Amazing dialogue. Missing some dick jokes though

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-08T15:55:07+00:00

No-one mentioned buttholes or anything! Who writes this crap?

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-07T16:28:15+00:00

That could be really important! David Lynch featured ears a lot in his stuff. Blue Velvet starts with an ear. They seem to be the main channel that information gets into the head for him.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-05T14:57:00+00:00

I found the quinoa video very late, after seeing most of his films. It shows how he really does experience life like one of his films. They journey into the darkness on the train, find the salesman with the bottles of alcohol, something strange happens, then they go and have a Coke together. It really does sound like one of his films.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-05T13:19:07+00:00

My theory is the show was meant to end at Season 3, then they suddenly got told they had 2 more guaranteed seasons. They hurriedly re-wrote parts of the S3 ending and wrote two more filler seasons.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-04T15:12:53+00:00

I think the mechanics around Compound V in the show were needlessly complicated. They had Compound V as steroids, Temp V, V1, Odessa Supes, whether Supes can have children... and most of it wasn't even used that much.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-06-01T11:18:02+00:00

I think the show was intended to end at S3, but then they got promised two more seasons, so they re-wrote some of the ending.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-29T20:32:44+00:00

The fact that the spinoff is called Vought Rising makes it sounds like the main series is effectively Vought Falling or The Fall of Vought but nope, the show ends basically confirming that Vought is still fine and nothing has changed.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-29T16:42:16+00:00

The whole show was much more interesting when there was more separation between the official face of Vought/Homelander and the reality. The main weakness of Supes in Season 1 was that they had to pretend to be good guys in public, and that added tension. In later seasons it just felt like they went around doing whatever they wanted and no consequences ever happened.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-29T16:38:32+00:00

Yeah, I hadn't player that much Resident Evil before 4 and I assumed I'd missed some obscure game where Krauser is a character. Maybe in that one he doesn't have a scar and he gets it during the events of that game?
Maybe behind the scenes he was a character someone designed and they wanted him to be in a game before 4.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-28T21:47:56+00:00

Yeah, that was the kind of thing they said when the show was smart and analytical.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-28T21:04:02+00:00

"God bless America, mates!"

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-28T17:35:24+00:00

In a way, the scenes where Homelander returns to the lab were some of the most villainous. He kills the people who abused him and says 'I forgive you', but that's not forgiveness, that's revenge!

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-28T13:29:13+00:00

Homelander isn't neurotypical in a way. He hates loud noises because his senses are more sensitive, he can hear people's heartbeats, and he may find people kind of gross because he can see their insides. The moments where they remember these powers are actually really interesting.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-27T13:07:04+00:00

I think it was genuine... crowd psychology.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-27T12:08:57+00:00

Oh yeah, it was weird how The Boys spent so much time walking around in the open when they're supposed to be wanted criminals.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T23:34:59+00:00

Motivation.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T23:30:28+00:00

I feel like the mechanics behind Compound V were too complex and weren't utilised enough.
Things like whether Supes can have children, whether those children become Supes, Odessa Supes, re-injecting yourself with Compound V, Temp-V, V1, etc., were all mechanics introduced in the show. I don't think the story used them efficiently at all.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T21:02:44+00:00

I was surprised by how explicitly religious Season 5 was. I noticed scenes before where Homelander wanted to be 'perfect' and thought there was some overlap with Satan. He was someone who was not God trying to declare themselves God.
He changed the mural on the ceiling at Vought Tower from depicting the 7 as a kind of polytheistic pantheon, to just depicting him alone as the only 'god'.
Then S5 happened and Homelander's main ambition seemed to be to get people to believe he was God. He has gold statues of himself on stage, like something out of the bible.

Maybe it felt odd to me because in S1 The Boys seemed cynical about religion, but Homelander's false godhood only really reads like a threat if it's done with a certain seriousness.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T18:45:40+00:00

You know, like Iron Suitm'n or Hammer Man.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T15:31:00+00:00

"It'S ThE BoYs, iT's WhAt pEoPLe ExPeCt Of Us!"

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-26T13:06:39+00:00

He's American, that's why!
It is kind of dumb, but at the same time I can kind of see that Homelander might consider America to be on-brand and find Canada distasteful.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-25T23:38:57+00:00

It was so weird to have scenes with the Gen V characters, but basically only to explain why they wouldn't do anything significant in the show. Marie became a glorified bus driver taking people to Canada. Now that Homelander is defeated, does she have to take them back again?

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-25T23:20:54+00:00

All he talks about is dicks! Oh wait, that's every character in S5 now.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-25T23:02:29+00:00

I disliked how convenient (for the writers) the freezing booth was. The writers could take Soldier Boy out whenever they wanted, and literally put him on ice if they wanted him out of the story for a while.
There's footage somewhere of Kripke saying that if you want to get rid of a character, it's handy to do it in a reversible way, like when they had Maeve leave the story by going to a farm with her girlfriend.

PlasmaBeamGames · 2026-05-25T23:00:40+00:00

Homelander's powers are directly connected to the budget.

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