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Anybody catching this? Spoilers ahead!
My favorite part of the first 3 episodes was the Billy Butcher Stillwell bomb reenactment. "shut up ya dumbbat; or I'll b*+~@%%s ya" Nothing he would ever say and sanitized for TV. Sometimes the smallest jokes of this show give me the biggest laughs. Like Black Noir, and Sea-land :)
It was fun to see The Deep in action, though im kind of tiring of his depression story. Maybe its just gotten too much with Huey also in the dumps. Though, im hoping recent developments mean thats over.
I never read the comics, but i've heard alot about Stormfront. In the comics, I guess Stormfront is an anti-captain America. Basically an S.S. soldier that was one of the first to get compund V used on them. In fact, I also read that Homelander is cloned from Stormfront's DNA in the comic. Apparently Stormfront returns and gives Homelander all kids of run for his money, so thats a major departure from the series Stormfront. The series Stormfront feels like a gen-x feminist though certainly enjoys killing it seems. Be interesting to see where this goes.
What do y'all think so far?
I believe it was The Seven were cloned from Stormfront.
SF is even worse it seems than Homelander. Homelander treats normals like ants but is capable of ignoring them if they stay out of the way or grovel. SF loves the bodycounts.
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Also if you're looking for more The Boys content waiting for each week's episode, there's an aftershow with cast and crew interviews: Prime Rewind: Inside the Boys (which has some fun moments, and has just as little filter for content and language as the show itself, even if the aftershow itself is the worst titled aftershow in history.)
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Yesterday it was announced that based on strong S2 performance, there's a Boys spinoff in the works, set in a college for Supes. While the spinoff sounds like it will have plenty of Supes behaving badly, no mention of what group might be trying to keep them in check the way the titular Boys do in the main show. I think without something like that it could crash and burn, but Amazon's done such a fantastic job with The Boys, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I suspect the spinoff will be about the 'School for Exceptional Youngsters' that was in the comic series.
In the words of Sam Beckett, 'Ohhhhh Boyyyyyy!'
So I guess this is a nicer spoof on the X-men than that lame Superhero movie.
Everyone is so damn sad in S2 its starting to make The Leftovers seem like a feel good series.
Episode 7 was mind blowing!
I am squishing your head!
Yeah, I get that it's a bloody show... but the pattern is starting to be annoying. Long backstory / flashback sequence / back to present / heads explode. Rinse lather repeat...
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At first, I thought they were just going to go with a handful of simple, happy endings. Then......SPLAT! And we finally found out who’d been exploding people’s mellons. I’ll be honest - did not see that coming.
I thought it was going to be that bald chick from the sage center with all the supes, where they introduced Lamplighter. She seemed to have a similar 'kill people by looking at them' power, even if it wasn't explicitly head-splody.
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At first, I thought they were just going to go with a handful of simple, happy endings. Then......SPLAT! And we finally found out who’d been exploding people’s mellons. I’ll be honest - did not see that coming.I thought it was going to be that bald chick from the sage center with all the supes, where they introduced Lamplighter. She seemed to have a similar 'kill people by looking at them' power, even if it wasn't explicitly head-splody.
Figured it wasn't her though since the first head exploding happened in episode 1 while she was locked up.
So I guess we can all go "So The Boys are now copying Scanners now..."
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lol, I was just talking about Scanners with some work mates on Friday.
That last episode wrapped up too neatly, not very amazingly, nor particularly funny. Gotta say the second season was a bit of disappointment overall.
Different strokes for different folks, but I couldn't stop laughing about Butcher's fatherly advice for Ryan.
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Different strokes for different folks, but I couldn't stop laughing about Butcher's fatherly advice for Ryan.lol, I was just talking about Scanners with some work mates on Friday.
That last episode wrapped up too neatly, not very amazingly, nor particularly funny. Gotta say the second season was a bit of disappointment overall.
Totally expected and at this point the crassness of Butcher has become old hat. They had a golden opportunity for Butcher to actually foster this kid. Instead they sent Ryan to the farm so they could conveniently reset the series.
Honestly that guy raising a kid tho? I was pretty sure at one point he was gonna bludgeon the kids head in with a crowbar. probably did the kid a favor.
I'm hoping no kids get bludgeoned to death. That would be too much Joker for me.
I just know watching stormfront getting her teeth kicked in was very satisfying.
They are doing a good job creating easy to despise villains. Each of them have a public mask that is the exact opposite of their true selves. My only question mark so far is The Deep. Not sure if he's just plain dumb or extremely complex. He has progressed(?) from his original debut as a Season 1 cheap villain Starlight harasser speedbump to some kind of a mystery...
No no he real dumb.
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The joke is that The Deep is really shallow.
No no he real dumb.
Unless his gills are really intelligent and his brains are really in his fish guts, with his human brainz being on cruise control slave mode. :P
I'm with the rest, the Deep isn't the brightest nor the most introspective super. Thusly his mask is more about the fact he 'connects' to life when clearly he doesn't.
Also I think Season 3 of The Boys will be a kind of DC versus Marvel thing only "In the style of the Boys."
Frankly I'm not sure where they can go from here in Season 3. I suspect the super kid will remain at the center of things, and that Butcher and Hughie will continue their bromance. Oh, and Gustavo Fring will keep pulling strings as he always does... that, or produce some kind of darksaber to even things out! :P