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It’s been mentioned but no biggie, always fun when someone figures it out! There was similar
with Mesmer last year.JJ Abrams and Eric Kripke did the tv show Revolution together. They are likely good friends and know a lot of the same actors who are likely friends.It’s been mentioned but no biggie, always fun when someone figures it out! There was similar
Greg Gormann with the cameo when they were shooting the “Rise of the 7” movie in the tv show a few episodes ago. Wondering if there is a JJ Abrams connection on this show? Kind of odd to have him there for a minor throwaway scene.
Revolution...whoa. that was an almost great show- can't remember why/when it didn't work.
It was almost great. It seemed like it had just a smidge too low of a budget. Felt like it could have been epic but there wasn’t quite enough action. Imagine a movie like The Patriot to put it into what could have been in the fight scenes.
Ah, never saw that one but it fits. I also found on the internet they wanted the filming the movie scene to be very meta hence the joke about the Vietnamese Gluten Free Crepe Food Truck backstage and having Grunberg as a cameo. They wanted that Hollywood in-joke of that dude popping up in like every big movie being true in the show’s universe too. Edit: And Grunberg is apparently a fan of the show and jumped at the chance when they reached out. Also the joke about the Joss rewrite that Homelander mentions.
One of the preview scenes they've teased since season 1 is Homelander landing with his face covered with presumably blood and a shocked/sad/scared look on his face, but I don't recall seeing that happen yet. Gotta be something bad happening to someone he cares about, doesn't it? If that's the case, there's a very short list of candidates:
1. Not sure how well The Boys works without Homelander; if next season is the last one, I can see something like this.
I don't think 1 happens this season, but I think it's the ultimate end of homelander, IMO.
1. Will his kid know his "weakness"? I could see this in future season.
Great catch on 2. I’m just not sure if it happens this next episode or not until next season some time.
I know it's shtick but little known fact about MPG, he's brother is one of the greatest supercross mechanics of all time
Before I started watching the show, that's what I thought. I think there's more than a passing resemblance to what I remember of him.
Usually the climax of a story happens before the closing seconds of the entire episode.
answer about amps vs. volts, but whatever. I guess it was more dramatic this way than if Starlight had been able to handle her alone, and we wouldn't have gotten the 'girls get it done' scene, and Ryan killing his mother.
Replies in italics in spoilerUsually the climax of a story happens before the closing seconds of the entire episode.
I know it's still early, but I wanted to get some thoughts before I lose them:
1. So the head of the church is Vought's grandson but somehow has no stain of racism on him? I completely missed that. When did that come out?
2. My math is kind of fuzzy re: who is and isn't in The Seven. I was under the impression that Deep was still a member, just "exiled", and that Stormfront was Translucent's replacement, yet they're acting like Deep isn't a member any more. With A-Train and Starlight back in, and Noir "a vegetable", they still seem a little short:
Homelander
Maeve
A-Train
Starlight
Black Noir (they called him 'a vegetable', so he's not dead but basically useless)
If they don't count Deep as still in The Seven, they're two supes shy.
My memory is fuzzy...I thought translucent was "on a mission" and not officially dead? If so, storefront replaces deep, and we're all square.
3. It was surprising that Starlight didn't redirect Stormfront's lightning back at her; I guess there's some
i thought that was a great call by the poster above who thought of it, but I liked how they used if for the kid finding his powers....I also liked how HL starts finding actual parental feelings. He's terrible at it and a sociopath, but seems to genuinely care.
4. Speaking of Stormfront's downfall, does anyone know what she was saying in German before she died? (did she die? She was really messed up but I don't recall them showing her actually die)
I was wondering the same...thought I heard mention what sounded like a jewish name. They said she was still alive. Her and Noir in their mash unit.
5. Right before the scene where Homelander winds up with blood all over his face, I thought they were setting it up that he got that way by killing Stormfront. When she started on her white supremacy rant to Ryan, you see Homelander kind of flinch. To me, I thought that was him having an epiphany about her, and I figured that when he was returning to the cabin where the battle between The Boys and Stormfront took place, he was going to confront her as she was escaping the fight and blast her in mid-air. That would have been cool.
yeah, well written and acted there in that moment. I took it as him reacting to somebody trying to teach his kid stuff he didn't agree with...definitely not on board with that at least. Hard to say if he agreed or disagreed with the ideology though- seemed more like he was against the abstract of "nazi" more than the beliefs.
6. The more I thought about it, the more I believe that despite the fact that it was 'only' the show's redshirts' blood that was all over Homelander, that shot of him is still a turning point in his story arc, because in that moment, he was basically powerless and didn't know how he was going to solve his problem, and we hadn't seen him that way until then, and no doubt a 'trauma' like that made something snap.
again, for me, the fatherhood angle of his arc seems the big catalyst...he seems to genuinely care about the kid and wanting to do right by him. Of course, his version of right is still a work in progress
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Guess I need to get my comprehension skills checked. Sorry for the bad info.
Don't disagree, though the previous episode would have made a fantastic cliffhanger.
Interesting and wouldn’t be surprising so they don’t have to deal with a Carl situation. Either that or he’s gone for a season or two. As someone else mentioned Kripke did Supernatural and that had a pretty stable story arc with an end game over 5-6 seasons. It kept going after that but there was a long term arc. Even Revolution had a long term arc but I think the ratings forced them to end it earlier than planned.
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