I’m still mad about the finale and s5 in general but I gotta say there is something really tragic and poetic about the fact that Homelander spent his entire childhood being watched and experimented on in a lab, then spent the rest of his life constantly performing in front of cameras, and in the end even his weakest moment and death happened in front of cameras too.

homelander was never the villain of the show. it was always vought. i was okay with homelander becoming the face of vought, i was okay with his death, i was okay with all of it so long as it meant ending the cycle. taking down the monsters that made him into what he became.

instead, we saw a victim of heinous abuse be shattered by hatred, delusion, fear, and humiliation. driven insane by the delusions that vought put in his head in the first place. he died slowly and painfully, stripped of the only security he'd ever known. he died scared and truly alone in the world, all while the company that created him happily moved on to bigger and better abuses.

i understand that this is probably in part due to the spectacular failure that is gen v's existence and subsequent cancellation. maybe if the writers hadn't been anticipating that series as a future catalyst for vought's downfall, we would have gotten more finality. instead, we're left with an absolutely dystopian ending in which victims have only three options: die as martyrs, survive to exist in compliance with the status quo, or become the scapegoat villains to be mocked, snuffed out and painted over.

The Boys 3x08 "The Instant White-Hot Wild" || The Boys 5x03 "Every One of You Sons of Bitches"

On the Himalayan Trail

He cast himself as Jesus in season 3 - albeit he also had aspirations to be the old testament god “Like Abraham to Isaac if I say so”

Jesus. MLK, Caesar.