I love how this season the sparrows and umbrellas were so focused on defeating the other they didn’t notice their robot mom started spewing evangelical catchphrases and worshipping a floating orb
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everyone gets why reginald shut klaus out of the portal in ep9, right??
I keep seeing people mentioning the scene without pointing this out and personally it was obvious to me (and my dad who I watched with lol) that ~someone~ was going to get left behind no matter what but idk if that translated for everyone so……prepare for Long Post Time
when reginald mentions the fables at the beginning of the episode, there’s a strong emphasis on there being 7 of everything, go figure lol. it goes to show that with the sparrows, he most likely could’ve adopted them too in s1 but he didn’t because he specifically wanted seven of the kids. each story he reads off requires exactly seven, no more and no less.
the group starts off with nine; six umbrellas, plus ben, sloane, and lila. two too many.
when the vote backfired on him, he does precisely as he tells luther before he kills him—only a death can be powerful enough to bring them all together to do something none of them want to do. in s1 none of them wanted to fight together again, but because they came back for the funeral they couldn’t avoid trying to stop the apocalypse. it didn’t have to be luther, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. any one of them could’ve been killed in his place, it was simply convenient. if one of them hadn’t gone to the buffalo room on their own, he probably just would’ve used allison’s deal to get her to come in there and kill her instead.
but of course, that leaves us with one more to go.
because reginald makes no effort to hold any particular character to the back of the group as they enter the tunnel, he clearly doesn’t care who he has to leave behind, but rather that the number of people that makes it through is all that matters. I’m convinced he didn’t care that it wound up being klaus that was left even though reginald knew about his powers. if he had been absorbed by the kugelblitz with everything else, he wouldn’t have been dead he would’ve ceased to have ever existed. no afterlife, just *poof* out of existence.
but as usual, klaus is smarter than reginald, or anyone else including himself, gives him credit for. he knew if he died before he disappeared, he’d wind up in the afterlife, which is easy to assume klaus had figured out as the entire world population would’ve wound up as ghosts if getting kugelblitzed truly was the same thing as dying. hence why he knew to kill himself before the kugelblitz had the chance to wipe him out.
despite what he said before he shut the door, it wasn’t just because he thought klaus would get in the way of the plan, it’s because he objectively would. he needed a way to ensure that once they were all being drained of their powers, no one would be left free to stop him from resetting the universe to his own specifications, a-la allison.
he needed seven, no more no less, but he just happened to underestimate his son for the last time in the process.
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You're very dangerous, Viktor Hargreeves. The decisions you make impact the entire world. So no matter how benevolent they may seem, you don't get to make them alone. You know what they call a superhero who works alone and doesn't listen to anybody? A villain. I am not a villain, Five. And, Viktor, I hope to God you never will be. But that remains to be seen. No more going rogue.
The Umbrella Academy
3x07 | “Auf Wiedersehen”
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I am obsessed with Stanley as just like a twelve year old who was SO CHILL about time travel he just pops in thirty years in the future, no questions, just there for tomfoolery and general prankfuckery
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Thinking about how so much crazy shit happened this season that no one is even talking about klaus making an enemy of the entire amish community and having to run for his life from them
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“Stop crying on my bedsheets, Emo”
Sir, you Ben Hargreeves you may not remember this but I most certainly do.
Us not getting this hairstyle for TUA s3 is a scam.
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I was worried about the sparrow academy at first but SHEESH once the infighting started…
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if sparrow ben knew about the basement cage that the umbrellas locked viktor in he'd hold it over their heads for the rest of eternity. it's his ultimate trump card. oh you're unhappy with my leadership skills? well at least i've never locked away any of my siblings in a dungeon. we might be assholes but us sparrows would never treat one of our own that way. i'd never let reggie build that for anyone on MY team. leave your family viktor join my emo band
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i’m not going to get into it fully right now but what the umbrella academy writers did this season to allison has fucking pissed me off. immensely. her being a villain? FINE! her getting angry at all she’s lost and the racism she’s had to face is perfectly valid. but this?? what she was going to do to luther? seriously? not only was it triggering it felt targeted. let me ask one question to the writers. why did cha cha, marcus, fei, and allison get these stories? these endings? these arcs?
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