I binged watched The Boys, starting about a week before S5 came out. I try to go into shows like this (I literally knew nothing about it, other than the most basic superhero angle) with the idea that I’m there for whatever story they want to tell. Most times I’m disappointed (Game Of Thrones comes to mind), but a lot of times it’s a good ride (For All Mankind, and The Expanse comes to mind). No show that has a multi-season run is going to be perfect (except Andor, Andor was damn near perfect), but the good and great parts of AAA shows will stick with you, and you’ll absolutely understand the story they want to tell.
I got what I wanted out of it:
I’m not the type of fan that goes to post on r/TheBoys, but neither my husband or me were let down by the final season or the series finale itself.
Eh, I was. But like for the same reason the show has been disappointing. You have an entire show about how corporations will gladly poison the bread at the circus, spending hours of showtime mocking the excesses of late-stage capitalism, and then, nothing. At least Garth Ennis had something to say about apathy or whatever; the show spun a return to status quo corporatism as a good thing.
the show spun a return to status quo corporatism as a good thing.
Well yeah, it’s on Amazon.
Same
I was fine until the pro-corporate return to normal where no one seems to learn a fucking thing.
Granted, this is probably the most realistic depiction, but the response to the world’s apathy shouldn’t be to portray it as inescapable.
It was okay. The show didn’t end too soon, and didn’t end too late, and the finale tied up most of the loose ends. What the hell do people want? Oh, right, people WANT to complain.
I mean, we still have the GoT final season travesty to compare against. It was certainly better than that.
What the hell do people want?
What the show’s marketing promised them.
GoT had the best strategy for ending a show: Make it so bad nobody wants more and you can go on to make something new and original instead of doing the same thing forever. 😌
two spinoffs later
Man, I hated the last two and a half seasons of GoT. I couldn’t stay awake through a single episode of HotD, except for the one where shit actually happened. Didn’t even bother trying to watch the second season. I wanted to hate aKot7K (is that right?) but I just couldn’t. If I had never watched any of the previous series I would say it’s excellent. But because it’s tainted by the previous, I cannot hold it in high regard for some reason. Damn shame too, I like the show.
and you can go on to make something new and original instead of doing the same thing forever.
Lol this might be part of the joke/sarcasm but those guys butchered the ending so that they could go work on the (at the time) new Star Wars trilogy, which is almost an exact ripoff of the original trilogy.
My understanding is they ended up not working on it due to being silently fired by Disney.
Yep. It’s been a while, but it may have had to do with them tarnishing their names with that ending.
Two spin off shows made, two more in the pipeline and a movie…
Yeah no one wants more.
The same is true for The Walking Dead and that show was dead before the original was even halfway through airing.
I agree the TWD was a mess, but good lord it was and is hugely popular.
I think the Gen V kids were kinda shoehorned in, but I get the feeling that show was on its back foot from the moment Chance Perdomo passed away. I would have watched a third season, and I hope they get some passing mention in any modern day Boys spinoffs, but I could easily see Amazon letting those plot threads dangle.
The last season felt like they forgot it was the last season. Too much puttering and meandering.
I liked the first season. it was shot better, Homelander came off as a manipulative pos instead of an idiotic pos in later seasons, and it followed the original source more closely.
Say what you will about the comic, it’s not everyones cup of tea, but I just hate what they did with Noir in the show. I mean the comic had it setup beautifully for that reveal and the show just didn’t bother to touch it. the MAJOR plot point from the comic, the entire damn comic series revolved around THAT reveal and Kripke was all “nah, i’m good.”
Never read the comic, care to explain the noir plot and why it’s so significant?
so in the Comics Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander and HE has been the one doing all the bad things that Homelander has done while gas lighting the actual Homelander into thinking he has a split personality and doing bad stuff. Vought had cloned Homelander in case he started going rogue and as a result (since he wasn’t going rogue) Black Noir/Clone Homelander starts doing shit as Homelander in hopes Vought will replace real homelander with black noir/clone homelander. the ACTUAL Homelander didn’t do any of it, he was just a manipulative POS.
Very generally spoilery:
As I remember in the comics Noir is a clone of Homelander who was made and designed to kill Homelander as a failsafe. This is not the case in the show at all.
(FYI: I partially read the comics at a friends house a long time ago, and I have never watched the show.)
My only issue with it is the last few minutes being a return to the status quo. I would have liked it if they portrayed a little bit of ongoing community organization, the kind of actions the viewer can take today without any superpowers.
I really dont think Kripke is at fault here. It was obvious that he was setting up something much better with gen v and in general with the boys. Everything wrong with season 5 is because of corporate, they had to basically rewrite the whole thing and i heard they even had to reshoot some of it because amazon suddenly cancelled gen v and saw vought rising as their new cash cow. Telling a story which youve been setting up for 4+2 seasons and then having it suddenly hijacked must suck.
First I’m hearing that it was controversial. It wasn’t the greatest finale ever but it was fine. It’s hard to stick the landing.
Well it directly attacks a certain sitting president so there’s a segment of the population that wants to drum of controversy where none exists in order to taint the image of the show.
I liked the entire show, people just like hating on everything imo
I liked it but I kinda wanted them to integrate gen V a bit more. I mean I feel the blood power thing was supposed to be a take out homelander ability.
It’s hard to finish a show well. At least they got to finish.
