He was certainly afraid of hurting her and assumed he would just cut her in half if he tried so I don’t think he can control it’s strength.
Yeah, they have consistently depicted Homelander as having no training in super-heroing, and being terrible at using his powers except in the most ham-handed manner.
They wrapped it up nicely for the main characters. There’s still a lot of super villains, super terrorists, and super mistakes out there that they didn’t address, but they were there right from the start anyway, we just didn’t know all about them.
The only unsatisfactory part for me is that Queen Maeve didn’t get Homelander under control with her video long before hand. She knew he’d do anything to maintain his public image, Maybe I missed something about that.
The congresswoman being the head blower upper was a nice little touch at the end. Looking forward to more seasons.
That final scene, with Homelander and the moon. Didn’t I read that Amazon didn’t let them use that? Or did they change their mind after the success of Season 1?
He did hurt her, sort of. Does she have the power of regeneration?
That question seemed eerily familiar, but it was just from earlier in the thread. I can imagine some resistance to that before the show proved to be such a hit.
They wanted it for season 1, apparently got approval for season 2.
I don’t get it. In fact, I just rewatched that scene and I still don’t get it.
I mean, I get the fact that he’s having an emotional breakdown. But what is there about the scene that makes it something Amazon wouldn’t want to release in Season One? Is he trying to blow up the moon?
He’s just jerking off.
He’s not wearing pants and he’s masturbating to climax.
I did not get the impression they would have been so hurt in public opinion without not-AOC on the scene. If they wanted to sabotage the opposition, they should have had her arguing that super-terrorists are actually justified, because of the history of U.S. imperialism, yadda yadda. The whole Chomsky/Zinn type routine. Instead, she came across as pretty reasonable, not at all extremist.
There would have always been another not AOC if someone hadn’t taken the mantle. Making her ineffective would have also resulted in someone else leading the real fight against Vought. The only times Vought actually got hurt was when she was directly bypassed, like Annie releasing the supes origin and them posting Stormfronts Nazi info online. I’m sure Huey and Lamplighter would have been taken out if they hadn’t left to rescue Annie.
Doing biological experiments on babies is frowned upon in some places, but I can’t speak for Boys-world.
If she was ineffectual because she was milquetoast, yes. But ineffectual because she was a firebreathing left winger? No. People from that side of the party love to hear the U.S. bashed as a bad actor on the world stage, but that also marginalizes their influence with the general public.
There still would have been a big hole left for someone exactly like that character to step in and lead the fight. She was exactly what Vought needed and she did an amazing job for them.
I agree. I loved that scene, but rolled my eyes when Frenchie said that. It wasn’t necessarily out of character for Frenchie, but it was a little too much of a wink–see what we did there? from the writers to the audience.
Really strong finale, though, to a strong season. Looking forward to more, though I wonder how much of a wait there will be.
Plus the fact that she just took off and left them there completely powerless since none of them could fly and then went and killed Becca completely took away from whatever point they were trying to make. Yes, it was satisfying watching them beat the fuck out of the Nazi bitch, but in the end it turned out to be not just pointless but literally the opposite of what they were trying to show. Hell Becca did more to her with the knife through the eye (how did that even work anyways).
All I could think of was how it was obviously meant to recreate a scene from the comic, which I thought was posted in this thread, but must have been on some other site.
I googled it up. (I had seen only the last page in the earlier reference–turns out that is Stormfront, but male.)
No spoilers, I think, just a very divergent story. (Looks like the TV series is much better than the comic.)
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Yeesh, that definitely does not look well written at all. Fascinating that they could get such a good show out of something like that.
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Oh absolutely.