The Boys

[Fignuts]

Deserves it's own thread.

Couple episodes in and I'm loving it. Great adaptation of the comic.

Cool that they got Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad, since Hughie was based around Pegg.

[Destor]

Im starting it tomorrow. Very hyped for it

[Seanny One Ball]

Think I read about the comic years ago, "Mothers Milk" is definitely a memorable name. Amazon Prime too, so one I can definitely watch. :y:

[Fignuts]

Most of the characters are spot on, and really great. Hughie isn’t Scottish but they still captured the personality of the character really well. Butcher, Homelander, and Starlight are the standouts so far. Theyre adapted from the comic excellently. Only disappointment is Frenchie. He’s not the happy go lucky crazy guy he is in the comics. In this, he’s more or less just really strung out.

[Fignuts]

It’s not quite as over the top as the comic, but some of that stuff wouldn’t work as well on screen anyway. I think they found a really good medium in between keeping the story grounded and the crazy shit from the comics.

[Seanny One Ball]

Hughie isn't how it would be pronounced in Scotland anyway.

Shoe or Shoe-E is how we say it. Like what you put on your feet. Like if you're calling a pig.

[Fignuts]

I was talking about the character, not the name.

[Fignuts]

Also, What is calling a pig?

[Seanny One Ball]

Suuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeey

[Seanny One Ball]

I was talking about the character, not the name.


Uhuh, or maybe I was mucking about

[Seanny One Ball]

Also, What is calling a pig?

Suuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeey

It's how you attract a pig's attention...

[Fignuts]

Uhuh, or maybe I was mucking about

Maybe it’s mabeline.

[Seanny One Ball]

Going to re-subscribe and dig in after Ip Man 3 finishes.

[Destor]

Just watched the opener. Kripke has a homerun on his hands.

[Fignuts]

I like what they've done with Stillwell here. In the comic (where the character is a male) he is a perfectly flawless, corporate machine who is always ten steps of everyone else, allt he way to the end. Which is very impressive and all that, but it also leads to him being a bit one dimensional.

They gave Madelyn just enough vulnerability to be more interesting, while keeping that cool calculated strength needed to give orders to living gods.

[Fignuts]

Also holy shit, that ending goes way off the rails from the book. Not a bad thing depending on where they go with it. It's definitely got me interested to see what happens with it.

Kinda bummed they killed Stillwell already though. She was great.

[Seanny One Ball]

Jesus fucking Christ dude.

Right just a warning to anybody who hasn't seen or read about this... this is mental. This is like Hereditary meets Harvey Weinstein.

[Seanny One Ball]

Everything's going to be fine now, Karl Urban will fix it.

[Seanny One Ball]

First episode is totally bonkers...
Good casting, particularly Anthony Starr - his expression looks so nefarious for a hero :lol:
Erin Moriarty is good casting too, vulnerable yet formidable is a tough one to pull off. Take note Marvel, this was missing from *Cap'n Maveral.
I'm enjoying this, it's all upside down and back to front but it all seems familiar until you're shown what's up.

This one is going to lead me down dead ends and false corridors before it's over.

[Seanny One Ball]

*Overheard a foreign guy say this the other day, was fantastic.

[Seanny One Ball]

I thought this was going to be extremely bleak but it's hilarious too. I mean I'm not one for gore but I can handle it if it's as ridiculous as what I just saw.
I'm 3 episodes in and this programme hasn't settled into one definitive style yet. It's like a comedy and a thriller with occasional extreme violence.

[Destor]

102


Kripke has really taken what he learned from supernatural and harnessed it here. He manages to juggle genuine levity without compromising the sting of the razor sharp social commentary.


I dont know how long they can keep the stakes this high but right now the show is aces.

[Seanny One Ball]

Elizabeth Shue probably doing her best work since "Leaving Las Vegas" here.
She's not chewing scenery either, she's completely at ease in the character. Erin Moriarty is equally adept at this as is Anthony Starr and the more I see him I really quite like the Quaid guy playing Hughie.
Karl Urban is solid as a rock and carrying a sizeable share of the comedy on his shoulders, it's always great to have Karl Urban as he is shamefully underrated.

[Seanny One Ball]

Episode 6 The support group scene... that is heavy shit. I thought that was heading for comedy...

[Seanny One Ball]

Ahahahaha the cameos are appropriately brilliant.

[Fignuts]

Episode 6 The support group scene... that is heavy shit. I thought that was heading for comedy...

Well the ice capades comment cracked me up.

But yeah, that was a great scene.

[Fignuts]

The deep is probably my favorite character. Lost my shit at both of his attempts to save sea creatures.

[Seanny One Ball]

I like how all of the superhero names are total shit. The Black Noir, The Deep, Homelander...

[Seanny One Ball]

I keep thinking the wrong people are responsible for the shit that's going down... I'm well impressed with the way this has been put together. So creepy and grim and I am leaving with some weird, weird boners.

[Seanny One Ball]

"Never has a man thrown his life away so completely as you have today"

:lol:

[Seanny One Ball]

Romeo and Juliet had nothing on these two.
You think you're getting one thing, you get another. You assume the tone and they flip it on you every time.

This is a perfect show.

[Seanny One Ball]

That ending is going to make waiting for the second series a real bastard.

[Destor]

103


this is the ep i was waiting on. First two establish the world and the stakes. 103 slows things down and lets us see the characters live in the world they set up. This is more representative of what the show will be long tern.


Well paced show. Really knows what its doing. Structurally this is very well constructed tv.

[Seanny One Ball]

I love the way it flips through genres, some scenes completely mislead me into thinking I was going into a horror, comedy, thriller or action scene and then completely changed within moments.
I haven't read the source material but I take it there is an ending to all of it because the wiki page says it ran 72 issues and hasn't been continued. That's a positive sign to me after the way GoT ended.

[Destor]

I do prefer shows that have an ending and build toward it. Its hard to see past success though. Most shows end up stretching for extra seasons even after their story is ready to end. How I Met Your Mothers final 2 seasons for example.

[Fignuts]

It has an ending and it’s an awesome twist, though developments in the show kind of contradict it.

BIG TIME SPOILER FROM THE COMIC
In the comic Homelander has no recollection of raping Becka because it was actually Black Noir. But here he doesn’t seem confused at all and seemingly did do it. Which begs the question what their plans are for Black Noir.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah but you see her go with Homelander into the room...

Hmmm.

[Seanny One Ball]

Arghhh I have to check the Wiki page now

[Fignuts]

Yeah but you see her go with Homelander into the room...

Hmmm.

MORE BIG TIME COMIC SPOILERS SERIOUSLY BIGGEST PLOT TWIST OF THE ENTIRE SERIES HERE

Black Noir puts on Homelanders suit before he does it. He also takes a bunch of pictures of himself slaughtering an entire family, and eating their baby. As fucked up as the show is, the comic is really vile. Anyway the fact is, Black Noir is a stronger clone of Homelander whose entire purpose is to be a killswitch for Homelander if Vought American ever feels it's within their best interest to off him. Supposedly they used their experience of raising homelander to better control Noir. But they still didn't get it quite right because the guy obviously goes insane. Because his entire purpose of existance is to kill Homelander and it's looking like it's never going to happen. So he does a whole bunch of awful horrid shit while wearing homelander's costume to try and trigger Vought into giving him the order.

So the footage of Homelander entering the room with Becka makes sense because it could still be Noir. What doesn't make sense is the actual Homelander reacting like it was him. If it was Noir, he should be confused and have no recollection of the encounter. I dunno we'll see where they go with it.

[Fignuts]

The show is a lot better than the book to be honest. The book is pretty good for a laugh most of the time, and there are genuinely great characters, but it's a bit up it's own ass, and at times feels more concerned with shitting on superheroes for the sake of it instead of telling the story.

It's a common problem with Garth Ennis cause at times he's more concerned with using his characters as his own personal soapbox. Butcher and Jesse Custer are literally the same fucking character. Two hard bad asses who constantly go on rants about something or other because something triggered Garth that day.

Like, don't get me wrong, Garth Ennis is a great writer, but he'd be a lot better if he wasn't so concerned with constantly telling people his opinions on everything.

[Seanny One Ball]

Okay so the show must be diverging slightly on some points just to keep it surprising for fans of the comic book yet to retain the theme for the fresh audience.

I can dig it and despite how fanboy I am about "my things" I am reaping the benefits of how well prepared this is without being so into the comic that the slightest change annoyed me.

Very glad I read the Wiki before the spoiler tag, now I'm kinda just waiting...

[Fignuts]

Okay so the show must be diverging slightly on some points just to keep it surprising for fans of the comic book yet to retain the theme for the fresh audience.

I can dig it and despite how fanboy I am about "my things" I am reaping the benefits of how well prepared this is without being so into the comic that the slightest change annoyed me.

Very glad I read the Wiki before the spoiler tag, now I'm kinda just waiting...

Yeah, the thing is, while it does go well off the rails in a number of ways, I'm not bothered because they absolutely fucking nailed the characters. That's what's most important, imo. You can tell your own version of events as long as you capture what made the characters great in the source material.

That's why The Boys is awesome, and Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique is worthless garbage.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

This show was awesome. Finished it up today. So fucking good. Seanny is right, every time you think you're going in one direction, they make a hard turn in the opposite.

The zingers and comedy bits are great. Karl Urban is so damn good. Absolutely magnetic as Butcher.

The season finale really ramped it up. Wasn't expecting the ending at all. I'm excited for the next season. But it sucks we have to wait.

[Seanny One Ball]

Karl Urban brings gravitas to the whole thing before you've even seen it. Then he has the humility not to steal the show.
I think Elizabeth Shue just had the best role of her life.

[Destor]

104


Spicegirls. Lul to the Nth


This show needs to be careful. Im begining to think there will be no bad eps.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Spoiler alert: there aren't.

Seanny is right. Starlight is everything Captain Marvel should've been as a character.

[Seanny One Ball]

There really aren't. I can't think of an episode that wasted any of its run time.

[RP]

I got Prime now so i might watch this soon.

[GD]

Thoroughly enjoyed the show. Karl Urban and the person who plays Homelander were amazing. Can't believe I had some sympathy for The Deep after the first episode. Quality stuff.

[Tom Guycott]

I'm super late to this party, but still glad I came all the same.

[Tom Guycott]

It has an ending and it’s an awesome twist, though developments in the show kind of contradict it.

BIG TIME SPOILER FROM THE COMIC
In the comic Homelander has no recollection of raping Becka because it was actually Black Noir. But here he doesn’t seem confused at all and seemingly did do it. Which begs the question what their plans are for Black Noir.

So far, seems like background comedy foil until some serious shit goes down. He did go all Snake-Eyes when he needed to, but then you have other shit like with the piano player.

MORE BIG TIME COMIC SPOILERS SERIOUSLY BIGGEST PLOT TWIST OF THE ENTIRE SERIES HERE

Black Noir puts on Homelanders suit before he does it. He also takes a bunch of pictures of himself slaughtering an entire family, and eating their baby. As fucked up as the show is, the comic is really vile. Anyway the fact is, Black Noir is a stronger clone of Homelander whose entire purpose is to be a killswitch for Homelander if Vought American ever feels it's within their best interest to off him. Supposedly they used their experience of raising homelander to better control Noir. But they still didn't get it quite right because the guy obviously goes insane. Because his entire purpose of existance is to kill Homelander and it's looking like it's never going to happen. So he does a whole bunch of awful horrid shit while wearing homelander's costume to try and trigger Vought into giving him the order.

So the footage of Homelander entering the room with Becka makes sense because it could still be Noir. What doesn't make sense is the actual Homelander reacting like it was him. If it was Noir, he should be confused and have no recollection of the encounter. I dunno we'll see where they go with it.

Having not read the comic, I'm guessing: that was the idea they were going for with the kid... raise him in secret with the "love" that Homelander never got in the lab, and hopefully he will be Plan B in another decade or so when or after John went off the rails, which the doc sounded like he was suspect of being an inevitability. Homelander was never supposed to find out about the baby until it was too late to stop him or at least not have any sort of formative influence in that kid's life. But now that he knows, we get wacky hi-jinx for additional seasons and the added bonus of significantly less baby eating.

You say Starlight is what Captain Marvel should have been; I say this is the douchebag Injustice Superman we deserved to get in the movies instead of wasting effort in edited mustaches.

Unrelated to anything mentioned in the thread: I wonder how many times Billy Zane is going to pop up? Also, he's another guy who doesn't age along with Karl Urban. Throw them in a Highlander reboot with Paul Rudd.

[Fignuts]

OH MY GOD THE PALM READING GUY WAS HALEY JOEL OSMENT IM SO FUCKING OLD KILL ME NOW

[GD]

OH MY GOD THE PALM READING GUY WAS HALEY JOEL OSMENT IM SO FUCKING OLD KILL ME NOW

Wouldn’t have know if I hadn’t seen “Sex Ed”.

[Tom Guycott]

OH MY GOD THE PALM READING GUY WAS HALEY JOEL OSMENT IM SO FUCKING OLD KILL ME NOW

I realized it was him pretty quick... no matter how much he ages, his eyes/nose area still looks like he's 8. It's weird.

Also of note on Billy Zane again... he plays himself.

And he plays himself in Zoolander...


Zoolander and The Boys share universes, and you can't tell me otherwise. If one of the Supes busts out the tiny cell phone next season, I told you so!

Also also, I like that this universe subtlety dropped that 9/11 never happened in it.

[Fignuts]

He seemed familiar but I couldn't place it. Wasnt an important enough character that I felt like looking it up.

[Destor]

I've him in other works so there was nothing to be shocked by.

[Destor]

For me.


Plus he does voice work for Sora so he was all over the place promoting that earlier this year

[Tom Guycott]

I had to watch it again. I mean that as complimentary as I possibly can.

[Seanny One Ball]

I firmly believe The Boys to be Elizabeth Shue's greatest performance.
That was inspired casting.

[DrA]

I heard that Jack Quaid is in this so I want to check it out at some point.

[Seanny One Ball]

You will not regret it

[RP]

Just finished episode 2. Elizabeth Shue still has it! All those 80's boner memories are coming back. The Karate Kid boners. The Adventure's of Babysitting. I think I once jacked off to her banging the Thor guy in that. Cocktail... hard to jackoff to because Tom Cruise is being all weird flipping bottles and smiling and shit. Leaving Las Vegas... who doesnt want to drink themselves to death with Elizabeth Shue riding your limp dick?

[Jordan]

Just started watching this, it's really good.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm four episodes into the series; I don't know why I held off from watching this show, as it is fantastic. Karl Urban, Elizbeth Shue and Erin Moriarty are owning it.

The Deep having a lover's quarrel with the dolphin in the back of a van was priceless.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

That scene with the dolphin was amazing.

And this series just further endeared me to Karl Urban.

[Sixx]

I thought Karl Urban was bad casting, but I only hear good things now. Huh.

[Seanny One Ball]

Karl Urban is never bad casting

[Sixx]

Shut your fucking face, Butcher looked way different in the comics.

[Seanny One Ball]

https://static3.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Billy-Butcher-Featured-Image.jpg

Way different...
They may as well have cast Tony Cox

[Seanny One Ball]

His forehead vein isn't even in the right place.

[Sixx]

His forehead vein isn't even in the right place.

Right? that's my reason for not watching this show.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've finished the first season; I want more you glorious fucks!

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The new season starts on 4 September, with the first three episodes to be released that day, and then one episode a week until 9 October.

I'm ready you glorious fucks!

[Seanny One Ball]

Should be good.

New Umbrella Academy is out next month too.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Boourns at releasing it weekly. Ah well.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

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[Fignuts]

Stormfront looks....different

Hopefully she's still a Nazi.

[Tom Guycott]

Stormfront looks....different

Hopefully she's still a Nazi.

Normally, that's not something I'd cosign IRL. Especially in "these troubling times".

However, in the bounds of this show, I'm like "Why the fuck not?"

[Bobholly138]

Boys is the best comic based show since Constatine.

[Seanny One Ball]

I was swaying between it and The Umbrella Academy for my top comic book show. They are both outstanding so either way the viewers win.

[Lock Jaw]

I regret to say I still need to watch The Boys....

My top comic book show still prop gonna be Legends of Tomorrow or Doom Patrol

[Seanny One Ball]

Doom Patrol is too cheesy and daft.
Alan Tudyk is great in it though, as always.

[Destor]

Id have to go with the easy answe and say daredevil

[Destor]

I fucking love legends tho

[Seanny One Ball]

You told me it was Krypton

[Destor]

Ive never seen krypton. Wasnt it dropped after like 3 eps?

[RP]

Daredevil season 1 and 3 were fantastic and 2 was pretty good.

[Lock Jaw]

Still never watched Daredevil S3

Krypton was dropped after 2 seasons.

I dropped it after like 3 eps though.

[Fignuts]

Are we counting animated shows?

Cause Batman The Animated Series is greatest of all time, for me.

[Blonde Moment]

Are we counting animated shows?

Cause Batman The Animated Series is greatest of all time, for me.

Damn straight

[Tom Guycott]

That's just unfair. Should stick to the live action comic based stuff. Otherwise, Batman TAS would overshadow a lot of other shit in a lot of categories.

[Big Vic]

Batman TAS isn't on any streaming is it?

[Lock Jaw]

Maybe on DC Universe?

[RP]

Are we counting animated shows?

Cause Batman The Animated Series is greatest of all time, for me.

I bought this for DVD though. Blu Ray was expensive. I love it. I'm not even half way through.


Lock Jaw: Season 3 of Daredevil is probably the best Netflix ever put out. It's really really good. I've seen it twice.

[Lock Jaw]

Yeah, I hear it is really good.

Never watched Punisher S2 either.... really liked the first one.

Also, I think there is a S3 of Jessica Jones, but S2 was a chore so dunno about that one....

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I too found season 2 of Jessica Jones a chore and I think I only watched a couple of episodes from season 3 before moving on.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I would have loved to have seen a season 3 of Luke Cage; it looks like it was going to go in a really interesting direction with Cage essentially becoming a crime boss.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

I, too, only got thru a few episodes of Jessica Jones. S2 wasn't great and I couldn't get into s3 because of it.

S2 of Punisher was pretty good. Bit of an underwhelmingending but once it got going I really killed it.

S3 of Daredevil was fucking stellar. The scene with him yelling at Fisk in their final brutal, bloody battle, was so damn good.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Just watched it again. Damn it I love that scene.

[Seanny One Ball]

Season 2 looks relevant to say the least.

Race riots and superheroes...

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Watching the Boys. A nice little slow build first ep to catch up with where everyone is at after the season finale. Episode picks up the pace and is glorious.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm waiting until the whole season has been released. Motherlovers need to understand this is not the 1990s or 2000s; I expect to binge a season at my leisure.

[GD]

Completed the first three episodes. Can’t wait for the new one. Holy shit! Episode 3 was too good.

[Seanny One Ball]

"Episode three was too good"

They used to perform long and endless vaudeville routines around wordplay like that.

[GD]

Your sex life would make for a good silent film.

[Sixx]

Your sex life would make for a good silent film.

Ugh

[Seanny One Ball]

That doesn't even make sense but I do applaud the burn.

[Seanny One Ball]

Started watching season 2.

A strong return so far. The performance quality and style makes a lot of the details palatable. This is a smarter show than Umbrella Academy with a much more acerbic edge to the characters.

Polished and reliable writing.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

It is far and away better than the umbrella academy. It's not even close.

Episode 3 was so good. Hate having to wait a week to get back into it.

[GD]

Why would anyone compare this to Umbrella Academy? Both are different in execution and this is clearly superior.

[Seanny One Ball]

Are you seriously asking why anybody would compare two contemporary shows with similar themes?

[GD]

Are you seriously asking why anybody would compare two contemporary shows with similar themes?

One is more grittier and dark whereas the other is more accessible? That's just me. They're both enjoyable but I'd hate to compare them and water down the other because the comparison feels unfair.

[Seanny One Ball]

So I can't compare one Batman to any others if they are "more grittier"?

How about comparing versions of A Star Is Born?

What do you even mean by that post?

[GD]

Comparing different iterations of Batman doesn't come across as wrong since they share the same protagonist, characters, and stories. The Umbrella Academy and The Boys are two very different shows. One deals with a dysfunctional family with superpowers and other is about a group of guys of who are on the run and trying to seek revenge / justice against people with superpowers.

[Seanny One Ball]

They are both shows about dysfunctional groups of superheroes. In one they are protagonists, and the other they are antagonists.

It's the same premise essentially.

Superheroes are dicks too.

[Seanny One Ball]

Even if they were different you can still compare them though. Comparing things helps you understand them more.

[GD]

Your argument for comparison is better than mine.

I just have a strong preference for one over the other. Feel like it undermines "The Umbrella Academy" which I also cherish.

[Big Vic]

How would you say "The Boys" compares to "A Star is born"? Which is better?

[GD]

How would you say "The Boys" compares to "A Star is born"? Which is better?

Can you see Lady Gaga's peepee in The Boys? There's your answer.

[Frank Drebin]

day vee gaga

[GD]

Ep 4 was whole lotta sometin

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Fucking hell one episode a week now? Fuck

[Big Vic]

Kinda like it; gives us something to discuss each week...... so..... let's discuss?

[Seanny One Ball]

Episode 4 has classic written all over it due to that one amazing Homelander revelation.
The greatness of that scene is that it's gross, funny, weird and then with one swift shake it becomes darker than almost everything that they have done so far.

Anthony Starr is ballin' at this stage.
He's so great in the role.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

The doppelganger reveal is so great namely because Homelander plays off it so well.

[Frank Drebin]

As much as I hate having to wait a week, I'm totally cool with this being done for what a service deems a "big deal". Gets people talking and a lot of click bait comes out when people get a chance to ruminate on the goings on and potential theories.

In this day and age its hard to do that over a few weeks let alone months if you're looking to stay relevant for that long. Does it mean more subscribers? I'd like to see the data on if this works.

[Savio]

Nitpick: The boat seemed shoehorned in to episode 3 just to give "The Deep" a way to come back.

[Helmsphere]

So ready to actually begin to watch this. Think I might finally have the girlfriend on board since she has gotten used to my liking of Over the Top stuff

[Seanny One Ball]

Episode 5 was excellent again.
This show is so weird but everybody plays it so strIght.

Anthony Starr's eyes are a whole other level of physical performance.
His face is just perfect for that character.

[Fignuts]

Love Stormfront and I have no idea where they are going with her. In the comic he's a minor character.

Also, super happy that Terror is in it now.

I was disappointed with Frenchie in the first season, but he's gotten a lot more development so far, and he's growing on me.

[Frank Drebin]

I love so much about the show but Ill start by saying the slow burn on Stormfront's "views" is great. They juuuuuust started broaching the topic with A-Train this episode. Knowing the audience would find out about the comic Stormfront it would be easy to introduce the character, then immediately pull back the curtain. There's something more going on with her than just her "views".

[Seanny One Ball]

Storefront was guilty of the most ludicrously planted piece of racism ever.

"You yellow bastard".

Terrible.

I'm still pretending it was a shout out to Sin City just to get over it.

[Seanny One Ball]

One thing this show needs to do is make The Boys a much more legitimate threat to superheroes.
They are continually made to look like ineffective dipshits.

Fighting Black Noir with a fire poker? Seriously?!

[Fignuts]

Storefront was guilty of the most ludicrously planted piece of racism ever.

"You yellow bastard".

Terrible.

I'm still pretending it was a shout out to Sin City just to get over it.

How is it ludicrous? She's a racist and she was around when it was a commonly used racial slur.

[Fignuts]

One thing this show needs to do is make The Boys a much more legitimate threat to superheroes.
They are continually made to look like ineffective dipshits.

Fighting Black Noir with a fire poker? Seriously?!

In the comics they have compound v in their veins right from the start. Maybe they're saving that for later in the show.

I didn't have a problem with the fire poker thing. He wasn't using it to be effective, he was just buying time.

[Seanny One Ball]

It was ludicrous because no racist would save their one moment of truth and honesty to say "you yellow bastard".
That is hack writing at best and deliberate placement at worst.

"Oh I'm too multicultural to know what a racist might call an Oriental person...just have her call the guy yellow. That will do."

I expect the real deal and everybody knows a real racist would go Gook on that one. Yellow isn't even an insult in the mind of a racist.

Trust me I'm Scottish.

[Seanny One Ball]

In the comics they have compound v in their veins right from the start. Maybe they're saving that for later in the show.

I didn't have a problem with the fire poker thing. He wasn't using it to be effective, he was just buying time.


It is a big issue and it will inevitably need explained if they just start dosing these guys now.
Very hard to make sense of that in the narrative, they'd have been on it from day one if they could be.

Hopefully they have a good reason for this.

[Fignuts]

It was ludicrous because no racist would save their one moment of truth and honesty to say "you yellow bastard".
That is hack writing at best and deliberate placement at worst.

"Oh I'm too multicultural to know what a racist might call an Oriental person...just have her call the guy yellow. That will do."

I expect the real deal and everybody knows a real racist would go Gook on that one. Yellow isn't even an insult in the mind of a racist.

Trust me I'm Scottish.

I dunno, maybe we should ask Sixx.

[Seanny One Ball]

He'd have filled the air with so much ethnic pejorative that you'd never see one letter in the speech bubble.

[Frank Drebin]

Never watching this show again because she should have said gook rather than yellow bastard.

[Seanny One Ball]

Gook would have made that a perfect episode but the critics are too afraid to say.
Rex Reed would have but he probably thinks The Boys is a "fag show" based on name alone.

[Seanny One Ball]

Maybe they really do need to hire a consultant that knows a bit about racial epithets.

How much is bail for a Polish prisoner?

[Fignuts]

Gook is a slur originating from the Vietnam/Korean war and was used in reference to those people.

“Yellow” is a slur from WWII in reference to Japanese people. Stormfront in the comics was from that era, so again, it makes perfect sense that she’d use that specific slur especially towards a Japanese person.

[Frank Drebin]

Woah, Seanny! You gonna take that?

[Fignuts]

He’s not owenbrown. Shut up.

[Sixx]

Calling them yellow is not considered racist here, just a common expression.

[Seanny One Ball]

Gook is a slur originating from the Vietnam/Korean war and was used in reference to those people.

“Yellow” is a slur from WWII in reference to Japanese people. Stormfront in the comics was from that era, so again, it makes perfect sense that she’d use that specific slur especially towards a Japanese person.



You can't stick to etymology when you cover racial epithets.
These are interchangeable to all racists.

Get a grip lad.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yellow was invented in 1945 to slag of Hirohito for having jaundice

[Seanny One Ball]

Bananas were just "green" or "no longer green" until 1945

[Big Vic]

One thing this show needs to do is make The Boys a much more legitimate threat to superheroes.
They are continually made to look like ineffective dipshits.

Fighting Black Noir with a fire poker? Seriously?!

Kinda waiting for another one of the 7 to die, thought the killing of the supes would happen more often.

[Frank Drebin]

You can't stick to etymology when you cover racial epithets.
These are interchangeable to all racists.

Get a grip lad.

Woah, Fignuts! You gonna take that?

[Seanny One Ball]

He'll latch onto the obvious fallacy in that hastily written piece of shit and ruin me.

The end is nigh.

Long live the nigh.

[Fignuts]

You know what? Fuck you, Frank Drebin.

YOU take THAT.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah fuck you you old bastard

[GD]

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[Damian Rey 2.0]

Episode 5 was a lot of fun. I agree that at some point, the Boys need to gain a physical advantage. They've been surviving by luck and cunning but that well will run dry at some point.

[Tom Guycott]

It was ludicrous because no racist would save their one moment of truth and honesty to say "you yellow bastard".
That is hack writing at best and deliberate placement at worst.

"Oh I'm too multicultural to know what a racist might call an Oriental person...just have her call the guy yellow. That will do."

I expect the real deal and everybody knows a real racist would go Gook on that one. Yellow isn't even an insult in the mind of a racist.

Trust me I'm Scottish.

Eh. Nitpicky. Especially since it was from her standpoint a throwaway phrase when essentially he was the only one there to hear it. The "hackier" part was the whole wanting to see his eyes while he died thing... she just got done with indiscriminate mass murder, but this guy she wanted to savor for no reason. It didn't have to be anything over the top... well, more over the top than killing black bystanders simply because they were in the way of her target and not wort the effort of avoiding.

Personally, I think it sounds like a stupid argument that her racism wasn't racist enough for you. Besides, the way this show likes to play with or subvert such expectations from people familiar with the source material, there might be some more truth behind her little "saying without saying" dance with A-Train. Her comment about regular people being beneath folks with super powers might be more accurate than just an excuse to not say black people in that instance. Kinda like old school Magneto logic. It is possible even regular white people are subhuman scum to her, because they don't have powers. But we shall see.

[Seanny One Ball]

Mate no racism will ever be enough for me

[Damian Rey 2.0]

The Brave Maeve pride bar! I'm crying Lmaooooooooo

[Seanny One Ball]

Imagine being a Superhero that isn't invulnerable to bullets. You'd stick to muggings I think.
This show does a good job of showing you how many D Listers there would be if X Men was real life too. I like that some powers are good for certain things but they have no real advantage against deadly weapons.


It's an ever evolving race to figure out what kills them.

[Seanny One Ball]

And Homelander's only known weakness is that he can't see through zinc of all things.

[Helmsphere]

Finally got started on this. On episode 6 now. Will be all caught up by tomorrow morning

[Frank Drebin]

Imagine being a Superhero that isn't invulnerable to bullets. You'd stick to muggings I think.
This show does a good job of showing you how many D Listers there would be if X Men was real life too. I like that some powers are good for certain things but they have no real advantage against deadly weapons.


It's an ever evolving race to figure out what kills them.

Really cool when Butcher shoots that guy in the field. I did a double take like "oh yeah, just because they have a power to use doesn't mean they can't be hurt."

[Damian Rey 2.0]

I liked the flashback with Frenchy making different types of bombs to disable the supes. Xanax bomb was good. Don't know why they don't do more of that now.

Couple I big reveals in this ep. Want episode 7 badly.

[Helmsphere]

Almost completely caught up.

Totally chuckled at the

Don't be a pussy, laser my tits

[GD]

Dale's penis made an appearance in the new episode.

[Tom Guycott]

Was I the only one who got Akira vibes from the hospital hall splattering?

[Helmsphere]

That was a hell of a Love Sausage.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Didn't even have the decency to trim it

[Gray]

Last episode was great. Ending scene made my head explode!

[Damian Rey 2.0]

20 minutes into this weeks episode. I love this show.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Last episode was great. Ending scene made my head explode!

Same! Mind blowing!

[Helmsphere]

Tell me where I can find a copy of Big Black Noir, asking for RP

[Savio]

Is Black Noir dead then?

[Helmsphere]

Pretty sure he's not. The thing he needed was like 2 feet from him

[GD]

We still need Black Noir for storyline purposes.

[Savio]

Stop giving spoilers Dave <3

[Helmsphere]

So no one has a copy of Big Black Noir? What about Starlight pulls A-Train?

[Seanny One Ball]

Oh there's definitely a copy of Black Noir somewhere

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Well the season finale did not disappoint me in the slightest.

[Helmsphere]

New favorite line from this show.

Should of made your wife Cum, you Snowflake Cuck.

[Gray]

Great episode. Just a shame now we'll have to wait until next year for the next season...

There's something about going on a skyscraper and just letting it all flow free also.

Also nice to see Stormfront paying homage to Anakin, I would have expected the episode to end with them sticking a mask on her and rebuilding her.

Lastly I did not see the Congresswoman being the one causing the explosions... If she has to be in the vicinity of it, how/why kill Raynor in the very first episode?

She also wasn't in a trance-like state (Eyes) during the court scene

[Tom Guycott]

Great episode. Just a shame now we'll have to wait until next year for the next season...

There's something about going on a skyscraper and just letting it all flow free also.

Also nice to see Stormfront paying homage to Anakin, I would have expected the episode to end with them sticking a mask on her and rebuilding her.

Lastly I did not see the Congresswoman being the one causing the explosions... If she has to be in the vicinity of it, how/why kill Raynor in the very first episode?

She also wasn't in a trance-like state (Eyes) during the court scene

Seriously thought he was going to literally snipe someone.

And to answer your question same reason for letting the supe terrorists happen or kind of a flip on what Edgar told Butcher... she probably needed Stormfront/Vought to go up against to further her own agenda. This whole show is people using people.

I wonder something, though... the general pool of powers seems to be fairly specific... outside of the freaks in the hospital, that is. Flight, speedster, eyebeams (seriously, Homelander, Ryan, and some random baby have exactly the same heat vision) , varying degrees of invulnerability, strength... I wonder if they will touch on that later.

[GD]

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[Damian Rey 2.0]

I think the congresswoman is gorgeous and I'm glad her character isn't a throwaway like I thought it would be.

Interested to see where they go from here.

[Fignuts]

Well if you want to look to the comic for answers, don't bother, because it's another case of the character being drastically different from the comic counterpart.

In the book, Victor Nueman (yes, a man) is the puppet president put into office by Vought so they could rule the country. He was created as a parody of George W. Bush (who many saw as a puppet president for Cheney) and is legally retarded. I'm talking can't even properly function, handicapped.

So Nueman in the show being some sort of mastermind is a massive swerve. The only connection I can see to the comic and a possible motivation for her actions is Comic Nueman works for Vought. They could be doing the exact opposite of the book, where Nueman is actually the secret shadow CEO of Vought and Edgar is just the public face. And she's playing some sort of long game to get herself elected as president so Vought then has complete control over everything, and the masses wouldn't even realize it.

[Seanny One Ball]

That episode was 4/4.

Top class.

[Helmsphere]

Good no spoilers, seems like people are remembering what I said.

Don't be a Cunt.

[Tom Guycott]

Well if you want to look to the comic for answers, don't bother, because it's another case of the character being drastically different from the comic counterpart.

In the book, Victor Nueman (yes, a man) is the puppet president put into office by Vought so they could rule the country. He was created as a parody of George W. Bush (who many saw as a puppet president for Cheney) and is legally retarded. I'm talking can't even properly function, handicapped.

So Nueman in the show being some sort of mastermind is a massive swerve. The only connection I can see to the comic and a possible motivation for her actions is Comic Nueman works for Vought. They could be doing the exact opposite of the book, where Nueman is actually the secret shadow CEO of Vought and Edgar is just the public face. And she's playing some sort of long game to get herself elected as president so Vought then has complete control over everything, and the masses wouldn't even realize it.

The second I read the name, this image appeared in my head...

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[RP]

I just finished the episode where Homelander fucks Stormfront.

I cant figure out why they think Stormfront made that bitches head explode. There is nothing in her powers that would make a head explode and there wasnt any lightening.

I wish there was a bit more seriousness with The Deep. But his ridiculousness is hilarious also.

[Lock Jaw]

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[Damian Rey 2.0]

Lmaooo that my pillow spoof was great

[RP]

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