“I bet you’ve never danced a day in your entire life”
I just watched the episode in ‘The Boys’ where Frenchie says to Homelander “I bet you’ve never danced in your life” and it kind of stuck with me more than I expected.
At first it sounds like just a random insult or something said in the moment but the more I thought about it the more it actually hit me. It is not really about dancing. It is about everything that comes with it. Being relaxed. Being around people without thinking about power or control. Doing something just because it feels good in the moment and not because it serves a purpose.
I guess dancing can be seen as one of the most human actions there is. No real purpose in terms of survival, no function beyond expression. It is something that feels uniquely ours, something no other species really does in the same way. It can mean celebration, release, connection, or just existing in a moment. It is kind of a quiet form of philosophy in motion.
It made me look at Homelander differently. Not even in a sympathetic way but more like this idea that he has never really had normal life experiences. No awkward moments growing up. No learning how to just exist around people. No real freedom to just be human without everything being about image or control.
And the crazy part is it is Frenchie who says it. Because he is not exactly a clean character either. He has done a lot of bad things and came from a really dark place but that is kind of what makes it hit harder. It feels like he recognizes something in Homelander that he understands on a different level. Like he knows what it is like to be disconnected from normal life but also knows what it is like to slowly crawl back toward it.
That also made me think more about Frenchie and Kimiko. Their whole thing is not really this perfect romance or anything like that. It is more like two people who are broken in different ways trying to figure out how to exist without always being in survival mode. There is something really quiet and human about that.
I do not know that line just put the whole show into a different perspective for me. Under all the violence and chaos it kind of feels like it is really asking what it even means to be human when someone has never really been allowed to live a normal life in the first place.
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I guess I just wanted to make this post to talk about it because ever since I watched that episode I cannot stop thinking about what he said. It kind of changed the way I look at that whole moment and even the show in general. I was wondering if anybody else felt the same way.
Thank you for reading! If you also watched it and have thought about it a couple times I’d love to hear what you think.
TLDR: That line from Frenchie made me realize Homelander has probably never experienced simple normal life moments and it reframed the whole show for me.