Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul aka Homielander and this video we're
breadking down the A-Train to Z on everything we know so far about Season 3 of The Boys.
I'm sorry that A-Z pun sounded better in my head.
Anyway you're not here for the diabolical jokes, you wanna know about Season 3 and we
now have it confirmed that the third entry will begin filming in February 2021.
The listing for the dates was posted on the industry website IATSE 83 and Claudia Doumit
later revealed to Gamesradar that everything had been locked in and that that date was
set in stone. Gamesradar dug deep on the info and through a wayback machine they scanned
the website and found that in October the schedule changed from Early 2021 to February
2021 to August 2021, suggesting that the creative team have been planning this for quite some
time now. The third season was actually confirmed before
the release of the second so it's clear that Amazon knew they had a hit on their hands
and wanted to get the ball rolling as soon as possible.
Now using this information we can predict the release date of the upcoming show if we
look back at the past entries. Gamesradar put together a big breakdown of
this which I'll link in the description below but looking back over the last couple of years
a pattern emerges which helps to give us an estimate of when we will finally get some
brand new episodes. Now Season 1 was filmed from May 2018 up until
October of the same year and the season then dropped on Amazon in July 2019. The second
season filmed from July 2019 up until November 2019 and the second entry dropped in September
2020. So it took five months to film the first season
and four to film the second. Season one was released nine months after filming with Season
Two arriving after ten. If the production of Season 3 is six months
then that means it's probably gonna be either ten or eleven months after it wraps up so
we can expect to see The Boys either in June or July of 2022. It sucks there's gonna be
such a big gap between them and had the pandemic not happened we would have likely seen the
show this time next year. Hopefully they put A-Train in the editing
room or something. However, the trailers for the show tends to
drop within six weeks of things finishing up so we will most likely get our first look
at things around about this time next year. Now as for the first episode we do know that
it is going to be called Payback and Kripke confirmed this on twitter recently by posting
a picture of the first page of the script. Now there is a lot that we can take from this
and if you're a fan of the comics then you will instantly recognise the name. In the
comics Payback are an Avengers Esque parody that end up becoming some of the storyline's
big baddies at one point. Led by Stormfront they attempt to attack the Boys but after
Butcher goes all Rambo on them they're quickly defeated. This leads to their leader fleeing
the scene and the arc culminates with the boys kicking the crap out of...and well back
into Stormfront. Now this moment has already been heavily covered
in the show and I do think that the series will divert quite a bit from it as it's kinda
done things out of order. I can actually see Payback re-assembling and then going after
the boys to get well...Payback. We know that Jensen Ackles is going to be portraying Soldier
Boy and as he was also part of the group it makes sense to go this route.
Anyone who NOSE what happens NOSE we are in for a real treat with this showdown and we
also have a lot of information on who is coming back.
Now all of the members of the boys will be reprising their roles as will the majority
of the seven. Whilst we don't have definite answers on whether Aya Cash will be making
a return, we do know that Stormfront did survive the finale of the show and that she is now
currently in an undisclosed location. Now I kinda have gone back and forth over
whether Stormfront will be returning as she was burned up pretty badly. She also lost
her limbs, however, as we learn from the show, the character Gekko is able to regrow his
and as he works in a lab at Vought it is possible that they will use him to develop a way to
do this for the character. Amazon did recently drop a new trailer to
tease Soldier Boy and Season three. Cash featured in it making me think that she could be back
in some form or another, however I think that Vought will likely want to keep her out of
the way and thus she won't be the main antagonist like she was this time.
On top of this we also know that Giancarlo Esposito has an exetremly busy schedule over
the next year so I imagine that he will be making brief appearances similar to how he
did in Season 2. Instead I think that the main focus will be
centred around Soldier Boy, Homelander and Victoria Neuman. There's potential here for
a lot of interesting dynamics between the trio as we now know that Vic works for Vought
and that Soldier Boy is going to be labeled as the Original Homelander.
In Season Two, Homelander was very outspoken about how Vought needed him more than he needed
them. He also learned that he had been betrayed by them in the finale and also discovered
that both Maeve and Starlight were working with the other side so right now I think he
could really fly off the handle. In regards to Vic, Claudia said the following:
“I’m excited to see what happens with Hughie and her. I’m excited to find out
more about her. I’m excited to really dig into what her backstory is and how she got
to where she is. Also, I’m very excited to see her f**k some s**t up, blow up some
heads” So there is the potential that we will be
fully diving into Vics backstory and learning what her role in Vought truly is. We did learn
throughout the season that Vic had a daughter and as Ryan is the first ever naturally born
supe child, it is possible that Vought are holding her hostage in order to get Vic to
work for her. Now what's interesting is that Eric Kripke,
the Boys Showrunner stated that Soldier Boy and Stormfront have a surprise connection
to one another. Now the most obvious thing here is that they are both part of Payback,
however it could also be possible that they have a shared history. We know that Soldier
Boy is officially the very first superhero so it is possible that he too was part of
Voughts experiments during the second world war. I definitely think that they will be
linked in some way and Soldier Boy likely came over with her from Germany though it
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Now unforunately it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be appearing all that much
in the season and when asked what was happening with him Kripke told Gamesradar
“Of the many things COVID is screwing up in this world, a Jeffrey Dean Morgan cameo
or a Jeffrey Dean Morgan role may be one of them. But if the quarantine is removed and
a couple of things break our way? Then yeah, we’ll try to figure it out.”
So, things are a bit touch and go at the moment with him and I feel worse than Stormfront
looks as I was really hyped to see the actor come across. Negan is my favourite character
in the Walking Dead right now and it sucks that his role in the show may have to be pushed
back. Now Cindy is also meant to be returning and
we know from what's been said in regards to the third season that she is now on the loose
and as dangerous as ever. Her fate was one of the most open ended things about the third
entry and she's pretty much the shows biggest wildcard at this point.
Cindy is the person who could bring to light all the human experimentation that Vought
have been doing and I also think she's gonna be playing a big part too.
Nathan Mitchell too discussed what was going to be happening with his character Black Noir
and the way that things were left at the end. When talking about Season 3 he said:
“Him and Maeve are not going to get along! That’s pretty evident. It is so interesting
because you have this forced alliance between people. Homelander doesn’t trust Maeve,
doesn’t trust Starlight. Noir just fought Starlight, he definitely doesn’t trust Maeve.
A-Train just clawed his way back in, he has this uneasy alliance with Starlight, so now
they’re frenemies. Everybody’s crossed, it’s like this house that’s divided within
itself but still together. There are a lot of interesting undercurrents to the dynamic
that’s going to come out of season 3.”” So there's a lot that could go wrong and as
history tells us, Empires always fall apart from the inside and not because of exterior
forces. At least we know Noir is still alive as he's
also an incredible character that I think they can really do a lot with....even if he
gets very little. Now as for the storyline, beyond the things
that were set up in the second season, we will obviously also be getting some real world
events that influence the plotline. When discussing whether Season 3 would tackle
the pandemic or not, Kripke said “I can tell you that season three, without
being specifically about COVID— we’re having a lot of conversations about the government
response to COVID here in the States. And my guess is, you’ll see that metaphorically
show up in one way or another.” We also know that Herogasm will be showing
up at some point and in the original work this was pretty much a sex filled vacation
for the supes in which they got up to whatever sordid things their little heart desired.
There's a lot to look forward to anyway and I'll of course keep you up to date as we learn
more about the ins and outs of it. Your Thoughts
Now obviously I'd love to hear what you wanna see in the series so make sure you comment
below and let me know. I'm also planning a big character breakdown at some point so let
me know which one of the supes you want me to talk about.
If you want something else to watch after this then definitely check out our breakdown
of the unanswered questions that we have over the ending of Season Two.
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