Who takes it? What's the top 5?
You get the option to hang out for one day with one of the 4 most controversial characters of this sub. Rules are simple: you cant hurt them in any way, they cant hurt you, their personalities are just like in the manga, you get to ask them anything you want, they're obliged to reply 100% honestly. You get to take them anyplace you want whether they want it or not. No romantic/sexual/blatantly offensive stuff allowed. No "i choose Itachi to repeatedly punch him in the face". Just talking, asking them questions, showing them places in real world, etc.
Who do you choose?
It wasn't even the oven burning or other ways of physical torture. You could still say this was not enough to justify his actions. But it was thoroughly explained by Barbara that the most crucial point of the creation of Homelander was bringing world's best psychologists in order to install a psychological algorytm in his mind that'd make him crave people's attention and approval forever and hate them at the same time. Vought made Homelander into what he was, introducing this pattern into his head at one the most crucial points of anyone's brain development (childhood). Then a lot of time was spent showing Homelander desperately looking for ways to escape this cycle, to make sense of literally anything, just to leave it entirely unresolved and have him crowbared.
The biggest problem with this finale in my opinion wasn't that he suddenly became weaker in the final fight. Yes, it made no sense, but it wasn't the biggest issue IMO.
It's that all of this remained unresolved. Could as well have removed these scenes because this shit makes no sense. The Boys are celebrating death of a victim of Vought and watching the head of Vought on TV. Do they have any plan? No. Nobody but Butcher picks up on the fact that sooner or later Vought will create a new Homelander, this time even stronger, even faster and even more of a cunt. And Butcher's plan was garbage too; if he released the anti-supe virus, non-supe scientists of Vought would have sooner or later came up with a cure.
But were any of them thinking beyond that, planning to stop what created Homelander and what is still likely to doom their future? Nope. MM whispering "motherfucker" seeing Stan on TV, Butcher making that one remark (and he wouldnt even made it if it wasnt for Ryan's rejection and Terror's death). They just went on with their lives, Huey named his child after his dead ex (????????????????), Starlight is doing whatever tf, Kimiko went to France, MM went with Ryan to do nobody knows what and why.
They're fucked and nobody cares because one product of Vought died