I have questions about that episode.
1. Why did all the chickens and sheep become crazed bloodsucking maniacs? They do not normally eat meat. a Follow-up question : Why did they all have the exact same effect? Humans have different abilities. Why would not the sheep and chickens display different effects?
2. Why would a barn have stopped the sheep? They can fly and they are bullet proof. One would assume they also got super strength. This was kind of proven when they picked up the 1000-2200 pound bull.
3. Why were the the Sheep and chickens such a threat when they used the answer on one of the chickens? Just explode all of their heads???
4. At what point does the Cthulhu Automatic Defense system kick in? You would think having Kamikaze Super Sheep chasing him might have triggered Butcher's "Auto-pilot Fuck You" system.
5. The father killing people in a hospital was different. If he was a supe, how did they get a needle into him and why would the chemicals work to kill him? That looked like a pretty standard dosage that would be effective on a normal person. Hell, how did they even get him onto a bed? Suddenly the in and out forgetful person became completely compliant to death?
I hate when shows do not even follow their own rules of strength. We of course then get " For the sake of the story" ,rather than " What would have probably happened" . As usual, the best scenes were with Homelander. I love the angle he took with his kid. I am not so sure it would have taken him down the dark side so quickly, but that is a form of strength I could somewhat believe.
This episode was fun to watch but completely off the charts with what would have actually happened given the situation.
1. They didn't get infected from eating infected meat, they drank contaminated water after the lab hampster wrecked the lab and smashed some vials of virus above the drain. Their powers weren't necessarily identical, most human Supes gain superstrength as a base power, and we never saw the chickens displaying out-of-ordinary flight abilities, they just flapped a bit like normal chickens do except.. you know, through people.. The chickens were also completely bulletproof and were only vulnerable to Neuman's blood control abilities while we never see if the sheep gained increased damage resistance.
2. The barn couldn't have stopped them, but they're dumb sheep; once the people got inside and shut the doors they went back to whatever dumb sheep think about. That on top of basically 75% of the main characters in the show being in the barn that means dramatically increased plot armor on the building, and the sheep still got inside anyway in the end.
3. Neuman needs to focus to use her power, and she's trying to protect her non-Supe adoptive dad, is very worried about her missing baby daddy, and the sheep are flying around extremely fast (we know Neuman needs line of sight for her powers), so maybe she felt she couldn't take them all on (there were five sheep I believe) while still protecting Stan Edgar or Sameer.
4. Butcher can't control his Venom-like cancer superpower yet, doesn't even realize he has it most likely. When he sees the dying bunny filled with tentacles he seems to have a realization, then he smashes it dead because he fucking hates Supes and now he's one.
5. Many Supes don't have increased resistance to damage, or can only regenerate some parts of their bodies (like Sister Sage's regeneration is only for her brain, but not her eyeball). Hughie's dad had the ability to walk through solid matter or punch through it but he wasn't even more resistant to skin damage than any normal human. We've also seen drugs can affect Supes (as in, recreational drugs, the previous episode had Butcher and MM give Web Weaver a heroin enema) and pathogens too obviously, so there's no reason why Hughie's killing drug cocktail wouldn't work. As for how they convinced him, he seemed to be in and out regularly, so they probably just brought up "Jar Jar" during one of his lucid moments and he realized he'd rather be gone than live like this, he was terrified and confused about his abilities.
Agreed it was a fun episode, the Disney/Vought event was funny, the interactions of basically EVERYONE hating everyone else were funny too, it was nice to see Stan Edgar again, and the various mutant barn animals were funny too, it was a fun time.
