u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3

I know how Emmy or any other awards for that matter works and they don't necessarily view such show as good enough to be considered for an award. But the audience knows how these 2 carried the whole show with their consistent, brilliant performance for 5 seasons and 7 years, especially towards the end, when the writing was awful.

Hopefully we see them in better and bigger projects soon where writing and budget doesn't try to limit their performance.

The series was underwhelming overall and the finale was a bit disappointing yet I think we can all agree that this was one of the most satisfying scenes in the entire series.

Watching Homelander trying to laser, fly and not being able to do so and finally (slowly) coming to terms with it was both hilarious and satisfying. (Meme 1) Butcher realising this with a smirk and repeating the words of their deal: Scorched Earth, Shock and Awe & Blood and Bone was pure cinema.

Then we got to the part which we all had debated before: how would the Homelander behave when he is ultimately rendered powerless? Some of us felt he would still not give up his ego, some felt he would beg while some felt he would go out still ranting & raging.

Turns out we all were right in parts: Homelander begging to be spared and ready to do anything, even suck Butcher's d#ck and eat his s#it, was again partly hilarious but still satisfying. (Meme 2, couldn't include due to reddit auto-removing gory posts). Many people might feel like it's out of character for Homelander but I feel it was totally in character coz that's how psychopathic people, who have nothing of their own and everything they have is by virtue of the power they wield, behave after they get stripped off their powers.

But even after that, towards the end, Homelander's narcissistic ego still gave in and his final words (before "no, no!") was "I am the Homelander" (Meme 3)

Kudos to both Antony Starr and Karl Urban again since this scene was not so well written but they gave their all and their sheer brilliant performance, made it into a satisfying ending.