Black Noir was the only character Homelander seemed even remotely afraid of. Ignoring him for the first season was funny, and making him unstoppable in the second season (almost) made him the ultimate wildcard. I don't know if they would actually take him down by tree nut, but I'd almost be ok with it because that is also pretty funny.
I've purposefully stayed away from the comics.
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I saw the big reveal coming it just made sense. This show is an oddity in quite a few ways. There are no clear heroes, no clear main character, you don't really relate to any of them. The social commentary if you can call it that is not clear either.
I don't think Noir is done. They might give him the zombie storyline though.
Soldier Boy is the clear replacement for Stormfront. Replace the literal Hitler Nazi with the WWII hero. Works on the PR side of things, and can parallel Homelander reducing his impact/influence.
I'm curious where Deep and Newman's characters are going.
I also think Stormfront will basically be in the supe cells in Vought Tower. Wouldn't surprise me if A-Train welcomes her back to the tower in a similar way Deep welcomed Starlight (but avoiding the Pippi Longstocking response). Stormfront would doubly hate that. I'm not advocating for this, but I could see the show referencing this happening.
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Here's something thats been bothering me for a while.
Stormfront was the first successful V injection. Then she and Vought fell in love and had a daughter.
That means supes can reproduce.
It also means that powers don't pass through reproduction, assuming Cloe didn't have powers.
Wouldn't this imply that Ryan would have been injected with Compound V? Presumably without Becca's knowledge or consent.
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I know this is different from the comics, but there have been some major variances from the comics to this point as well. It just doesn't sit right that Ryan is the first supe child, and has superpowers when Stormfront had a kid without.
It is possible Stormfront was lying to Homelander.
It's also possible that Cloe had superpowers but it wasn't mentioned.
Also, given the climate in the US, and how it is mirrored in this season, I find it hard to believe that people would turn on Stormfront being a literal Nazi. It seems like at least 20% should still support her. Perhaps, that will come up at the start of next season.
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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.
Sounds like someone could use a Fresca.
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just assumed Noir was out of commission temporarily, he has super healing and durability. I got the impression that this was kind of like his off switch as he reflexively ate the whole bar like he'd been brainwashed to do.
A really good season, but still a bit of a disappointment as my expectations were higher than what we got.
The Good
Homelander and his son, stormfront, hughie, frenchie, mothers milk, starlight were all up to my expectations
The Bad
Everything with Maeve is boring. The Lamplighter character was so inconsistent that I never found him compelling, they should have made him a full psycho instead of trying to soften him up. Making the AOC character the head burster was lame, they didn't really set it up and it didn't really make sense, I'd rather they deal with it better in the next season.
The nitpicking
They need to drain all the Jack Sparrow out of butcher's character, sauntering around like he's always on acid doesn't match the character at all. I like Kimiko, but I think they could get a lot more out of the character and that the actress and writers are still trying to figure her out. Overall the show felt a lot more typical this season, and the leaned on a lot of the tropes common of these anti-hero shows oh, but still manages to be better than just about everything else.
I hope doppelganger shows up again in the future and he just faked having his neck broken so he could escape the hell homelander had created for him.
Wow what a crazy episode. Epic ending. My fiance must have cried 3 times as we watched. Had a bit of everything. That it was a season ending finale should be like!
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Was a bit worried what Butcher might do at the end. That look in his eyes....wow. Glad he didn't go all psycho. Although I did notice (unless I missed it) that he didn't say to Ryan it wasn't his fault, like his wife told him to? Maybe that comes into play somewhere down the road. Unless of course, I missed that he did in fact say it.
Butcher stole this one for me. Love how he walks the line. I feel uncomfortable liking him.
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Stormfront could have had her child before she was injected with compound V.
"He gave me the first successful V injection, he taught me everything, and then we fell in love, he gave me a daughter."
Now I don't put it past Stormfront lying, or distorting the truth.
But it is odd to tell Homelander that Ryan is the first superhero to successfully reproduce, only to then say 'I was the first successful V injection, and then had a daughter'.
Stormfront is a manipulative beyotch, and it could just be her manipulating Homelander, but I'm surprised others (eg: YouTube review channels) haven't picked up on this.
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I looked into the Fresca stuff, apparently it's just an inside joke from the show runners. They thought amongst themselves what non-alcoholic drink would a super hero be addicted to.
So, nothing to do with compound V, it's not spiked with mind control drugs, nothing.
Another little detail I've noticed is that we only see a handful of Supes in street clothing: Maeve, Starlight, Kumiko, and a few minor characters. I suppose they are the only ones we are supposed to relate to.
As far as I can recall, we never see Homelander, Stormfront, A-Train, The Deep, and Black Noir outside of their suits.
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Homelander did mention at the start of season 1 that he gave up on his secret identity. It seems the ones that thrive on the attention/celebrity have given up on theirs as well.
The primary connection between the 3 head pop scenes is that Vought’s secrets were being threatened. So the idea so far has to be that AOC is a Vought agent. It is a little strange though if it was her doing it at the congressional hearing so easily, while still being able to act as if it wasn’t her. She seemed to be pretty focused when attacking the Scientology guy. Maybe it’s related to distance.
"He gave me the first successful V injection, he taught me everything, and then we fell in love, he gave me a daughter."
Now I don't put it past Stormfront lying, or distorting the truth.
But it is odd to tell Homelander that Ryan is the first superhero to successfully reproduce, only to then say 'I was the first successful V injection, and then had a daughter'.
Stormfront is a manipulative beyotch, and it could just be her manipulating Homelander, but I'm surprised others (eg: YouTube review channels) haven't picked up on this.
It could also mean that not all children get superpowers. Just like when people take V sometimes nothing happens, and perhaps the nothing outcome is far more common in childbirth.
It would also explain why Stormfront is so interested Ryan. If it was common for children if Supes to get powers, surely Vought would have already set up a breeding program. Breeding Supes with different powers, the way people breed dogs.
I assumed that the OG person popper from the Supe Asylum was the one exploding people. So now there are two with this power?
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