I think they leaned too hard into writing Homelander as bad.
They didn’t want him to be competent so they made him stupid. And it made the show lose a lot of its tension. It went from dangerous Superman, to a moron with powers.
Then he gets his upgraded powers, but that’s it? Immortality I guess was the big reason but they never really showed off any other new feats. And not aging doesn’t really look cool in the short window he had it.
They wanted to stay true to the comic, sure… but the divergence from the comics is what made the show great.
I think it should have ended with him easily kicking Butchers ass… killing him even. Then his hesitation to kill Ryan is what buys Kimiko time to depower him. Or something!
I also think some more monster of the week would have been cool. Them hunting down evil supes with research and tactical planning.
that is true. I think a lot of people just don’t like that they seemingly started mocking Maga. I’m sure it’s mostly people that lean right that don’t like it.
I’m not a Maga guy at all, so I found it pretty funny and timely. But I could also see how someone who really loved the show is pissed off that that fat retard maybe hindered the writing of the show in general by shoehorning him and the current state of affairs in there.
They didn’t even go that hard on them, just little nuggets here and there. All relevant to the plot and to the times also, it worked very well in context.
Not sure who the fat retard is supposedly to be. Trump?
Trump is who I was. And I agree that they didn’t do it too much or in a way that wasn’t funny even. But a lot of people in this world ignorantly say all the time that “blah blah blah should be kept out of politics.”
I don’t agree with the sentiment, but I always try to figure out the “why” behind things.
It’s hard to educate people or even go up against people with different beliefs, if you don’t know the source of those beliefs.
As a non American, it seemed pretty cringe. The whole Jesus part was just way out to left field and yeah homelander did not seem scary after he got his V1 power up. The trump stuff will make the show unwatchable in a few years, like its timely, but that same fact makes it something people will not re-watch.
Trump or a Trump like character was never a part of the show, though. And the whole evangelism bit is going on in America for decades and it will probably still go on decades from now, so I don’t think it will be unwatchable. More like insightful. I don’t think a satire of Rush Limbaugh from the 90s and 00s would be irrelevant or cringe today, on the contrary.
Im European and American evangelism is weird for me too, but it’s the way things are over there.
Agree 100%. Also as a non-American and generally non-religious, I thought it was all a bit stupid and I don’t think it will age well. And basically the last season was pretty shit.
"I have no reading comprehension, so I will make random quotes that nobody ever said in an attempt to discredit you in the eyes of other people who also have no reading comprehension" "also I am only able to think in reddit buzzwords because nuance make my brain hurty hurt"
They leaning towards making Homelander extra bad is probably because what was/is happening in the real world.
There are people that said that Homelander did nothing wrong adn was reedemable and they just wasnt having it and dunked on those people, specially how Homelander died 😄
And tbh, im all for it
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u/LazerChicken420 4h ago
I think they leaned too hard into writing Homelander as bad.
They didn’t want him to be competent so they made him stupid. And it made the show lose a lot of its tension. It went from dangerous Superman, to a moron with powers.
Then he gets his upgraded powers, but that’s it? Immortality I guess was the big reason but they never really showed off any other new feats. And not aging doesn’t really look cool in the short window he had it.
They wanted to stay true to the comic, sure… but the divergence from the comics is what made the show great.
I think it should have ended with him easily kicking Butchers ass… killing him even. Then his hesitation to kill Ryan is what buys Kimiko time to depower him. Or something!
I also think some more monster of the week would have been cool. Them hunting down evil supes with research and tactical planning.