u/CeSquaredd

I get the annoyance that many of you are bringing up, in that at times it seems like a promo for the spin-off show. While that's somewhat valid, I'm not sure this aspect has actually negatively impacted the show.

As far as recent seasons, the mood and style is still consistent. The show has gotten less funny over the years, but that was inevitable. The longer it went on, the more "serious and superhero-y" it would become.

It's still funny, entertaining, making fun of super hero tropes and American politics. I personally think connecting Soldier Boy and Homelander with Stormfront is a good decision. We are now guaranteed a completely different ending than the comics. Soldier Boy and Homelander, both invincible, against The Boys for the finale? Sign me up. We know there's going to be one more staple Homelander moment to go out with a bang, and we know there is a huge fight coming. Besides the possible shilling of future content (I don't think it's even that egregious to begin with) there is nothing majorly wrong with Season 5.

Honestly all these dissections of the show being bad is just peak superhero fandom when the entitlement becomes greater than the entertainment. "Well akshually Sage is really smart so she should've known this". "Well akshually I think sex jokes are lame even though the show had sex jokes since season 1 episode 1." Okay man, it's a show about super heros who fuck, do drugs, and are as flawed as normal humans. A lot of you have become the comic dweebs who criticize every last thing as if they've committed murder. Crazy, the show making fun of superhero content is finishing the same way the content they make fun of would end.

TL;DR - Like always, it's "this is the season where The Boys lost me" for the loud minority. Are there issues? Of course. Does that actually impact the show overall, or are people just nitpicking? I think it's the latter, and I think some of y'all need to sit back, relax, and enjoy the end of the ride. You can always get off early like all the others who "realized the show isn't for me".