“The Boys” creator Eric Kripke recently fired back at fans who complained that there are too many “filler episodes” in the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s superhero satire.
“None of the things that happen in the last few episodes will matter if you don’t flesh out the characters. I’m getting a lot of online dissatisfaction, to put it politely,” Kripke said during an interview with TV Guide. “And I’m like, ‘What are you expecting? Are you expecting a huge battle scene every episode?’”
He continued, “At no point during the writing of it was I like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re making filler episodes. So who cares?’ We all thought at the time we’re really getting these important character details. We have something like 14 characters, maybe 15. And I owe it to all of them — in that television is the character business — I owe it to all of them to flesh them out and humanize them and their stories.”
Kripke explained that he and his writers feel they delivered some “crazy, big things” in Season 5. However, those things aren’t necessarily shocking battle scenes. They can also be “giant character movement.”
“But apparently, just because it’s not plot, you’re like, ‘Nothing happened!’ I’m like, ‘Nothing happened, what?’” Kripke said. “The craziest, biggest moves happened. It just wasn’t someone shooting someone else and going, pew, pew, pew. And if that’s what you want, you’re just watching the wrong show.”
The series finale of “The Boys,” in addition to premiering on Amazon’s Prime Video, will also screen in movie theaters using 4DX technology.