[TV] The Boys

On September 15 2020 16:43 TheTenthDoc wrote:
I find it really tough to swallow the showrunner's claims they wanted a serialized season. You just have to look at the amount of merch Amazon is pushing concurrently to see how much more profitable this setup is for Amazon.



I think it really depends how you want to view it. I see it as a condemnation of "with it" and "hip" and "progressive" branding from million dollar media conglomerates or mega-celebrities that is just designed to increase consumption and move product rather than out of any innate desire to improve the world or belief in progressive ideas. Stormfront is just a character some (awful) woman with lightning powers adopted to improve her wealth and power. That character talks that way in public appearances because she figured it was the best way to get wealth and power, not because she has any real belief in what she says. If the cultural zeitgeist said women should stay in the kitchen, she'd be the team mom using her lightning powers to make cookies.

It gibes well with the overall message of The Boys, which is that the powerful can conceal their private vices via good public perception.

On September 19 2020 22:16 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah ok episode 5 was good, liked the building up of the story and the end scene is just hahahaa.

On September 26 2020 21:44 Pandemona wrote:
If they have signed up for multiple seasons i dont think vought is going anyway and if anything season 2 will just play the church into contention of some power for season 3. I think the killing off Stormfront is the only set thing but hey maybe they swing that out, and she stays and someone else dies.

I liked the history behind Stormfront this episode though her story being played out was nice and Frenchie background was good, i do admit was a bit cliche and weak the butcher/starlight scenes, but i dont mind the homelander and stormfront version because it just shows how easy it is to manipulate homelander because he is a so naive.

On September 30 2020 09:20 Manit0u wrote:
I agree. This show isn't really meant to be watched on a weekly basis since it's not a show where some slow episodes actually do it any good. I don't mean for it to be non-stop action, but if you're going to drop an episode each week then something significant should happen in each of those episodes (preferably not at the very end) otherwise people will begin to lose interest.

The biggest problem with this show currently is the fact that the stakes just aren't there. I do like me some character development and drama but not when it's done in the void. It seems that the only struggles people are facing this season are ones that they put themselves into willingly, knowing what will happen. There's no real sense of dread or urgency like when they kidnapped Translucent in the first season and Homelander was searching for them.

The team simply isn't pushed or cornered so they just ramble about poor living conditions when on the run (although it seems they can just walk/drive wherever they want and when they want so not much for being on the lam either) and how it makes them depressed.

I need a bit more substance than that to keep me going. Otherwise I might just wait a month or two and binge the rest of the series (if I'll still remember to do it) because this pace is not for me in a show like that.

On October 03 2020 09:24 Hyperbola wrote:
Who do you guys think is the head exploder? I think it's Gus Fring.

On October 04 2020 14:04 Fleetfeet wrote:
Gus Fring would make sense, because whoever it is is trying basically exclusively to protect Vought. We'll see!

On October 06 2020 00:42 scrotesque wrote:
Is there anything in particular that makes us believe the head exploding thing is even a super power?

From the moment the FBI ladies head exploded I always assumed it was some mechanism like an explosive payload that Vaught is putting into people they have leverage over or in their pockets. They need some safety mechanism against the Supes, so they implant them with chips that can explode when Vaught wants them to.

That would explain why Edgar is so confident when dealing with Homelander as well.

On October 08 2020 08:26 Hyperbola wrote:
Are all superheroes bullet proof? Starlight, Maeve, Translucent, and Homelander are confirmed but what about everyone else? Is lamplighter bullet proof? I remember the CIA lady threatening him with a gun a couple episodes back like it meant something, so I guess he's not? But then in the intro scene to episode 7 the fat guy asks if the store clerk is bullet proof, as if it's a common feature to all superheroes? But then why did he even point a gun at him in the first place?

Can anyone explain?

On October 10 2020 06:48 Erasme wrote:
So is the congresswoman in bed with vought ?
The end result is that Vought gets fucked, the church gets fucked, who wins ?

On October 10 2020 07:07 Erasme wrote:
Then something more precise, what does the congresswoman stands to gain by creating a supe's supervision agency?
Like even if she's the head of it, what's the end game ?

On October 12 2020 03:05 Fleetfeet wrote:
In hindsight there was a missed joke opportunity with the "Brave Maeve Rainbow Veggie Burger" and not the "Brave Maeve Fish Taco"

On October 12 2020 03:18 Fleetfeet wrote:


Oh? I dunno that reference. What's it from?

On October 12 2020 11:31 Fleetfeet wrote:


Lmao, would be great.

As for next season, I think we just get people vying for control over Ryan. Vought wants it because it represents control over Homelander, whom they currently don't have any way to control as far as we know, and homelander / butcher want control for more direct reasons. The boys / deep / the seven are all kind of free agents and not tied down by a fight for Ryan, so I'm curious what we'll get from them, if that is the direction season 3 goes.

We also don't -know- that stormfront is dead I think. I hope we don't get any kind of rebuilt stormfront, but ehh worse things could happen.

On October 16 2020 08:10 WombaT wrote:

Speaking of Gus must be a hell of a gig for the Edgar actor as it is almost note for note the same character.

On October 16 2020 08:10 WombaT wrote:

Anyone know what she was saying in German incidentally? The subtitles I put on for rewatching the scene informed me she was speaking German, which I’d figured out already.