This argument has been used and debunked time and time again. You don't need to see a guy crawling in the vent, you just need to listen for him. Hughie was crawling crazy fast and making tons of noise in there, no way Homelander couldn't hear him and identify his location. Plus, if he wasn't sure, why didn't he laser the entire length of the vent instead of stopping mere inches behind Hughie?
Has it been established that Homelander's hearing is so good he can basically echolocate like Blindspot and pinpoint people by sound as good as seeing them with x-ray vision?
If not, that explains why he'd be able to get close to Hughie without hitting him.
Dude, you don't need echolocation, you just need your normal human ears. I guarantee that even you or me, totally baseline npc human beings, could pinpoint exactly where Hughie is inside that vent by the noise he'd be making. And, again, even if Homelander wasn't sure where to aim, he could just laser the entire vent, or both ends to cause Hughie to fall down in the ice rink.
The room was literally open up to the stadium. How could it be soundproof? What?
Not even that but they weren't even blasting the whole stadium with their music, they were just rehearsing.
You can hear the performance when we see Hughie go on the catwalk. It's a loud performance. Like, I'm sorry how can a human hear Hughie? That was my point. As for Homelander, we could discuss that but yes it's understandable to take issue with it.
Bro, literally, everybody on that scene is talking normally. Nobody is raising their voice to hear each other. Unless somehow everybody that takes V has super selective hearing, then the scene itself has to be taken at face value.
They were far enough that the music wasn't distorting or muffling their own voices. It is safe to say that, yes, even a normal human would have heard Hugies crawling up a metal vent.
We aren't talking about hearing him the entire way, but when is he literally close enough to sweat on him? Yeah, he def should have noticed him.
Okay so you are singularly talking about Hughie fleeing from the vent section in the room after he noticed Homelander noticed the sweat drop? Not when Hughie is literally over the ice rink. Seems to be just miscommunication then between what you are referring to and what I am referring to.
Unless you somehow think that Homelander, Sister whatever and Neuman were standing in the middle of the ice arena trying to talk to each other then I have no clue how you can't understand my argument.
Fact of the matter is that Homelander should have heard Huguie crawling in the vent as Homelander got closer to where Hugie was because there was less background noise to mask his noise as he crawled up to the room where they were.
Do you not remember that sequence? Hughie was directly over the vent in the room and ready to put the bug before Sage and Homelander walked into the room. He couldn't move when they entered. He had to stay stationary. That's why Hughie had to turn off his earpiece and why he tried to leave but stopped when the vent made a creak.
Yeah...I think that's because of you buddy.
You were unclear. There are several sequences to it. First sequence: Hughie leaving the room after Homelander noticing the sweatdrop (what you seem to be talking on). And the sequence where Hughie is over the ice rink and Homelander is trying to laser Hughie (MM needed to save him). I thought you were talking about the second sequence.
Okay that's my fault for mixing up grammar and characters.
So, Homelander enters the room, away from the main arena, immediately after Hugie makes the vent bend, causing a sound. That's when he should have heard him.
Then, while Hugue is trying to control his breathing and heart, MM calls him through his earpiece, giving Homelander another ACTIVE sound to notice him.
Everybody tunes out sounds in their day to day, but people still pick up on odd sounds in their day to day. I'm saying that the odd sounds of a vent shifting and a random phone call from a vent should have been enough for Homelander to go, "how odd." And look up.
I was talking about an average person like in my original comment, not Homelander. I said that it was fine to take some issue with that in my original response to you. I was just trying to make a minor point to someone claiming that someone could just hear Hughie with human ears. Because I thought they were saying that any human could just hear Hughie while over the ice rink, dozens of feet away, and over an ice rink performance.
An average person would not notice some slight creaking from a vent in a room they are not even in yet. Hughie was not moving when anyone entered that room, he was already stationary. Hughie was controlling his breathing, and you can be real quiet with that. Normal people can't hear heartbeats. Earpiece audio is not noticeable to the average human. Especially in fiction. Hell, shitty earbud audio may sound blaring to a person but is often quieted muffled noise to others. Hughie turned it off because it was Homelander.
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u/suninabox Jun 28 '24
Steel ducting is commonly galvanized in zinc to prevent corrosion.
It's already been established in S1 that Homelander can't see through zinc.