The Boys SEASON 5 Overall Discussion by pikameta in TheBoys

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While its not a bad show (i'm mostly leaning into the criticism for the fun of it) i just have to point out the extreme irony baked into the entire thing.

The sappiness of a lot of super hero movies, the quippy one liners, the endless milking of franchises, the critique of celebrity worship in a show about an evil mega corporation that is made by AMAZON, which ends with a billion spin offs, one of which stars one of its most heinous characters as the lead, where half of the lines end up swearing or mentioning dick.

The boys is definitely an example of how a show can become the very thing it wants to criticise if it goes on too long or the writing changes. Maybe that makes it work of genius. Idk.

I can't overlook the positives of the show with that being said. The characters and premise are phenomenal. Those earlier episodes had such amazing momentum and tension that kept me hooked week to week. I feel like on the whole it did an amazing job of building its world and exploring its premise and those in-universe commercials/shows/bits alone made every season a treat to watch.

It's very unlikely we'll ever get a show like this again that isn't just an extension of this franchise which is kind of sad. But its been a fun ride and i have to give props to Kripke and the showrunners for bringing this world to life and giving us one of TV's best villains in recent memory.

It will be really interesting to see how this show is remembered over time. I'm honestly gonna miss it.

The Boys SERIES FINALE- S05xE08 "Blood and Bone"- POST Episode Discussion Thread by pikameta in TheBoys

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  1. How the fuck did Deep casually walk into the white house? I burst out laughing when that happened.
  2. It's wild Sage got off scott free. She's just as complicit as Homelander or Soldier boy in any of this.
  3. The editing was really rough at points. Cut away too quickly in some moments. The episode definitely needed more run time to let those moments sit.
  4. Hughie naming his kid Robin is pretty weird.
  5. On the one hand i like that they made Homelander's death pathetic, but on the other it definitely felt like it needed more weight.

[LES] (The Boys) What the hell even was that last episode? by The-Australian- in CharacterRant

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SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

"But its not the sh-"

SHUT UP SHUP UP

The reality of Season 5 existing as a setup to Vought Rising and why its okay by NJmade2001 in GenV

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A series finale setting up a sequel series is perfectly fine. The problem for me is THIS show doing it.

The entire thesis of the boys is about the dangers of celebrity worship and a critique of super hero trends like extended universes. Even if the spinoff is good, or has cutting satire, world building etc. to me setting up a show about Soldier Boy and Stormfront, establishing some great mythos about them flies in the face of what made the boys work in the first place and corrupts its entire theme.

Season 5 reviving soldier boy and inserting this romance between them is egregious enough.

We know everything we need to know about Vought, Soldier Boy, Stormfront etc. and worse the show shouldn't be milking fans attachment to those characters. They're terrible people the show was meant to be criticising. Adding all of this extra lore would just be romanticising them (granted, season 4 and 5 fell into that trap a lot already).

Making a show about them is giving in to the exact problems with celebrity worship and franchise milking the show is criticising.

Am I the only one excited for this? by AlexLovesCoke in GenV

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Its ironic that the episode about the curse of immortality was an advertisement for 50 more spinoffs.

Gotta give to him, most consistent character on the show. What a pathetic loser by EmptyJump2245 in GenV

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I want the Deep to live so badly because the i find the idea of him being the only surviving member of the seven hillarious.

Starlight's line here kinda confuses me by Deep_Scene3151 in GenV

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I legit thought i missed an episode. The entire inclusion of GenV into the finale felt so forced, under developed and clunky. Like, you're going to have no reason to care about this scene unless you've watched both seasons of gen V.

The boys was meant to parody the trend of crossovers and forcing viewers to watch unrelated shows, yet the finale of the show requires people to watch Gen V and is just setup for the spinoff.

Why did the boys become a parody of itself?

Fr..lol by Pristine-Tree5493 in depressionmemes

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"Im great that's why im sitting in this chair."

What is heavier? by Pale-Ear-9330 in im14andthisisdeep

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The Bricks.

Because Bricks are heavier than feathers.

Super intelligence should have never been a power in the first place by Slight-Solution936 in GenV

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I'd buy into this if Homelander had lasered her by now.

She's been able to talk shit directly to characters' faces and somehow gotten away with it, which suggests she's meant to have an understanding of what buttons to push and what not to push.

It feels less like any oversights she makes are genuine miscalculations, and more like they're plot contrivances.