u/EndlessMorfeus

The link for the script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DysygXz5lhjouOULcKIErkXEymWYieDA/view

Most of you must know before the show, there were plan to adapt The Boys into a Hollywood movie, there were talks about Simon Pegg as Hughie, Russell Crowe as Butcher and Aaron Eckhart as Homelander, Adam McKay was considered to direct it. You can learn about the story in this video but here the basis for the story, it's closer to the comics but also has differences:
-The Boys take regular small doses of Compound-V to keep their super-strenght.
-It opens adapting Tek-Knight assaulting Minddroid and venting with a therapist.
-Robin's death is identical to the comics and it happens in Scotland.
-The Seven has an OC member called Beastie.
-There's something called V Prime that gives stronger powers to the user.
-Tek Knight gets his tumor removed and sides with The Boys.
-The Seven recruit an army of supervillain to attack the White House so they can swoop in and save the day.

It's the final act where it becomes interesting:

The Seven took V Prime and are now much stronger. However, V Prime has a drawback, any user becomes a living bomb that blows up after getting in contact with a sound frequence from a bagpipe. Tek Knight builds a sonic weapon to mimic the bagpipe frequency and kill the Seven. The Boys attack the Seven at their floating satellite before they can fullfill their plan. Starlight (who was supposed to "die heroically" at the White House) is the one who kills the Seven using the sonic weapon.

So yeah, the movie ends with all of the Seven dying with their heads exploding and teases the G-Men as villains for a possible sequel. Mind you, this was written before the comic ended and made deeper revelations about the characters.

With the show about to change, many people have been posting reminiscing how great the first season was because fact is season 1 was the best season and each season of the show was worse than the previous. Season 2 was still very good although not as good as the previous one but then came season 3, although inferior, it was the last time the show was great at the same time it marked the problems that would haunt the second half.

There was a clear creative shift in season 3, it hit its peak in Herogasm when we had Butcher, Hughie and Soldier Boy fighting Homelander together but that season was when the characters lost themselves.

We had Frenchie before that being established as the guy who comes up with crazy creative ways to kill supes (xanax for Behemoth, ass bomb for Translucent, developing weapons that could go through Stormfront's energy powers) but now we had that awful Little Nina plot nobody cared for. Hughie who was very confident on himself and not threatened at all by Annie has a whole arc of "Accept you're not a bad ass and be glad to be the wife-guy".

The worst part of all was how all of the sudden Homelander doesn't want people to be scared of supervillains. Season 2 had established firmly that Homelander and Stormfront were fearmongering people so that the Seven could appear and save them but suddenly is "don't be afraid, it's safe to get of home" why? Because of Covid and stupid people denying the virus, making a spoof on those people was more important than having a cohesive narrative.

The season was still good, like a say, it was in fact great but Soldier Boy carried it on his back very hard and the season planted the path for how much season 4 and 5 sucked. When Homelander goes off on Annie daring her to share the video and she points out there's something wrong with him, it appears we're heading something important but instead it's when our main villain quit being intimidating and the show ceased from being about Homelander snapping and destroying the world.

As much as I like season 3, all the things we hate so much about season 4 and 5 started there. We can see how clumsy the finale was and tell that's when the writers stopped caring as much on how they write resolutions.