I don't think this is what's really happening. Stormfront fulfills his need for emotional/sexual/oedipal attachment the way Stillwell did, but Homelander's true allegiance is to Homelander only. I'm fairly certain that Stormfront is going to discover that she can only manipulate him so far before she crosses a line and finds herself in many different pieces.
at least that's the only resolution to her arc that I can see, given that if they become permanent allies then the rest of the world is just completely screwed. nobody else can even come close to scratching either of them, unless that telekinetic girl's got another level of explodey in her. heck I don't even know why Female's brother didn't try to use his force crush on her...he had sufficient power to flip a large boat, that should have been enough to do some bodily damage to even a high level supe.
I don't think Homelander will necessarily be wearing a uniform with a nazi emblem. However, I do think he's been converted to Stormfront's racialist beliefs. He clearly was already leaning heavily that way anyways. For him, being a blond superman who sees himself as superior, it's a small jump. He's basically taking the move
As far as taking them down, if you have someone who can take down one of them, you can take down both. It would just be a matter of engaging them separately or turning them against each other. With two people who are totally self-orientated, that isn't such a huge feat. I don't see them as a totally unified front. It's pretty clear that Homeland sees himself as superior to everyone, including other people of the same race. Although I guess you could argue his attitude also arises from an inferiority complex of some kind too.
E7 was a step back. It seemed pretty slow for the second last episode of the season, until the end of course but now I have no idea where they're planning to take this.
I enjoy every episode even if this season has felt a bit of bloat at times with the extended family relationship scenes (you can't just have exploding heads for a full hour of course). but I feel like I can't get an escape from the real world at all while watching lately cause the references to modern societal issues are just relentless. just in E7 alone you've got
radicalization and extremist violence
angry partisan rallies
sensationalist news coverage
anti-immigration/racism
social media/memes
LGBTQ marketing stereotypes
religious fanaticism
pejorative labeling e.g. SJW/snowflake
AOC clone
thoughts and prayers
porn parodies
Vought Cinematic Universe
it's fun up to a point, but I feel like sometimes I'm just like, ok ok I get it, I see what you did there, please hit me over the head with it slightly less. there must be some way to write these episodes with just a little less reliance on real life topical stuff, because I think there's a danger of turning the show into more of a time capsule than a series with enduring value.
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I enjoy every episode even if this season has felt a bit of bloat at times with the extended family relationship scenes (you can't just have exploding heads for a full hour of course). but I feel like I can't get an escape from the real world at all while watching lately cause the references to modern societal issues are just relentless. just in E7 alone you've got
radicalization and extremist violence
angry partisan rallies
sensationalist news coverage
anti-immigration/racism
social media/memes
LGBTQ marketing stereotypes
religious fanaticism
pejorative labeling e.g. SJW/snowflake
AOC clone
thoughts and prayers
porn parodies
Vought Cinematic Universe
it's fun up to a point, but I feel like sometimes I'm just like, ok ok I get it, I see what you did there, please hit me over the head with it slightly less. there must be some way to write these episodes with just a little less reliance on real life topical stuff, because I think there's a danger of turning the show into more of a time capsule than a series with enduring value.
It had fat Neil though, so its ok.
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I can't believe it took until the season finale for me to find out that they upload each week's episode on Thursday evening and not early Friday morning.
Anyway, good finale.
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