Men, this is great. I don't know about you, but I for one am enjoying the satyrical and unapologetic style of everything that The Boys represent and present to viewers. I'm not touching the tight plot points or the character arcs, even less to compare with other all-time great TV mammoths; this is a debate for other times. Now I know for certain that we're in a time where this kind of stuff is possible, it's happening, and i'm the merrier for it. We'll miss it.
Men, this is great. I don't know about you, but I for one am enjoying the satyrical and unapologetic style of everything that The Boys represent and present to viewers. I'm not touching the tight plot points or the character arcs, even less to compare with other all-time great TV mammoths; this is a debate for other times. Now I know for certain that we're in a time where this kind of stuff is possible, it's happening, and i'm the merrier for it. We'll miss it.
Nothing really. Fallout has shit writting, this at least has great acting with Homie and Butcher. Both are entertaining if you squint your eyes and muffle your ears.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
The Boys took massive decline in season 2. But it was a couple of years ago and people don't really remember what happened in season 3. Every season Boys reinvent itself because they don't really know what they want the show to be about.
The original work was just Garth Ennis disdain for superheroes, especially for american ones. He deconstructed them by asking the question what would be if superheroes were people with regular fuck up human psyche - and answering - most would be fuck ups.
The show heavily deviated from it. First season had most common points with the comic book. The sups are really a menace and government needs to have a way to control them.
The season 2 made a new plot by Homelander creating super villains to make sups important and militarized and make use of them in miliatry operations and make V powered soldiers.
Season 3 drops it and even shows us in retrospect that the government tried to use sups as soldiers before with Soldier Boy and co. making whole season 2 a moot point. We now veer off to bad parents, parenthood and most of the season is about how bad fathers influence their sons. This is now what the show is about. With a bit of drops about politics and far-right.
Season 4 has bits of the parenthood struggle from season 3 but steers more into far-right politics being bad and corpos being bad and how corrupt the US government is - but mostly republicans.
In the mean time - everything the Boys (the group not the show) do is futile, there is really no progress with anything they do. They even disband and assemble every season, not to mention the whole background of the group is not even really well written. Who sponsors them, who employes Butcher etc. They had leverage in the comic book, here they should have been wiped out in a second by B-tier superhero.
As goes for Fallout it has utterly bad writing too, in season one but no one bats an eye. Both shows have entertaining value. Fallout by being something so bad it's funny, The Boys with how far they can go with violence and shock value.
Yet both shows are really bad/meh when it comes to writing.
And also what's the difference between the Fallout and The Boys - is Fallout is more known IP here on the forum while The Boys only comic book fags might now. So people are more lenient when it comes to the Fallout tv series because nostalgia and fandom.
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b: the use or language of sarcasm
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Pretty well written about the boys. Just that S04 is more far left in my eyes. How the right looks trough the lens of a left leaning activist.
Anyway, people are just gonna be more lenient towards something new that is fun. The boys is like Bioware. People expect something, but get more disappointed every game, which is gonna multiply annoyance due to how good it was in season 1, and 2 actually.
Are you saying that people that like comics enjoy sucking dick, or that sucking dick makes you enjoy comics?
Both!
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
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2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
So next episode is the last one of the season and so far it seems we may get some progress by the end of next season.
I understand business and keeping people employed but it is sad when it comes at the cost of hard hitting art turning into a very very dead horse.
Like with Supernatural? Kripke wanted 5, done 5 than new showrunner came and it crawl for another 12 seasons
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
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b: the use or language of sarcasm
Like with Supernatural? Kripke wanted 5, done 5 than new showrunner came and it crawl for another 12 seasons
Honestly I'm feeling like it might be the case for this show too since it is very successful and they would rather milk lightning than wait for it to strike twice.
I stopped watching supernatural, TWD etc for the sole reason that they just dragged on forever and became less and less exciting to watch and more of a snoozefest.
This show isn't there yet, there's still some interesting plot points, but they save those as snippets inbetween a great majority of out of nowhere uninteresting personal melodrama and that is a common sign that a show is running out of ideas/filling running time with whatever's off the top of their heads.
I really hope it ends next season because so far this season nothing really major happened and we've only got one episode left.
TWD etc for the sole reason that they just dragged on forever and became less and less exciting to watch and more of a snoozefest.
My wife loved that show. I watched 4-5 random, not in order episodes by happening to be there when she was.
I got the jist of it all it seems in those: People somewhere trying to survive and be not noticed -> One of theirs/someone else up to 1/2 way into air time of the episode, accidentally draws zombie notice -> Fight zombies that was attracted while complaining someone stirred them up all while trying not to die -> repeat next episode.
or at least thats all I got out of it. Every episode is that, with some ongoing reality TV like drama plot arc wrapped around it.
Season ends in a week. Most plot points went nowhere. Frenchie and his redemtion story - moot, Kimiko get some more backstory but it was really meh, we got a fight between the Boys and Deep and Noir 2 - it went nowhere. Fuck they even knew where their HQ was. The fight was something for the ultrafanbois to fap to. Homelander could've found them in half an hour and killed them all. Also suddenly all sups are unkillable by regular weapons. The vicepresident knows the Boys want to kill her - nothing happens here. They probably got a biological weapon that could make Homelander hurt. But they could hurt him with temp V in season 3. At this moment I don't even care because there was no single scene in this season that would make Homelander menacing to the larger population, he just bullied his coworkers and Vaught employees.
Overall 7 hours and the plot didn't even move one bit.
It's Status Quo the series since season 2.
I can imagine that the virus will make him orange and shit his pants while mumbling nonsense where it's is going right now.
At least the comic book had some twist in the end but they fumbled it with Black Noir being some random dude.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
I watched trailer for the last episode and they apparently disbanded the Boys once again, just as I wrote earlier
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
Pretty much and it felt like where we should've been at least on episode 4. I hope the next season will indeed be the last one and we won't have to wait another 2-3yrs for it.
Spoiler:
the tentacle scene felt like a moment from "The darkness" games and was awesome
I've finally caught up with the capeBoys' latest shenanigans, brainless entertainment was had as usual albeit S04 indeed felt way more filler-y than necessary with satire as subtle as an anvil dropped on the viewer's head and side plots that made the show lose momentum. Once again, the hilariously random acts of violence, the Homelander-isms and Butcher's new development made things interesting, with a pretty solid final episode to save an otherwise hollow season. Here's hoping S05 will continue from there by giving the show a memorable ending.
Props to Firecracker as well, I wasn't expecting the android's new ̶m̶.̶a̶.̶g̶.̶o̶.̶a̶. m.i.l.k. revision to have such a strong FHITB aura
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Did I miss something or firecracker story got jumbled at the end? She was coming down with a serious illness. Could have been some version of the antisupe virus, or something, yet in the finale we hear her TV speech where she looks fine.
And Ashley having jabbed herself with the supifying serum didn't have her happy ending on-screen too.
If these two events were supposed to be parts of the cliffhanger to the fifth season, they were not presented as such.
Pretty much and it felt like where we should've been at least on episode 4. I hope the next season will indeed be the last one and we won't have to wait another 2-3yrs for it.
Spoiler:
the tentacle scene felt like a moment from "The darkness" games and was awesome
Quote:
Karl Urban has confirmed in an Instagram post that Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” won’t be returning for its fifth and final season until 2026.
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