 What's up everybody? I'm Lawson, and I'm Tim and welcome to the hookblade podcast After hours I'm your host, which I've already told you that my name is Lawson and with me as always is another host who's Already told you that his name is Tim Welcome to the very first episode of the hookblade after hours Tim. Why is it called after hours? It's you know well Originally, no, okay, unfortunately, that's the wrong answer So after hours we decided we wanted to have an opportunity because we really enjoy podcasting and sharing our thoughts with you every week About assassin's creed stuff But we also wanted to talk about things that had nothing to do with assassin's creed and we realized that the best way to go About doing that at least for now is to do it in a separate little tidy little spin-off bonus extra Additional podcast for your listening pleasure. Well, I was gonna say that that was gonna be my second answer We're drunk we're kind of drunk. No, we're you know, we're buzzed we're tipsy buzz We're tipsy. We are a couple of legal drinking age adults drinking adult beverages for adults and Potentially that changes the the vibe of this podcast, but maybe maybe not we'll see yeah, we're gonna have to well I mean, this is like the patient zero. We're gonna we're gonna find out with this one You guys can either be like hell. Yeah buzzed Lawson and Tim or you could be like Be like this was literally no different Tim left his ass off like a like an idiot and Lawson said did it did a bad impression of somebody and it's like any other episode that you've ever done Hey, hey, most of your impressions are pretty good. Some of them are pretty some of them are pretty good Yeah, I knew I was buzzed because Fun fact the closet in which I record all of these episodes has a big old mirror on the other end of it And I was literally just sitting here waiting for Tim to be ready to record making weird faces at myself in the mirror I thought that I thought you were good to say that you were like blushing No That's not what happened. I was just staring at myself making Weird faces for like 20 minutes. What are you drinking Timothy? Okay, so I was just telling you before we started I've got a vodka and sunny D because I don't want to have to pay for regular ones juice It's like a screwdriver for poor people. It just tastes like regular orange juice. Who the who cares, you know, like It's basic it just it's okay, you know how it you who is chocolate drink Sunny D is orange drink. It's not, you know, chocolate milk orange juice. It's just orange drink orange drink Anyway, that's that's what you who is who is a chocolate drink? Both of them are artificial flavors plus sugar equals fun pretty much They should make an alcoholic you do Yes Is there at least alcohol extract chocolate milk? Yeah, yeah I will when I work when I worked at tibis we had like an adult chocolate milk drink So it's definitely it definitely exists. That sounds awesome. If it's not sold places. You can at least make it It's like, you know, you just I don't know what alcohol goes well Poor little absinthe in your chocolate milk. And what are you? So what do you what do you got lost? And what are you drinking? I'm drinking truly lemonade's these things have changed my life They're really really good. I had them for the first time when we were at your house That's right. That's right. Truly lemonade's I highly recommend because Unlike all the other hard seltzers. They actually taste more like a lemonade Carbonated drink than like a seltzer like it's the only one I've had that doesn't just taste like water with a little extra spice, right white claw tastes like that what you're describing Yeah, white claw. I can I can get down with a white claw. They call me white Clawson for a reason But it is not as enjoyable as just having something that tastes like lemonade with carbonation and also only about a gram of sugar That's what I'm really looking for. So I'm looking for a sugar-free alcohol experience And I did not want to go through the effort of like mixing vodka and diet 7-up or whatever We're here to talk about the boys We're gonna talk about a show on Amazon Prime called the boys and We're a couple boys talking about the boys and Tim, how'd you like how'd you feel in Like a sentence about season one of the boys Um, I thought season one of the boys was pretty great a lot of fun satirical comments and a lot of like Interesting direction, but it fell flat at the end interesting. Yeah, and it fell flat because why Like I kind of I felt like it lost all of its momentum It felt like it was building up to this grand finale in the last three episodes were But the pilot is still one of the best pilots I've ever seen one of the best pilots I've ever seen a hundred percent overall great show But yeah, I definitely felt that towards the end which isn't the case for season two I didn't even have to ask. I was gonna say how did season two compare? So, okay, do you think season two is better than season one? Yes, a hundred percent. Okay. I Agree I Obviously I thought it was one of the best pilots I've ever seen and I was really I had like low expectations for the show Because when I saw all the commercials and trailers and advertising for it. I was like, oh Boy, someone's got a dark take on superheroes. How fucking original Cuz I mean even the main blockbuster superhero movies have kind of been selling themselves for like a decade plus on Being a dark take on superheroes like it's a dime a dozen really like you can go see fucking bright burn They made that movie for 12 cents and it's a dark take on superheroes. Have you have you seen that movie? No, dude it fucking suck I Saw it in theaters Really? Oh man because I used by the visionary director behind Guardians of the Galaxy That's dude. They fucking they fucking tricked me dude. They got me in the theater because of that And it turned out to be directed by his brother or written by his brother. I'm not there for I'm not there for Jimithy Gunn It was pretty ridiculous And it's kind of funny because like the dark superhero universe that they tried to set up at the end of that movie Like the boys is doing it better. So yeah What's great about the boys is that it's dark in a very realistic way. It's not just like what if would it's Superman? What's kind of a complicated guy? It's like, yeah, it's like hey if if superheroes actually exist Yeah, it's like hey if if superheroes actually existed what would happen? Late-stage capitalism would happen and there would be a huge fucking corporation with no accountability And it would be a hugely dominating media presence. These would be celebrities There'd be all kinds of corruption behind the scenes and these superheroes with the amount of power that they would have Would not be likely to be the greatest of most moral people on the earth, which is certainly a Probably sadly true statement. I think if we actually just went back a hundred years in our history and dropped some Some compound v some superheroes into our into our country The odds that right now in 2020 things would look much different than they do in the boys I think are pretty slim. Let's go ahead right now and say Full spoiler warning. We're gonna. I mean we're too. We're not sober enough to to not spoil the show So if you haven't watched the boys season one or season two You probably should but honestly we recommend it We'll probably say right up front anytime we do this show like Should you actually go watch the thing we're talking about and the answer in this case is a resounding? Yes, I'm sure right. Yeah for sure. Yeah, it's a good show It's one of it's one of the better shows on tv right now. I'd say it's probably I think the boys season two has a pretty good shot at being my favorite like season of television of the year Which there's a lot of competition for it's crazy because You often see like the second season of a show get like a facelift on certain things But season two is better than season one in almost every way. Yeah, and it's crazy But it's not different like there are some shows like some of my favorites like okay Fargo and the leftovers both are examples where I'd say season two is better than season one But neither of them but but both of them are like the season two is Completely different from season one This is a scenario where season two is exemplifying all the ideals and like And and it's hitting all the targets that season one had it's doing the same things that has the same goals But it's just doing it better. Yeah, it's yeah, it's it's definitely like just 10xing it, right? Like it's not it's not reworking the formula of the show. It's doing everything the same It's just that all of the boys are all much more interesting and have more things to do and the girls There are girls in the boys. There are girls and some of the boys are in some of the girls Yeah, but like if you would have told me at the beginning of this season that I was gonna like Frenchy as a character. I would have been skeptical But I end up I end up liking him mother's milk. He's the best. He's the best ever Yeah, all the characters are really likeable and really interesting except for the ones that are evil But honestly, even the ones that are evil are so much fun to watch I just love watching homelander Homelander is like American psycho levels are just like fun to watch the psychopath Like, you know how some shows you're worried about like, oh if there's a character Who's really fun to watch but you almost don't want them to take up too much time Like, oh if they overdid it on this character It'd be like oracle and family matters and they just overdo it and lose interest I think homelander is like one of the rare cases where like You could put homelander on screen for every second of screen time in an episode And I'd be completely on board all the way through and I'd never get tired of him. He's just Yeah, incredibly fucking watchable. I will say about being tired of though Huey really did not have much to do in the beginning of this season Yeah, I think that they're kind of in the process of figuring out what to do with Huey and One of the things I have to give them credit for is that at the end of this season They've kind of set up an interesting place for Huey to be in for season three. Oh, yeah, for sure 100 percent. I think I think it's almost certain though that like, okay, well you and I have discussed this you and I agree that there'd be a time jump I think that there'll be a time jump of at least four years or more No, and I definitely think that season three is gonna start out with starlight and Huey married or about to be married That seems like a no-brainer to me. No four years is a big jump, dude Yeah, but that's also necessary Like that that's enough time for all the characters to have had a little bit of normalcy and some peace No, it's more time than they need for that. I think they could do like a year and get away with that I feel like it gives Huey enough time to be working on a campaign and then like every all these characters And also it helps that Homelander's son will be a teenager by that point And so all of them have had this time To be a part to be a part and to develop separately I just I'm not like settled on four a year specifically I think more or maybe a little less would be be okay But I think everything that they would accomplish in a time jump They could just as easily accomplish except for the idea that you've mentioned of having Homelander's son become a teenager Could be accomplished by the natural year that will be in between them by virtue of them coming out a year apart That said obviously like if the show's goal is to accelerate the timeline of the whole storyline with Homelander's son then a a time jump will be an order of some kind and b Now would be the best time for it because everything's pretty much Settled one of the strengths of the season two finale compared to at least season one is that everything wraps up really nicely There are definitely a couple of dangling threads, which you always want on a tv show that's ongoing And those threads are promising you have the whole setup for victoria newman You still have the church doing their shit. There's a lot of stuff going on But so like if they were ever going to do a time jump now would be the time So I agree with you in so far as that much is true But at the same time, I don't think it's Absolutely like a foregone conclusion that we're gonna see a big time jump I think they could just go forward a year and everything would be okay Well, I and I don't I don't necessarily disagree that like any amount of time jump is still is still like I obviously I think We both agree a time jump probably will happen If you're counting the passage of time being a year between seasons as a time jump, then I agree But if that does not count as a time jump, then I disagree with you It's it's not going to start and it's like the next day after the after the the Collective no fate ahead. That is that is okay. That's a good point because The end of season one they could have just picked up season two and been like It's the next day, but they didn't they gave it like a a good amount of breathing room The reason the other reason why I think that there will be a time jump of that magnitude Is because I think it'll it'll be more impactful if we have like an episode or two of the characters having kind of Separated themselves from the fight like like you said things have wrapped up pretty neatly in season two And so it gives plenty of time for home lander to have been brewing on something it gives plenty of time for For uh vott have had some time for the dust to settle on this stuff Right and it gives time for the Stormfront to be rebuilt and to come back Which and that's interesting on the stormfront thing because while they don't like show her fully fully being dead For presumably that reason of being able to revive her down the line I would guess if I had to that like I think it's very possible very possible that she never comes back Like I think it's not necessarily a foregone conclusion that she gets revived But I think if she is going to get revived it'll be After season three. I think what I see happening the most is that we were following home lander He flies out to some random vott facility in their stormfront and in like in a fucking bathtub Getting like rebuilt and her skin getting you know like all that shit and he's like he's still kind of romantically invested in her And he's manipulating her and whatever like I feel like that is like at the end of episode one They could show home lander flying off to go see a Recovering stormfront because they could also do that at the end of episode eight of season three And it could just be a tease for future seasons like there's it's like an evergreen Option that they can just do whenever they want to sure. Yeah. I I don't disagree with you there I I just don't think that she's never coming back. I think she'll come out I think she'll come back next season if in a limited capacity But I guess it just there's something about The four plus year time jump that I feel like would give everything enough time like if all the sudden Four years is a lot of time, dude If if like okay if it's like a year later and he was like already being thrusted back into the The fight against vott and whatnot I feel like it's too little of time For vott to be risking that kind of exposure like things are all eyes are in vott right now I feel like giving that amount of time period would give them plenty of time to plot And to realize what the best strategy is to start experimenting with compound v again if they even do that I disagree, but it's such a minor thing. I don't want to spend the time arguing about it I don't think it's like a bad opinion as many of your other opinions are I just disagree with you. I I don't think that'll happen I made some I made some pretty good calls If you recall about season two if you think back to like as we were watching those first few episodes I made some predictions that I was mostly right about I mean the difficulty with like home homeowner didn't quite turn on stormfront. He actually kind of did the opposite Homeowner kind of like defended stormfront almost he did From homie. I thought that yeah, and like I I was right that stormfront would die at the end of the season But I was completely wrong about how and why it would happen I definitely thought that like she would see the homelander's son as a threat to her control over homelander and that she would Attack the kid or maybe even kill the kid. I thought it was possible. She would kill the kid And that then homelander would turn on her and kill her I think that I'm definitely glad that it didn't turn out that way because one thing I was questioning I wasn't sure whether it was going to be set in stone that like, you know, the kid is this Really really important through line for the entire series Or is the kid a subplot for a season because it could have gone either way And I'm not familiar with the source material or the comics at all I don't know if a Homelander child spawn off spring comes into play in that story at all But I did get the impression at the end of season one when the kid was introduced That he was being groomed to be the Counterpoint to homelander the like contingency plan for vaut that this would be a kid powerful enough and moral enough To kill homelander if the need be and season two definitely confirmed that that's vaut's intention So I think now That maybe is the end point. That's the long-term goal of the show It's at a certain point, you know in season five or six or whenever they decide to end this thing Like what it's going to be is the son of homelander killing homelander eventually I think they're definitely going to have a Battle next season homelander's kid and homelander. They're gonna fight. No, it's too early. It's too early for that Well, we'll just have to wait and see I think if it's if it's next season then okay If we Charitably assume that they're gonna wrap this shit up in season five or six or whatever Like are you gonna have three seasons of them being against each other? No, that wouldn't really work I think that Eventually the kid will have to be on the side of the boys And they've already planted the seeds for that by having something of an interesting little Dynamic now between butcher and the kid Like butcher is going to have to kind of take the kid under his wing and be like to put butcher Who's ostensibly a protagonist of the show? Into the most uncomfortable situation possible for butcher it would be having to kind of raise a kid And beyond that a kid with superpowers. Who does he hate more than people with superpowers? Like that's already well established But ultimately I don't think it's a foregone conclusion as you might think For instance that the kid has to be a whole hell of a lot older than he currently is in order to go toe to toe with Homelander There's no way that he could fight homelander when he's a year older than he is now Like he has to be like a teenager having worked on his powers I don't know. I think that they've been vague enough about what the actual extent of his powers is that he could totally do that Well, I also think that before he just like literally thought about how much he hated stormfront Who's literally existed for a hundred plus years now and he just blew her up with his mind Okay, like and stormfront is clearly powerful enough to go toe to toe with homelander I don't know. I don't know if that's true though I think I think homelander may have not been giving his full strength in that like sex scene, you know Like I mean sure that I've killed her. I'm sure he could have killed her But I bet she could have put up a fight Well, all I'm saying is if it's four years or more and he's a teenager now He's been working on his powers butcher has been like you said butcher has been visiting him annually Teaching him things try like and coming around today. You can't you can't just Set it a year later and butcher is totally awesome with the kid No, because that's that's the story that they're going to tell going forward is him getting to that point I think what we're going to see is like in season five or six or whatever That natural trans you know progression of time a year two years three years to get to that point Even more because we know this show takes a long time to make by that time the kid will be a teenager And we'll kill homelander. That's my prediction. I Would put money on it. I don't think that has to happen next season I think our main disagreement is that I don't know if the show is going to run five or six seasons That's why I think I'm also more totally think it will I think a show Like okay consider that season two doubled the viewership of season one It is a it is like as successful as a streaming show that isn't done by netflix can possibly be It's it's the only show that isn't by netflix that's like cracked the top 10 Of streaming viewership It's literally going to be amazon's golden egg for like the next few years There's no doubt So the idea that it's not going to get exactly as many seasons as erik kripke and sef rogan and evan goldberg wanted to have It's going to have whatever number of seasons they want to make and Considering how much those creators get paid for a show of this level I think it probably is a foregone conclusion. I'm gonna say Like betting right now at least five seasons If they if they end it after season four you win the bet, but like I think they'll go at least five I think they could go as many as seven. I don't think they'll go past seven But I think they could go to seven I guess we'll we'll find out when season three starts how extensive this time jump will be and We'll see what gets greenlit as of season three, you know, and we can kind of gauge Do you any complaints about season two? I felt like the first couple episodes really relied on like the just random acts of just like absurdity Gore violent stuff. Yeah, like oh, wow, like isn't that shocking her head exploded out of nowhere Like that's just not a very they're driving a boat through a whale Everything that I had a problem with on season one was fixed in season two There were some episodes that have really stuck with me even now Of season two. Yeah. Was it like four or five? I think four that was the kind of uh Very character driven episode where there wasn't a whole lot of plot going on You were just spending a lot of time with like Huey and mother's milk and they were talking about his OCD and yep Yeah for four is my favorite something that's really funny to me is the Like the very ridiculous almost product placement in the series in the season specifically I mean the fresco gag is hilarious. I love fresco fresco is a great drink But I was really waiting for because they called so much attention to You know want a fresco that like certainly at some point the fresco was going to be poisoned And then I read an interview apparently they were just like what do cult members what would they drink? And then someone just went like fresco And they were like, yeah, obviously, of course, it's fresco. Let's give them all fresco I thought fresco was just kind of like like like a It was like mind control. That's why I thought it was at first like it turns out I think the idea is that there's nothing special about it. They just really like fresco Yeah, I just I thought the reason why like one carlo esposito Refused it was because he knows it's like a mind control agent and he was like no thanks. I don't want it I think they could do that in a future season But I I think they'll just I think they appreciate the humor of the idea that cult believers just drink fresco No, I think so too also on that note I think the deep is one of the more like understated comedic actors in the show He is so funny He's really funny And I had a lot of complicated feelings about him in season one because I felt like on Some level when he got sexually assaulted it was very much played for laughs and I wasn't sure also necessarily if it was Really a great move to have this character who you know in the opening episodes of the show is committing sexual assault pretty blatantly to then have him be Like almost a sympathetic character. It was like I wonder if that's really what What we need right now, but but I think season two Kind of because it's he's not really I mean he's sympathetic But he's more pathetic than he is sympathetic and he's much more consistently played for laughs and constantly being duped and I feel like Season two made a lot of what happened to him and about him in season one retroactively more okay with me because it solidified the idea that this character is Designed to be a laughing stock and he will probably always in the show Be a laughing stock and that may just be the most Appropriate thing to do with him and that just makes a lot of sense to me I just think he he gives like in that like really weird like commercial. He was like dude That's not okay. Like his delivery. He's this is so understated and so chase Crawford and so deadpan It's it's so great. Like he's played totally straight. Yeah I was watching This like, you know, they were reading like amazon reviews It was like from season one and that actor like he's totally deadpan the whole time Like he's he's really committed to it And I thought that the deep might become like an antagonistic figure, but it's he's totally isn't I guess Unless they're trying to fool us, but so far he definitely I think he's going to stay firmly in the in the present Material of he's going to be kind of a joke and like next season They'll figure out something funny to do with him that's like just him being led down another path of ridiculousness like they did in this season Right, but eventually he'll be I think he'll be redeemed eventually I think they've made him so sympathetic and almost endearing in a strange way That we aren't going to want to see him be Villainous like if he just went back to vat as he really wants to do and he went back to the seven And then he just helped homelander commit whatever evil he wanted to commit Like we would just we would we would kind of hate to see that Because he has the chance to like, you know do better It could be really interesting in broad strokes a lot of the progress that they're going to make on the show Is going to be kind of one by one. How many? prominent powerful superheroes can the boys Flip onto their side like already a train has helped them out Maeve has kind of supported them as well lamp lighter obviously previous member of the seven ends up teaming up with them The question is like How many of them are going to stay loyal to the end and how many of them are going to switch sides and How's that fight eventually going to play out? I kind of feel like if hui wasn't quick enough to get the fuck out of there Like lamp lighter would have just let hui get killed like he wouldn't he didn't care like Can I also just say that lamp lighter's couple episodes like his arc was a standout part of the season for me I really liked it. I can see that. I just feel like I feel like he was on the path like becoming like Likeable and redeemable and then the next episode is just like, yeah, I'm watching porn in the middle of the day I don't know. It just was kind of weird like he went from being really ashamed of himself to like Yeah, I'm watching porn in the middle of the day. Fuck you hui. I don't care like it kind of seemed like he would have wanted to help hui because He didn't just want to commit suicide in front of the statue He wanted to like actually do admit make a difference and help someone I would have appreciated if he sacrificed himself instead of just killing himself in the middle of the hall Yeah, I get that and also I think it's important to note that erik kripke the showrunner of the boys has pointed out that like One of his regrets with season two is killing lamp lighter because he felt like With the actor with shawn ashmore The character kind of came into its own and like could have had more to do and more to say in the story At large then just a two episode arc right and that he could have left him alive and kept him around in an interesting way And he's like, oh, well, you know, I that could have been better But this is how it ended up and I get him killing himself. I get him being guilty I get him being regretful And I get him watching porn in the middle of the day. That wasn't really crossing any lines for me Uh, not that I have really ever watched porn in a context that I wasn't masturbating This is after hours. So I guess it's fine to say that I think if you watch porn if you watch porn recreationally, but you're not actually beating off while you watch it You're probably kind of a psychopath, right? Can we just get that out there? Is that is that universal factor? Is that just my opinion? No, I think so. I I don't think there's any reason to watch porn recreationally If you're popping a dvd in the living room and it's pornography Whether you're by your I mean look if you're watching it with friends like to have a laugh like ha ha ha we're watching porn now I guess that's moderately defensible But if you're by yourself watching porn and you're not masturbating There is something deeply wrong with you. Yes Yeah, I think so I oh on this I mean I don't know especially if it's all porn parodies of your former colleagues at your job, which Maybe specific to lamp lighter in this case. Yeah, it would have been cool because I feel like Maybe not but I feel like that actor is kind is probably Not that easy to get and I would have been cool if they could have used him for more episodes I would have liked that but yeah, yeah, and it's very final you literally watch him burn to death So there's no way he's ever coming back and get his hand ripped off. Yeah, but I mean good job Sean ashmore, you were a good couple episode character the thing this season did that I appreciated was I always thought to myself like, okay, why is homelander bothering with all of this garbage? Why doesn't he just dictate the world and take over and like why doesn't he do that? And this season kind of answered that question as that Helmlanders most like sacred thing the thing he values the most is people cheering his name and people loving him And he knows probably That if he just went around and killed the united nations and killed the president of the united states and killed everyone That was a leader and just took over the world That people wouldn't be shouting his name in love. They'd be shouting it in fear You're a hundred percent right and so I think that's Why the homelander restrains himself sometimes and that's why he doesn't kill Maeve because he knows that if he does This thing's gonna be leaked and it doesn't matter because his labs his what's most important to him is gonna be over So killing butcher not most important to him. I do think it could be alleged that butcher has plot armor I'm definitely of the opinion. This is my goofy fan theory, but I'm gonna state it for the record right now So that if it does come true that this is the case I can cite this as uh as evidence in my favor Um, I think butcher has a superpower And that his superpower is persuasion because all throughout season one and two He is constantly having conversations with people where he tells them what he wants and what he wants them to do And they end up being convinced and it's not always super clear that it's really that convincing an argument He's making and oftentimes it saves his life and it pretty much happens at least every other episode So I think it could be revealed that like Butcher had some compound v action and now he can pretty much get anyone to do what he wants But he limits it to things he can at least convey in conversation or it is limited that way like If that became a plot element it would be a little goofy But I think it's very possible and consistent with how the show is written You can also just make the argument that he's plot armor because he's the main character But also though in that scene with homelander homelander was about to kill him until Maeve showed up. Um, but no, no, no, I I'm not discrediting that I do think that I mean that's an interesting theory like I've I've always thought that like Someone in the boys had had a power that they were keeping secret I feel like I've heard at some point in the comics that the boys end up with power somehow But I do think that having them convince people with powers to Actually support their cause and therefore use their powers against the system Is going to be a much more compelling tv show. I did not expect us to get two seasons in Fully before ever learning why he's called mother's milk. I know I kind of don't want them to say anything about it now Maybe they should just ignore it for the entirety of the show. You mentioned this at the beginning I I think it's spot-on that like this is this is some of the best like satirical like real world representation of superheroes Is it's it's it's some of the best and there's some eye-rolly stuff There's some on-the-nose things, but I do think that It definitely picks at a lot of things that are very common in media and just culture and whatnot and what's interesting Is not only though, is it that like superheroes themselves are commercialized? It's not like superheroes just just exist We know that compound v made them So it's kind of like compound v was the catalyst for being able to commercialize like the superheroes So it's not even that superheroes were like Won over by corporations like they were literally created by the corporations to be the servants of the corporations Yeah, this is certainly not like a particularly insightful thing to say about this. It's it's it's there in the it's it's there in the text It's just interesting to me because in the first season you you just kind of assume like oh Well superheroes exist. No, but they're actually superheroes are a product that was that was manufactured You know and next season we're going to get all kinds of backstory about what the first superheroes in america actually looked like they've cast uh jensen ackles as soldier boy who I suppose in the comics is like the first superhero kind of the captain america analog In that universe and that'll be really interesting to see play out And that I think is actually how you'll be right about The idea of stormfront appearing in the next season I think they'll get aya cashback and they'll have her exist in these flashbacks with soldier boy as liberty or Whomever she was in those in those times because liberty I know she was using that mantle in the 70s, but I don't know what she was doing in the 40s or whatever Was she like a woman who was experimented on I think with compound veal as one of the earliest experiments And that's why she's a moral. I think that's probably what it is. I think they said that so We'll see some of that Anyway, all in all man, if you could rate season two of the boys out of 10 What would you rate it? I'd I'd give it an 8.5 8.5 Yeah, I'd I'd also give it an 8.5 I would and I think the first season I'd give like a 7.7 or like an eight But this is an 8.5 and I think it can Get even better from here. Can you pinpoint a favorite episode? I said, uh, so just reiterate episode four is probably my favorite So I don't know what you said four. I think mine was five whichever one has the tentacle dong I think it's number five. I think it's number five. I felt like while four definitely hit a lot of really interesting character development beats five Also hit some of those really interesting beats. I think by focusing mainly on Frenchy But it also had lots of really cool action and shocking violence And therefore to me encapsulated more of what I'm expecting when I watch the boys All in all, I'm I'm really looking forward to season three I hope that season three is is what season two was the season one. Like I just hope it doesn't lose steam I hope that they Can prioritize like the quality over quantity here and yeah They're already doing a cynical bizarre spinoff Yeah college We're gonna see how that shit turns out dude I think it could be good like Apparently the G men's story in the comics that they're kind of in taking inspiration from is pretty interesting but We'll have to just reserve judgment on that for when it comes out I definitely think a season three is not super flawless. Like I think a season three makes sense. So um, we'll just have to wait and see whenever this pops out and We'll have to see if anything that we said in this episode rings true. Yeah 100 percent Um, thank you guys so much for listening. This is our first sort of experimental after hours episode tell us in the comments like For those of you who are subscribed to us and you listen to us talk about assassin's creed every week Are you interested in hearing what we have to say about things that are not assassin's creed? Uh, you know, hopefully you are if not, we understand and we don't ever have to do this again We probably will not do this every week. We'll just do this when there's something we want to talk about That's not assassin's creed related. I'm already kind of giving the impression I'd like to talk about watch dogs Legion at some point if Tim wants to hear my thoughts on that We'll see how that goes But we love pop culture. We love all things to do with movies tv shows music and video games and We've loved talking about assassin's creed for you guys and I've had a great time this episode getting a little buzzed and talking about the boys. How about you Tim? Yeah, the uh The uh, the buzz is kind of wearing off a little bit I don't know. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's not. I don't know. Yeah I've had a great time. I I definitely I definitely hope that our our listeners enjoy this because I enjoyed doing it I enjoy doing it as well. Just tell us what you think and if you hate this you can tell us if you love it You can please tell us I'm sorry to disappoint. I didn't do any bad impressions of people this time Can you do can you do a homelander impression? Can you do that? No, but I can do a billy butcher do it well Well, well for the invisible cunt All right, Huey, let's take a step the fuck back What you're gonna do I'm gonna get you to put this charge of c4 right up his arsehole Dude Carl Irvin is the best. He's the best dude. I will watch anything with Carl Irvin All right guys, I've been lossing. I've been tim and this has been the hookblade after hours And we might see you next week That's you know a possibility, but we'll definitely see you on thursday talking about assassin's creed To some extent in some way whatever the fuck we do. I don't know, dude Hey Peace out