TV Series (Threads) What is your opinion of The Boys all season series.

[The_Dark_Knight]

How The Boys are finally finished. What is your opinions about The Boys all season series.

 

[zombie100379]

over all - really entertaining

 

[Tbest25 Tbest25]

Really good until near the end, after Kripke decided to lean heavily on politics instead of the super hero satire that was the whole premise of the show/comic. Also the marvelization of the show, like doing spin off and animations on the same universe, made The Boys a lot worse. There was a lot going on, but nothing really focused and consistent

 

[zombie100379]

hilariously filthy dialogue , great action/fight scenes , and more then 80% of the time the show never failed to deliver , easily one of the best shows in years. compared to stranger things and the last season of daredevil - its a masterpiece

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

The comic is better.

Garth Ennis is not for normies.

Also, that director got brain rotted by current year politics.

 

[sumdead]

I liked the first two seasons everything else is trash

 

[Tbest25 Tbest25]

Speaking of which, i already saved The Boys comic to read later on. I've heard people say the show is better than the comics, but seeing how the series ended, i doubt the comic is worse than that. I gonna see for myself

 

[BrawlMan]

The show is still better than the comic, but I think Invincible is superior and much more interesting.

Speaking of which, i already saved The Boys comic to read later on. I've heard people say the show is better than the comics, but seeing how the series ended, i doubt the comic is worse than that. I gonna see for myself

When you get to the comic and finish it: watch this video by PointlessHub.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

i already saved The Boys comic to read later on

The comic is quite different from the show, the show borrowed some scenes and plot points, but the comic plays out differently.

Garth Ennis' stuff is way too crude to be adapted as is, and normies wouldn't get it anyway, ergo why the show is different.

 

[zombie100379]

"The Boys" wouldn't exist without...

its a fu<king disgrace - this character should have been massive

marshall law: fear and loathing is my all time favourite comic

 

[Sciminoc]

hilariously filthy dialogue , great action/fight scenes , and more then 80% of the time the show never failed to deliver , easily one of the best shows in years. compared to stranger things and the last season of daredevil - its a masterpiece

Listen, I know it's out of the blue, but where is your user gif comes from? I can't find it.

 

[zombie100379]

Listen, I know it's out of the blue, but where is your user gif comes from? I can't find it.

its just a random picture (drawing) that i was able to animate with AI - what you see is really all their is

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

Garth Ennis is a hack. He's a salty piss baby who hates super heroes (Except Superman and Wonderwoman for some reason, as in, of course they're awesome, but the how the fuck a guy like Ennis has a soft spot for them is goddamn mystery), so after having Tommy Monaghan (a clear self-insert for Ennis) take the piss out of Super hero comics, he created Billy Butcher (who is also clearly just Tommy Managhan again) beat the piss out of them too.

He's a hack because he refuses to let go of his bias for a story, so his plots are often contrived in an absurdely cynical way in order to show the purposely bleak world he wants to portray at the cost of any narrative sensibility.

"The Boys" had one (1) interesting story beat that it refused to captialize on because it refused to countenance the very concept of Super Heroes being baby-raping murderers, as well as failing to recognize the problme with ALL comic book deconstructions of Super Heroes. That we already have stories that explore the concept of what people who abuse their incredible powers are: Super VILLAINS.
I don't need to see Evil Superman #135112323 (a concept trite even when the original comics came out) having a god complex and killing people just because he can, I saw Ultraman (not THAT Ultraman), Zod, Bizarro, Hyperion, Supreme, and countless others already do that a hundred times, without needing to resort to incessant potty humor like a 12 year old who just discovered South Park (or, Kevin Smith, same thing really).

 

[Omnikron]

Well I enjoyed the whole show, the ending was not the same as the comic but it was; lets say a homage?

 

[DarioEMD]

People complaining about politics in media is always so funny to me. Everyone knows what you really mean is "not the politics I align with".

 

[Tbest25 Tbest25]

Garth Ennis is a hack. He's a salty piss baby who hates super heroes (Except Superman and Wonderwoman for some reason, as in, of course they're awesome, but the how the fuck a guy like Ennis has a soft spot for them is goddamn mystery), so after having Tommy Monaghan (a clear self-insert for Ennis) take the piss out of Super hero comics, he created Billy Butcher (who is also clearly just Tommy Managhan again) beat the piss out of them too.

He's a hack because he refuses to let go of his bias for a story, so his plots are often contrived in an absurdely cynical way in order to show the purposely bleak world he wants to portray at the cost of any narrative sensibility.

"The Boys" had one (1) interesting story beat that it refused to captialize on because it refused to countenance the very concept of Super Heroes being baby-raping murderers, as well as failing to recognize the problme with ALL comic book deconstructions of Super Heroes. That we already have stories that explore the concept of what people who abuse their incredible powers are: Super VILLAINS.
I don't need to see Evil Superman #135112323 (a concept trite even when the original comics came out) having a god complex and killing people just because he can, I saw Ultraman (not THAT Ultraman), Zod, Bizarro, Hyperion, Supreme, and countless others already do that a hundred times, without needing to resort to incessant potty humor like a 12 year old who just discovered South Park (or, Kevin Smith, same thing really).

I have to agree that Garth Ennis is pretty inconsistent regarding tone. At times, he can write some funny and profound satire, while in others he writes like an edgy 12 years old

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

People complaining about politics in media is always so funny to me. Everyone knows what you really mean is "not the politics I align with".

The problem with either the comic or the show isn't the fact that politics are involved or highlighted, it's that they are done so without any form or tact or proper rebuttal. It's an infantile portrayal of the ideas the creators disagree with, simply stating that the people who think like that way are awful, pathetic people.

Characters like Oh Father or Homelander and their Christian or Nationalistic views are not discussed or granted any sort of debate, they are blankly portrayed as wrong because the people that express them are insanely morally corrupt on principle.

It's like Watchmen. Watchmen had political/social leanings, but they weren't the focus of the story. The same thing is true with the original Dynamite Comics of The Boys. But the television series is playing with dolls, even if Anthony Starr was enough of a champ not to try and see it that way.

 

[DarioEMD]

The show also made fun of progressive views plenty of times, that's politics too. Maybe on a surface level like you said, but it's always been there.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Liked it had its own identity rather than being a simple 1:1 from the comics (edginess aside, the comics are kinda mid for being inconsistent and not having a good plot path) and instead they fine tuned most of the comic's flaws, the fact that Soldier boy went from a whiny loser to a flatout tank made my day

That said, season 4 and 5 felt like letdowns, season 4 felt as dark as the comics and season 5 was more or less "Quick, throw everything in the wall and add whatever sticks" for the sake of the proposed Expanded universe, the final episode feeling like a season finale

 

[Forthias]

People complaining about politics in media is always so funny to me. Everyone knows what you really mean is "not the politics I align with".

Nah, it's cringe when both sides do it. Not to mention in current day it's been done 20,000 times. If it's not some social commentary that's actually told well like 1984 or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep it just comes off as infantile and boring.

Edit: also made this post before reading the one from Dino so it's not just me that thinks like this. It's just boring and uninteresting if not straight up eye-roll inducing.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

meh. Comic was a bitter pile of manure written with nothing but bile and hatred and the show was a bunch of surface level social commentary that thought it was smarter than it actually was.

If you want a good superhero parodies, there are much better options out there like the Watchmen comic or Invincible or any of The Tick series

 

[zombie100379]

nobody is saying the show was perfect - but in terms of entertainment it done the job

 

[CheesyExplosive]

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that's what i think of it.... kill homelander and call it a day.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

At times, he can write some funny and profound satire, while in others he writes like an edgy 12 years old

I mean, read Preacher, that's literally Garth Ennis in a nutshell.

Occasional profound statement.

Then some guy using babies as body armor.

All over the place. Very hard to take seriously at some points.

 

[Tbest25 Tbest25]

I mean, read Preacher, that's literally Garth Ennis in a nutshell.

Occasional profound statement.

Then some guy using babies as body armor.

All over the place. Very hard to take seriously at some points.

I have the vol 1 of Preacher. I liked it a lot. His punisher max is good too.
He seems to write better when there's no super heros involved. I seriously want to know why he hates them so much, almost looks like a trauma situation (like with Billy Butcher )