Not just a specific scene, or episode, but characters repeatedly surviving when they shouldn’t.

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    Every main character in The Boys, especially in the last season. Anybody remember that scene with Homelander in the ice rink? He apparently turned into a bumbling idiot that fails to catch up with Hughie even though he’s shown to be crazy fast. Then when Homelander finds out where their HQ is, he sends two of the most useless villains at them rather than going there himself and being done with it.

    I still don’t understand how this show is so acclaimed despite dozens of instances of lazy writing.

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      12 days ago

      The acclaim is mostly for the first and second seasons which are much better than the latter ones and more closely followed the source material.

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        12 days ago

        I thought season 3 was really good, very tight on the characters constantly shifting motivations, fun bits. 4 was rough, not really a fan of how casually they keep sexually assaulting Hughie and play it for laughs.

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      12 days ago

      It’s a very different take on superheroes. But yea, a bit too much plot armor considering how many people Homelander kills on a whim. And those aren’t even people plotting his downfall.