Final of the season boys surprised for various reasons. It not only brought death to one of its main characters. In addition, she revealed the origin of the other and, in the end, the meaning of her two main central themes. Paternitywho has been the subject of considerable interest throughout the program, reaches the third sublimated and turned into a dark target.
At the same time, the depraved version political interests with whom the series played in its last episodes, goes to a new level. The mixture of both things allowed the argument to be given dizzy turn to a new meaning. And especially in exploring original approaches that take the series to more mature and unknown places.
Until now, boys it was a feast of wild disputes. But the third season took his capacity for the absurd and turned it into something more complex. In addition, he laid the groundwork for a future story in which the subversive-based sense of horror is more unsettling. After three seasons in which the controversy was based on a cynical spirit and irony, boys came to the crossroads. Should this be repeated in the formula, or should something new be added? The answer came with the end of the third season.
boyswhen the absurd becomes a cultural weapon
boysas an offer heading for something more controversial. During the first season, he questioned modern morality. Also, superheroes, traditional emblems, were pushed to their symbols of goodness. institutionto dark places. For his second the concept was developed and explored about influence, power and politics. Everything within the framework of the concept of collective fears is taken to a new level.
But this was the third time the series has found its core narrative and, at the same time, a more complex and thoughtful purpose. With his emphasis on make fun of their characters and turn them into mirrors of stupid celebrity culture, the series was a success. And in his new chapters, he delved into the fact of power and politics as attributes of perversions that cannot be classified at a glance. The season once again became interested in how artificial popularity can hide the most intricate secrets. But if superheroes used to be celebrities turned into weapons of manipulation, now they are autonomous power facilities.
This change completely shook the foundations of the program. Moreover, he emphasized the use of symbols of public authority to further subversive break with modern artificial optimism. Soldier Boy, a disturbing comic book version of the untouched Captain America, has shown just how far boys He was ready to resist. Not only ideals (of necessity), but also the way current culture highlights figures that are essentially harmful and harmful.
In his season finale, that perception is much more sinister. The mystery is revealed that the original hero is actually the biological father of the homelander assassin. boys turns in a frightening direction. Not only because it gives the dishonest superhero an excuse for his racist version of power. Also, because he is developing a hypothesis about the world of final influence. How to relate to the idea of the mighty of this world, when it makes those who make them outcasts?
In the end, the hidden horrors are revealed in boys
After Black Noir’s death at the hands of Homelander and the latter’s search for a sense of origin, the series abruptly changes direction. Especially when he reflects on the depravity of the corrupted hero from a new perspective. Did Homelander have a chance to be anything other than the ruthless being that he is? Probably no. And now his association with Soldier Boy makes it clear that Homelander is the lesser evil. One is well-known, obvious and, apparently, driven by his ambitions.
But Then Soldier Boy becomes something more sinister.. Medium-term threat, which is limited not by time, but by specific goals. The source of all evil is the wide acceptance of all the new spaces and places of different approaches in the series. Superheroes – in the world of TV shows – have never been a form of representation of goodness.. They were not in the midst of a confused past betrayal. They are gone today, when the Seven have become a group of crushing brutality.
For its fourth season, boys this will likely show the world behind Vaught’s prefabricated faux merchandise. Also, the implications of Homelander’s discovery of his origins and how it is understood through it. Turning the screw towards a terrifying labyrinth, in the center of which he hopes, perhaps, a bloody conclusion an increasingly sinister and controversial story.
