I’m not the type of fan that goes to post on r/TheBoys, but neither my husband or me were let down by the final season or the series finale itself.
Eh, I was. But like for the same reason the show has been disappointing. You have an entire show about how corporations will gladly poison the bread at the circus, spending hours of showtime mocking the excesses of late-stage capitalism, and then, nothing. At least Garth Ennis had something to say about apathy or whatever; the show spun a return to status quo corporatism as a good thing.
Same
I liked the first season. it was shot better, Homelander came off as a manipulative pos instead of an idiotic pos in later seasons, and it followed the original source more closely.
Say what you will about the comic, it’s not everyones cup of tea, but I just hate what they did with Noir in the show. I mean the comic had it setup beautifully for that reveal and the show just didn’t bother to touch it. the MAJOR plot point from the comic, the entire damn comic series revolved around THAT reveal and Kripke was all “nah, i’m good.”
Never read the comic, care to explain the noir plot and why it’s so significant?
so in the Comics Black Noir is actually a clone of Homelander and HE has been the one doing all the bad things that Homelander has done while gas lighting the actual Homelander into thinking he has a split personality and doing bad stuff. Vought had cloned Homelander in case he started going rogue and as a result (since he wasn’t going rogue) Black Noir/Clone Homelander starts doing shit as Homelander in hopes Vought will replace real homelander with black noir/clone homelander. the ACTUAL Homelander didn’t do any of it, he was just a manipulative POS.
My only issue with it is the last few minutes being a return to the status quo. I would have liked it if they portrayed a little bit of ongoing community organization, the kind of actions the viewer can take today without any superpowers.
The last season felt like they forgot it was the last season. Too much puttering and meandering.
It’s hard to finish a show well. At least they got to finish.
I really dont think Kripke is at fault here. It was obvious that he was setting up something much better with gen v and in general with the boys. Everything wrong with season 5 is because of corporate, they had to basically rewrite the whole thing and i heard they even had to reshoot some of it because amazon suddenly cancelled gen v and saw vought rising as their new cash cow. Telling a story which youve been setting up for 4+2 seasons and then having it suddenly hijacked must suck.
I liked the entire show, people just like hating on everything imo
I liked it but I kinda wanted them to integrate gen V a bit more. I mean I feel the blood power thing was supposed to be a take out homelander ability.
