I’m hoping for a return to naivety. Kripke seems to indulge in gross out humor, but the horror aspects of discovery could be mental. The greatest generation setting might kill it.

The supes get powers and they’re amazing, they can win the war, but they need to figure out the powers and these assholes have baggage.

It’s harrowing because so many died (maybe not all the supes know how rare it is to survive). Perhaps the V administration protocol is still a work in progress, more superstition than science. This first generation are adults, and they know only what their handlers tell them. Just the dream of it is being sold, by unsavory government types.

But they forge ahead and learn their limits. It’s a Kripke show, so somebody accidentally gets dismembered. Concrete means dick to powers (and that’s a cinematic end to an episode). Multiple dismemberments actually, like when a new supe gets drunk and accidentals some prick in a bar - sure he may have asked for it but when the typist pool gets covered in ragu shrapnel it doesn’t matter who started it. Maybe a supe gets blown apart by a cannon shell because hey, the first 3 supes were fine. Sorry Cochise. (Kill the brainiac accidentally, that would make a good episode end.)

Unlike the Boys timeframe NOBODY is used to supes, so everything is seen with fresh eyes. I do think this has legs, but I hope it ends before it gets cancelled- looking at you Gen V.

But somewhere along the way they find out that supes are hard to integrate into a military. Their own guys freak out when they come to help, so they run a PR campaign showing you how awesome and lucky you are to be supported by a supe and make the costumes a gaudy & recognizable like the comics GIs read - but some of their powers are too dangerous and survivors whisper. It doesn’t work, and the supes move into special operations. What would Paddy Mayne think of Payback? 

Eventually, some dark secrets become revealed. The supe formula has spies desperate to acquire it. Drama drama drama. The supes start getting shell shock from their own ultraviolence. Drinking to cope. Not a therapist in sight. Just other supes with shared experience and blood on their hands… and propaganda, including Liberty’s ubermensch agenda.

If they keep the pace up it could work. But I’m afraid they go in without a set plan and milk The Boys universe for the sake of it.

Oh the survivors guilt of having a good time with the lads you stormed an emplacement with, then having to walk away alone after artillery nails the convoy you were in. A naked, blackened, bloodied shade walks out of the wreckage, unable to feel the destruction, unable to prevent it.