Beware the Jabberwock, My Son

Seasons 1 & 2 were good and compelling, season 3 was mostly good other than the finale. Now it feels like it has nowhere to go. I really hope they don't drag this show on past season 5. I think they built up too much in season 3 about getting rid of Homelander, and it all led to nothing. It's as if it lost it's direction. It's still alright, but it feels, as I read someone else put it, an empty shell of its former self.

I cannot pin it down exactly what it is, but it is just slipping in quality and objective. I have to write more for the character limit, so: this Sage character-they simply say she is the smartest person in the world without doing much to prove it. Nothing she has done has felt impressively smart.

Ok, met the character limit.

Not that i disliked this weeks episode but it did have quite a lot of running time consisting of the slightly boring advertising stage work along with sub plot shenanigans inside Vought that we could roll our eyes at. Not to say that those parts of story shouldn't happen, but i just think it happened too much in this episode. In result it completely broke up the main story into badly paced slices that to it became a slight chore. Given the hospital scenes were emotional and acted well, that and also the progress with Butcher and the gang were the only thing that kept me interested in the story moving forward at all. But again, it also seemed that to keep it interesting, certain theatrics were placed to keep us entertained. Horrifying yes, but it seemed a little off, the whole Hughie's dad segments was my overall favourite. The Homelander scenes with his son on the other hand are getting tiresome, it needs to develop into something more by now.

It doesn't really bother me that people rated it 10/10. What bothers me are the bots that either don't make sense or people calling it the best episode ever. It really isn't, but that's not to say it's the worst either.

A mediocre episode but small promise the season isn't truly gone. Given that also episode 4 was a great one. This one was a little confusing as to what track it was trying to stay on.

And in that farm he had some sheep with a v v here and a v v there old McDonald had a farm.

Writing this episode had to be done by writer's severely under the influence of psychedelic drugs.

When you think the weirdness has maxed then they throw some animal farm crazy into the mix with something that's bound to haunt your dreams and reset nursery rhymes for ever.

Then father and son relationships get taken to a next level of hardship with some in-depth heart to heart lesson having to be learnt super quick.

This episode was like watching a train crash into a plane whilst both are caught in a tornado in the middle of a tsunami.

How can they top this one going forward??

To be honest, even though I did like the first three episodes of this season, they definitely weren't as good as what you would expect from this show. But these last two episodes have confirmed that this show has still got it.

All of the main plots and side plots are getting really interesting except maybe Frenchies. There are some returning characters from previous seasons in this one and it's glorious. The actors are also all doing pretty great.

There's some crazy action, good humor, and an intriguing sort of mystery here. Even though last weeks episode was a little better because of the Homelander stuff, this episode had me more invested in all of the plot lines. Standouts in this one are Butcher, Neuman, and a returning character who I wont spoil. I hope this season continues this quality to the end.

Show over all is quality and at least *most* of the plot lines are going somewhere.

It's becoming a bit too obvious with some of the random "loss of powers" during certain scenes though.

The farm suddenly kimiko is not a super human anymore and can't fight off the animals? Nueman can pop a chicken mid flight but when the plot calls for it cannot deal with the sheep? The driver was no problem so I do not understand her powers and the writers just use it when convenient (like the driver). This happened before with homelander not detecting Hughie when he was practically on top of him. The man has super hearing and smell and xray vision. Again kimiko has super healing so why is she ever worried about being hurt?

Starlight and frenchie could just not exist in this season and I don't think it would have any impact to this point. Kimiko likely as well. What is their purpose? At least with hughie it's resolving something and...well...sad stuff for sure.

I think this show is starting to suffer the GoT problem with far too many plot lines running simultaneously and it's barely scratching any one story. There's just not enough episodes in this season for how many characters it's trying to cover.