@zzGodSpeed How lol? Buchanan just tore up his knee. Roquan is slow and fat and the most overpaid LB in the NFL. And Simpson is a hopeful projection. Itโs a terrible situation
@GeboMpls You might not but the left certainly does my man. You ask if they believe heโs a martyr and 80% of leftists will call him a martyr. Try it out and not with your most reasonable friends
@Kristo67501283 This show has been awful for a while intentionally. Itโs just a lazy, boring, and cringey hyperbolic political parody of Trump and Fox News. Which is ironic considering who Trump and Fox News is bought and paid by
Frankly, I think this would have been an even worse cop-out. The big problem here is that the very idea of magically taking away his powers is silly. It was silly when they introduced it and it's still silly now.
Not to get too deep into analyzing the realism of superheroes, but bear in mind The Boys sells itself on its realism! The whole point is "how superheroes would actually play out!" So it literally asks for you to criticize it on these grounds.
Homelander was modified with V while he was an embryo. If his power comes purely from the V in his blood, how did they give him enough that it's still present? We've seen how much other people have to inject to get powers. There physically could not be that much inside him.
The real obvious explanation is he is significantly physiologically different from a normal human, **as a result of the V,** not that he has magic juice in his veins giving him magic powers. That's a stupid concept even when applied to the other supes, but it makes even less sense in his case.
The whole concept of the de-powering beam is there because Kripke is too lazy and stupid to actually figure out a way to beat Homelander. Mind you, this wouldn't be hard in a writing sense - just put together a big enough team of other supes to do the job - but Kripke killed off or depowered all the characters he would need for something like that for subversion, shock value, or dragging the plot out longer than it needed to be. So he's left with absolutely nothing. So not only does he need the magic beam, but Homelander's lasers suddenly do no damage when they could slice Kimiko in half before, and he suddenly forgets that he has super speed.
I personally think that this is because Kripke is stupid and talentless, but it comes across as low-budget.
What's funny is that Supernatural did the **exact** same thing to its final villain, but I'm pretty sure he'd already left the show at that point. So this isn't him repeating his old mistakes, it's actual plagiarism.
@HenryCliff33@flash101808 I definitely did grasp that but itโs not anything special to understand nor a good or deep ending. Kripke just wrote him as more and more pathetic in the later seasons and it was boring and lazy
@flash101808 The audience just doesnโt like the direction they were taking the character for years now. Itโs boring and lame and a hyperbolic political message
@flash101808 This is a stupid tweet on many levels. A. I would hope he would he played him for 7 years. B. This isnโt some deep ending, thereโs nothing to understand of course the director would end it this way. He hated the character & was making him an embarrassing pathetic parody of Trump