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Whenever I hear about another family annihilator, I can't help but wonder if these men are also counted in the suicide numbers for men.

There really is no end to nepo babies isn't there? i feel like I discover a new one I never knew about every other week.

#nepo babies #nepotism

Saw someone complain about fat women being in a game set in ancient Rome, because tHEre WerE No FaT WOmEN iN AnCIEnt ROmE.

No fat women in ancient Rome? The place infamous for lavish parties. Infamous for people throwing up to go back for more food? The place infamous for its decadence??

#just say you hate #fat women #and move on #this silly believe that fatness was invented in the 90s needs to stop

Also, it just taking defeating one(1) supe to get to Homelander, was another thing that contributed to the finale feeling so incredibly small.

#not even joking but homelander was so nerfed they could have taken him on at any point this season lol #the boys #homelander

Every single circumstance that created Homelander still exists, but somehow I am supposed to see his defeat as a victory?

#it wasn't even particularly satisfying but it definitely isn't a victory #no matter how emotional they try to get you in the last 5 minutes of the show #the boys critical #the boys #homelander

The Boys writers' room desperately needed a cheat sheet on what each supes powers were, how strong they were and how strong they were in relation to other supes.

#the boys #the boys critical #instead all the supes just fistfight and when they don't it's up to the needs of the particular scene to decide how strong their powers are

So, things I did actually like in this season of The Boys

A-Train's death, the whole chase and what he says to Homelander as he is killing him

Frenchie's line to Homelander just before dying

Homelander almost killing the audience who saw the Flight 37 video

Homelander losing his powers before he dies

Firecracker dying just after betraying the last part of her own beliefs

#the boys critical #don't necessarily hate everything else but even the things I like in the abstract just don't work in the show #like Homelander begging for his life as a pathetic wretch would have worked if he was still Homelander from S1 but they have turned him into #such a joke that I don't see a real contrast their anymore and besides him chasing A-Train he never felt as menacing as he used to #also wanted to see him without powers for longer that would have been more cathartic than depower-beg-crowbar #and while the Butcher turning villain plot was something O wanted I wanted it to be built up and then be a thing for a while #he should've gone scorched earth from the second he embraced Kessler #instead he's been his old self this season and his half assed attempt at using a bioweapon just feels like a joke #at best I read it as suicide by hughie but why tf would Butcher put that on him

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Ok so the boys has gone so downhill and it’s so sad :/ I’m sure all this has been said by now, and spoiler warning obs, but:

Sage is meant to be the smartest person in the world but they honestly barely write her as smart at all… unless there’s a big twist still coming about secret plans within plans, but I doubt it??? I truly don’t understand how she actually thought that seeing some footage of homelander having sex with stormfront would be enough to make soldier boy want his own son dead, when a) soldier boy already knew homelander and stormfront were a thing, and b) bashley JUST told her that she saw inside soldier boy’s mind and he was ‘secretly proud’ of homelander. Like… after hearing that she still thinks it’s so ’impossible’ that soldier boy might want to save homelander’s life that she banks her whole plan on it. Ummm. That’s kinda stupid even by normal person standards.

Soldier boy being in undying love with stormfront is SUCH an obvious retcon they’ve shoved into the show to set things up for ‘vought rising’, and I don’t buy it… if she was sooo special and beloved to him, wouldn’t she have been the first person he asked about and went looking for after waking up? Going from them not mentioning each other at all, to the mere memory of her being his main motivation, is really lazy and sloppy ngl.

I get why the writers wouldn’t want to have this actually happen, but it’s bizarre to me that in allllll this tedious endless angsting over the virus and the v1 and immortality as a curse etc, NO ONE has even floated the idea of soldier boy taking away Annie and kimiko’s powers to make them immune to the virus. No one even suggested it as a crazy plan z. Like it’s kind of an obvious solution to everything they’re fretting over, yet seemingly it hasn’t occurred to any of them. Riiiiight.

The flip flopping around on kimchie is really annoying at this point… after waiting 4 seasons for them to get together the writers couldn’t just let them be a couple, but instead almost immediately started dropping hints that they actually don’t work together… except now suddenly kimiko is willing to sign up for an everlasting life she doesn’t want for frenchie’s sake?? I don’t know who they think they are writing any of this for. If you ship it this is just frustrating bullshit, and if you don’t ship it it’s a waste of valuable screen time. Meanwhile hughie and Annie have almost never worked well as a couple yet they’re clearly shaping up to be the big endgame ship. Ok sure.

I will say that the legend having a rapport with homelander was actually genuinely interesting and I hope that leads to something, but I seriously doubt it at this point. Oh well. At least the first three seasons were good.

I wish we were getting more gen v :(

#killing Frenchie when they did was an easy way to never have to write about the hurdles in their relationship that would have doomed it

Saying you've known the end of your show since the pilot isn't impressive when it's obvious you haven't been working towards it at all.

#'we're faithful to the comics' sure but maybe actually write more than just the one scene you wanted to copy #the boys

The show just feels so small in its final season. We BARELY get to see what is happening in the world at large and how every day people are dealing with Homelander and his ilk creating a dictatorship.

The consequence is that even though Homelander etc are deemed evil enough to stop at any means, but they don't even come close to the evil we see all around us right now.

Yeah, as a serial killer, I guess Homelander was pretty bad, but as a dictator he is basically toothless.

And no, a few throw away lines does not work.

#the boys #btw were they forbidden from shooting in open spaces or with extras?#did they only get budget for one scene that features an actual open space with a crowd in it?#you can't scale a story if you literally shrink the scenery

It feels like Kripke only had ideas for a closing movie for the boys, so he dicked around for 6/8 episodes, then managed to run out of time in the finale where he basically goes note by note to end out the series.

It feels like he got handed a list of bullet points that people said they wanted closure on, and instead of using that to write a story, he wrote a short scene for every bullet point and smacked them all together in about an hour's runtime.

#the boys #eric kripke #nothing has real emotional impact because we're onto the next bullet point before it can

Not even Ashley finally growing a spine for two seconds was satisfying. It just all feels so rushed.

#the boys

Why is this show so unwilling to confront the idea that supes are bad not because Homelander exists, but because the power they have. There will always be a Homelander. And frankly, going by the show's canon, he isn't close to the worst there could be.

The Boys accomplished nothing. And they didn't even bother addressing the elephant in the room: what do we do about supes?

Can we depower them? Can we stop Vought from creating more supes? How do we prevent Homelander 2.0.

The show started so great, approaching a superhero world from the perspective of the average joe and criticising how other superhero media projects handle supes. No, it isn't good that there are humans who are weapons of mass destruction.

But by the end of the show the writers just see it as a universal truth that having supes is great! Its all great! Just kill the fascist ones, keep an eye on the baddies, and let Vought go on doing whatever it's doing.

It's so boring and exactly the same as every other popular superhero piece of media.

#the boys #eric kripke

The worst part of this final episode is the fact that you can *feel* Kripke thinks he's being profound.

#the boys #eric kripke

Not to be a bitch, but how stupid is Eric Kripke that he thinks the best way to show a character is no longer 'super smart' is by showing they can't quote Othello by heart anymore.

#eric kripke #hates #sage #and no one can convince me otherwise #the boys #the boys spoilers

Imagine a The Boys season 5 where Frenchie and Soldier Boy died in the first episode:

- we'd see the virus as an actual threat

- the V1 goose chase would not happen

- Homelander would look to Ryan to replace the family shaped whole Soldier Boy left behind

- we'd see Kimiko immediately lose her voice again, after *just* getting it back

- we'd be spared Kimiko's cringe dialogue this season

- 90% of the season wouldn't be a VR ad

#the boys #eric kripke #homelander #Frenchie #soldier boy #vought rising #needs to flop #or better yet be cancelled #we dont need to reward writers quickly finishing a running show because they want to get on their next one #also see GOT

Eric Kripke is so bad at writing smart characters, he's making me feel dumb.

Because I still had the tiniest of tiny hopes that Sage had in fact predicted that SB would give his on again off again son V1, and she was just playing it up to not give the game away. But no, he's just they stupid, because Kripke is that stupid.

#sage #the boys #eric kripke

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