Heroes in the REAL world.

Just saw the first episode, WOW!

I can see many old school types really hating this one simply because it decimates the Super Hero ethos but I really liked it.

A card set would be awesome!

The series is tame considering the source material. The Boys was originally published by DC under the Wildstorm banner. After the first arc they allowed Garth Ennis to shop around the series to whoever wanted it. Dynamite picked it up. The series was Garth Ennis's attempt to deconstruct the super hero story. "If superheroes were real, do you really think they would be nice people or something far worse?"

The show and the series do stray from each other. I am not sure how they could even pull off some of the stories from the comics such as the "herograsm" story arc. Overall, I was surprise by how good the actor playing Homelander was(you really are not suppose to like him but he was my favorite on the show). He and Annie are the best two on the show followed by Butcher.

^^^ Accurate ^^^

Wee Hughie is played by the son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid but he looks like a young Bill Hader,

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Originally posted by barobehere:
Overall, I was surprise by how good the actor playing Homelander was(you really are not suppose to like him but he was my favorite on the show). He and Annie are the best two on the show followed by Butcher.

He played the lead in a show called Banshee that was on Showtime (i believe)

If you have not seen it, I totally recommend it.

I have been out of the comic scene for some time now but I have heard of the large differences between it and the show from others as well.

As a casual viewer I really like how the show is laid out. Seems to work well.

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Originally posted by mykdude:

I have been out of the comic scene for some time now but I have heard of the large differences between it and the show from others as well.

As a casual viewer I really like how the show is laid out. Seems to work well.

When they announced they were doing the show, I was kinda baffled as to how they were going to do it without an 'X' rating.

I am going off on an tanget but The Boys started when I owned a comic book store. A lot of people were reading it. A customer I had used his name instead of pronouns: Jimmy Cain is here. Jimmy Cain going to the grocery store.

Jimmy Cain came running into the store one day and said, "Jimmy Cain can't read the boys no more. Jimmy Cain's son, Mojo,(yes, the boy's was named Mojo because Mojo Cain sounds like a great wrestling name according to his dad---can this story get any weirder) got caught reading The Boys. Jimmy Cain in trouble (by his wife who caught Mojo reading an issue of The Boys)!"

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Originally posted by barobehere:

I am going off on an tanget but The Boys started when I owned a comic book store. A lot of people were reading it. A customer I had used his name instead of pronouns: Jimmy Cain is here. Jimmy Cain going to the grocery store.
Jimmy Cain came running into the store one day and said, "Jimmy Cain can't read the boys no more. Jimmy Cain's son (Mojo- yes, the boy was named Mojo because Mojo Cain sounds like a great wrestling name---can this story get any weirder) got caught reading The Boys. Jimmy Cain in trouble (by his wife reading the issue)!"

That's hilarious! I might try and find some digital issues if there are any.

Wonder how many people are going to run to the comic because of the show going from R to X?

Dynamite (the comic publisher) just announced that they have sold 4.5 millions dollars in sales of THE BOYS Omnibus since the series debut.

I didn't want to open a new thread to ask how viewers of "The Boys" liked the final wrap up after 5 seasons? I only caught 2 episodes over all that time, so have no opinion myself. I have sworn off shows with multi seasonal storylines because I follow the pattern of almost always loving the beginning year, slogging through the middle, and hating the ending. Never to watch any of it again.

I did like the autograph cards from UD Skybox, which were just on Seasons 1 & 2. The boxes skipped hits and cost too much for my minor interest, so I stayed away from them, but individual cards were decent. I wonder if UD will make another series to cover the rest, or just leave the cards hanging? Any thoughts?

I generally can't stomach the idea of giving Jeff Bezos money ever, but I'm going to buy something cheap from Amazon tonight to get the free week of Amazon Prime so I can see the final season. (I will cancel just before the free trial ends and they charge for the first month. It's how I've seen the most recent couple of seasons.)

The series has been pretty good up 'til now, and those Upper Deck cards were nice, with a pretty comprehensive list of autographers.

If Dynamite had already sold 4.5 million in The Boys comic book omnibuses back in 2019 when the show was new, they must've brought in multiples of that in the 6.5 years since Barobehere's post above.

I'm still working to get through Season 5. I really liked the show for the first few seasons, but it just seems they try to get grosser and viler as they go. There is a scene in season four of a guy who creates copies of himself and then they show them graphically doing extreme stuff to each other. That was the beginning of the end for me. The dialogue some of the characters use is vile for the sake of being vile and is things NO ONE ever says. I'm not a prude at all, I just get annoyed with gratuity for the sake of offending and having no other purpose to the story. It has become a groaner of a show I'm finishing out of spite. Though I still like the character of Butcher.

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I really liked the show for the first few seasons, but it just seems they try to get grosser and viler as they go.

It seems to happen to almost all of them. Whatever the nature of the show, every successive season has to up the ante on the one before. You get to a point, usually around year 3, when characters start to do things just to move the plot in a more extreme direction. If the show began at a high shock level already, it just goes off the rails in sex, blood and gore, whichever applies.

And then there is the final season, that never seems to know how to end without making most everyone feel like they wasted their time watching this stupidity for years.

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Originally posted by Raven:

It seems to happen to almost all of them. Whatever the nature of the show, every successive season has to up the ante on the one before. You get to a point, usually around year 3, when characters start to do things just to move the plot in a more extreme direction. If the show began at a high shock level already, it just goes off the rails in sex, blood and gore, whichever applies.

I thought Game of Thrones went a bit the other way as it progressed. More with the sex scenes is what seemed to get toned down. Or maybe I just learned to ignore it.

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Originally posted by pcetodd:
I'm still working to get through Season 5. I really liked the show for the first few seasons, but it just seems they try to get grosser and viler as they go. There is a scene in season four of a guy who creates copies of himself and then they show them graphically doing extreme stuff to each other. That was the beginning of the end for me. The dialogue some of the characters use is vile for the sake of being vile and is things NO ONE ever says. I'm not a prude at all, I just get annoyed with gratuity for the sake of offending and having no other purpose to the story. It has become a groaner of a show I'm finishing out of spite. Though I still like the character of Butcher.

Haha, do NOT read the comic book it's based on.
It's worse.

I can handle anything. But if I want to watch something where a guy runs a train on himself using his multiple selves, I'll go into the curtained off room in the video store and get something. Theres plenty of shocking sexual deviancy you can see anytime you need to now. I don't want it in my shows to watch with the wife.

The problem of unexpected scenes is something I've been noticing more and more in entertainment, but it can be especoially awkward when you are at the movies. Its as though the films or TV shows have to tick off certain boxes regardless of the story.

I agree that you have to know what you are getting into. With "The Boys", there is the source material and its graphic nature is only going to look worse when it goes from a drawing to a live action show. This is why so many of Disney's classic cartoons don't translate well when turned into these live action remakes. Somethings look dumber or they look crueler when rendered in reality than they did in the animated versions.

But more and more recent entertainment seems to produce unexpected scenes out of thin air and they have nothing to do with the story. Maybe its for shock value, maybe its to get some press, maybe its to look like they are endorsing a cause. All of a sudden you are sitting next to a casual friend, or a neighbor, or your neighbor's kid and you are watching raunchy sex or a violent attack and you don't know how this is a PG comedy.

Now I'm not against raunchy sex or beheadings in action movies necessarily, I just don't want to be sitting next to a 10 year old when it happens. Her mother may complain. If I didn't go expecting to see it, I don't want to see it at that time.

My point is, they are adding cringy scenes in normal entertainment where they don't belong, for reasons I don't understand. Some of it is to promote a message that isn't asked for, but some of it is just embarrasing and gross out worthy. They can do so much more with imagination and innuendo, but would rather shove it down someone's throat when they weren't looking. That is what makes people mad and turns them away for the next time.