As a huge fan of the show im glad it’s ending too. Anymore multiple seasons of resetting the power balance would kill any interest.
Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome”
Submitted 1 month ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Looking at you, Grays Anatomy
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I don’t think soap operas are meant to end. General Hospital is on Season 63! GA is just that for another generation.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Damn moreso when you realize they’re all an extension of eachother in spirit. GA rose from the ashes of ER, etc.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
He’s probably been approached by one too many chuds that worship their idea of Homelander and that think he is his character.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
He is apparently an asshole based on his bar fighting and how he treats his costars.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Perfectly casted.
piyuv@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s already ran too long imho. Season 3 amounted to nothing.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 weeks ago
Yep I totally lost interest a while ago it got so repetitive
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I lost interest during season 2 because it was just too on the nose and obvious, which is odd given that the Ennis original (which I love dearly) is about as unsubtle as you can get.
The other issue was I felt like they largely threw the anti-corporation themes out of the window in favour of making it a superhero show.
I loved the first season, but the way it was evolving in the second just didn’t sit well with me.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
if I see one of the boys thrown backwards into a wall by a supe and be perfectly fine after ONE MORE TIME…
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Honestly, it outstayed it’s welcome in the final episode of the first season for me.
I don’t know sense the fuck the producers have against the story, but fucking or off that far was a waste. They could have just made up their own show and not wasted the money getting the title from Ennis, if they were going to fuck with the core motivation of a central character like that.
PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Good luck with that aneurysm lol, hope it clears itself up
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The comics sucked, the show is a big improvement
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Eh, I’m not talking about the quality of the show or comics.
Ennis is pretty well known for having neat ideas and then pissing all over them with hack dialogue and over doing shock scenes. So it wouldn’t be hard at all to improve that kind of stuff. And the show had incredible production value, with vastly improved dialogue overall.
But one of the things that way too many adaptations get wrong is fucking with the characters. Butcher, his whole story is his drive to fuck every super in the ass (metaphorically) because of what happened to his wife.
Then, they undid that entire idea at the end of the first season, but kept trying to make Butcher the same guy, with the same behaviors. That’s a complete failure to make use of the best parts of what Ennis wrote. The characters, and the core ideas, that’s what Ennis is good at.
They had already kinda shifted Huey a good bit via making him american, but they kept his motivation, the core of him. Then they just said “fuck it” and basically mangled Butcher’s entire arc.
Like, why bother paying for the rights if you’re not going to use the good parts of it?
Same thing happened with Preacher. They dumped a ton of money and time into making a slick, well crafted show, but completely undid the characters motivations and personalities in a single scene.
Ennis may be a hack, but fuck, just do something original if you aren’t going to really adapt what matters most.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lemmy is unusually respectful of differing opinions
Are we talking about the same lemmy?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah. On average, I usually run into a lot less snark and douchebaggery over differing opinions. When it does pop up it’s usually over hot button issues where you expect heated responses.
Tbh, even the initial few bad responses here weren’t as bad as what I’d see on reddit, but it was just really shocking, especially over a tv show.
I’m used to having disagreements be respectful and thoughtful most of the time, and not just be dismissive. Not that it’s always like that, I’m guilty of going too far on some things myself. I just have way more disagreements end with a friendly note.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s ok to not like a tv show. You don’t have to explain yourself to anybody.
dukepontus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Its ok not to agree with a comment, you dont have to share your opinion.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, last season wasn’t great. Hopefully it’ll end strong.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It wont. It’s like squeezing an orange, the first few seasons got all the $juice$ now they’re wringing a dry husk with tired writers. May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.
That would actually be awesome!
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Agreed entirely. A show should last only as long as it takes to tell its story. 2-3 seasons is fine.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
limited one season shows
That’s called a “mini series”. :)
And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.
I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife’s half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.
rishado@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Idk if the new Shogun is a miniseries. I believe they confirmed a season 2 & 3 (unfortunately).
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“I dont want to play the Facist supersoldier anymore.”
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
… play?
Delphia@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Im quite sure he doesnt have eye lasers.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Homelander kills the shows version of “Trump”, then takes complete power. As his first act as president he puts tariffs on the world.
DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I thought that Homelander was the version of trump ?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think you’re right, but this would definitely seal the message. MAGA still doesn’t get the satire.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Yeah, don’t want a supernatural situation going on.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I mean Sam and Dean could have gone on for another 10 years and I wouldn’t have complained.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
looking at supernatural, kripkes other creation. when the 2 new showrunners took over, it became nothing more than fan/slashfiction for fans who becames extremely obsessed with the characthers.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I always say a show should only run 5 seasons at most, and if it’s very popular to just do the occasional mini series.
coaxil@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Except sg1 right? :)
Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
SG1 only ran 5 seasons, season 3 through season 7. Nothing else was real. Just a bad dream.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Six seasons and a movie
LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Fucking Homelander.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
All for it. I rarely find a show beyond sitcom type comedies that isn’t dissapointing by season 4. 3 seasons of a good show keeps me simultaneously wanting more but also secretly glad that that’s how I’m left feeling. Feel the same way with a really good course at a restaurant.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I wish severence would have ended at season 2, exactly the way it did. I’m bracing for dissapointment.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I love the first two seasons of Severance, but even if the third will be bad, it won’t affect my feelings towards the first two.
Unless it’s GoT season 8 levels of bad, but that’s probably not possible.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
You say that, but sometimes a continuation is so bad that it like goes back in time and somehow taints your memories.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Or Ted Lasso at season 3. Ugh
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Why? I feel like people are looking for reasons to be disappointed with that show. It’s bizarre.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Because every popular show gets milked to death and executives start interjecting stupid ideas and ruin it. They already had a filler episode in season 2.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean, the whole point of the show is a critique on fascism.
It’s definitely already outstayed its welcome in the USA.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 month ago