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he had no clue MM was going to play in his face.

Complaining about my favorite character’s death again sorry but A-Train’s death pisses me off so much more now that the seasons over lol. Every single character who died was incredibly predictable and the deaths happened so much later that they didn’t maintain the momentum/stakes A-Train’s death set. It happening in the first episode was originally a huge bummer, now it’s fucking annoying to me. Anyways. It’s just crazy in the end they played it incredibly safe this season.

#they also played it pretty safe thematically #it doesn’t end up being a systemic take down #just a homelander one and some slight reform that our heroes aren’t involved in at all #despite starlight leading a movement #not kidding in the end I think terror is the only death I was like woah to #also even with loving Reggie so much I didn’t cry at his death scene #because it wasn’t that type of scene #I didn’t cry at a single death this season #and I’m a crier!!#like bro do something actually surprising and make me cry it’s not hard #I cried at a tik tok edit of tv show I don’t even watch bruh #the boys #a train #reggie franklin

it’s really weird in the final scene they have Annie mention just getting off of a horrible phone call with her mother, who doesn’t play a role at all in the final season, instead of having her mention a phone call with her dad and stepmom, who were introduced and given a full episode this season. They help Annie find hope in a future with Hughie again. Not only that, based off of what we see of them, they’d be openly supportive of Annie after Homelanders death, and would want to play a role in her baby’s life regardless of her marital status.

#the boys #the boys spoilers #annie january #starlight

ffspy

i have an exam in five days and i still can't draw a pony. do you think i'll pass the history exam without this knowledge?

btw the finale is peak

#the boys #a train #reggie franklin

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taking back everything i said about the baby name because now I’m imagining the AU where Reggie survives, and continues the friendship he had established with Annie, and the peace he found with Hughie, and finds out they’re naming the baby Robin. And he has to congratulate them. And he has to look the baby in the eyes. And they have to tell her one day that she’s named after a woman that her dad loved, and that Mommy’s friend, Mr. Reggie, killed and we forgave him. And so should you.

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And when Annie talks about how Robin is the only reason she has the life she has with Hughie now, Reggie realizes she’s the only reason he has the life he has now too. And he’s grateful to her as well. And he knows it’s fucked up to think that but he does.

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Having to contend with Hughie’s behavior S1-3 being totally recontextualized by his apology to Translucent’s son. It working both as a flimsy apology to Maverick (since his dad was a bad person anyways) and also as a late confession to Reggie. Maverick’s invisibility heightened Hughie projecting how he felt about Reggie because the only thing he could see are his memories. His voice quivering does add to the believability that he is sorry about Translucent, but it ultimately would never serve Maverick because he has the power to avenge his father in a way Hughie never could for Robin.

Hughie’s insecurity around his lack of power having to do less w/ how he feels about Annie being stronger than him, and more about how he felt inadequate to avenge Robin. This doesn’t mean he wasn’t giving off incel-adjacent views. But now it feels like yet another type of projection where his anger towards Reggie manifested in how he interacted w/ Victoria and Annie. It makes sense that a lot of his headspace in those seasons was trying to reconcile his decision to allow Reggie to live — with a total inability to emotionally process it in conjunction with the grief of Robin not being properly addressed.

Now in S5 it feels clear that to a degree — A-Train has always been taking up space in Hughie’s mind & vice-versa. S3 E6 was an inflection point of both of them careening in the direction that the other originally aligned themselves w/ at the start of the show. Reggie becoming more selfless and introspective wrt how he harmed Hughie/H becoming more selfish in fulfilling his personal desires to inflict a similar amount of pain physically onto R.

I don’t know if they’ll fully go there and give Hughie the context surrounding A-Train’s death, but this is one of those relationships that makes me sad that the writers didn’t feel like fleshing out their dynamic more face-to-face. It does make sense that both of them would be too emotional and guarded to really have an honest conversation but I would’ve liked to see it! Overall though this continues to be one of the most compelling dynamics of the show. Of course the two people with the most complicated relationship on a meta/subtextual level is dusted before we get to see them interact in their most evolved forms

#damn #this is 🔥

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The Boys - 'Blood and Bone' - S05E08

#so proud of this kid #ryan the boys #the boys

taking back everything i said about the baby name because now I’m imagining the AU where Reggie survives, and continues the friendship he had established with Annie, and the peace he found with Hughie, and finds out they’re naming the baby Robin. And he has to congratulate them. And he has to look the baby in the eyes. And they have to tell her one day that she’s named after a woman that her dad loved, and that Mommy’s friend, Mr. Reggie, killed and we forgave him. And so should you.

#fixing every issue I have with this season by finding a way to make it about a train #a train #reggie franklin #the boys #hughie campbell #annie january #starlight #the boys spoilers

Mommy and Daddy love you so much RobinA-TrainReggieFranklinWilliamJButcherSuperSonicTerrorFrenchieDeepLanderCracker January-Campbell

#the boys #sorry #annie january #hughie campbell

Annie pregnant and happy, being a hero in her plain clothes, wearing bright yellow and white…. yeah that’s my girl. that shit means something to me.

#annie january #starlight #the boys #the boys spoilers

I don’t hate the baby being named Robin because it’s “Hughie’s ex”. I hate the baby being named Robin because it’s corny. It also doesn’t actually feel like a meaningful ode to her role in Hughie’s life and the story as a whole. But mostly it’s fucking corny.

#okay will stop being mean about this now #the boys #the boys spoilers #annie january #starlight #hughie campbell #keep seeing people argue on Twitter about if it’s weird to name the baby after his ex or not #when that is notttt the issue to me lol #also ex is weird they didn’t break up she died

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The difference of A-Train and Frenchy both accepting their deaths in their own ways because they’re dying for a purpose, because their deaths are a way to protect the people they love, and because both A-Train and Frenchy know they were given the opportunity to change, to become better, to be good people for the ones they care about and to do something worthwhile versus Homelander refusing to die, dropping to his knees begging and pleading, acting like a hysterical spoiled child who is terrified and completely alone after spending his entire life enforcing his will through fear and violence, and who has nobody outside worth fighting for, nobody who’s going to mourn him, and whose own blood relatives don’t even want him near them… this is why I adore pathetic villains.

#delicious #homelander #a train #reggie franklin #frenchie #the boys

i fucking hate that they name the baby Robin.