Alright, glad I wasn't having a fever dream or something with how trash that was for a finale. Herogasm had a better fight that didn't last a fraction as long.

In addition to everything below, the way they handled Black Noir's death was awful, undercuttingeverythingto just show some stuttering cartoons in the end.

Towards the end with the reveal of the new running mate that was supposed to be some kind of stinger twist was also weak. In line with what I'll say about Soldier Boy below, we had a fukkingNazisocial justice warrior last season and Homelander actually seems slightly (slightly) less unhinged with his son; head popper really doesn't seem like the worst person in the world.

What did Homelander even need The Deep for with that assassination? He just happened to know the running mate takes night swims (oddly specific) and that the best way to take him out is to have the guy who can talk to sea life hide underwater at night to stage a drowning?Thatwas the insidious plan of "tReAsOn?!" Maybe the writers need to spend less time trying to figure out how they can fit in Seth Rogan literally jerking himself off and more time on making the plot not suck.


That whole B plot with the daughter went from a nice touch to MM's backstory in the beginning of the show to the bowels of cringe by the third season. I think everyone involved in the production needs to get their test levels evaluated after taking a part in that.

Not to go too far on a tangent, but the first is also another example of the show digging its heels in telling us how we're supposed to feel without showing.Howis Soldier Boy a racist again? Because one old, creepy guy said so who you wouldn't trust that dude in a room full of girls at an 18th birthday? Or because accidental, unintended collateral damage is somehow racism as well now? The show even went out of its way to have Soldier Boy callBill CosbyAmerica's dad from how he remembered.

Like, we just had a season dealing with an SJW Nazi, they forced a race C Plot (that, again, they didn't show anything and just told us how everything went down), so put it back in the deck. The only thing that theydidestablish about Soldier Boy was that he's abusive, but that's hard to really give a sh*t about given the other kinds of characters in this show.

Overall, the writers really struggle to make characters morally ambiguousandconsistent episode to episode, which shouldn't be that bloody hard when they only have 8 episodes per season for god's sake.

You're right, though: only good thing that came of this finale was Soldier Boy was still alive because I was sick of at least half the characters before the episode was even over.


Same here, man.

This wasthe whole pointthe entire series of events during this short-ass season were building towards, but the kid interfering and getting a harmless (for a supe) push to get him out of the way derails 7 episodes worth of build up so Butcher can pretend to be a father... and still lose his son?


Thank you! As much as I enjoyed MM's character early on, he was flat out stupid this third season for no reason other than to be the single one holding off on taking some Temp V. It didn't even fit the character because Butcher was the one who was genocidal against Supes, but only went with it because of a, "by any means necessary" attitude. MMhadno reason other than the plot demanding he turn off his frontal lobe.

Starlight's entire role this season was to be the hypocritical nag telling everyone how they don't need Temp V, even though they're going against the most powerful supe who could bitch slap her head from her body. The ending is supposed to have her be "right," except that end scenario could only happen because of the events involving Temp V that led to it even occurring. You could even point out that had Hughie not bee on Temp V to teleport her out of the orgy, she would havealsobeen caught in the blast and lost her powers. Like this show can't even remember what happened a couple episodes prior.

Spoilers regarding a certain character's fate in S4.


Spoiler!

And now they're like Butcher, you're going to die in a few months, but he could take the real Compound V and be healed, plus he already knows what his powers are. So there's really no skin in the game.

Oof..

That finale was bad.

The show officially jumped the shark at "you're just another racist piece of ****"

Invincible is 10x better.

That's a horrible stupid show.

The main character comes from a planet of supermen.

Meanwhile, he's on Earth pretending to be a nice guy, then kills a load of superheroes to make way for an invasion from his planet.

The invasion is COUNTLESS SUPERMEN AS STRONG AND DEADLY AS HE IS so why would the main character need to eliminate Earth superheroes when thousands of massively powerful people like him are showing up to take over Earth?

What the f@ck kind of moronic plot hole is that?!

The hilarious part is that the showrunners have completely emasculated MM

- leaves family over his personal issues
- spergs out and punches Todd when he reminds him of this
- giant kok in face
- get covered in cum
- is wholly irrational during the whole season
- can't control his emotions against Butcher, proceeds to break a baseball bat in half while wailing on him
- can't control his emotions against SB, only calms down when Annie tells her to
- his contribution to the final fight is pinging SB's shield with his gay little shotgun

It's like what Disney did with Finn. They made their usual moral grandstanding against racism then proceed to write the black dude as the comedic relief space janitor who pines over the white chick then gets merked anyway. Oh yeah and he isn't a Force sensitive either.

A few other things now that I have more time:

Whole show is dumb. Every single problem the protagonists have can be fixed with one dose of Compound V. But they're too stupid to realize.

My legs don't work, let me not think of taking the damn drug that fixes everything.

And now they're like Butcher, you're going to die in a few months, but he could take the real Compound V and be healed, plus he already knows what his powers are. So there's really no skin in the game.

10/10 move, Kripke.

Amazing writing with Hughie opening up to Annie and realizing his own kind of strength then the very next scene Maeve casually calls him a **** who prefers to be the bottom. Didn't undermine the whole thing at all.

MM's behaviour literally doesn't make sense. He's perfectly willing to give his life to avenge grandpa and whomever but STILL doesn't want to take V? Not even after his "fuk the high road" meltdown.

Also realized how extremely convenient it was that Hughie suddenly refused to take Temp V in the season finale, seeing how he could have gone "grab Ryan" - "port him out" - "port back in" and boom, HL is easily defeated.

Most definitely going to go ahead and full true V Butcher for perma supe business

Curious as to is just pure coincidence that Butcher got HL powers or if his obsession psychologically manifested supe wise when combined with V of any kind

Hughie is a dweeb and AT issues combined into avoiding danger and can get around quick

Plus seems every supe has auto default increased strength

Can anybody tell me how Maeve lived?

Also, Starlight basically does nothing. It’s confusing.

But the dynamic between Homelander and Butcher is interesting. Ehh whatever. It’ll take a year or two to get another season. Doesn’t matter

Honestly, Iknewthey were going to re-bitch Hughie after reading about the "toxic masculinity" bollocks, but it is definitely another one for the list of reasons I'm now pretty meh on any future season. What they considered "toxic" was just a character whowasweak in every respect finally growing to not be a subservient doormat for every single person. But as Maeve told the audience, that's not his place in the show, so shut up and Yas Kween the flashlight girl.

No but seriously this needs to be discussed. If SB blew up in the air Maeve would have lost her powers, like, 50 stories up and fell to the ground as a normal human, and no, falling onto bags of garbage in an alleyway is not enough to break a fall.

...or maybe there's a plot and you're sperging out again over nothing.

No but seriously this needs to be discussed. If SB blew up in the air Maeve would have lost her powers, like, 50 stories up and fell to the ground as a normal human, and no, falling onto bags of garbage in an alleyway is not enough to break a fall.

No but seriously this needs to be discussed. If SB blew up in the air Maeve would have lost her powers, like, 50 stories up and fell to the ground as a normal human, and no, falling onto bags of garbage in an alleyway is not enough to break a fall.

Kripke literally said that she survived because they wanted to give her a happy ending and they didn't want to go with the "bi/gay character gets killed off" trope. Personally I was unaware there was a trope like that. Well besides killing off the gay dude in the first ep.

Wish I was making that up

"At no point did I ever consider killing Maeve, from the very, very beginning [of the series]. We were intentionally building to a happy ending for her, always, for a lot of reasons. One, she deserved it. Believe it or not, The Boys is a moral universe, and when you make the right choices, you get rewarded, and she deserved a happy ending with Elena.
I am not going to fall into the trope of killing off gay characters. I’m aware of it, [and] I agree with the criticism of it. I’m not going to do that as well. And I’ll admit that I think we’re playing around a little with that trope by letting people think she’s dead, and they’re going to shout at their TV and be really upset by it, but then [we] reveal she’s actually going to go have a nice, power-free life with her girlfriend. So hopefully that will take the sting off it.”

https://screenrant.com/the-boys-maev...k-differences/

the show is lagging more and more behind the comic every season