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It is time for episode 6, Isaiah 40:31.
All right, because things things happen in this one towards the
end that are just no one is ready for.
No. This was a, this is a big one.
There's a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot that goes down and this one
episode, it's wild really, there really is.
So I guess we best get into it and how does Isaiah 40:31,
start? It starts with a Shannon
flashback. Finally, Our Girls Back season
two is dead. That's what she or she's been.
Well, that's depressing. Anyway.
Hey listen, we got multiple Shannon scenes in season one and
she was dead. So true, true you're not wrong.
So it took us six episodes to get another Shannon moment and
It is quite a moment. We flip on back to Eastern
Europe in the past. And it's a story told really,
not from Shannon's perspective, although Shannon is there.
It's really Mother Superior and story back when she was Suzanne,
the warrior none. And in real time, she is sharing
this story with Ava because it is totes, Warrior and unrelated
because it's the long-anticipated story of when
and how the Halo rejected Suzanne, which we Were
speculating about in season 1 and the writers and Simon give
it to us here. So what happened was at the time
Mother Superior, and AKA Suzanne was three months into her reign
as the warrior none and Shannon in the vision flashbacks.
Simply an OCS member doing her thing, and they're infiltrating
an armed Fortress to extract the rest of the OCS and their Mother
Superior in from this building. And the two of them were kind of
going back and forth in giving their version of how we should
See you at this? And the planning between them, I
think highlights how Reckless Suzanne was as the were done
because her her method is very similar to a method where she's
like, let's punch some pitches and keep punching and ask
questions later it's like and then Shannon's like the rational
strategist one and she's like it is to against 12, we cannot do
that. There's has to be a smarter way
to do that, what you're proposing.
Sounds like a great way for all of us to get killed.
So this is very much like Ava Beatrice Dynamics, which I found
interesting. And Shannon tries to reason with
Suzanne. But Suzanne is so entrenched in
her like own over confidence, and abilities as the warrior
nun. And the unique power, she has
with the Halo that she's like, yeah, I'm gonna do me and
basically energy pulses, Shannon's chest, which likes
tons, / knocks her out, and then she's just like cool and for
seeds to go in there alone and take on everyone because she's
the warrior done with what the fuck right Suzanne?
What the fuck? yeah, it's just it's just pure
overconfidence and like I'm the most powerful person in the
room. I cannot possibly lose.
I don't even need you Shannon, it's crazy but you kind of like
seeing this Dynamic why everyone's like Shannon was the
best of us like even Suzanne I like shaving clearly as like is
a capable leader who's like let's think about this kind of
things he's like yeah, muscles know.
I also think the thing I like to point out from this flashback to
Mother Superior, has been Suzanne has been the word on for
three months and she knows a hell of a lot of stuff to do
with the Halo and just three months and Ava's been the word
on for how long and she can do like three things, the, so it's
kind of interesting that she figured out so many things with
this energy source. Well, she's probably out there.
Punching people left and right and Ava's like being held back
by Beatrix. Possibly, that's been a hell of
a busy three months, but I just find it really interesting
because she shows off a lot of cool stuff that like we've never
seen anyone do. And like presumably at that
point, the word on before hers dad.
So like it's kind of cool. She knows all these things in
such a short amount of time. So she wasn't a terrible Warrior
none, but you can see her ego gets her into trouble if you
will. And I think that this is very
much on purpose because to me this reads like a cautionary
tale for Ava because she's telling Ava the story and
there's apparent similarities between the two of them.
And it's like, hey this is what you could become.
If you like, don't listen to you're like sisters and stuff.
So after that, we Suzanne infiltrate the building, we get
a kick-ass fight scene which thank you could go and everybody
put that together. It is amazing.
And we also see the cool move that I love from her.
That she uses the, the Halo power as like a bulletproof
Shield which like, yes, I hope during this conversation with
Ava, she's like, okay, David. This is how you do that because
like, you should really teach her that, that would be a really
good thing to know. Yeah, sure.
Like phase through shit all the time.
Right. Exactly.
And there's a more efficient way like just stop it.
Instead of phasing. Yeah.
So I just please teach her stuff.
I'm just saying. Oh and side note.
So when I was watching this this is I wish Kate was here.
This is to us I'm pretty sure at the beginning of this particular
fight scene. The third guy she kills was
actually Cuoco because she slams his head into a wall.
So I think this is the fight scene.
He was in Yeah, I have to go back and watch it again.
I was like, I thought it was a fight scene at the end of this
episode but I think it's this is the one he was talking about for
those who don't know, Cuoco was the stunt coordinator for all of
were done and he told us in our interview that he was in one of
the episodes and like Mother Superior in like splashes head
into a wall and a preacher is this fight scene and it's the
third guy that she kills. Okay, All right, so she takes
out 11 of the goons including Cuoco and then makes her way
into the cell that's holding all the sisters and that's where she
battles the 12th guy. And to paraphrase, in the words
of wise Beatrice, there are only 12 that you can see.
So, of course, like he's not the final boss, those are the
people. So she like takes almost one guy
and then all these other people and like drains the Halo so much
that, you know, she gets taken by surprise and a 30th guy.
Shoots Her Mother Superior in square in the head through the
cell. And she just like loses it.
Because it's like the epitome of failure.
Like she's like, I Can Take On The World by myself and then
like is brutally proven that you cannot and as she's like,
breaking down and kind of like Morning briefly.
The guy. She was actually battling the
12th guy like slashes her the face.
And so not only is this how she lost the Halo.
This is also how she got the scar.
That is the signature scar on her face.
And while she's kind of like straight up losing Shannon,
finally comes in because I guess she's not stand anymore.
And is like god, dammit Susanna. Like whenever she comes in
Shannon takes care of the rest of the goons.
And then together, they release the osseous captives.
And when, and she also liked Harry Suzanne and to the South.
So she added is really the one that like makes a successful at
the end, bring Suzanne into the cell and Suzanne is so of
overwrought with just like pure grief, that she's feeling and
like failure. And this like deep sense of
unworthiness, she like screams to the heavens almost and then
the Halo like jumped out of her body almost and so like that's
how she lost the Halo. It's like this moment of like
Pure ego that leads to like her losing like one of her mother's
Experian and just like being the ultimate failure and just like,
she could not take it. Essentially is what happened
melted out of her back. It was gnarly.
So gnarly, if you're squeamish, do not watch that part.
But excellent acting and excellent effects there because
that was, I'd hurt me. Yeah, and I had to hurt her too
because she no longer has the Kill her.
So like she's actually so they think it's like metaphorically
like the burden. Like I don't know what she's
going to actually feel that pain kind of thing.
Yep. And presumably to this is the
moment when Shannon becomes the warrior none to Shannon's like
next to her. So, like I'm flying.
How on Earth did they get the Halo in?
Shannon's back is my question because with Ava, we saw them.
Somebody had those tongs that like it, the Halo doesn't burn.
And that's how they, like, get it into the next host.
How about how did they? Get into Shannon's back, did
someone sacrifice a hand? Like what happened?
Either that or they, they waited till later, but how did they did
they have to be like guard it go get the thing come back like
yeah, found something to get the Halo, you know, like off the
ground or whatever and then they transported it back with
everyone they like hung it on the divinium sword very
carefully because what Very carefully, take it back.
I guess I just have questions because many things come to mind
and with like super ghetto way to like back alley medicine to
get this at and Shannon's back or maybe do something ridiculous
to transport it. The only thing I could see him
my head is you know, those races where you have like an egg on a
spoon. Yes, that's what I mean.
And like, like cycle all the way back to the OCS.
Yeah. Like it's like Shannon.
God damn it. Just listen to me man.
She would have a great warrior, none name, like Shannon.
That's a cool name you know Susie Saying you know what
Mother Superior and sounds way better than I think you're on
the right side of things. Yeah, jeez.
Everything was probably like Suzanne I can't.
I'm gonna leave, I can't no more.
No more, no, more Shannon. Cool Ava, cool.
Suzanne know, three months tops, we are part of.
Yeah, I love it. It's it's just something about
guys, it's all time. It is something to think about
and now I have so many strange things playing out in my mind.
Thanks a lot the or So, back to Susanna's, Mother Superior in
telling you, put the story. So they're sitting in a reserve,
a room and yeah, at Gillian's place, it Jillian's place and
she's telling her the story and she says that she doesn't know
what caused the Halo to reject her if it was using it on
Shannon or trying to to shoulder everything alone.
So, basically, was it specifically her using the Halo
against Shannon, or Her being a big hubristic jackwagon and I
think it was everything because it all can change.
And for sure what she's really impressing upon Ava, is that no
one can carry our burdens alone and that she needs to work with
everyone and not go Rogue on her own foreshadowing.
I totally think this is the theme of season two, because
it's Definitely foreshadowing for Ava, but it's it also
relates to like, Lilith basically, going on it alone and
then Beatrice to, with her feelings, Camilla when she was
kind of like isolating herself from the beginning.
So I think this is a theme for like kind of like like
everybody's lesson. They learn in one way shape or
form, you know? Absolutely mmm.
But so, that's pretty much the, the moral of the story.
We just sat through Suzanne's Fable and so, you know, you're
not alone. Don't try to do everything
alone. You've got some badass, people
surrounding you. Hmm, you know.
Teamwork Beach teamwork Beach. Yeah and I think the other piece
I totally agree with all that the other piece to I think to
think about or I think this just adds like the growing evidence
that the Halo is sentient in some manner.
Yes, because we don't get a definitive answer if like, why
did it reject her? But like we can see that there's
kind of factors where it's almost responding to like
morality or emotions or something in in her at that time
of like total language English. That it was like, nope, I can't.
This is not a viable host, for whatever reason.
So because like, when you first hear the story, like, she's like
a reject, like, you wonder like did you pull the thing from her
back, but it seemed like it reg, it like escaped.
So I like that. It escaped.
It literally did it did. So from Suzanne story we go over
to the lab where Ava is recapping, the current situation
for the remaining OCS, forces and my Jillian.
And we can see right now and she's like, hey okay, here's
where we're at King. We have a skeleton crew of
people like it's literally this room.
The pope is captured and Adrian's followers are just
growing. It's basically the worst pep
talk ever. Good job baby.
Great job. I forget things but she points
out, they have, they have 11 Advantage, really.
They now know because of last episode where Adriel is going to
be on March. Auntie third, which is the next
day and he plans to announce himself to the world and I'm
wondering is it like March 23rd was this Easter like and
symbolic like he has risen and the pope legitimizing it maybe I
don't know but of course during this whole talk there's 3 full
seconds of gay staring between Ava and Beatrice like in front
of my OCS it was great. Huh.
And the plan going forward is Beatrice is going to create a
strike team that's going to coordinate, taking Adriel down
and getting the pope back and they're just going to do their
best to be ready for like whatever a drill actually has
plan. They just know where he's going
to be. They don't really know what's
going to actually go down but these in charge so it'll
probably be fine and then be it does through cycles of day
staring back to Ava which great but also it's kind of like the
silent I trust you which she kind of He's doing this like
reassuring thing to Ava throughout like this whole
episode. So it kind of starts here but
it's like a silent. Like I trust you with a mixture
of gay steering, which is great, I love that.
It's also like, look at, look at my little girl up there being
the later, just telling us everything she's hot.
That's how I interpreted that whole, that's another.
That's also going through a Brand's part of the gate.
The gate is necessary. Alright, so at this point.
Jillian has had time to read the paperwork.
She blindly Co sound. This is cosine and found
loopholes in the cathedral's security that they can hack
into. Great.this is why reading is
important everyone. As she explains that the prayer
energy combined with the arktech technology is powering the arc
at regular intervals. So, like this is the thing
that's actually like switching the Halo off.
For Ava, so that's not great. And the Ark, clearly because it
can do all of this. And Adriel went through all this
trouble to dupe, Jillian, create this technologically advanced
Cathedral to power the ark. Obviously the arc is seems to be
really important to his plan, but at this point, nobody
including Michael, who was on the other realm with Freya, know
exactly why it's important. They just know he's putting all
this energy in to create the ark.
Harness, the prayers do all that stuff.
And be the smartest person in the room.
Brings up a fabulous point where she's like, could Adriel Angels
been here, four thousand years. Could he have built another one
of these somewhere else on the planet and like, think about it,
he he's put in a tremendous amount of effort to like power
this thing that's like, chilling and Jillian's lab could there be
another one possible question. But Jillian's, like, I think
that's a likely because divinium is what powers the ark and
there's barely enough of it to make.
This one, it's very unlikely. There's a second one because we
saw in season 1 she was like scouring the globe with
Christian. So unless there's like a
Jurassic divinium skeleton that they found, it's probably.
This is, this is the, this is the oh, gee, this is the one he
needs this one. So the obvious conclusion from
all of this is the most important thing is chilling in
this lab. Adriel is going to come make a
move to steal this thing because obviously So they briefly
discussed like well, why does he need this?
Does he like want to go home and they're like, I don't know about
that. He escaped as a fugitive it's
unlikely. A fugitive wants to go home and
and Michael's one that explain this and he sounds super bitter.
When he says it almost like this is how real feels about this guy
that straight-up betrayed her coming back.
So it sounds like at this point Asia really has no home.
He's kind of like in no man's land.
So it seems like he's either trying to set up a home here
where he can have ultimate power because he's like seen as a god.
here which kind of makes sense if like the people from this
other rumors as egotistical as human beings are, which Probably
have you heard, the man? Talk about Chloe.
Yeah. Like he probably has an ego,
right? The suit for Christ's sake?
Yeah. Or either that it like, he's
literally just planning up to be.
Like, fuck it. I'm just gonna stay here where
I'm a God, or he's like planning some coup on the other realm
like and he needs the arc for some reason to do that.
So, or Eva's theory is he's bringing someone here like maybe
dun dun dun, that's where we have not seen.
Yeah, who knows? Who knows?
We, we don't know because the show got canceled.
You know what? He's probably good.
He probably was trying to bring something here but it was his
wardrobe. Yeah, he wants.
He's more in favor of the modern wardrobe.
I think he is tired of the Rogue.
You know, he's tired of having to be an angel because you
definitely not one. You definitely not.
I think it's some combination of stuff that he was really on to
do. That's what it for the way he
yells it Rhea, like spoiler later.
It sounds like he was actually trying to like set up a coup.
Like to go over there. I think he wants Both Worlds and
he wants to combine them in some way.
I think he was perhaps trying to do it, read at the Lilith and
like use the Army. He has here to send over there.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
And then he could be like interdimensional God man.
Right. Exactly.
Then he'll have we've um we're Brea doesn't have both of these
worlds kind of thing and just go for the hair.
Yeah, what ass asshole. So speaking of that guy, Guess
what? He's about to get a phone call
from Camilla's head. So talk about texting God.
Yep. It's Camilla calls up Adriel
with some prayer and, you know, you know, a little voice.
And you can tell when he comes in the room because the the fire
that's in there goes poof or whatever.
And then, so when he, when he's like appearing, I'm guessing
because of the Cross, you know, he's he's almost like a, he
looks like he's there but he's like an apparition.
So I, he's thinking that this is a good thing for him that she's
come around and she's going to be on his side now.
However, Camilla is Sassy as fuck and pretty much tells him
to fuck off. She should exactly and she wants
to point out to him. That communication is a two-way
street and she's in Adrian's head as well as him being in her
head and he's like well how's the fuck's that going to help
you and she's like I don't know yet but we'll basically like
I'ma it'll come in handy. I just I just know it.
So she's basically just giving him a little something to think
about and being like you got in my head, I'm about to get in
yours. She's just her fighting back and
she's ballsy and she doesn't, she's like, nope, I will face
you and I will tell you, you know, she's just telling them
the truth. I can get in your head too.
Yeah, I know of how his like he tries to like use his like
grooming tactics that keep working all these women and they
does not work like a fella. Man, she path go and collected
200 like fuck using the face to him on that hourly.
Yeah, lover Before you start the next scene, though, I just have
one thing to say for the next scene.
No, thank you. The scene made me incredibly
uncomfortable. The first time I watched it
because I was still, like, don't beating don't have baiting and
don't touch her anyway, I continue.
Yeah, I think this is the head bait exam.
It is. Yeah.
And there's a few. But anyway, so it's an even,
Michael seen that didn't give it away.
Eva is packing when Michael comes in for a chat and this I
think the purpose of the sea was not to make us uncomfortable.
I think part of it was to be like, oh, fuck well Ava trust
not sale, but I think more importantly, this scene is
really here to highlight the similarities between Michael and
Ava because there's actually quite a few Michael essentially
like grew up in the lab Jillian made to keep him alive because
he was so like immunodeficient that are could kill him
basically. And so because of his health
condition, he was isolated from the world to stay alive.
Basically, in a similar way, that Ava was isolated in the
orphanage, after the car accident that killed her parents
and left her paralyzed. So they both had this very
myopic isolated, small, All view of the world and were denied
like a regular life that most kids were when they were growing
up basically because of those and Michael confesses in the
scene. He's like you know, when I came
back here and I like started the Samaritans and was, you know,
doing all that stuff. Like I was having fun for the
first time in my life because like this boy went from like
being a lab rat. Great, his mom loved him to like
stay alive. Like he had 22 going to the
other realm are Ray immediately, grabs him and like turns him
into a pond. So like he He has had autonomy.
Never like this is the first time he has ever had autonomy
and the same way that would Ava got the Halo and woke up in the
morgue. She got autonomy for the very
first time and that's why she spent half of season one
fighting her quote Destiny because she's like finally, I'm
free like what the fuck, you know?
So they're similar in that aspect but the part that creeps
us all out is when he starts saying my time with you and I
was like, oh, do dear Ava became All of us in the audience
because her face is like, no, I need to shut this shit down.
And she's gonna do you mean, what do you mean he's?
Like I was sent here, like he's all business his credit.
He's like I was sent here with a specific mission that ends in my
death, but after meeting you I got hopeful that like together,
we could defeat a Area and live to fight another day and after
but after I saw his face in the body cam footage and there's no
other way and at this point Ava is like, can you stop with the
cryptic shit? And just tell me what the fuck
is going on for real. Then he holds her hand in front
of the window and we get more uncomfortable.
And this is the head dating scene.
We all saw the trailer were like oh dear.
Oh dear. Oh dear.
But Davis Granite, she looks she holds his hand and looked super
confused because she thinks he's making a move.
And she's like, how, how do I get out of those?
But he again is all business and he's like, listen Rhea, has this
plan that I'm involved with that, involves this divinium
bomb, that's going to kill a drill.
Since Davidians, not of this world, not of this realm, it can
theoretically kill someone who is not of this realm.
It's the same way that the divinium kills race demons and
the trash Stevens, like, kind of like that and he was like, okay,
that math adds up, but what the hell does, any of that have to
do with me? Like why are what is this?
And he's like, you're the fuse. I like obviously like the Halo
has to detonate the Davidian because that's how that works.
And this is when Ava starts freaking out because the
detonate something means she has to be close to the bomb, to be
the fuse. And The divinium also, if it
explodes will overwhelm her ability to heal at the same time
as age riyals and for a demonstration, see Shannon in
episode 1 of worry or not. Because that's what happened her
and that's how she died. There was too much, dominium the
Halo couldn't heal her, she died.
So after hearing this master plan from Brea courtesy of
Michael Ava jumps into the bargaining stage of the 12
stages of grief. When she's arguing for the OG
plan, she's like, listen, now we're just going to put the
crown on his head. We're going Was bitch in a box
like just like last time, it'll be great.
It's going to be fine. Everybody lives.
There is no fuse. There's no bomb and Michael
insists that Rhea saw this happen.
Therefore, it will happen. So there's like again, it's like
Destiny. There's no escaping.
Your destiny is basically what he's saying.
And then and then we get to the thesis statement of the entire
show that we broke down in our season 1 episodes Michael says,
because she's like what is she a god like whatever and he's like,
God is just a name. You've been fed this Twisted
version of the truth. That confuses everything
re-adjust is She just is it is what it is.
Which yeah, like again, like we're conflating this like, you
know, God versus Satan thing that's happening here, but he's
like, no, these are just beings that exist.
They had one happens to be in power.
When happens to not be about, this is just like humans, like,
humans are humans and some have more power summer Kings summer
peasants. And it's just like, that's just
the way it is. She's just a person who's in
power. And anybody who has the best
like cheeky counter to those four.
She says well she sounds like she sucks.
Yeah. Thank you Ava.
Would you like what everybody was thinking?
Yeah it's 100% true. All the people from this realm
just suck the way people suck. They have their own agendas,
they're willing to use anyone and anything they can to meet
their desired ends. And I love that the writers
really took gods and put them on a human level.
It's kind of like the Greek gods whom I've always enjoyed and
found to be super believable in terms of Mythology because
they're human they act like humans.
The very creatures that God supposedly created.
So yeah it all tracks. As I love that the writers use
that play on religion here. It's very fun.
But what is really fun about this scene?
Is that the whole time? Beatriz was eavesdropping behind
a see-through curtain and like, no one saw her.
I don't understand. She's okay.
It was focused on not ever was focused on a of avoiding
Michael's advances if he was trying to advance be being like
bitch know who I'm not gonna blow up.
We're not going to sacrifice ourselves to blow up Adriel and
Then you know Michael was too focused on convincing Ava and
also Beatrice is a warrior ninja lady.
So maybe she's stealthy. I'm just surprised that
Beatrice. And her feels didn't jump past
that curtain and like a cost Michael.
When he grabbed her hand and then started in all this suicide
bomb stuff, Yeah, I mean, she gets at least she intervenes
later. So, yes, and last part about
this scene, I guess, Michael. Then she could.
So it was like, okay, I'm the fuse.
What's the bomb? And he's like, I'm the bomb and
this part I don't understand. He proves he's the Bomb by like
opening his shirt to show that he's glowing because like his
body is basically divinium at this point.
If Michaels, trust glows, when he's near the Halo.
Why did he just take a quick peek under her shirt earlier in
the season when he was with Ava? Because he says out loud.
I've been wondering for a while. If you were the warrior Don.
It's like you couldn't just be like, yep, it's her.
Why is this coming up now? The question good.
Damn question, potholes. Hi, Natasha either the seat,
huh? This is all just head baiting.
That's why it was here. But I like Mike.
There's no no other part of him is De vídeo.
Many can't just be like, oh, look the same, we got the cross
and she's like, oh it's you, I don't like it here for like 14
years and she didn't be like, listen, you're gonna glow and
here the Halo light. I feel like that had to happen.
He she had he had to know that this is ridiculous.
Anyway, it is what it is. It's TV.
Okay, it's TV after that. Ava and Michael argue a little
bit more Ava doesn't want them. Both to die for some
interdimensional power grab and Michael argues that this is the
only way because Raya said so and it was like fuck this shit.
I'm out and she storms out of their past Beatrice and be lets
her go pauses to give a judgmental, stare to Michael as
she should before following after Ava.
And I love that she pauses to give him Judgmental stare
because the jealousy is still there.
Perfect dress. It's just always gonna be there.
Yeah, it is because anything with Ava and pretty boys, you
know? Yep.
Yeah. And she's, she gets to like,
give a dig at him. She doesn't uh-huh.
Yeah, I appreciate it, too. Because it's, it's always in a
Beatrice style, not a super, it's not Petty, it's just
Beatrice e. It's just be interesting and
Beatrice other admire that It's absolutely okay.
Let's go to the the Pope. The Pope.
In a cage. What the fuck is this cage?
It looks like a bus stop to me. It's so so it's like it's so
weird. So William, if you remember
betrayal boy from, you know, previous episode is bringing
some lunch to the pope and they're going to have a little
chitchat. And he basically lays it down
for our mob boss, Pope that his survival is going to depend on
his level of devotion. Meaning, if you play our game,
you'll survive if not, you're going to die.
So be our Pawn or die. That's basically it.
So we find out that back-in-the-day Adriel appeared
to William, and manipulated him in the same way, that Adriel,
manipulated Michael as a little boy.
And, you know, What did, what did William have?
Because, because our Theory before was that Michael had
divinium in him, and that's how he was.
That could be how Adriel was finding him and talking to him.
I wonder if like, again, the church.
This is the cat. This is the Catholic Church.
In the Vatican like in the bed seem script, where Ava's like
don't they have millions they're sitting on millions of dollars
like yes. So they're sit like the Vatican
is like the world's largest museum.
So I have to imagine, there are divinium artifacts in the
Vatican somewhere that these higher ups, like Cardinals have
access to like parts of the museum that like nobody else
does. So I imagine he must have been
similar to like Vincent where they had a bit probably been
near relics. Yeah.
Or see ya or Divini, I guess defend him is the only organic
matter from the other realm we know about.
Maybe there's others. We just don't know about it.
But I assumed he was near something that was of the other
realm that lets him communicate that's me, but yeah, yeah,
whatever. This guy is really, he is a
absolute True Believer because Adriel promised him a place at
his side in exchange for swearing fealty to him, which
makes me want to throw up because dude, I mean, that's
Christianity. The hierarchy.
That's the way that the actor says it.
He's so good at being so colty and he is, it's my soul, but the
pope is not, you know, he's not he's not displaying his cards,
really? He's just having a conversation
during this whole thing and just getting a little No more info
out of William. But the other part that creeped
me out in this was, William kissing the Pope's cheek the way
he did. That was not the gay content.
I was looking. No, this is not, I'm not here
for that. Thank you.
No, thank you, they're creepy, that's not good.
Um, so yeah, we get to know what a little bit of Williams back
story with a drill and why he's such a stalwart right-hand man.
And we get to see the pope, we get to learn more and you know
like you have reinforcement of the Pope's going to be the
legitimized UR of age real and they're just like play ball or
else. So all that fun stuff.
I think the conversation they have here is interesting because
it goes to show how this like faith has been corrected.
Like faith has been crafted and twisted like Michael was saying,
and these creatures from this other realm can very easily.
We manipulate people because if you think about it, the way he
kind of got to this guy was that you know, the Christians, 100%
believe a drill, because they've been told these stories of
these, you know, of what an angel looks like, and like the
Miracles that Jesus did and he's, and you're taught to like,
believe that without ever witnessing it happened.
But here's this dude, who's looks like Jesus, who's like,
look, I can actually do it in front.
Of your eyes. All the things, the Bible is
saying. So it's not a stretch to be
like, oh, like if he is, he is somebody that actually believes
in Christianity to, like, see that happen.
It's really hard to be like, no, that's not.
That's a, that's not Jesus, because he's doing all the
things I'm like. Yes, he's like, well, I'm for
real, like Jesus is supposed to come back and do all these
things. Hello, like, so, a True
Believer, wouldn't 100% be fooled by this because it is
exists. The Playbook that they've been
taught to, like, look for And like taught to blindly believe
in it. But here's somebody actually
doing all the things and like this kind of what he says he's
like, well, here he is, doing the things.
Like, can you blame me? Like obviously, this is what I
believe in. He's doing it.
I'm gonna follow him. So yeah, for a sentient being
like a drill, it's like yeah I can easily manipulate you
because you're to believe in this.
So like it makes sense on multiple levels.
Like why these two are like buddy-buddy it.
Does it does. He was the perfect.
The perfect person for a drill to manipulate.
Yeah. Because even in the last, the
last episode, the crab ever, who was the big high of cardinal
whatever in purple was like he's like the most is prestigious
Cardinal there is like who he's questioning stuff like
immediately because like, which is interesting.
Yeah, it was the Archbishop of Canterbury there it is.
Yeah but any his you want seat one.
Other thing I totally love from the scene at the beginning you
pointed out, the cell is creepy and weird.
It is really weird. Looking what's weirder to me is
like when the dude comes in to see the pope, he's got this
silver platter of like wine and pastries.
He's getting this like luxurious treatment and his so weird cell.
It's so funny like what? Is going on.
It's such an age real thing to do.
It's the Pope's getting top treatment for prisoners.
Well yeah. Like here's the wine from your
sellers and the food from your kitchen.
Yeah. Here you can have some of it
prisoner. That's hilarious.
An insult, man. That's probably what it is.
That's such a good point. Speaking of the Angel, then we
shoot over to age. Really?
How much of him in this episode aired really is, he is with the
not-hot priest and they are playing dress up, so that Adriel
can get his Jesus look down. This is where he got the damn
game. Sorry.
Got the nickname Slade real. It hurts geez cuz now I'm
imagining them both playing dress-up.
Anyway, go ahead. I mean, they basically verbally
discuss it but we don't get to see it.
I don't think I can handle actual dress up like the Montage
of them getting ready know. Anyway, Wilder to and girl talk
they share a glass of divine Brandy and the not had priest is
basically asking for, like, reassurance or major without
asking for it. So he's like going through his
own, like, kind of crisis of faith. and has been super
conflicted since his encounter with Mother Superior and where
she should have shot him and didn't Angels, like it's going
to be fine. We're going to make your dreams
come true. You like, but better just
imagine a world where you can reach God.
Via text. Can you imagine it?
I can't like, that'd be so creepy to text God, personally,
I think that's weird. What if God was one of us?
Anyway, it just like one with god.
Oh no, we just agree from God. Hey Angel said listen, I'm gonna
wave. We All the Troubles of the
world, everything's going to be fine.
And basically implying I've God and the that I had a priest is
like you're not God that lately. He's so he's at the point.
He's not quite At like the Cardinals level or he's like,
well Adrian's Jesus, he's God. Obviously the priest is like
you're not got your some urine Angel at best like Neutrals like
foot rni though. Like look, I'm a supremely
powerful being I'm not from this world and I can save Humanity,
isn't that what God is in your book and I had Priestess like
okay that tracks? But why are we relying on fear
and violence? As are a tactic to achieve this,
great piece and save Humanity. And I get what he's saying, but
I'm not entirely sure why he's asking this, like I understand
that he devotes a drills like, do as Divine as he says, but
like the Christian God uses the exact same play book in the
Bible to prove his power deserves to be worshipped.
So, if anything this should make a journal more believable to a
True Believer like Christian who eats this shut up.
And I wonder if this is like a deeper comment by the writers
about how religious, how religious, like the know, Not
high priest actually is because he's like this doesn't make
sense even though this is what the Old Testament says.
And it's just it's weird and it doesn't track to me.
But Israel is not shooken by this, he's like, just trust me.
I've been watching humans for like a thousand years and you
people only seem to respond to two things fear and money.
Please see American politics for a real world example.
Uh-huh, he's like compassion. That shit comes later.
Don't worry, we're going to make a better world.
Like you just keeps like giving the propaganda to him.
Yep. And but the end of it, the the
not have priest doesn't seem to be buying and like any of this.
If anything by the end of this conversation with a drill, he
looks more. Can Afflicted, then he wasn't
the start at the scene and he should be because he's the one
that freed Adriel and made all of this even possible.
And now he's having regrets as he should like.
Maybe if you didn't go Rogue and you weren't such an asshole, we
wouldn't be here. If you hadn't killed Shannon.
Thank you. We still have Shannon and we
wouldn't be in this mess. Hmm, we'd also have confirmation
of the relationship between Shannon and chug on Mary.
Thank you very much. Yeah, we saw chaga, Mary.
I, I have one thing to add to this scene.
It's not really about the scene. It's about the fact that Adriel
and Vincent are on screen. And I literally had to stop
myself from vacuum my desk during this conversation, the
like, because I was like, no, no, we got to pay attention. but
I want a vacuum, this is like, That's how much.
I that's how much I despise these two, so good job, Cyril.
It's real valid. You make me want to clean up
trash trash? Yes. so, We are not Vincent
apologist if you haven't noticed.
No, we're not. No, we're not.
He doesn't deserve Redemption. We are team.
Mother Superior. Should have shot that bitch you
literally read my mind. Hydrate for whatever.
Jeez eyes in favor of that. Pansexual Jesus.
All right, so back to Jillian's. Mother Superior is giving a pep
talk about the gravity of this Mission.
It's like the final the big one. This is for all of bananas.
All right. So Be prepared for some bad PR,
because everybody thinks this guy's an angel and we're about
we're like agents of the church that are about to try to take
him down. So people are going to hate us
and you need to be prepared for that.
Like don't be surprised. Cuz we're pretty much the only
people that know the truth about this shithead.
And we're about to go against him.
So our actions will change. The fabric of belief is what she
says, so which is, I mean, Everything Has Changed like
we've been on this train to change the fabric of belief for
the two seasons now. Yeah, and this is good is
supposed to be the culmination of that.
When they're going to expose Adriel as a fraud.
Well, she hands it over to Ava who's giving them the itinerary
adorable, just saying she does. So first of all, Adrian's going
to start is international daytime talk show.
That's what I'm calling it because it's just makes them a
sense to me and it seems like very what he does.
Anyway, Yaz is going to get in with her press credentials and
the other sisters are going to enter through a side door.
B and the and the sisters are going to connect with disguise
Samaritans and side. And Camilla will break into a
server room and connect with Jillian.
With all the hackage Ava is going to plant a signal relay on
top of the cathedral that will allow Julian to hack into the
plague generators. So they can do it just in time
for the pope. A caterer, ready?
To expose a drill as a fraud. So he'll say Junaid reels of
Fraud and then they'll make the plagues happen however they want
to And then everybody was like, oh my God, so you can, this was
all technology all along anyway, this is the plan.
So Then Camilla's going to create a diversion and Ava is
going to put the crown on top of Adrian's head.
Is she going to float down like a little butterfly, like a
little woodpecker without the would put that crown on his
head. She's gonna Crown them, and then
they're going to put a drill in a box, bring them back to the
ark at Gillian's, and then send him.
All right, back on home with a do not Return to Sender, label.
And then they're going to destroy the arc, so that he
can't come back through there. And, and in the man is, however,
he got there in the first place, So what about the apartment?
Thank you. Thank you to me says they have
either a shit ton of arc's on the other side or some way to
make a portal. Right.
And I thought about that and I was like, oh, maybe it's the
Halo because you had the Halo the first time you did it, but
that doesn't make sense either. Because by the time the Halo was
here and already in the first Warrior, non ran to the exact
same thing. And she didn't have the Halo.
So like there is another way for them to get Here 100% confirmed.
I mean it feels good to be like yeah we're going to blow up the
ark so you can't get but that's just not just it's too easy.
It's all too easy. It's a it's a bizarre giving us
this plan and if it's Ava, we know it's not going to go.
Absolutely not no player left. So, that's my big question.
Okay. But how did he get here in the
first place? And Kenny not come back.
If they send him over there. I mean, yeah.
He's got the crown on his head and all but I mean that's not
going to last forever, right? Somebody will take it.
Somebody will find him. Yeah, exactly.
Hopefully Ray at induced destroy him.
But yeah, and then we're done for real.
But actually, she still wants the Halo.
It's not done until the Halo gets back there.
Honestly, so nicely. So that's the play in and, you
know, as plans go. It's cute.
Okay. It's nice, it's clean.
If everything goes, Goes exactly how they want it to, but this is
Warrior none. So that's not going to happen.
No. But I do love that scene.
I love that scene. There's a couple things I wanted
to point out that scene, very interesting that they're stuck
in this like Catch-22 damned if you do, damned, if you don't
kind of situation and I almost wonder if if it had worked out
and like on national TV, a group of nuns killed, the next coming
of Jesus and the pope lived spoilery.
That's not what happens. I wonder like how the pope would
have had to play that off the OCS killing an angel like PR.
Why Like how does that actually play out?
Does he condemned the OCS? So like key people believing it
does he stick with his narrative that he has now that he's a
demon. And this I like I wonder how he
actually like how does that actually play out only the most
damage control version of the pr?
If they expose him is our people.
I mean, here's the deal. We just lived through a pandemic
or half the people were like this is Not happening as it's
happening. And then the other half were
like, no, can you not see reality?
So like I feel like you're going to in a cult of people who are
have a drill has more numbers at this point.
So like, I don't think there's anything he could have done to
expose him as a fraud. I think you still would have a
group of people could be like, wow, they just killed Jesus.
You know what I mean? Like, I think there's a group of
people who are going to be like they nuns killed Jesus women.
But like, what are you gonna do Pope?
Like, I feel like he would had to like, condemn them to like,
keep people. In order that was also a problem
I had with the plan in general, was because when they're like,
oh, he's going to expose a dream.
Like you don't expose somebody to True Believers.
Like that's not how that works. It's not going to work.
No like your old. We were always going to have
those people who just then it's a new Cult of a drill.
Even if he's not there, like just like G normally.
They killed unjustly Cheese's like people that are Possessed
by demons right now. I know what happens to them.
They're still possessed by demons.
Yeah. So the ocss ago around and beat
the shit out of it. Jesus Christ.
Yeah. Be busy.
Yeah. Move and also wanted by the cops
like I'm telling you like the pr is not good for the OCS.
No, it's not. There's no way they're just
delicious. Women did this.
This is where I'm like, okay, Ava Beatrice run away together.
Never look back, I mean yeah. Yes, speaking of them that line
you brought up earlier the our actions today.
Will change the very fabric of belief itself that line is
followed by a vitreous case airing, which I think is
foreshadowing. What's about to go down with
these two because of the mission?
Because they are both in the aftermath of Ava almost dying.
The last time they went on what was supposed to be a low-stakes
mission and now they're on the big high-stakes Mission with
Adriel and the act of Performing.
This requires some degree of Faith Like faith in themselves
faith in each other and that faith in them together is
something that is changed Forever More by the end of this
episode. So I think that line is also so
referring to them. I agree.
Alrighty. So after the plan we head
outside and everyone is getting ready because like let's go do
the plant. All right, let's do it.
And their packet of the fan and not the erotic pastry one.
That would have been hilarious if they came in and we didn't
get the joy of seeing the Tactical pink Van, which had
been hilarious. R.I.P to that van.
We learned that Mother Superior in, is going to be the one that
stays behind with Jillian. They're going to be like on Arc
Duty. He'll everybody else is going to
Angels Big Show. And Yasmin in this scene calls
out. Camilla for her music.
Mutual drooling over the Samaria Samaritan man.
Named Todd. Thus proving that Camilla is
moving on from her Harem and that Yaz is the best wingwoman
of all times because by the end of the scene, candle almost gets
those digits from Todd. Can I just say I hate that his
name is Todd. Why is his name, Todd?
We're in fucking Spain, to give them a better name.
And be. I really thought you said this
is breast wingwoman passed away in women.
But I love that scene because he's like, hey Camilla, you want
to get a drink? She said, she'll like dude, I'm
a nun nun. Which like, girl that, I mean a
damn thing in this order, you a drink.
She was just calling out Beatrice, being romantically in
love with Ava. Let's see if you were just like
you've watched Mary and Shannon, I'm obviously being a nun in the
osseous. Don't mean a damn thing.
Well yeah, but it's okay if it's gay.
Like rebound from your Harem, it's fine.
Camilla. No one's judging you, but God
and one of the reasons I really want to season three, is I
really want to see, Camilla and Yasmin develop into BFFs because
there's so much potential there, you know, my God.
Yes, they're so cute. When Yasmin is just like, really
into this whole idea. She's I'm, she's like, I'm the
ship captain for everyone. Exactly.
And so as that happens Ava, cuts across the frame.
And we follow her riding across. Whatever this area is until
Michael stops her to try and get her to commit back to the Reyes
suicide played. He's like, yeah, that was great.
What do you said in there? But we need to do this plan
because Raya said so like and she's my mommy, I do what she
says. Well actually it was like, she
shut this shit down. She's like, dude, I've thought
about it and your plans. Straight up is the worst.
So we're going to my plan, which worked in the past, so yours has
not. Not and that involves either of
us dying. Let's do that instead.
A Michael starts like pontificating.
He's like, well it's Destiny. We can't run from it.
And at this point, they were like walking, they stop moving
with Beatrice, who is not. So subtly eavesdropping on this
entire gel conversation because jealousy, and protective
girlfriend mode. Uh-huh.
And even once I stop moving, she's like, She's like listen
dude. What I said in there is true
what mother's a was saying like we're going to change the world
today like that's just that is what it is.
Do we really want to start this New World with a double suicide?
Like that is the worst PR I've ever heard.
Like how is that a good way to do this?
And she thinks she's done with the conversation and tries to
like physically leave but Michael grabs her arm.
Uh-huh. Now, Michael must be blind or
deeply obtuse to have laid a hand on Ava.
Because in .00, 00, 01 seconds later Here Comes Beatrice
staring divinium tigers into him.
While removing that grubby paw off of Ava boy, she was there
the whole damn time. What did you think was going to
happen and like hydrate for lesbian Jesus, who sponsored
this girlfriend mode Beatrice moment?
He's about to kill his ass. You just you're right.
He came out of that without a broken hand.
She should have punished him. I'm surprised.
She didn't punch him. Uh-huh.
Anyway, I guess we need all the fighters we can get in our like
five man, crew, uh-huh, whatever.
We all congregate with all of our Limbs and no bruises to the
archway that exits, this Courtyard.
And even Beatrice have this moment like a few seconds where
they just like before everyone else catches up.
Up where Ava, just like looks really lost.
In thought, while Beatrice was looking at Ava and Beatrice says
all she gets out as Ava like as if to check in with her but Ava
like immediately brought us to it off and she's like I'm fine
and I think the reason we have this little lingering moment is
because this was like Avis having a crisis of faith.
My like she's very like in her head which is not like Ava and
she's almost a quavering like maybe doubting the plan a little
bit after like Michael comes in being like it's the only way
it's this plan. Andy really like it should be
planning because Maria said so. I think she's kind of like
doubting not the plan, but really herself and doubting
that, you know, the Halo is going to pull through long
enough so that she can actually do this because that's been like
getting harder and harder for her to control.
And I think she's a little afraid that she's not gonna be
able to like pull through for the team, basically, and I think
Beatrice saying her name is kind of like that tether back to
reality like the grounding force that Beatrice often is for Ava
and it gets her to focus. It gets her be like I'm fine
like let's do it. So I think it's a little small
moment but I think was Significant going into this
Mission but where the two of them are at and kind of like how
Ava feels about this Mission since it's going to change the
world, kind of a big deal, you know.
Well bit little bit and we go to change the world in style and
end the scene with them slow walking looking hot as fuck in
their outfits and that's where we end things as we should.
I was very satisfied with that Indigo that seen.
Let's all applaud for that and hydrate for that moment.
No, no. Listen, I'm listening.
They go roll up to the mega church.
Because that's what this is. Yes, I guess her.
I just want 100%. What doesn't?
Which is wild? Because it's like, hey Europe,
we have the shit America but now help us.
Like are they in Texas? So we've got protesters outside,
I guess? Like, it looks like a mega
church then we got Ava's walking up.
All sassy in Her Adriel follower cloak because they've all got
these cloaks that they, that the Adriel bitches are wearing that
are cheaper. Dramatic the Jedi robes that are
super dramatic and unnecessary, totally, I'm inside.
It doesn't make any sense. They look like they're out of a
Fant. They look like they came from
The Witcher or something. It looks like Jedi.
Yeah. They're like they don't belong
and Any way shape or form in any of this.
It's so weird. This is some high fantasy shit.
But anyway, when you slay, drill is all about his wardrobes and
the words of his employees, you're not wrong.
So evil walks up, super sassy and tells the good of the guard
that there's been a change if she's like gag order and then
takes them out, like, what the fuck am I, you know, 100% that
that was not planned at all? It was like, fuck, I'm gonna do
something. Yeah.
She came up with on the spot. Yeah, really.
And I just like, in my head, I see Beatrice rolling her eyes.
Yeah, she said I should have play after wrote that shit down
for her. Yeah.
And then oh my God. Anyway.
Not even I would make that joke. Just saying Camilla gets them in
with her fancy cell phone. Oh yeah.
Like decoder ring technology to the passcode.
And yes, yes. Then we get a shot of Yasmin
approaching the main doors and getting her badge scan before
entering the megachurch Press conference / daytime talk show
the event. Honestly it's almost like a WWE
match. This a also sporting event.
This is the crowd the lights. It's so dramatic and that's why
I said WWE. Slade really?
Yeah. Played real Slade.
Riyals boxing ring So then we have the undercover nun
splitting up. Be checks in with Ava.
And she says the really cute thing.
Well then Warrior none. See you on the other side.
Hey girl, look a little flirt Littlefoot.
I love it. I think that's really sweet that
moment where it's so sweet. She takes him over to check in
with a but like again because I think she really census Ava's
having doubts about this and like needs the reassurance.
Yep, because I agree, she's it just keeps happening.
Like, I think that's, I think the she reads Ava, just a
bizarre, is Ava's pretty much an open book in a lot of ways.
But I do think that Beatrice reads, her better than anyone,
obviously, as she would. So she can, I mean, they slept
in the same bed together for how long.
Yeah, it's two months and Beatrice is highly perceptive to
begin with and like in season 1, when Ava first showed up like
Beatrice was the like little Wallflower one that sat there
and just watched Ava and like figured her out immediately
because she's perceptive, and she's good at reading people.
So yeah, she's on her, but whatever, but I think like she
understands it like, Ava, is going to do everything, she can
to look like, she's fine and be the leader and get stuff done.
But, She's having some real doubts.
She is the last part of this scene.
This section is Camila getting in position in the server room.
Which as always, if you're like going to the server room, they
go into this closed in space. That's red.
I know. I know
You may have never been in one or even know what the heck that
is recorded on film like silver and stuff like that.
You have to develop them in a room that had no light other
because unlike rooms it, so they're called Dark rooms in the
only light that doesn't destroy the on chemicalized processed
film is red light. So, like dark rooms look like
that. So like why does it have to look
like that? It's just the server room.
You can have regular man, I'd say that was developed some
pictures reason. It needs to look like that other
than Angels like I want red lights in here and click one
day. My master would we need this?
And he's like because I said so like there's no reason for this
other than being dramatic as my point.
Yeah, they make my skin look nice.
Nice. Right.
It's your gym function. It's just really dramatic.
It's just I like it. Just do it.
It's the red light district
respect the red light district. Uh-huh.
Yeah so that's pretty much that. So we go well that's all
happening. We shoot over to the lab where
Mother Superior in and Jillian are like Camilla calls them to
be like I'm in and then we shoot over to the other end.
Of the call where they're receiving it and they're like,
great job Camilla. Now, we just need Ava to do her
thing and place the bug on the roof.
So, we can hack into the Mainframe or whatever, and play
around with the plague generator.
So then we cut to the roof of the creepy Church, where Ava is
trying to phase up to get into position to like put put the
bug, it will, actually she's just trying to get on the roof
and she gets stuck. Literally at her waist halfway,
when the Halo switches off and then And then we get a voiceover
and, you know, it's been so long.
I almost forgot that voice-overs for a part of the show, we're
being haunted. It's very hard for someone who
doesn't like the voiceover and you know, and I think it serves
it kind of serves a purpose. She could have said the stuff
out loud but whatever it doesn't matter.
The point is it like I think this is what this is what Ava
was afraid of happening. I think this is what Beatrice
was picking up on that. The Halo is going to turn off in
Ava was going to fail because of it.
And so, and I wonder if the purpose of this is not only to
like freak out Ava, but to also like reinforced doubt that like
this Mission can go awry. Just like the last one did and
and very very badly. Which is also terrible for
Ava's. Probably traumatized.
She's a internally bargaining with the Halo via these
voiceovers until it switches back on and lets her like, phase
fully onto the roof. And then, meanwhile Below in the
church, the OCS and the Samaritans are all kind of like
getting in position waiting for this rock in Adriel show to
start. And absolutely, yeah.
So here's the unfortunate. And unfortunate thing we're
going to do is go back to. We're going to do the pope of
the not-hot. Priest your other favorite.
Yeah. My other favorite.
This is my favorite singing group the Pope in the not-hot
priest. So Vincent approaches of the
Pope and he says that the Holy Father doesn't seem impressed
with the megachurch Church like have you seen where he lives?
You have you been there? Yeah, the thing is it is
impressive as your church? That's its own country.
Exactly. Like he has his the country
Vincent. Yeah, you're not hungry.
Boy. I don't care what Target, you
have hollowed out and majored megachurch it is not the Vatican
bitch. Yeah, exactly.
This strip mall is not the Vatican for those of you that
don't want an Or the South I guess I didn't know what an
Earth this aside her but I don't know what on Earth a megachurch
was until I moved to like the south of the United States
because we did not have these in the north.
We had normal churches and lots of Catholics and basically a
mega church is when they buy out like giant built like the size
of like department stores and make them into churches, which
is wild. So they're like, yeah, literally
humongous like big Other than this thing that they're in the
show. Yeah.
So they just, they'll just build this building their building or
acquire a building. But as so thousands and
thousands of people go to church in this church every Sunday and
that's why it's called a mega church.
So that's what we're referencing.
Yeah. And their televised.
So that also is why we're referencing.
Yeah, so the Pope says, I'm just not impressed with you most of
all. So another dig at the not-hot
priest is fully off his open this and yeah, reading the
priest to fill that it really is.
I'm down for that, like, I'm with de ready in this scene.
So, You know, it's a thing that everybody wants to do like when
you you're leaving a job you hated and you can just tell off
your boss with no consequence. That's the energy of this seen
weirder. Eddie's like I have no fucks
anymore and just like tells him everything, let's tell him, it's
hilarious. I left all my garden of folks
back in my other country, so, Basically they have this
conversation and he's bringing up Vincent's past as a drunk and
a criminal and he's like I gave you a chance.
You you're basically a jackass and your horrible and you're not
a real. I've basically think he's like
telling your not a real Christian you never were like
you're just this drunk that you know, that had a chance and now
you're you fucked it up and and I'll during by the way in The
background on this conversation. They'll groundwork is being laid
by none other than The pastor himself, the megachurch pastor
himself that introducing the pope.
So this is going on in the background of this conversation.
and, Almost called him. A Christian Vincent is like, I
mean there's there's somewhat similar right?
In terms of how much we hate them.
Yes, yes. So he says what choice does one
have one in one hears the voice of God like bruh not even you
think that Aid riyals my God anymore.
So why are you feel the need to say that?
No one's listening. This conversation, like yeah.
Why are you lying in this scene? Why do you, why do you feel the
need to do that to the pope? And it's weird and then the pope
is announced and this is the best burn of all time as far as
the pope is concerned. So the Pope says, do you know,
how do you know how I know a drill isn't God.
And not hot priest is like no and then he's like because he
chose to speak to you. He dropped his room.
Holy my holy might drop a knee, goes off the skate drills Pawn.
That was the only good scene but true bitch with involving the
men in my opinion. It's just them fighting with
each other. I love it so much because the
pope make maketh some good points here.
Mmm. And we just we just saw In the
other scene with and I had priest, he's like he's the one
questioning Angel to begin with. So it's weird that he's standing
his ground here when the Pope's. Like yeah shit man he's full of
shit I guess is like it is last vestiges of his belief or
something. What a dress?
Like it's a way for, because he's doing this terrible thing
right now, is the pope is probably going to be harmed.
And he's like justifying it but being like, yeah, God or
whatever. Yeah, it's God.
What are you doing? If God tells you stuff, you just
do what he says, your Christianity Christianity in a
cult. So the pope welcomes, the
faithful and starts his speech and it first, it sounds like
he's going to embrace Adriel and be like this was the second
coming, right? And I'm the pope, so believe it.
And that's how I starts. And that's what Adriel basically
wants, huh? While the pope is pontificating
Eva's on the roof. Trying to Harless the Halo long
enough to place. Jillian, super important hacker
box on top of one of the columns, ramparts, whatever
those things are. And she like hovers enough to
get the Box on top, but doesn't have time to, like, press the
button to activate. I don't know why it needs a
button to activate, but apparently it does and before
she can turn it on the Halo switches off and she like fall
Owls to the lower level and like Stills and like gets on her back
and she's oh it's acting almost like she's paralyzed again and
at that point she closes her eyes clenches her fist and her
breathing starts quickening like she's panicking.
And I imagine that being paralyzed is something that Ava
is still afraid of because that means being trapped being alone.
Helpless. And now that confounded with the
fact that if she is paralyzed in the Halo is turned off.
She can't pull through for her friends and like, will risk
failing for all of humanity. No, big deal, right?
So it's a terrifying moment for Ava, which her voiceover
confirms, And who comes along to kick her while she's down,
Lilith the factor. Nobody thought about because
nobody fucking thinks about Lilith in this show.
So, once again, this is all because the OCS never thinks
about sister Lilith. And here she is to fuck some
shit up. Uh-huh.
I mean. I don't blame you for wanting to
fuck shit up. It's just I wish she hadn't done
it, you know, with Adriel. Yeah, yeah, me too.
So back to the pope, but this time with a drill, He introduces
a drill is a living breathing Angel.
And we're all like bullshit. And Durrett he's, you know, he's
talking, he's talking, he's about to make his move and say,
but the big, but he's going to drop right in the middle of the
room Ava's, not in place yet. Or Ava hasn't activated the the
hacker box yet so we're running out of time and he can't really,
you know, he's not in the know about this so he can't.
Stall or anything. So he's just going to say a
thing, and then they're going to be kind of screwed because she,
it's not going to happen. Yep.
Is that the whole scene? That's all saying okay.
I blacked out during that scene and had no notes so I figure out
where it ended. Thank you need.
All right, so while that's all happening where is Ava Ava is
being manhandled on the roof by Lilith and it's not as fun as it
sounds. And basically Lilith kind of
like By the way, the pope was like.
Fuck you not hot prettiest like well it does the here.
I'm here. All my feelings about you, a
little, it does the same thing to Ava because well, it still
has The Grudge about Ava that she's been carrying since
season. One where like in her eyes Ava,
took the Halo from her and her denied, her chance to be the
warrior and on which she was bred for isn't in her mind. and
I find this whole thing, interesting to you, when they
look like grabs Ava to kind of start like verbally abusing her
as entually, she says, the line, I feel my power from you at all
and this is when Ava's like kind of still paralyzed from the Halo
and Halo is like, kind of like rebooting And I wonder, and I
found that very interesting and I wonder like if Lilith I like
the try a Stevens, they can sense the Halos power.
Uh-huh. And I wonder if like How she got
the ability to sense, the power of the Halo if that's something
that Ray has blood gives her? Or was that something that like
age real gifted her when she could quote see the truth?
I'm not really sure. I think maybe Ray is blood
because Rhea created the Terrace demons and that would make sense
that whatever she Infuse them with can like track that thing
down because that is the main thing.
She's trying to get besides the little bitch that betrayed her,
which is Adriel. Regardless Ava, super confused
by all this. She's like, what are you even
doing here? Lilith, I've thought about you
in months, what's going on? And we'll look at this point
drops, her dirty little secret that she's been hanging out with
Adriel because nobody gives a shit about her and get, she's
got her answers from him. And she's done being a poem from
the OCS. She has seen the truth.
She's seen the light. She's a strong independent
Dragon woman. Now, she felt she don't need no.
See us. Wow.
After afterwards, they get into a scuffle in which liveth kicks,
even down some stairs. And the skating, The High
Ground, which I learned from Star Wars is never a good thing.
And while Eva is left in that. Procure a situation, we rudely
cut away and the pope is Hope. And on about the arrival of the
Divine being, we've all been waiting for and the crowds like
getting already an amped up and that's the end of it.
Yeah. So back to Ava and Lilith and
Lilith is doing her own pontificating.
At this point telling Ava that she's asked herself, why Ava for
the longest time and I'm like, we know girl so every therapy
seriously, instead of going to Adriel in like making out with
him, you should have gone to a therapist.
She's like what's A divine intervention.
Do you have more inner strength than me?
But she says now she sees Leyva. Clearly, I don't think so,
bitch. So, back to the pope, whose
pumping Adriel up, still until he's not because he turns on a
dime and says, or so I thought. And then that was the cue for
Jillian. But you know, Ava still fighting
Lilith. So the device is inactivated and
we're back to Lilith who had butts who's like your way can
headbutts Ava, and I'm like, you're projecting.
This is yes. She is having therapy by beating
the shit out of Ava which is not cool in my book, by me.
At least do it with a foam bat. I don't know, then we're back to
the pope who calls a drill fraud and then Christian signals a
drones. Like should I cut the feed?
But Adrienne's like now we're going to see how this plays out.
Because he's like I know I know that they had to have had like a
little play in so we're going to see what happens did the you
know we go back and forth between the hot girls fighting
and the pope explaining about the plagues being manufactured.
Jillian is freaking out saying, like we're out of time.
What the hell? And then Lilith gets her
Instagram, demon claws going and slashes Ava's arm.
And says that she's free after wanting the halo for so long
grow. No, you're not.
You may not like actively want the Halo anymore but you're
still yearning for the belonging and the purpose.
So no 8. Adriel did not give you that.
He conned your ass. Yes.
Anyway, Ava blasts little of the way with the Halo power because
it's working again, and then she floats back up and turns on the
hacker device. The Endo in this scene, Lilith
got her Freedom. Her free half.
Could get ya, ated. Yeah,
it's cool. She got she got demon powers
now. She a dragon.
It's all right. Yeah, she a dragon see our
reaction video to know. We're talking about.
All right, so after a researches on the device, Jillian can get
to work with hacking, which seems super exciting.
And while that's happening, the pope tries to call the locusts
via Jillian's invention. But literally nothing happens
for an uncomfortable amount of time.
Like, if I was in these stands, Be like, do I have time to go to
the bathroom to get a drink? Anything gonna happen?
Like what's going on? Our hot dogs here.
Can I get some nachos? She would be leaving Beat the
Traffic. I don't know.
And the reason we're all uncomfortable and nothing's
happening and Adrian's goons are acting all chill is because they
knew this would happen all along and they were essentially using
this display of no power from the pope as a power.
Grab to visually show the world. On live television that the pope
and the Catholic Church by extension our, the frauds and
can't do the Miracles because they saw Israel do it when he
jumps on this and he's like, see how he lies to protect his
power. And basically he makes the case
that the church has been telling the masses to worship worship
them without any payoff. Like the payoff, he's been
giving them. He's like, they tell you all
these stories about like Miracles.
But when's the last time you saw a miracle, I just heard a bunch
of people last week. So And he's like and these
bitches have the audacity to ask you for money because again,
fear and money. That's what he's playing on.
He just he told that not High Praise earlier and he's like
he's like they want your money. They keep you scared but I don't
want anything from you. I'm not like them.
Like this is like his grammar tactics.
He's like I just came from Heaven to help you out of the
kindness of my little angel heart.
The pope tries to make counter-argument here.
But unfortunately for him, Christian flips, a switch to
activate the career energy and funnel it through the metal
cross directly above the probe, frying him into a toasty.
Chris Yikes. I yeah, ice.
Who ordered the toastie Pope because don't just don't just
send that back. So, that back to the kitchen,
please, I'd rather have the high heaven.
I'd rather have that tray of wine and cheese.
That the other dude was the pope was getting in the cell, though.
Nobody asked for this shit. Can't believe you just slept on
my pun. Wait, what I said, I bet that
stank to high heaven. No, totally would go with the,
the wine and cheese plate as well.
Not the toasty Pope's hope. And it's not my ideal dish at
all. So, we get a little shock and
awe. From Jillian, a mother's
appearing about the pope being fried.
In front of their eyes, but we're not the only ones, you
know. That are shocked by this, of
course. Everybody else is like dafuq,
dog. Don't you better look merde are
from God. God said, Pope bad, like to the
Pope smited, the pope elope Pope's, not on his rope anymore.
Pope's, he's dead, he isn't dead.
Bit crispy Critter the light go out because that's what happens
when chaos Reigns in any kind of scene.
Yes, Adrian's people. Are we shoot to Adrienne's
people arriving at Gillian's gate and Camilla calls for
Adriel, makes a phone call to Adriel in her head.
It does, it's not as insane as it sounds.
Just know it's totes, normal, it's fine.
So it's normal. So Adriel takes off his cloak to
reveal his Angelic athletic wear, which I think he's going
to do as a line probably in Target.
Slade, real splayed thrill not Target.
Um, and then he's like here, come the Assassins.
It's like you are the most dramatic bitch ever.
Geez. Come on is like, got her gun,
her little baby, her beautiful gun, she's pointing it at him
and she's like, listen, I know I can't assassinate you but I can
distract you with my big gun. Okay?
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that Camilla
created this vision and your vision brings her machine gun?
Yes, her baby. That is such a Camilla thing to
do so I love that she's cut the one Conjuring this vision and is
like I'm gonna bring my machine exactly this is it has a name
you know she's named it so happens we just don't know what
it is. Here's my gun.
I'm going to distract your ass. There's no egregious lack of
Camilla and her machine gun. That's the real ship.
Yeah. That's the real shit is it's the
real ship fuck Todd. Who is talking to you?
Machine gun. She would never name her machine
gun Todd. It's got a woman's name.
Um, so all the crews throw off their cloaks, they're like dumb
dramatic Adriel cloaks and start fighting Adriel sees Beatrice,
like you get he clocks her and then Vincent is like shocked by
all this. Apparently Because I don't think
he's in the Inner Circle anymore.
Yeah, I guess because he's not being Christian level devoted.
Christian, as in the dude, neither do no.
Yes. So Ava comes down from above
with the crown and nearly gets it on Adriel sad before Lilith.
Crown blocks her by flying in with her little dragon ass and
take Sigma and then Ava has one of my favorite lines in the
episode Stick. Come on, you come game with
love. It's like no one's been keeping
up with Louis. Yeah.
It's like Jesus Christ. All I've got, is a Halo that
keeps stopping. Stopping in the middle of doing
things, and you've got fucking wings and claws.
Michael Michael perch is Adriel and they have their little
reunions of whatever the Ya-Ya sisterhood.
And knives Adriel in the Carotid and gets him on the floor.
And that's when the dun dun dun. Next so meanwhile.
Yeah I got nothing else on that same.
Meanwhile there's a CCTV footage that shows Adriel spoons are
breaking into Jillian's plays as expected to get the arc so I
mothers should periods. Like I got this and before she
can like take a full step to like actually go take care of
this Jillian. Stop sir.
And she's like listen If things go left, you have to destroy the
arc. Here's a detonator.
Because nothing can go wrong with this plan.
And then the goons cut the power as they like part ways leaving
like Jillian, essentially on, like the office side of the
build, like the arc. And then the arc is in this.
Bulletproof glass where Mother Superior in is a Mother Superior
and has access to get in and out and so do the goons I guess.
I don't know what that side of the building is that Julie is
stuck on. Like can't you go around?
I don't know. It doesn't matter.
It's got a weird but Julian apparently has to As to stay in
this like office, that's watching The Arc helplessly from
the glass because drama and the most appears like cool.
So she leaves with the Detonator to go.
Take care of the goons. Yes, Joy.
So Michael has a drill down like we saw before after he's cut his
carotid and dudes like bleeding out but you know that's not
going to kill him. And so Michael calls to Ava
saying, they'll never get another chance and he's holding
his hand out and I'm like dude stop trying to touch her hand.
This is like get the fuck out. Like stop the time it's not the
time for you to shoot your shot. Jillian is watching this on the
whole like skirt. The screen of mega church - TV
and I think she's kind of like sussing out that something's
going on with Michael. And then Ava goes to grasp his
hand so that they can detonate the divinium but bees like hell
to the no and tackles Ava out of the way so that she can't
connect with Michael and everyone said, Hallelujah.
But then we see Vincent getting knocked down in the scuffle and
gets a hold of the crown of thorns and Ava sees him, because
that's what if it was trying to get to, before Michael
distracted, her with his stupidity Ava sees Vincent with
the crown and then goes after him, but be intercepts her and
says, hey, we need to get out of here and then Adriel recovers
and throws Michael off Yeah, so I want to go back to Beatrice
interfering with the suicide bomb plan because there's a
there's a shot of just Beatrice's face when she put
together. What about that?
What they're trying to do. And it's just this, like look of
pure horror on her face. That's absolutely heartbreaking.
And I think this is a moment that haunts Beatrice later
because you can see it clear as day on her face that like her
feelings in this moment are overriding all logic and she's
just she acts without thinking to save Ava from the suicide
bomb. Yep.
Because logically, if Ava and Michael kill Adriel, this all
ends they save Humanity which was kind of the goal.
But Beatrice stops that from happening.
The other part that's interesting, is that prior to
this moment, multiple times throughout this episode, we kept
pointing out. The moments are Beatrice was
reassuring, Ava that like you got this, like you got this Ava,
we got this, everything's going to be fine.
And with the knowledge from eavesdropping that Michael had
this whole other plan that he presented to Ava which is a
suicide bomb plan. But Ava was like resistant
towards this plan so I think that after she kind of
eavesdropped Beatrice was very much, keeping a close eye on Ava
the entire time partially because of the D from their last
mission where everything went sideways and it ended up with
her holding Ava's dead body. Anything the other piece is
like, you mentioned earlier is that the Beatrice just knows
Ava? So well, she knows that if Ava
gets desperate enough, she will go through with the suicide plan
to save. Everybody else.
She'll do sacrificed herself to save the world and logically
Beatrice the perfect OCS. Agent knows this sacrifice for
the greater good makes sense. But Beatrice the woman who's
hopelessly in love with Ava. Ava and can't lose Ava.
Like she just did the prior episode, like she knows what
that loss feels like now, and that wound is still fresh and I
think that that's what's producing.
The split-second Reflex to derail the whole OCS Mission and
the pursuit of saving Humanity by intervening to save Ava's
life. And later in the season later in
the season finale, Simon talked about a moment of selfishness
that Ava has with Beatrice. That's very integral to her
character development and I think this is Beatrice's moment
here. This is her moment of
selfishness with Ava because even after tackles Ava like Ava
gets up and starts heading back into the five abuse, just the
one that stops her and she pleased her she's like you got
to get out of here. Like it's like PTSD from the
from the last mission. She's a you gotta go like Cannot
die here, kind of thing. And every action on word for
Beatrice is a product of this selfish moment that puts Ava's
preservation above everything else.
Uh-huh. Cuz cuz Gail of feelings.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I bake sales. So right, this is a big
defining, what I think this is a big defining moment, Beatrice,
and it's what makes her behavior in the next episode.
So different, it's this moment right here or she Did not act
logically at all, and kind of makes up her her mind about
where her priorities really are. Yeah.
So Adriel is like creepy. Giggling about how he's winning
and whatnot. If this point because he's over
the whole being stabbed in the Carotid and we get shots of
Camilla and be fighting. And then we get one of the new
nuns who's going fucking Ham on all these bastards.
And it's pretty fucking amazing. Guess what?
Its sister Dora. And I'm very Much here for her
because whoa, child them are what in the whole grain biceps.
Sweet. Jesus.
I will take a sister Dora. Please.
Hydrate for sister Dora. Whoo.
Anyway, coming back from that. Here's our, here's our next dig
at Michael from Beatrice because she runs by and kind of collects
him and she's like come on, pretty boy.
That's all he is. She's just anytime she can get
an addiction she will. Uh-huh.
Yeah I love it. I'm here for it.
She just had to rescue her the love of her life from his
suicide bombing plan and she's gonna she's gonna be, he's going
to be and then Beatrice looks back at Ava, who's staring?
And guess what? Back at Gillian's.
William comes back and shoots Mother Superior before she can
detonate the bomb. We skipped over it.
But while all of that was happening that clusterfuck
Mother Superior and was like farting a fighting off the goons
imagine and basically the Detonator gets crushed during
this epic fight with her. That's amazingly choreographed.
And she ends up in the room with The Arc, which is where you just
said. And as is, Whole conversation
with Jillian who's like well you have to manually destroy it.
My gosh it like you have blow yourself up over there and so
yeah, most appearances left like contemplating what that means
because like again being the fuse, like Ava means I will die
if I blow this thing up and so when we cut back, he shoots her
before she could do it. And also she shot him first
through the eye socket house. What I do, what's it all?
The I go. I don't understand bleh.
Where is the bullet? I had sitting.
I don't I don't get it, I'll get it.
It's like one of those freak accidents where even though
someone's got a knife through their brain hole, they still can
function miraculously anyway. So he got shot through the eye.
But Mother Superior and then he shoots Mother Superior before
she can detonate and blow up the ark.
This sucks. Real hard does not how we want
to end this episode. But here we are, she's down for
the count and William & Company. What take the ark apart and is
start to card it off and then he walks up, Jillian, who's on the
other side of the fucking bulletproof glass?
Why was this necessary? I don't know Eddie sticks.
His goddamn fingers in his vacant eye hole his vacant.
Bloody I haul. If I had to see it, you have to
experience it with me and then draws across in Blood, on the
glass saying, welcome to the new order.
And when you need to why you're resting at this point, someone
needs to kill you for real. Yeah, I need therapy after
seeing him stick his fingers in his eye socket, it's a shame
because prior to this when he and his goons get to the
mansion, He has one of my favorite lines where he As get
the arc watch out for nuns is good.
Which out of context is kid is hilarious.
Hilarious and accurate. So Then we've got back to the
church Ava screaming at Adriel, who is like a come on and join
me a little girl and then guess who appears before she can go
over there and fuck around with Adriel it's Lilith again and
then you know she gets carried off, Christian cuts, the live
feed and then Adriel gloats and tells Rhea that she missed him
again. That's pretty much it.
Oh, mutters pruriens dad, by the way.
Did I my brain wanted to skip that Mother Superior instead.
Dying a bitch Dead. All right, I had a feeling of
the first time we watch this. If you saw our reaction videos,
you know, ghetto talking about. But the first time I watched
this episode, I was like, she's going down because you don't.
Anytime you have a character who doesn't get a bunch of screen
time, suddenly get a bunch of screen time.
I was like, she's going And we started with three, start out
the flashback. She had a lot of lines this
episode. I'm like something bad is
happening to her. It's just it's gonna happen.
So this wasn't the ending any of us wanted or asked for her own
us. How dare you Listen, I'm not
here for it but at least we get the next episode and things
happen there. So, they shares that.
But for now, you have anything else before we hydrate know,
that's all I have for this episode.
So how many Lemon Drop shots for by pan Jesus, would you give I'm
going to say seven, and here's my rationale for that.
Same was there a lot of gayness? Not that much.
I mean there was a lot of adjacent gayness.
I had to take points away for the kiss on the Pope's.
Shoot. I had to take points away for
Adrian's pontification and Shit and not hot priest in general,
but there were a lot of great lines and there was a lot of gay
staring and then there was Beatrice throwing everything
that she knows about Duty and her bones out the window to save
Ava. So that's worth at least seven
shots right there. Yep, I totally agree everything.
You just said no notes seven. I'm done.
Boom. And next time, good number
because next time we're going to talk about episode 7.
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