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Oh, my gosh, his death is better than I could have ever asked for. Homelander, now powerless, shows how much of a pathetic little baby he is, literally BEGGING for his life as he realizes he's NOTHING without his powers. And having EVERYONE see it LIVE ON TV how pathetic he is and how FREE they are from the world's biggest bully...FUCK, that's perfect. I couldn't have wanted it better.

Meanwhile Butcher spend the last decade stewing in his hatred for Homelander and now that the man is dead he is also left with little to nothing. Ryan doesn't want to start over with him. Terror is dead. Supes are still around but the Boys achieved their goal of taking down Homelander and will soon go their seperate ways. Ironically enough he is in a predicament not too different from that of his archenemy. So he says fuck it and takes the virus to Vought.(He has been talking about killing all supes since the start of the series anyways)Hughie has to stop him.

I know he doesn't have his memories from his childhood and therefore doesn't know his initial activation date, but... I can totally see Data deciding that the day he was found and activated by the away team is his birthday, given how much Starfleet means to him. plus, February 2nd is Brent Spiner's birthday and the reason why they made it Data's (second) activation date!

But like...the thing about the settlers on Dorvan V is that they're settlers (i.e., textually not indigenous). They're indigenous in an ethnic American sense only. And, what's more, the text of the episode is that they settled only recently, like 20 years ago (within the lifetimes of most people living on Dorvan), and against the advice of the Federation government, who told them that it was disputed territory with the Cardassians. Moreover, they're not really living under an expropriative capitalist and racist regime like the USA or the British Empire, but under what is, textually, a generally egalitarian post-scarcity society that is entirely willing to let them settle on another perfectly good planet somewhere else. So while the subtext of the episode may be that they're indigenous peoples being relocated by a remote and indifferent government, the literal text of the episode is that they're settler colonialists who are upset that their central government is unwilling to press a war against a rival power so that they're not temporarily inconvenienced. And okay; this is one of the few times that Star Trek acknowledges that how humans react to situations will continue to be informed by history even in the future, and i can definitely see how a people who have centuries of experience being lied to and exploited by various governments would be inclined to tell the Federation to go to hell when they say they have to move again, but this is (a) an extremely contrived situation (and don't even get me started on the Jamake Highwater "we must live here because this planet is sacred to us" bullshit) and (b) doesn't textually apply to any of the other planets in the DMZ.