On September 30 2020 17:22 Fleetfeet wrote: I'm un-excited for the potential "We can inject compound V! Oh shit we need to make Hughie a super now to save him but wait let's have some emotional tension from Starlight and Butcher who are worried about him dying in the process or becoming a supe respectively"
Or Butcher having to become a super, or whatever this turns in to. Basically, it not being a 'from birth only' thing opens up all kinds of shitty plot directions imo
It made more sense in the comics. There was not that much mystery about compound V there and the boys were injecting themselves with it almost from the get-go to fuck up some supes (Hughie even killed one accidentally). Injecting V as an adult there gave you super strength and resilience but for a limited time, nothing more fancy than that.
On September 30 2020 17:22 Fleetfeet wrote: I'm un-excited for the potential "We can inject compound V! Oh shit we need to make Hughie a super now to save him but wait let's have some emotional tension from Starlight and Butcher who are worried about him dying in the process or becoming a supe respectively"
Or Butcher having to become a super, or whatever this turns in to. Basically, it not being a 'from birth only' thing opens up all kinds of shitty plot directions imo
It made more sense in the comics. There was not that much mystery about compound V there and the boys were injecting themselves with it almost from the get-go to fuck up some supes (Hughie even killed one accidentally). Injecting V as an adult there gave you super strength and resilience but for a limited time, nothing more fancy than that.
That -does- make more sense. We'll see what they do with it in the show.
On September 30 2020 17:22 Fleetfeet wrote: I'm un-excited for the potential "We can inject compound V! Oh shit we need to make Hughie a super now to save him but wait let's have some emotional tension from Starlight and Butcher who are worried about him dying in the process or becoming a supe respectively"
Or Butcher having to become a super, or whatever this turns in to. Basically, it not being a 'from birth only' thing opens up all kinds of shitty plot directions imo
It already is with Kimiko and other super terrorists. They were taken when they were already adults/teens.
For a penultimate episode, I skipped through quite a bit. The ending was shocking I guess, but this show has a disposable feeling to it.
The Boys would be better imo if it were slower and grounded itself more in this realistic world, instead of using the realism for laughs and absurdity.
It's almost like the series is trying to be Kick-Ass mixed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when it should just choose one or the other. There is so much globetrotting and side plots which is fine and all, but at the end of the day this is supposedly the real gritty world with GPS and Big Brother, let alone Super Vision Homelander. The Boys just waltz into the Seven skyscraper or battle it out, and then return in a unmarked van to a bunker in every episode it seems. Which is sort of the issue I had with The Walking Dead S3 onwards. Zombies were just fodder and characters just teleported around depending on which way the plot's wind blew.
On October 03 2020 12:00 MajuGarzett wrote: I thought it was the girl from the mental hospital?
Nah, she was still locked up when the CIA girl got blown up in episode 1. Also, if it was her, we'd see her face at the end of the episode, the fact that we haven't means the reveal of who it is is meant to be a surprise.
On October 03 2020 09:24 Hyperbola wrote: Who do you guys think is the head exploder? I think it's Gus Fring.
Church guy
This could be very much it. The Church storyline's gotta be building to something and if you think of it another way The Church is just protecting their own interest. You thought that early FBI agent died to protect Stormfront but it was most likely so the terrorist would remain afloat to make way for the Deep to save the day. And this time it was to make sure Vought stayed afloat so that their plan to infiltrate the Seven would continue with the Leader of the Church using this favor as his bargaining chip with Edgar.
On October 04 2020 14:04 Fleetfeet wrote: Gus Fring would make sense, because whoever it is is trying basically exclusively to protect Vought. We'll see!
My only problem with Fring is how little we see him. I hope he features a lot in the finale
Is there anything in particular that makes us believe the head exploding thing is even a super power?
From the moment the FBI ladies head exploded I always assumed it was some mechanism like an explosive payload that Vaught is putting into people they have leverage over or in their pockets. They need some safety mechanism against the Supes, so they implant them with chips that can explode when Vaught wants them to.
That would explain why Edgar is so confident when dealing with Homelander as well.
On October 06 2020 00:42 scrotesque wrote: Is there anything in particular that makes us believe the head exploding thing is even a super power?
From the moment the FBI ladies head exploded I always assumed it was some mechanism like an explosive payload that Vaught is putting into people they have leverage over or in their pockets. They need some safety mechanism against the Supes, so they implant them with chips that can explode when Vaught wants them to.
That would explain why Edgar is so confident when dealing with Homelander as well.
That’s what I figured as well. The bleeding noses makes more sense to me as in this small mechanism initiates and then goes off. Where as we’ve seen the crazy Eleven like girl in the hospital can explode people in an instant.
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