Final frame of the episode is what Truly scary superhero fiction should look like, if Super Heroes truly existed, there is no doubt the darker parts of our life would get even darker.
And that has been a common complaint with a lot of Superhero media isn't it, that it is too hopeful, doesn't really focus on the Darker aspects of the whole thing.
This episode of the Boys really got me, especially the scene where Ryan is looking at the camera and giving a speech to the whole world about what he truly feels and not regurgitating what has been scripted for him by some talentless hack just to get the numbers up.
Like a lot of my articles this time over, I don't have much to say this time around as a lot of it is just build up.
Like Homelander paralleling Trump is apparent more than ever as he fires Sage, paralleling of course how Trumps entire team fell apart due to his ego.
Hughie goes to Vicky to convince her to not move against the president, trying to appeal to her conscience but the main thing this episode reminded me of was the superhero shows of old.
Especially the part where the shape shifter flashes her eyes to clue us into the fact that it is her, I say her of course because all the characters we have seen her transform into are women, and the eye flash reminds me of Mystique, I mean obviously.
The entire Ryan talking to the T.V. and giving a speech about the truth, while paralleling the whole Homelander speaking out scene, it also is reminiscent of the Super hero shows of whole with the whole end of the world speech.
And it seems weird at first to call the Super hero satire a good super hero show, but the thing is it works because you aren't expecting it, you know its not a trope, nowadays when you see a speech like the one Ryan gives in a super hero show, you feel it being very tropey but when you off set it with all the things happening here, you reintroduce the contrast necessary for the impact.
In the last episode's article, I forgot to mention a maskless Noir and the bromance between Noir and the Deep, but that comes back this time, and also Noir can fly.
Everyone in this episode gets an out, M.M., A-Train, Ashley, but they all choose to fight anyway, and it seems this has actually become a good superhero show and I am here for it.
Also it seemed the maybe Butcher won't go in the direction of the comics, but it seems that the sentient Tumor inside him will take control anyway, Venom Much?
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