Gen V

[JoelF847]

First trailer is out for The Boys spinoff, Gen V. Definitely looks gory enough to continue on the legacy!

[JoelF847]

And the first 3 episodes were released last weekend. Lots of fun, great fit into the Boys universe. Not at all surprised by the kinds of shenanigans happening on campus, by the students or the administration. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

[Set]

Everybody is just so messed up! It's fun, but kind of all dialed up to 11. And, of course, so many of the powers are just over the top riffs on teen / college issues like cutting, bulemia, body dysphoria / gender identity, questionable consent, etc. which is amusing, if totally on the nose.

As one would expect for such a group of folk, there've been several points where they could actually deal with some of the stuff falling their way (sort of controlling the narrative and getting the upper hand), but, being impulsive, stubborn and not at all prone to sharing their useful information with each other, they just bumble along. :)

[BigNorseWolf]

I think clancy brown has a shorter life expectancy than Sean Bean...

[JoelF847]

Continues to be top notch. And already renewed for season 2 before the first season ends, always a good sign for healthy viewership and longevity of a show.

[JoelF847]

I saw a talk with the producers of Gen V/The Boys Thursday, and they mentioned that one thing they love making these shows is that they can make them so that the audience has next to no chance to guess how a season will end. I'd say that Gen V definitely lived up to that. That ending was bananas! (my guess for a while now was that somehow Golden Boy would come back from the dead - way off!)

Normally I'd be despairing that it would be a whole 12-18 months until season 2, but thankfully The Boys season 4 is coming a whole lot sooner than that. With all of the crossover characters from the Boys to Gen V, I wonder if any Gen V characters will show up in season 4?

[Phillip Gastone]

The thing with Homelander is just how are they going to deal with him if Butcher/Hugie can't take V anymore? MM,Frenchie and Female might be able to do it.

[JoelF847]

Phillip Gastone wrote:

The thing with Homelander is just how are they going to deal with him if Butcher/Hugie can't take V anymore? MM,Frenchie and Female might be able to do it.

Well, there's this virus which only affects Supes now...and Butcher was looking into it....

[Thomas Seitz]

Honestly they should just introduce a multiverse and have a live action Omni-man beat the living s~!@ out Homelander.