Spoilers The Boys Season 1 - Amazon Prime Superhero Series Starring Karl Urban and Elizabeth Shue

We've got another new clip, set right after the first one with the whale.
This is probably unnecessary, since I doubt anybody who is easily offended is going to in this thread, but I still want to warn that there are two or three fucks in the clip.

 

Jensen Ackles will be joining the cast of Season 3 as Soldier Boy, who the articles says is the first superhero in the Boy's world. Ackles previously starred as Dean Winchester in Supernatural, which was created by The Boys creator Eric Kripke.

 

During this COVID lockdown I rewatched all of Smallville and was blown away by him. It's been so long I'd forgotten about his arc, but he did a great job with it.

 

I'm wondering if that's a casting gag, since Ackles was one of the actors who was in the running for the MCU Captain America role.

 

I have a feeling it's probably more to do with the fact that Ackles and Kripke worked together on Supernatural for the first several seasons.

 

So season 2 has begun. Should we continue the discussion here or start a new thread?

 

I hate that they're doing the weekly drop thing.

 

I don't. I like not having to watch 8 hours worth of stuff in one go. Gives me a headache.

 

Oh ye of little self control, I bid thee goeth for a bike ride betwixt episodes.

 

I created a season 2 thread just for you. Was gonna credit you with the idea, but I'm not sure how to link user names on here.

 

Having enjoyed season one I tried the comic.

Mistake. I'll stick with the adaptation.

 

Haven't read the comic, but from what I've read about it, I think the series has probably toned some things down for the better. Often when I hear about adaptations watering down the source it's not a good thing but I think here that it might make the material a bit more palatable.

 

I haven't read the comic either, but I'm enjoying the story and really have no problems with the plot or presentation. Taking as is, it fulfills my needs for a show. Whether I think it's "great" needs another season at least, but I'm certainly watching.

 

This is so very true. I'm not at all a fan of the comic, though I've read almost all of it. (One of my buddies is a HUGE fan, so I borrow them from him.) The show has to reorganize, tone back, and spend more time justifying the comic's rather extensive excesses, and it's the better for it.

It's rare that I think an adaptation exceeds the original work, but being forced to be more economical with where they go and how they get there has definitely improved this series. It blows the source out of the water so completely it isn't even really a fair comparison.

 

The artwork in the comic is terrible, a lot of the Supers are utterly 1-Dimensional, Hughie looks like a drug addict 50% of the time, the plots in the series are utterly moronic like "Herogasm", etc.

The series is overall far superior.

 

All of Smallville?
You know It's ten seasons right
What do you think of the show?

I loved the show when It aired, I wish I had the time to rewatch it

 

Yeah, I watched all ten seasons.
I enjoyed it much more, reason being during the original broadcast it felt like so many things were dragging out and it was often one step forward, two steps back. Streaming several episodes a day I could see the plots advancing at a fast pace and it was all more coherent.
With Jensen Ackle's arc, he showed a real range of acting, from funny to romantic to manipulative to dangerous. He did a great job on that show, and it really came out watching so many episodes back-to-back. I finally get what the writers were doing with the show. I think for them, they had all the scripts in front of them and saw it as one story, while for us at the time, sometimes waiting weeks for an episode, the story lines and character sub-plots never seemed to resolve.
It was painful at times watching Alison Mack, given how she's ended up.
"And now, the season premiere of Smallville" sent shivers down my spine every season, the show did the best job ever on these. The season two premiere remains one of my all time favourite tv episodes.

 

I'm glad I'm not alone in preferring the show to the comic.

The comic tries so hard to be "uncensored" it comes over as somewhat ...pathetic. And as said earlier, the art is horrible.

The show is better all around. It's not a 14 year old's idea of what gritty and adult is...

 

I liked the comics, but really, there you can't really understand why heroes are so popular. There are virtually no super villains, heroes don't really fight common criminals and don't help common people (the few times they do it is a disaster). Every single hero (except Starlight) is corrupt and borderline criminal. People unconditionally believe the heroes' "adventures" told in comics as they are the real thing and absolutely NO ONE questions it. The only people in the world who know the truth are the titular Boys. It's maddening. At least the tv show makes sense showing why people love superheroes and some of them aren't so morally bankrupt.

 

This show is too awesome. Highlander is such A scary individual. A true sociopath. Stormfront is a well. She just murdered all those people for no reason. She could actually be worse.
I like that it’s weekly now. Makes it feel like a true tv show.