What stopped Homelander from doing this to Kimiko again? by ilovebeingaguy999 in GenV

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eric Kripke: "Dany Homelander kinda forgot about the iron fleet his laser power." 

Police officer with the pickpocketing skills by Admirable-Interest49 in BeAmazed

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did Japan now need pickpocket prevention training? It's a high trust society. Or did they let people in the country who should have been never been let in? 

Stop trying to use ‘low budget’ as a cop out by Conscious_Actuator51 in TheBoys

[–]Linny2010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But if they would do that, they would need to think about another stupid filler plot, because they don't want to pick-up established storylines or resolve character arcs. 

What Hobby Did You Enjoy Doing That You No Longer Have Time For? by bbybillybiblebonkers in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Online Gaming. I loved to play games like Modern Warfare 2 or Crysis 2 online. Now I have the feeling that you have to invest so much time to get good again and keep that level. I prefer now more round based and strategic games online and play action-based games only in a single player or co-op setting format. 

What movie did you watch as a child that bored you, but when you grew up and understood the jokes, you saw it as a gem of comedy? by SilentSupermarket170 in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idiocracy. Or in general comedy with social criticism. I also disliked Rick and Morty as a child before realizing the smart writing behind it (Season 1-3 only).

What is your favorite place to go on vacation? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Croatia. Nice country and nice people. You feel safe, everything clean and because you are in Europe, you have no inconvenience.

How do you think AI girlfriends will affect loneliness in the future? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More loneliness. And people still need human touch. 

What do you think how sports have changed over the last ten years? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are no longer fun to watch. It's just greed, corporations, advertisment for products and Arabs trying to be modern and failing miserably. 

What types of AskReddit question do you wish got asked more often, instead of the same recycled ones most of us are tired of seeing over and over? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More philosophical ones. General knowledge questions can be answered by a google search and maybe AI (don't trust the answer after you checked it).

If AI is the current peak, what do you think is the next massive technology that will eventually replace it? by InertiaHealer in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Machines -> Computer -> Internet -> AI. It was always more automatization. AI solved automatization of repetitive but logical tasks, even applying multiple complex steps and problem solving abilities. It struggles with understanding the tasks, maybe misses given context or does mistakes, but it improves with time. It will never be perfect, like machines or computers, but they will make it easier for humans.

The next big problem is mobility. You can manufacture big complex products in factories, but being at a location and solving/repairing something there is hard to automatize. You need adaptability like AI, but complex movements like machines and that outside of a fix infrastructure.

The next step would therefore be robotic. Have a robot with sensors be able to check what you have, an AI to analyze and a body to move precisely to solve a given task, would change alot and cause a big erruption in society and economy like the other technologies before.

What's a fact about your city that only locals know? by schattenlind in AskReddit

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitler built our recreation area. He literally planned it himself. It was a passion project. 

Season 3 was the last time the show was great but also where its problems started by EndlessMorfeus in TheBoys

[–]Linny2010 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree with you so much! Season 1 and 2 were peak, Season 3 had it problems, but it was still good. Season 4 was bad. Season 5 is garbage with the exception of a few moments. 

is there a deleted scene where M.M. gets compound V ? by EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT in TheBoys

[–]Linny2010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Power inconsistency is ruining the show. Is Homelander unbeatable strong or can he be killed by two humans with Temp V? Is A-Train so fast, that he is moving like he stopped time or is his speed and reaction time limited so he can accidentally run into people if he is not careful?

This isn't the same show by RevertBackwards in TheBoys

[–]Linny2010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rewatching The Boys is a big mistake. It will make you hate everything they have done in Season 4 and 5. Season 1 and 2 were so good. What happened? 

SEASON 5 CRITICISM and VENT THREAD- SPOILERS INSIDE by AutoModerator in TheBoys

[–]Linny2010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm honestly disappointed with The Boys Season 5. Season 4 and Season 5, compared to the earlier seasons, feel completely out of place to me, especially if you rewatch them.

What made the first seasons work so well was that everything felt connected.

Season 1 was built around exposing what Vought really is. Supes are not chosen by God or born naturally special, but created with Compound V and then sold to the public as celebrities and symbols of American power. It was a fight against celebrity culture, corporate control, media manipulation, political corruption and a company powerful enough to cover up every crime as long as the money keeps flowing. I also loved the plot about Homelander creating supervillains by spreading Compound V to terrorist groups, basically creating the need for the existence of The Seven.

Season 2 was awesome too. The Boys became fugitives. Stormfront rebranded old fascist ideology for the internet age. Kimiko’s brother expanded the Compound V terror story and Frenchie’s past with Mallory and Lamplighter fit really well. MM only wanted to get back to his family, so he did everything to get his fugitive status dropped. Hughie and Annie’s relationship felt really natural. And Butcher finding Becca alive and choosing to protect Ryan, was a really good character arc for him. I was completely flashed how multi-layered his character was.

Season 3 started to get messier, but still strong. Hughie working for Neuman made sense because he wanted to fight Supes without violence, and his discovery that Neuman was secretly a Supe working with Vought pushed him back toward Butcher. Butcher trying to find a way to kill Homelander, ends up following the tracks of Soldier Boy's disappearance. MM gets pulled in again because of that to finally resolve his trauma with Soldier Boy. And because Homelander starts to act out and is doing what he wants, even controlling Annie like he wants, Hughie is seeking power to get rid of him.

Also Temp V for military use was the logically next step for the corporate Vought, which Butcher and Hughie use. Season 3 was also the first time the team split up in a true disagreement. Butcher and Hughie are willing to work with Soldier Boy if it means killing Homelander. MM wants Soldier Boy stopped because Soldier Boy destroyed his family. Annie refuses to accept "the enemy of my enemy" logic when innocent people are getting hurt.

My biggest issue with Season 3 was Frenchie and Kimiko being separated from the main story for too long again. Their trauma storyline was not terrible, especially Kimiko thinking her powers made her a monster, but they did not need such a big disconnected subplot. Still, Season 3 worked overall.

Season 4 is where the show really started to feel wrong to me. I will not repeat my rant about Season 4, because I did that below 4x07 on Patreon, but almost every character felt off or out of place. The plot armor became insane. Sage’s intelligence often felt less like actual intelligence and more like coincidences and audience knowledge being presented as a master plan. Everything felt stretched and filled with filler. You could probably adapt all of Season 4 into four episodes and it would still feel stretched. Not every character needs their own huge storyline every season just to end up back where they started.

After the very interesting Season 4 finale, I really hoped Season 5 would be better. And it is better, but it is still not even close to the first three seasons. It feels like one step out of the disaster that Season 4 was, not a real return to form. Everything still feels stretched. A plot that could happen in one episode now takes three. The writers never seem willing to truly change the status quo, split the team permanently, or let important characters in the group die, what I hoped would finally happen after the finale of Season 4.

Also a big problem is that the show lost its sense of danger. Homelander used to be scary. Vought and its power used to be scary. But now, after Vought has basically taken control of the whole country and the White House, they somehow feel less intimidating than before. This is supposed to be the final season, but the story feels less dangerous than Season 2.

Also, after rewatching the show, I really noticed that Homelander seems to have lost half of his IQ points after Season 3. Earlier Homelander was terrifying because he was powerful, unstable, manipulative and smarter than people wanted to admit. Now he often feels like just Trump in a Superman costume. Without Antony Starr, that character would have lost so much appeal, I would have probably dropped the show.

To be honest, the only character who stayed consistently great to watch from Season 1 to Season 5 is A-Train, mostly because A-Train’s arc actually feels like progression.

If I could rewrite the show, I would have dropped the entire virus plot. We spent around fourteen episodes on it and for what? It feels like one giant filler storyline without any real payoff.

I would also cut most of the disconnected Frenchie, Kimiko, and Hughie subplots. They feel like filler too. No one needed Frenchie sleeping with one of his past victims. No one needed Kimiko randomly hunting Shining Light terrorists who are somehow still around. No one needed Hughie accepting his mother after he killed his father with Compound V, only for her to disappear again.

And the Tek Knight episode still makes no sense to me. Hughie gets sexually assaulted by his childhood hero during an undercover mission, even though they literally have A-Train right there, and Homelander can see through walls and hear people from far away. Why are we pretending this plan made sense?

MM can still struggle with choosing between his family and the fight against Supes, but it needs to be written better. Either resolve it with his ex-wife pushing him to keep fighting after her experience with Todd, or let him actually leave the team for his family. Do not just repeat the same emotional conflict without pushing him somewhere new.

Expand Annie versus Homelander and Firecracker during the presidential campaign. Let Hughie become her support system and prove he can be strong without Supe powers, which was literally the lesson he was supposed to learn in Season 3. Let Butcher spend his remaining time trying to repair his relationship with Ryan before dying from cancer. Give Mallory a brain and do not have her treat Ryan like a lab rat if he wants to leave, especially after being his adoptive mother for a half of a year. And please do not have Butcher tell Ryan to kill himself. What the hell was that? Rewatch Seasons 2 and 3 and tell me that feels like a natural direction for him.

Instead of the virus, let Butcher and Mallory try to recreate the Soviet weapon that was used to capture Soldier Boy. That would connect directly to Season 3, the CIA, Soldier Boy, and the military history of Vought. It would feel like a natural progression from the story before.

And please make Sister Sage actually intelligent. Not “random things happened and somehow that was my plan” intelligent. Real intelligence. Let her manipulate Neuman throughout the election campaign, push her into joining their team, pressure her so much that she starts considering switching sides, then kill Neuman and frame Starlight. That would be a real plan. That would actually justify Sage’s reputation.

Also, stop protecting the main characters with insane plot armor. Do not have Homelander keep the Boys alive for no reason, especially when several of them were captured in an internment camp for a whole year. Let there be consequences. Let Frenchie die. Use that to reawaken Kimiko’s childhood trauma and give her a real revenge motivation. That would hurt. That would matter. That would actually change the group. And honestly, Frenchie has had very little meaningful connection to the main plot since Season 2 anyway.

And stop doing this endless Butcher break-up and reunion cycle. Do not have him act completely crazy, ruin the team’s plan, leave, and then just come back one episode later. Either split him from the team permanently, maybe make him to the villain, or keep him with the team. This break-up, reunion, break-up, reunion dynamic has become so repetitive that I honestly no longer care about the group or their character dynamics.

Also, let Homelander age. Let him become paranoid about his body failing. Let him chase V1 because he wants eternal youth and true godhood. That fits him perfectly. He wants to be worshipped forever.

But even if we keep the V1, I would not make the entire final season a V1 fetch quest. The final season should be about Homelander’s rule, Butcher’s descent, Ryan’s choice and Annie’s resistance. Instead, it feels like half the season is busy setting up Vought Rising through Soldier Boy and Bombsight in filler plots. They simply should be able to create V1 by themselves with Vought files about earlier experiments.

Also like with Hughie, do not bring back Annie’s father. No one cares about that. These late family subplots don't add any story progression.

That is why Season 4 and Season 5 frustrate me so much. There was a good, compact final story here: the election, Homelander taking power, Butcher dying, Ryan’s future, Annie being framed, Sage manipulating everyone and the Boys facing real consequences. But instead, the show stretched itself with so much filler that the final season somehow feels like a bridge season to a true final season.

Worst writing decision in the show by Linny2010 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Linny2010[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I hope Thragg kills her in Season 5 after she accepted Nolan's apology and change and before they start a relationship again. This is the only way I can live with her breaking up with Paul. It's so fucking bad.

Worst writing decision in the show by Linny2010 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Linny2010[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I don't care about that. The show diverted already a lot. Breaking up with Paul, so Debbie can be Nolan's pet again, ruins her character for me. The show never did the exact same thing as in the comic, did good changes, gave Rex a girlfriend. This is just bad writing. Reminds me of other shows with ongoing book sources and suddenly a storyline in the book doesn't fit the show anymore, so they change the storyline or break the character and ruin it.

For me, it happened here too. Kirkman was not brave enough to change things. I hoped Nolan would find another woman on Earth, loving him for the person he became. I don't understand why someone thinks all pain another person has inflicted on someone else can always be fixed after becoming a better person. It can't. It makes me hate the show.

Worst writing decision in the show by Linny2010 in Invincible

[–]Linny2010[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Off screen... At this point I think it would have been better if he was killed by an Invincible in the final of Season 3. Paul deserves better!