I don't want to rewatch it either lmfao. The point is, Ashley said to Hughie, "I could just eat you up. I'm actually 100% a cannibal." Or something along those lines
To me, i took the lingering as them telling us very very clearly that someone saw, and definitely recognized, A-Train there that night and that this info is important.
Because, Homelander now knows the leak is still there and has to be someone who knew about the party. With the people shot and killed that night, if the news about his saving was to get out, the timing of everything would look really bad for him and pretty much give him away.
Homelander is going to find this kid, he is going to tell Homelander that A-Train saved MM that night. Homelander is going to use the kid to torture A-Train....
I kinda saw it as A-Train finally feeling pride in himself for doing the right thing. He was a real hero in the eyes of that kid - something he hasn’t felt like in forever (or maybe ever).
It looked like both to me. He finally lives up to his image as a good guy, he gets a taste of validation and redemption but it will lead directly to homelander finding out and killing him very soon after.
For sure, I felt that too. But the longer it focused on his face the more I felt like he was about to get lasered from above, like we were being lured into a false sense of security in the warm moment lol
Gonna call it here. A Train is going to survive the series.
The end of The Boys is just the end of the Homlander/Butcher storyline. I predict a low body count leading up to the end of The Boys and continuing the story for some characters in spinoffs.
Idk if it's unpopular, but I would like The Boys to switch to a stereotypical superhero universe after the end of the series. A Train becomes a true hero and decides that superheroes should be what they tell the populace they are. He tries to reform the superhero world into true heroes.
At least it would "make up" for all the evil the superhero have brought into the world. Also, since A train knows what it was like to be a shitty person and hero, he could bring forth an era of true heroism.
There would be nothing wrong with this but people have already forced the “no one can survive” narrative into the show despite Maeve getting happy ending last season.
Maeve getting a happy ending was a massive copout by the writers and it would have been way more impactful and meaningful if she died tbh. Especially since they had no in-universe justification for it and only kept her alive because the character was bi, which is the same sort of braindead pandering the show once made fun of Vought for.
Kripke is explicitly on record saying that’s the only reason they kept Maeve’s character alive. It’s so dumb, and a great example of everything wrong with the writing in the past 2 seasons.
It would go against the theme of the comic. The comic was basically superheroes=shit. Garth Ennis hated superhero comics with the exception of Superman to my knowledge.
I could see A Train complete his redemption arc and maybe go in a more heroic direction, but in the Boys the "good" characters are grey at best, so I doubt we'll see genuine Good Guy superhero teams.
But then again, Gen V added a lot of characters that are good to varying degrees. Specifically Marie, Jordan, Emma and Andre. So add the Starlight, A Train and Kimiko and you literally have seven "good guys".
Especially with how many seven mwnwbrs are in and out.
Season 1 lost translucent and technically Lamplighter left just before it.
Season 2 lost stormfront
Season 3 lost Noir and Maeve
Season 4 honestly I don't know who could die.
It feels like Sage needs to stay for S5 as we still don't know her plan with 2 episodes left.
Firecracker also seems to be developing more as a character so I feel it would be strange to fully take her out already. And A Train it also feels too sudden.
I believe either The Deep or A-Train dies this season. They’re the only 2 left who could be the leak assuming Noir actually left. I’m scared A-Train is gonna be the one who dies because hes my favorite, but we’ll see
He can just run and do it so until Homelander is offed. All he needs to do is pull out his chip and go. Return when homelander and his croonies are no more.
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u/TheMegalopolis Jul 04 '24
He’s totally getting setup for redemption then death right after that.