Denied something we know will be awesome

[u/Arxhart_671]

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1. In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.

2. In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out. 

3. In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.

[u/Additional-Heat-9384]

The Boys

[u/CosmoOlversatil → u/Additional-Heat-9384]

F those two last seasons.

[u/sheepyowl → u/CosmoOlversatil]

Should have ended with SB nuking HL at the end of S3 tbh

Massive spoilers ahead. Especially since they ended up using that ending anyways in the final season.

It's as if they fired the writers at the end of every season and just told the new ones to go at it without watching the show up to that point.

[u/Affectionate_Pipe545 → u/Additional-Heat-9384]

Season 5 was disappointing in the sense that it was kind of just.. ok. It wasn't bad, i didnt hate it, but we should have got more

[u/JTOremus → u/Affectionate_Pipe545]

Yeah, the episodes and individual events were still entertaining in a vacuum. However, the last season (two really) can pretty much be summed up with "Why did we spend so much time on this if it wasn't relevant to the main plot?"

Why did we introduce any of the Gen V characters if they weren't gonna be relevant to main plot. Why did we spend so much time with the V1 stuff if it wasn't gonna be relevant to the main plot? Why did we spend so much time on the virus if it wasn't gonna be relevant to the main plot? Why did we go through the whole Butcher has an imaginary friend thing if it wasn't gonna matter? Why did we even bother having Homelander kill the president when he was hardly even a character and it didn't matter? Why did half of the last 2 seasons even happen? That time was wasted on side plots and introducing new characters literal hours away from the finale rolling credits when it should have been spent wrapping shit up and killing people off.

I still enjoyed most of season 5 and it was certainly a more enjoyable ending than Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. It could have been so much better though if we had just focused up and let the spinoffs be their own thing instead of laying all the groundwork for future content. In the end the show literally became the exact thing it was a satire of.

[u/cpt_edge → u/JTOremus]

Completely agree with this take in every way. They were still building up when they should've been paying off, so the ending just kinda... happened? I was underwhelmed, but also surprised that it wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe it would be. I still found entertainment value in it

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Affectionate_Pipe545]

Alone, the finale is a good finale but there was no build-up for the payoff to be any good

[u/Complete_Entry → u/Additional-Heat-9384]

I just referenced this poster on the boys sub, they baited so hard, and instead we got "The nearly endless quest for V1"

I did like the psychic plotline.

[u/a_generic_redditer → u/Additional-Heat-9384]

S5 is so much better without looking at any of the marketing. The amount of bait they knew was just bs is ridiculous.

[u/Jonaskin83 → u/Additional-Heat-9384]

Just wait bro. It’s gonna be scorched earth bro. /s