r/TheBoys

Which is to make rewatching the show pointless. Pretty much every season was ramping up the tension of Homelander going full scorched earth, teasing it over, and over, and over, and it just never happens.

I've said it before, but IMO the white house fight should have been like episode 5. The boys try to take Homelander out, he gives that speech to the country, and they fail. He goes full scorched earth from there for a few episodes after realizing virtually no-one is gonna respect him as a god.

That would have been cool. Instead we got a fight in a room. It just makes all the other seasons feel pointless because they're about building to an event that never comes.

SPOILERS FOR BREAKING BAD

But it would have been like if the entire series of breaking bad was teasing Walt's demise, and Hank finding out. Only for the show to end with Hank and Walt as unsuspecting best friends, and seeing Walt retire on a beach. It would have ruined all of the setup from previous seasons.

Just thinking about how they really went ham with them and I realized I never liked the sex jokes I'm not a prude or anything but it's so weird they thought that's why we liked the show

Been trying to find this on TikTok and Instagram for like 2 days with no luck.

Theres an edited version of Soldier Boy, Butcher and Hughie in the woods, where Soldier Boy is high and paranoid asking Butcher: 'whatd you say'. Butcher replies 'nothing mate' and it keeps repeating.

It's stupid but I've just been thinking about it after rewatching S3E7.

Wonder if anyone has it saved...

For all its years of superhero satire, the television show resolves nothing.

The original comic, though vulgar, drives toward a clear conclusion: corporate greed, manufactured heroes, and how hatred destroys Butcher while love saves Hughie.

The show’s only theme is keeping you watching.

Im rewatching and I remember her being angry at Hughie as if he cheated on her for being SA by the shapeshifter including taunting him about having "shapeshifter syphilis" literally no sympathy for how he must be feeling realizing he was living with a complete stranger for days. I forgot so many other terrible moments. She offered zero comfort about the Teck Knight situation after he brought it up to her, she can tell he is jealous about Alex and she responds with jokes about having sex with him, besides that she is scolding him, criticizing him, and picking fights with him every episode. Am I missing something by not seeing understanding why she is angry at him most of the time? They talk a lot about how much they love each other and they show them being worried about each other and sure they have some cute moments but I am assuming evidence of them being compatible and actually BEING in love happens off screen. (To be fair its a gritty drama so thats understandable)

the boys in-universe is probably so crazy. i wish we got more outside perspectives in season 5. like i wonder what the rest of the world was thinking about the US/vought during all the crap between s4 and s5. from the camps, to solider boys revamped image, to his disappearance, reactions to the disbandment of the seven (probably because homelander didn’t care), homie’s decent into “Godhood”, then his televised murder, ashley’s empeachment… like i just know other nations were looking at the US crazy in-universe 😭