The Boys season 5 (spoilers as they air)

[Wesley_Clark]

@Wesley_Clark

So with episode 6 out, people are wondering if Sages plan backfired.

I’m assuming this is all part of her plan. I think she made V1 and she is going to find a way to give it to someone on butchers team, to give them the same power that soldier boy has (to strip supes of their power). Then that person will strip both homelander and soldier boy of their powers, and kill them.

Then that person will basically be like a guardian who can strip supes of their power if they become evil.

I think Sage is pretending what happened was unexpected so that she can manipulate the boys team into letting one of them take the working version of V1 she made.

Or she couldn’t make working V1, but found a way to switch the working V1 from bombsight and gave him a defective version knowing Homelander would take it, and she is going to give the working V1 to someone on the Boy’s team.

Either way, I think this was all part of her plan and both soldier boy and homelander end up having their powers stripped and end up dead. or they end up being immortal but losing their powers, and spend centuries in prison.

Well I was kind of right. Sage gave Kimiko the ability to strip supers of their powers.

However I know the worlds smartest supe is only as smart as the writers. But why didn’t Sage just find a way to take away her own powers if she hated them so much? She could’ve easily engineered a way to remove her super intellect, as proven by her giving Kimiko the powers to strip supes of their powers.

Also I’m sure Sage could’ve not only made V1, but she could’ve made something that reversed compound V, or created a virus that killed supes. She was smart enough that she could’ve found a better way to take away her own powers other than doing self lobotomies.

Also, if someone is super smart, they should be able to figure out a way to manipulate their own emotions so they are happy all the time. Either by inventing drugs or new psychotherapies.

That ending was anti-climactic.

[Quimby]

This season spent way too much time and energy setting up Vought Rising and the characters from Gen V were wasted. I also would have preferred both Homelander and the Deep stay alive without powers and have to live with their pathetic selves. Not a terrible finale but not great.