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Warning: SPOILERS forward for Gen V season 2, episode 8!The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke has defined how the ending of Gen V season 2 lays the groundwork for season 5 of the superhero collection. Gen V season 2 ended with Marie and her associates working into Starlight once more, who asks in the event that they wish to be part of a resistance in opposition to Homelander and Vought.
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter, Kripke, who additionally serves as an government producer on Gen V, broke down how season 2 of the spinoff units up The Boys season 5:
They’re [playing] an essential half. A part of the enjoyable of wrapping out season two that approach is that we actually get to set the desk for season 5, the place there’s now this energetic and rising resistance led by Starlight that A-Prepare is a vital a part of. They’re actually making an attempt to take the combat again to Homelander and this form of fascist authorities. By the identical respect, we nonetheless work laborious to attempt to keep our stability that The Boys is about The Boys, and Gen V is about Gen V. The characters present essential assists, but it surely’s nonetheless about The Boys, and you’ll watch it with out having watched Gen V and vice versa. However watching each remains to be a way more enjoyable expertise.
We don’t play it in season 5 of The Boys that that is the tip of Gen V. We go away them open-ended as a result of we even have extra Gen V story to inform, and we’d love to inform it. It depends upon the scores and the way many individuals find yourself tuning in. We now have to make it so Amazon picks us up for one more season.
He’s received lots of people in line who wish to b—h slap him. (Laughs) Clearly, Butcher is within the entrance of that line. However there’s Stan Edgar, Marie, Annie, Huey. They’re making an attempt to mount an actual push, however they’re additionally outgunned, outmanned. You’re in a complete nation that has drunk Homelander’s Kool-Assist. They’re outmatched by the dimensions of the tons of of superheroes which might be in each city throughout the nation, who’ve been given authority over the police. So it truly is a real underground resistance in opposition to a fascist authorities, which positively has no comparability or parallel to something occurring anyplace on the earth.
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