I clearly have lower standards than a lot of people so everything I watch provides me more enjoyment
It was a good ending that wrapped up everything kinda nicely, but the way we got there really muddled everything.
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No building up Kimiko as a key character, Ryan being on screen for 5 minutes this season, three strings that didn’t really mattered (virus, soldier boy, Marie) etc. If the season would have been better, the finale would have been great.
A theory I have is that it is due to unmet expectations. I haven’t kept up with any of the marketing or the source material, just watched the show. I thought that while the show could probably have stood to be a season or two shorter, that this final season was them sticking the landing pretty well.
Then, I went and saw the complaints. And then, I checked out how the season was marketed, and they absolutely were selling it as if this season was going to build to a no holds barred apocalyptic final battle. What we got was much more subdued and focused on character moments. If I’d been inundated with that marketing, I’d have been disappointed too. If I’d been invested in Gen V, i would have been disappointed.
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They could have ended it after Homelander was killed, everything after felt unnecessary. Butcher was right but pussied out and allowed Hughie to kill him, which was very out of character. In the end we got a Hollywood ending where nobody learns anything and nothing changes - kind of true to the real world but a bit too depressing.
I stopped following The Boys back at the end of S3, but I’ve read the comics (they kinda suck)
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The end has Butcher assassinating the rest of the team one by one. When he comes to Hughie, he goes easy because he wanted to die as well. How did the show make it happen?
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Butcher offers to start a new life with Ryan and is rejected. Then he sees his dog Terror has died. Butcher then takes the Kill-All-Supes virus to Vaught Tower intending to release it. Hughie finds Terror has passed and realizing Butcher’s intentions heads to Vaught Tower to stop him where they have a fist fight that ends in Hughie shooting Butcher
It’s a solid ending for the Butcher character and was obviously needed to wrap up the story. The show was about more than Homelander.
I don’t think I’ve ever skipped through parts of an episode just to make it through before watching this season. The dialogue is so bad.
The season was a disappointment. They just killed off characters, which had no effect after the third episode. We get it, Homelander is a metaphor for Trump, but cheap revenge justice plots are just lazy and uncreative.
Donald Trump will die a rich old man in a big house.
near perfect? fans already have been saying it went downhill around season 3. the show got lazier and lazier, especially they had issues with Marie supposdely being anti-homelander was never used. he did better with 5 seasons of SPNatural than this.
Yeah, I guess I’m dumb but I quite enjoyed it. Homelander/trump’s ending is picture perfect. Butcher’s story ended exactly as it needed to. And there’s some lovely hope and optimism, which for a series like that in times like these, felt exactly right.
Poking through the online fan communities, people seemed to resent:
- the desire to push a new spinoff show, Vaught Rising, starring a character that people didn’t really care about (Soldier Boy) who kept disappearing and coming back,
- visibly reduced production value,
- marketing that teased plot turns that never happened
- dragging the show past its expiration date by 2 additional seasons
I was always an arms-length viewer of the show, never really embracing it, acking it for the edgelord-chasing nihilism that it offered but never caring much about it. All that criticism sounds about right.
Respect to the on screen talent; they deserved better.
You missed:
- Butthurt conservatives who thought Homelander was a good guy are mad that “the show got political”
I wonder how they interpreted the Homelander/Stormfront romance. The red blooded 'murican was “fixing” the nazi?
I’m surprised hearing people not caring about Soldier boy. I almost dropped the show after season 3 but he was the main reason I stuck around
I liked his 1950s dad vibe. He should’ve given the boy the whip instead of v1 though
That’s what I thought was gonna happen in the finale
Near perfect? I don’t know about that, but it was alright.
Yeah, “near perfect” is a stretch. I’m glad that the series is done.
I’d say “near perfect” is quite an extreme exaggeration lol.
Well… “Near miss” in a flight…
It was decent, the final season was pretty pointless unfortunately and the finale didn’t live up to the hype. I will say the shows ending was a million times better than the comic. I laughed and despaired at how stupid the comic ending was but the show made sense at least and did better with several of the characters like Kimiko, Annie and Hughie.
Comic 5/10 overall ending 2/10. Show 7/10 including the ending, a quite watchable show.
The comic had issues that were either a solid 8 or a solid 3, with nothing in the middle. The show just started gradually sliding down after the first seasons
It was a bit underwhelming and cheesy at times, skipped a few of the “touching” scenes. Overall okay, but meh.
I had to quit watching this show when the man crawled into the other man’s penis.
Idk why you are being downvoted maybe people thought you were being homophobic or something? I think it’s pretty fucking reasonable to see that and say, “Nah this isn’t for me.” And I’m literally a gay man so it has nothing to do with it being 2 guys. I did keep watching the show, but yeah. Entirely valid reason to stop watching a show.
I mean if a woman crawled into a man’s penis, or vise versa, all of these are deeply-disturbing images.
Wasn’t that Gen V?
No, it was the season 3 opening
I thought that was in season 1. Then he sneezed and exploded the guy he crawled in.
“Near perfect ending” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a completely garbage, rushed yet somehow drawn out, throwing away multiple storyline’s that just went nowhere, threw away an entire spinoff in Gen V, “homelander is nerfed because we need him to be in order to kill him” bullshit ending.
I won’t see it for at least a week and likely weeks.
