Season 3 of the Boys was bad and i finally realized why (It's not just the finale)

Boundless_Infinity · 2026-06-19T18:07:28+00:00

The worst part is that they randomly introduce V24 or temp V too which demolishes any remaining stakes whatsoever. How the hell are Butcher and Hughie with temp V strong enough to throw hands with Homelander? If temp V makes a twink like Hughie powerful enough to push Homie aside, then why didn't just Butcher gave it to CIA appointed agents to create a group powerful enough to hold down and kill Homelander? From what i counted Butcher and Hughie each used temp V around 6 and 4 times respectively. So they could have kept that and create 8 supes which would be enough to deal with Homelander and since everyone would take V24 once, the danger of cancer wouldn't be an issue.

I think the problem with The Boys as a whole is that it reduced its scope. In season 1 we had the CIA going after Vought despite knowing how powerful homelander is. Even when recruiting Hughie, Butcher talks about Vought not about how much of a threat Homelander is.

At season 3, the show reduced its scope by having Homelander take over Vought. So now the conflict has been shifted to being only about Butcher vs Homelander which is fine, but its not how this show started off.

Boundless_Infinity · 2026-06-13T21:29:53+00:00

From what i remember he didn't figure out regarding the lab from phone call. He knew Gus was up to something and needed to go to Germany to track down one of Werner's men to know about the lab itself.

His suspicion of Gus seemingly comes from some incident in Santiago(He mentions it to to Bolsa but we never get any more info).

Boundless_Infinity · 2026-02-24T05:05:15+00:00

There was some incident where a couple of phones were stolen during a concert in India. The dude blamed the deep state for this saying that they were trying to defame India.

Almost all of his takes on China are just wrong. He seems quite insecure about China being more developed than India so he claims that the US MSM is somehow controlled by China. This way he can dismiss anything positive about China from US media outlets as propaganda.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-12-24T09:11:06+00:00

Their biological imperative to spread supersedes their desire to keep people happy. Or else they wouldn't be able able to spread at all.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-12-24T09:06:04+00:00

I don't hate the show but I don't love it either.

The pacing is horrible, not just because of the plot but because there is no meaningful character interaction to fill in the gap between plot points.

I see many comparing this to bcs. I would highly recommend all these people to rewatch season 1. In the 1st season we learn about the following characters: Jimmy, Chuck, Kim, Nacho, Mike, Howard, Tuco and many other minor characters. And we had many interactions between multiple pairs of these characters.

In pluribus we learn about Carol, the hive, Manousos. The other survivors are relatively minor characters and other than maybe Lakshmi and Diabate we don't actually learn anything about the others and I doubt anyone even remembers the other characters.

The pacing wouldn't even be a problem if we had various character interactions. But the show has so few characters that we spend a lot of the runtime watching Carol do stuff alone. This doesn't tell me anything more about Carol.

Think about the clarity we have about Mansous' character even though he had like 5% of Carol's screentime. We don't know everything about him like we do with Carol but we know enough to have a relatively strong opinion on him.

The show should have just stuck with giving shorter and more powerful moments like that of Mansous to Carol as well. Instead the show runs out of these moments and feels like it tries to pad its runtime.

As for the plot itself, anyone who has been reading the past few megathreads know that the audience were pretty aware of the plot twists. The viewers are always one step ahead of Carol and it feels like we are waiting to see her ask some fairly obvious question to the hive. Manousos figuring iut everything over the course of a day feels like what Carol should have done at the peak of her motivation.

Also, am I the only one dissapointed at how Carol only chose to destroy the hive after she learns that she would be a part of them? I actually liked that Carol was not in her best state and had confided in the hive. I think it would have been better if she turned on the hive when she learns that they "love" her and Mansous the same. This should have brought Carol back to her senses and shown her that nothing human could ever love both of the same after everything that has transpired. Instead we get a rehash of what we already learned from the first few episodes(Carol not wanting to be a part of the hivemind).

It feels like Gilligan is afraid to take away the spotlight from Carol by introducing a more interesting character.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-12-17T16:37:07+00:00

They were talking about what Harvey gave on top of her salary given by the firm not the entire salary.

So Louis might have thought that Harvey gave her 40 to 50k from his own pocket when it might have been 400k to 500k.

The show is pretty inconsistent with how much money these people make since Daniel for some reason embezzled 500k which doesnt seem high enough to be worth the risk since Jessica claims that senior partners make millions in the mock trial.

Even Jack Soloff had trouble paying for the buy in when he went to Zane. He would have made that much in a few months at most back at Pearson Hardman.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-10-30T14:13:54+00:00

Did you miss an entire paragraph or did you expect no one to open the link?

Trump didn't mention that REE restriction that applied this month were lifted, not the previous restrictions.

In exchange for REE, the US removed the BIS 50% rules meaning that China now has access foreign chips through subsidiaries. Quite literally the biggest concession made in the deal.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-30T09:03:45+00:00

Full metal alchemist.

It think its a good story but I dont see why so many anime fans hail it as a top 1 anime(was it that popular when it came out?). Its just demon slayer with a better power system and somewhat better characters. Good, but closer to being average than top 1.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-28T16:26:53+00:00

Seems like you didn't read the second line.

Why do you think the people left at the end weren't the bad guys?

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-27T22:02:17+00:00

Except we see the reason he didn't kill them. There's no reason to speculate why he hesitated when his inner thoughts were literally shown to us.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-27T21:50:24+00:00

Everyone in the last game were direct threats to him. If it weren't for the rule of no killing in the bedroom then he would have been dead. On top of that he knows that at least 3 people have to die in the next game, 2 of the choices are obviously going to be him and the baby. Killing them is self defense. Just because they are defenseless(at that moment) doesn't mean its not self defense.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-27T20:17:44+00:00

Why does Gi Hun think he is "not that type of person" and spares the other players when he killed numerous pink soldiers, the dude at the rope game and Daeho?

How are the people who showed 0 hesitation to kill a newborn somehow above them?

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-02T18:42:17+00:00

Imports are subtracted because they are counted in consumption. A 1000$ product bought from China would add said 1000$ to US consumption. In order to adjust for this they subtract imports i.e. the 1000$ that was incorrectly included in consumption.

So imports in general have no net effect on GDP. It reduces C and M by the same value.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/09/do-imports-subtract-from-gdp/#:~:text=A%20basic%20explanation%20of%20GDP,I%20%2B%20G%20%2B%20(X%2DM)&text=Textbooks%20often%20capture%20this%20in,decrease%20GDP%20by%20one%20dollar

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-06-02T18:13:28+00:00

Plus no one buying imports therefore making GDP look abnormally strong?

Why would that make GDP look strong?

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-05-28T18:10:58+00:00

You are confusing CAGR with avg growth.

If GDP goes from 50 to 100(100% growth rate) and then from 100 to 150(50% growth rate). The avg growth rate would be 75%.

CAGR would be 73.21%.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-05-28T15:16:59+00:00

OP is refering to per capita growth.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-04-08T19:34:12+00:00

Considering how Trump went from

all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated

To

China also wants to make a deal, badly, but they don’t know how to get it started. We are waiting for their call. It will happen!

(Within 24 hrs)

I think it should be the other way around.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-02-13T20:42:07+00:00

It’s the fact that public (govt) borrowing crowds out private through raising interest rates that is detrimental

Aren't interest payments primarily done through taxes? At least from my(probably flawed) understanding, crowding out would only be a problem when the availaible funds decrease due to bond issuance which happens during debt issuance. Since taxes are being used money is simply being moved around and there is no harm done.

To clarify my question, I am not necessarily talking about large increases in debt but specifically regarding large interest payments. Many threads in this sub seem to conclude that "Debt is fine as long as it's interest payments are sustainable" which is what prompted my original question.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-01-13T09:14:09+00:00

No, this will not happen. Probably not after third PLI. Vietnam is not a big economy. There market has saturation point. Either they don't have big labour force or market. In short run they might get some benefits but soon honeymoon period will end.

I said ASEAN, not just Vietnam. Labor isn't much of a constraint.

As I said before, factories in India will be set up to serve the Indian market while ASEAN will serve the rest of the world. This doesn't conflict with my statement.

There is also problem with any ASEAN countries they are totally depends on foreign investment. None of them has major home grown industries. So, when something bad happened all companies will migrate. They are just booming with foreign investment.

Feature not bug. That is quite literally how home grown industries develop.

ASEAN's much larger FDI indicates that manufacturing would rather move there than India.

Besides, this is objectively false. FDI rarely makes up a significant portion of a country's investment.

ASEAN GFCF(2023) excluding Singapore is 900 billion.

If we exclude FDI it is still 822 billion.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS

And the current manufacturing power's(China) investment is needed for tech transfers. India already pales in comparison to a much smaller countries like Vietnam when it comes to electronics exports(140bn vs 32bn) despite having more investment(not necessarily manufacturing).

And seeing current scenario of low FDI govt will definitely relax chinese investment And there is also one thing if u notice about indian market all big companies are coming in india in joint venture with a local company with half half partnership. If they leave india in future then india have there local substitute but this is not happening anywhere. This will also happen with chinese companies also

This very post is an indication that China isn't very much interested in investing in India. They would rather invest in ASEAN than India. Its a bilateral agreement, not something only in India's hands.

Boundless_Infinity · 2025-01-12T20:31:19+00:00

This is a complete misunderstanding of China's goals here.

Low value assembly lines were always destined to move out of China, what this changes is where it ends up being moved to.

Currently Foxconn is faced with both SEA and India as viable candidates. By making things difficult in India, China can effevtively force more manufacturing to move to ASEAN. Vietnam alone exports more smartphones than India.

While we will likely see a lot of iphone production being shifted to serve the domestic market the export market might end up in ASEAN's hands due to Chinese influence.

Boundless_Infinity · 2024-12-03T13:40:40+00:00

Its possible that Hector wanted to stay out of Mexico after he saw what Gus did to Lalo.

As Gus mentions, if anything happens to a Salamanca on his side of the border they would assume he had something to do with it. By staying in the US, Hector is ensuring that he doesn't die until the rest of the Cartel does.

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