tbh i think im done with this slop,
mark has no primary goal and is just waiting for shit to happen to him,
mark is a reactive character not a proactive one
atleast in the boys the gang spends their time trying to kill homelander, thats butchers goal and what he spends his screen time trying to accomplish.
whats marks objective? to protect earth? what that translates to is him waiting for the story to happen to him, the entirety of the show really seems to be is nothing more than killing time until the viltrtermite(?) get to earth, so far they really seem to be an hinderance to the b-plots rather than an obstacle for him to overcome, this really just is an issue with capeshit in general and its obsession with the guardian of the world trope. characters want to get fights over with so they can go back to their second life instead of some greater good.
by its nature, our main characters have little agency in their own stories, even omini man spends the first season waiting for shit to happen to him and hes supposed to be the main villain and he's not doing anything,
so the protagonists have no goals and neither do the antagonists, all we really have is a threat they keep alluding to thats been dangling over our heads for 2 seasons now.
so what i think will happen in the next season is monsters will attack the cities of earth and mark will punch them until they die.
perhaps another viltrtermite will show up and mark will punch it until it dies