That’s just fysics™. Fiction + physics = fysics™.
Srsly, you’re right. Even if his suit and glasses were super-duper-strength materials to resist impacts as he runs, he has quite a bit of exposed skin that should be permanently bruised, if just from bugs and debris in the air.
You can’t really be a speeding superhero unless one of your powers is invulnerability from the effects of speeding.
The other thing I didn’t like about that girlfriend-getting-turned-into-a-mist scene, is that everyone made a big deal that she had one foot off the curb. As if that was the law or something - if you are off the sidewalk, you are fair game to get misted by a superhero. Don’t people cross streets in that universe? Does A-Train stop at crosswalks?
You are supposed to be outraged by that. It was meant to be a bullshit excuse.
Media coverage, controlled by Vought, was trying to convince the public the deceased girlfriend was in the middle of the street, to partially absolve A-Train. That was part of Wee Hughie’s (“Stop calling me that. I’m 6 feet tall!”) issue which made him recruitable by The Boys.
Translucent came after them, and once that happened he had to die. It’s not about what evil he personally did, he was onto them and if he got away they were all fucked.
Overall, I thought this was pretty damn great, but there’s one thing I think they fumbled: the whole Compound V-conspiracy. So, the CIA has no inkling at all, but somehow, Starlight’s parents knew it was an option to get her suped up? So, are all parents of Supes in on it, and nobody’s ever spilled anything?
I mean, the origin of Supes has got to be the most well-studied thing in this universe, both from a scientific as well as an intelligence angle. I doubt the spooks would just run with the ‘chosen by god’-angle. Yet, nobody ever suspects anything regarding the corporation that apparently makes all of its money with Supe marketing, but still somehow some parents just know that you can call up Vought and they’ll supe up your kid?
That kinda took me out of this. Still, overall, that’s a fairly minor complaint.
Oh, and one even smaller complaint: what was up with Homelander’s blanket? Why was it apparently included with the material shipped out to shoot his fake childhood reminiscence, if it wasn’t to be used?
For comparison, in the books, the Boys know about Compound V and they use it themselves to have a fighting chance against the Supes.
My guess, not based at all on my very limited knowledge of the source material, is that someone is manipulating Homelander to go over the edge (more than he already is). It might even have been Elizabeth Shue’s character, though if it was, it didn’t work out well for her.
The one I didn’t get was Drakkar Noir. What was his superpower supposed to be, intimidating people into letting him play their pianos?
The show didn’t say. All you saw was when he fought The Female. Saying anything more would be a spoiler. Mrs. D_Odds and I chuckled at his name of “Black Black”, though I like yours even better. 
ETA: Drakkar Noir seemed to be the only one Homelander respects of The Seven. He never talked down to him, tried to intimidate him, and when dressing down the others, Homelander paid Black Noir a compliment.
The way I remember it, it was marked DO NOT USE after he freaked out about it.
But yeah, I’m still not clear on it. He hates “re”-creating an idyllic childhood that he never actually had — which I get — but why is the blanket so much larger a trigger than anything else?
Maybe it really was his blanket from when he was growing up in the lab?
I’m pretty sure they showed the blanket in a flashback to the lab.
As to Black Noir, thus far he seems to subtle comic relief. He makes people nervous.
The blanket was the one thing that was from his real past and not the past that Vought invented for him.
I just finished, was fantastic. The final scene actually shocked me. I thought maybe the kid survived, but I didn’t think Bucher’s wife did (or that they would keep her alive - though I guess since the doctor did say Homelander not being with a loving family was his biggest mistake…).
As for 8 episodes. I’m perfectly fine with it. The pacing was really well done and I don’t know if adding 2 more episodes would have messed it up. Also with streaming shows getting canceled left and right these days for cost/subscriber ratio, I’m ok with a show cutting costs by doing less episodes a season which may lead to more seasons overall.
Yup. As I understand it:
That scene is mirrored in the final episode, when he decides to save A-Train’s life, despite having even more reason to kill him. He’s decided to take a path different from Butcher’s. It’s a great scene of growth.
Great series. But there’s one big problem with it, that I see. Women’s bodies keep getting violated by supervillains in order to motivate the protagonists.
Hugh’s motivation? His girlfriend is killed by a supe.
Butcher’s motivation? His wife is raped and murdered by a supe.
Annie’s motivation? She’s raped by a supe.
They lean really heavily into the Women in Refrigerators cliche. In all those cases, I think the story would’ve been a helluva lot more interesting if they’d just switched one or both genders.
They’ve improved a little bit over the source material, which is just so bathed in misogyny, racism, and homophobia that I’m actually impressed that they produced something that is only this much problematic.
Yay?
I agree. Although I’ll argue that’s not Annie’s motivation? Yes, although she’s raped by a supe. Her motivation is she wants to be a hero. She even says it in the series, that the only thing people pickup about her speech is the rape. But the speech itself is about more than that. It’s about trying to be a good person, even if it’s outside of the Christian lifestyle.
I know, right?