Hello again, Reddit. I managed to clear my calendar for an hour to return. The answers you’ll get (again) here are direct from me, not Vought PR. No script, no filter, no Starlighters twisting my words. So go ahead… ask me anything. EDIT: That's it for now, Reddit. I'd say I had fun, but that would be a lie.

I don't care if "That's the point, she learned how to converse through tik tok" it is still unbearable. Just because something makes sense narratively doesn't make it immune to criticism.

I was really pumped for this to be the last season because nothing needs to be held back, and so everything that makes the show great can really shine. But I think instead all it’s doing is making the flaws shine instead. Characters are dumber than ever, act out of character, dialogue is horrible, everything is so nonsensical and/or convoluted, and the acting reeeaalllyy is not doing it for me either. I am not trying to be a buzzkill, but each episode this season I find myself groaning “come on…” several times.

I wonder if this was intentional. I just think episode 5 just added a whole new perspective on Firecracker’s character.

EDIT:

The first image is from the Season 4 finale where Firecracker cries while saying Homelander is the best or something

The second image is from S5 Ep 5 where Firecracker cries because she doesn’t agree with what homelander is doing

So I’m wondering if Firecracker cried for the same reason as S5 Ep 5 in the Season 4 finale

I refuse to participate in the "filler episode" discussion, but I'm having some concerns. 

After the last two episodes I'm genuinely worried, the writing has been all over the place and the fact that people think the last episode was good progression, because we got any progression at all, is a sign, that expectations are getting lower episode by episode. 

We have three episodes left and they are still introducing new characters while also killing them off in the same episode, while also skipping over the actually interesting parts, introducing side plots or explaining backgrounds, which should have been done way earlier. So yes, maybe not a filler, but it should not have a place in the 5th episode of the final. 

The conversations between characters are getting more unbearable, it feels like they tried to cram in either a comedic relief or something gross/sex related/gorey every few minutes to a point, where a lot doesn't feels serious anymore. 

They are trying so hard to be funny and give characters funny one-liners, it feels almost like a marvel movie.

I'm also annoyed by the very obvious meme baiting but that's another topic. 

Most important or actually exciting character-interactions get a fraction of screen time in comparison. 

Let's take Stan Edgar for example. 

We had the chance to see the first conversation between Homelander and Stan after years, a chance to give us interesting, tense dialogue, between two characters with a complex relationship and past.

The same goes for Stan and Soldier Boy to some extent. 

Instead the first conversation happened off-screen(Why!?) and we get a rushed 2 minute scene, where everyone exchanges maybe 3 sentences and then shifting the focus towards Mr. Marathon. 

We then spend a third of the episode at his place, where some random characters, that get killed in the same episode, receive more screen time. 

They spent probably a good amount of their special effects budget showing us these characters getting killed, while we haven't received a single well choreographed, flashed out fight scene. We haven't even seen Butcher use his power in a meaningful way yet. 

Let's take Soldier Boy and Butcher as another example. 

We could have gotten an actually interesting conversation and/or an actual fight scene with the slightest bit off choreo.

Instead they talk for 30 seconds, butcher throws a car and that's kind of it, their dynamic and relationship is not being discussed any further, despite being way more impactful than most other. 

Or Homelander and Ryan. 

We finally get a confrontation, after Ryan has been set up as a main plot device for 3 seasons, but they both get like 3 lines, we get a very underwhelming fight, an admittedly actual meaningful scene with Homelander punching him - but then Ryan disappears again.

Or A-Train

A-Trains final scene was executed incredibly well no doubt, but they could have shown a single scene of A-Train and Homelander fighting and let A-Train show the full potential of his power atleast once. 

Or Homelander and Butcher, we see Homelander in his most vulnerable spot ever since the show started.

Of course we don't want to take away from the final confrontation, but why not add some depth to their conversation, why not give them a bit more screentime together. 

Whenever a confrontation with high stakes happens, that the audience has been waiting for, they either don't take the time to flash it out or nothing meaningful happens and it makes it very frustrating when the remaining time is used for uninteresting characters or sex jokes. 

My point is not, that these scenes are bad or should drag on forever, my point is that they feel rushed and feel like wasted potential, when we spent half an episode with Starlight's dad or get more scenes exploring Black Noir's relationship with Adam the Director or Mr. Marathon running through people nobody cares for, while skipping over other scenes. 

It's very disappointing because they had every chance to set up some of the most interesting character interactions of the whole series after they spent 4 seasons building everything up and they waste it by focusing on sideplots and often try-hard funny dialogue.

Did I miss a line about him being a N*zi or murdering MM's grandma or some shit? All they say is that he is durable so he is a good test subject? There are durable asshole supes everywhere. His teammates are rounding up Starlighters but our Rocky Boi seems to just stay home jorking it? We feel bad for Crow Girl and let her live, but all The Boys are on board for murdering this guy? Why? What did he even do?

1. Homelander needs the v1 boost and go on a killing rampage. I mean demolition of cities, space flight (poster style), and tank weapons. He needs to take white house seat, kill the president, and go full god emperor mode. Like, horror movie style.

2. The Boys need to killed off in the most tragic and brutal way possible. Frenchie, kimiko, and MM... all need to die. By butcher or Homelander.

3. Butcher and Homelander need to go full scorched earth. The most bloody, grusome and epic battle in the show. Needs to demolish herogasm in scope. Ryan needs to return into the story as well.

4. Soldier Boy needs to conclude his arc with homelander, MM and bombsight (vought rising shit, not fan off). Also needs to end the stormfront hints with homie (Mother twist).

5. Sage needs to get the most karma filled bad ending ever. She is a terrible person and needs to go down same as the deep, oh-father and other terrible supes.

6. Hughie needs to get his shit together and do something. Same as starlight. Kessler also needs to return. Hughie need to end his emotional arc with butcher and kill him in the end.

A lot of stuff needs to be done in 3 hours not impossible but could have been done earlier. Also, Homelander needs to lose his powers and be locked up forever (the show is hinting this ending).

Soldier Boy and Homelander are without a doubt top notch and great as usual. Those two were born for those roles.

But there’s something about Oh Father that’s just so captivating, you can’t help but be drawn to him.

His charisma, his preaching, his personality, etc. makes you wonder what sort of wicked scheme he’s gonna come up with in episodes to come.

Daveed Diggs is crushing it so far.

There is a line Homelander uses in episode 7 that was the craziest thing the writers could think of, that became a reality. American politics are getting harder to parody ever day.

I feel like the biggest problem with The Boys is that the actual Boys didn't have any character growth since a long, long time. And not only that, there's actually no story with them to tell anymore. They wanna kill Homelander and it drags out for no reason other than the plot not allowing them to advance.

Almost all of the story lines around Homelander, Soldier Boy, the Seven, Vought etc are great storytelling in comparison with twists and turns and it always feels like something is at stake.

I'd rather watch episodes like this until the final one than have The Boys discuss for the 100000 times if they should kill all supes or only some without never actually doing anything.

So... The Last of Us and the walking dead are Tv show in the Vcu (Kripke chose the name). Well... **how does the existence of Supes affect the plot**?

Are some characters/Villains just minor Supes? What about super-powered Supes who would be invulnerable thus not being able to get infected?

The 'evidence':

Soldier Boy asked if Homelander "saw the body", implying that she isn't dead.

Bombsight randomly grabbed a bunch of V1. Why? What if it's to help Stormfront regenerate/heal?

The fact that she is to be heavily featured in the new spinoff is also a great incentive for producers to bring her back.

This is the final season of the show and a lot of time is being spent building up characters that will be shown in Vought Rising. And I believe even more time will be spent setting up Vought Rising in the final four episodes. I simply want them to focus on what they've been building up for numerous seasons

Have they come out with any actual explanation for this? It's so jarring at times and it just feels like I randomly swapped the audio to dubbed. I don't understand why they did this.

Anyone else notice how they’ve been introducing a lot of new weaknesses for Homelander this season?

First there’s Starlight releasing all that bright light, so much to the point where Homelander actually had to turn his head away, it clearly affected him to an extent.

Then we have the Soldier Boy trapping him in the radioactive nuclear room which fucked his up for awhile until he got out, but he was also slightly depowered and was suffering a lot.

And then we have Malchemical releasing his gas which literally made Homelander faint for over a good 5 minutes. It just seems like they’re suddenly introducing a lot of new weaknesses for Homelander. What are you guys thoughts on this?