Where was the forehead touch, Kripke?
I have way too many *"why"* and *"what the hell for"* questions after that finale, and I genuinely can't settle any of them in my head.
Mostly my brain is just going
Keeping emotions out of this is probably impossible, but I'll at least try to stick to logic.
Let's start with the easy one: Sage.
Fine. Maybe it was part of her plan. Because there's no way the smartest person alive wouldn't be able to calculate that standing directly in front of a radioactive Kimiko and provoking her *might* have consequences if the Frenchie experiment actually worked.
The White House scene honestly didn't raise many questions for me either. I just think Homelander and Deep should've lost their powers and been thrown into prison together forever.
Anywhere. I don't care where. Just together.
That would've been a tiny personal hell for Homelander.
Instead they got off way too easy.
And this is where I have a shit ton of questions.
Why did Billy completely lose it because of Terror's death? Terror has absolutely nothing to do with supes.
If Ryan had kept his powers, then maybe — maybe — you could stretch it and say Ryan's rejection finally broke something inside Butcher.
Why not have Homelander kill him then?
Or why didn't Butcher decide to wipe out the rest of the supes right there in the White House? Right after Homelander?
You let them come back home.
And then suddenly you pull this.
The whole season kept leading us toward the idea that Butcher still had humanity left in him.
That he had this soft spot for Hughie.
That MM was still someone deeply important to him.
Hell, he literally killed Homelander saying:
"This one's for Frenchie."
Yeah, Terror represented his humanity. But after everything that happened before that, it suddenly feels like none of it mattered.
Honestly, even Butcher just dying from cancer after the V got burned out of him would've felt more logical.
The ending with Butcher feels completely forced.
Like they tried to jam a square peg into a round hole.
Yeah, Kripke wanted to end it like the comics.
But comic Butcher was a completely different character from the start.
There wasn't much humanity there.
He had a goal, and he followed it.
Show Butcher was different.
When he told Hughie they'd turn the V into a vaccine.
When he said he'd get all of them across the finish line.
And then suddenly Billy just stopped giving a shit.
If Butcher had survived and ended up leading the Super Affairs Department or whatever, he would've done a billion times more good there.
After Kessler bringing up how Butcher failed the entire team, it was practically begging for one.
Let him save The Boys and die.
There's your redemption arc.
Hughie could've gotten through to him.
Why spend the whole seasons pushing the canary symbolism if Hughie ultimately couldn't affect him at all?
He influenced him and influenced him and influenced him...
until suddenly he didn't.
Everything happened in true *Supernatural* fashion:
and then the last twenty minutes happened.
Now I'm going to pretend this ending doesn't exist too.
As for Gen V and Soldier Boy, I don't even have the energy.
