‘The Boys’ Eric Kripke on Writing to Actor's Strengths and Ignoring the Trolls | Showrunners Sitdown 

karl urban is amazing!!!

Yes! So true. Love Karl

He's been been in more than a few MOVIES, not series.

Too typecast, though. Not always of his choosing. Here he gets to be big and tough and stupidly funny and sensitive. it's usually either or.

literally insane 😭

the way majority of the fandom are stigma male teenager boys 😭😭😭

@@mmmmnhhh 'stigma' 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Stormfront did this

​@@mmmmnhhhLigma

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And judging by the trailer we‘ll see Cate and Sam this season as well. It’s probably going to be a little confusing if you don’t have any context from Gen V

@@illogical001 fr. in the end of the day, watching GEN V felt more complete to THE BOYS universe. It's like watching BETTER CALL SAUL after BREAKING BAD.

Disney could've benefited from his advice with their star wars universe. No causal or new fan is watching 10 seasons of cartoons to understand an 8 episode series.

even if he said that, it seems dubious now, cause you kinda have to if you care about to know what is going on

Insane shit is one way of putting this guy's ideas...

ikr? even in season 1 they made fun of Christian rallies and them saying being gay is a sin

those who lack media literacy and thinks the show is laughing with them, not at them.

I dont think a single person believed it was a right wing show, alot of people just believed it was more profound than liberal talking points. The right wing jokes and dissection of the flaws in right wing views were great but it never felt forced and were kept very lighthearted and actually funny. Not to mention it never took the place of the actual plot of the show, being sure not to overshadow the character's motives and conflicts along with the actual corruption of these celebrity type superheroes. Season 4 threw that out the window with sterotypical insults about the right's views, never once acknowledging any of the countless problems the left also has while actively taking up screentime for a near neverending joke about republician media. Meanwhile liberals are the attacked and are righteous protestors and activist. A better writer and a generally more intelligent person would have just taken a more neutral stance, both of these viewpoints are literal extremes when put in their entirety and allying yourself with an extreme is never good because your subject to the flaws of said extreme. Plus people exist on both sides of the spectrum for a reason, both sides are fairly complex and are deserving of some level of acknowledgement and understanding. Basically this dude is just another liberal leading to boring and unintelligent writing, its like if a christian made a movie glamorizing christianity without acknowledging any of its many wrongdoings while making fun of every other religion.

@@xxrieanrinei4922they’ve been throwing stereotypical jokes at everyone like come on… blm burger… black at it. They’ve never stopped making fun of the left u just find more issues with the corporate left than the literal right

@@NONAM.E00 "corporate left", Blm burger insults an already widely disliked movement and the corporate world not leftist views, that's the difference. Every right wing joke is a mockery of the right's principles, the show is politically skewed and basied. The showrunner basically admitted to this himself when he said his views are directly put into his work.

only right wing ideology? and not evil superhero celebs spewing left wing ideology?

@@austincha8006don't you know that you have to be right winged to have power, duh! That's why msnbc and cnn are so right wing. And why Joe Biden is using his right wingedness to cause inflation. And also why Disney uses their right wing power to force an agenda in every facet of their media. God politics suck. If only people would think for a moment without labeling each thought a color.

Did you miss Stormfront whole ark in season 3, or did it completely fly over your head? ​@@austincha8006

​@@austincha8006 We mainly see fake left from the evil or corrupt, like Vought pretending to care about race and diversity, Neuman pretending to actually give a shit about the left she's representing politically etc.

​@austincha8006 what? Anti gun hero??? Pro abortion hero??? Pls explain

I totally agree! I wish people would leave Erin alone. I’m glad she has learned to ignore those comments, but they should’ve never been there in the first place. She deserves better.

@@breebiebreeb she definitely deserves better.

@@Zeru68 a better surgeon maybe

@Trump4prez-ho9cb not even. We've seen them cast different people to play the Joker in live action and learned that not just anyone could play him. Jared Leto was terrible.

​@@saberhap2639 cringe

CW ruined Supernatural by making it go 10 extra years and destroying the lore and characters. They betrayed Kripke on that one cause he felt out said 5 years was his only version of the Supernatural story and season 5 is the true ending.

@@2Good2BeTrue45the first 5 seasons >>

Eric Kripke is a national treasure, please protect this amazing human being at all cost. He had my admiration with Supernatural (seasons before the leviathan story arc) and now with The Boys and Gen V. Marvel may need his level of writing brilliance to fix what they broke in the MCU.

@@joesephovide2942 is this satire?

This is due to media literacy issues and ability to deeply interpret a story played out in front of them, to derive what these stories actually mean and how that can inform how one goes out into and behaves in the world. Stories are more important than we think

They are cool and interesting and complex and I would also say compelling in ways your more purely ethical type of characters can be because they actually represent true human nature were as heroes tend to represent a fantasy or wish for what we want to be as people. That is why they are so good at holding up a mirror to what we are and yes on a more basic level tend to also be more fun because bad people characters are often allowed to be a little more fun because they are not being held up as role models.

No sane person would think of Homelander as any kind of rolemodel. We do appreciate a good villain in stories that is true, but that doesn't mean we want to be like them, at least most of us don't. Those people you talk about are not men, they are children.

i mean they’re cool but i wouldn’t root for them

Tyler Durden is God

This is so nice, thank you!

Supernatural seasons 1 to 5 (the story he created, wrote and ended with season 5 was amazing, seasons 6 to 15 was pure fanfiction and killed the show)

You mean Emmy for television. Academy Award is for movies.

@@micahjohansson7573 Emmy is an tv academy.

@@ineshadixon1377”an” comes before a vowel sound, ”tv” does not begin with a vowel sound.

Unfortunately they think he is doing the wrong thing for the right reasons

It’s a BS statement. I haven’t seen anyone in my life or on social media ever seriously say Homelander is a hero. It’s just him trying to validate politicizing the show. Just listening to him in this interview, he makes it very clear that politics has been injected in to the show.

@@Roach22 He says with words out of his mouth that the comic itself is highly political in itself, just from a different era. And the show makes fun of both ends of the American political spectrum

​@Roach22 I've definitely come across some people who definitely like homelander a bit too much to put it lightly. And someone who is basically homelander without the powers, truly despicable person, however it definitely is a vocal minority more than anything

@@brade7022 With over 8 billion people in the world, there has to be at least a few psychos. I guess it comes down to whether people like the person you know is the exception or the rule. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant majority of those “Homelander is a hero” fans are just seeking attention.

Before Homelander met her she just wanted to be left alone. I cant tell how much the current misanthropy is a real behavior or a survival tactic.

​@@davyhotch it's both

Please explain why? 😭

it set up to develop and climax in later Episodes so a little slow n confusing at first.

Because they're showing frenchie like guys and people don't like that their political nature is being made fun of. They're realizing they're being made fun of and not liking it. Plus apparently someone just can't be gay in a show

@@juliandavis9711it’s not that Frenchie is gay, it’s that the love interest came literally out of nowhere and feels forced, plus everyone thought he and kimiko were going to be a thing

@@onesaucynougat7471 Wasn't it established that they weren't gonna be a thing last season?

@@juliandavis9711 people still really wanted it to happen

​@@onesaucynougat7471Huh how weird that there's backlash when it's a gay relationship and none when frenchies sexuality was explored for 3 whole ass seasons so far. I wonder why.

Disappointing take, honestly. For years, people tried to paint Snyder as a Rand-obsessed fascist. The same brush was used to uniformly paint his following in the then-prominent entertainment blogosphere. Not only is Snyder none of the alarmist labels he was accused of being, but so goes for the plurality of his fans. What you will find upon a more honest assessment is that the American exceptionalism that courses through the cultural DNA of Superman and his offshoots, such as Homelander, is understandably party to some subscribers of fundamentalist thinking. Even activism behind the Snyder Cut, which was increasingly proven to be a fact-based fixation, was a reaction to disinformation encouraged by the studio establishment. It is a profoundly reductive habit to simplify both individuals and highly diverse groups into a single undesirable and glib sentiment.

As he should. They’re awful and gaslighters

@@redcomet0079lmfaooo as if the left doesn’t do the same.

@@skyofthelivingdead I’m sorry genius, remind me again, who was found guilty of 34 counts? Because it wasn’t a democrat. 🥱

@@skyofthelivingdead *no response & crickets* 🤐🦗 typical Trumplican trolling 101

​@@redcomet0079I mean, both left and right leaning figures have gone to jail or have been investigated by authorities in the past and present. And there's people on both sides who complain about corruption in court(and judges) all the time. I get what your saying but still.

Speaking what "everyone" feels isn't exactly as edgy as you think it is

Meanwhile Kripke gets offended when people call his show utter garbage. Double standard much?

He holds the same position as every corporation on the planet, very edgy

He's really going out on a limb saying what 95% of what every corporation and media group says. Wow. How brave.

@@WillJ3ll0 lol exactly you can tell he tries very hard not to include things in his show that will offend certain people hes just another guy for the corporations added a b1ack woman as a social commentary because b1ack women are invisible? lol more like the average man is invisible but that would go against their agenda

Maybe they're trying to create false hype??? Yes the showrunners change things around but you can still see parts of the comic shine through.

Especially after watching episode 4 of the newest season. I can’t wait to see what he’s going to do in the next episodes to come

You know full well what type of incel he's referring to

don’t be dense

Are surprised this show would do something like that? The Boys already did a bunch of nasty sh*t in the last 3 seasons.

@@starsomendid you not realize this show is making fun of perverse people the whole time? I'm surprised you didn't figure that out. Kinda embarrassing...

​@@7DAYSOFOPENINGNIGHTS it really isn't. If anything it makes fun of people who abuse power or carelessly misuse it. The show is pretty sex positive

Homelander is a murdering psychopath but if you find that relatable that says a lot about you 😬

@@sydwhatley your surface level character analysis is impressive

I think that's just a you problem

​@@JRDBrennan the ability to empathize with him is fair, relating is a step too close to the edge though.

Its an overused word and misused constantly.

Unfortunately, this is what happens when you take media from a niche genre and make it more accessible to a large and profitable but also loud and sensitive audience, and why gatekeeping is a thing... An IP with darker elements going mainstream typically means it has to lose its originality and spark in some way and adjust to appeal to those who probably wouldn't have enjoyed it in its natural state in the first place, and those of us who could consume the source material _and_ find enjoyment in it must suffer the consequences...

physically he is the strongest character but mentally he is rather weak considering his severe insecurity to be loved and revered as well as his deteriorating mental wellbeing leading him to become more unstable and unhinged.

my read anyway. honestly it's nearing whatever they're going to do to match Frenchie and Kimiko breaking off to try not doing anything but living life part of the arc of the comics before the series ended the way it did.

They say brains aren’t everything, however in your case, they’re nothing 💀

Yep. Guy has really strong TDS apparently.

@@scoutrava TDS isn’t real just like Brandon means absolutely nothing

House of the dragon

Well apples and oranges mofo

What show have you been watching? It makes fun of every side.

@@CharismaSpencer LOL no

From day one the superhero angle has been a criticism of capitalism, which is definitely a political position….

​​@@CharismaSpencerFor someone who's not an American, seeing the progressive people focus on Trumpism all the time is not fun because satire is a endless field and American politics isn't just the one theme to focus.i have not seen them tackle AI stuff yet and its been something on the rise everywhere in the world.

Yet, the writers this season introduced Splinter who literally can clone himself.😂

@@negano5654 Yeah, cloning with science is way more magical than Splinter.🤣

Science literature? Funny

@@JewellryMoon Yes, in simple terms … a book. Haven’t heard of a book before?

Nar, bro, the show itself (his show) has been telling half the audience to f*ck off since the very first episode, but philistines only understand the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

he meant that Garth Ennis is Irish and has a batter reference for Butcher from experience, so Eric makes sure to consider Garth's wishes in writing the character and his dialogue

oh no duh, thank you for clearing that up

Like what are u on about

Because Biden has been so amazing

Dude, Trump still has a shot at retaking the White House despite now being a convicted felon, like there's literally idiots buying t-shirts that say "I'm voting for the felon". When he's irrelevant, then I'm sure The Boys will follow suit.

@@benjamindover4337 the fact that ya'll only two options seem to be elderly men is wild, regardless of who you're rooting for

Bro just became a felon, yeah we still talking about him.

What

​@@PotatoKing86 I think he's trying to compare the boys with the daily show with Jon Stewart. Don't really know why but....

@@logansharkey871 ah. That's odd

TDS doesn’t exist. Just like “Brandon” doesn’t mean anything either

Bro you really thought you cooked with this comment so much that you had to edit it 💀

@@youngrootv yeah, either that, or I just wanted to correct a typo.

@@youngrootv non white

Firecracker is way more a Brett Cooper type than MTG, though more crazy

​@@youngrootvhonestly me too however these two are literally just the same person in two separate bodies🤣

@@youngrootv I don't know much about Cooper (I only watched her interview with Peterson). She doesn't seem aggressive or blatantly self-contradictory like some 'quеers for phalestine'.

Campus protesters are very left wing