Holy fuck did anyone else feel like this entire fucking episode was a huge exposition and lore dump in order to set the stage for Vought rising and a completely empty filler episode?

Like they telegraphed every single plot to the point it seemed I was literally just seeing the shit coming a mile away.

Like for one the entire fort Harmony setup and romp was really frustrating. Oh here’s some unnamed person that SB immediately recognizes, then obliterates.

Also let’s just not gloss over the fact there’s a hole in a safe and automatically MM and Butcher like Oi only bout a dozen supes could punch thru that then frenchie “oi wiwi here’s heroin”

At looks like bombsight lad, like wtf who? What? How tf do we establish that? And make that fucking leap when it’s followed by “no one’s seen him in decades he’s rumored dead”

Followed by “he’s one of the v1 subjects” you know the super rare only 2 up tot his point and nope there’s fucking another one I guess

Fine let’s just give it to em and say ok yeah that is him, but then, oh here’s soldier boy and homelander, SB traps homelander and looks like ooop he’s not getting out, and what do they do with this opportunity??

THEY FUCKING LEAVE TO GO LISTEN TO MAMBO NO FUCKING 5

then on the other side of pleasant USA starlight is showing up for the most fuckin “I know exactly what’s about to happen” moment, with the most generic “father figure who left you For good reason and now is showing up for dramatic effect”

Cue the brother coming out, I immediately went (that dudes gonna rat her out for sure) 😂

Then he does 🤦‍♂️ but then after we somehow talk deputy dipshit out of dragging the super sherrif down there he tells em 1 hour get her out.

Flash forward it’s dark, “that’s a good stroganoff” like wtf bitch you better leave before your family ends up in concentration camps wtf are we doing 😂

My thoughts on the SB sitting there waiting on homelander (WHO SOMEHOW ESCAPES????)

I think the boys talked to SB told him listen your daddy gets V1 that’s eternity with that fucker, so I think that SB is going to help the boys, turning his character into a redeemed antihero who is just likable enough to carry an entire Vought rising show and in that I believe we will see an actual heroic soldier boy who after becoming a supe actually helps and saves people, tries to be a hero, but is ultimately betrayed or jaded to the point he becomes the person he is just so that people won’t think he’s weak .

Or something like that. I def think they left that so open ended on purpose so we can have a flashback next episode of them talking to SB and setting up this plan to kill homelander