Board 8 > The Boys Season 2 started today. (Amazon Prime Video)

(+) Yeah! (+)

watch this fucking show

Ep 1 was good but Im not sure how we got here from the end of S1. Hopefully it gets explained.

I read the comics over the summer.

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I cannot wait for more horrific Black Noir moments.

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Great way to start, hard not to end this batch wanting Stormfront to die the most painful death possible. And now, we have to wait every Friday for new ones.

[controversial opinion]Prime Video does such a great job with this show and Mrs. Maisel that it only makes me angrier at how much attention that worthless, unfunny drivel Fleabag gets.

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First two episodes were pretty good.

The third is the best episode of the show so far. Fantastic, terrifying stuff.

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I love how they were making Stormfront appear kinda sympathetic or at least not a stuck up piece of garbage like the rest of them, but then you get to ep 3 and your like oh hell no, this human trash better get what's coming to her by the end!

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i know nothing about this show other than what is explained in the Michael reeves video

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Waluigi1 posted...

I love how they were making Stormfront appear kinda sympathetic or at least not a stuck up piece of garbage like the rest of them, but then you get to ep 3 and your like oh hell no, this human trash better get what's coming to her by the end!

The moment her name was given as Stormfront my eyebrow raised. It's a name that makes a statement in this day and age.

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Not_an_Owl posted...

The moment her name was given as Stormfront my eyebrow raised. It's a name that makes a statement in this day and age.

I don't think I get the reference?

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Waluigi1 posted...

I don't think I get the reference?

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/ [THERE IS A SPACE HERE] extremist-files/group/stormfront

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Oh wow wtf ew. Kinda surprised I've never even heard of it though.

Is linking that site against the ToS or something? <_<

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GameFAQs said the link was too long.

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Going back to episode 3, was anyone else practically yelling at their TV about Kimiko's brother? Like before he got killed had had TONS of opportunities to use his fucking telekinetic powers before running right up to Stormfront like a fucking dumbass. That bothered me severely. Also the fact that his power was tied to his hands was ridiculously stupid, but that one is a personal thing that I won't hold against the show.

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Watched the first two eps. The Starlight/ATrain stuff feels a little undercooked but I'm still loving everything so far.

the shit with the blind dude i saw coming but it still caught me off guard

Damn episode 3, that whale death was so sickening, and then somehow everything Stormfront managed to top it ten times worse.

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I knew this was on the way since Honest Trailers did a vid on the first season just a few days back reminding me the show was a thing, and if the second season's as bingeable as the first one was then I'll be plenty happy.

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holy fuck episode 3 is relentless

SovietOmega posted...

I knew this was on the way since Honest Trailers did a vid on the first season just a few days back reminding me the show was a thing, and if the second season's as bingeable as the first one was then I'll be plenty happy.

Unfortunately it's being released weekly for some reason.

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I haven't read the comics but I'm loving it so far. The character development is excellent, especially what they are doing with the supes to humanize them. Which makes me very wary of where they are going with Butcher because he seems to be the one who has exhibited the most villainous tendencies without really showing much in the terms of redemption. I am not convinced he actually gives a shit about any of his friends and just sees them as a means to an end. I'm also not sure he will actually be satisfied if he accomplishes his goal. Or maybe he just gets everyone killed along the way, I guess that's very feasible.

I also want to know more about Black Noir. He seems highly competent but they have given us very little on him so far. It's very suspicious and sure he could just be the classic cool shadowy character but with as character driven as the story is, I think there's gotta be a reveal there.

Butcher is probably my favorite character so far. The missus really enjoys Homelander.

I'm guessing if I read the comics I'll very quickly catch up with the show?

Yeah their treatment of Black Noir is suspect to me.

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ShatteredElysium posted...

I haven't read the comics but I'm loving it so far. The character development is excellent, especially what they are doing with the supes to humanize them. Which makes me very wary of where they are going with Butcher because he seems to be the one who has exhibited the most villainous tendencies without really showing much in the terms of redemption. I am not convinced he actually gives a shit about any of his friends and just sees them as a means to an end. I'm also not sure he will actually be satisfied if he accomplishes his goal. Or maybe he just gets everyone killed along the way, I guess that's very feasible.

I also want to know more about Black Noir. He seems highly competent but they have given us very little on him so far. It's very suspicious and sure he could just be the classic cool shadowy character but with as character driven as the story is, I think there's gotta be a reveal there.

Butcher is probably my favorite character so far. The missus really enjoys Homelander.

I'm guessing if I read the comics I'll very quickly catch up with the show?

I haven't read the comics but my understanding is the show is a radical departure from the source material in a lot of ways, generally for the better.

Waluigi1 posted...

Oh wow wtf ew. Kinda surprised I've never even heard of it though.

Is linking that site against the ToS or something? <_<

Stormfront in the comics was a straight up Nazi

From what I know, the graphic novel is as different from the show as possible

I know the gn plot and at this point its a 5% chance the show follows it

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The graphic novel goes way too intense and heavy handed into everything and it's quite honestly pretty gross. Standard Garth Ennis fare where every adaptation that takes the shitty parts of his writing out is better than the original.

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I've read the entire series and I don't see how this is any more different from its source material than pretty much every comic-to-TV adaptation.

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The comics and show are different enough that I think you wouldn't really spoil yourself on the show if you read the comics, I would think.

I think the comics do some things better, the show does other things better. The last 20% of the comics I thought were really good and I don't really see how the show can top it... but it's going in a different direction in general so we'll see.

The show's casting is spot on.

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Short film featuring what Butcher did after the parking lot:
https://twitter.com/TheBoysTV/status/1304076665274859522

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that scene in episode 4

oof

oof

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which one

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

which one

the flashback

Marathon'd this over 2 days.

I really like it but I think they could do with a little less focus on Homelander.

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To be fair, they did already expand the roles of the secondary supers over the comic.

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Up

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So I'm now legit curious what level of superpowers Stormfront has.

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she's the OG right? which i guess in this universe makes her the strongest

Like her straight up taking Homelander's eye-lasers for such a long ass time, I gotta assume she's secretly the most powerful.

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So when do new episodes release?

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Exactly at midnight.

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That was literally the best episode they've ever done.

Fucking brilliant start to finish.

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Ok yeah that was a great episode. Wow

Also I loved how in middle of all this character development we get MM choked by a giant dick.

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i just love that iceman is fireman

It was a great episode, I'm just starting to worry that this is not going to tie things up very well, if at all. I'd rather them push some of these plotlines into S3 (the cult definitely will), but a Stormfront/Homelander nazi takeover while also trying to make more supes sounds like a whole lot to come to a conclusion by the end of this season. Unless they take the kind of easy way out and just have Homelander say "you know what, fuck your idea of white supremacy. Supe supremacy!" which is where I feel like this is going.

really great episode and I don't want to be negative, but definitely starting to think this entire season is just plot setup for S3 >_>

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does this become the boys and the seven vs. homelander/stromfront/supe army

and then homelander turns and becomes an ally of the boys

There's no chance in hell Homelander and Butcher ever team up.

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TheRock1525 posted...

There's no chance in hell Homelander and Butcher ever team up.

but that's the appeal

The only ending is Butcher uses Ryan's laser eyes to kill Homelander.

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Idk how much this follows the comics, and I only have a cursory knowledge of them anyway, but isn't Black Noir just a clone of Homelander? Unless that's changed, that's who I expect to kill Homelander. Maybe even by season's end as a "shocking cliffhanger".

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wait

the collective must have amassed some sort of mini army of supes too