The Boys (Diabolical, Season 3 etc.)

[Poobum]

Glad to say this is really good. The Termite scene is not something I expected to ever see, strangely glad to have done, magnificently disturbing. Only mild criticism is I got a bit fatigued at how awful all the supes are. Hopefully Starlight does something other than being a

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helpless hostage

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[Butchers Blind]

Yeah never thought I'd see a

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CGI japs eye

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[up_the_hampipe]

Yeah, that Termite scene was something else! Although I was most disturbed by

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The Deep eating Timothy.

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First three eps were great overall, I have a feeling that

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Stan Edgar is going to get obliterated by Homelander by the end of the season, he's got far too cocky with the feeling of leverage he has.

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I'm still not really sold on Soldier Boy. He's probably not as powerful as Homelander and Ackles' performance isn't really convincing for me, especially in comparison to Antony Starr. It just feels like treading water. I'm hopeful there's more exciting stuff coming though.

[Poobum]

Initially I thought

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Termite was doing a felch and was relieved it was not an anus

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which I'm not gonna try and unpack. The Timothy scene was horrible but I couldn't even watch

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Hughie get his arm broken

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[BritishHobo]

Without getting too much into spoiler territory, could any fans of the comics give an idea of roughly how much plot the show has left to get through? I know from reading some posts that it's diverged in some ways, so that may be a non-question. I'm just interested because I really enjoyed the first three episodes, but it's left me hoping that the overall story gets a good wrap-up in the short-term. I don't really want to still be watching at season 7, with Homelander still undefeated.

The fact that a spin-off is already in the works doesn't fill me with massive joy.

[up_the_hampipe]

I believe Eric Kripke has said about 5 seasons. It has diverged from the comics in a pretty pivotal way, but I think there is an ending already mapped out.

I don't see this show as The Walking Dead, the writing is a lot sharper and it all seems to have purpose.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

This has never been a show I go out of my way for (I only watched the new episodes because I was house sitting for some friends and had access to their Prime Video account) but it's always enjoyable when I do watch it. They're really getting their money's worth from the exploding body effects.

I wasn't expecting Homelander to take off the proverbial mask so soon. Then again, "I can do whatever the fuck I want" seems to have been his catchphrase since the first series. Despite his little chat with Butcher, I'm guessing things aren't going to escalate to all out war just yet.

I thought the bloke playing young Edgar did a really good job, although I feel like Edgar would be the type to have always had his hair straightened, even as a young man.

[Gulftastic]

Fuck me, Anthony Starr is so bloody good.

[up_the_hampipe]

Yeah never thought I'd see a

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CGI japs eye

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According to Kripke, that was practical. They built that thing and it was gigantic.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

There was shrinkage!

[Mobius]

enjoying this a lot so far, seems better than I remember series 2 being.

Why doesn't Homelander just kill Gus Fring? I can't remember what he has over him other than all the commercial stuff

Dunno what exactly it is but I just can't stand the French bloke. Rubbish actor and character, annoys the shit out of me

[dissolute ocelot]

It's taken a while to set up what way season 3 is going, but the action/FX scenes are great so far, and looking forward to Antony Starr going even crazier. I really can't stand Hughie or Starlight, but hopefully they're going to suffer lots.

Dunno what exactly it is but I just can't stand the French bloke. Rubbish actor and character, annoys the shit out of me

It's just everything about him. His terrible clothes, his exaggerated accent (he's Israeli). He was first introduced in season 1 as being a valuable part of the team but he's done nothing since then other than babysit and look stupid and dopey. Not looking forward to what they've got in store for him this season

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but I can definitely do without him talking about BDSM, or being involved in some kind of love triangle or sexiness with his ex. Ick. (Seems as though there might be a lot of love triangles this season.)

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[up_the_hampipe]

I know Starr gets a lot of the praise on this show, and rightfully so, but I love Chace Crawford as The Deep. He's probably my second favourite character. He should venture into more comedies, his timing and delivery is great. It definitely helps that he seems to have no shame as a performer either. 

[BeardFaceMan]

When do new eps come out, are they coming out weekly from now on?

[up_the_hampipe]

Yep, one a week every Friday.

Herogasm is episode 6 which has a lot of hype around it. Sounds like the cast and crew were traumatised by the experience.

[BeardFaceMan]

After seeing what they done with the season so far I'm very excited to see what they do with Herogasm, they're definitely not holding back.

[Povidone]

Enjoying this season so far after a bit of a laggy, directionless second season. They're really amping up the more twisted aspects of it. That lingering shot of Starlight's clenched fist at the end of episode three was a subtly disturbing moment, I feel like beyond the sheer outrageousness of it this Herogasm episode is going to have some pretty devastating consequences.

I'm not on the Frenchie hate train (I thought it was meant to be pretty obvious that he's not actually French even before it was made explicit), quite liked him when he turned up in the first season but I agree he hasn't been given much interesting to do. Compared to how the comics approach the characters, there's far less development of the supes. The changes definitely work in the show's favour for the most part but I do worry any Boys who aren't named Butcher are getting short shrift.

On the subject of the comics this week I finally started reading through them, on issue 40 already. Main thing that's kept me away for so long has been the art style, every frame I'd seen previously just looked horrible, not in a deliberate 'highlighting the gotesque and repulsive to accentuate the themes' sort of way but just...not that good drawing, ugly and kind of childlike and not good to look at. I do realise comic book artists work hard and a variety of art styles abound, I suppose this one just doesn't do it for me. I've enjoyed the books and found them enagaging despite this but I wonder if anybody else feels the same way?

[madhair60]

No, I think the art in The Boys is rather good. I've seen people express dislike of Darick's work before and I've never really got why. Each to their own mind.

[Dr Rock]

not that good drawing, ugly and kind of childlike and not good to look at.

Feel the same way about the art I've seen, don't like it.

[Povidone]

No, I think the art in The Boys is rather good. I've seen people express dislike of Darick's work before and I've never really got why. Each to their own mind.

Aye totally. I think it stands out to me because this is the first time I've really felt that way about an comic book artist's work, I can usually find something to like.

[13 schoolyards]

Compared to the slick polish of modern superhero comic art, Robinson's work definitely can come across as a bit ugly. But that's part of the appeal. The comic wouldn't work (or would at least be very different) if all the posing supes actually looked heroic and god-like.

[olliebean]

Anyone know how to get the new episode to appear in the Prime Video apps? It seems to be there on the website, but not in the apps.

[niat]

Anyone know how to get the new episode to appear in the Prime Video apps? It seems to be there on the website, but not in the apps.

I checked about a minute ago and it was there on my iOS app. It wasn't there this morning.

[Dr Rock]

Episode 4 was the business.

[up_the_hampipe]

Yeah, that might be one of the best episodes they've done, if not the best. Plenty of man bums too.

I'd heard about

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Soldier Boy's ability to diminish powers, but I wasn't sure if it was true. Looks like they found their weapon, but it'll be a "Whose side will he choose?" situation going forward. I'm excited to see a bunch of Supes trying to gang up on Homelander in the finale, regardless of how it turns out.

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[BritishHobo]

Show's been renewed for season 4.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-boys-season-4-renewed-amazon-1235290494/

[Poobum]

So is this setting up that

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Soldier Boy neutralized Kimiko's power and he's going to do that to Homelander?

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Also, one of these dickhead supes needs to die, the reinforcing what absolute scum they are is getting tiresome without 'em suffering consequences for it.

[Dr Rock]

Hey Nazi Bitch snuffed it.

[dissolute ocelot]

Episode 4 was the business.

I was certainly impressed how episode 4 destroyed most of my theories about how this series was going to go. It'll be lots of fun to see how wrong I can be about subsequent episodes.

[C_Larence]

MAJOR COMIC SPOILERS

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I really hope they don't stray too far from Black Noir's arc in the comics, but it looks like they probably are, unless the reveal in episode 3 was a fakeout.  Anthony Starr even has experience playing identical twins so it feels like a waste not to use that

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