The Vought Rising Prequel was One of the Reasons the Final Season of The Boys was Ruined

I personally haven't seen the final season to The Boys yet, but from the online criticism I have been hearing about, this season has really gone viral for all the wrong reasons. 

One of the main factors that I feel ruined the final season was throwing in the prequel to Vought Rising so early. This was a terrible mistake on the writer's part, because this is not Soldier Boy's story. Yes, his character is so entertaining and interesting at the same time, but The Boys is not really his story. It's Homelander's story, the main villain that everyone wants dead. 

Soldier Boy was a great introduction back in season 3, and we got enough of his character to know that this guy went through a lot as a superhero. He also wasn't perfect, and from the sound of it, this guy caused a lot of problems behind the scenes with his own superhero teams. 

For the final season of The Boys, the writers made the huge mistake of adding several prequel hints to Vought Rising. I feel that we got way too much info about the prequel, to the point where it got annoying. It just didn't make any sense for the main storyline of The Boys to carry so much backstory to Soldier Boy. 

All we really needed was maybe a backstory talk with Soldier Boy, hell, even a simple flashback could have worked. But no, the writers didn't know when to pull the plug on this prequel crap. 

These are all the scenes that weren't needed for the final season:

- Soldier Boy kept on mentioning Clara, AKA, Stormfront, who he apparently was totally in love with back in the 1950s. This wasn't a bad add on for the story per say, but if season 3 had included more of his hinted romantic love for her, it would have made sense for the final season. It felt like this backstory was thrown in, so that Homelander and Soldier Boy could have more of a connection. 

- We get a moment of Soldier Boy running into his brother. Soldier Boy has a moment of yelling at him, and yes, this scene was powerful, but it was NOT NEEDED for this season. It was so unnecessary. 

- Bombsight was introduced for one quick scene in the final season. Honestly, this fight was pretty cool, but if it were up to me, I think only this prequel scene could have been needed for this season. But even the writers screwed this up, because having Soldier Boy take away his powers to give up to Homelander ended up becoming lackluster anyway.

I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else, but it's still pretty bad how much of Soldier Boy's story was thrown in. And as if things couldn't get any worse, we now just learned that Soldier Boy is not returning for the final episode. This was confirmed by the director, and this only pissed off fans really bad. I really thought this guy was going to be used for the battle against Homelander. But now…he's going to be on the sidelines, because Homelander put him back in his hibernation tank.

I'm not sure what the hell the writers are doing here. 

This is the first time where I really questioned the writing for a final season. Sure, I get why fans weren't happy with the final seasons of Game of Thrones or Stranger Things, but at least those were entertaining and overall, I liked both endings to a point.

For The Boys, I feel like there have been a lot of strange storylines going on. It's like the writers forgot the show they are working on.

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Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn