People complain about how “online” he is but I do like how he’s often replying to fans and updating them on the collab with Faygo.
Faygo has unique features: vitiligo, half-blind, fast metabolism + Adam’s apple
A lot of faith has been restored 🙏, Never Apologize 2?! 😭
Arguments against:
- Maybe I’m illiterate but wasn’t the whole point of the boys killing Homelander to ensure he doesn’t “finally snap” and kill millions? They saw him as a threat to the world and couldn’t sleep knowing he was a ticking time bomb and had to go (revenge wasn’t their only motive)
- Kripke and others emphasised a message of hope, stopping Homelander before mass destruction shows how “underdogs” can make the world a better and safer place.
- Kripke stated he didn’t have the budget for action like marvel, which should’ve put the idea out of people’s minds that the posters would reflect the show well.
Arguments for:
- The most popular one I see is the promotional posters, even if it wasn’t Kripke’s decision, he probably saw them and approved. Even if he didn’t have anything to do with it (saw them at the same time at us), fans can still feel misled just based on the posters.
- Other posters for the show were pretty accurate (we saw the baby with blue lasers appear in the show, we saw Neuman working with Homelander, we saw Starlight find herself in the middle of protests)
- Even though Kripke claims he can’t do big stuff like marvel, the dawn of the seven set actually looked pretty decent* + Stormfront burning down the apartments gave hope that a final clash would destroy more than a carpet (and that the producers were capable of showing destruction to Vought Tower and/or the White House).
- We got statements from people like Antony Starr saying “the worst thing I have done is yet to come and I can’t wait” (in the clip he even specified it was worse than cutting the plane in half) but none of Homelander’s direct actions on-screen in season 5 matched that.
- Homelander dreamt of lasering the crowd in season 2 but held back as he was still on a leash, once off the leash (in season 5) he used internment camps to kill starlighters which shows that he was capable but the question is why was so much of this off-screen if it’s what fans were supposed to see (season 4 finale buildup vs season 5 camps was such a letdown).
- I personally thought we were headed somewhere truly dark upon hearing Madelyn tell Homelander to rip newborns out of wombs however this just leads to more off-screen kills and Homelander ordering Dogknott to kill for him on-screen.
- The flight 37 video was stated multiple times to be what sets Homelander over the edge if released following people turning on him because of it, the AI angle was some cool commentary but it wasn’t worth ruining all those years of build up unless Homelander “finally lost it” because of something else.
* I want to see an editor change the colour grading of the dawn of the seven to be more inline with what fans envisioned the finale to be👀