The Umbrella Academy Season 4 - Blog Posts
This is a good theory.
To me it felt like it was written by AI.
I think my simplest overall problem with TUA season 4 (i have multiple) is the fact that it feels like a first draft. there's plotholes, unanswered questions, unnecessary parts and confusing relationships that don't really make sense. but first drafts get edited, season 4 of the umbrella academy clearly was not.
the bare bones of the season are good (the train, the jennifer incident, the timelines leaking into one) but it was missing so many things that shouldve been edited or delved into, like a first draft.
it's honestly such a shame. i, like everyone else, had high hopes for the final season but quite frankly it sucked.
NO BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK.
((TUA S4 SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT))
what they do how do you fuck this show up that badđ
season 4 was a disappointment and left me with so many questions
Is there not a paradox in the original timeline? Diego/Lilaâs and Allisonâs kids are still there
Why did Five go from trying to stop MULTIPLE apocalypses from happening to save his family to getting with his BROTHERS WIFE???
Did OG Ben and Klaus never discuss Benâs death or was Klaus just not able to remember?
HOW THE FUCK DID THE MARIGOLD CAUSE THIS????
no.I cant do this right now,so no.
But guys. What if Brisket Five actually can make good food. What if he is able to make perfect meals. Or at least, knows what to make that a "Five" likes.
What if the reason why briskets always have some flaws is that he thinks none of Five's, including himself, deserve the food they want to have?
What if this is his little way of secretly hating every single person there? Hating every version of himself.
Because in the end, they all left their families.
The Umbrella Academy S4 (thoughts & opinions)
- HOT TAKE: The issue I had with Five and Lila getting together wasnât the bizarre age gap or insensitivity of Five sleeping with his brotherâs wife, but how they donât resolve the tension properly before they all cease to exist. Specifically Diego and Five donât get to hold hands the way Lila and Five did, even though it wasnât really up to Lila to âforgiveâ Five, but whatever. I thought that had this affair been treated with an ounce of consideration it would reveal a lot more about both characters shared desperation for affection and emotional stimulation. Five spent decades in complete social isolation to the point where he legitimately fell in love with a mannequin and you want me to believe that, given the similar scenario that most certainly triggered the same âwell I guess Iâm stuck in this shit now for an indefinite amount of timeâ area of his brain, he wouldnât have resorted to falling in love with the fist available person regardless of what it meant outside of the subway? Lila too seemed to get with Diego because while they did click in S2, she had never lived a life that allowed her to experience romance or starting a family like she could with Diego. She pumped out three kids to seemingly force herself to enjoy what she knows could be taken away from her at the throwing of a time traveling briefcase, but her behavior this season is baffling because what do you mean after seven years of searching for a way home she never once brings up missing those three children until the opportunity to return home presents itself? She tries to wipe her hands of the situation, but then the show just kind of ends without meaningful conclusion, soâŚ
- The ending was sloppy. I know you know that, but my issue wasnât the actual end. The Hargreeves having to sacrifice themselves in a way indicative of the S1 finale makes perfect sense, especially with the painfully shallow Five Diner down in that unexplained subway station where they all indirectly allude to the fact that thereâs never a condition where at least one of the family doesnât end the world. Had the Fives took time to explain that each Hargreeve possesses earth shattering abilities that eventually snowball out of control regardless of the condition, and all resistance is futile, I would accept that the ending makes more sense than just blaming the marigold despite the fact that Victor can/has been able to syphon marigold out of people, and couldâve just taken it all himself but you know, whatever.
- I also deeply resent that a show about familial trauma and bonding despite the shared adversity ultimately concluded on everyone giving up. No. You donât get to say that they âdidnât just give upâ because yes, them saying âoh no, well, thereâs ten minutes left of the episode, guess we should cease to exist nowâ is the definition of not even trying to venture down into the subway as a family and fix the other timelines one at a time, using their newfound familial unity to solve every timeline until they converge into one. Iâm not saying that needed to happen at all, or that they should have succeeded even if they tried, but AT LEAST THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TRIED. The writers gave up, the characters gave up, and the metaphor of grief and family issues the show spent so long to cultivate were just abandoned.
- Klaus regressed with no substantial reason or impact other than to provide slapstick humor and comedic relief antics that didnât amount to any of what he had spent the last few seasons building and working towards. Ben shouldnât have been brought back after his noble and meaningful sacrifice of S2 only to be made into the most obnoxious version of himself. Allison didnât even get to say âI heard a rumorâ this season nor did she address attempting to sexually assault Luther, and Diegoâs relationship with Lila was the absolute worst case scenario for both characters. Viktor was the only one with an arc worth watching this season, which is why I thought him having a solo sacrifice would have been even more gut wrenching but whatever.
- There is an insurmountable amount of plot holes that prove this show just got lazy. There should be a kugelblitz in the finaleâs timeline. If Lila/Allison were never born then there could never be Grace/Lilaâs children. You donât get to say âwell what about the subwayâ because that doesnât protect them from the grandfather paradox, unless outright stated which the writers didnât even bother to do.
- Why didnât they just kill Jennifer? Who put her in the squid? If it was Reggieâs wife then why didnât she just kill her? Why didnât Reggie kill her when he built the town to âprotectâ her? Why did she react with pure terror when shown the squid? How did Jean and Gene get their hands on it? Was it a normal giant squid or an alien? Was it her mother? No, because then how did she speak English when she emerged from its stomach? Why did she say âthe cleanseâ like she knew what it meant when she didnât? Ben shouldâve been able to remember in the OG timeline how he died because absolutely every other spirit does and the show canât just rewrite its own lore to cater to a last minute subplot that went nowhere. I donât want to be mean but Jennifer never should have existed as a S4 add in because she did absolutely nothing for the plot other than confusing the audience with the persistent question of why didnât they just kill her to prevent the cleanse from happening. Reginald said one of them had to die, but in the OG timeline he killed both just to beâŚcruel? Whatâs the point of writing that it just had to be one of them if youâre just going to act like itâs a package deal? This entire plot line made me truly believe this season was written by AI, Iâm sorry.
not even a joke
Brisket Five>>>>>>>Season 4 Five
