The Boys - Amazon superhero show

[Fierce Poodle]

It’s no Dinnerladies that’s for sure.

[Captain Novaforce]

I really want to try a fresca now.

[ZOK]

6 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

It’s no Dinnerladies that’s for sure.

Damn straight. You could pick an episode of Dinner Ladies at random and it would be better than all episodes of The Boys combined when judged against any comparable metric, up to and including the televisual depiction of super powers.

[makkuwata]

With everything now streaming I think I still lean in favour of a staggered release of episodes because I miss the LOST/GoT type community speculation.

 

But if you binge this show...I understand that reaction. It's a high.

[mexos]

Very late to the party on this one but oh my...

 

I used to cycle past a building sized spray can art advertising this when it first came out. I should probably watch that I thought...  as I cycled past it every day.

 

 

But didn't because I am done with superhero movies and TV.

 

I HAD NO IDEA. FUCK ME THIS WAS GOOD.

 

S3 WEN?! I need more. Now.

[Jammy]

@mexosI heard 2022 unfortunately.

[Hanzo the Razor]

Spoiler

Well the last shot of Homelander at the end of Season 2 has single handedly ruined every single shot of Batman standing heroicly at the top of a tall building looking at the Bat Signal ever filmed. I loved it though. I wonder if someone got it on the head in the street below.

 

[schmojo]

4 hours ago, Hanzo the Razor said:

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Well the last shot of Homelander at the end of Season 2 has single handedly ruined every single shot of Batman standing heroicly at the top of a tall building looking at the Bat Signal ever filmed. I loved it though. I wonder if someone got it on the head in the street below.

 

 

Presumably it would've shot straight into orbit?

[Hanzo the Razor]

Just now, schmojo said:

 

Presumably it would've shot straight into orbit?

 

Is she a new Superhero in Season 3?

[ZOK]

Thinking about it, was there any reason given in the show for Stormfront not using her powers to just win WW2 for Germany seeing as there was no way anyone could have stopped her, and instead sitting on her hands to crop up as a super hero in America several decades later?

 

Why did the Nazis need a super army, one significantly powerful superhuman would have been enough, and they already had one.

[JohnC]

I’m not sure exactly when Vought gave her powers, but he defected to the Allies, so he may never have told them of his success if it came while he was planning to defect. 

[ZOK]

Ah yes, she was in the pictures before the war, but when did she actually get the powers? I don’t know.

[Cheyenne]

While I got a great deal of enjoyment from Season 2 (in particular I was really glad to see Stormfront get her comeuppance, she was just too nasty for me to stomach her getting away with everything for another season), overall it did feel weaker. I saw one video that made a good comment on something that felt lacking in S2; the supes didn't appear as world-endingly threatening. In the first season you have an entire episode devoted to The Boys trying to figure out how to kill Translucent, and the real terror of Homelander searching for them. In this season they appear to just mill about in the open, even after being declared most wanted! Sometimes the supes powers were only active when it was narratively convenient for them to be; like A-Train finding Hughie and Annie on the street, couldn't he have done that at any time during the season? Little moments like that weren't a bother when watching, but on reflection they gnaw at the back of my head.

 

On the flipside, the continued development of Homelander is phenomenal. Love his tiny little flashes of humanity, before he reverts back into full bastardry.

[mexos]

Well well well, if it aint the... inevitable watch through from S1 E1 again.

[Don Wiskerando]

On 22/10/2020 at 14:13, ZOK said:

Thinking about it, was there any reason given in the show for Stormfront not using her powers to just win WW2 for Germany seeing as there was no way anyone could have stopped her, and instead sitting on her hands to crop up as a super hero in America several decades later?

 

Why did the Nazis need a super army, one significantly powerful superhuman would have been enough, and they already had one.

I don't know the answer to that but it does make me want a Zenith TV show.

 

Mr Wu's a super human now.

[ZOK]

13 minutes ago, Don Wiskerando said:

I don't know the answer to that but it does make me want a Zenith TV show.

 

Mr Wu's a super human now.

That would be amazing! If the people who made this made a Zenith show I would be pleased.

[El Geet]

I loved Zenith when it was in 2000AD and recently bought the Phase 1 compilation. Such a shame it was a weekly format as the story  had a lot more scope for depth. But yeah, a decent budget TV remake would be amazing. 

[Ste Pickford]

11 hours ago, El Geet said:

I loved Zenith when it was in 2000AD and recently bought the Phase 1 compilation. Such a shame it was a weekly format as the story  had a lot more scope for depth. But yeah, a decent budget TV remake would be amazing. 

 

How does the weekly format stop a story having depth?

Charles Dickens wrote most of his novels this way.

[ZOK]

Yes, the format was irrelevant. Zenith Phase 1&2 aren’t particularly deep (still very superior superhero fare, of course), but Phase 3&4 rank unarguably amongst the pinnacles of both the genre and form.

[El Geet]

1 hour ago, Ste Pickford said:

 

How does the weekly format stop a story having depth?

Charles Dickens wrote most of his novels this way.

They had 8 pages or so each week and completed the story arc in about 6 episodes I think. Maybe later Phases managed it better but the first phase felt quite light. 
 

Not sure comparing a weekly comic to Dickens weekly chapters is remotely similar! 

[Ste Pickford]

9 minutes ago, El Geet said:

They had 8 pages or so each week and completed the story arc in about 6 episodes I think. Maybe later Phases managed it better but the first phase felt quite light. 
 

Not sure comparing a weekly comic to Dickens weekly chapters is remotely similar! 

 

My point was short weekly episodes are no impediment to a deep story.  Only having a small number of such episodes could well be, but the weekly format itself is fine. 

[Purin]

DHL just delivered my Series X from Argos. Half day booked! 

[Eighthours]

14 minutes ago, Purin said:

DHL just delivered my Series X from Argos. Half day booked! 

 

Delivery HomeLander?

[Purin]

Oops. 

[JohnC]

https://deadline.com/2021/03/the-boys-spinoff-casts-first-young-superhero-lizze-broadway-1234712314/

 

Untitled spin-off at America's only super college, run by Vought, naturally.

 

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It is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. Part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire and raunch of The Boys.

 

[JohnC]

The better half of the Supernatural brothers as Soldier Boy

 

 

[Matt Defis]

Always said he'd make a perfect Cap, guess I'll settle for a perfectly twisted version. 

[Hanzo the Razor]

On 10/11/2020 at 11:48, Eighthours said:

 

Delivery HomeLander?

 

Homelander personally pisses into your new Xbox as he delivers it. Gives a big thumbs up, says "Good for you!" Then does a power wank into your Yucka plant.

 

Job done.

[smac]

Having ignored S2 for a while, I just binged it. It's still pretty good, but not quite as good as S1.

 

Except for the bit with the whale.

[JohnC]

A new thing they're putting on Youtube. Seven on 7 news shows. With seven news stories related to The 7. To be released on the 7th of each month until the next season. They've not said when that will be. But the number 7 is common so a theory is that there will be 7 of these before the new season. Also some white supremacist bedsheets.