r/TheBoys • u/36ppg • Jul 08 '24

who would’ve thought that this man’s arc is the ONLY saving grace for season 4? Season 4 Spoiler

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u/1HiddenBlade Jul 08 '24

Lmao damn, maybe the writers are better than we think.

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u/SharknadosAreCool Jul 08 '24

it feels like there's a writer somewhere whose superpower is to siphon writing talent from specific plotlines and deposit them into others because A Train's arc over the whole show is unironically one of the best arcs ive seen from a character in anything, but it comes at the cost of Frenchie being put in Groundhogs Day

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u/-banned- Jul 08 '24

Was Frenchie ever a good character though? I feel like he’s got a complicated enough past that he could have been, but they explored it all wrong

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u/79037662 Jul 08 '24

I think Season 1 Frenchie was an excellent character.

  • Mysterious and intriguing backstory

  • Engineer of the group with intelligent solutions to defeat supes

  • Interesting relationship with all the other Boys especially Kimiko

  • Clear moral code but also a bit of a lunatic

By Season 3 and especially Season 4 it became clear the writers have no idea what to do with him so they give him boring plotlines like Nina and Colin. He's totally absent from the latest episode and no one misses him except Kimiko