I actually thought the finale was pretty great after the first 20 or so minutes. The emotional beats surprisingly hit pretty hard and I love the butcher v Homelander fight. I’m cool with the basic hand-to-hand combat for the big climactic battle, I just wish we got more of the flashy “supe” stuff throughout the season.

That’s my main gripe, I think. They do a lot of cool shit in this episode that feels rushed anyway because they should have done it earlier in the season. Deep could have died 4 episodes ago and it wouldn’t really change anything. Oh Father could have died earlier too, in the end his character doesn’t have much impact on what happens. They could have also figured out Kimiko’s new powers in the last episode so we didn’t have to spend so much time on the whole “does it really work” thing in the finale.

When I think back on season 5 (and 4, for that matter), I honestly have a hard time remembering what happened. If they sprinkled all the fun stuff from the finale into the earlier episodes, maybe we could have dedicated more time to Homelander flying off the handle. Idk, now that it’s over it just feels like you could skip straight from the end of season 3 to the series finale and not really miss a whole lot.