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Robert H.

Time for my rant. This Episode made me really angry. I couldn't enjoy Frenchie and Kimiko's storyline this season at all. Frenchie, Colin and Kimiko get so many scenes and the climax was the conversation in this episode. It's so stupid. First, Frenchie has to deal with his past for the third time, which is not only repetitive but just bad. Especially for me, who rewatched the first three seasons before season 4, it was just incredibly repetitive. He starts a sexual relationship with a victim from his past, which practically rots his character inside. Colin doesn't play a role at all after episode 4, but viewers are supposed to build an empathetic relationship with him within those first four 4 episodes, which just doesn't work. Frenchie then goes to prison to atone for his actions. He could have been sent to prison with a much more interesting plot, but it doesn't matter at all in the end. I had initially thought with the internment camps that Frenchie's prison sentence would now be linked to the main plot and that it would have some significance. I thought wrong. He simply gets out again with the help of Butcher. What a stupid thing to do! Frenchie is right back where he was at the end of last season. This is probably the stupidest plot I've ever seen. Kimiko starts therapy to deal with a trauma. She doesn't want to talk about it, stops doing it, kills Shining Light people (again) and doesn't want to talk to Frenchie about her trauma. Then she complains that Frenchie won't talk to her about his third past coping bullshit. I still can't believe that the storyline for Frenchie is something from his past again. In episode 7, she finally finds the strength to talk about her past. The writers could have come up with a better story to give the two characters something to do this season. They could have come up with something shorter and instead put more plot into the other storylines or developed the main plot faster. And then we have MM and his family. It starts with finding Todd because his daughter misses him and is fighting at school because of it. Being a good family father, as Butcher calls him, he of course doesn't talk to his daughter about it and ask why she did it, but goes looking for Todd. Unnecessary plot. A few episodes later and a few weeks later, we learn that the daughter got into a fight because she's against Supes. MM develops a stress disorder and experiences a panic attack because he's fighting Supes and considers withdrawing and being with his family. He doesn't do this, of course, because this storyline wasn't meant to develop the characters and change the team permanently, but because we need filler plot to stretch a story for one season over two seasons. But Hughie's plot with his mother and father was very important, because.... ehhhh. They put his father in the center and let him die. That can certainly work, but let us seeing Hughie, his father and Annie happy together at a lunch and then later having his father die with Annie by his side to provide comfort would be way too good and short. Instead they practically remove Annie completely from Hughie's plot, she lets her boyfriend, who she's been with for a very long time now, go to the hospital alone where he meets his mother and of course Hughie gives his father indirectly Compound V because chaos and drama. And to top it off, Hughie is sexually abused by his childhood idol Tek Knight and the only consequence of that was 10 seconds at the end of episode 6. And, of course, the trauma and coping with grief no longer play a role in episode 7. It was just a filler plot. I don't understand why they didn't show partners in a relationship give each other comfort when they're going through a hard time. And then we have the Starlight plot. I don't even know where to start because it's as chaotic. She's set up as Homelander's adversary and then against Firecracker. She's confronted with her past and can no longer use her powers because it's stressing her out. None of this is addressed, discussed in any way by the other characters on the team or her boyfriend. Annie and Hughie live so much in separate worlds that they do nothing for each other. Instead of Frenchie, Kimiko, MM and Hughie's father plot, I would have definitely preferred to see more scenes of Hughie trying to help Annie out of her predicament. It would have been the logical step, because in season 3 the point of his character development was to realize that he is strong without superpowers. And now with this episode, we still don't see a clarifying conversation or being there for each other. Oddly enough, the shapeshifter has shown more emotional intimacy than real Annie has shown with Hughie this season. I guess they're really living completely next to each other now, so he doesn't even realize he's dealing with a shapeshifter and not Annie, even so she acts so out of her character. I still like the storylines of A-Train, Homelander, Ryan, Butcher, I also find the presidential election setting and the Social criticism amusing, even if it is a bit too in your face at times. But generally this has been a weak season with unnecessary or unnecessarily stretched out subplots and no character development in comparison with the seasons before. I had more fun this season watching you two get grossed out by the scenes than watching the show itself. I really hope that the final season delivers.