Well luckily you aren't in charge of the show because him being an all powerful god that takes over the world would be boring as hell for a show.
I think a lot of it was also implied danger, they were told Homelander was basically unhurtable and many like Maeve believed the story because she had little reason to doubt it. She only becomes aware that he isn't all powerful last episode and that fact destroyed the illusion that Voight had created hence why we saw her finally confront him and stand toe to toe with him. For her the illusion is now gone.
agree for maive, but they wanted her to get an happy ending.
I agree Soldier Boy wasnt really a villain as such.
Nah I disagree with that.
Yea, like I said earlier I honestly feel if he had completed his entire mission he set out to do, he would have simply left and went to vegas or on a vacation somewhere, or maybe on a farm somewhere, and he would be kicking back and relaxing with beer. He didn't care about power, he didn't care about his namesake as much, and he didn't care about glory anymore. Those are all things Homelander cared more about.
Thing is while he had views which were very much 80s centric, I don't recall anything he said as being explicitly racist. MM's grandad was basically collateral damage.
If that is true, they didn't do a good enough job of conveying this in the show(even in prior seasons), especially with current day/post time skip Soldier Boy. They portrayed 70s/80s him only as an asshole and a wannabe war hero.
Not once in all 3 seasons Homelander "proved" his might. All he did so far is kill regular people and some D-listers. Everything else was just talk and hype from the characters in the show.
Yeah they played the mental health card with Butcher giving Soldier Boy tons of weed to keep him relatively sedate. But while he was a little unhinged, his fury was aimed at his former team for screwing him over. That bitterness had built and built over decades to the point where he probably thinks some collateral damage is acceptable (Herogasm).
I don't know how BN couldn't survive that, his powers pretty much put him on the level of deadpool, able to survive bullets, stabbings and explosions in prior seasons. It would have been more convincing if Homelander exploded his head, or completely decimated his body to prevent him from walking it off.
I agree it was definitely better than season two which was a notable downward step. However...
This sums up my thoughts on the series to an extent.
Not only that but when speaking to Hugie he shows remorse for killing innocent people and admits it wasn't meant to happen, he just seems a flawed individual and no where near as bad as say A-Train who only grew a conscious after his hypocrisy was pointed out. If anything Soldier Boy is well, a soldier, he did his duty and he isn't proud of everything he did but accepts it. They want you to hate him on the show, but they failed IMO to really give you reason to do so.
That ending with Homelander killing the guy in the audience was stupid, everyone knows "words are violence" is the lunatic left mmo and not associated with the far-king crazy right.
Are you referring to the lazering of the guy who threw his drink at Ryan? I thought him throwing it was actual violence, albeit mild
Black Noir was still moving when we last saw him, and he has crazy renegerative powers. I hope it's not the last we've seen of him. And I actually mean him, not another person put into the Black Noir suit.
Agreed. I absolutely hated that whole "rally" scene towards the end.
I have a different assumption. I think the only reason Maeve...
Yeah honestly I wouldn't have minded if Homelander lost his powers and then somehow had to form an uneasy alliance with The Boys to go up against another threat (such as Head Popper AOC or Edgar, whatever). That would've really turned things on its head and would've brought back a lot more humour back in the show as well (what with all them bants and what not). They could even make it so he'd get his powers back again.
Honestly it felt stupid and OTT, even in the context of this crazy show.
Criticizing others for being critical is the dumbest thing.
Come up with one decent critique of this season then.Criticizing others for being critical is the dumbest thing.
"Just turn your brain off!" yes Jimmy, we're nearly drooling in our seats over here. That good enough for ya?
The writing, an easy target is Maeve surviving the fall, she should have lost her powers from the blast, but I wonder if they'll conveniently forget that too and prop that up as to how she survived the fall. (Even though the blast should have evaporated her, as it had done to everyone else and with smaller doses and with them standing further away)Come up with one decent critique of this season then.
We didn't see at what height she lost her powers.
