{"id":472555,"date":"2026-05-07T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:09:11","slug":"the-boys-creator-responds-to-fan-complaint-about-filler-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472555\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Boys&#8217; Creator Responds to Fan Complaint About &#8216;Filler Episodes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-boys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-boys\" data-tag=\"the-boys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Boys<\/a>\u201d creator <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/eric-kripke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eric-kripke\" data-tag=\"eric-kripke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Kripke<\/a> recently fired back at fans who complained that there are too many \u201cfiller episodes\u201d in the fifth and final season of Prime Video\u2019s superhero satire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNone of the things that happen in the last few episodes will matter if you don\u2019t flesh out the characters. I\u2019m getting a lot of online dissatisfaction, to put it politely,\u201d Kripke said during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/news\/the-boys-showrunner-eric-kripke-season-5-filler-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TV Guide<\/a>. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018What are you expecting? Are you expecting a huge battle scene every episode?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe continued, \u201cAt no point during the writing of it was I like, \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re making filler episodes. So who cares?\u2019 We all thought at the time we\u2019re really getting these important character details. We have something like 14 characters, maybe 15. And I owe it to all of them \u2014 in that television is the character business \u2014 I owe it to all of them to flesh them out and humanize them and their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKripke explained that he and his writers feel they delivered some \u201ccrazy, big things\u201d in Season 5. However, those things aren\u2019t necessarily shocking battle scenes. They can also be \u201cgiant character movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBut apparently, just because it\u2019s not plot, you\u2019re like, \u2018Nothing happened!\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Nothing happened, what?\u2019\u201d Kripke said. \u201cThe craziest, biggest moves happened. It just wasn\u2019t someone shooting someone else and going, pew, pew, pew. And if that\u2019s what you want, you\u2019re just watching the wrong show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series finale of \u201cThe Boys,\u201d in addition to premiering on Amazon\u2019s Prime Video, will also <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/the-boys-series-finale-movie-theaters-4dx-showtimes-1236738233\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">screen in movie theaters using 4DX technology.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Boys\u201d creator Eric Kripke recently fired back at fans who complained that there are too many \u201cfiller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,183762,19,17,31695,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-472555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eric-kripke","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-boys","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116532043332005806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}