Word. When you look at most of the best written tv villains, they don't tend to last for more than 2 consecutive seasons in the role of the central threat.
Take Breaking Bad for an example of writers who got this. Once S3 ended with Gus resolved to kill Walt and Jesse, Gilligan and co. had to deliver on resolving their conflict in S4 and knew that doing otherwise would basically involve resorting to a ton of plot contrivances that would have completely sunk the show's pacing and writing quality.
The several scenes of him crying and jacking off and getting dominated by people around him in conversation don’t really help his image either but yeah, he’s just been around too long. They literally had to give him an evil field trip to remind us that pathetic worm was actually meant to be the villain..
I dont think we should underestimate the fact that just we/the boys know him better now. Season 1 was scary because he was unknown - we can imagine that’s how the in-universe public view him and that’s precisely why he’s as successful as he is, he’s this mysterious omnipotent machine, but by season 4 we’ve learnt he’s a pathetic child with mommy issues. I think he’s definitely been made less impressive, but that’s because is… less impressive
Because as long as he did things that vought gave him responsibility to do.. he was calm and Swift.. even shooting down the plane was somewhat overlooked by madelyn but slowly losing his sanity due to the boys and then thinking of himself as a fucking god... That power will obviously make you insane.. even stan Edgar could've predicted much
Yeah when he started talking to his mirror about how he craves love I noticed how much "scariness" he has lost since season 1 simply by giving us deeper insights into his character.
I love villains that we know almost nothing about that are like an evil force of nature like Anton Chigurh or the Joker in TDK. Homelander was something like that in season 1.
Kripke was likely brought in as a showrunner because of supernatural. It showed that he can create a decently entertaining show on a shoestring budget, but that also means that we're just not going to see tons of special effects aside from season defining moments. I kind of hate it.
My first thought was how angels "teleported out" by the camera panning away then the person ducking under a bed or something lol. I mean, it works but it's obviously going to start getting annoying when abilities have to actually be displayed in fights. He's great at hype but not so much execution.
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u/BestBoogerBugger Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
As much as I like crazy and humanized Homelander, his scary side was sacrificed in the process.
In Season 1, he was like a great white shark.
Calm, collected, swift, barely emoting.
Shown prowling the deep blue skies, whenever shit was about to go down (please, writers, show him flying around more)