The interaction between The Legend and Homelander was surprisingly nice. It really sells perfectly how much Homelander is really just a little scared boy blessed with godly strength, and the shock and uncertainty expressed in homelander’s face when The Legend shows that he isn’t just unafraid, but genuinely expresses care for what homelander went through growing up that made him what he is.
I honestly think they let him live just because it was the most jewish character ever & the extremely jewish writers room had weird feelings about aryan super soldier homelander graphically murdering him. The shift from going "I ___(sex act) with (starlet/supe)" over and over to that dialogue was jarring and weird.
This is generally just one of the things you have to suspend disbelief over for superhero stories. They have immunity to their own powers or else it just complicates world building. A fire thrower can't burn their own skin. Someone with ice powers can't accidentally freeze themselves. Someone with ultra fast speed has a brain that isn't affected by g-forces. Power punchers can never break their hands throwing their hardest shots. Homelander's lasers burn through his arm but never blind him. Oh Father's ears are impervious to his sound blasting.
The rules never make sense. Which is why capeshit can never really rise above its own mediocre beginnings. Where is Kimiko getting the physical matter to just instantly regenerate? How does Little Cricket grow large or shrink small? How can heroes with flight move through the air? If Compound V is injected in someone what if they bleed out and need a blood transfusion?
The more you think about this stuff the less you will enjoy comic book stories and shows.
a lot of the coolest things in our world that we can readily observe are difficult to explain, it only doesn't ruin the immersion because you know these things really exist already, not because your conception of these things is actually coherent. For example: Why don't jet engines melt? They're made of metal but they get hotter than the melting temperature of all the metals we make jet engines out of! The answer is
fucking boring and watching a movie about jet pilots is infinitely more interesting to 99% of people.
The alternative of actually trying to explain fictional things can be so much worse, too. for example, the introduction of midichlorians in the star wars prequels. The force being a mysterious religious element of the universe was infinitely cooler than it being a substance in your blood that you could get tested for.
I'm so glad I was an early "wow this show sucks ass" adopter. I knew this shit was gonna be cringey as fuck and turbo-preachy by the "fly straight hue hue hue" religious festival shit like this was made in 2004 and Pat Buchanan was still reeing on national TV.
I watch it because its terrible, and because it is a glimpse into the minds of the kind of people who think it is good. I don't know many people like that anymore, but it is good to understand what the other half of the country is like.
It's really amazing to me how they thought having The Boys accomplish almost nothing for themselves for five whole seasons was a good idea. Just about all their wins have come from supes betraying supes or dumb luck. The only thing about this show I find more infuriating is that we only got 2 seasons of The Tick but we get an extended universe of this bullshit.
last season they failed at every single thing they set out to do and then got put in a concentration camp. they're on a losing streak again. I think around season 3 I genuinely began thinking that the vought supes are genuinely more likable because at least they achieve things. There is this constant tension in the show where the writers can't decide if the vought faction supes are incompetent or not, they're all supposed to be stupid (except for the non-whites) but also inexplicably better at everything they do than the good guys.
Also- Kimiko's dialogue this season is deplorable. it makes me hate that her character learned to speak. I also don't give a fuck if they want to have kids or not, why would anyone care? frenchie fucked a bunch of guys and kimiko encouraged that, these people are disgusting freaks.
