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elia-de-silentio · 2 years

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TENTATIVE ANALYSES: THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Episode 5: Number Five

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

Once again, there are different narrative treads that cross and divide from each other.

• The Viktor Business: Viktor continues his romance with Leonard, but Allison is suspicious. She does a little research on him, and finds out ... nothing. Literally nothing, no records besides a short paragraph about his former wood carving employment and address. She brings this lack of findings to Viktor, but he brutally rebuffs her, feeling that she just thinks he's unable to do his own life decisions. So he keeps going on a date with Leonard, and he's so nice, encouraging him to go for first violin since Helen, the one who usually gets the spot mysteryously stopped showing up. Allison meanwhile enters Leonard's own home to investigate him further, but he returns and forces her to sneak away before she can complete the inspection. Back to Viktor: he absolutely nails the trial! The first chair is his, and he runs off to celebrate by making out with Leonard at his house. A strange distortion shows up, raising unnotoced to the storage room ... were we are treated to a shot of Helen's body wrapped up in a carpet.

• Klaus and Diego in mourning: Klaus returns from his accidental time travel, dirty, bloodied, and crying. Turns out, he landed straight in the middle of the Vietnam war, and joined the fighting, finding an actual romantic partner. But the guy has died, leaving him to return to his own time lost in grief and trauma. He is first noticed and then dismissed by Five, and then joins up with Diego, out to get Hazel and Cha-Cha for the murder of Eudora. The two fail, and are summoned to play chivalry for ...

• Five and Luther: there is an expansion on Five's former life. He used to work for an association responsible for the regular flow of time, and he did so by being an assassin who targeted people who would have disrupted it. Luther is shocked and confused, and has to handle an extremely stressed-out Five who wants to solve things by killing the person responsible for the apocalypse. In the end, they decide to stop Hazel and Cha-Cha by tricking them with a false suitcase and then running away with the help of Diego and Klaus, but the Handler, an higher-up at the Commission, intervenes, and strikes a deal with Five.

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

There is some foreshadowing involving Leonard's attic: Allison is right about to investigate it, when the master of the house arrives, forcing her to cut her visit short and run away (by the way, the competent and elegant way she pulls it off is a good shorthand to illustrate the training imparted by the Umbrella Academy). This creates the expectation that there is actually something important in the attic; and in fact, at the very end of the episode, we are shown Helen's corpse wrapped in a carpet in there, a cold shower since besides Allison's suspects we really had no reason to think ill of Viktor's caring and understanding new boyfriend. We could at most suspect him to be a creep, but a murderer?

Also, there is a plot twist in the very last scene of the episode: Pogo reactivating Grace, and making sure she remembers something they can't talk about to the children. Whatever might this be?

CHARACTERS

Luther: he dials down by a lot his I Am Number One rethoric, and like every time he does so, he has much more success in whatever he is trying to do. He is mostly involved with Five, and manages to get him to talk about his situation - not by ordering him, but by showing him actual capacity to listen and understand. He puts Five on a much more equal level to himself that he does with the rest of the Academy, and he gets around him more by proposing deals or even blackmail (defenestrating the mannequin) than ordering him around. Still, his somewhat immature way of thinking manifests in other forms, such as, after learning that Five worked as a hitman, seeking reassurances that he only killed 'bad guys'. As if that made all the difference in deciding wheter a life can continue or not! He is shocked and confused at Five bluntly contradicting him, and admitting that he killed, and would still kill, anyone who get in the way of preventing the apocalypse. This is what motivates him to try and put Five on a different path, the thought of preserving those good and innocent people. Who knows how would he have reacted if Five had reassured him that sure, they would have killed only bad people?

Diego: he is on the war path, seeking private vengeance for Eudora's murder. He still tries to go his Lonely Road way, and nearly gets himself killed, only to be saved by an 'in the way' Klaus. On the other hand, he does lend a listening ear to Klaus when he realizes that something is even more wrong than usual with his brother, tries to help him stay out of troubles and comfort him. Like Luther, he actually does better when he steps outside his idea of how he gas to do things.

Allison: she keeps soundly failing at being the Heart. Viktor accuses her of babying him, of not accepting that he is an adult and he can do his own life decisions. Compare the one way Allison snapped at Viktor: she told him that he was an adult and could no longer blame dad for his mistakes. It is possible that the guilt for this outburst manifested in a desire to treat Viktor as the 'little' sibling, and this goes to obfuscate, in Viktor's eyes, the actually good points she is making: that Leonard is sus as hell. Allison, even when rebuked by Viktor, doesn't renounce 'protecting' him to the point of breaking and entering Leonard's house to look for proof of suspicious activity; she's unfortunately forced to leave before she can find it.

Klaus: think he didn't already have a lot of personal issues? Time travel gave him even more! He ended up dumped in the middle of the Vietnam war, a situation known for being extremely traumatizing for its veterans (and an absolute hell for the Vietnamite civilian population, but that's another story). There, he actually met someone he could call a true love, not a convenient relationship for having a place to stay; and then he promptly loses that person. He is brought back to his time bloodied and screaming, picks up fights in vet bars who can't recognize that he was there too, and seeks comfort in his siblings (no success with Five, more with Diego who is also reeling from the loss of a loved one).

Five: he keeps being absolutely focused on his mission, but in the light of losing his only lead, he is more open with his siblings about it. We get to know more about his past: the way he literally grew up and aged in absolute isolation in a post apocalyptic world after the traumatizing discivery of his siblings' corpses, an event that made him desperate enough to accept to become an assassin for the Commission, a shady organization that pursues the 'correct flow of time' at any cost. He never left the idea of going back to save his family and the whole human race, and he finally got his wish; but now he doesn't know what to do, and ends up making another deal with the Commission.

Ben: he says 'wheeeee!' as Diego and Klaus drive a truck towards Hazel and Cha-Cha. This is getting embarassing.

Viktor: he can no longer take his meds, but actually seems so much better! He speaks his mind to Allison, has a pleasant date with Leonard, and gets even convinced to partecipate to the auditions for first chair. And he gets it! He experiences a much better feeling with the music he is creating, and his performance is so much more convincing. He goes to Leonard to celebrate, and they take their relationship to the next level! Still, he does have a more negative side: when dismissing Allison, bringing up the daughter she can't see is truly a low blow (especially considering that he doesn't know what Allison did, for all that he knows Patrick is denying custody out of spite). The anger he has felt at his family for so long still hasn't found an healthy outcome, even if he is more outspoken.

Leonard: if he acted slightly suspicious last episode, here we get some true shockers. Not in the way he acts with Viktor, he is still caring and supportive ... but it is heavily implied that he was responsible for the disappearence of Viktor's meds (he seems better for it, but how could Leonard know it would have had such an effect?) and at the end, he is revealed as an actual murdered, one who killed the woman who had first chair just so Viktor could audition. And now this good fellow is there making out with a Viktor who doesn't suspect a thing!

Hazel: he continues being frustrated about his job, and getting closer to the doughnut shop lady, Agnes. They share a really cute conversation about birdwatching and future projects of life in the country, and it is apparent that he is considering more and more leaving the Commission.

Cha-Cha: she is mostly there to be frustrated with Hazel.

The Handler: a mysterious woman, an higher-up in the Commission who keeps offering Five deals. She is completely unconcerned about the end of the human race, seeing it simply as something that had to happen.

THEMES

Grief is a theme that receives several elaborations in this episode. It is expressed in its most classical form - the death of a loved one - by Diego and Klaus. The first throws himself into vengeance, barely giving himself a moment to mourn Eudora's death; Klaus, who has nobody to take vengeance on, instead does nothing but openly grieve. He cries, he seeks comfort in his siblings, he tries to retrieve tokens of his time with David (the photo in the vet bar) without caring about what other people could think of him. Still, he doesn't try to summon David's ghost, like Diego suggested; his trauma about his powers runs too deep, and his brother doesn't quite get it.

But there is another one who is grieving here: Five, who is grieving a whole world. This 'kid' has already grown up, completely alone, after finding himself stuck in a devastated world, the corpses of his siblings still warm in front of him. He had nobody to talk to save for a mannequin, nobody to comfort him. The entire human race was gone, and it was years before the Commission deigned itself to rescue him. Now, he has a possibility to avert that horror, and it's driving him mad. He has already seen what will happen if he fails, but he doesn't know what to do, and ends up running circles and talking about killing people (the only thing he has been taught to do in these circumstances) to run from his own fear.

While all of these people are busy dealing with grief, Viktor deals with coming into his own as a person. He has a relationship, maybe the first of his life, he is starting to get forward professionally; and here comes Allison with doughnuts from the shop they visited as kids, and uncalled for relationship advice. Viktor's reaction to feeling himself infantilized is vicious, hitting Allison where he knows it hurts. The gap between the two siblings, after some steps towards closing, is now larger than ever. And Leonard, despite looking like the perfect person, is now esposed to the audience as the last person you should have a coming of age with.

SYMBOLISM

Delores: the only form of interaction Five had during the apocalypse years. While he is awfully fond of her, this episode makes clear that a synthetic creature, whose identity he had completely made up, couldn't hold a candle to actual human interaction and especially Five's family. Notice how in the scene where the Handler proposes the first deal to him, she has a plastic arm extended towards him, in the same pose as the Handler, as if to call Five back to her and the world of solitude she represents. Ultimately, she is abandoned in favor of the Commission.

Allison's sweets: a nice treat she brings for Viktor, right from the place they went as children! Unfortunately Viktor's agenda is already full with a date with Leonard in another cafe. The sweets represent Allison's difficulties in realizing that both she and Viktor are adults now, they have ignored each other for years and she can't just go back to a childhood solidariety they didn't manage to develope back then. She had taken for granted that Viktor would have had nothing else to do, and the childhood treats are casted aside for an adult romantic rendezvous.

Dave's dog tags: a memento of his love that Klaus has taken to carry everywhere, here they become a symbol of the complicated grief that's to come.

REFERENCES

• We are shown some of the works Five had to complete for the Commission; among them we can see footage of the Hindeburg dirigible and of Josef Stalin.

• We see some bits of Viktor's book that Five used to write on his plans for returning to his timeline. It's a bit difficult to read, but there is some incident involving Diego, an open accusation that Hargreeves was the one to initiate Viktor's alienation process, and a mention that Allison used to do Klaus' nails.

And this is all for the episode. Thank you for reading so far!

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pisstheon · 2 years

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how many times do you think klaus died during the torture/interrogation in season 1?

#the umbrella academy #the umbrella academy s3 #klaus hargreeves #tua hazel #tua cha cha

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random-fandoms-stuff · 2 years

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Honestly i miss Hazel and Chacha

#i should rewatch season 1 #the umbrella academy #tua #tua hazel #tua cha cha

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five-moreminutes-pls · 2 years

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The fact that Elliot Page, Mary J Blige, Kate Walsh, Adam Godley, Emmy Raver-Lampman is in the umbrella academy is just like wow how did they get people like this to do this

#i can speak words I swear #I’m just listing actors I’ve known prior to this this isn’t me discouraging the other actors I love them #the umbrella academy #elliot page #viktor hargreeves #tua viktor #mary j blige #tua cha cha #cha cha #kate walsh #the handler #tua the handler #adam godley #pogo hargreeves #tua pogo #emmy raver lampman #allison hargreeves #tua allison

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absentfather · 2 years

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So much has happened in the past episodes, I just want to see Hazel and Cha Cha again.

#tua #tua hazel #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua cha cha

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fivecoffeemugs · 10 months

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My friend @cryptidcave-dweller made a point that The Handler and Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove have the same vibe and I cannot unsee it.

And as she quoted:

#the umbrella academy #tua #the handler is yzma #the handler #yzma #the emperors new groove #five Hargreeves #hazel and cha cha

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spacephobos · 10 months

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sometimes... you have to stop focusing on art being good... and focus on it being fun

#low effort hazel and chacha #whicj i acc kinda lovee #the umbrella academy #tua #hazel and cha cha #hazel #chacha #difital art #fanart #my art

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momokodaisy · 3 months

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Extremely Late Umbrella Academy Textposts That Have Definitely Been Done Before (8/?) prev next

#some of these are bangers actually #umbrella academy #the umbrella academy #tua #klaus hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #five hargreeves #luther hargreeves #allison hargreeves #sloane hargreeves #cha cha #ben hargreeves

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eldritchhorrorinducedtummyache · 2 years

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The Umbrella Academy as textposts 1/?

#the umbrella academy #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #five hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #the umbrella academy textposts #tua shitpost #tua season 1 #tua cha cha

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step-on-me-archangel-uriel · 3 days

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"context?" the voices told me man

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non-plutonian-druid · 11 months

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[ID: 11 doodles of Umbrella Academy characters in a style imitating the webcomic Paranatural. Allison, Luther, Diego, Klaus, Viktor, and Lila are drawn as kids, approximately 12 yrs old. Ben is a similarly aged ghost. Hazel, Cha Cha, and the Handler are present as well, all looking vaguely villainous. Five is drawn to be maybe in his twenties. All of them have colorful smoke rising from them indicating the powers from Paranatural, except for Viktor and Lila, for whom the smoke is white. End ID.]

Look, a Paranatural au! I wish I had been hit by this muse in time for Masked Author/Artist, but alas it was not to be. If you've read Paranatural is you can probably guess.... basically everything there is to know about this au. If you haven't read Parantural, you should!! It's a wild ride! But also I rambled for a super long time about it under the cut

Everyone has cool spirit powers and can see the dead, so Klaus isn't special sorry Klaus. I'm making up for it by making him directly possessed by a spirit that gives him superpowers, instead of everyone else who has to use a possessed object to get superpowers. I didn't put a ton of thought into what Cool Accessory (possessed object) to give the kids so I could change that later, but for now Allison has a megaphone, Diego has a yo-yo, Viktor has his violin, and Luther doesn't have anything because his dad thinks he needs to learn to control spirit energy on his own. Klaus doesn't have any either because he's possessed directly. I adjusted the rules of Parantural slightly because [Paranatural spoilers!!] in the comic someone with white energy can connect with spirits whose energy is any color. Viktor's should absolutely be white by show rules, but that power set suits Lila a lot better. So in this au, the rules are adjusted so that white can only connect with white, and Lila's is actually colorless (IE, it only looks white now because the background is white). She can't bond with any one spirit for long, but she can bond with any of them for a short time.

Hazel, Cha Cha, Five kind of, and the Handler are all members of a version of Paranatural's Consortium, which I'm just going to call the Commission again because why not. As you may be able to guess, it's slightly more villainous in this au than the Consortium. I wanted AJ to be a high ranking member, but if I made him the Handler's spirit then we wouldn't get to see him ever, so I made him Five's. This was before I remembered that people possessed by spirits look more and more like their spirit over time so the fish head thing could still totally work, so I might revisit that. Hazel and Cha Cha's spirits look like thier masks, of course. I didn't spend much time on the mask/spirit redesign so they're not as fun and funky as I'd like, but they're still reasonable stand-ins. The Handler is this version of the Boss Leader because.... duh. If you've been keeping up with Parantural and are wondering about how That One Thing About Boss Leader translates... I haven't decided yet.

Five is the Mr. Spender of this au. He is possibly the least Mr. Spender-like character to ever exist, but look me in the eyes and tell me that acting as the teacher-supervisor of a club of unruly kids that can see ghosts who is secretly part of a nefarious (?) organization is not where he belongs.

I have a few more doodles of this waiting in the wings! Mostly of Five because I love him. But also if you have stuff you want to see, send it in. No promises I'll draw your suggestion, but the main obstacle between me and drawing more of this is not having concrete ideas for situations to put characters in

#tua #the umbrella academy #allison hargreeves #diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #luther hargreeves #lila pitts #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #the handler tua #hazel and cha cha #hazel tua #cha cha tua #paranatural #for good measure #LORD #every time i make an ensemble art piece i forget what a gd trial tagging it is #anyway this might be the first time ive posted art featuring my bowlcut baby viktor agenda?#the agenda is that if youre drawing baby viktor in an au where he transitioned as a kid i firmly believe he would have a bowlcut #i tried out a new hairstyle on allison too #oh lmao also the worst thing about this style is that it goes all in on the eyes so pupil + iris #so for the first time i had to go figure out what color everyones eyes are LMAO.#i did not bother w this for the handler and hazel and cha cha bc i was sick of looking up reference by then #oh god dammit #i forgot to tag #my art #again. smh

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elia-de-silentio · 1 year

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TENTATIVE ANALYSES: THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Episode 7: The Day That Was

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

We start out with a flashback, detailing who Harold Jenkins really is and his backstory; then we once again proceed on several different plot lines:

• The Anti Apocalypse Trio: Five reaches his siblings, and the day goes a lot differently. With him there, there's no despair, no acceptation of the end: everybody clings to that one chance of saving the world they have got. In the surprising absence of Luther (explain later) Diego is the one who takes up the 'leader' role, arranging for a file they need to be retrieved from the police. Allison, the only one who truly bothered to keep up with Viktor these last episodes, is able to not only recognize Harold Jenkins as Leonard Peabody, but also lead the others to his house and to the attic she couldn't explore last time she was there. In it, they find the evidence of Harold's grudge against them, but before they can investigate further, Five collapses from the wounds substained in the fight against the commission. Diego is apprehended for Eudora's murder, and Allison is left alone to go face Harold.

• Luther's Crisis with a Side Dish of Klaus: as in the Day that Wasn't, Luther finds out that Reginald sent him to the moon fir absolutely no reason. But here, there's no Allison to help him with a lovely date; instead there's Klaus, defeatist as usual. To his credit, Klaus is shocked and worried to see his brother in such a state, and tries to help him, trying to talk him out of the use of drugs Luther wants to try to forget. He ends up phisically assaulted as a result, but Ben talks him into still looking after Luther. So the result turns into: shoved into a night club with lights and strong noises triggering his Vietnam PTSD, getting into a fight to protect Luther from some hooligans, and being knocked out cold to see mystic visions. On the plus side, he finally manages to talk with Reginald, who explains the mystery of his death: he killed himself in order to reunite the Umbrella Academy for the impending doomsday.

• Viktor's Powers: Harold starts becoming very pushy in prompting Viktor to experiment with his power, to the point of letting slip his more aggressive side. He backtracks immediately, takes Viktor out to dinner, but the two end up involved in a fight with some drunkards. It's here that Viktor is properly motivated to use his power, a sound wave that phisically throws the delinquents away ... but not before they have gouged out one of Harold's eyes.

• Hazel and Cha-Cha: basically a repeat of what went on last episode, but with a revelation: Hazel also received the order to terminate Cha-Cha, and didn't. The misunderstanding continues, with Cha-Cha trying to kill Hazel out of healousy and Hazel ... just incapacitating her in return. Even when she threatens to kill him and Agnes, he refuses to kill her, and simply goes away, leaving her boubd, to enjoy his last three days of peace and happiness with his beloved.

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

In the flashback detailing Harold's life before the events of the show, they avoided showing us his grown-up face for a long shot, before revealing it as Leonard's, creating a nice little plot twist.

CHARACTERS

Luther: now, he always was the only one to fully believe in Reginald, the mission he had given them, and his role as Number One. Now, like last episode, he finds out that he wasted his life for nothing, but unlike last episode, he doesn't have a sympathetic Allison around. Instead, he has Klaus, whom he treats rather poorly under the drugs he assumes to emulate his 'carelessness'. If last time he had had the 'rite of passage' of the dance, here he basically does teenage rebellion: goes to a club, fully showing off his ape-like body, pumps himself full of whatever substance he can find, and gets hooked into a casual relation with an unknown girl.

Diego: with Luther out of the picture, he takes on the role of leader, and manages to, at the same time, being a complete dork ("that's what a leader does. He leads") ad actually be competent, managing to get his hands on the file they needed and find all useful data on it. He makes good calls regarding the mission, prioritizing Five's safety and essentially sacrificing himself to allow Allison to go find Viktor.

Allison: Five does the genius move to mention an actual possibility to save Claire's life, and she's suddenly a lot less defeatist and more determined to help. Moreover, being the only one who somehow bothered to try and build a relationship with Viktor, she's the one eho knows to identity Harold as Leonard, lead everyone to his house, and check that place she couldn't before. Rather than the sweet, caring but resigned side of her we have seen last episode, here we see that care turn her into a panzer.

Klaus: along with Diego, here he ends up taking a role of responsibility that he usually lacks, while the ever-serious Luther is breaking down. Klaus tries to talk him down from drug consumption, trying to get through him that 'Number Four' 's life isn't the carefree one it seems from the outside, and trying to look after him. Because of his own addictions mixed with the Vietnam PTSD, the results are scarce. As a compensation, he ends up having a conversation with God and then with Reginald, confronting him about the abuse he put them through as children, even on behalf of Luther.

Five: acts all tough, insoiring the others to sct, for the first half of the episode; then his obsessive pursuit of his goal makes itself known in lack of care for his wound, that causes him to collapse and the others to interrupt everything in order to save him.

Ben: once again, he is Klaus' Jiminy Cricket, encouraging him to find a Luther who would do the same for him if he were in trouble.

Viktor: once again his insecurities ruin his relationship with his siblings, but we can appreciate even more of their refusalto even try to see if they have powers. He is pretty much forced at the end, when Harold's life is in danger.

Harold: here his motives are fully explained. Abusive childhood with a stereotypical father who blamed him for the mother's death in childbirth, tries to get out of here becausehe was born on the same day as the Umbrella Academy kids, gets publicly humiliated by Reg as an answer, murders his father in a fit of rage and continues growing up in the ever formative environment of jail. He approacged Viktor only as means of revenge on his family. Still, the mask is beginning tocrack: for the first time, when Viktor isn't interested in using his powers, he acts aggressively towards him, even if he covers it up immediately.

Reginald: he finally gets in contact with Klaus, and reveals the mystery behind his death. He himself istigated it, because for some reason his kids wouldn't have answered if he had just called, seriously, he had just spent a life treating them as objects! He refuses his responsibilities, but does express some concern over Luther; whether this is genuine or just a manipulation remains to be seen.

Hazel & Cha-Cha: here's where the two definitely part ways. Hazel wants a new life with Agnes, Cha-Cha has clearly a thing for her partner and doesn't react well to see her expectation deluded. She does everything she can to keep his eyes on her, even istigating him to kill her. He refuses, abandoning the life of an assassin in favor of three last days with the woman he loves, and she's left pitifully screaming after him.

THEMES:

The impact of your childhood on you takes center stage here. We learn that Harold is this way because of a physically abusive father; the Hargreeves, as usual, take the cake in the department. Luther finds out what his father really did to him, and the weight of all his sacrifices suddenly crashes on him, causing him to snap hard. Klaus actually gets to confront Reginald, and only finds dismissal of their struggles and Reg's own role in them.

SYMBOLISM

The figurines of the Umbrella Academy that Harold had as a child. Initially instruments of escapism of a child in a bad situation, who didn't know how his idols actually lived; then burned off and destroyed as symbol of his desire for vengeance.

REFERENCES

Fond none this episode.

Thank you for reading!

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