bitbydeath
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The Boys - Final Season Teaser Trailer
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Reizo Ryuu
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this is the weirdest "final season" of anything I've watched really, it feels like we're at the halfway point but there's only one left....I'm guessing marie will play a major role in restraining homelander while they try to kill/depower him; the end.
epicurius-seven
Gold Member
You could cut this series down to a 90min film and lose nothing.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Well the rumors were that the season supposed to have 13 episodes or something originally.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
That could have been a 30 minute episode.
I shouldn't be so bored this close to the end.
And I'm an easy audience.
I shouldn't be so bored this close to the end.
And I'm an easy audience.
The Goddamn Mike
Member
Next time I do something reason-defying and completely fucking stupid in real life, my response is going to be: "It's what Clara would have wanted." I'll say it a second time next episode (or whatever) because...maybe, with repetition, this explanation will render whatever I did seem less...reason-defying and completely fucking stupid.
Nintendo's Witch
Member
This show has become pure shit.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
It doesn't make any sense, why would she want that?
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Well to be fair I expected the Soldier Boy to do what he has done.
But it is pretty clear that at this point the only decently written character is the Soldier Boy himself. I don't know how, despite the original comics being not that great, they still managed to make every character so much worse when they deviated more and more from the original storyline, while not really following it either.
The Goddamn Mike
Member
I feel like Soldier Boy WAS well-written...and the character IS totally goofy/useless in the books (so worlds apart, given the show variant). Yet, I guess because of the prequel series to come and how he sort-of has to be a protagonist because of that, they just don't know what to do with him in this season's plot and his presence is a bit...uneven.
Just my opinion, but it's the reverse of Somerset's bit at the end of Seven: "Ernest Hemmingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with (change) the first part."
Credit due to the books for creating this universe. However, most of the show versions of the characters and extrapolations of plots, with the exception of Butcher and his bit, are 100% better-realized, more-interesting, and actually three-dimensional. This does not mean the ends of these tv adaptation storylines are consistent...which is what I'm grappling with while watching this.
I think the show leaned into the eugenics Nazi stuff a bit too much and just decided, because Soldier Boy was so into Clara, he also believed in a supreme race or...whatever...because she did. So, make blond, blue-eyed super-man immortal, I guess? I'm just attempting to rationalize. In reality, I'm not really sure what they're doing because if Soldier Boy is going to be the lead in a series - and a Nazi-sympathizer (not the silly internet version of "Nazi," but real fucking Nazi) - I don't know how they're going to manage that. Oh well: not my problem. I'll tune-in to see what's what and if it sucks, I'll bail.
Grildon Tundy
Member
I'll watch this last season once all the episodes are aired. I've watched all the seasons up to this one, but nothing comes close to that first season.
And surely I haven't matured that much in six years to where the edgy/perverse stuff is so off-putting now. They had that stuff in the first season, but it felt like it wasn't just for shock value. Like it's trying to make incidents memorable by inducing disgust instead of writing a story that's memorable in its own right.
And surely I haven't matured that much in six years to where the edgy/perverse stuff is so off-putting now. They had that stuff in the first season, but it felt like it wasn't just for shock value. Like it's trying to make incidents memorable by inducing disgust instead of writing a story that's memorable in its own right.
DrFigs
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She was a nazi who thought homelander would be the leader of the master race of supes or whatever. i think it doesn't really make sense why soldier boy likes her so much though. he seems like the type that would be put off by her ideology.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No, looks like Sage helped recreate the experiment which gave Soldier Boy his super power sapping blast successfully on Kimiko. They're probably gonna use that to depower him.
This has already completely diverted from the comic storyline so it won't end the same way.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Well the Solider boy in the comics is last third generation while this one seems to be based on the first generation. The writing has been steadily declining since the first season. Writers could not get rid of their TDS.
Another one of those tropes that does not look interesting in almost every implementation (a weak character defeating a strong one by themselves/using some power and so on). Sometimes it works with charismatic and popular characters but by and large it is often lame.
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negator2vc
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Another crap episode.
Itchy.Tasty.
Member
This show didn't have the legs for a 5 season run. This season could've EASILY had 4 episodes shaved off... instead it's been blown out into an 8 hour snoozefest.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
I think it'd be a pretty cool ending if the show ends up with homelander alive but depowered and having to deal with being a powerless nobody.
Anyways, I thought the episode was pretty good and think it's been a pretty good season so far.
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March Climber
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So, last call, what are everyone's predictions for who lives, who dies, and how they meet their end?
Here's mine:
6 Die
3 Who live are in a captive/stuck state
Here's mine:
- Deep - Dies - by fish (probably goofy death)
- Soldier Boy - Lives - Remains frozen
- Oh Father - Dies - Ashley somehow
- Ashley - Lives - Leaves after killing Oh Father
- Dogknott - Dies - Somehow MM kills him
- Sage - Lives - Avoids fight entirely
- Hughie - Lives - Saved by Starlight
- Annie - Dies - Dies saving Hughie
- Mother's Milk - Lives - Because Frenchie died
- Kimiko - Dies - New power removes healing factor
- Ryan - Lives - Avoids fight entirely
- Marie - Lives - Downgraded to small cameo
- Stan Edgar - Lives - left in cell for rest of life
- Stan's grandaughter - Lives - Leaves with Ryan
- Butcher - Dies - Dies Fighting Homelander
- Homelander - Lives - Becomes forever powerless/human
- Maeve - Lives - Small cameo in aftermath
6 Die
3 Who live are in a captive/stuck state
NuclearDiarrhea
Member
I predict Homelander gets de-powered, begs for his life afterwards and then gets strangled to death by Butcher's long penis.
I think Deep will probably get shredded by Nemo but i would prefer to have him stranded on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere for the rest of his days as punishment.
SoldierBoy is kept on ice so he can be in the spin offs before they get cancelled after 2 seasons.
Butcher, MM, Ashley and maybe Stan all die in the chaos due to shitty writing.
Hughie and Annie live happily ever after.
Send the black preacher supe guy to jail.
I also predict the episode will spend most of its runtime with more Homelander is literally Trump political commentary bullshit as if the show hasn't fucked up the last two seasons by constantly beating you over the head with this shit already.
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
This season has no flow to it. It feels so disjointed. It's like they have a bunch of characters this season there only for specific reasons to advance the plot and once they do it, they just write them out it.
The latest in this episode being Soldier Boy. They had no further use for him once he gave Homelander the V1 so it's like I guess we'll write him out by putting him back to sleep. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he makes a return in the final episode but I don't know if he will. Given the developments with Kimiko, Soldier Boy is kind of useless now to the plot. Feels like that's the end of his arc until the spinoff.
The latest in this episode being Soldier Boy. They had no further use for him once he gave Homelander the V1 so it's like I guess we'll write him out by putting him back to sleep. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he makes a return in the final episode but I don't know if he will. Given the developments with Kimiko, Soldier Boy is kind of useless now to the plot. Feels like that's the end of his arc until the spinoff.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I was never a big fan of the show, I only watched it due to Homelander and Soldier Boy. I'm curious on how they will kill off Homelander since we have one more episode left and there hasn't really been that many hints regarding his death
As for Frenchie, how did he die? They only showed his body and his bleeding legs. I was kind of lost on that
After the last episode of The Boys airs next week, I'm done with anything involving The Boys IP. I might check out the comic though
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Homelander either did something to him or he died from the uranium and radiation. The fact that didn't clarify is just further evidence of the bad writing this season.
March Climber
Member
The season was written and filmed pre-2024 election. Anything that has been accurately depicted through parody has been through coincidence.
Take that as you will.
Extreme radiation.
RCU005
Member
With the way things are going, the final fight is going to be in the last five minutes.
Everybody wanted to see an out-of-control Homelander destroying the city or even the world, but that's out of the question it seems.
Denton
Member
Another trash episode. Yes you think anyone who wants unborn kids to stop getting killed is Hitler, we know already ffs
They kill one character, the most fucking boring one, and even that they cannot do in a decent sense making way that would actually elicit some emotion.
So glad this shit is ending next week.
S1 - 10/10
S2 - 8/10
S3 - 7/10
S4 - 5/10
S5 - 2/10
I do not care about the finale, no matter how good it might miraculously be it cannot redeem this show anymore.
They kill one character, the most fucking boring one, and even that they cannot do in a decent sense making way that would actually elicit some emotion.
So glad this shit is ending next week.
S1 - 10/10
S2 - 8/10
S3 - 7/10
S4 - 5/10
S5 - 2/10
I do not care about the finale, no matter how good it might miraculously be it cannot redeem this show anymore.
Spyxos
Member
Can't Homelander just Destory the Earth or someting, so that this shit show is finally over. At least that would be something after this pointless Season 5. So my predication 0 alive.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Starlight Hughie and MM live
Homelander DEAD
Preacher dead
2 headed lady lives
DEEP lives- takes over the 7
smart girl - dead
soldier boy dies kills homelander or helps kill him
kimiko - lives
Butcher Dies
Homelander kid lives but is good.
Donald mac Ronald
Member
Why was the deep being a weirdo in that episode and wouldn't save the person.
Neff
Member
Pretty uneventful considering what came before and what is hopefully coming after, full of lame blue balls 'oh come on' moments. This prelude to the denouement doesn't feel anywhere near as smart, engineered, or exciting as it should. Everything with The Deep was great though as always.
I love the show but the final episode really has to blow people's minds to leave any kind of enduring legacy or future for the franchise, and yesterday's episode didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
I love the show but the final episode really has to blow people's minds to leave any kind of enduring legacy or future for the franchise, and yesterday's episode didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Stitch
Member
Because the Samuel L. Jackson Shark thinks Deep caused that pipeline leak and told him that if he ever sets foot into any kind of water again the sealife will kill him.
Donald mac Ronald
Member
Oh completely forgot that dumb scene
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
The story they are telling could have been done in 4 episodes but also really under-used the 8 episodes they had for actual character arcs. Instead you just get these sort of insta-turns as if they removed an episode of character development, but who would want more of this crap?
Just bad writing.
I really hope the obvious setup for some sort of team-up to take out Homelander doesn't happen. Kimiko to partially depower him, Starlighter to stand their glowing being useless, butcher to hold him down or something, and Maria to make him explode.
Would be really lame.
Just bad writing.
I really hope the obvious setup for some sort of team-up to take out Homelander doesn't happen. Kimiko to partially depower him, Starlighter to stand their glowing being useless, butcher to hold him down or something, and Maria to make him explode.
Would be really lame.
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Puscifer
Member
In my head black noir was gonna take that on the chin (no pun intended) and beat his fucking ass. And then he just bled out... I dunno... Didn't seem right.
I felt like this show was always just okay but the character interactions, relationships, action combined with it taking the piss out of politics and corporations made it a better than the sum of its parts. But this season started strong and slowed to a crawl and never picked up momentum again. Homelander killing the president should've been preceded with something other than an episode opener, it didn't feel earned.
The leaks are out there and after the death of the president being part of said leak I'm not sure what to expect next week lol
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Well critics had access to the 1st 7 episodes, so I wouldn't necessarily trust episode 8 leaks.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
To be fair, that's what is expected to happen. It will be a lame ending, but not GOT S8 disaster. Still I don't see anything success in the Boys universe.
The Homelander has been dumbed down since the first season, Ryan's potential has been underutilized, Butcher has gone from the "powerful opponent to Homelander" to a side character in favor of other side characters. The Solider Boy has been carrying the show but he is too competent to a point where the writers do not even know what to do with him so they have to put him to sleep every time he takes too much of the spotlight. With the Starlight the writers seems to have no idea how to make her important despite all their attempts, the Deep is a joke (has always been).
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Yeah that was my point, it's so painfully obvious that it's the setup for the episode. With some sort of variation on what I said of course as TBH I think it's also possible Maria just disappears for the finale and it's still possible Butcher also has to be put down. Kimiko probably won't survive the fight either.
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AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Well don't post leaks