On 9/25/2020 at 8:38 PM, peridot said:

I can't believe that A-Train is even entertaining joining the creepy scientologist guy, and how is he in seven-figure debt?!

When Elena saw the video, I was afraid that Maeve would murder her for seeing the video.  I'm surprised that normal people would date a Supe, they have crazy powers and all of them seem to be psychopaths.

In real life, lots of celebs manage to piss away their money.  A-Train has been shown to be a junkie with poor impulse control, so it doesn't surprise me that he would fall into that category.

It's not apparent until you get to know them that the supes are psychopaths, and some are less psycho than others. I'm trying to remember if we have seen Maeve do anything that is outright and unquestionably evil. I can't think of anything off the top. Even leaaving the planeload of people to die can be rationalized as being under duress from Homelander. 

I'm sure that the wealth, fame and power might cause some to look the other way to some low-grade crazy. The main classic-comics trope has the main downside of dating a supe being the possibility of villains coming after you, and in the Boysverse, there haven't really been villains till now.

On 9/25/2020 at 8:39 PM, AnimeMania said:

I am surprised that all Stormfront's test subjects aren't Blond, Blue-eyed hunks and hunkettes. Why would she risk giving superpowers to races that were not worthy of them, inferior races would only result in inferior superpowers.

Like others have said, there's no reason to not test non-Aryans since they are going to just get rid of them afterwards.

But what doesn't make much sense to me is, assuming Stormfront has been telling the truth about being Vought's wife why Vought would have given the working version of Compound V to minority kids like A-Train.

On 9/26/2020 at 2:12 AM, Hootis said:

Maeve's girlfriend Elena blaming her about the plane. What was Maeve supposed to do about it?

There's a reasonable argument that she should have stood up to Homelander, no matter the costs. If Wonder Woman somehow found herself in the same sort of situation with a suddenly-evil-and-cowardly Superman, that's probably what she would have done, even if it meant that Superman killed her. It is probably easier to have that thought if, like Elena, one doesn't realize how much of an actual psychopath Homelander is. Yes, Maeve has said he's a psycho, but tons of Vought conditioning could lead her to think that was an exaggeration. It also probably had Elena was "Brave Maeve" rather than the exact opposite in real-life.

On 9/26/2020 at 10:41 AM, Racj82 said:

I absolutely believe part of what scientology does is pray on celebrities that are weak or are in odd places and feel like they need guidance or direction. The seven, in this world, are the biggest stars in the world. Not actual actors based on what we've seen. So, this is who they would gravitate towards. Also, the whole show can't just be about one group vs another. There is more of this world to explore.

They are both heroes and actors. They are literally filming a movie now, and I believe have done individual movies before.

20 hours ago, arachne said:

I hope the show will explain why some supes (like Homelander) have super kids,  and others (like Stormfront} don't.

Classic comics/superhero movies and shows have been all over the map as to whether powers can be inherited and how much. Various takes on Superman's offspring have had his kids having twists on his powers (Superman Returns), his normal powers (Jonathan Kent) or I believe watered down versions of his powers. Black Lightning has a kid whose powers have nothing to do with electricity and another whose electricity powers work a different way than his do. Magneto's kids Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch didn't get magnetic powers but developed their own powers. Franklin Richards doesn't have stretchy or invisible powers as such, but has, well, all the other powers. I'd bet that there have been examples of powered heroes having kids with absolutely no powers, but I'm blanking on them.

It could be that Stormfront's daughter did have some powers but not the slow aging one. Or it could be that the earlier form of Compound V didn't produce results that could be transmitted to offspring, but the current one does. Or it could be that Vought meddled with Stormfront's kid and Comppound V'ed him and he doesn't have the powers as a simple matter of what he inherited from Homelander.

At the end of the day, the writers can make up whatever rules they want on this and the answer will probably be, "some just do, and some just don't."