Spoilers Surprisingly they didn't try to subvert expectations. Butcher kills Homelander, and Hughie kills Butcher. The show was always structured for that result and I'm surprised Kripke didn't try to pull some "Game of Thrones"-esque Arya kills the Night King. It was a very fast episode with no fat at all. I stopped watching after season 3 but wanted to see how bad the ending was. It was the most straightforward episode of the entire series.
It still got in it's usual Anti-Christian shit that Kripke loves. It wasn't a bad episode but it wasn't anything special. It was very meh, and I don't think you want your finale to be meh.
I never watched the show, seemed like subversive bullshit from edgy adults trying to make kids story’s dark and gritty and real. Which attracts woke fags more than anything but butt sex.
Ironically though, if you know the original comic, the show might be better.
I know they at least did Soldier boy better in the show than the comic...
That will probably be the next long term fans debacle.
Kind of like The Watchmen movie versus comic or Star Wars OT and the PT folk unionising over the ST.
All part of the show I guess.
I didn't read the comics but I have heard about the ending. To it's credit the show did setup the ending from the beginning and it followed through. I kept waiting for the subversion, it never came
Pointlesshub did a good summary of the comic compared to the show and while we can be bored by the Trump analogies of the show, the comic was edge for edge sake like having a version of X-men leader that was a pdf...
The entire G men roster were paedophiles, and also victims since it was a ritual cycle of initiation with new kids joining the group.
Until Stillwell simply shot the shit out of all of them and dropped the last group of kids into the ocean while they were trapped in a shipping container.
.......the fuck....
It just sounds bad.
The show felt like that as well. And it would tell you it's doing it. Like using the slogan "girls get it done," and have a fight scene between the female heroes with a character saying, "wow girls really do get it done."
That season was bad and it was the last straw for me. I could stomach the cringe because i was watching it with frens but this was too much. Of course since then it only got worse and my standards have only gotten better.
I had never read the original comics. All I knew about this series was that it was supposed to be a much less heroic version of superheroes. I watched season 1, thought it was okay. Watched season 2, and thought it was more bait and switch propaganda, with lots of annoying feminist garbage.
I actually enjoy the premise. I just do not enjoy its execution. Its budget means you have nothing but talking, and no one that matters, ever dies. In a universe where people can fly and punch through buildings. It's asinine.
Its ending is sure predictable too.
I feel like anyone that watches that slop is confirmed subhuman.
It's been a few years, but I'm pretty sure that's how the comic ended, IIRC. It was pretty much telegraphed from the day they met/Hughie was recruited.
I didn't read the comics but I watched video essays about the comic and Homelander is killed by his clone/Black Noir in the comics. Maybe Butcher kills the clone and Hughie kills Butcher after?
Yeah, the story was always setup Butcher would kill Homelander and Hughie would kill Butcher. It's interesting that for all the bluster of Kripke and his leftist sensibilities he wrote a pretty straightforward story with the promised payout without the modern day subversion the left loves so much
In the comics Noir kills HL after the clone reveal, which also then plays into Butcher killing Noir as it means Noir was the one who raped his wife and spawned thensupe baby Butcher killed with a bedside lamp. However Butcher then kills the entire team bar Hughie, with Hughie finally killing Butcher in the comic. Starlight survives but the rest of the Seven are all dead now due to various reasons. HL kills Maeve, Hughie kills A Train, the CIA missile the shit out of various super including Oh Father who was a literal child rapist in the comic.