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I love how utterly confused Homelander looks every time Stormfront starts sperging about race.

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HumanHive said:
The Witcher season 1 had the same problem. You go in thinking its about a monster hunter, but nope. Wizard politics.
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The Witcher is about wizard politics though. This is not even something the books or games mislead you about. While I think Netflix's Witcher is pretty dumb, if you expected different from what you got then I don't know what to tell you.
 
Shitpiss Babylord said:
Given how unsubtle and on the nose the wokeness has been this season, I was pleasantly surprised they had AOC standin be secretly evil.
Still, much weaker than last season, didn't even realise at the time of watching that it was the season finale.
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Eh idk if she is, though. I think they may have just been going for the “hurr durr AOC makes heads explode” joke.
 
The show might as well be called The Ladyboys because every other scene is fruity drama where everyone argues like a teenage drama queen on the rag. I don't even usually like comics, but in this case it was a lot better than the show if only because the men acted like men instead of every character coming off like a bitchy THOT in a passive aggressive catfight. I'm half convinced that all the men involved in writing and directing this show are on HRT.
 
finished the show today. this season feels like lost potential. so many plot points and characters introduced and dropped all in one season. stormfront started off good and i liked she used internet culture to hide her plan/identity until it sadly became her identity and the writers could not stop themselves throwing in alt-right/cuck memes. Maive was just a plot device the entire season and Kimiko should have had more screen of her getting to beat stormfront. ironically, the boys did not do much at all during this season

i want to go back about crazy people going out killing sups in creative ways. not whatever cuck meme fest this season had going for it when everything gets fixed beacuse of lol blackmail.
 
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It really did feel like the last third got afraid Stormfront was too enjoyable because it got so heavy-handed. In fact, I agree Nazis Are Bad, I just don’t like on the nose writing.

In conclusion, give Antony Starr the Emmy, nothing else about the show matters. Just his performance.
 
GameDevAnon said:
So, Stormfront can take multiple blasts of heat vision from Homelander, and all it does is make her horny. But when Homelander's kid does the same exact thing, it cuts off her arms and legs and burns all the skin off her body. OK.
Also, Stormfront is bullet proof, but somehow female fists are capable of beating her down. OK.
Also, Stormfront is bullet proof, EXCEPT for her left eye. OK.
This show doesn't even follow it's own fucking rules.

I also love how they just had to hammer their message of Supreme Wokeness home... over and over again during this episode.
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It's demonstrated earlier on that Homelander can adjust the intensity of his heat beams. At one point he uses them to insta-heat a plastic bottle of tiddy juice, while we've seen the beams melt through humans and aircraft and anything else on contact. So he has some modulation of the ability - I highly doubt he was going 100% power when they were about to fuck, more just fucking with her for amusement and then being pleasantly surprised that she was into the whole "burning hole in her chest" thing.
Ryan, however, was watching his mother be murdered in front of his eyes, by someone he wasn't exactly thrilled with before shit hit the fan. Kid wanted to kill her and he tried it with full intensity.

Which makes the drama with Homelander all the more interesting. Is Homelander going to be less into the daddy spirit toward Ryan now that Ryan gave Stormfront some impromptu amputations? Not necessarily because of him being invested in Stormfront but more because he now realizes that Ryan having similar powers to him could actually pose a threat to him down the line? I got the sense that it was all fun and games for him attempting to play house and that he realized Vought was trying to use Ryan as a contingency against him, but he thought "nah no way my kid will kill me, especially if I spare his meatbag mommy". Then he lands and sees that Becca is tits up dead and Ryan not only has the ability but the willpower to murder Stormfront, a supe who isn't quite as powerful as Homelander, but hasn't exactly lived 100 years by being a weak piece of shit. It has to raise some serious existential questions for him and I for one look forward to watching him navigate them next season, as his character is very complex, despite coming off as a complete sociopath.
 
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So my husband started to watch this series and he is almost done with the second season. He told me that the first season is way better and that he's unfortunately starting to see a downturn in quality with the show? I've heard this opinion a lot ...

Anyway, he sat down with me to watch the first two episodes last night, because he wanted to see my reactions. I enjoyed it; lots of shit really went down in those first two episodes, haha.

My favorite character so far is definitely Starlight.
 
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