The Boys - Amazon Prime Original - (**Spoilers**) (No Comic Spoilers!)

it was very poorly thought out and done.

pointless really. Marie was such a great character.

Season 5 was a total let down, to be honest. Not GOT level, but still very frustrating.

off the top of my head, from the shows I have seen, it is rare you get a good ending… MY favourites would be:

The Expanse

Star Trek TNG

Superman and Lois

Blackadder

Angel

Sopranos

HouseMD

The Shield

(Twin Peaks - the return, I still wonder about)

They released teaser for Vought Rising

The best thing about the final season, was how they brought ripping the absolute piss out of maga, to new levels.

Don't think I'll bother with Vought Rising. Even though I enjoyed it, ultimately, Gen V seems like a waste of time. Given what they did, or more to the point, what they didn't do with Marie, in The Boys. And unless they plan on jumping forward in this show to post The Boys, we know what becomes of the characters. I think fan sentiment after the last couple of seasons of The Boys, could hurt VR chances.

What relevance does the comics being written 20 years ago have? You can interpret any comic/book/literature via today’s lens.

to be fair, they filmed the Homelanders jesus/god ambitions a year before donald posted AI memes of him appearing as jesus/the pope.

Alright now that the dust has settled and I'm looking back the more I think the end-game was really poor.

Soldier Boy disappears abruptly - we know what happened obviously, but as lame as it was for the audience, no-one else knows what happened him but literally nobody questions it, or mentions it.

"It's what Clara would have wanted/I loved Clara for decades". Sorry what. This is the first we're hearing of this plot point.

Absolutely stinks of the priority being Vought Rising and leaving Soldier Boy open ended for later shows rather than the final season of The Boys.

Homelander in the Oval Office was slow and weak - he lasered Kimiko in half earlier in the season in a nonchalant way, but here his concentrated laser beams do nothing, and he was as fast as A-Train too, smashing through solid trees, scouring the landscape with lasers, earlier in the season.

Keeping in mind Ryan, as a child, demolished V1 original Stormfront with his laser eyes in an earlier season.

Homelander also struggles against Butcher and his tentacles despite Bombsight flinging Butcher around the place an episode earlier with raw strength and Bombsight shouldn't even have been a stain on Homelanders outfit.

The finale was basically a crappier, shorter, lower budget version of the fight at Herogasm. It should've been a ton of people all taking Homelander on and losing badly until Kimiko/Soldier Boy blasts his powers away.

Show ends and Vought still runs the world, the only difference is that Homelander is gone, going back to Butchers question - there will inevitably be another Homelander. But apparently the cast don't give a flying crap which is just bizarre - what a whole core anchor of The Boys not Homelander being a symptom of the problem rather than being THE problem??

The Gen V crew do absolutely nothing. I would not expect Marie Moreau to defeat Homelander, or play a big role in same, given Boys fans would not necessarily have watched Gen V, but at least give her a brief intro and then have her help subdue Homelander in the oval office by attempting, even if failing, to pull the V from his blood or whatever.

I've also seen people online mentioning Starlight flying Deep to the nearest beach despite having no idea that he was in the bold corner with sealife which would normally massively turn any fight in his favor. I will be honest, that never even occurred to me watching, but I suppose it is kinda dumb on reflection - for me, the lesser of the problems with the finale.

Overall, I still stand by my original assessment. It's not a total disaster in that unlike say, Game of Thrones, you wouldn't necessarily be put off a rewatch, but I can't understand how they fumbled so terribly on so many basic points.

Anthony Starr did an excellent job of being a snivelling, pathetic Homelander in that moment where his powers are gone. Unfortunately everything that led up to it just kinda…wasn’t so good.

I also still think the show Homelander is vastly superior to comic Homelander purely based on Anthony Starr's performance as an unhinged, deity-like character increasingly crippled by emotional disturbance.

But I prefer the comic ending for the sheer shocking twist that nobody saw coming, by comparison the show was as predictable as sunrise in the end, and even at that, the delivery of that predictable ending was pretty flat.

My closing thought on this is that Anthony Starr deserved a much better send off for such an iconic and impeccably acted character even if his fate was inevitable. Did I want the comic ending? Not really, totally understand why they pivoted away from it particularly the Butcher angle. But show Homelander deserved a better and more complex/layered end.

If it’s done well. The problem writers seem to have these days is that they try to push an idea without any thought with no interesting or compelling idea behind it. It just comes off as heavy handed or the same jokes recycled over and over.

The first few seasons were better than the comics but the end was way worse. The end in the comic is that homelander is trying to take over and become a president/king with sups as above non sups. Blacknoir turns out to be a clone placed in the seven to kill him if he becomes a problem but goes insane having to be with someone he’s ment to kill. He is the one that killed butchers wife and done pretty much all the bad things we thought homelander had. Butcher kills all the boys except Hue and they have a showdown in the White House where noir reveals his face. Noir kills homelander and butcher crowbars noirs brain out. Then Hugie kills butcher before he sets off the sup bomb.

Some people might not want the comic spoiled like that, it literally says

in the title…

Still a dick move though for people who might have just finished the tv series and wanted to see what the comics are like, but I suppose you got your little internet thrill and thats all that matters.

Blooper reel