Tip posted:

The arc reactor opens a portal to an alternate dimension of pure energy.

I don't know anything about comic books.

Zaphod42 posted:

I think that's a very fair question, and not to my knowledge

E: I guess he met with Rogan and others to discuss adapting the work, but I don't think he's approving scripts or on-set or anything. I think he's actually writing new Boys comics to try to capitalize on the show. (and heard they're bad)

Zaphod42 posted:

This gets into one of the "problems with super heroes if they were real" that watchmen and boys don't seem to touch on, but seems like a big obvious deal to me and part of why its always just power fantasy;

If you legitimately had the powers of a superhero, would there not be a massive burden on your shoulders to work 24/7?

If you had Gecko powers, and you could regenerate skin, wouldn't that create a nightmare horror scenario where you're literally being tortured 24/7 as your skin and organs are repeatedly removed over and over?

If you ever decide, "hey guys, I'm gonna take a vacation and spend a week in Disneyland" well, hundreds of people are now going to DIE because you're choosing to relax.

This is also true of like Superman/Homelander, like if you can legitimately hear Lois Lane screaming for help from miles away, then that means you're hearing people in distress every second of every day, and you're basically choosing to ignore most of them.

"with great power comes great responsibility" taken to its absurd extreme

Another Bill posted:

I'm really hoping that Love Sausage is still alive, and we see him extol the virtues of communism wearing a skin tight red leotard at some point.

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Or the subplot where his 12-year-old daughter, who looks like an adult because of the trace V in her system passed on from MM, gets talked into doing mother-daughter porn with MM's crack-addicted wife.

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Yeah it's really awful stuff.

Aces High posted:

everyone brought their facial acting A-game this episode, we had our usual good stuff from Homelander, Kimiko, A-Train, but we got some phenomenal stuff from Butcher, Becca, hell we had some terrific stuff from Ashley and Starlight

Riatsala posted:

How the hell did Lamplighter end up in the Seven in the first place? No super durability, no immunity to his own powers, no extra mobility, and his core super power is destructive, but no exactly game-changing.

BurritoJustice posted:

Romes128 posted:

The comic reveal is Black Noir was made from the same DNA as Homelander, and is basically his twin who's crazy af. He was made to be a contingency for Homelander. He did most of the really vile poo poo Homelander was blamed for, like raping Butchers wife and raping and murdering a gently caress ton of people. Homelander himself did some really bad poo poo too, but when confronted by Butcher about the rape allegations he was like, "that wasn't me." Then Black Noir takes off his mask and starts generally being crazy.

babypolis posted:

this plot point sucks so much and I dont understand why people like it so much. No one would ever assume they are actually doing those things, much less in a world filled with literal magic. Im glad the show is clearly staying far away from it

Boris Galerkin posted:

I have never heard of Fresca before in my life. Is it a regional thing? Is it Bezo’s favorite drink or something?

scary ghost dog posted:

i lolled when she said “there are people out there who hate us, who want to hurt us, just because of the color of our skin. its called white genocide”

Phi230 posted:

Love sausage better join the boys next season

jabby posted:

Now that I think about it, it actually makes comic A-Train way less responsible for Robin's death than TV A-Train. And yet comic A-Train gets brutally beaten and killed out of revenge while TV A-Train is basically rehabilitated.

jabby posted:

There are so many little moments of Homelander noticing red flags from Stormfront and choosing to ignore them.

Neurolimal posted:

Unless I misread the ending wildly Butcher also implies that he knows in some corner of his head that what he's doing is wrong, and wants Hughie to stop him from committing super-genocide (like his brother would). Right when Hughie loses his remaining lead on where to find him, Butcher calls in a terrorist threat at the Empire State Building to lure him up, and is genuinely surprised when Hughie makes a lunge for him instead of talking him down. He could have let Hughie (who would have died from the bomb-V detonation anyways) fall and carried out the plan.

usenet celeb 1992 posted:

But yeah, Stan's not making it to the end of the show and it will almost certainly be by Homelander's hands.

tokin opposition posted:

this would not have happened if the show was The Girls

Clipperton posted:

Yeah I'm a huge Ennis fan but there's a reason The Boys is no one's favourite Ennis comic. He just doesn't care enough about superheroes to parody them effectively (compare with something like Rifle Brigade, where he's way more invested in the tropes he's sending up) and it gets pretty lazy.

If they took the more serious stuff from the comics (eg Vought vs the US government, the Hughie-Annie romance) and combined it with the show's superhero bits, that'd be the best of both worlds imo.

Mu Zeta posted:

I don't think Homelander is even racist. He just think he's better than everyone. I guess he also hates anyone disabled or with a deformity.

Alan Smithee posted:

yah ashley's such a weasel and her actress is way good at selling it. At this point she kind of is Vought since either Homelander gets what he wants or is in over his head or everyone else is just a boring suit

PostNouveau posted:

I was confused by Kimiko and Frenchie kissing because I'd assumed they were just full-time romantic partners at this point.

Boofy posted:

so what was that gunpowder guy's superpower, anyway? just 'being really good at guns' like that guy in the really bad wolverine movie?

iv46vi posted:

And this makes dean’s plan to find a secluded spot to blackmail a guy who beats other people for the thrill of it and clearly dislikes her such a brilliant move.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Galactus actually had a kinda-sorta daughter named Galacta. And that's really all one needs to know about the character.

La Louve Rouge posted:

this show is eating Marvel's lunch, this is pretty much exactly what I would want from a live-action X-men show. teen drama, superpowered campus hijinx, lil' intrigue, big Youth Culture aesthetic

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Honestly, the best part about that sex scene is that Sam recognized he wasn't well, shared that openly, and that he might inadvertently hurt Emma. That's more foresight than pretty much the entire male population has before just getting randomly laid, let alone losing their virginity.

Jerusalem posted:

I'm so grateful that they went all out on producing the full version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9qbAuNnFU0

Fellatio del Toro posted:

To me it was a disappointing cop out that just left Shetty feeling like not much more than a standard comic villain with a splash of The Boys™️ dark edginess

breadshaped posted:

- in what universe is changing the narrative to make Sam and Cate the heroes and the rest the villains something that makes rational sense or will even hold up under scrutiny?
Show sucked.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm assuming homelander blasted a hole right through her and she blood-powered herself back together.

I'm also assuming the VFX budget ran out at that exact point