Full Transcript for It Was Supposed to Be Scorched Earth (and somehow it was just...fine)

00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.879 I will say MM was my favorite is one of my favorite characters. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:10.639 Huey is my ultimate favorite. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:11.759 I always love Huey. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.079 But MM has always been one of my favorites too. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.639 And this season, man, I didn't really like him that much. 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.959 I know he was going through a rough time. 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.279 That year they did a time skip. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.879 At the end of season four, MM, Frenchie, and Hugo, Hugo, Huey. 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:29.279 My brain is still on October. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.480 I said Hugo. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.199 And Huey ended up going to these freedom camps. 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.720 And if that is supposed to be on the nose intentionally, by the way. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.160 And they spent it years. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:42.720 Season five starts like a year after. 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:49.040 You know, I'm a little mad that it's a year after because I wanted to know about that year. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:49.839 You know what I mean? 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.319 I wanted to know what has Annie been doing? 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:53.439 What has she been doing? 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.439 Why didn't she go rescue her boy? 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:01.839 What has she been doing to combat this fascism that is happening? 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:02.319 Okay. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.319 What has Butcher been up to? 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:05.680 What has Ryan been up to? 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.279 We're gonna get to that in a moment. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:14.399 So I understand that MM has been away from his his wife and his daughter, I think ex-wife now, whatever. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.319 They get remarried towards it. 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.240 Last episode. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.079 But what is what has he been doing? 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:23.680 What have they all been doing? 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:31.920 And I understand, like a year away in this place where you have to be careful about what you do, what you say, because otherwise he'll just kill you. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:33.600 I get that. 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:43.519 But man, he was kind of like so doom and gloom, and just he finally got back into it. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:48.079 I love his little speech as to what to Annie. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.439 I think we really got to see him, and I'm glad we got him back where he was able to do that. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.120 Huey. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.920 Like I said, Huey has always been my favorite character. 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:58.959 I love him. 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:05.519 He is just such somehow he still holds on to such hope. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:12.800 Even through all of the shit that he has been through, he is still there and he is still trying. 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:16.800 The fact that he still tries and still has hope is amazing. 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:18.480 I love that. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.000 I think we need more characters who are like that. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:24.079 We need more characters like Huey. 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:33.839 I will say it it bothered me the fact that Annie just let Huey sit in a freedom camp for like a year. 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:37.040 And we don't really know what MM and Huey went through. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:40.319 I mean, they may have they kind of glossed over that. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.360 I don't think it was like a vacation. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:49.279 Annie claims that they were that Huey was safer there, but was he really? 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.120 Was he really? 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.639 But it move gets back on track. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:02.639 I will say A-Train, I love A-Train. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:08.480 And I hated A-Train at the beginning, but man, his character arc is so good. 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:13.199 He he got the character arc that we deserved with Jamie Lannister. 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:17.759 By that we mean we actually get a complete one with A-Train. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:28.000 He started out as a guy who just was doing everything for himself, claiming to be a hero, did not care that he killed Robin. 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:34.559 You have a man who risked his life to save Huey. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:36.799 He did not have to do that. 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.120 He risked his life to save Huey from being lasered by Homelander. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.159 And he showed up even after saying that he would not to Annie. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:09:05.279 I wish that he didn't die because I think we could have seen a lot more of A Train becoming the hero that he always wanted to be, and like what people deserve to see, and what they actually would want a hero to be. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:11.200 I think he could have headlined this new vault era of real heroes. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.799 Because what a better redemption arc than that. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:22.480 I I just love that, and they did such a good job with that arc. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.039 I'm sad that HMA died because I think he had a lot more potential. 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:46.480 I think he could have done so much more, but I do think that is a kind of natural conclusion or to his story because he risked his life to save Huey after all of this started because he killed Huey's girlfriend. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:49.919 I I enjoyed that a lot. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.120 I think we should have seen more of A-Train. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.480 I think he wasn't there as enough. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.559 But I also got issues with other characters who didn't show up. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.039 Like, where the hell is Maria? 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.000 Or Marie, I can't remember her name. 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:07.120 Marie Moreau. 00:10:07.279 -->

00:10:07.759 Where is she? 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:08.480 Where has she been? 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.960 She doesn't show up until like for brief moments. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:17.440 You wasted this character who is supposed to be a god tier level soup, right? 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.840 We saw that in Gen V season two. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.559 You do nothing with her at all, whatsoever. 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.480 That is a wasted potential. 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.759 I don't know if they did that because they were supposed to have another season of Gen V and it was canceled or what. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:38.240 But it was a wasted potential when she was a hard hitter and she should have been there from the get-go, okay? 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:39.840 She should have been. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.759 You know another person who should have been there from the get-go? 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:44.879 Queen Maeve. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:52.399 I understand that Queen Maeve got blasted by Soldier Boys like radiation thing that takes powers away. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.639 But Queen Maeve still would have been a target for Homelander. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.559 Where is Queen Maeve? 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.159 And where is Alina? 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:12.639 Because Homelander, the second he knew, and I'm telling you, he had to have found out at some point that Queen Maeve was alive, he would have went after her. 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.039 Because Homelander can't let anything go. 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.159 He is not gonna let her go and live a life and leave him like that. 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:18.720 No. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:19.679 Where is she? 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:20.799 What was she doing? 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:35.759 Was she maybe running something like Marie Moreau was doing and helping people escape into Canada to get away from the shit that's happening in the United States? 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.200 Like you have people being rounded up just for being starlighers. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.080 It was like I said, it's very on the nose. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:50.879 The creators even said that they wrote this and then everything started happening, and they're like, oh crap, we didn't. 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.399 This was not supposed to be so like on the nose, guys. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:54.960 Sorry. 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:56.799 But where is Queen Mae? 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:02.000 You can't tell me she wasn't doing something, and that made me mad that she didn't even make an appearance. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.279 We didn't hear a single thing about her, nothing. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.200 Again, that brings up again Marie Moreau. 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.039 You have god tier level soup that you don't do nothing with. 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:15.600 Are you kidding me? 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:23.360 Once again, Ryan didn't show up until towards like maybe the middle or something. 00:12:23.519

--> 00:12:41.519 He got beat up by his freaking homelander because of course, then he disappeared for a bit, and then he showed up at the end to help Butcher kick Homelander's ass so Kamiko could do the radiation thing and take away Homelander's powers. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:47.120 Which also took away Butcher's tentacles, I guess. 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:47.919 I don't know. 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.120 Then also Ryan's powers. 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.919 But could it really take away Ryan's powers? 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.799 Because Ryan is interesting in the fact that he is the first natural-born soup, okay? 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:03.200 He wasn't injected with V, like all of the other soups were as babies. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.679 Ryan was born with his powers. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:13.039 Could his powers even be taken away because they're a part of him and have been since birth? 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.440 So I don't feel like his powers are really gone. 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:16.720 But that's my two cents. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:21.600 But yeah, you wasted Marie Moreau completely. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:33.200 You wasted Queen Maeve, who either A was on the run from Homelander with Elena, and also probably helping people because I think Queen Maeve also wanted to be a hero, like a real true hero. 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.120 And then you also wasted Ryan Butcher, like a lot. 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.039 I understand that he's a kid, but you have someone who is supposed to be as powerful as Homelander. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:44.799 Where was what was he doing? 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:46.080 Where was he? 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:55.279 I will say it was very satisfying to me that the deep finally got his. 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:02.799 He this whole time, the deep never tried to be anything other than what he was. 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:09.039 What he was was weak and a follower and cannot think for himself. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:12.879 He cannot do anything without Homelander puppeteering him. 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:19.840 And Homelander had such disdain for the deep because of that. 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.440 But the deep thought that he and Homelander were buddies. 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.360 Yeah, y'all are not buddies. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.039 Sorry, not at all. 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:30.480 Not even close to being buddies. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.200 Deep getting his that felt satisfying to me completely. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:36.480 I wasn't sad. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.639 I was like, God damn it, freaking finally. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:49.039 And the fact that he was killed by his fish friends is poetic because they realized that he did not care about them. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:56.960 And he caused, even if it was indirectly, because Black Noir the second broke the pipeline. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:05.679 That's deep oil line that then fill killed many fish and all of that. 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:10.159 And they told him if you come into the ocean, you're dead. 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:21.200 He was blocked from going to the one place that he felt free and felt like he belonged because they hated him. 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.559 He watches an old man drown because he can't go into the ocean because they will kill him. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.000 That is the hero that the deep is. 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:31.759 He is not a hero. 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:37.759 He is someone who will always go with the flow to keep himself safe. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:46.879 He is someone who is a follower, someone who never tries to be better or grow or learn at all. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:55.360 I appreciated that he ended up in the ocean and he got ripped apart by the by the fish friends that he claimed. 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:57.759 That is poetic. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.600 I really wasn't upset the firecracker died. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:17.919 I I really I really wasn't because Firecracker reminds me of those women who were so they have such internal, misogynistic and firecracker. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:34.799 I think towards the end she did start seeing that Homelander was batshit crazy, and yet she was still so religious nut and all of this and spewing out this rhetoric that was awful. 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:46.480 But what's so awful about it is it it's a rhetoric that we hear now, and I think that's why this season felt like a gut punch, it was because it was way too close to reality. 00:16:46.879 --> 00:17:08.640 Maybe that's why it was lackluster, not just because they built this all up, maybe it's because it was too close to the reality that we're living in with these religious bigots who were homophobic, transphobic, and saying that trans people are the problem and they're not, or saying that they're gonna mutilate our children, which is a freaking lie. 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:14.799 Maybe that's why it felt a little like and that's you know what I mean? 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:39.200 It just felt a little too real and too close to reality, and feeling like hopeless because of all of these people and who spout out the shit that's freaking false, and that's who Firecracker was as a character, a religious zealot, a bigot who spouted out nonsense that had no backing, and yet people still listen to her. 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:49.200 There are people like that with platforms, and then it's just a level of hatred and just what is wrong with you? 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.039 When Homelander killed her, I didn't care. 00:17:54.559 --> 00:18:02.640 Like I felt nothing because at that point I feel like she did nothing for this story. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:08.559 She did nothing, she she offered nothing to move the story, nothing to push it. 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:11.440 I think you have a character like Sister Sage. 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:17.440 I don't know what Sister Sage's end goal was because she was so wishy washy. 00:18:17.599 -->

00:18:20.799 I can never figure out what her plan was. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:30.559 But I think Sister Sage suffered from the fact that she was the smartest woman on earth, and yet she did not understand human emotion. 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:46.000 She thinks that Soldier Boy and Homelander are gonna deuce it out, and Soldier Boy won't give Homelander the V1, which is like V1 is what Soldier Boy and maybe like a handful of other soups have, and it makes them immortal. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:47.759 Soldier Boy can't die. 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:55.599 Her lack of understanding of human human emotion is her weakness, that is her fatal flaw. 00:18:55.759 --> 00:19:14.319 Soldier Boy turns around and gives the V1 to Homelander, and Sister Sage just does not understand or comprehend why, and that's what is her downfall. 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.880 That, like I said, that is her fatal flaw. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.519 And I don't know what they were doing with Sister Sage. 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:25.279 It felt like she had a plan, but then it kept getting derailed. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:26.960 But like, what did she want? 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:28.559 What was her motivation? 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:34.720 Did she truly want to watch the whole world burn so she can be left alone to read her books? 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:36.640 I mean, I guess that's motivation. 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.640 What kind of motivation is that? 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:43.920 Of course, she doesn't have power, she's no longer smart. 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.599 I mean, she's smart, like an average smart, but she's not a genius. 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:59.519 And I wonder what that will be like for her to navigate the world no longer being a genius, no longer being a soup, and just being a regular woman. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:07.440 And I wonder if maybe that's what she really wanted all along was to just be normal and to enjoy life. 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:08.640 I don't know. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:17.920 Like I said, her character is interesting in a way that I'm still not entirely certain what she wanted or what her goal was. 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:28.319 Let's get to another female character. 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:31.279 Ashley somehow became vice president. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.880 I guess we're just gonna ignore the what the fuckness of that. 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.200 And her power is kinda weird. 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:42.000 Like, she's a telepath, but it's not like a normal telepath. 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:51.759 So she's got like another face on the back of her head, like some Baltimore and shit, that can read mine, and then that other Ashley, they call her Bashley, I guess. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:54.799 Then tells Ashley what's going on. 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:55.759 It's very weird. 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:07.200 Ashley is another character who I feel like she has always been aware of who Homelander is, she's always been aware of what VOD is and other

soups. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.079 She's always just been trying to survive. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:22.640 One of my favorite parts from I think it was season four, was when A Train left, and it was like I think it was season three, actually. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:27.759 When A Train left, he asked her, he offered to take her with him. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:29.680 Like, he did not have to do that. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:35.839 I think that was a pivotal moment in his character to say, Come with me, I'll keep you safe. 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:37.759 You can stay with me and my family, more or less. 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:38.799 He's like, Come with me. 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:42.720 Like, this is not he did not have to do that. 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:44.720 Maybe in season four. 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.599 I don't know if either season three or season four, who knows? 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:54.799 But that right there really shifted a trained character. 00:21:55.039 --> 00:22:21.200 He did not have to do that, and she turns it down because she is afraid, and I think a lot of What Ashley does is because she is afraid, which I understand when you are surrounded by people who can kill you in a second, when you have witnessed horrible things that Homelander has done that you just have to go with because you know you could be next. 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:28.240 And I think, like I said, she's always known who Homelander is. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:37.839 And I feel like in this season, you really see her struggling with what to do because they are rounding up people, and she does not like that. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:40.160 They're rounding up people and she hates it. 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:45.680 And she is vice president, but she knows that really she's just a figure ahead for Homelander. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.400 She has no true power, she has nothing. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:23:02.799 And when she finally decides to do something and saves the boys from the trap that they walked into, I think that's the moment she really finds her courage and her bravery. 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.039 I don't know where she's going from then because she's still a soup. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:13.119 She's now no longer vice president, but I do feel like they maybe wasted her potential too. 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:16.079 That she could have been doing a lot more from the beginning. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:19.759 Like she could have been an inside woman from the start. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:35.279 I feel like that's what I would have done as a writer to really push her to do that, to take risks, because she doesn't want to keep seeing all of these error horrible things that keep happening. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:43.359 We get to the final showdown with wait backtracking. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.000 The whole time they're like, we gotta cut stop Homelander from getting V1. 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:48.640 Okay. 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.480 And we gotta make this virus. 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.880 Well, they have the virus, but it doesn't work because Soldier Boy survives it. 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:58.960 Then it everything goes wrong. 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.599 Everything that goes wrong just keeps going wrong. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.720 Anything that could possibly go wrong just keeps going wrong. 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.640 I don't know if Soldier Boy can even die. 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:16.640 Because like he's been blown up and shot at and his virus that killed him, I guess, for a moment and then he came back. 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.839 Homelander's like, I need to get this V1. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.559 He gets the V1, he's even more powerful. 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:26.640 Just straight up kills the president, you know, there's that. 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:40.160 But showdown, Between Butcher, and Kamiko, and Homelander are kind of failing. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.640 First kicking book at the same time. 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:50.640 Ryan comes out of nowhere, saves them, and Kimiko does her thing. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.799 Meanwhile, all of this is being aired live, okay? 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:07.839 Like they've heard Homelander just acting crazy and him now being his butt being kicked. 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:13.119 Miko does her thing. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:15.920 Homelander, Butcher, and Ryan all lose their powers. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.240 Supposedly still iffy on Ryan. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:24.160 And Butcher kills Homelander just crowbar to the head. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:28.640 For all that, Homelander's begging and crying for his life. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:32.480 Because at the end of the day, Homelander is baby. 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:38.960 He he is a weak-willed man who is so desperate for love and attention. 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.279 When you think about it, VOD created Homelander. 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:54.960 Every issue and every person that's been killed because of Homelander or his actions can be traced to VOD. 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:58.160 Because they took a boy with no mother. 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:07.039 And raised him like that. 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:10.480 It wasn't just the fact he had no mother, he had no father. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:18.400 He had no positive connections to anyone at all. 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.279 It's no wonder that he became who he was because Bot made him that way. 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:32.880 It is literally all of their fault that this has happened. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.960 Homelander was a little bitch when he was dying. 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.440 And threatening to be killed. 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:42.000 You know what I mean? 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:43.440 When Butcher was threatening to kill him. 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:44.480 Of course he was. 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:55.599 You know, of course he had to die, but I honestly think that it would have been a little bit more satisfying had they not

killed him. 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:04.960 Had they not killed him and just let him be an ordinary, normal human in prison for the rest of his life. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:10.640 Because his whole fear was being ordinary and being nothing. 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:13.519 I wanted him to fade away from existence. 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:20.400 I wanted him to rot in solitary confinement for the rest of his life, and no one would ever remember him. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:24.240 I feel like that would have been a little bit more satisfying than Butcher killing him with a crowbar. 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:25.759 Just saying. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.559 Narratively speaking, as a writer. 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.240 Like they said scorched earth. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:38.319 You know, it's been like a whole thing between Butcher and Homelander, and I just didn't feel it. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:40.240 I just really did not feel it. 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:45.119 I didn't feel the goddess butcher gonna win or not. 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:47.039 I did not feel it. 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.559 It's time to talk about Butcher. 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:58.000 Carl Urban is one of my favorite actors of all time, okay? 00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:59.039 I love him. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.920 He is a wonderful everything he's in. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.759 He is a wonderful man. 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.000 Not bad to look at. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.039 I literally watched this movie called The Bluff because he was in it. 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:10.799 Not a bad movie, it's on prime. 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:12.240 Watch it if you want. 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.039 But man, Butcher. 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:20.559 You know how I said that Homelander is an irredeem irredeemable character? 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:39.440 I kind of feel like Butcher is also an irredeemable character, too, because he's so focused, narrow focused on his goals that he can't see anything else at all. 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:48.799 He thinks all soups should be gone, and that's it, and they all need to be taken out because they're the problem. 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:51.839 Which he's not entirely wrong. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.599 They are a problem, but I don't think all of them are bad. 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:03.680 The boys has always been that superhero show that like a satire on heroes. 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:06.240 It's saying, What if heroes were shit people? 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.680 Like you give people powers, but they're all terrible, right? 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.680 Part of that also is VOD. 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:19.119 And this narrative of they have powers, so they're godly and they're better than everyone else. 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.240 And it is a commentary on that, right? 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:28.000 But Butcher can't see that not all soups are like that. 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:31.839 That is not all of them, they are not all bad. 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.559 And he can't see that that is a problem. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:40.480 He's willing to kill Annie, kill Kamiko, kill Ryan, even. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:48.480 As long as Homelander is dead and every super soup is dead. 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:54.079 He can't see past his own prejudice and his own bias. 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:57.599 And that makes him dangerous. 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.160 And I think that's why he had to die. 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.240 Because he was always going to do that. 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.279 That was always going he was never going to stop. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:09.759 And I'm watching this show. 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:11.519 First of all, I'm watching this show at work. 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:12.400 Like last week. 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.480 Like finished it the week before or something. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:16.000 I'm watching it on my phone. 00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:19.279 And I'm like, Butcher's gone and he's taken the virus. 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.480 And of course, Huey notices, and he's like, okay, Huey. 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:30.240 Our poor, sweet, precious Huey, who listen, we love Huey, alright? 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:36.559 Why the hell did he not grab someone before going after Butcher? 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:38.480 You go after Butcher yourself? 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.359 Why, sir? 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:42.160 Why? 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:43.279 Are you crazy? 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:45.599 I mean, gotta be crazy. 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:46.640 You're part of the voice. 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:54.240 But he goes after him himself, and he finds Butcher at Vault Tower. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:31:01.599 Of course, VOD is like, we're going to take this opportunity to rebrand Stan Edgar at the end of this. 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.960 At the end of this is really the one who won because he's back at VOD. 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.279 They're gonna rebrand, they're gonna change. 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.680 Butcher's like, hell no, we are not going to fucking nah, nah. 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:12.319 They're all dead. 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:12.720 All of them. 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:13.599 All of them are dead. 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:22.880 He he wants to release the virus at VOD Tower, and then it will affect everyone, and they'll all go, and they're all going to die. 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:25.039 He wants every soup to die. 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:31.759 And Huey's like, no, that's not why is violence always the answer to violence? 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.640 What? 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:39.519 We we we got rid of Homelander, and it's a progress, and we just gotta keep going. 00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:44.079 It's like and Butcher can't see it, he cannot see it. 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:50.480 Huey has no choice but to shoot Butcher. 00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:55.039 He has no choice because Butcher was never going to stop. 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:55.759 Not ever. 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.440 He

was never going to stop. 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.759 He was gonna continue to want to kill every soup. 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:12.319 The only way Huey was going to be able to protect, not just Annie and Kamiko, because of course he's gonna commit, wants to protect them, so they're they are friends. 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:19.920 But the rest of the people, the rest of the soups in the world, that are not shit people. 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:28.240 I think at the end of the day, it was always going to be Huey who made that choice and made that decision. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:29.680 Did I want that for him? 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.000 No, because that's a really hard decision. 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.240 I'm sure he's gonna battle with that. 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:36.559 I'm sure it's gonna be hard. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:48.720 But I think at the end of the day, it was always going to be Huey who had to make that choice to kill Butcher to save everyone. 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:53.279 Because Huey always had some special spot in Butcher. 00:32:54.160 --> 00:33:01.200 Even if Butcher pushed it back and denied it, even when Butcher was a complete asshole for no reason. 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:03.759 It was always going to be Huey. 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.640 There was no ending that Butcher could have other than his death. 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.359 There really wasn't. 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.039 I kind of rushed the end of it a little bit. 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:16.640 I think it skips ahead a lot. 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.480 You find out that Annie is very prego and they have their own little company. 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.359 I mean, it looks like she's still going out and saving people. 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:28.400 Huey's got his little audio-visual company, so he's still doing techie stuff. 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:33.759 Looks like MM married his wife, and Ryan is with them. 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:39.359 I guess MM and his family just adopted Ryan, which you know what? 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.720 I'm okay with that. 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:46.880 Because I feel like if anyone was going to really help Ryan, I think at this point he's maybe like 13, 12. 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.640 He's still got some time to learn and grow and to experience life as maybe a semi-normal kid. 00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:03.279 I think if anyone was going to give that to him, it would be MM and his family because after everything that happened, MM immediately went over to Ryan to check on him. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.960 Like Butcher's still standing there. 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.880 And MM goes on Ryan to check on him after Kamiko's blast. 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:11.360 I kind of wish we would have seen more of that. 00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:17.039 Because it did feel rash, but I do feel like that's that's a good good place for Ryan. 00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:20.159 I I I really do. 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:26.320 Kimiko's, and I think she's in France, and she got the dog that her and Frenchie were wanting to talk about. 00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:32.239 It's still sad that Kamiko is alone without Frenchie, but I think she will be okay. 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:36.400 I think she'll be okay because Frenchie and her were just so sweet. 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.760 I think he saved her as much as she saved him. 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:46.239 And I think she's gonna continue to live and to grow, and maybe she'll end up being like Annie and saving people. 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:54.800 And then like their president calls Huey because there's still soups that are still terrible, and thought still is not the best. 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:59.039 He's like, hey, you want to head up this group? 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:06.880 Because of course he calls Huey who he he's gonna call him up because he's seen the work that Huey and the boys have done together now without Butcher, of course. 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:13.440 But Huey says no, and I actually kind of have issues with that because I feel like Huey could have said yes. 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:27.280 I feel like he would have said yes with like some like contingencies, of course, him and Annie, but I think Huey could have would have said yes, or could have, because then he would still be helping. 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.159 I think Huey at the end of the day always wanted to help. 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.159 There's a lot of unanswered questions with this season. 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.079 Like I said, where the hell is Mave? 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.159 Um, what happened to Maeve and Alina? 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:44.000 Um where's Sister Sage gonna go? 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:48.480 Just what happens now after this year of chaos? 00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:50.800 Like, how do they get back from this? 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:54.000 So there's just a lot of unanswered questions. 00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.119 Now, Soldier Boy is back in cryosleep. 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:03.440 So there's that. 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:10.880 Like I said, I don't know if Soldier Boy can actually die, but they're supposed to be doing a show about him, and it's called Vought Rising, and I have issues. 00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:30.320 My issues is Vought Rising is supposed to be like the start of like when Vaught really became big and with Soldier Boy and his other teammates and the ones who still have the V1, he might still be alive, but we already know how it ends, like we already know what happened. 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:40.400 I'm interested to see the start, but like I would have been more interested to see like one-shots of the characters that have questions for, like what happened to Ashley. 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:41.840 I don't know when it's gonna be released. 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:45.679 I'll probably end up watching it anyways because Jensen Accles, period. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:49.760 But it'll be interesting to see how that goes. 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:58.400 And I do feel like they were so focused on Bot Rising that maybe they didn't focus as much on season five of the boys. 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:07.760 That's why, again, I would rank this very low B-thank for listening to me talk and to my review over the boys season five. 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:10.480 Please let me know what you thought in the comments. 00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:11.519 Did you like it? 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:12.639 What did you not like? 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:13.760 What did you hate? 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.480 Do you disagree with anything that I've said? 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:18.079 If so, drop a comment. 00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:19.199 Until next time. 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.079 Bye.