‘The Boys’ Creator Eric Kripke Fires Back at Fans Who Complain the Final Season Has Too Many ‘Filler Episodes’: ‘Are You Expecting a Huge Battle Scene Every Episode?’
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‘The Boys’ Creator Eric Kripke Fires Back at Fans Who Complain the Final Season Has Too Many ‘Filler Episodes’: ‘Are You Expecting a Huge Battle Scene Every Episode?’
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Yes
We want actual story progression!
It’s giving me HOTD season 2 vibes. One big edge fest
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I’ve kinda checked out of this season because it’s been so boring overall.
The core of the comics, and what ultimately separated it from Preacher was the fact that the ‘filler’ was always relevant somehow.
As edgy as they are, Ennis had an eye for detail, and unlike the TV show there was never an issue you could just skip without missing *something* important
this whole season felt like the soldier boy show, lol. i hate when they do spin-offs and then make the original show have a whole season setting it up. it sucks especially since this is the last season of the boys.
This is why I’m waiting for the season to end before watching.
I don’t mind more personal stories in fantasy shows rather than huge battle scenes every episode, but ideally they’d be better written and advance the overall plot and character arcs, which have unfortunately been missing from this season so far.
It hasn’t really felt like it’s cohesively building to anything, it’s been side quests, callbacks and relying waaaay too much on Soldier Boy’s backstory and him suddenly changing his mind about things.
Hopefully the last 2 episodes go balls to the wall after the end of the latest one.
I’ve kinda checked out as well because the season is moving a bit too slow, and they writing isn’t as clever as past seasons. But I usually find final seasons of any show disappointing.
The boys ended in season 2
I never understand why show creators respond this way to their own fanbase. Learn to take feedback and be kind. He sounds unnecessarily bitter.
The writing on this show is horribly stunted and immature. Which would not be that big a deal except they try to keep having heartfelt moments and their awful, immature dialogue destroys it every time.
That and the motivations of the characters no longer make a lick of sense.
yeah, kinda.
Kripke is so soft
Some real Seymour Skinner energy.. kids being wrong, all that.
Dude basically helped oversee the destruction of the shows entire legacy in order to push that Jensen Ackles nonsense.. and it’s so obvious that even the dimmest bulbs are picking up on it.
Well yeah. You were the one that said every episode of this season is gonna feel like the finale of a previous season, and all those motherfuckers had smackdowns. That kind of leads people to believe there’s gonna be a lot of battles action going on instead of y’all just jerking your dicks.
I kind of wanted the superhero killing team to actually kill a superhero more than once at the beginning of the show.
The second half of the season is nothing more than a backseat pilot for “ Vought Rising” its clear as day. Besides that, they have no idea what they’re doing with their character’s progression. A-Train is the only person who’s story had somewhat of a satisfying ending
I’m just mad about the episode that they spent to go through several perspectives. It was such a waste of an episode. I don’t expect action in every episode, but I expect the storylines to be interesting. Also the writing has sucked this season.
But, I didn’t have super high expectations as so many tv shows struggle with ending their series.
It’s a three seasons tv show stretched to five seasons for profit.
that’s a bullshit response
in the most recent episode there was a long awaited fight between 2 members of the 7 and it was just so underwhelming for a fight between 2 people with superpowers
Someone who thinks that the opposite of a filler episode is a big battle episode really should not be writing a show.
The Boys would’ve been torn apart by Television Without Pity if it were still around. The show’s quality clearly dipped after Season 2, and everything since probably could’ve been condensed into a single tight 10-episode season.
They dragged out the virus storyline through all of Season 4 only for it to lead nowhere, and now they’ve done the same thing with the V1 storyline up to the latest episode. Sister Sage also comes off as the biggest bullshitter ever which says a lot about the writing of “the smartest character”.
Final seasons of a show and focussing on irrelevant characters or characters leading an upcoming spin-off are the absolute bane of my existence. We spent several years watching a specific bunch of characters and their journey and want to see how it ends in a progressive buildup. Yet we waste hours on other storylines that when the actual characters you want to see come on screen we have a few minutes with them and their story is ended in hasty fashion because the pacing is all off.
Fans are always mad
The man took three episodes of actual plot and stuffed the rest with prequel set up.