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After The Boys concluded its fifth and final season on Prime Video, fan reactions online were mixed. Some felt the popular series ended on a high note, while others were disappointed by what it delivered, believing the show’s marketing had hyped a more explosive swan song for Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the villainous Homelander (Antony Starr) following years of buildup.
The Boys creator Eric Kripke recently admitted to TVLine that he knows there are “a lot of unhappy people online,” but went on to make two points in defense of the finale.
“First, I’m just glad people are passionate, legitimately,” he said. “My job is to make people passionate about the work I put out. If they’re arguing about it and hating it and fighting, that’s all passion, man. You’re watching, and that’s all good. My job is to get an emotional reaction, not necessarily to dictate what that emotional reaction is.”
But Kripke explained that he has also learned many times that “the online world is not the real world.”
“We have way north of 60 million viewers, so that makes the online storm, which feels very all-encompassing, actually a fraction of a single percentage point,” he said. “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, of course, and I’m sorry if I disappointed you, but it was the story I wanted to tell. You just have to put it into perspective of it being a reasonably small, vocal audience when the vast majority seem to be happily tuning in.”
Kripke also told the outlet that the writers had already worked out which characters were going to die in the series finale of The Boys, but that the hardest part of the writing process was making sure every character got “a moment to be cool” when Butcher and the gang finally went into the Oval Office to confront Homelander.
“They all deserve a moment to be cool, right? Everything from Ashley’s moment, to Huey having one last flash of genius with his understanding of electronics and equipment, to the ball gag, to Annie and The Deep, we made sure every hero had their moment.”
All episodes of The Boys are now streaming on Prime Video.
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