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Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” (www.nme.com)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why? I feel like people are looking for reasons to be disappointed with that show. It's bizarre.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's not a filler episode just because it doesn't include the main characters. The episode where Cobel goes home provided a shit ton of context and back story. For example, ether mines? Everyone in the town huffing ether and in some bizarre capitalist cult that used child labor? The fuck? That just made me want to know more about all of that shit.

How/why is that filler? Unless I'm wrong about which episode you're referring to, which I doubt.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It was five minutes worth of content stretched into 45 minutes. It was boring af. We learned that she designed something, but other than that, we didn't really get anything out of it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

So you know where the series is going then? Because that would be the only way to know that nothing else in that episode will be relevant.

This is why American media is going down the toilet. You can't have a single episode dedicated to providing context and character building without chuds whining about it being "boring." Grow up.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Watching someone take a nap and breathe heavily and directly into their microphone in a soap opera style episode is not good.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Maybe try putting your phone away and watching it again.

Perhaps it's just because I was paying attention to the dialogue, and I know what ether is, but I thought the episode was just fine. I wouldn't submit it for an Emmy or anything, but episodes like this can end up being really important to understanding the plot of a show.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Sorry, I agree with /u/GrumpyDuckling here. The pacing of S02E08 didn't work at all, and what we learned didn't actually seem especially interesting. It also seems shoehorned in as she didn't give the vibes of being that at all in Season 1.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

It does have the lowest ratimg on imdb. A lot of people are sayimg the same things as I am. I did watch it on my phone because the audio on my tv setup was too hard to hear. I used good wired headphones.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

It could be condensed way down and intertwined into the episodes before and after it. It was extremely dry.