SpaceCommie posted:

Did you miss the frozen milk scene?

Sir Kodiak posted:

There seems to be a blindspot where nobody notices or comments on her obvious unsuitability as a member of the Seven given Vought's obsession with PR, so I was curious if I missed them being provided with an explanation of what's going on that would mollify them.

Arglebargle III posted:

Or when he flew over Hughie in the first episode. He can't be looking in every direction.

However, the idea that he didn't notice people approaching in a storm drain with 14 people in it, tops, strains disbelief.

Durzel posted:

This feels hyper critical but I feel like [spoiler]S1 Homelander wouldn’t have tolerated Starlight wasting so much time killing Hughie, especially when he knows what he’s responsible for, together with the fact that he doesn’t really need her buy in to the team at all when he’s straight up threatened her anyway.

ZZZorcerer posted:

Well, being a nazi sympathizer is incredible for PR and would get a hella lot supporters if reality is anything to go by

ZZZorcerer posted:

Yeah, doing other stuff I could see a "when you hear everything you can't focus on it all" but he was actively searching for people there, he would've perceived the breathing/hearts beating

Sir Kodiak posted:

Did I miss something that explains Stormfront's promotion given her social media bullshit? I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Edgar had a secret reason that will be revealed later or whatever, but it seems odd that no one is questioning why they're doing all this myth-making PR if management is just going to promote someone whose primary shtick is tearing all that down. Like, what's Starlight or Homelander or anyone's subjective understanding of why Vought would work at cross-purposes with itself like that, whatever the hidden plot reasons might end up being?

massive spider posted:

I’m two eps in and Stormfronts promotion makes sense so far. In this day and age there’s the kind of behind the scenes of celebrity angle where people love to get a hint of the messy drama. Stormfronts whole thing is the faux “authentic” thing where however much it looks like she’s against the suits, the suits are still profiting off her since all eyeballs on her = money.

It’s an impressively aggravating character to me, she’s acting like she not a sellout while being part of the biggest franchise on the planet. (It’s the same reaction I get whenever I see Ricky Gervais do a takedown of celebrities at the oscars but still get invited back three times, or the craft beer band Brewdogs “beer for punks” advert)

PostNouveau posted:

Fukuhara did not really get much to do in Season 1, and then went from like 0 to 100 when Kenji showed up. All of a sudden, just so loving good. The guy playing Kenji was great as well. Those two really crushed what was kinda meh material.

Sir Kodiak posted:

Okay, if that's what going on, that's cool. I'd still love to see what a promo spot for her looks like, or a meeting that showed that image being used–a glimpse on the intentionality of it from the Vought perspective–but it does make sense that so far our view of the corporate side of things is focused on them managing the Compound V situation. Because so far we've just seen them pushing her as "one of the girls," which isn't exactly playing into her image being that of an outside agitator.

PostNouveau posted:

She acts like a rebel, but at the end of Episode 3, she's giving the same "you guys are the real heroes!" speech that she rags on Homelander and Maeve for giving in Episode 1.

Solice Kirsk posted:

She's a plant from Edgar to catch/exploit Homelander!

Bust Rodd posted:

I'm asking this as a Jewish person, but does anyone else feel like Stormfront looks extremely Jewish? She just has the exact same hair/face/nose/body as every pretty JAP I knew in college and I cannot tell if that's written into the show or not.

PostNouveau posted:

Caros posted:

Mr. Edgar seems to be in part a take on the comics version of Stillwell, who had a rather interesting end:

Comic Stillwell has the same absurd level of calm that Edgar displays, to the point that when Homelander finally goes completely off the edge he remains entirely unphased by the bloodstained lunatic who shows up at his window to kill him. He calls out homelander for the fact that despite all his power he has never done anything remotely original or outstanding, never done anything that any other person with that power wouldn't do.

Guy is smart enough to know that Homelander has daddy issues and a need to impress, that he'd rather say 'I told you so' before tearing off his head. Ends up living through the comic, shockingly.

massive spider posted:

Everyone who liked the Patton Oswald scene but hasn’t seen Lucky needs to watch it. It felt like an outtake from that show.

Bust Rodd posted:

I just realized that he is also the main villain in Mandalorian so he's just gonna be wrecking all my peeps until Christmas

Arglebargle III posted:

Do not watch Lucky it is a bad show.

Automatic Slim posted:

What I liked about comic Stillwell was while was an evil corporate shill he was exceedingly polite to waiters and underlings. He was evil but not an rear end in a top hat- in public.

Giancarlo Esposito has gotten much deserved recognition at this stage of his career if only to hit a pocket of menacing villains. He was great in Homicide and Bakersfield P.D.

Being caught flat footed at the episode 3 meeting of The Seven where Homelander gets the upper hand is a fun turn.

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

Everyone is excited about the Patton Oswalt cameo, but no one has enough love for the joke that the GooGoo Dolls music was diagetic

PostNouveau posted:

Unfortunately, I don't think Stormfront is going to be the alt-right to Homelander's fascism. I think she's just comic relief.

withak posted:

Her belt buckle is pretty nazi-adjacent.

Victis posted:

I think the idea that Stormfront is a literal actual Nazi from back in the day is genius because it sets up a conflict between Homelander and her.

She probably sees in him an ally and the ideal ubermensch. On the other hand, he sees himself as such a champion of America, how do you reconcile that with working with what the US has always considered the Big Bad Guys

withak posted:

Her belt buckle is pretty nazi-adjacent.

Sir Kodiak posted:

Interesting, hadn't seen those videos before. Very fun.

It does make me wonder about the Ricky Gervais interpretation where Stormfront is Vought monetizing the opposition to itself, though. Everyone else in that video is in-character as their public persona, so presumably Stormfront is as well. And you can interpret, like, Rage Against the Machine as having been full of poo poo for selling their music through Sony, but even if it's purely a manufactured image of dissent, both side of that arrangement would know enough to not have them appear in an internal marketing video talking about vertical integration.

But, of course, that video's not part of the actual show so who knows.