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Getting to hear this as the opener for the For My Last Trick tour was incredibly special to my soul because I relate so hard to this feeling

My second favorite thing is when they do introduce something interesting and then really, really mess it up

There are several moments in the show where something will be mentioned in passing or whatever and I'm like "huh, I'd actually rather be watching that right now instead of another needless scene put in for shock value humor"

Marie's got control over cells. Not just blood. She could coax the body into healing itself. She resurrected Annabeth. She's easily god-tier even if she only had control of blood.

We have absolutely no clue what the extent of her powers was. Could she have been able to neutralize compound V if Godolkin had pushed her far enough? We have no idea, because Marie was cast to the side the minute her show wrapped its season. Maybe she could have. Maybe that was going to be the big hit against HL. Project Odessa was built up to have produced the only supe on or surpassing Homelander's power level. The only one. And I feel like her absurd amount of power was abandoned in favor of Kimiko getting the depowering beam and nuking Homelander instead.

I'd actually argue to classify Project Odessa as a MacGuffin at this point, with how it was the absolute driving force of Gen V S2 and then might as well have just ceased to exist in-universe for The Boys S5, because I don't even think it was mentioned once the whole season.

Marie deserved better.

Vought mass-produced superheroes, but before that, Vought built a couple of gods. One of them was cast aside while the other ascended and then got destroyed.

As a Gen V enjoyer, I agree with you. On one hand, it was really nice to see Marie and Emma and Jordan one last time since GV was canceled by the time TBS5 started airing. I went into S5 knowing that Gen V characters would be in it to some degree (although we didn't know who or in what capacity), but I loved those characters and missed them and so getting them at all was appreciated.

My second favorite thing is when they do introduce something interesting and then really, really mess it up

There are several moments in the show where something will be mentioned in passing or whatever and I'm like "huh, I'd actually rather be watching that right now instead of another needless scene put in for shock value humor"

Marie's got control over cells. Not just blood. She could coax the body into healing itself. She resurrected Annabeth. She's easily god-tier even if she only had control of blood.

We have absolutely no clue what the extent of her powers was. Could she have been able to neutralize compound V if Godolkin had pushed her far enough? We have no idea, because Marie was cast to the side the minute her show wrapped its season. Maybe she could have. Maybe that was going to be the big hit against HL. Project Odessa was built up to have produced the only supe on or surpassing Homelander's power level. The only one. And I feel like her absurd amount of power was abandoned in favor of Kimiko getting the depowering beam and nuking Homelander instead.

I'd actually argue to classify Project Odessa as a MacGuffin at this point, with how it was the absolute driving force of Gen V S2 and then might as well have just ceased to exist in-universe for The Boys S5, because I don't even think it was mentioned once the whole season.

Marie deserved better.

Vought mass-produced superheroes, but before that, Vought built a couple of gods. One of them was cast aside while the other ascended and then got destroyed.

As a Gen V enjoyer, I agree with you. On one hand, it was really nice to see Marie and Emma and Jordan one last time since GV was canceled by the time TBS5 started airing. I went into S5 knowing that Gen V characters would be in it to some degree (although we didn't know who or in what capacity), but I loved those characters and missed them and so getting them at all was appreciated.

My second favorite thing is when they do introduce something interesting and then really, really mess it up

There are several moments in the show where something will be mentioned in passing or whatever and I'm like "huh, I'd actually rather be watching that right now instead of another needless scene put in for shock value humor"

Marie's got control over cells. Not just blood. She could coax the body into healing itself. She resurrected Annabeth. She's easily god-tier even if she only had control of blood.

We have absolutely no clue what the extent of her powers was. Could she have been able to neutralize compound V if Godolkin had pushed her far enough? We have no idea, because Marie was cast to the side the minute her show wrapped its season. Maybe she could have. Maybe that was going to be the big hit against HL. Project Odessa was built up to have produced the only supe on or surpassing Homelander's power level. The only one. And I feel like her absurd amount of power was abandoned in favor of Kimiko getting the depowering beam and nuking Homelander instead.

I'd actually argue to classify Project Odessa as a MacGuffin at this point, with how it was the absolute driving force of Gen V S2 and then might as well have just ceased to exist in-universe for The Boys S5, because I don't even think it was mentioned once the whole season.

Marie deserved better.

Vought mass-produced superheroes, but before that, Vought built a couple of gods. One of them was cast aside while the other ascended and then got destroyed.

they need to make it so that if players spam “I need healing” they’re blocked from queueing until they complete a course in the training range about grabbing health packs and not feeding enemy ult charge for free

occasionally you get games like this though and it makes playing support especially worth it

It was my 1st time playing Lifeweaver, and the Junker Queen player wouldn't stop spamming while she essentially ran into oncoming traffic even tho me & our Juno p much had to focus on healing her (our other teammates were fine). Like I know we did a good job I was just a little overwhelmed lol.

That's honestly one of those moments where you just life grip the JQ the best you can and past that, heal the rest of your team (which I'm sure you & Juno were taking care of when not babysitting your tank), and hope it eventually clicks in their head.

It's the downside of playing support: you can stuff your teammates to the gills with healing, but if they can't capitalize on being alive, you can't force a win. You can play your heart out, but if you're playing with bricks-for-brains randoms, it's a wash. I had a match like that earlier on Neon Junction (yay extra XP) and just basically used it to practice brig util since the game was lost anyway.

A lot of qp players seem to ignore the fact that every support that can heal at distance, with the sole exception of Zen's harmony orb, must have line of sight in order to dispense heals. Juno's heal torpedoes can pass through walls, but ofc that requires at best an uninterrupted half second LOS for lock-on, and most likely a full second in reality since these players are going to be maxing lock-on range if they're even in it at all.

Hopefully you have good matches from here on out! 🖤 🫡

they need to make it so that if players spam “I need healing” they’re blocked from queueing until they complete a course in the training range about grabbing health packs and not feeding enemy ult charge for free

occasionally you get games like this though and it makes playing support especially worth it

Firecracker has a brilliant idea. Hire a shapeshifter/doppelganger to pretend to be Starlight and record a video of the two of them to blackmail her, but things don't go entirely according to plan

I think the shapeshifter angle is really funny bc of Annie’s encounter with a shapeshifter in S04.