The last episode of “The Boys”, made available on Friday (1/7) by Amazon Prime Video, ended with a moment “Luke, I’m your father” that Jensen Ackles, who said the words, was also was able to predict. Obviously, this is a spoiler for those who haven’t seen it yet.
The exact line uttered by Soldier Boy, Ackles’ character, was, “What parent wouldn’t want this for their child?”
In the last scene of the week, she was on the phone to reveal to the stunned Homelander / Homelander (Antony Starr) that he was her father.
In the storyline, the Vought conglomerate used Soldier Boy’s sperm to conceive Homelander in the 1980s and removed the veteran hero so he could create his own super soldier in his own way, with the goal of having a superhero. domestic to be with. the public face of the company’s business. But during the call, Soldier Boy tells Homeland that he would never have a problem seeing him become his successor. This is where the phrase “Which parent wouldn’t want this for their child?” Comes into play.
“As a fan of the show, I didn’t expect this to happen,” Ackles confessed in an interview with Variety. “In a way I thought the only connection was that they were contextualized in the same way, that Soldier Boy was the original Homelander, replaced by a younger version of the same thing. But I never thought there was a real blood relationship. ” .
Ackles, who worked with “The Boys” showrunner on “Supernatural” before debuting in Season 3 – Eric Kripke created both attractions – admitted that this kind of twist is “one of the things I love about shows.”
“When you have a movie script, you have the beginning, middle and end right there in front of you. You can make all your choices about what you want to do at the beginning, middle and end, so that everything fits together “, he compared. . “But on a show like ‘Supernatural’ and ‘The Boys’, I’m hanging out with the audience, hoping that the choices I’ve made in the past are in line with the future. So, I immediately had to sit back and rethink everything he was doing, and make sure of not having made the wrong choices [ao receber o roteiro do episódio]. But Kripke assured me no. “
Kripke himself confessed that not even he knew, when he began discussing the third season of “The Boys” with the writing staff, that Soldier Boy would be Homeland’s father. It was a choice that came in the midst of many conversations about parenting conflicts faced by characters like Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Leitinho / Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) this season.
“There is the [razão] obvious, which is the Soldier Boy who is kind of the first Homelander. So there is some logic, “Kripke told Variety.” But pay attention to the themes of the season, which in many ways is about fathers and sons. It’s about how parents can pass on their trauma to their children, especially this toxic masculinity that children have to become the society-defined standard male. “
“We talked about Hughie and his father, Butcher and his father, Butcher and his son, Homelander and his son. It wasn’t the plan set out in the beginning, but when we were talking about the season’s theme, someone pitched in” It wouldn’t be a folly. If …? “And I jumped high,” he added her.
This decision was one of the many new features introduced in the series that differed from the original comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. In publications, Soldier Boy is not Homelander’s father. Due to this decision, the meeting between the two characters happened differently than expected in the episode “Herogasm”. If in the series they enter into a physical confrontation, in the printed pages they engage in the orgy of superheroes.
Kripke confessed that he went off topic multiple times when asked by viewers who expected to see the scene in the last episode. The reason was to keep the turn secret. “Everyone kept asking, ‘Why don’t they have sex?’ And I was like, ‘Look. You’ll understand why,’ “the producer explained.
In fact, father-son sex would make things more extreme than they already are on the show.
This twist tends to have major consequences in the season finale, which takes place next Friday (7/8), as Soldier Boy has engaged with Billy Brutus to kill Homelander. And he said he always keeps his promises.
“The impact of this discovery manifests itself in Episode 8,” Ackles revealed, citing the season finale. “We see the reluctance this causes not only in Soldier Boy, but also in Homeland, about what to do with this information bomb. Basically, Soldier Boy has some tough choices to make. He promised Brutus that he would help him, but the situation is. changed “.
Source: Terra
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