements calling shots for them...but that was retarded and didn't make any sense.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

I am curious if anyone did that "superheroes but trained" part in extreme detail well.
I realize it'd be a tall order to have someone not only be proficient at law enforcement, warfare or disaster relief and then try and think of interesting ways to tie superpowers into that.

MHA sorta goes into that, Super Hero's in that universe are not lone entities, they are civil servants given a specific position, job, and license to do specific tasks, based off of years of training apprentice work, in that world, using your powers without a hero license or a job license is literally a crime.

the kids in that show aren't tee'ing up to party or have a fun time, they are applying to be Cops and rescue services that have celebrity status based off results and perception.

This is why some people in the show have basically near worthless combat abilities, but are exceptionally talented for rescue or disaster relief, the girl with gravity negating powers is basically a super specialist in it, because she could make an entire building weightless.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I think someone could probably do something interesting by having supercops and supervillains as a stand in for the North Hollywood shootout and how police departments had to rapidly improve their armories in response to it.

That was the premise of Marshal Law, super-soldiers were created to fight a war in Central America, and once they came home the police had to deal with super-powered criminals, and started recruiting their own supers, nicknamed the Cape Killers for their sanction to kill any super who is a threat to inccocent lives.

 

[A-Stump]

Homelander is a tragic character in the show yet they just forget that fact after one episode. He was tortured extensively as a child, robbed of anything resembling a normal life, even as an adult everything about him is just a product. Stan Edgar is arguably the most evil person in the show but is he ever given his just desserts? Nope. He's a huge reason why that world sucks as much as it does and the dude walks away from the whole matter fresh as a daisy. MM said he'd deal with him but what, you really expect me as a viewer to believe that? The guy threatened to leave like twice an episode and remarries his wife at the end and I'm supposed to believe he's going to do it? They could have just had a quick scene of Stan's brains getting blown out or something but no, the ass sniffing in the previous episode took up too much time.

 

[Tyronneasaurus Rex]

Stan Edgar is arguably the most evil person in the show but is he ever given his just desserts? Nope. He's a huge reason why that world sucks as much as it does and the dude walks away from the whole matter fresh as a daisy.

They either need him alive for the Mexico spin-off or there's some horseshit excuse that he's a "victim" of capitalism because he's not white..

Kripke gives not a single fuck about how tragic Homelander may be, because remember, he's the stand-in for Donald Trump, and being the Trump stand-in means you're irredeemable no matter what, because TDS.