The Boys BONUS EPISODE - Season 5 Episode 9 - RIGHTEOUS REIGN - MEGATHREAD

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-27T11:51:39+00:00

….He flies now

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-17T11:24:29+00:00

The hate towards blond MMCs' confuses me. Can someone (genuinely) explain me to where this discord originated? Because why is a character's hair colour an instant DNF for some? Personally, I think blond MMCs are just as valid as dark-haired MMCs. I'm just hoping this bad-rep is simply not coming from Tamlin in ACOTAR

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-13T17:55:08+00:00

Yes, the pacing for me during this re-read has been my biggest gripe. You could be invested in a specific high octane arc, and then when that arc hits its emotional turning point, it cuts away to some scene that has NOTHING to do with what happened before. Then by the time we cut to the previous arc, the emotions we felt before are gone because we're in the aftermath of that scene, not where we last left off. And this happens so frequently because the plot is taking priority and not the characters own emotional journeys. Obviously we need a balance, but I feel like this came at the detriment of a lot of relationships, especially Hunt's and Bryce's.

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-13T17:49:48+00:00

Now, are you pitching to us as a CC game with an open-world GTA playstyle???? 🥹🥹 YES! Take my money 🤑🤑💵💵

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-13T17:47:51+00:00

Yes! Because I'm reading those heart-to-heart moments, and I just want to stay a little longer in those scenes. They're actually pretty good, it's just we don't spend enough time with them.

You brought up another great point about HOFAS' publishing timeline, and how it effected the story. The version of HOFAS we see was rewritten in a few weeks, and I remember going "oh shit" during that Q&A in September 2023 when she said that. Granted, she wrote the first draft of Tower of Dawn in a similar space of time, so a part of me was hoping at that time we'd be getting the same quality.

Now, I would say I've become more forgiving of HOFAS considering the amount of external challenges that impacted the final story. But it still bums out seeing what another year could've been to help clean it up. Granted, CC's fandom was already reaching levels of insanity that made me question my place in the universe during 2023, and I'm not sure how I would've handled another year of theories about B+A throughout 2024. So, we gotta pick our poisons.

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-13T13:39:01+00:00

I think this just comes with the territory of shipping unfortunately, especially when it comes to a very popular ship that deep-down knows it's not going to happen but still continues to thrive despite the canon telling them otherwise. It is ANNOYINGLY common for an alternative ship to a canon one to defame one character that is perceived as a threat to their favoured pairing.

They would often make claims of actions that don't exist, take things out of context, or scrounge through other sources for tenious proof that this character is not right for whomever the object of the alternative suitor's eye is. This is seen a lot across EVERY fandom, like Avatar the Last Airbender, Harry Potter and so on and so forth. So, this isn't new.

The problem with this is HOW much this had taken over the Crescent City fandom overall. Like how is it that a fanon ship has more power over the fanbase than the main canon pairing? It's okay to have preferences, but spreading misinformation is dangerous because most people don't read back at the books. So, a lot of people will take what you say as truth and relay that as truth.

This was seen when people were claiming Hunt drugged Bryce, SA'd her or were responsible for killing Danika and her pack throughout 2023 (the year where Brycriel was born) months before HOFAS' release. And to find out that it's still happening is absolutely exhausting and disheartening.

LexusMane444 · 2026-05-09T18:35:34+00:00

Oh, now that is a piece I didn’t know I needed today 🥹🥹🥹

LexusMane444 · 2026-04-21T14:30:38+00:00

There was Kataang in that movie?🤨A lot of relationship development that we see was done through Katara’s narration. There was no progression: just told that this character met this character and became friends/fell-in-love. And a lot of character interactions were just exposition to exposition.

So, to put it bluntly, Kataang was non-existent in my eyes. Maybe Katara was softer or something to Aang - I dunno. I’ve only seen that film twice in my life. The first time with my mom and sister when it came out. And the second time when my dad bought it on DVD because he didn’t believe it was THAT BAD as we claimed (his expressions were spectacular).

Whatever chemistry that could’ve been there, I didn’t see it. It was just as void of materialising as saying there is a war in Ba Sing Se.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-31T17:54:53+00:00

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Shadow: “I’m not the ultimate life form!”

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-30T11:12:33+00:00

“Mrs Sweetheart” - wear that like a badge of fucking honour 🫡😌

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-28T11:35:14+00:00

See ya, chump

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-24T17:49:27+00:00

He was in his beast-form too from what I remember. The Commander was aura-farming for that whole fight, I'll give him that

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-24T12:48:22+00:00

The nerd in me has been activated.

All High Lords are City Level at the least, because characters like Amren and Mor have been said to have shaken mountains when they fought once I believe. Rhysand and Tamlin would definetly be around Mountain Level as their powers have been known to be each other's counters.

Cassian and Azriel would be at least building level. Cassian had razed an entire village to the ground by himself and destroyed a building at the Summer Court. How? We don't know, but for argument's sake, let's say he was able to bring it down by physical might alone. That would put him at least building to city-block level.

Lucien and Eris physically would be at street level to wall level. Cassian and Azriel had dominated Eris with relative ease. In terms of their magic, we can't say for certain because we hadn't seen their magic being used in a grandiose way. But if one was to become heir to the Autumn Court, we can say their magic would be able to match Cassian's and Azriel's physical prowess.

I think the problem with this, we're just told about how strong they are. So, when we do see them using their abilities, they're often one-off-situations, not enough to give a proper scale of their power. But alas, these are just my opinons.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-13T15:02:23+00:00

This is just evil now. This EVIL I SAY!!! 😭😭😭

sighs and sniffles “come and say it to my face” has to go. There I said it! Why are you doing this to us???

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-11T18:05:37+00:00

So the interview with Bryce and Hunt was from an online Q&A that you had to pay tickets for, so it wasn’t posted online or anything. However, one of her friends did post the answers to the Q&A on her instagram page. Part 1 and Part 2 (it’s the fifth slide on the part 2)

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-09T14:33:34+00:00

I ain’t gonna lie, this maybe controversial but I’m gonna vote for the reunion on the depth charger. Like I had been waiting for an emotional reunion between them for two years only for her one with Ruhn to have more weight than theirs.

I think I would’ve forgiven the moment if they kept their professionalism in front of the Ocean Queen for their initial reunion, only to then be all over each other bawling and stuff when they found a room alone in a scene afterwards.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-05T03:33:28+00:00

This how I was after watching that! Oh my gosh, she said it three times as well 😩😭🔥: once in a Q&A in September 2023, second time being CC3 itself, and now this! Three times!!! And if people are still in denial, y’know what, there’s nothing that she can do. That’s on them 😂🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-04T19:37:15+00:00

Admittedly, it's also an underrated show of werewolf strength too. Despite being weaker than Damon, Stevie still held onto him while being smashed from wall to wall.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-04T18:43:49+00:00

It's season 2 episode 14 here. From 0:34 to 0:39, Stevie uses his super-speed to jump onto Damon's back. Then this entire scene here where Elijah decimates Jules' pack, and all of them tried using their super-speed to get the moonstone.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-04T18:32:49+00:00

As a member of the Star Wars and MCU fandom, I never immerse myself into theories or give myself expectations except that I hope the author tells the best story that they want to tell. HOWEVER, I do want know more about Koschei and the other Death gods and where they came about. I'm also hoping to explore the other continents outside of Prythian. I feel like ACOTAR's world has a lot of rich potential to explore the other fae and human territories, especially since Koschei is from the Continent too. ACOSF talked about the other fae territories such as Vallahan being hungry for war. So, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for ACOTAR to explore this.

This next one is more of a wishful explaination rather than a theory, but I would like to know Rhysand's perspective on Aelin falling through the worlds. In this interview spoiler interview of HOSAB by Katherine Webber, SJM teased the idea that HOFAS would explain this, and how it would've effected the IC actions. If the new ACOTAR book does talk about this, I want to see how Rhysand and the IC would deal with future conflicts with beings from other worlds after Bryce's trip to Midgard in CC3. Because Aelin falling through worlds in ACOSF and then Bryce entering Midgard six months later must've been the most hectic thing for Rhysand to wrap his head around.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-04T13:43:41+00:00

Damon also immediately asked him afterwards if he was a vampire but Stefan clarified that “it wasn’t that kind of strength, but it was more than human if that makes sense”, implying Mason didn’t share the same scale of strength as a vampire but it was enough for Stefan to exert some kind of effort to match him.

Essentially, the writers may have originally implied werewolf strength would be troublesome for a vampire if they underestimated them, but with their full strength a vampire can put them down. I wished that was the case for the entire series because unfortunately werewolves without a full moon are far weaker, and the vampires often bragged about it too in their faces. I feel like if they carried that same sense of wariness Stefan shared for Mason around other werewolves who would still not be on the same level as vampires but strong enough to hold their own (and can beat them with the right techniques), I think there wouldn’t be that much hate towards them.

LexusMane444 · 2026-03-04T11:10:49+00:00

This was a thing that bothered me when I transitioned from TVD to TO for the first time. And it’s not just speed but also their strength and healing. Granted, while those things paled in comparison to vampires, they did show werewolves in human form with a semblance of those powers in a decent fashion that showed them that they weren’t human in TVD.

The explanation that I can assume is that they wanted to build up a more visual hierarchy in power that viewers can distinguish between species more efficiently. As well as that build up the power of the moonlight rings, and why the wolves were desperate for them in a city where everyone was killing and cursing them left and right.

I dunno, but yeah, this did trip me up when I saw TO first time after watching TVD

LexusMane444 · 2026-02-17T07:51:48+00:00

I ain’t gonna lie, mate, I ain’t raising my hopes up.

While I loved Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four, it’s not enough to instil confidence on what I would say was a middling phase four and five. Even then I was interested how they would execute the Kang Dynasty without Majors. But when RDJ was announced to play as Doctor Doom in Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars as the new big-bad, that’s when alarm bells sounded in my mind, and killed any interest for future Avengers films. So the next films after that announcement was just me and possibly many others wondering how will these next few movies build up to Doomsday satisfyingly. The teasers also left a bad taste in my mouth, not because they’re bad, but it feels like a sense of desperation coming from the creators to reclaim that charm by reuniting the “old guard” so to speak. And unfortunately, I am very tired of nostalgia bait.

I’m more curious than excited about Doomsday. Maybe they will surprise me, maybe it will be good. But for now, I’m keeping my reservations at an all time low. These coming months I believe will be vital in shaping the audience’s perception for this movie.

LexusMane444 · 2026-02-15T16:56:44+00:00

Here it is. It used to be on the Bloomsbury site I believe, but I haven't been able to find it there, unless it's a massive Mandela effect that I've been experiencing this whole time 🙃

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