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This show is not puling punches.
As a huge fan of the video games, I am not disappointed at all. The show is one of the best love letters to the fans.
Agreed, loved all the little nods just this minute put episode 2 on.
The production is very impressive, they should have aired this weekly to gain more chatter to make it even more of a mega hit.
Been busy with work so only watched one episode a day, I may binge the rest over the weekend. Lucy is a great character very endearing. I like the overall dark humour of the show it matches the games well.
Season four l, so far, has ranged from bloody atrocious (Episode One), to exceptionally mediocre (with a few great scenes peppered through it).
Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy writing. Betrayal of three seasons of build-up and character development for two characters, and literally cutting and pasting alt.right tweets into their scripts. I’ve never seen anything of such high quality, fall so steeply. On the nose, on the nose, and, on the nose.
Quite honestly this writing room should be ashamed of themselves. It’s pathetic.
I have only watched the first episode of Season 4 so far, it was pretty gruesome. The reference to current events were very blatant.
Agreed, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns . So on the nose it made the episode dull and flat.
Frustrating and very disappointing.
The first episode did feel jarring I had to go back and watch some of S3 finale again as I thought I had missed something.
I do miss Queen Maeve and Starlight's old face, though.
Episode 1-4 felt like CHATGPT co-wrote every episode with an alt.right twitter account.
Lazy, atrocious writing.
Episode five was back to genuine storytelling again, and the type of episode that makes The Boys great.
The last thing I want when I watch fiction, is to feel like I'm watching CNN or FOX news.
And the gay subplot literally was shoe horned in and wasted three seasons of buildup. Just a terrible choice they made in the writers room.
1-4 was brutal and an embarrassment.
Episode 5 felt like the best of what The Boys is (plenty of dark humour, horror, social satire (without the bashing over the head)).
One’s not entitled to one’s opinion?
I’m glad you’re liking it.
Jeez man, not sure what’s got up your crack with some of my posts.
I never said anything to the contrary! There's nothing "up my crack" at all, old boy. :)
Just commenting on what has been one of my top shows of the last few years. Smart and intelligent has turned to on-the-nose and mostly flat for the first four episod.
It finally shows up in episode 5.
But you know, stupid me, wouldn’t know what I’m talking about 😂!!!
My previous post said that the show was never about subtlety and that there's not really anything in the new season that is any less on-the-nose than what came before. It ALWAYS had a CNN/Fox News element to it. Your follow-up then just repeated the same line without citing any examples of what made the writing poor in comparison with the prior seasons. I'm personally delighted that everyone has finally caught on to the metaphors; it was only a matter of time. The pacing is pretty subjective I suppose but I haven't found it flat - I think every season has had a fairly slow start that builds to a big finish of some description. Season 3 really only properly got going when Soldier Boy turned up halfway through.
I agree completely on the gay subplot though. I don't really care all that much for Frenchie regardless (he just seems to mope a lot without contributing) but it has had the secondary side effect of sidelining Kimiko a bit too much for my liking. Karen Fukahara is great.
So no, there's nothing "up my crack" and you very much are entitled to your opinion. You usually just present it in a more thoughtful manner (hence my "whatever you say" above). I'm not your enemy, my man.
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Sure. Gotcha.
I appreciate the explanation, and would’ve appreciated it more the first time ‘round instead of the dismissive, “whatever you say, Peter 😂 “…
So, yeah….
Nobody's perfect, I guess. Least of all me.
I would agree with this, too. I think someone's gotta go in the finale, seeing as next season is the last one. The stakes need to skyrocket for that final run.
I’m still wondering why you felt the need to belittle, but, I. The end, I’ll leave it there.
Your intention was clear.
I got the message, but I’m u clear whybthisnosnthe message you’d want to send my way.
But, c’est la vie
Strangely enough....
Could Homelander catch A-Train, do we think? It's a Superman versus Flash comparison, basically.
I feel like the only authentic way to end this show is with Homelander ruling a barren wasteland.
Just goes to show how streamers and studios are slashing projects left and right. The system no longer needs to make money on output since their overlords are the anonymous figures on Wall Street that fill their coffers (one of the reasons why the strikes went on for so long).
This is indeed a true pity and I hope this show finds another home elsewhere.