Radelski

Real becca has brown hair

Hallucination Becca has blonde hair and a red white and blue flannel on

It will take a couple of rounds for both of them to realise what is happening. Butcher just acceptes his happy fate and kills Homelander quicker and gorier. Getting ever more unhinged.

Then Homelander will start a new tactic each round. Stupid things like offering wealth, safety, sex. Threats. Stalling for time in hope that somebody will come. Insincerely apologising about Becca. Just straight up running from the room. Turning to Ryan. Turning to Kimiko. Turning to Ryan again, this time earnestly.

Nothing works. It gets to a point where Homelander doesn't get up after loosing his powers. The memories of so many deaths flooding his system with stress and anxiety. Let him have a proper panic attack before Butcher even touches him.

THAT - that! Was scorched earth.

What we got is a mildly untidy room with some minor furniture damage.

(I can't decide if it was Kripke's writing deciding to plummet to depths of shitters and it was HIS personal choice or Amazon getting greedier but budget was nonexistant. Compared to s1, it shows...too much)

BRUHHH. THIS IS TERRIFYING.

maybe it's just because horror is my favorite genre, but THIS is exactly the kinda shit i live for. i love when he's an absolute cryptid. the scarier the better.

This song is about a guy named John (among others, but John is mentioned by name). About how he wants to run from where he is, he feels like his job is KILLING him. HIS JOB is killing HIM.

The Boys are free now, the song plays while they establish their new lives, leave, stay, alone, together. Overall they are happy. Celebrating Homelander’s death as if that fixed anything.

It was a personal need, and what the world needed was for Vought to fall. For someone to take a risk big enough to show the people who the real villain here was. Not the scary, mean, powerful blonde man, but a corporation that made him. The world needed someone to wake them up. Do you remember season 1 when Butcher took Hughie to group therapy? What happened to knowing that Vought is the dictator here? “WHERE IS YOUR RAGE?”

Where IS your rage?

Sure, you can’t shoot the cub without killing the bear first because you will get bit before you even try. The problem is that…Vought is the big fish here. And Homelander is the baby with teeth that are way too sharp for his small, confused, hurt body.

I got frustrated hearing “Piano Man” because that scene only showed us that people can live blindly, knowing that there’s a shark behind them, yet not turning around. And in this day and age?…

His death was symbolic, BUT all the evil aside, it didn’t do what it could’ve done.

Why can’t we watch him die while killing Vought. While saying it was all them. While sending one last message, the only one that wasn’t propaganda but his own thoughts: “I never wanted this, they created me.”

Not as an excuse, as a help-call.

We watched him die, as if we were a part of that oblivious crowd that was supposed to cheer. A circus spectacle where the lion trips from the Maestro’s hits, yet never bits. We were put in a position of spectator, gawker. Yes, Homelander is dead, God Save the Queen. But why aren’t we angry? Why aren’t we recognizing the oppressor from the victim, the big from the bigger, the danger from threat.

All the suffering he caused is as valid as the one he experienced himself. Both deserve avenging. All the lives he destroyed, and the life of John who just wants to “get away from this place.”

His death only makes sense if Vought goes as well.

no, they won't bury him. they'll put him on a cold table in a colder lab and take him apart. look for the wires that got crossed, the hidden code that will help them do it right the next time. the secret to a dog that only bites on command, and dies when you tell it to.

Mama, I don’t wanna die.

I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.

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.

Pouring one out for Homelander. I can't believe it's over. 💔