re: The Boys Season 3 Spoilers

This is quickly becoming one of those shows that so many things are always going wrong for the main characters that it is becoming predictable and boring. I mean eventually they’ve got to win or lose. They can’t just continue to look like they’re doing OK and then bam all of a sudden they are way worse off than they were before. Shows like that get old after about three seasons. Like the marvelous Mrs. Maisel, that show is boring now because every time something goes right in her life immediately five things go wrong. That’s what’s happening with The Boys now

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It is trying to cover that with outrageous shite

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Which is a band-aid, you do enough outrageous shite and the audience becomes numb to it and you keep trying to one up it and it eventually gets ridiculous.

I imagine writers like keeping the story the same from a writing perspective. If they succeed and kill Homelander or destroy Vaught they have to change the way they write the story. And in a comic book this trying and failing and resetting goes over a lot better I think.

We will see what happens I guess

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This show showed me that I do have a breaking point when it comes to gratuitous content.

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I do too but this is so over the top and really unbelievable gratuity it doesn't bother me. They aren't torturing people or doing the gore porn that many horror movies do.

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This is quickly becoming one of those shows that so many things are always going wrong for the main characters that it is becoming predictable and boring.

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Ah, the ol Silicon Valley Plot Loop.

I'm still enjoying the hell out of The Boys, but yeah, they can only rinse and repeat so often before it becomes too predictable.

I'm usually fine with gore stuff, but yeah, this show pushes it. Deep eating the octopus damn near had me turning it off. When it comes to animals being harmed I think I'm getting soft in my old age. Hell, when I watch Meat Eater I start to feel bad for what ever Steve is hunting.

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Ah, the ol Silicon Valley Plot Loop.

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Exactly. Those writers were so stuck in their loop that at the end, when the show was ending and they finally succeeded, they STILL had to make them fail

Am I the only one who thought the Timothy scene was worse than the dick scene?

I like the Len Bias reference, his death is the reason I’ve never tried the white powder and never will.

The Legend was great.

Epi 5! Woohoo

Same, I really enjoyed this series to start and was binging then hit a cold hard stop near the end of season 2 the propaganda was getting so bad. I’m done, this isn’t a story, it’s a political campaign.