#stormfront

Soldier Boy is written as this ego-driven, emotionally detached, self-serving alpha who thrives on control and validation.. not someone who forms deep romantic attachments. (Maybe even if he was different before.. how different could he be?) Stormfront, on the other hand, is cold, calculated, and driven by a rigid ideological agenda, not emotional connection.. (even with Homelander, I didn't see any "love" it was a pure agenda) Their dynamic makes sense as manipulation, power alignment, or even mutual exploitation is fine... but actual love? That feels completely off-character and forced.

And it also feels like it's recently planned in S5. Or while developing VR.. Cuz in S3, we clearly saw soldier boy's past love interest was Crimson Countess and he was with her until he was sold to Russians and he stated "I loved you" to countess and he waited for her to save him.

I don't understand where Stormfront might fit in that entire timeline. Maybe during his initial days in Vought?? But in S3, there was no connection to soldier boy or Stormfront whatsoever, he just mentions that he started the whole herogasm thing with liberty and he says "man, she was a firecracker" like she was some fling, no emotion or anything.. and now suddenly he's looking at her picture and pining? and feeling tragic about how he couldn't be what she wanted????

Which is why this entire character rewrite for Vought Rising annoys the absolute fuck out of me. Especially combined with the fact that they’ve basically turned the final season of The Boys into one giant promo campaign for the prequel while pushing the actual main cast to the side in favour of random characters nobody gives a shit about yet.

This season should have been about Butcher and Homelander. It should have given us more Starlight as an actual political and social leader. It should have treated Kimiko with basic dignity instead of giving her some of the worst dialogue imaginable. It should have properly dealt with the Butcher/Ryan conflict and the Homelander/Ryan conflict. It should have focused on the emotional and narrative threads the show has been building for years. Instead what do we get? A-Train killed off immediately so he stops taking screentime away from Soldier Boy. Half-hour-long Supernatural references that add basically nothing and could have been spent developing literally any other storyline people actually care about. Random people walking in and out of scenes because they’ll apparently matter in Vought Rising as if I’m supposed to care about this prequel. Eighty fucking mentions of Clara Vought per episode to the point it becomes genuinely unbearable. Meanwhile Ashley and Sage show up for two seconds an episode just to say some nonsense and disappear again, The Deep’s entire script consists of saying “bro” fifty times, bye bye Black Noir, and all of this for what exactly? So we can completely rewrite Soldier Boy and pretend season 3 never established him as an abusive narcissistic asshole? So we can humanize fucking Stormfront of all people even though she was insufferable from the start?