re: The Boys Season 2 (Spoilers) Episode 8 “What I Know”

First off, amazing episode, I was wondering about Lamplighter but this is a hero with a conscience, so I like it.

Also, about Homelander, I think in Season 1, he went from a baby, wanting a mother figure and instant gratification, to a boy, who wanted family and a playmate/sibling. Thats Ryan and his son.

In Season 2, he went from wanting a boy who wanted a family to a horny teenager boy whos in a relationship for the first time.

I think at the end of Season 2 he will grow up into a young adult and next season a man.

Also, in regards to spoiler from the comics. First I wouldn't worry too much about it, the TV show used the same character and some of the beats but the comic storyline all gone to hell now.

1. Stiwell was still alive at the end of the comics.

2. Stormfront was a man and never had any sexual relation with Homelander.

3. There was no nazi labs.

4. Starlight and Hughie never teamed up that fast.

5. Also Butcher wife was legit dead and there was no Ryan. Ryan in the comic laser beam his way out of her womb.

So throw the comic books storyline out the window. You have similar beats sure but its like the MCU version of the Boys we are watching.

I think Black Nori is not actually homelander minder but a Black Superman that Edgar is sitting on.

I also think he knows what Stormfront is up to and is creating black supermen as the new waves for "diversity." Since the show actually love poking fun of wokeness.

Edgar could also believe in a master race but believe it should be Black people. So that makes Stormfront a black herring.

I am all but certain that Homelander would kill Stormfront in the end as a way to boost his reputation for killing a living nazi.

Just my thoughts.

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Edgar backed off of Butcher due to the threat of bad publicity, he probably did the same with Stormfront for that same reason. She'd spill the Nazi super secrets if they didn't let her in.

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Maybe Edgar is just a front person and Stormfront has always been the real boss.

I mean, Stormfront was Vaught's wife so wouldn't she actually be the owner/main stockholder of the company now?

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It doesn't appear that's the route they are going but you still don't know what parts of the comic they will keep on

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That's my argument as well.

I'm perfectly ok firing up a non-comic spoiler thread if need be at this point. Clearly, even after others have asked, people are still going to post things.

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I have no reason to think he gives two shits about the Nazi stuff. He doesn’t care what happens to humans.

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I dont think he cares about Humans or the Nazi stuff either but he has a deep need to be loved by the populace. As others have said what greater hero moment than to take down a Nazi plot for word domination?

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Yep, reading public perception on the macro level;

collateral damage in an African village, bad optics. No immediate threat to America and he's going overkill and taking out civilians.

No matter how much mayhem occurs, stopping an actual Super Nazi ON AMERICAN SOIL is something that will be proclaimed a needed and heroic action. Any means necessary. No matter how many die, it stops something worse.

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I mean, Stormfront was Vaught's wife so wouldn't she actually be the owner/main stockholder of the company now?

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No, the US investors and government held the strings. Vaught was simply someone they let live due to flipping sides. He held no power over here.

Those real-life German scientists who flipped over and aided the US got to keep working, instead of facing a firing squad. If they would have gotten out of line, they would have disappeared.

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The murder of the guy for his car should weigh extra heavy on Starlight.

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Would be an epic crossover if they had Monk come in to investigate Randy's murder.

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2nd'meh 'episode in a row, imo.

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You're nuts. I thought Episode 5 was kind of underwhelming even with all of the Black Noir/Terror things going on. But Episode 6 kicked things up to 11. They had several big reveals and closed out some story lines that had been hanging out there like Storm Front, Frenchie and Lamplighter. They keep coming up with new, comical ways to kill/attack people. If you thought Episode 6 was meh you probably should stop watching the show.

For everyone wondering about the roles of the Church and Mr. Edgar, I bet they'll be working together at some point. As others have said, Mr. Edgar seems more likely to double cross Stormfront than be his lackey. The Church feels it's got enough juice to get the Deep and A-Train back in the 7, so they must know somebody. These 2 "unaligned" groups seem like a good match at some point in the future.

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Butcher is right. Starlight’s powers are pretty lame.

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Her personality is pretty lame. Seems like she always have some self righteous line or speech. And the “You idiot. Why did you pull out a gun” at Randy line was eye roll worthy. Like it’s unreasonable for a person to pull out a gun when 3 strangers approaching him on road, trying to take his car. He doesn’t know them or what they want or capable of.

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Not a bad episode but I’m not quite as high on it as everybody else, thought it was kinda slow.

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So I have to ask, what is your idea of not slow? There's was plenty of action and plot advancement, so I'm a little confused as to what defines slow.

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Alerting the public to Compound V seemed like such a big goal which should’ve brought down Vaught.

They broke the compound V story to the world, which apparently only inflicted some temporary bad press to Vaught and nothing more.

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Oh you mean like what happens every day in the real world?

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We need an epic supe vs supe throwdown soon, all the fight scenes

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Oh, there was an epic supe vs supe throwdown in Ep. 5, it just wasn't a fight scene (maybe kinda, it was rough).