u/ThatGuyHero7

Meta disclaimer: Yes I know this is the billionth post you’ve seen about the boys in this sub today. Yes I know i should probably find a boys subreddit. No I will not do that and instead gush over here. Sue me.

That said, I’m so glad and satisfied with how the boys ended. Was it perfect? No. Not even close tbh, I have issues with vought still being up, sister sage facing 0 real consequences and homelander not going wild at all despite the build up. Regardless of that though, the show was still, to me at least, able to stick the landing super well. I loved seeing Butcher finally getting his revenge on Homelander, I loved seeing butcher vs Hughie, I loved starling vs the deep, I loved MM and Ryan getting a happily ever after, I love kimiko’s bittersweet ending. It was all just so… soothing to me.

The boys for all its gruesomeness and vulgarity has always felt, idk, optimistic I guess? A-train’s redemption, Queen Maeve’s character, Hughie saving the boys in season 1 against all odds etc. Even though the show wears the face of a violent world devoid of the warmth in regular superhero media, it still has that sincerity that makes those media so good to begin with and I think that that sincerity was on full display today. In this episode everyone was sincere. Ryan finally rejected both his messed up father’s, Hughie rejected the offer to be head of the Supes surveillance team or whatever and opened a small shop with his wife, MM got to be with his family, Kimiko got her closure with frenchie, even the DEEP rejected his potential redemption in favour of ruining his life (again). This episode was so genuine and heartfelt that it reminds me why I love superhero stories. Yes, there IS hope for the big bad guy to be defeated even if they’re stronger than you, there IS hope for love after tragedy, there IS hope for justice to triumph over evil.

A lot of people don’t want another sappy happy ending in stories and I get that, but frankly this happy ending wasn’t just an ending to me, it was a love letter to faith.

I’m going to miss the show a lot. I loved theory crafting with my friends, I loved seeing my favourite hero superman be evil and weird, i loved seeing Hughie spread hope, I just… loved. And to whomever is reading this poorly written schlock im writing, i wish you the best. Stay hopeful guys.

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I genuinely do not give a flying fuck about soldier boy and his Nazi wife fucking in the projector vought tower. I know he’s going to win and I know the villain won’t have lasting damage or impact on the boys proper, why would I give a shit?

What I am interested in? Seeing the world of the boys after the finale. I want to see what happens to supes, i want to see what happens to the starlighters, i want to see what happens to RYAN. I’ve given up hope in Season 5, but if Amazon plays its cards right Mexico could be great TV, even on par with season 1-4 of the main show.

I genuinely hate Amazon so much. Seriously, if I had a face from there i could punch I would, but I can’t so I’ll just cry on Reddit ig.

The thing that pisses me off about this final season isn’t that it’s bad, i actually think it’s a cool 7. It’s just disappointing which is arguably worse. Some really cool plot threads like Ryan and Marie got cucked just so Soldier boy could promote his show about him and his Klan, speaking of which I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT VOUGHT RISING! Even before this final season pissed me off i wasn’t planning on watching that shit, why would I be interested in watching soldier boy abuse his team and fuck his N**i wife? But now i don’t just have indifference towards it I straight up hate it, it couldnt just sit in it’s litt bubble NO it had to skull fuck the main series until it was unrecognisable. To make it worse the main character of said show Soldier boy has somehow deteriorated into a pathetic little weasel idiot, this moron gave Homelander the V1 then thought to himself “yeah this won’t backfire at all despite EVERYONE IVE INTERACTED WITH TELLING ME OTHERWISE” and guess what? It backfired. Dumbass.

Another problem is just how wasted so much time is. Why is the deep still alive? He was cool in season 2-4 because he actually HAD a plot to service, now he’s just there to eat time. And for Goku’s sake, what was even the point of new black noir? What did he accomplish? Why does he even exist? He’s just there to turn the ocean against the deep and NOTHING else.

The worst part? Theres an actual GOOD final season trapped under this streaming pile of nothing burger. I can see it when Butcher killed his dad, the Firecracker segment, O’ Father’s whole character with starlight, A-Train’s death etc.

Which brings me to my last point: I don’t blame the writers. I truly don’t believe they’re bad at their jobs, they made 4 amazing seasons of TV that I still look back fondly on, they did NOT drop the ball for 0 reason. My theory is Amazon forced them to make changes last minute because they wanted spin offs. There’s actual proof of this with Noir’s dialogue in Gen V that I’m sure we’ve all seen.

TLDR: This isn’t a bad season of TV. It’s actually a good season of TV, but a TERRIBLE final season of the boys. I pity the writers who had to bend over backwards due to studio executives and i dearly hope they get better work soon. And even though this season let me down hard, I’m still invested in this universe and will be tuned in for The boys Mexico.

Also while I have the 🎙️, Season 4 was great and way too overhated, 8/10 for me.

Anytime you accurately describe Yuta’s abilities people call you a dick rider and say “this is why all Yuta fans suck smh”

Like? Why are you calling me crazy for saying Mahoraga AKA the cursed technique loses to cursed technique extinguishement? Or saying that characters like Yorozu who have 0 cursed speech counters are cursed speech victims?

It’s especially weird seeing as how Yuta detractors straight up just lie half the time. One time a guy told me “Angel didn’t actually free Gojo from the prison realm, she just undid the chains and gojo did all the work” like huh? Tf are you talking about?

And even outside power scaling they’re still unfair to him. Obviously there’s the pedophile jokes, don’t gotta explain that. Then there’s the people who call him an overpowered OC despite the fact that Sukuna exists and is basically him minus all the flaws.

Like? People seem weirdly unfair to both him and his fans. Why is that?

I don’t like Ryan’s character progression.

It feels incredibly unnatural to me. According to all the characters in this show like Becca and Mallory and junk Ryan is supposedly this super sweet kid who wouldn’t hurt a fly but then he just straight up kills grace? And the worst part is he didn’t even show any emotion about it. He just kind of looked at her corpse and left. Where is this sweet kid everyone talks about??? All I see is a psychopath. And then in season 5 it gets even worse because now he’s killing innocent soldiers who have lives and families just to keep him shitty hiding spot. Like is this not crazy and narcissistic??? He is murdering innocent people for an abandoned building.

It feels like so forced and unnatural. I get he’s under stress but he made the jump from “sweet boy” to “Brightburn” WAY too fast.