This was a mistake

Sage is meant to be the smartest person in the world but they honestly barely write her as smart at all… unless there’s a big twist still coming about secret plans within plans, but I doubt it??? I truly don’t understand how she actually thought that seeing some footage of homelander having sex with stormfront would be enough to make soldier boy want his own son dead, when a) soldier boy already knew homelander and stormfront were a thing, and b) bashley JUST told her that she saw inside soldier boy’s mind and he was ‘secretly proud’ of homelander. Like… after hearing that she still thinks it’s so ’impossible’ that soldier boy might want to save homelander’s life that she banks her whole plan on it. Ummm. That’s kinda stupid even by normal person standards.

Soldier boy being in undying love with stormfront is SUCH an obvious retcon they’ve shoved into the show to set things up for ‘vought rising’, and I don’t buy it… if she was sooo special and beloved to him, wouldn’t she have been the first person he asked about and went looking for after waking up? Going from them not mentioning each other at all, to the mere memory of her being his main motivation, is really lazy and sloppy ngl.

I get why the writers wouldn’t want to have this actually happen, but it’s bizarre to me that in allllll this tedious endless angsting over the virus and the v1 and immortality as a curse etc, NO ONE has even floated the idea of soldier boy taking away Annie and kimiko’s powers to make them immune to the virus. No one even suggested it as a crazy plan z. Like it’s kind of an obvious solution to everything they’re fretting over, yet seemingly it hasn’t occurred to any of them. Riiiiight.

The flip flopping around on kimchie is really annoying at this point… after waiting 4 seasons for them to get together the writers couldn’t just let them be a couple, but instead almost immediately started dropping hints that they actually don’t work together… except now suddenly kimiko is willing to sign up for an everlasting life she doesn’t want for frenchie’s sake?? I don’t know who they think they are writing any of this for. If you ship it this is just frustrating bullshit, and if you don’t ship it it’s a waste of valuable screen time. Meanwhile hughie and Annie have almost never worked well as a couple yet they’re clearly shaping up to be the big endgame ship. Ok sure.

I will say that the legend having a rapport with homelander was actually genuinely interesting and I hope that leads to something, but I seriously doubt it at this point. Oh well. At least the first three seasons were good.