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I couldn't finish the episode. I may try to go back to it, but the focus on Lila just annoyed me. She was like nails on a chalkboard.

Yes! I was like, wait, that's not right! Don't they film in Canada? Does Canada drive on the "opposite" side of the road from the US, and they just didn't take the time and effort to get a car with a steering wheel on the left side?

She did act more like when she has lobotomized herself, I thought, in this episode. But she didn’t act kind of silly like she does when lobotomized, either. Something was off.

Ah, thank you. I noticed the girl seemed to be able to control Frenchie and thought she might be kind of like Allison Hargreeves from the Umbrella Academy but didn’t understand why Kimiko seemed powerless against that guy. She didn’t seem able to put up much of a fight. None of our protagonists seemed to be prepared for an attack they had to know would be coming.

This felt incomplete to me. Of course there will be another season, so they have to leave cliffhangers, but I wanted more. At least let us see what bald Ashley turned into! I wanted to see her take out Deep or something. How come that guy could hold Kimiko back? Was he super-powered? I am in it at this point to see Homelander get taken out, and they’d better not disappoint me.

I didn't like all the disgusting sexual violation in this episode. How did Firecracker find out about Homelander's mommy/breast milk fixation? The thing I really liked this show for, its social commentary, is really going a little too on-the-nose now. They're just basically copying exactly what is unfortunately going on in the US political system at the moment. It's not a commentary at this point.

I thought V was supposed to heal any injuries, which should include damage from stroke, but I guess not. I'm just bummed because I wanted Hughie's dad to stay in the show as a supporting character.

I feel like I missed an episode, even though I didn't. The flying murder sheep did nothing for me. Did not care at all for all the animal gore. Can we please leave innocent animals out of this, please, show?! So, why did Compound V give Hughie's dad the ability to walk through anything/anyone but also dementia? It makes me suspicious of Hughie's mother, since she was the one to dose him. When Annie's power shorted out in the "rec room," I thought it meant Victoria had set up the lab with some kind of electricity blocking capabilities or something. But, no, Annie's powers just have to suck more than usual, apparently. Hate to see the sadistic tendencies coming out in Ryan. Unpleasant.

I think beating up Firecracker on TV is more of a PR problem for Annie than the news of the abortion itself getting out. Most Starlighters would probably be supportive of her making a medical decision for herself, but maybe not so much seeing her beating up someone who is basically unarmed and underpowered. Firecracker did a terrible thing and I can totally understand Annie being furious about it, but I wish she had handled it in a sneakier way. There has to be a way to get back at that POS that would be more effective long term. Annie didn't even go beat up Deep, and if anyone should be beaten up, it's him. Maybe Sage had an accidental head injury at some point and realized her brain could regenerate. I wonder if her actual head and skull can regenerate, or only her brain?

That violent outburst seemed really out of character for Annie. It's hard for me to believe she would do that, no matter how angry she was. I'm so tired of Frenchie at this point. He can sadsack his way right out the door IMO. The developments with Butcher and Hughie are...interesting.

Maybe that's what it is. At times I've thought his voice sounded lower, but now it sounds like they dubbed in someone else's voice almost!

I don't understand the Frenchie stuff at all. Like, I could buy him being bi, but what happened to all the "mon coeur" Kimiko stuff? And the "we're family" and "let's run off to Marseilles" stuff? And Kimiko doesn't seem to be all that into Frenchie anymore either. I don't get this show anymore.

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by most of the good guys wanting to stop Soldier Boy more than they wanted to stop Homelander. That made absolutely no sense to me. I guess they thought that using Soldier Boy to neutralize Homelander would also take out a bunch of other people. I'm not sure if any of the other supes would have survived. Maybe they were trying to save Ryan? I really don't get it because Homelander is obviously the bigger long-term threat in my eyes. Everyone else seemed to think Butcher and Maeve were so horrible to be focusing on Homelander, and then they caved, too, and chose to take out Soldier Boy, which was presented as the "correct" choice.

Late to the party but just binge-watched season 1 yesterday and felt compelled to comment. I am so confused about Deep's story arc. I hate him but do empathize with his desire to help ocean creatures, but then he's such a fuckup that he can't even rescue them correctly. I also disliked how the dolphin's and lobster's deaths were played for dark humor. Yes, it's a gory show, yada yada, but it has always bothered me to see an animal's death played for laughs on any show. Anyway, everything with Deep was super ick to me, and I didn't quite understand what they were trying to say other than he's an incompetent creep. Everything with Deep might have caused me to stop watching, but I really liked the corrupt political and corporation commentary and kept me watching.

I thought Renna might be suicidal at that point because, assuming she grew up in the Seanchan culture, which seems likely, she's been taught since she was only a child that channelers were the lowest scum imaginable and deserved to be collared and lose their status as a sentient human. Now she finds out she is one of them, the lowest of the low. As Egwene said to her, "We're the same." I believe at the point that Renna said, "Use it," she had released Egwene, so she had to know that Egwene could kill her at that point with no risk to herself. I do think it is "use it," but like I said, I could be wrong. Definitely the speech recognition-generated closed captions are often terrible, but I haven't noticed as many errors with scripted shows like this one. I would hope they would use actual people to at least proofread what the engine generated.