The Boys Season 3 Is Great Until The End... 

Another thing I hated about this season was how Ryan went from hating Homelander to then accepting him just like that because.....Butcher yelled at him once? Just seems like a weird 180 for no reason at all.

Really really piss me off how they work up the whole season to fight homelander just to turn on soldier boy at the end

I hated that Butcher betrayed Soldier boy.

Soldier boy was the only character that made sense in this season. Every other character lost plot in the final episode apart from Maeve.

4:51 EXACTLY BRO. For me, Butcher betraying Soldier boy with literally no logical reason was the worst part of the finale. There were so many possibilities to just change what happened there.

Starlight with all that power she got just to knock down soldier boy was pretty cringe tbh

You were too kind, I thought this was GoT level bad writing. So many characters did a complete 180 in the last episode: - Hughie went from whatever it takes to doing the bare minimum. Remembering his dad, really? So doing the bare minimum to keep the lights on is considered strength? He could've been the MVP this fight if he just teleported Ryan out of there. Even if Soldier boy and Homelander teamed up, he could've teleported Soldier Boy out to the other side of the world. - Butcher went from scorched earth (he kept saying scorched earth so many times it was irritating), to: wait no because Ryan. Turns out Butcher was all talk no action. - Ryan turning evil was extremely cliche and generic. So he was raised by Becca for years, and all that goes out the window because of Homelander's sweet talk? All it took was 2 sentences for him to side with Homelander and undo the years of work his mom did? - MM did a 180 the whole season, he lost all his braincells in every episode. He went from the level headed one to punching soldier boy, shooting him with a shotgun, etc. - Kimiko went from I hate myself and my powers, I'm a monster, to hey let's kill these people in the most brutal and sadistic way possible instead of a quick, merciful death. Is this really the same character from the previous episodes? Soldier boy was the only one who stuck to the plan, everyone else flaked on him. Even if it meant killing his own son, he stuck to the mission. And Hughie was shittalking him the previous episode, saying he's not a soldier. Yes he was a piece of shit but he's the only charatcer I respect this episode because he was the only one who had the whatever it takes mindset. I'm done with this show, I don't care about the characters anymore: Ryan, Hughie, Butcher, MM, Kimiko did some really idiotic things this episode and I don't want to root for morons.

They dropped the ball on the last episode for sure. Black Noir should have tackled Soldier Boy after an epic fight between Black Noir and Soldier Boy. Then Black Noir could have died an heroic death.

I think Homelander and Black Noir teaming up against Soldier Boy and the gang would have been a much better finale. But with Butcher having no superpowers, so that it's a fair fight.

Totally agree, the way they worked up homelander to be a badass unbeatable villain over 3 seasons then just let Maeve somehow gain the upper hand on a freaking 1v1 lol

The Boys: Forget about Homelander. We've got to stop Soldier Boy because...

Noir died so wastefully, i felt like i wasted my time. The boy pissed me off the most, he just ruined everything!

Some of my biggest frustrations from the season finale and season as a whole: - Starlight's entrie character, not doing anything effective against Homelander, and making Soldier Boy to be more of a problem than Homelander, I hope the consequences catch up to her - Nobody meaningful died this season (they could have easily killed off characters like A Train, Ashley, The Deep, Cassandra, Nina) - The Boys are randomly a team again and should have remaiined divided (Hughie and Butcher together seperated from everyone else) - How soldier boy was treated in the finale (I was rooting for him so I was biased) - Lack of lasting consequences/payoff all around - Lack of change to status quo/increasing the stakes There are definitely more problmes but this is what stands out. People call the MCU childish but will praise the S3 finale where the writing is as bad and at times even more frustrating and generifc

I agree. I really enjoy the season a lot, but it felt like everything was put back to where it was before the season started.

If they didn’t waste so much writing on airing their political opinions, this show would of been great.

Its insane how quickly season 3 went from my favourite season to my least favourite season. There was so much bullshit in the last episode. Like for example Maeve being as strong as homelander and then surviving being right next to soldier boy while he did his super attack AND then surviving falling the tower without superpowers and after all that she wasnt really even injured. Or Butcher stopping soldier boy, because Ryan was there when most likely the only thing that would happen is that homelander would lose his powers (or die, which would be even better for everyone) and since homelander was protecting Ryan with his body from soldier boy, Ryan would most likely too only lose his powers, which would be good for Butcher since he doesnt want a supe child. And there is so much more. I wonder if the writers took temp V aswell and it destroyed their brains.

I don't know man, season 3 left so much on the table, what a shame. They should have wrapped up the homelander arc and prepare for a new storyline but I guess they wanted to play it safe.

I binged the whole series live with my friend, I was jumping up in the air at herogasm, but the finale was so ridiculous it absolutely lowered my score massively

Finale is an out of season april fool's joke

Butcher and homelander at every season ending be like " let's backoff at final episode of season three times straight just so we could make more unnecessary episode for money and we will go in circle again and again" 😒😒😑

I was planning to make a video about this finale saying literally every single thing you said xD but well! Your video is already too good! Hahaha no need to make my own! I found that Stranger Things had EXACTLY the same problem with the finale. So many excellent narrative things set up in the season were sidelined just because no one wants to put the main characters in any type of real danger

They could've kept black noir alive and have him sacrifice himself to kill soldier boy as he is attempting to blast homelander. That way we would get the fight we wanted aswell as not doing a 180 on everyone

The whole season I was hoping that it wouldn’t just end with them killing soldier boy, and everything returning to the status quo, but that’s sort of what happened. The part where he still decides to try to kill homelander, despite having no incentive to, seemed pretty contrived to me. I’m sure he’ll return in the final season and MM will kill him. But to not even give a scene with him and black noir, after all that setup? Very disappointing. I’m guessing they wanted to give Maeve a good send off, since she probably wont be in the show much any more. But making her able to beat homelander in a fight? Too much.

Thank you for this video. Exactly the points I keep telling people. I hope the studio watches this and change their mind before ruining this amazing show

I was hoping for Solider Boy's PTSD trigger to come back in the finale. Like if Butcher didn't know he called Homelander (which was so weird that they made it seem like Soldier Boy was going to keep that a secret and then he just told Butcher anyway), so he meets with Homelander in secret, his PTSD is triggered somehow, he renders Homelander powerless. Then, Noir tracks them down and kills Soldier Boy in front of a defenseless Homelander still in shock over all that's happened

Yeah to me it felt like it basically undid the most important parts of season 2: the boys are together again, homelander has ryan (who doesn't even have becca anymore to keep him from turning evil), soldier boy is back in stasis (or whatever the term was), like vought can't just send someone to break him out, and M.M. being the rational one just goes after soldier boy with a fucking gun.

This show is a bump... The writing is just too marketing

About Butcher seeming weaker in the finale being strange. I think it's because of the number of times he took V24. Each time it was taking a toll on his body. The last dose was supposedly going to kill him. So it's possible that he had powers, but his body was also deteriorating. Also brain damage seemed to be the main implied damage, and Soldier Boy rocked his head a bunch of times with his punches. The body punches I think weren't too bad on him.

There was no sacrifices, butch shouldive died. There was no stakes in the end, hollander shouldive died. So disappointed, shoulda ended on this season There was also a line that soilder boy said to butch about how he lived to kill hollander and finally when he has his chance he backs down. That was so right on the point, he was so right about that. So dumb how butch just stopped caring about ending hollander literally devoted his life to it

I'm so glad i'm not the only one who realized this season had issues. no one called out john wick (especially the 3rd movie...) for being complete garbage. and it was. anyway, i also disliked starlight for being very hypocritical and stupid . when she said the line about them working with soldier boy because he was a murder...she isn't a child. and should never had said that. she knows enough to not be that ignorant. also that scene where she is in the lab and grabs 1 of the blue bottles? taking more and or destroying them all so more corrupt people with super powers won't exist would have been VERY smart!

I don't think the finale is really that bad. It's disappointed especially with the Black Noir and soldier boy stuff

I still hate this season so much. It's as if our main characters suddenly became room temperature iq when it comes to decision making at the end. Why the fuck would u waste ur biggest nuclear deterrent like that smh

The problem with this show is that they are so afraid of changing the status quo. I like it when there are actual stakes. Major characters dying, major characters going through major development. None of that ever happened with Billie and Homelander always staring each other off at the end of every season. It's the same ending every goddamn seasons. They should have given way more focus on the side characters if they are not going to change the status quo of these two. Give each season with a main focus on a protagonist and antagonist apart from these 2 characters and let them truly shine and have an ending for them either death or major developement. Then they can have Billie and Homelander as background moving the biggest plot of the series forward but not actually taking the center stage every time.

I liked how Maeve actually hurt Homelander because she actually trained for it. One of the major problems in The Boys is that training is never involved or showed, making the power scaling really weird. I mean, other than Maeve, actually few heroes train except for young ones training to develop their powers. Once your powers are developed you're done for life with training, or so it seems to be. Maeve, the only one who is actually shown training her techinque and strength surely will manage to do some damage, expecially against the only one person who never ever trains because can kill everybody in one hit. I mean, he doesn't train even when he fights against real enemies if he only kills by ripping their hearts out or lasering them. He's strong but he hase no technique, no battle iq, no ace in his sleeves.

There are a few things that were just stupid and brought s3 from a 8 to 7 1 butcher fucks maeve 2 butcher becomes a supe 3 butcher betrays solder boy 4 ryan switches to homelanders side

I thought mave and Homelander was like wonder women vs superman…. She can hold her own and even do some damage but she would inevitably lose if the fight went on…. Plus he wasn’t really going full out on her like he was with butcher and soilder boy……. I don’t think soilder boy is done with yet personally….. and what Homelander wanted has come true he is starting to build a relationship with his son and his son is turning like him…. Yes I would of loved a massive fight at the end but we had a good fight in herogasm….. they are just setting it up for the last 2 seasons.

In Herogasm episode Soldier Boy talk about a woman who named “Liberty” and their night. And in season 2 we saw a old woman Stormfront killed her brother. She told Stormfront is Liberty. So Stormfront is Homelander`s possible mom!

Ryan’s probably the worst part of the show for me, I thought he would turn out evil like homelander but he’s still a whiny confusing character. Idk what they are doing with the show at this point, especially with season 5 being the last.

Alright so basically soldier boys chest blast will kill anyone that doesn’t have super strength and durability. That’s how it works, if you are a regular human or a supe that doesn’t have durability as one of your powers, you will be killed. Kimiko survived because of her durability and Ryan and homelander would have as well

My biggest criticism of season 3 was its Trump Derangement Syndrome showed way to much. PLEASE HEAR ME OUT BEFORE TYPING ANGERY RESPONSES! I did enjoyed season 3 in spite my criticism and Homelander is one of my top favorite tv villains right now inspite what I'm going to say. The first two season also took hard hitting shots at the right and the show has taken some good shots at the left even in season 3. I'm also not saying Trump,/MAGA should be placed above criticism or satire. It just that in season 3 later half it started to get a way to on the nose and preachy to the point that I dont think its going to age well as times goes on. For example we have scense where homelander is telling people to not be afraid of supervilians and its safe to "go outside" which is a shot against Trump or anyone who was critcal of covid lockdowns. Say what you want about those lockdowns but the narative that we were being told at the time was that a very contagious virus that could kill you, put you in a hospital or kill someone near you was rapidly spreading across the planet. After being told that at the time it made sense to encourage people to stay home. First of all will future generations who see this show get this reference as time goes on? Or will the joke become really dated? 2nd, they forgot that the "Supervilians" of this world aren't one note comic books villains. Kimiko is a "super villain" and we learned through her that many of them are really victims of human tr*fficking and even created by vought to get the sueps in the miltary. Also Billy and Hughie were helping solider boy in order to kill Homelander. So we were rooting for the "villains" at this point. 3rd, I'm just going to say it, Homelander actually right in the stories context. Staying inside out of fear of running into a super villain is more like living you life in fear that you might run into a mass shooter or drunk driver or a terrorist. Not a world ending virus. These are all real things I listed that can happen to you and you should be careful but at some point you gotta to live your life. 4th Wasn't Vaught partly based on big pharma companies like Pfizer? Is this show now siding with them? 5th. I'm also going to say this, even the lockdown stuff hasn't been aging well. Little by little they've been admitting that some some of the lockdown measures to stop the spread weren't that effective, fear of the virus may of been overblow and the lockdowns did more damage people lives then the virus (People loosing their jobs/homes, mental health now at an all time low, economy took a massive hit, childern and college students being set back in their education or kicked out of school, freindship/families destroyed over vaccine/booster satus, people now fulky justify in distrusting our institutions). One thing I love about the boys is its mockery of Hollywood celebrities and season 3 still had great moments of this. But even the boys themselves started to sound like typical Hollywood liberals. Like why would the Boys of all people have a picture of Obama on their wall? In real life Obama would treat the Boys the same way he treated Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, hunting them down as whistleblowers. Also its ironic because in season 2 Homelander accidentally kills a civilian which was an obvious reference to drones.....and Obama killed way more civilians with drones then either Trump or Bush. It was one of the biggest controversies during his time as president. This dosen't mean they would like Trump but "the boys", who are fully aware of the of miltary industrial complex and US war crimes are going to really love Obama like ever other Hollywood celebrity? It just doesn't make any sense and comes off as really hypocritical. The only reason why is because Seth Rohan himself is a typical Hollywood liberal. Even some scenes started to feel more like lectures from late night hosts or pandering celebrities. A lot of MMs dialoge felt just as forced and one-sided as the woke celebrities Atrain was making fun of. The final scene just seem more like SNL sketch to me or probably what Seth Rogan thinks everyone who dosen't agree with him is like. Its funny because early in the show Homelander insisted that the super terrorist be called "super villains". Which was a cleaver way of calling out dehumanizing propaganda that over simplifies very complicated international problems as simple good vs evil naratives our gov uses against people. Simply labeling our enemies as "bad guys" without trying to understand history, economic conditions, culture and religion, government failures, political rivalry, oil, and other things that help create an environment that can lead to people becoming a terrorist. Yet the boys gave right into the same over simplified dehumanizing propaganda techniques when it came to half of the country that dosen't think like Hollywood. Everyone who dosen't think like Seth Rogan is either just stupid, racist, evil or all the above. So it's okay to dehumanizes half the country without understanding why they think the way they do or the problems they're dealing with. Just make them mindlessly cheer Homelander zapping a guys head off because their either evil people or dumb. Homelander getting control of Vaught and running the company to the ground had some confusing messages. I know what they were trying to say. He was supposed to be like Trump running the country to the ground. (That was obvious). I know they were trying to tell us why we should let the "expects" do their job,why we need a check and balances system and yada yada yada, you know the drill....but in the context of the story, don't we want Vaught to get destroyed from the inside out? Don't we want these "experts" to fail? Isn't it good that choas is destorying Vaught from the inside? The first 2 seasonn build up vaught as the puppet master who controlled everything. If you didn't like Trump chances are you probably still wanted to save the county from him, but we don't want to save Vaught from Homelander, we want to see both of them destroyed. Also the first two season told why we shouldn't always trust our institutions, Hollywood, news media, big pharma, coperations or thr government. Yet now you're the bad guy just like Homlander for encouraging questioning the system. Meanwhile the heros reinforce status quoe and encourage blindly trust our institutions. I could go on even more but season 3 2nd half felt like politcal pandering you see in everything else now. A lot of which I don't think will age well. I think future audiences might get confused by some of these choices

Homelander killing Noir should have happened at the end of the Season after the Soldier Boy fight. The show could have had its cake and eat it too, especially if Homelander is making a smart call by only killing Noir when he's confident Soldier Boy is no longer an active threat. Also, Soldier Boy should have uncovered that Butcher has a vendetta against all supes, not just Homelander, and that the Boys intend to kill him the second he kills Homelander. So Soldier Boy still wants to kill Homelander, but rather than a targeted blast at Homelander and Ryan like in the actual episode, he goes full supernova immediately, attempting to wipe out Homelander, Ryan, Noir, Maeve, Starlight, the Boys and everyone in Vought Tower in one move. And then after an exchange of blows, it's clear the only thing that will stop the blast is stunning Soldier Boy before he can detonate. Then, you have Soldier Boy on his own side, Homelander and Noir trying to kill everyone, Ryan trying to get involved in the fight and refusing to leave believing his dad will die if he doesn't fight, and perhaps trying to stop Butcher and Homelander from attacking each other. Maeve is gunning for Homelander, while Butcher is forced to divide his attention between Homelander and Soldier Boy. He can't just attack Homelander like he planned or everyone's dead.

Black noir might not be dead and the show runner said expect him to be back

Season 3 was born

I can't wait for all of homelanders personality and development to be reset back to default settings at the start of the new season.

Totally agreed!

Lmfao, why did you have to drop "cream pie blast" so casually.

The only thing worse than the clumsy insertion of the shows left-wing politics is how the writers are happy to let those same politics compromise the story.

2:33 not exactly. This wasn't a choie done because it requires less work, ot was deliberate creative decison showing the consequences of his actions. Also you can't really remove the solider boy father twist as that's suppose to be a cap stone on the arcs of several characters.

I'm dissapointed with the ending all that hype build up to just wasted and go back to square once again

the entire episode i was like "theres no way this is the last episode" so fucking dissapointing

Honestly I actually liked the ending for boys season 3 but I honestly hated how black noir died in the end cause I felt like we needed to see more of him I still hope he’s alive for season 4

Starting a sentence with "I feel like" and end sentences with: "I am pretty sure about this" "is just lazy writing". Oh boy, dangerous game to play.

Honestly it might have been a time crunch problem ngl

I feel like this is the case of the “good guys” being too absorbed in their morals that when Soldier Boy comes in with a practical and pragmatic solution they refuse for the sake of saving others. They would doom many others they can’t see to save those they can. All that good guy talk got to Queen Maeve and she ended up choosing to do the “right” thing instead of the practical thing. Or it could just be shitty writing. This ending definitely could have been better but if season 4 is good that would make up for most of that. This ending makes the set up for season 4 more interesting imo flaws aside

That Ozark spoiler came out of nowhere. I stopped watching the show at Season 3 I think because I got tired of how stupid everyone was, but now I definitely won't keep watching knowing that spoiler.

Season 3 could have been best season for a show ever. 9 episodes of pure perfection ruined by episode 10.

This episode was very disappointing; the worst episode of the entire series, if you ask me. It regressed and completely ruined everything it's built up over the last 3 seasons. Between Black Noir's unceremonious death, Homelander getting smacked around by Maeve, Maeve surviving the fall and the explosion, Butcher's illogical betrayal of Soldier Boy, and Ryan's abrupt switch in character, I don't know which plot hole was worse, but they all ruined the series. I want them to come back from this, but I don't even see how they can, having written themselves into such a small corner.

Season 3 was woke as fuck mate 😂. Everyone says it's jokes and how the boys is, but the fact they put all the woke shit in there in the first place, and did a fair bit on lgbtqwxyz and the blm crap is transparent it wasnt just satire. Season 1 is the only season that is good. It should have stopped after that season.

Haven't gone beyond your intro, but I'll say at least for me, it made almost no sense how butcher turned on soldier boy. Sure, hold him off from killing the kid, but after that let him go to town on homelander. The kid has super powers and will survive the fight as long as soldier boy doesn't directly target him which he has no reason to do

I agree and I could say more like the nerve gas being thrown out of the window . There is a possiblity that gas could effect innocent people . The plot device of Butcher and Soldier Boy possibly teaming up or not teaming up on both characters part was ridiculous. The choreography of how Queen Maeve got her eye poke out was bad .

dude Frenchie and Kimiko were by far the worst part of the season

Homelander is the number 1 hero Mave is the second top hero behind him she could put up a fight but if I was actually trying to fight her idk

How ballsy would it have been if they actually killed Homelander this season and the fallout is Soldier Boy is in charge of Vought now or something.

I agree 1000 points

the last ep was weird, when we saw Maeve on the news, I thought for sure she would have been turned to atoms instead she got a burnt face with minimal injuries.

I didn't realise till I was looking around the tubes just now that people didn't like the finale. I liked it.

My god can you imagine tho black noir fight side with home lander against butcher and soldier boy. That would have been sick

I’m so glad that I found this video. I agree with everything. After season 1 this show went downhill. The plot is so incoherent and inconsistent that it’s hard to understand what the actual conflict is anymore. Why are the boys and Vought still fighting each other? Because the plot says so. And it drives me absolutely insane that I don’t understand how powerful or strong the Supes are supposed to be. Sometimes they are invincible and sometimes they aren’t. So Queen Maeve has been this powerful the whole time?? Then why was she acting so afraid of Homelander when she nearly killed him? And everything is so rushed, how is Ryan all of a sudden so in love with Homelander when he literally grew up hating him? And what caused the switch? I don’t understand Stormfront’s backstory either. Her husband was a Nazi scientist that used Compound V to experiment on concentration camp prisoners…so was Stormfront one of those prisoners and then he married her after she became a Supe? Because why would he experiment on his wife when he had thousands of prisoners at his disposal? I thought Compound V was supposed to be super dangerous and fatal. That’s why Supes are so special because Compound V only works in special circumstances. They are medical miracles. But now just anyone can take it and they are fine. They could’ve wrapped this up in 3 seasons.

Critic detected. Opinion discarded.

Just here me out, For the finale I was here for the fight and not the story during the fight.

Frenchie n kimekos relationship is so wholesome and solid that I'm almost positive they will be the first to die in season 4 just to piss us off

most bothering thing is Black noir not enough *durable* , so Butcher & soldier boy & maeve ( _Black noir knocked out her_ ) can kill him ezly with *One punch*

There is no point in looking for logic where there is none. Noir can be defeated in one hit, and Maeve will fight on equal terms, simply because the writer of the script is not able to think about simple things. For example, is Maeve also able to defeat Noir in one hit? Follow the latest series, yes, she should. Also this nonsense with an ear piercing, an object that should have simply broken on any part of the body of HL by analogy with Soldier Boy, but apparently not, you can just poke a long stick in his ear or eye and he will die, Homelander was simply turned into a laughingstock, not I'll be surprised that Newman will just blow his head off because "She realized that he was mortal and stopped being afraid!" and other nonsense. Worse is Maeve's stupid survival, if you don't want to kill the character, why put him in conditions in which he simply could not survive, what's the point in this false victim if you just save her with plot armor without any explanation.

Hey at least they didn’t pull off the comics and make black noir a clone of homelander

Trying the milk for more seasons .

i am ok with how season ended but i don't get plot for soldier to kill his own biological son just because he made a promise to butcher was not enough motivation for me the plot would hv been more interesting if butcher ,kimiko,frechie hui ,mm ,maev would have fought soldier boy and homelander ryan plot twist was too ethical

Maybe Maeve is more powerful than we know. Never saw her fight Homelander before, plus he has some feeling for her so he held back. Black Noir has a twist in the comics that it seems won't be in the show.

Until the episode 6 of the third season, best ever show imo. It was kind of screwed up the final fight. It was bad. But the final scene with Homelander was good.

It is insane how poorly this comment section understands The Boys. You guys are all talking about wanting “epic fights” and shit like that when that’s not really the point of the show at all. The main themes this season were power and family. Power is sort of the overarching theme of the show and gets iterated on in a different way every season (this season it’s with Temp V). Family comes into play in a lot of interesting ways as well: Hughie realizing the true strength of his Dad, Butcher regretting his choices with Lenny and fearing becoming his father, M.M. wanting to be a good role model for his daughter and feeling empowered by his family history, Kimiko and Frenchie finding family with each other, Soldier Boy talking about wanting kids, and of course Homelander’s desperate need to feel familial love. This theme plays heavily into the scene with Ryan that this video complains about. Soldier Boy represents an older form of masculinity and strength, and we see this contrast in how Hughie interacts with him. He’s handsome, powerful, and cool under pressure, but also unfeeling, ruthless, and existentially empty, only driven along by revenge and ego. Soldier Boy is everything that Hughie thinks he wants to be at the beginning of the season. As Hughie’s primary role-model, when Butcher starts shooting up Temp V, he validates that perspective, and pushes Hughie further down the rabbit hole. But then we get to the moment with Ryan. Soldier Boy has shown by this point that he doesn’t care about the only semblance of a family he has left, as he chooses to try and kill Homelander for possessing perceived weakness (the open desire for connection and love). Therefore he has no problem frying Ryan too. One of the only things that Homelander cares about is Ryan, so attending to him is pretty much the only way they’re gonna be able to distract him long enough to get a shot in. Butcher realizes this but comes to a moment of understanding: the innocent, and especially your family members, are not worth sacrificing for the ‘greater good.’ He let it happen before when he tried to get away from his traumatic childhood home life and left Lenny behind, he’s not going to let it happen again. So he stops Soldier Boy, resolving that there must be another way. Him and Homelander teaming up briefly to laser Soldier Boy also illustrates how they do share some similarities, which has been an important thread for the entire show. So that’s why the moment works: it forces characters to make decisions in line with their morality, and satisfyingly wraps up both Butcher and Soldier Boy’s character arcs for the season. The fight is just a fun way to manifest these ideas on screen - it’s not the point. A couple of other loose points. Black Noir doesn’t want “revenge” against Soldier Boy; he’s learned to no longer be afraid of those who hold power over him. He suffered severe brain trauma when he stepped out of line before, and despite putting Soldier Boy away, he always feared that it would come back to haunt him. Once he chooses to confront that fear and be honest with himself, his character arc is completed. It plays against our expectations and desires to see Homelander kill him, and therefore paints him as a truly tragic character, which is just good storytelling. If you were disappointed that he didn’t get to actually be heroic, that’s good - the writing is working as intended. We need to see characters who just get the absolute shittiest endings in order to feel tension when the stakes are high for our main heroes. And lastly, I don’t think any of y’all have really paid that close attention to Homelander or Maeve’s power levels this whole time. We’ve never really seen her go to town on anyone at full strength, and we haven’t seen anyone with super powers really try to take Homelander out. Yeah, Butcher and Hughie and Soldier Boy took on Homelander before, but that wasn’t really a fight as much as it was a scramble to hold him down and blast him. Plus, again, you have to consider the writing: at this point, Homelander feels totally abandoned and rejected, and Maeve is finally standing up against all of the bullshit that she’s taken from over the years. The oppressed is not less powerful than the oppressor, they are only taught to believe that they are weak. In reality, they are often much stronger than their oppressor estimates, and it shows in how Maeve can actually make Homelander bleed in the fight, something that he never expected to be possible. If Homelander truly is invincible, then the show would have no point. It’s pretty clear that he’s gotta go down eventually, and this is beginning to sow the seeds for that moment whenever it does come. If you’re not reading into the show on this level, I don’t know why you’re even watching it.

ome just seen s3 ending and im so pissed off at how bad it was geniuinely such a good show for that lol

ofc they had to add godamn femenism to the ending.

the fight at herogasm was miles better than this one and in my opinion the high point of the season, this finale was such a letdown

Black Noir should’ve fought Soldier boy and won! A lot of time has gone by and Noir has knowledge on his side! I would’ve loved if SB was gaining the advantage on HL and Noir comes out of nowhere and takes our SB! O well…

Yeah if we get season 4 , 2 or 3 years from now smh

I feel like they're going to bring back Black noir somehow. This is definitely not the end. It can't be .

Mave is the 2nd strongest supe so how ?

Um. Maeve in the books is among the top 3 strongest (homelander, his clone, and Maeve). So, not sure where you are getting Maeve's positioning. So, care to share what in the three seasons indicates Maeve is lesser? Her physical engagements woth Stormfront and Noir can't be it. Sooooooooooooo, what got you to that conclusion?

Man why are you whispering , full volume on the phone and i can barely understand a word

Well, Maeve is about as powerful physically as Soldier Boy. Shes always been #2 in physical power/strength until he is awakened. And shes sbown to have been training half a year speficially for that moment. To buy a second. Also, pretty sure Homelander was holding back the entire first half of the fight.

Nothing really happened in the end and i hate the fact that "homelander and butcher three times in a row were like we both are angry and psychopath and ready to do final fight and end this in final episode but let's backoff in final minute so we can make another season for money let's backoff three times in a row just so we can make more unnecessary episode i mean wtf 😒

I thought it was a serious improvement over the second season. But the second season was soooooo bad that anyone could have been an improvement

- Hey starlight and MM, we're going to use soldier boy to kill homelander cause he is the biggest threat to humanity, a psycopath only holding back for media and public reception, Soldier boy has proved to be neutral and willing to help - "nah f that , soldier boy needs to be stopped im not joining a cold blodded murderer ~(like billy butcher, Frenchie or Hughie )~ lets take him down instead of homie"

He's my wifes son.

a year late but damn the finale was a lot of nothing in my opinion. finale season was really fun but damn the finale episode just felt like a massive waste of the rest of the season.

They made soldier boy weak at the end after nuking everyone with ease they used the same trope over and over… it takes too long use the nuke power dumb. At least make everyone lose their powers or something

This season was definitely very preachy compared to the last two seasons. And it definitely took me out of it at times… BUT the compelling characters/writing would always pull me back in.

This reminds me of the old multi-verse or time machine crap of telling a story. Oh, you lost your powers? RESET. Take another dose and get em back. Maeve can do the same but she's the only smart character on the show. Her fighting Homelander 1on 1 was ridiculous but she's still my favorite on the show. Starlight....eek. That glossy cam they used on her because she had some sort of plastic surgery drove me nuts. I really liked Komiko until she became her monster self again. Ryan---we all hate superhero kids. I actually felt bad for Soldier Boy even though he's a murderous cunt. Also, the Homelander -Trump analogy was a bit too on the nose with him waiting to see if the crowd approved and then realizing he could be himself and say anything he wanted and do anything he wanted.

Seth Rogen happened. He fuckin blows as a writer

Season1 and 2 isn’t a superhero show it’s a show about mfs with superpowers totally different.

Let me guess, you're pissed that Noir died.