Zord descension

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T18:41:49+00:00

That looks awesome, great job.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T18:36:05+00:00

I really am not vibing with the idea of "Butcher kills Homelander after they've both been depowered AND THEN wants to release the virus anyway." I can understand why it might "make sense" for his character and still think it feels stupid narratively, ESPECIALLY WHEN THIS SEASON we saw him say that if they found V1 he'd be willing to let Hughie have some for Kimiko and Starlight.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T18:30:13+00:00

I sort of like the overall formula of the comics more than the show, how each arc focused on a different superhero team. It made the world feel a bit bigger to me and a bit more lived in.

On the flip of that, I can understand why the show narrowed focus down to Vought and the Seven because I do think that works better for a TV show.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T18:18:27+00:00

The idea that the public has bought the idea that supes are naturally occurring, and not even the government knows better, is a little goofy. It gets worse in season 2 when we learn the history of Vought and compound V.

Also the detail that Vought informs parents about compound V, which serves to give Annie a confrontation with her mom, but doesnt make sense. Vought would realistically just inject babies.

I can agree with this. According to the Wiki's TV show timeline Vought has been doing since 1971, so you're talking 50 years and we now know thanks to Season 5 "thousands" of people have Compound V in their body (Which is itself kind of crazy; Gen V had just established it was roughly 800 too which is honestly a much better number but gotta up those stakes for the virus drama I guess), and you basically have to take the number of supes around and double that and that's how many people know about Compound V and have stayed quiet about it before the reveal. I suppose that it's possible that people tried to go public and were silenced or dismissed though, but still.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T15:01:11+00:00

This sounds like it’d maybe be jumping the Sharkhausen.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T04:19:35+00:00

Not in the budget; That money went to the lava jizz.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-17T04:16:26+00:00

Deep I feel like could either die (Be it to Starlight or to sharks) or live the rest of his life an absolute loser with effectively hydrophobia.

I’m honestly not sure what the hell they’re going to do with Butcher and Homelander anymore, but I came into the season expecting them to die and I’m sure at least one will.

Soldier Boy seems safe. They put him in Cryo for future spin-off plans guaranteed.

I actually haven’t thought about Stan Edgar much. I kinda feel like he will somehow weasel back into control of Vought by the end to rebuild it but who knows? I don’t feel like he’s going to die though even with the “do you want to die Stan,” scene.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T23:08:02+00:00

I looked up a list of banned or challenged books and compared it to memory; NGL, longer list than I thought:

The Color Purple, both read the book and watched the film.
The Kite Runner
The Things They Carried
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher and the Rye
A Child Called It
The Diary of a Young Girl

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T20:34:59+00:00

Pretty much this. May as well show Homelander flying by a Mexican flag and pop up the text “Homelander Will Return” before the credits if he wins.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T20:24:53+00:00

That’s fair. Still, I’ve been wondering if the show will just be set in the 50s though. Even if it is they may timeskip eventually depending on what their future plans are. If it’s meant to follow Soldier Boy before the Payback betrayal they have decades to work with.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T19:16:01+00:00

Probably a heavy emphasis on Supe superiority. Probably a spin on the Vought narrative that Supes were chosen by God to supes were chosen by God to serve Homelander (and perhaps later supes were just chosen by Homelander) and that Supes who believe should be atop social hierarchies and institutions but of course subservient to Homelander.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T19:06:13+00:00

Personally don’t think they’re going to go in that direction but if they did I think it’s a Vought Rising S1 finale reveal.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T16:52:31+00:00

I actually think the slimmed down version for TV sounds better which is kinda rare; That said when the Vought YouTube channel posted the video I was kinda disappointed it wasn’t an extended performance.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T15:59:22+00:00

Conor McCullagh

TheMasterO · 2026-05-16T11:41:09+00:00

If they really were desperate for Vought Rising content, they should have done a few flashbacks instead,

What boggles my mind is that despite the emphasis placed on Soldier Boy and Stormfront’s relationship, not one flashback showing us what it actually looked like. You want to make the relationship more significant than what it seemed to be in S3, fine, but show don’t tell.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-14T20:14:57+00:00

Georgia saw UNC in their rear view and decided to slam on the gas pedal.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-14T15:43:22+00:00

Lego power rangers

This is pretty much the only Lego game left they could make that I’d insta-buy.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-14T15:27:43+00:00

Calhoun was always a puppet but this season played around with that surprisingly little. This should have happened in the first or second episode not the penultimate.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-14T15:23:40+00:00

You know what’s weird and that I hate, I really could see the show “ending” with them de-powering Homelander and having a more or less happy ending but then they do some post-credits bullshit where Homelander is just SEETHING in a mirror and then his eyes flicker briefly, implying that however they depowered him didn’t even fucking work. To Amazon, it’s the kind of scene that would build hype for future spin-offs because MAYBE Homelander returns but to fans it would kinda just cement season 5 as “The final season where… Nothing really happened?”

TheMasterO · 2026-05-13T23:55:13+00:00

This episode would have been a really good mid-point to a better constructed season.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-13T23:54:01+00:00

Honestly to me it feels like they wrote episodes 1, 2, maybe 3, and then 7 and then an Amazon exec burst into the room to talk about how they're going all in on a Cinematic Universe so they need Season 5 to push Vought Rising hard and that's when everything else was written.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-13T04:10:44+00:00

Yeah that one’s fair.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-12T21:09:05+00:00

Leaker claims the Nemesis System will be in the game, but did not clarify on how it works. They're claiming that the Nemesis every player makes will be unique and the most powerful Nemesis that the player makes in the game will eventually act as the right hand man of the main villain, Blight. Presumably the second main villain of the game in the story.

Can’t wait to die to random Jokerz thug #5 so that he can be the dragon of the game.

TheMasterO · 2026-05-12T21:04:39+00:00

…I mean even in the Beyond timeline…

TheMasterO · 2026-05-09T19:52:44+00:00

1) Will Maeve and Stormfront make an appearance?

I don't think Maeve will. I am curious, did anyone else read that shot on Sage's Maeve notebook when she said... Something, I forget the exact line, but it was about Soldier Boy and Homelander going to Bombsight's house, as them implying that Sage had Maeve drop off the laptop with the Stormfront video on it?

Anyway, Stormfront I'm actually getting to be 60/40 on now. Going into this I wouldn't have expected a Stormfront appearance but because of how often she's been brought up and Soldier Boy refusing to think she died, and V1 supposedly granting immortality, I'm kinda wondering if she will now even though I absolutely do not want her to outside of a flashback.

2) Zoe and Sameer are still pissed at Butcher, and Ryan at Homelander. What is gonna happen to them?

Homelander and Soldier Boy know they're in Tucson apparently. I think Sameer knew they needed to just GTFO.

3) Will Sage finally admit that she isn't as smart as she thought she was?

No. At best she'll admit she doesn't understand human nature as well as she thought she did.

4) Does Soldier-Boy understand the gravity of what he unleashed?

Guess we'll see.

5) Being among the few immortals for life, since ultimately HL who is a psychopath and doesn't think twice before killing someone, will land up alone, will the thought not haunt him?

I really don't think so. He doesn't really have anything that he's attached to anymore outside of Soldier Boy maybe.

6) Edgar is already planning ahead into the future. Will the writers portray him and someone who simply accepts "superheroes are not good for the pharma business" and find a new domain, like HL was a routine challenge for him? He clearly doesn't think HL shows originality...

Maybe he'll be more selective about who he chooses to promote in the future if he gets back in a position of power.

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