The Boys: How to Betray and Disappoint Literally Everyone

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Wow.

[00:00:01]>> [laughter] >> So, okay. Um I watched the finale this morning before work. And I've been sitting on it all day thinking about it.

[00:00:12]And I had a couple ideas for this video.

[00:00:14]Um And so, here's what I'm going to do.

[00:00:18]Uh I'm going to I'm going to break this down. I was going to break this down into good, okay, and bad. But as I was formulating that initially, it occurred to me that ultimately nothing really justified being put into the into the good category.

[00:00:33]Ultimately, everything here is either okay, which is very little, or it's bad. And the okay stuff is only okay relatively speaking compared to everything else we've gotten in the season and everything else in the bad list.

[00:00:49]So, I'm going to talk briefly about what I think was okay in episode 8, in the finale.

[00:00:56]And then I'm going to talk extensively about all the things that were bad both in this finale and a little bit going back cuz some of it, you know, obviously builds up throughout the series and and season 5.

[00:01:08]Um and what I'm going to try to do is explain from my perspective as a writer why I think it's bad from a writing perspective cuz I think not everybody understands why some things are bad. Um for example, plot holes and contrivances. Some people think that any plot hole and contrivance is a bad thing and that's like how Cinema Sins has its entire channel is it just points out anything like that without an understanding that it, you know, all fiction is contrived and every piece of fiction has plot holes, right?

[00:01:43]But good writing it it makes you not see it. And the problem here is that the content, the substance, the the thing that you're here for is so shallow, it's so bad, uh so empty and the seams are so obvious that it's hard not to notice, it's hard not to ask the questions, and so it's hard not to be distracted by all the problems, right?

[00:02:08]That's why all the things I'm about to point out that might sound like nitpicks and that are nitpicks are such a problem where in a better series, if this show was better written, or in a show that is better written, these same issues really wouldn't be such a big deal.

[00:02:24]So, my overall thoughts was that this was extremely underwhelming, um which is not a surprise, and I mean I guess that's a good thing is that we knew going in that it would be. So, it's not like I was dismayed, but it wasn't good.

[00:02:38]Um so, what was okay? What was handled okay here?

[00:02:42]Um Butcher versus Homelander. Not the fight itself, but the final kill. Once Homelander was depowered, I thought that that was handled well, how Butcher actually killed Homelander, the the fact that it was televised in public, and the gruesome detail with which, you know, Butcher basically debrained him.

[00:03:04]Um very good. In a way satisfying, and it was only held back by everything around it.

[00:03:11]Similarly, the confrontation with Hughie and Butcher also really good. You know, it was something that the show had been building up, and obviously also like the Homelander kill, faithful to the comics that this was the real final confrontation of the story, and it was true to Hughie's character, and I thought it was handled really well, com- you know, consider all things considered.

[00:03:35]And the last thing that I think was handled okay conceptually, it was a good idea, but I have problems with its execution, and so this is also in the bad category.

[00:03:44]>> [snorts] >> Starlight being the one to fight the Deep is a good idea, >> [laughter] >> but it has a lot of problems.

[00:03:53]So and and and that's genuinely it. I mean I I honestly think that's kind of the the the extent of what's okay here.

[00:04:00]I mean there were some funny jokes like he's an astronaut so I took him to space.

[00:04:05]There's a lot of funny jokes in isolation in this season.

[00:04:09]But even in that case, I'm going to come back to that and that funny joke shoots them in the foot later. And that happens a lot.

[00:04:19]But one of the first big issues with this episode that I noticed right away and so immediately we're off to a bad start.

[00:04:26]Um we wasted a lot of time in this episode.

[00:04:31]At Frenchie's funeral, which by the way, we never got a funeral for for um A-Train. I don't even think the boys even really talk about the fact that he died. You know, we get a funeral with the um with Homelander, but um the boys never even talk about the fact that he died, I don't think. Maybe I missed that. Um but at Frenchie's funeral, we're immediately cracking jokes and it has to be of course anus and [ __ ] jokes, right? Because that's just how this writing team works.

[00:05:01]For some reason, we always have to put [ __ ] jokes in here.

[00:05:05]And not only do I think it's in bad taste to it's even write that in, it seems so unnecessary.

[00:05:12]It's wasting time. We're in the final episode. We don't have time to waste on this [ __ ] His funeral needs to be quick and it needs to be concise and efficient. We need to get it out of the way and over with.

[00:05:24]I thought that like even Sage cracking jokes once she had been uh made stupid.

[00:05:30]Again, we don't have time for this.

[00:05:31]We're in the final episode. We got [ __ ] to do. Stop wasting time. And again, they're not funny jokes. At least like the [ __ ] jokes were funny because they were so they were so incredibly stupid that you had to laugh at the sheer absurdity of it. But Sage's jokes were just completely stupid and pointless.

[00:05:50]Hughie and Annie being pregnant at the end of this and and Annie being a pregnant superhero, we I don't think we needed this. Like who asked for this? Like there was way too much time devoted to their happy ending.

[00:06:05]Again, compared to all the [ __ ] we needed to do that needed to be wrapped up and the people who should have gotten time devoted to them, this was way too much time devoted for [ __ ] we didn't ask for. And for that matter, why are they pregnant? That seems odd.

[00:06:20]Like why do we need that detail? Is that going to be relevant? Like why is that a necessary part of their happy ending?

[00:06:26]I think a lot of people thought they were going to adopt Ryan.

[00:06:29]Why does MM adopt Ryan? Did Did Ryan and MM have some kind of like special relationship that I missed? I mean, that wasn't even discussed. Like it just kind of like happened. That seemed odd to me, right?

[00:06:42]Very strange. Um and in retrospect, looking back, the entire season feels like false advertising because they spent the entire season, all their marketing was scorched earth. You got Homelander in the sky with like a burning earth.

[00:07:01]And you know, literally they kept saying it, scorched earth, shock and awe, blood and bone.

[00:07:08]We got none of that. Like Homelander does nothing this season. The The most atrocious things that Homelander does throughout the series are all in the earlier seasons.

[00:07:18]The most horrible act of violence he commits is in his daydreams back in like season 1, I think, right?

[00:07:26]It's kind of crazy.

[00:07:27]Um him getting the V1 was completely pointless. Like he gets it and then we just cut to the next day or whatever.

[00:07:37]And nothing's changed. Like he's just setting up this big, you know, if you don't have faith in me, you're going to get executed. But even after he dies, that's not really resolved. Like Homelander had basically taken over the world, right?

[00:07:53]But then as soon as he dies, the implication is that all just kind of fell apart in the background, but I mean, would it really work that way?

[00:08:01]Without Homelander, all of this that he built up just falls apart instantly?

[00:08:06]That seems a little questionable to me, right? Like the damage that he did. I mean, what damage did he do? Like it seems like they took a step back from the ending of season 4 where he was trying to do like a military state and and and really take over the government and take over the world. We don't have a good understanding of like what the state the world was in or what damage he and the other supes were doing and he himself did very little.

[00:08:31]But it seems difficult to believe that like, oh, we killed Homelander, so happy ending, right?

[00:08:36]That's not how this story was ever built up to be. Homelander was never the problem. Vought was always the problem. Like sure, we got rid of Homelander, but Vought is still around. Stan Edgar is back in charge of Vought. Like we haven't really solved much of anything.

[00:08:53]But it the ending doesn't seem to understand that. We just get this like saccharine happy ending and we never got any of the payoff that we'd been expecting of of Homelander going crazy, destroying the Earth, or any of the characters and any of the plotlines that we've been building up amounting to anything. I'm going to talk a lot about the discarded plotlines later, but I'm going to try to keep going on some of the more specific issues here.

[00:09:18]So coming back to Starlight and the Deep um I I think, like I said, Annie versus Deep as a concept makes some amount of sense because they do have history, they do have a beef.

[00:09:30]You know, obviously with the Deep assaulting her back in season 1.

[00:09:33]But that was like episode 1, season 1.

[00:09:36]That is old [ __ ] That is the oldest [ __ ] you could imagine. And they've both moved on past it. Annie does not bring it up in this fight. It's not something She's not out for blood here. She's not after the Deep. She doesn't hate this guy. She's actually trying to reason with him. She's trying to talk him down, right? She's not out for his blood. And similarly, like this is not something the Deep has in his mind. And while I'm not saying the Deep doesn't deserve to get his ass beat by Annie for what he did back then, he has actually paid for that several times over. Like even back in season 1, back when this show had good writing, he did that to her. And then several episodes later, some crazy fan girl [ __ ] drove her hands deep into his gills and violated him. He directly felt what that was like. Back when this show actually had good writing. And then like in season 2, he was publicly shamed for what he did and dragged through the mud for it. Like he has paid for that specific act. So there's no emotional catharsis for this confrontation here. And Annie doesn't bring it up. Again, this is not She's not this It's not about that. So having them specifically fight is not very satisfying narratively. At least not for me.

[00:11:00]And this is where we get into the issue of bad writing, right? Because this is like some of the worst contrivance I've ever seen in in in a piece of writing ever.

[00:11:11]We as the audience and the writers of this show know that the Deep has been banned from the sea and that if he steps foot in the sea, he will be killed by the sea creatures he has betrayed.

[00:11:23]But Annie doesn't know this. As far as Annie knows, the Deep is most powerful near a body of water. In fact, he's only threatening near a body of water. Even though we've basically never seen him use his powers at all, right?

[00:11:36]So, why would she, A, first of all, why would she fly him out of the White House to begin with and separate from the rest of her group? I don't understand that to begin with. But then, B, if she can fly him anywhere in like DC or the world for that matter, because only she can fly, why would she drop him next to a open body of water where he would presumably be most powerful?

[00:12:01]That doesn't make any sense at all. Why would she do that, right?

[00:12:06]And then, while they're fighting, after she maybe even has an advantage on him, why would she intentionally choose to knock him into the water where again, he would have an advantage over her? Like, I just recently rewatched Black Panther too.

[00:12:22]I think we all owe Shuri an apology, cuz everybody made fun of Shuri about her plan of fighting the um Talokan in the water, but at least she had a plan to take out Namor because she knew Namor was powered by water and she took his ass to the desert and she had a [ __ ] heat chamber and she exploded her ship to dehydrate him. Starlight did the exact opposite. She took Namor, she took the Deep, right, to water and then threw him in water to let him heal himself after kicking his ass, right?

[00:12:53]But by coincidence, he had self-sabotaged so hard that it backfired and got him killed.

[00:13:00]But she didn't know that, right? What was her actual plan here if if the Deep had somehow not [ __ ] himself over?

[00:13:09]What was her plan? How was she going to win against a full-power Deep in open ocean?

[00:13:15]I mean, I guess she could have just flown off and then he would have been stranded, except he's also back near an open body of water, so he can easily ride a sea creature back. It it doesn't make any sense. It's some idi- completely idiotic writing.

[00:13:29]And we come back to good contrivances and bad contrivances.

[00:13:32]Because the show is so bad, because there's and this is such an obvious glaring problem, this is a bad plot hole, right?

[00:13:41]It can't be overlooked. It's inexcusable, right? As compared to like I I can't think of a specific example right now. Maybe I'll put something on screen, but there's countless examples in fiction where you can come up with an excusable contrivance in fiction. This just is not one of them, frankly.

[00:14:02]And on that same topic, Homelander's power scaling makes no sense, right? So, I mentioned earlier that he flew the Elon Musk parallel up to space and then came back down. That happened in like 5 seconds. He was off screen. It's a funny gag, okay?

[00:14:19]But, this is another direct feat showing how fast he is. And you take this on top of the fact that he kept up with A-Train running at top speed for his life, who we know is moving fast enough he moves fast enough that he can see time in slow motion, okay?

[00:14:37]But, then when it comes to the fight, suddenly he can't even escape the room.

[00:14:42]Right? He's so slow that that Butcher and Kimiko and Ryan are all able to like grab him and stop him from leaving the small room.

[00:14:49]That doesn't make any [ __ ] sense, right? Similarly, in the same show, we saw him this season, I think in episode 1, he cut Kimiko in half with his laser vision. And that was before he had V1.

[00:15:02]And that was when he might not have even been trying to kill her. I don't know if he was trying to kill her in that moment. I don't know if he knew what her powers were and if that wouldn't actually kill her. I'm unclear on that.

[00:15:13]But, either way, he was able to cut her in half with his laser vision before getting the V1 enhancement. Now, here, he has the V1 enhancement and he's definitely fighting for his life because he understands the threat. And the lasers don't even affect her.

[00:15:28]That [ __ ] makes no sense. The power scaling here makes no sense.

[00:15:32]Some people think and Eric not I was going to talk about Eric Kripke.

[00:15:37]Eric Kripke um seems to think maybe and these writers seem to think maybe that power scaling is this annoying you know, who wins in a fight Goku versus Superman and you know, it's because you know, Goku's blown up this many universes and and Superman's you know, done XYZ, right?

[00:15:57]And you can get really annoying with that if you want to be like that and you want to do death battle science scaling that gets really nerdy and really pseudo-scientific, right?

[00:16:07]But at a basic level, power scaling just means being internally consistent within the own you know, your own internal logic within your story. And this show is absolutely awful at this.

[00:16:21]And to its credit, which is not much credit it's not the only show that's bad at this. Invincible is also notoriously bad at this and I'm considering making a video on how bad Invincible is at this.

[00:16:34]But it's so overtly obvious, especially when they give you direct counter feats in the same episode. Like with the chemical thing, you got to go back to the start of the season. Although people's memories aren't that short.

[00:16:46]Most people remember this, right?

[00:16:48]But even in this episode, they gave us a direct feat. They reminded us exactly how fast he was for a gag. And then when it comes to a serious fight with stakes, suddenly his speed the speed is different, right?

[00:17:04]It doesn't make sense, okay?

[00:17:07]Uh similarly, when it comes to this power scaling, you know, Butcher's power scaling has changed. When he got his power and it was introduced he He like one-shotted Newman. He showed up and he just instantly fast as lightning uh you know, covered her eyes so she couldn't use her powers, wrapped her up, and ripped her in half. Right? He used like 12 tentacles to do it. And and throughout that entire season when it before his power had developed and we saw what it was, he was ripping people in half. He was ripping them apart so bad there was nothing left of them.

[00:17:37]WHERE'D THAT GO? RIGHT? Like now all of a sudden he can just do like one tentacle at a time.

[00:17:43]What? What happened to Again, with the false advertising. You can see a poster of him having like six tentacles out. W- Where is that at? Like the power scaling here makes no sense. And I'm sure some of it's a budget thing even though again Amazon has like more money than God.

[00:17:58]But it doesn't really make any sense.

[00:17:59]Like it's so frustrating to watch and and this kind of inconsistent power scaling makes it difficult to be excited for the fights because again it makes it so bl- blaringly obvious that there's no real stakes to these fights. It's literally just whatever the writer wants to happen at any any given moment will. And they're able to use this to write themselves out of any corner they write themselves into.

[00:18:28]And and clearly they can do it while discarding like entire plot lines like the virus, an entire cast of characters like the Gen V cast that should have been important, but because they can just decide that Homelander with V1 actually isn't that big of a threat all you need is Ryan Butcher and Kimiko and you're good and you win.

[00:18:49]It's completely illogical. It makes no sense.

[00:18:52]And you know, speaking of Kimiko and speaking of things making no sense, her getting the Soldier Boy laser that depowers people has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

[00:19:03]I mean, I understood in episode seven that it was a desperate play after everything else had fallen apart, but I didn't think that it would work, right?

[00:19:12]It is insane that we spent two entire seasons of this show chasing after the soup virus McGuffin to try and kill Homelander and to try and do like soup genocide. And we even spent an entire season of Gen V. So, we had two seasons of this show an entire season of a different show building up a virus that ultimately amounted to [ __ ] all just so that we could also discard Soldier Boy who we spent two seasons building up, right? And who's getting his own spin-off just so we can put him on ice so that he's not part of the final fight just so that we can and even the even the story itself even the characters talk about this so that we can in like one day in like one hour hitting this [ __ ] with like 10 minutes worth of radiation, right?

[00:19:59]Copy a power that the Russians took 10 years to give to like a a guy with with V1, right?

[00:20:10]It's completely insane. Like there's no reason it is it is genuinely some of the worst most like elementary school writing I've ever seen in my life. And for that matter, you know, Frenchie's death, right?

[00:20:26]I got to tell you I felt nothing when Frenchie died. In fact, I I was actively kind of angry um that he even had like a drawn-out death scene, right? It Nothing about that [ __ ] made any sense. People have gone on about this at length. The fact that Homelander showed up there um that Sage and Kimiko were able to successfully hide from him again while he was amped up on V1 wasn't using his super hearing, wasn't hearing his super smell both of which have come up many times before and again in that same episode they went went out of their way to mention that Sage like smelled like [ __ ] cuz she wasn't showering, right?

[00:20:58]Um and they were hiding in a metal vent conveniently the only metal zinc vent in the whole [ __ ] place that he was about to check but didn't check because, you know, Frenchie made it went out of his way to [ __ ] distract him. And then it's it's it's so stupid. And then for some reason we don't even get to see the fight between them, which it could have been a cool fight if Frenchy actually locked him in that room and they actually had a brawl a little bit, but Frenchy lost. That could have been cool.

[00:21:23]And if Frenchy died in that way, that would have been cool and that would have been dramatic.

[00:21:28]But we don't even get to see what happens, but somehow he like gets out of the chamber to have a slow death in chemicals arms. It's just so stupid.

[00:21:38]When has Homelander ever let someone bleed out? Like that's just never been a thing that happens. Like Homelander just [ __ ] smashes people's heads and they're done. Like this doesn't make any sense to me. It's so [ __ ] stupid. And the fact that he leaves without checking the building or razing the building to the ground, it's so the entire thing is so [ __ ] stupid.

[00:22:01]Speaking of Sister Sage, my god, what a waste of a character. Like Sister Sage was a great character in season 4 and I think she was a good addition to the Gen V season 2 as well. But I think that the fact that she was so incredibly wasted here in this season is another perfect indicator of how incompetent and how stupid these writers are because when you have a character whose whole thing is being smart and whose whole thing is being the smartest person in the world, that character can literally only be as smart as the writers.

[00:22:33]And so when that character ends up being the stupidest character in the show, I mean that's basically a self-report, right? Like that's not an indictment against the character. It's not an indictment against the actress. It is an indictment against your writing team that your writers are abysmal. They are awful. They are terrible.

[00:22:54]Sister Sage was so incredibly wasted this season. They literally did not know what to do with her.

[00:23:00]And it could not be more obvious. I mean, holy [ __ ] What an incredibly disappointing ending to that character.

[00:23:07]And talking about, you know, disappointing endings to characters, Ashley, man. At least Sister Sage had only been around for two seasons. We've had Ashley around for five seasons.

[00:23:17]We've been with her for five seasons, and we've been seeing her like growth and and her development and her kind of changing mentality for five seasons. And what does it amount to?

[00:23:26]It amounts to her finally in the like 11th hour, right before the clock strikes midnight, she [ __ ] runs away from her security to [ __ ] open a door for the boys so that they can come into the lighthouse and kill Homelander. And then she immediately tries to create take credit for it, and she gets impeached, which was another funny comment about, you know, the first female president being impeached for that. That that was kind of a funny comment. Um but it's like and then that's it. That's the end of her character, right? She's We know She's probably in jail, right?

[00:23:58]Like that's that's an incredibly underwhelming payoff to five seasons of build-up to her arc.

[00:24:08]It's crazy that the Deep and um A-Train can both get these five-season-long payoffs, and for A-Train's to be so good, and for like, you know, the Deep's also to be pretty good, and then for Ashley's to be so [ __ ] disappointing. It's crazy.

[00:24:25]And speaking of infiltrating the White House, I mean, holy [ __ ] What a stupid plan. You're telling me that MM and memorized or still had plans to infiltrate the White House, and that they expected nothing to change in terms of getting in, and pretty much nothing did change except like Oh Father or someone did predict the boys would try to use that tunnel, and they set up kill room, except the kill room is like just a little bit of sound weaponry, sonic weaponry, and some guys with guns.

[00:24:59]What?

[00:25:01]Like that's crazy that that's the best you can come up with for a kill room for, you know, the people who the only people in the world who can stop your grandmaster plan.

[00:25:11]That's kind of an insanely underwhelming plan, isn't it? The fact that they had such a Hail Mary for getting in and the fact that Old Father's plan to stop them was so bad, so underwhelming. And then again, once they get in, we come back to again Homelander with V-1 not knowing that they're there until the moment they barge into the room. He doesn't hear this. He doesn't hear any of the gunshots or any of the commotion going on at all.

[00:25:35]That's kind of crazy, right? And then speaking of the commotion going on in there, uh Old Father's death, man, um what a disappointing end to that character. And again, another example of incredibly bad writing. So, this guy had like no-diffed Annie earlier in the season, and then here he no-diffs himself with an item that was introduced by Ashley again as a gag that MM somehow finds and uses against him, right?

[00:26:05]In pretty much the same way that like Scarlet Witch took out uh Black Bolt in Multiverse of Madness.

[00:26:11]That's pretty [ __ ] crazy to me.

[00:26:13]Um I I really expected more of a fight from this guy considering how powerful he seemed to be and how powerful his ability is inherently. And for him to get taken out like this by a gag, by MM from stealth from behind is really disappointing.

[00:26:28]And so it brings up a couple interesting points. One, I think MM has the highest kill count by now. Just this season, he's killed Love Sausage with his bare hands. He killed She-Line because for some reason there happened to be a [ __ ] mouse in that room that he was able to distract her with and stab her in the back with I don't even know what did he [ __ ] stab her with? I'm not even sure. Um and then he somehow manages to find that item.

[00:26:55]Why it was outside of I mean were they in Ashley and and his room? I'm not sure. And then it happens to just instantly kill him, right?

[00:27:06]Man, that's crazy, right? Like why does MM have the highest kill count in a show about superheroes? Like that's kind of insane.

[00:27:13]That's really disappointing to me, honestly. Um and then speaking of how easy it is to kill some of these supes, we come back to power scaling and Annie. Earlier this season, she like snapped Cindy's neck.

[00:27:24]That was the metal bending girl's name, Cindy. She snapped Cindy's neck from behind instantly before she could even respond. And yeah, she snuck up on her, but she didn't even have time to respond. She was boom, gone instantly.

[00:27:35]If if if Starlight has that kind of physical strength without even absorbing electricity or or or light, why isn't she doing that all the time?

[00:27:42]Why didn't she even fist fight the Deep?

[00:27:44]Why didn't she just snap his neck? Like and and if if if supes have that kind of strength, like it just None of this [ __ ] makes any sense. It's It hurts my brain, right? It It hurts my brain to think about this.

[00:27:55]But I think it's finally time to talk about really the the truly biggest offense that this episode um did in this whole season did, which is the complete and utter discarding of both the supe virus plot line that they spent three seasons, two of this and one of Gen V building up, and the discarding of the entire Gen V cast. Not only did they cancel Gen V, they threw this entire cast in the garbage.

[00:28:18]Sam, Kate, and male Jordan don't even get a final appearance in this show. Not that, you know, Marie, Emma, and female Gordon female Jordan get like a glorious exit or anything. They're They're just here to say, "Hey, we're here." And goodbye, never see you again, right? Like what a terrible [ __ ] waste of these characters in this cast. None of them get to use their powers.

[00:28:40]I mean, I don't even think they get their names dropped other than Marie.

[00:28:43]Like it is the the disrespectful [ __ ] that I've ever seen. And again, especially considering how powerful Homelander is supposed to be versus how bad they had the nerve him to explain how this incredibly limited roster was able to beat him in the conditions they set up.

[00:29:00]This was so disrespectful. Like as someone who did watch Gen V and as someone who liked Gen V, this was extremely disrespectful. Like this I literally wasted my time watching that show. And so we come to a conundrum, right? If the reason that they wrote this season the way they did and the reason they threw this season under the bus and the reason they canceled Gen V was because they're so much more interested in marketing Vought Rising and The Boys Mexico or whatever, why would I watch either of those series when I know A, that they're willing to nose dive those series as soon as they think they have a better better sequel series planned or a better spin-off planned and B, when I know that they that they are more than willing to cancel those series as soon as they think they're underperforming despite how well they are received.

[00:29:52]Why would I watch either of them?

[00:29:55]And the answer is I'm not going to.

[00:29:57]I am not going to watch Vought Rising and I am not going to watch The Boys Mexico or whatever the [ __ ] else comes out from The Boys universe because they have nose dived their show, they have disrespected their fan base, and they have obliterated my confidence in their writing team and in their own ability to deliver something satisfying, you know, to their fans. And there I I I have no I have no confidence. Like why would I There's I I don't understand this marketing strategy personally.

[00:30:28]And I know that a lot of people will probably still watch those shows, right? I I just understand that the average person has much lower standards than I do. You know, I even I put up a poll earlier today and I said did you think that this was perfect kind of meaning on the Homelander meme, mid, or [ __ ] disappointing meaning on Soldier Boy?

[00:30:52]And I didn't expect anyone to vote that it was perfect or good. I literally had a comment someone saying, "Why didn't you put more options?

[00:30:59]I thought it was good."

[00:31:01]And I responded cuz I I genuinely didn't think anyone would say that, right?

[00:31:06]And I had a similar thing happen with with um when I was talking about Code Geass Rozay of the Rebellion capture because I thought that that was so bad that everyone would universally hate it. And there were people saying, "Oh, I actually liked it."

[00:31:20]And I I just I I still can't understand this. Um the fact that there are people who will watch this and say, "Yeah, I liked it.

[00:31:28]Yeah, I thought it was good. And yes, I am going to watch the sequel series.

[00:31:32]I None of this has offended me. None of this has upset me. I'm still excited for what comes next."

[00:31:38]is exactly the problem. That's That's exactly who Amazon is targeting. They're not targeting me, someone who really cares and really gives a [ __ ] and watched all of this, right, with passion.

[00:31:51]They're targeting that person who doesn't really give a [ __ ] and will just watch whatever comes next if it has a marketable actor. And that person may have also been the person who didn't watch Gen V because I I don't know why.

[00:32:05]I got a lot of comments saying that people didn't watch Gen V.

[00:32:09]And I don't I don't get this either.

[00:32:11]Because if they're a fan of the series, why not watch the spin-offs, right? Are you saying you don't have time?

[00:32:20]A season of TV nowadays takes 8 hours to watch. You're saying you don't have 8 hours to watch between seasons of The series came out yearly.

[00:32:28]If The Boys came out in 2020, Gen V came out in 2021. You're saying you didn't have 8 hours to spare in 2021 to watch Gen V? Or if you did watch it, you were one of the people who said you didn't like it.

[00:32:40]Why didn't you like it? Because as far as in my estimation, and as far as most people's estimation, it had far better writing than the latest seasons of The Boys. It had better writing than seasons 4 and certainly season 5 of The Boys.

[00:32:55]So, why didn't you like Gen V? Why didn't you watch Gen V, right?

[00:33:00]It's this that I don't understand, right? This is This is how we end up here. Because when they put out something good, of high quality, with good writing and good characters, and good plots, and good villains, people don't watch it. And instead, they won't watch it, and they'll complain about it, or they will watch it and they'll complain about it, but their complaints don't make any sense. They'll say it has bad writing.

[00:33:21]They'll say it has bad characters. But none of that holds up to any real critique. And in my opinion, a lot of it is politically motivated. Now, a lot of people will deny this, but a lot of it seems to be politically motivated as far as I can tell.

[00:33:35]And then, when we get back to the main series, suddenly it nose dives, and we're all surprised why. And then Gen V gets canceled because of low viewership, even though that series, you know, had all the good writing. And those characters don't matter. And none of those writers, there's no overlap in the writers, right? So, those writers don't get brought over to this series, and because these writers weren't involved in that series, The Boys writers aren't interested in using any of the characters or plots from Gen V, right? So, there's no synergy here in the brand. Like there's no overlap. It's this complete breakdown of the fan base and of the the goals of the series.

[00:34:13]It's how we got here, right? There's no loyalty from the fans who for I I don't I genuinely don't understand why you would only watch The Boys. Unless you're only interested in you know, oi [ __ ] Karl Urban, or you're only interested in Anthony Starr's Homelander.

[00:34:31]I'm not really sure why you would only watch The Boys and not watch Gen V.

[00:34:35]And if you watch these series and you watch Gen V or you watch Gen V season you watch The Boys season 4 and you thought it's writing had degraded in quality. I'm not sure how you can watch Gen V season 1 or 2 and then think that that series actually has somehow worse writing by comparison. That [ __ ] doesn't make any sense to me.

[00:34:56]But regardless of the whys and the hows, this is where we are today. This is what we've ended up with.

[00:35:03]Gen V has been cancelled. The cast has been thrown in the trash. The writers have been thrown in the trash.

[00:35:10]The Boys has ended with a whimper.

[00:35:13]And Soldier Boy's back on ice until he can get his [ __ ] prequel so Eric Kripke can jerk him off for another who knows how many years.

[00:35:23]Well, >> [laughter] >> I don't know. [clears throat] It was a fun ride while it lasted.

[00:35:31]I guess we'll see what happens next. I don't know.