The Boys – SPOILER discussion

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Season two starts today, so here’s a place to discuss it.

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It’s over and it’s time.

I hope the audience sees Starr and decide to check out his previous show Banshee.

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Ben, Christian

I thought this was overall a really good season of this great show, and it ended very satisfyingly.

It’s still incredibly to me that Seth Rogen and Eric Kripke successfully brought these two Garth Ennis books to the screen. Hats off to them, and to the audience for being ready for this crazy shit.

Let’s have the scene that made me fall in love with the show one last time – Butcher beating the shit out of Translucent to the sound of “London Calling”.

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Todd, Ben

Finally finished this. The final couple of episodes aren’t terrible but they just come way too late after a season of fannying around that mostly doesn’t really go anywhere. It feels like this show has limped towards the end over the last couple of seasons but if they’d ended it earlier with basically the same story beats I think it would have been better received.

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lorcan_nagle, Sean Robinson, Todd

Something I really think that hurt the show was that Amazon cut the budget in the final seasons, and it shows. We are told the scale of Homelander’s plans, but we never truly see it. I never truly felt the stakes. The final confrontation between Butcher and Huey felt rushed.

I don’t think the end was great, but I can’t say it was horrible. I thought it was okay.

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lorcan_nagle, Ben

Oh? They did that on Expanse too and it certainly hurt S6.

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lorcan_nagle, Todd

Streamers are really short-sighted with their own series.

People will binge decades-old series with hundreds of episodes over a brand new series that has a fraction of the episodes. Why? Because I think streamers don’t know how to do a series. They don’t give moderate successes a chance to grow – Shows get cancelled after one season. If it goes on for a bit, they start cutting the budget, which impacts the quality. Or, they’ll milk a show way past its expiration date (I’m looking at you, Squid Game and Stranger Things). Streaming series are also hurt by erratic release schedules. Having to wait two or more years between seasons is ridiculous. Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager released 26 episodes every year, and they were loaded with special effects in every episode.

At lot of streaming series don’t have a rewatchable quality to them. You may watch them once, and that’s it. I think if they made better series, I think they wouldn’t have as much churn as they do.

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