Just getting my thoughts out there. Feel free to add yours

spoilers for The Boys

I am so glad Maeve didn't die in the comics. You don't see her actually die in the comics either. You just see her head fall off the side of the building. Also lol at Maeve training with a sword in her montages only to fight Homelander barehanded. There's no reason for not to bring a weapon to the fight. Get an adamantium baseball bat. I don't care. You fucking fight dirty if you're fighting to the death. It wouldn't be as cool looking or choreographed, but it didn't feel like a fight to the death.

I am also glad that A-Train got his brother calling out his shit. However, his brother of course went lib and complained that he didn't do a cool thing killing Bluehawk. "I wanted his face on the news." I get in the series, that it would have more impact to get the guy's face on the news given that it's about supes especially with all the shit ramping up on the show. But when I heard that, my knee jerk was 'look what that's doing about cop violence.' the real world messaging felt dissonant to me. Idk

On that note, a bizarre thought I had was that it would be cool if Butcher recruited A-Train's brother to The Boys. I mean he's a perfect person to have join on. Severely harmed by a supe. Knowledge about training and working with a supe. And fitting in what I think is crucial messaging about The Boys.* I'll come back to this

I'm glad Annie's arc looks to be shaping up. I wish she would drop the holier than thou vibes, though. The people willingly working at Vought and covering up shit are culpable too and far worse as villains than Homelander. He's just the symptom of the real thing that needs to die. Anyway I also liked the dynamic between her and Hughie improved. He considers using the temp v but tries trusting in her instead and working with her powers. It showed them actually working together.

I don't know what Frenchy's actor did, but they're just demolishing his character. I don't like how they're depicting his addiction issues and his rant just felt cartoony. Also kinda oooof that complaining about workplace rights was lampooned like that by an Amazon property. I feel like Frenchy is losing what characterization he had.

Kimiko, no notes. Love everything Karen Fukuhara does. I'm loving her friendship with starlight and low-key hope that they hook up. They both deserve better.

Hughie is eh. But I feel weird how much they're treating him like a child. He's fucking thirty. Stop it. Black kids get mistaken for adults so much that it affects police statistics. I think we could have a little honesty with how much he's responsible for? He has been a huge dick with power and control issues since the first season. I feel like Robin being a forgotten character is a missed opportunity. They could've shown some of Hughie's issues through how he treated his former girlfriend in the relationship. Also it would've done good to see how a lib couple moved through the world of supes.

*It's something that really bugged me. The Boys 's about bringing people together to stop an oppressive threat. It's cool that Butcher did that, but why didn't others? Why aren't there other cells out there also working to bring down supes? The general population is so stupid and helpless. Why aren't there other serious groups trying to bring down supes? I get that most people would fall into easily managed opposition like online protests and peaceful in person protests, but out of almost four hundred million people, some of whom supes, only like seven people are a serious threat to vought?

I'll add comments as I think on more things.

  • Zodiark [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    From a reddit comment on the post-season: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBoys/comments/vuen6e/the_boys_postseason_3_discussion_thread/ifdapxu/

    Homelander is an existential threat to humanity and none of the main characters act like it.

    The Boys know that:

    Homelander has no known weaknesses, save for a coordinated attack by teams put together specifically to kill him. Homelander can fly at mach speeds. Homelander can slaughter people and destroy infrastructure with ease. Homelander is capable of obliterating western civilization in a few days, he knows this, and he's threatened to do it once already. Homelander is unpredictable, unhinged, and teetering on the brink of insanity. Put all that together? He's an existential threat. It's only a matter of time until he snaps and when he does he can't be stopped. Vought / the Government may have countermeasures... but The Boys have no evidence of this and no reason to believe either Vought or the Government have things under control.

    Which means, The Boys should want to kill Homelander because he's a threat to human civilization. All other reasons to kill him are just bonuses. He has to die, for the safety of everyone else on the planet. And yet:

    Butcher decides it's not okay to kill Homelander in front of Ryan. Starlight doesn't seem to think they should kill Homelander at all, because heroes wouldn't do that. M.M. would rather get revenge on Soldier Boy for killing his family than... allowing Soldier Boy to kill the existential threat, and then trying to get the revenge afterward? Hughie seemed to understand the importance of the mission to kill Homelander. Until he decided that it was more important to save Butcher? It's incredibly frustrating. Nobody is safe until Homelander is dead, and yet our characters pick stupid and selfish reasons to not kill him.

    • Zodiark [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Not really liking this liberal turn where The Boys gang feels they can reform Vought, stop Homelander in an honest fashion, or MM placing his own (justified) grudge before the collective safety of all of humanity. He could easily wait until Homelander had been slain.

      Jensen really did well as Solder Boy though. I'm hopeful he gets out of the CW Supernatural typecast.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        My thing is they want a conflict to keep brewing for more seasons obviously. I feel like they already drove it home that it was a bad idea now that fascists are encouraging him

        • Zodiark [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I guess I expected different from Kripke since he bailed after 5 seasons of Supernatural for other projects; he knows how to tell a story and tell it well.

          I didn't think dragging it out was really his thing, to be honest.

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I'm glad you mentioned the justified grudge. It's so frustrating to act like people can't hold onto two feelings at once.

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's it exactly. They've seen that Homelander is the bigger threat than Soldier Boy and they blew their chance at it because what? I get not wanting to have the Fight at Vought Tower, but what are they supposed to do. And I hate that Starlight thinks arresting Homelander is an option.