Hello and welcome to Big Gay Energy.
I'm Bree. I'm Theora.
And I'm Caitlin. Come along with us while we dive
into the fun and nuances of queer media.
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Can you believe we've made it to the finale?
Bree I honestly never thought it would happen because it felt
like it wouldn't. It's.
Been a while, dear friends, but we promised we would finish
Warrior None. We kept with our promises.
We're we're sorry for the delay. Life got in the way, but some
interesting stuff has happened in the interim that we wouldn't
have been able to talk about otherwise.
So like it kind. Of worked out the.
Universe was speaking to us, I think.
Talk around, whatever. Anyway, life's a bitch.
And then you record the last episode for season 2 of Warrior
9. Yeah, that's that's in the
gospel somewhere, I'm pretty sure.
But before we get into like Warrior 9 news and the amazing
finale since, this is probably going to be our last Warrior
Nine episode for like the foreseeable.
Future question, Mark? I just want to thank everybody
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Plenty of stuff to look forward to.
So Speaking of things to look forward to, big news that
happened in the interim of us recording was updates with the
Save Warrior Done campaign. So free.
What happened? OK, well, lots of things.
But so the very exciting thing that happened, there was a big
announcement that we're getting three feature films, which was a
shocking and to me, I was like, wait, we're getting things for
once in results of a campaign that happens that fans
absolutely poured so much energy and fight into.
Things are happening. What the hell?
So that was huge and exciting. We didn't get a lot of details,
obviously, and unfortunately this all happened right as the
writers and actors are about to go on strike because fucking
capitalism and. Yes, very Reagan point.
Yes, like this announcement happened in the middle of the
writers strike. It was already happening.
And then the actor strike started like right around this
time this was announced. Remember that?
Yes, the for God's sakes, pay these people and give them
decent working conditions. Fucking real.
Like why? I know the the WGAS sign has a
has a deal in hand but it's it's still good Lord they're
suffering from the same thing that all industries or all
workers in industries are suffering from with post modern
capitalism. So show them some love and we've
been trying to do that as well but so we got these three
feature films not a lot of info about what's going to happen
with them and then we were just waiting for another
announcement. I don't.
I don't know what to. It's a it's a thing, the aura.
Who So OK so here's here's the deal.
So yeah, all of that is true. But the person that made the
announcement, his name is Dean something.
I I it Dean something. I don't bother to know this
man's last name. So he's the person who owns the
rights to the Warrior none comics.
So like remember this is a property that started as a comic
book series from like the 90s and then was adapted into a
television series. By Netflix, Okay.
And so the people we're hearing about this new project from are
the people that own the rights to the comic books and another
person named Ben Dunn who I'm gonna talk about that.
Started the comic book, so like these are comic book creators
who are essentially in their announcement they basically said
Dean said he's gonna we're gonna continue the warrior, not
universe and continue the warrior, not story.
So it's not specific as to like what that means obviously, but I
would imagine since the creators that are involved are coming
from the comic books versus Danny English was it's Danny
English, right? Correct.
He was a producer on the show. Yeah, executive.
Producer, The rights to the show like Netflix owns the rights.
No he doesn't. I'm just saying that Dean
English was involved with the show as, as, and has been
whatever. Yeah, that's.
A producer that can mean anything.
Well, yeah. I don't know that Dean English
was involved with the comic books, was he?
It's my understanding he owns the rights to them.
Okay. Well, I just meant like making
the books. Yeah, yeah, no, no.
The creator of the comic books is someone named Ben Dunn, who
we're going to talk about. But the key is that, like, my
whole thing with this is like, first of all, congratulations to
all the Warrior Done fans and campaigns that, like, made
enough noise to, like, even get this to happen because this is
so rare. Like Bree said, like initial
excitement because something actually came out of a campaign.
That alone is a win. What we will get from this is
really uncertain at this point. Like to me this was a super
premature announcement. I think that was designed to
just keep fan engagement because this is all relying on fan
engagement because at this stage there is still a actor strike
going on. The writers just got like the OK
from their union to start working less than two weeks ago.
So at this point, there's no way in hell that this project.
Has anything like they they can't because you can't.
They couldn't have hired writers and you can't lock down any
actors and that's going to impact like what the story's
going to be. So like we keep getting quote UN
quote announcements that are really vague because I think
this is like 1/2 baked idea at this point.
It's not fully formed. So like, who knows, like maybe
they can get the rights from Netflix and like.
You know, continue that story. This could possibly just ditch
all of that and just be comic exclusive, which means, like, it
would follow the characters the comic books have rights to,
which means we would lose some Netflix original characters,
which would make the gays really sad.
But like, we don't know anything, and I don't think they
know anything to be quite honest with you.
So I'm pessimistic, pessimistically optimistic about
this because we don't know anything truly.
What we do know though is the Internet like detectives have
found Ben Dunn's Facebook that he uses religiously.
Red flag. So I found some disturbing stuff
about this. Man okay.
See, this is the stuff that Theora didn't not want me to
read. I did not.
I wanted breeze. Genuine reaction to some of this
shit. So I'm there's a lot.
I highly encourage you to go find this dude's Facebook Ben
Dunn du NN, because there's some problematic shit on there about
this man and he he's been posting on there about this new
trilogy. So like he's gonna be involved
with like he's in the creator's room with this, which is the
thing I'm most concerned about. So I'm just gonna cherry pick
the shit I found that pisses me off the most.
And. Really want to start with the
worst one in my opinion. So yeah, Marie, I want your
reaction. I'm going to read it, dear
listeners. And so if you haven't heard or
seen. Listen up.
So this is from Ben Dunn. September 22nd 2022 says So I'm
reading over some scripts and listening to some podcasts and
they were talking about a new Marvel character called
Sunspider. Now apparently this character is
disabled, but somehow is able to do all the things a spider can.
Oh, you know where this is going?
It occurred to me how ridiculous disabilities are in a superhero
universe that contains super science, mutants, gods, aliens,
monsters, demons, etcetera. In thinking about it, wouldn't
almost all diseases and disabilities be wiped out?
Am I off based on this? What is the logic that these
things could not be wiped out if people can go back in time and
hop to various dimensions so? What do you think, Bree?
I think that even though he mentions thinking in this post,
he was not and or if he was, it was only from the most ablest
perspective that he. Must.
Oh, the raging ableism. So, like, that one pissed me off
the most. Because that's just like Frank,
just like, and it's even like trying to frame it from.
I'm coming at this from an intellectual family.
Okay yes I'm glad you said it that way cuz there's all this
crap. This is slightly off topic, but
on topic. There's all this stuff going on
about like. You know Dax Shepherd, the guy
that's very Kristen Beck? Absolutely.
What? He He does this exact shit on
his podcast Contrarian Bullshit. No, but it's not even that.
It's like the framing of like, I'm saying something problematic
but trying to sound like I'm being rational about it.
Exactly. Yeah.
So that's what this gives me. It gives me posing an
intellectual question. No, you're not.
You're being a Dick head. Exactly.
So that's this guy and then, OK, I need to share with you in the
chat. Here's the other, more prominent
thing that this guy's been doing in the realm of misogyny.
Because remember, he created the comics.
So here's here's this for you, Bree.
OK, I'm going to click on this. After you look at it, I will
explain it to the people listening at home.
If you're on YouTube, I'll pop it up.
Sister Beatrice is like the Netflix version of Sister
Suzuki. And then there's a picture of
what Ben drew as Sister Suzuki. What is this?
Yeah, it's misogyny, I thought. I honestly, I could not tell
what was going on in the upper half here until I realized that
those are supposed to be her boobs.
Yep, those look like fucking balloons that he got from the
Dollar Tree. Oh yeah, no, all of he he all of
his women are like that. Also, what is up with the whole
belt, the yin and Yang belt thing going on?
I don't know. OK, so yeah, basically like,
it's a picture of a hyper sexualized nun with unrealistic
body parts and absolutely no clothing.
And no clothes on. And this is supposed to be.
OK, so in the comic books, there is no Sister Beatrice.
Remember that There is no Sister Beatrice.
So Netflix owns Beatrice. I'm just gonna throw that out
there. So this is like the character
that maybe Beatrice was like essentially like, I don't know,
most like, I guess. Yeah, like they they took this
character and were just like, we'll make this into a different
character. It's like based off of her or
whatever. And like Ben doesn't even know
he's like, I don't know, that would be cool.
So like, this man clearly wasn't involved with Netflix as what
I'm assuming from this post. So there's that, and there's a
bunch of stuff in here. I saw one post too, where he's
like, Oh my God, yeah, this one, this one pissed me off too.
OK, they keep going. So the misogyny is the thing
that I'm really worried about. And people who have like read
the comics and there's like pictures from the comics, this
type of like. Hope hypersexualization of the
females in in the in the comic is not uncommon.
It's pretty much the norm. OK, I'm going to summarize this
one for you Bree. I've just shared it.
This is the one that piss me off the most.
So then starts with like hey I'm Asian, I'm from Taiwan.
This is strictly a theory, but a reason that current day
superheroes are failing in China is they're not, quote, not
attractive. What do I mean by that?
Well, when it comes to movies, Asians tend to be very
superficial. They go to movies to escape and
want to see attractive, good looking quote people.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not slamming the hard work actors
and actresses who are doing their best.
But it seems the loss of box office started when makers of
these movies were no longer making them, quote, sexy.
So if there is a reboot of Warrior, none and this man is
involved. I'm scared because I think that
costume and wardrobe did create attractive outfits for these
people. It's just for practical people
who are fighting, not ones where they're like boobs are falling
out of their clothes, which is what this guy wants.
So I'm scared about if he's involved with like that aspect
of it. Watching his little video where
he's calling on people to enter that contest, not having known
anything about him, the only gut feeling I got was A he's so out
of touch that it's not even funny, and and B, he's just
absolutely he gives me the skis. The fact that this man is still
using Facebook as his primary, like, social media source should
tell you everything you need to know.
So I'm like, Boomer energy immediately.
Then I read more of his stuff about this whole, like, Asian
culture, and it's basically like a way to, like, rationalize the
hypersexualization of women in his comic books.
That's basically what these posts are all about.
But I'm like, this is such a boomer energy, it's not even
funny. He had a whole post about how
like, well, I'm really glad my dad escaped like.
Where he grew up and like we became such good capitalists and
blah, blah, I'm like Oh dear Oh dear.
I. Know it's just the more I read,
the more it gets worse. So, like, the fact that those
man is involved concerns me a lot.
And he's been posting stuff about like what's going on in
the writers room, like or not the writer room, whatever the
creators room is that there's talk about like potentially
making this an A I generated movie versus like.
Yeah. Having actual and just having
voice actors and maybe they'll be different voice actors.
And so like again, this is like 1/2 baked scheme at this point
is all we actually know. But like, the stuff that this
man is leaking about it is not great.
Sounding from like where we're at and like what fans I think
expected to happen, which like I think may have been a little bit
unrealistic to like think that the movies were going to pick up
exactly where Netflix left off when like Netflix owns that
property and Netflix is very notorious for not giving up the
rights to their original. So, like, I think that's really
an unrealistic expectation. Unless Netflix is.
Doing the movies. It's there.
It's there's gonna have to be changes.
Like there's there's no way like legally there there is gonna
have to be changes from like what we're used to in the show.
But what this man's been saying, I'm hoping it's untrue, but it
doesn't sound great. This entire thing just feels
like they're taking what was created and exploiting it for
their own gain is just what it feels like.
That is what it I mean it the saying that from the little
information we have now and what people have, Yeah, like I I am
not an expert at all in the history of comic books and the
portrayal of women in comic books I've missed.
That's a good way to put it, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Honestly makes me feel like we're like one more one more
entity is using the queer fandom.
Yes. No, that's what it feels like at
this point. It feels like we're being used.
I think that like we, you know, we as a group had high hopes,
you know, after all the fighting for this.
And that's not wrong. And it's like now the
expectations aren't being met. But like it seems like it's like
a worse deal than what we like what I was hoping for
personally. So like I thought that's how I
feel. Like again, we don't really know
anything, but like a little bit of information we have coming
out. Is concerning is all that.
I also think they don't understand that if they do mess
this up, the the fans that they're counting on to be there
are not are gonna. Dude, that's my thing.
I'm like, OK, you can't really fuck this up.
And then be like, there'll be 3 movies.
I'm like, will there? Because if the first one flops,
there's no, there's nothing else.
You're dead. You're getting nothing if you
fuck this up. If.
If you wanted to make money off of this in this like, dire
situation, that. But I think that I think The
thing is like, at least from this man's perspective, it's
like his whole thing is like, well, if we made them sexier.
Quote UN quote. We'd do better in the numbers.
So I think that this guy is like, well, Simon tried
marketing this to women and it didn't work.
So, like, let's market this to men, like hypersexualized women.
Because that's how it's. That's what works in Asia,
quote, UN quote. Which I don't even know if
that's true. That's just according to this
man. So yeah, it's it's.
So he started his. Sentence with I'm Asian and
from. Taiwan, So he's already like.
Here's some race of shit. Oh my God.
Yeah, so, like, yeah, this dude seems hella problematic.
Yeah. And it it does, at this point,
feel like the fans were used. I honestly think we're back to
fan fiction. I agree.
I'm kind of over over it at this point.
Would have been nice. Will we cover it?
Maybe. Maybe we'll hate watch it if
it's bad, and just rant about it and that'll be the end.
I'm sure if they're gonna like. If they're gonna go with this
kind of mentality, they're gonna really mess up any queer
storylines. They.
Have we're gonna have to like, yeah, for sure.
Which deconstruct that, Yeah, absolutely.
So all right, I'm. Rolling up my sleeves already.
Let's go, Breeze. Ready.
So either way, like we'll probably cover it.
Either it's good and we're happy about it, or we will hate rant
about it so that you guys don't have to watch it.
You want a preview of that kind of thing?
Go watch our thing on the happiest season.
I hate Watch Clear Media. It's fine.
If it's shit, it's shit, it's fine.
So that was the big announcement.
So like, again, like everybody in this fandom, you guys did a
great job. Like to even get something like
this is really, it's a win. It's a power.
It shows the power of this fandom like the ultimate
outcome. You know will be what it.
Is like, like we said, that's all we know.
I I really don't think the creators know what they're
doing. I think this is just a pretty
mature thing to get people. Keep people interested and keep
people tweeting about it. Keep the engagement to make this
marketable. But you know you guys did a
great job. We all did.
So we should be proud of the our collective power cuz it you know
we did do something. I did notice that Simon was real
quick to be like, not mine. Yeah, Yep.
So. But again, like, it's really
early. Like, who knows?
Maybe. Maybe who's involved will change
this. To get turned around.
But it's we just don't want, I wouldn't want it to have
expectations that are too high for what's going to happen
because you know we've had that so many times and it just
disappoint. I think that we should really
celebrate the fact that the fandom got this far and take
that as the win. Yeah, no, I agree.
Our collective power is something is a force to be
reckoned with. Give it, give it that.
So. But who knows?
This is an ever evolving situation.
So hope for the best, plan for plan for the hate watching or
the worst. It's just that there is no
movie, it just dies because it's so bad anyway.
But you know, what we do have is an incredible, incredible
television show that was super well done and we are here to
talk about the very last episode of.
We're in on Netflix's version, so shall we get into it free?
We shall, because I woke up to cold temperatures so I could put
on my gay ass flannel and come for this gay ass episode.
Yeah, we're like opposite gays. It's like cold or breeze at So
breeze, ready for like her Cabin in the woods adventure.
And then for some reason where I live is having a quote heat
wave. So it's like hot for me.
Well, Theora, yes, actually, I'm cosplaying and.
The couch and their apartment and OK.
Resa Resa averages Couch with her fladel, and then I wore the
shirt Kaitlyn got me, which is the Beatrice.
Dance party bar scene, yes. Yes, I promised I'd wear it for
the very last episode. Amazing where we are.
We are cosplaying our. Favorite characters you just go
look, go watch the bar scene again and you'll see the shirt
like theors got the is Rock and the Beatrice.
Yeah, and if you can watch our reaction and or discussion,
you'll just hear me talk about. Damn, I really like that.
Yeah, like the whole It was like the auras take away from the
episode. That was a good shirt, anyway,
So thank you, Caitlin, who like, reached out to Christina.
Yeah. Like, talk to Christina and
thanks for wardrobe and everything, Yeah.
Wardrobe. I think she reached out to
wardrobe too. So.
We are in our cosplay outfits and we are ready to get gone
with the finale. So how does it start?
In the finale, we pick back up with Ava in a bad the bad place,
the deep dark bad place with surrounded by snarling terrasse
demons. And she's like, OK, all right,
you guys seem angry, but like. I'm good.
I'm. I'm.
A good person and I heard a fight.
You let's chill out a bit. And as she's trying to, like,
bargain with these mindless demons, a voice in the far
distances like stop. Stop, stop.
What is OK? I'm sad we don't know enough
about RAN cause. Like what is this accent?
I know. Stop.
Stop.
It's so just like dramatic and. It's the best.
And so they stop. And then of course the the stop
Harkins a light at the end of the tunnel, the column of demons
and. Lo and behold, we get to see
Rea. So she appears to Ava in this
deep, dark bad place and she's talking to her demons, so she's
like, let her come on to me. And with that the demons like
vanish back into like the even batter place, like their OG
realm, leaving Ava and Rea alone.
And at this point, Ava gets a really good, good old glimpse of
Rea and all her white hot glory like it's a crime against.
Sappho that we don't get more about Brea because I like what
I'm singing, OK, I like it. You see this?
I had a whole point and then you erased it from my brain with
your white hot. Whatever it is, I mean, she's
all. White, She's calling like she's
she came to slay and like Ava repeats and Ava is me and she
repeats holy shit a bunch of times.
And then we cut to a title card. Yeah, Ava, you got a woman.
She I know, but she's like. Damn overwhelmed by the.
Well, I imagine she has some crazy off the charts energy as
well. Yeah, I can only imagine.
I wonder if she can sense stuff with the Halo.
One interesting part from this exchange too is that she Eva
calls the refers to the track Stevens as gatekeepers, which I
thought was interesting. I'm entirely sure what.
That's all. About like.
Are they guarding something in the other Realm or they they
guarding Rea? I'm not.
That was my take. I was like, the only thing I can
think, since we don't know anything about the Other Realm,
is that they're guarding Rea, they're Gatekeeper Sack for
access to her. Yeah, I think that makes sense,
in the same way that, like, the Wraith demons are like, quote UN
quote gatekeepers for like Adrial and like his.
Interests. So it would make sense that she
would send them after the Halo if you're like her personal
guard. So.
Yeah. OK.
That makes it because it, yeah, up till now like what we have
confirmed is that they're, they're there to fetch the Halo.
But yeah, Gatekeeper was an interesting term.
So yeah, I like. That it was.
It was very interesting. So yeah, that was anytime you
send Ava into the the dark. The deep, dark place.
She always has a nice nice couple of quips to say that make
everything a little bit lighter so.
Humor is her how cropping. Yes, it is.
It is a very it's it's mine as well.
So relatable. Eva.
Yes. All right.
Do you have anything else for that?
No. Let's move.
On. All right, listen.
So when we come, when we come back, we have Beatrice pushing
the not hot priest up against the wall.
With what seems. Like the full force of an army
with in her two fingers. I'll hydrate for for Beatrice in
that moment. I like.
Seriously, you hear? Like you have.
A little like they're noises where you can tell how hard
she's supposed to be on his freaking trachea.
And then yeah, and then after that, when he's talking to her
like he's so out of breath. So, like, she's crushing his
wind behind her. I'm shocked that she didn't,
like, break his, like, yeah, anyway, moving on.
OK, he manages to choke out that Ava chose this before Michael.
Party Pooper Bombboy tells her to let him speak.
And I'm like, let her choke up a little more police.
We've needed this, you know? This is my coping mechanism.
Beatrice choking the shit out of the not hot priest.
Same. Good Lord.
Anyway, there's an audible thwack when she retracts her
fingers of doom and he starts telling his story of woe after
some prompting from Michael that he turned on Euro Trash Jesus.
And I'm definitely not giving Michael credit for that name.
He can fuck off just saying nothing against you, bombboy.
So he turned against your trust, Jesus, when he killed Doretti
because he realized he done fucked up real bad by turning
his back on the order of the cruciform sword, the nuns,
etcetera. So he speaks about being
manipulated by a power and turning his back on the power
that was entrusted to him. And that to me gives gives you
insight into what he values power so his brain works in.
The terms of power and who has power rather than what power
actually is. You know what?
That's a really good point. I didn't think about that.
It kind of reminds me of like, because remember like his back
story too is like he was a drinker and things like that.
So I wonder if like, he's like a gambling kind of person, because
that sounds like to me. That's the vibe I've always
gotten from him, that he was one of that he was somebody that
kind of. Fell in with crowds that did
like petty crime type things and then got involved with which
could have very possibly been gambling stuff and things of
that nature. So that's just what I got from
the way he talks about that whole situation.
Yeah and yeah. So he tells them that Ava's
after a secret weapon to an Adrial.
In the whole empty crown dreamscape from hell.
And and that he took the crown from a you know from Adriel's
whatever for her and that she sought him out and they have to
let this run their course and I say you can shut the fuck up.
Check them again, Beatrice So. Beatrice is not on the trust
train with not hot priest, but but Dora, who just showed up 10
minutes ago, he's like, I believe him.
But who are you? No, this guy.
OK, first of all, how are you? Like, I trust him.
Because how did we get here, Dora?
Like the word done is like unconscious on a bed.
This strange man is like in the room that, you know is working
with Adrial. And you're just like, yeah, I
trust him like girl what's? Just him.
I think he's telling the truth. And I'm like did you get your
truth O meter from like truth R Us because ma'am.
That was the most crazy line in the scene.
Yeah, like, where did you come from?
And if I was Beatrice, I would be like, ma'am, shut the bug up.
Yeah, exactly. Like you need to leave.
You need to like in the Beatrice way, though.
She's much more. Quite frankly, you're wrong.
Quite frankly, I believe you're wrong and you must not leave.
Yeah, I'll join you later. I don't know why she's a British
lady now. I mean, like, it's super.
The high class originally you know, but.
I mean, you know, dare to dream. Yeah, I mean, you know Beatrice
drinks tea, so it works. She do.
So yeah, Dora believes him and everyone and I don't think that
we obviously Beatrice is not on the total.
I believe him too thing. So she wants to know how the
hell they're going to know when to take the crown off of.
Shave his head because she can't do it herself.
So how do you know when she's done?
Does like a does it like a Thanksgiving Turkey?
Does a little thing pop up to tell you?
Like the lid starts like blinking.
Yeah, she's like power, No. Hell, Dreamscape time over.
Is she coming out of the Matrix? I don't understand.
Like when she need a pill. Here we are.
Here we are in the land of what the fuck?
How are we going to get Ava out of there?
But. Whatever.
Actually, Ava solves that problem for them by just like
sitting up in the background. And the way she does it, her
legs are so straight and it's like a little doll.
And I'm like, that's creepy. No.
Who's so creepy here? It was like horror movie where
like they're like, what are we gonna do with this dead body?
And like the dead body is like, reanimating behind.
Yeah, exactly. I'm.
Just like, are she gonna like pop?
Because you know those those videos where the cat like, is
one place and then the camera goes like this and comes back.
I was like, is she gonna pop up right behind Beatrice?
Yeah, right. And just be like hello dear.
Hello, I'm back. And then, like Beatrice punches
her back. Like, yeah, she's.
Like, on my alert. That's the that's the funny
version of that scene. So yeah, that was like, I was
like, girl, you look weird back there, but this is creepy.
Eva wakes up and she's fine now and she understands what she has
to do. But she she here's the thing
when she says I understand now what I have to do.
I'm like. The look on your face tells me
that you don't because it's obviously not running away with
the none of your dreams. So that.
Was my right answer. That was the only right answer
to that question. And you know, she could have
skipped the Euro. Trust Jesus rave.
But apparently whatever Rhea said to her back in the Telus
dreamscape. I have a question about that.
So, like, OK, so presumably while all this drama is going on
with like, Beatrice, Dora and the not have priest even.
His like alone talking to Rea in the hell the dreams gave hell.
I I wonder what Rea showed her or told her.
It has to be the same thing she's been showing Michael, OK.
Yes, that's what I had in my notes.
Yeah. I I think, yeah, I go keep
going. Sorry.
I just assumed that. Whatever has convinced
reconvinced since Michael saw Rea's face and was like, oh
shit, yeah, she right. I better get back on track and
not have a life anymore. Like, whatever it is has to be
such either such strong evidence that this is the way that they
have to go, or it's the the biggest manipulation scam thing
of all time, which I wouldn't put past Rea because we don't
know anything about this bitch. I like that.
I'm leaning towards the latter. So I think that, yeah, I agree.
I think she played whatever ploy she did with Michael to convince
him to be a suicide bomb. But I think Rea customized
whatever it was for Ava. And like, what does Ava value
more than her own life, the life of the people she loves?
And later or at some point, Michael confirmed that Rea can,
like, see into the future because she saw the suicide bomb
plan happen. He's like, therefore it's going
to happen so. I I think maybe either Ray was
like talking to her because like if you tell Ava something that's
not going to convince her. So I wonder Raya showed Ava like
could maybe the aftermath of defeating Adrial with suicide
bomb like particularly like what would happen to Beatrice?
Like if if you go through this plan, like Beatrice would get
the chance to like. Live on her own terms, like what
Ava wants for Beatrice. Like, remember when she's like,
hey, let's run away together? Like, you can, like, live your
life and stuff. Like, I think Ava, deep down
really wants that for Beatrice. And it's like, if I'm the
warrior and then she's tethered to me, she won't do it.
So I think maybe this is what Reya shows her.
And I think that's why, like, we get the speech later with Ava
when she's saying, oh, it's like, live your life.
I wonder if she got a glimpse of that.
And I was like, wow, if I do this, like, she'll be better off
in the long run kind of thing. Yeah.
When in reality there are about 93,652 different possible
features and Ray is just showing her the one that she that helps
her case. Or like, let's say Ava just does
whatever the fuck she wants, cuz she's Ava and that's the outcome
regardless, you know? Like, yeah, so yeah, I agree.
I think this is a manipulation playing on Ava's emotions more
so than a rational kind of thing, cuz like that that would
be the most effective way to convince Ava.
To do something she's pretty against doing.
Yep, You know, anyhow. Yeah, absolutely.
Because she's been shorted her entire life.
When and when I said it, I mean literally shorted of life.
Like she's had life taken away from her and now she's she was
not a fan of making a decision where she didn't have control
over. Whether she continued having a
life or not, and now she's just like, OK, I accept that this is
how it has to be. Yeah, now that fits very much
with her like season one journey and then going into the season 2
journey where she's learning to be selfless.
So like this is a good like full circle arc for Ava to like have
her like again be so convinced that like putting others first
is the right thing for her to do.
At the cost of her own like life basically.
So absolutely. Yeah.
Is that all for that scene? Yep.
OK, cool. So let's shoot over to Eva, who
is now. So we're we're she's, she's
fine, I guess, for being in the hellscape.
And then she's now chilling on this, like, medieval balcony,
getting some fresh air, just looking at the world, trying to
soak it all in, you know? And the camera's like, lingering
on her for a while, and she has this, like, sad look on her
face, like she's trying to like, yeah, take in.
The world and the beauty of like life one last time before it's
like over. She's like savoring this moment
of just being alive because now she knows what she has to do.
Ava has been showed the truth, and she's going to pay the
ultimate price. And so she's contemplating that.
Like, Michael joins her and tells her what she did was
brave. And Ava's like, well, yeah, I
guess, But I'm in danger to myself and like others, which is
a line that comes directly from her conversation with Beatrice.
So like, again, Ava's just been ruminating on a bunch of stuff.
And now, like, because of how dangerous she perceives herself,
like all the people she loves, Camila and Yasmine are so like
Mia, like, you know, or dead. She thinks they're dead.
So is everybody else. And you know, because Ava feels
like it was her personal feeling for like, not getting the crown
on Adriel and how, like, sideways that whole mission
went. But to be fair, Eva girl, it's
partially Beatrice's fault because she saved you and thus
defeated the whole putting the crown on Adrial.
Think so? This was a very catch 22
situation that just ultimately didn't end with the ultimate
goal, which was like incapacitating Adrial.
So Ava's beating herself about that big time now that she knows
it like well, because I fucked up, I have to like sacrifice
myself for real to get this done because Rea said so.
And Ava tells basically Michael, like a vague version of that,
like Brad told me what's going on.
So she we're having this kind of character growth with Ava which
we talked about and basically these two have like this
friendly stare down with each other like they're making this
pact and and Ava says I love my friends this has to work and
Michael's like friends quote sure Ava I know you're talking
about Beatrice but yeah sure whatever it's going to work
raise thought. So like it's totally going to
happen. You don't have to convince me.
I'm a believer. And he was like great now we
have a plan but we have to keep this suicide thing between us
cuz otherwise my quote friends aka Beatrice will interfere with
this plan because it ends with us dying.
And Michael's like Yup Nope she scares me.
I agree. He shoots his tone and does
something a little bit more ominous and says that like I
have something to tell you about the arc, and then the scene
rudely cuts away before he can finish that.
That's what they're plotting. Listen, I don't have many notes
for this scene other than Nope, no.
But. I really do.
I really do enjoy the Ava character development.
And there's actually a lot of it in this episode that comes to
fruition. And it's just really good
writing, which is, you know, kind of remarkable in this day
and age that they, the good writing gets on a screen.
Oh my God, that good writing gets on the screen and then you
can get the payoff in like 8 episodes, you know, And that is
highly challenging. Yes, for Especially for a show
that's based around female leads with a queer storyline.
And it's like the Holy Grail that comes around every once in
3000 Blue moons. But I agreed.
Yeah, I agree with you. My big take away from the scene
was just like the Ava the depth of Ava's character growth and
the fact that these two like they're almost on getting on
equal footing in terms of like we're but we have, they have a
shared belief at this point kind of thing.
I think Michael also believes similarly to Ava, that like I'm
doing this for the greater good because you know, I think we get
into the conversation later with him and his mom.
But like basically he lived his entire life like childhood life
with his mom sacrificing everything for him.
So I think for him, this is a way for him to like pay that
debt back, to be like, well, I can pay her back by like
sacrificing my life so she can live.
Kind of so like David and and Michael to me seem to have
similar motives that I think that's really fine bonding them.
Yes, and that's also what that scene was about.
But I would really like both of them to unsubscribe from.
Ray's YouTube channel, please. Absolutely I don't.
Poor Michael. I think he tried to unsubscribe
and then the channel found him and he's like, fuck, I press
play by accident. Y'all can come subscribe to Big
Gay Energy and get off the ray of channel.
Yeah, no, we're not going to mind manipulate you into
whatever they're doing. We're just we're just gay old.
Exactly. If you watch it, we'd be like
chilling with you and stuff. So, but alas.
Here we are, so I guess we'll go on to Ava being kind of a badass
in the explanation mode. So we've got Ava explaining her
vision from the crown to all of the nuns that are left, Michael
and the not hot priest. And the vision was not Queen
Elizabeth ascending to the throne because the crown.
Yeah, I was like she died. She she don't ascend no more.
I love the crown. That's a great show.
Great show. Not queer, but great I do.
It was a good one anyway, but rather that Adriel is a fugitive
after a failed coup on the other side.
But that didn't work out, so he's now going to bring over
enough Wraith demons to enslave everybody.
And party like it's 1999, which we now know is when the comics
came out and was a problematic time.
Yes. Why do you pay for a Wraith
demons? That's what the that's what Y2K
was. The Wraith demons were so
mother, like we have like a little like everybody's going to
step in and give a little speech kind of situation because Mother
Superior steps in and is like we're going to embrace the
chaos, become Bff's with it. And what happened?
So just, we're just going to go with it.
And then Ava tells them that the Halo fails when she's near
Adrial's cross, and B points out that, OK, well, that means we
got to take the cross out. That's priority number one.
Yes. Agree.
So they're going to go rescue Yasmin and Camilla.
Destroy the cross. Fuck up, Adrial.
Shit. That last part was a quote.
Fuck up, Adrial. Shit.
Thank you. Yep.
So they're about to head out because they're going to do this
right the fuck now. And so everybody needs to go get
ready. And Beatrice has her girlfriend
instinct on, since she knows that Ava like the back of her
hand, and, well, she knows Ava like the back of her lethal
right hand. And since she spent all that
time studying her, you know, like gal pals do.
Absolutely, With Plaid, couches, Plaid, couch, Beatrice.
Paint me like your Plaid couch. Where were they again?
They. Were in Switzerland paint me
like your Swiss Alps. Anyway, Mother Superior is in
agreement with Beatrice on this and she's like, you know, she's
like Shannon before the end, which means.
Girl got a mission and she's going to do what it takes to get
the mission done, even if it means she's dead and that means
she has a girlfriend. I'm just saying that was Shannon
at the end. Shannon at the end had a
girlfriend, Mary, Mary shouting me out, so that all looks like
it gives Beatrice heartburn. Why would you say this to me?
You know we're in love. Stop.
Everyone knows we're in love. I know for real, it's it's
everywhere. The Ray Stevens know.
Yeah, for real, Adrial Secretary knows.
OK, yeah. No, she's like, how do I
manipulate Ava? Beatrice.
Yeah, Beatrice. So here's what's going to happen
to Beatrice. Yes, listen, your friend, your
quote, your gap. I'm sorry.
Your friend. Not your your friend.
I get it. I get it.
Oh my God. I want the scene of Ria and Eva
and be like you're you're you're friend.
Yeah, you're the right, you know, the Terrasse Stevens are
like. Yeah, exactly.
And then, like, but real talk, Eva.
So you spent three months to living together, sleeping in the
same bed, and nothing happened? No, I mean, girl, I could see
the future of the past. And yeah, OK, tell yourself.
Whatever. Helps your girl.
I've seen your dreams. You didn't stay up and watch
Beatrice sleep at all. You only you never did that five
times. A day.
So.
They both say at the same time that they should keep an eye on
Ava, and it's really cute and it's the only comedic relief
besides Ava in this whole scene, so I appreciate that.
Or in this episode, period. The levity is nice.
It is. I enjoyed this scene just
because we got to see once again the Ava as as the warrior nun in
charge, it's nice to see her come from season one to the
point where she's giving the speeches.
On what their mission is about to break down and be so yes.
OK, let's see. This isn't the scene where Ava
is in her room with the letter, is it?
No, you've got we've got some Michael and Jillian to go
through before we get there. I think my notes might.
Be out of order for their OK cool.
All right. So let's let's hop over to the
mother son conversation. So, you know, I, Michael at this
point, like we mentioned earlier, is, you know, he's
fully committed to the plan. I think at the moment he's like
I'm never coming back. So let me, let me savor life as
well. So his version of that is, you
know, soaking in the happy memories of his childhood,
basically. So he's in his former room, you
know, the bubble playing with the stuffed animals and just
like, you know, looking reflective.
And then Jillian comes in, and this is their last heart to
heart. Just real sad.
Very sweet. It's the only scene with them
that I didn't find creepy. Absolutely.
There were no weird vibes. Yeah, I didn't get a weird vibe.
I actually, this was like mother, son talk, like this one
didn't feel creepy to me. This felt genuine.
So in the scene, he admits, like, so he's in the room
surrounded by his former life, basically.
And Michael admits I don't really remember much of my life
before I got to the other side. Like, so I wonder, you know, is
that Ray of for racing his life to make him easier to
manipulate, Have his time work there.
Your minds, your memories, Who knows?
But he's like, I don't remember. So I guess he's trying to
remember. And you know, again to him
there's that, this, this reminder that to him like that
was a lifetime ago being in this room where like Jillian's like
that was literally two months my time like.
So their perceptions of each other are very, very different.
You know, Michael at this point isn't really tethered to his
past. And then Jillian is stuck in the
past because it's only been a few months for her.
So she hasn't processed everything.
But I think, and Michael's already at the point where he's
forgetting. So it's it's kind of sad where
they both are at. They're not on the same page
there. So Michael's like, but, you
know, I didn't forget everything.
I have vivid memory and very good memory when I was six years
old and I wanted to go to the park.
But because he had that health condition where, like,
everything would kill him because he was so
immunocompromised that his mom's like, oh, my poor son wants to
go to a park. I'm going to make him a park.
And so she builds him a place he could play because he couldn't
go outside in the real world, which is really, really sweet.
And, you know, it shows that like, you know, Jillian did her
best to, like, make the best of things with Michael and like,
did everything she could to make him happy.
And I think at this point she, she really wishes she could make
him happy now. But I think on some level, she
understands that their situation has changed so much and it's
beyond her control. And so all she can do is like,
tell him, like, you know, I love you and I love being your mom.
And like, we get it, Jillian. That's your entire storyline.
We get it. Even though this is sweet, I
understand that is literally your only plot.
But sure, even though this is cute but beside from mommy,
Mommy, what is going on? He tells her something
interesting where he talks about like the other side and he says
on the other side. The nature of life is different
from here. If I can stop Adriel, I may not
come back, but a part of me will always exist.
You made sure of that when you built the arc for me.
And I stepped. Through and then we get like the
flashback of like baby Michael running through the portal.
But I think that's interesting. So I wonder if like that line
has something to do with like, I guess the metaphysics of like
what dying on one plane is like if you are somebody who can
exist in both. Because I think in order to
exist in our world and then the other world through the portal,
I think you have to have organic material of both realms to
exist. Which is why like Lilith was
able to like go over because she had like to raft demon claws in
her body, etcetera. And then like Eva's going to be
able to go over because she has the Halo which is not of this
realm, you know? So I wonder if like if Michael
dies in our world, does that mean he lives on in the other
round? Like do we have mirror body
image? I don't know because I wonder if
this is just playing with like the life after death myth in the
Christian mythology. Kind of thing.
It was very interesting. It's interesting.
Very nice to have that explored. But oh, totally, totally.
But I wonder if that's like, that's what this is kind of
hinting at. Or like perhaps we weren't fully
done with Michael like we think we are.
Yeah, I just wonder. It makes sense since they're
taking. Taking all of like the Christian
religion and equating it to these beings came into our realm
and that's how we developed the Christianity because of
worshiping this otherworldly power.
So that would totally track. Yeah, exactly.
And like they've been playing with the lore and explaining the
reality of it like the Crown of Thorns and like you know so I
just, I wonder if that's what that I think that that's what
that's really alluding to because like it's Simon wrote
this and Simon's very deliberate with his language and like those
kind of like hints of what's to come kind of thing.
And I think that's what was happening here.
Which will foreshadow interesting to explore.
Okay. And then Michael finally gets
Jillian. Finally, after this kind of like
line that he gives, he finally gets what she's wanted the whole
fucking season. Which is Michael to say, I love
you. Like it took you 8 episodes to
tell your mother I love you. Like how dare you, how dare you.
But I'm glad she finally got that, cuz it's literally all she
wants. Yeah, like that's all she wanted
for Christmas. Michael, what's wrong with you?
He's all withholding, you know. Yeah, listen, just say it.
I know I have. You know, go ahead, just say it.
I was. I was gonna say, like he always
pissed me off where it took him so long to be.
Like, I guess I'll say hi to my mom.
And you know, she's. Just like the.
Whole thing like weird as my son.
Her. She's this all she can think
about. And you're over here, like, just
chilling, drinking seltzer water at a freaking Swiss bar.
Dude, what the fuck? I know.
Getting your Samaritan on. With the Samaritans love it.
I know, I know. He hasn't had a life, but I
know, but still. Have a life is because of your
mother. I know, I know.
You love her. Call her.
Call. Her for Christ?
Oh yeah, man. Anyway.
Actually, my mother just texted me.
So I have one nitpick. I live with my mother.
I have one nitpick with this scene and it's nothing
important. There's nothing important about
this. But it bothered me and I think
you'll understand why I can't wait.
So we get that flashback to them having a little.
Mother son, cuddle session in the bubble when he was little.
Oh dear, yes. And immunocompromised boy is in
his mother's arms and she's got gloves on, but she's smooching
all over his face. Yeah, OK, again, that is not how
that works. Infection control.
This is not no like. She needs to be wearing full
PPE, thank you, like a mask. Being like in his face, right?
And like is he only susceptible to organisms you can transmit
via touch cuz like you breathe shit out and there's like
viruses in your breath and stuff.
Thank you. Yeah, that was ridiculous, I
agreed. OK, I know you're gonna commit.
Commit to the immunocompromised thing.
Like I said, I know it's TV, but as someone who has to think
about infection control every day, OK, but like in a spot line
where it's like I built my son a bubble and a park like come.
In and scientist. I am a scientist.
Yeah. Come on, Julie.
Get your shit together. You're lucky you lived.
Yeah, you are lucky you lived and got through that portal.
You probably would have killed him with your breath germs
exactly. Gave him a plague.
Bubonic up on this bitch. I mean, that's not trans.
Whatever. You get my point.
So dear Beatrice. Dear Beatrice, That's my new
that's the new, the first song on my album, Dear Beatrice.
So we get Ava's writing a letter to be, as one does when they're
about to do something brave, stupid and self sacrificing.
But. The sad queer Emily Dickinson
time is interrupted by Mother Superior, who is there to check
on her because as we saw in the scene earlier, both she and
Beatrice are like we should probably like, check in with her
and see what's going on. So my superior is here to give.
A really nifty toothpick, AKA the cruciform sword.
Well, there it is. OK, it took how many episodes to
finally get a sword back? Where did she have it?
No, I think it was in the first time.
We're just like, where the hell is the sword?
Yeah, where did it go? Did they know the prop or
something? Yeah.
Anyway, nice that that made an appearance.
The finale. Finally.
Jesus. And that's kind of why I called
it a really nifty toothpick. Because I'm like.
I hardly recognized you. Cruciform sword.
Does she even need this thing? Like, come on.
Yeah. Well, apparently it's maybe the
only way she can kill Adrian, which we know is anyway with my
toothpick. Give me my toothpick.
You got to poke him in the eyeball.
So anyway, she gives her back the cruciform sword and because
mothers variant says this may be the only way you can kill him
once you get the crown on him. TM So she asked, is Ava's
trouble which is the real reason why she's here?
I think she's been saving the cruciform sword for a moment
where she needs to talk to Ava and have an excuse.
That's the most superior motive. I buy that so she doesn't need
this yet. I'm just going to keep it until
I need an excuse to talk to her. So Ava says that she's
overwhelmed, and I'm like with the urge to write sappy things
to your ladylove. Yeah, we'll come back to that.
But yes, I. Have all these feelings.
You see, I have feelings and I must get them out on the page.
Mother Superior. Why is able?
Suddenly. I need.
To get this letter written, what do you say?
With a Brooklyn accent? Mother Superior?
I had to write this letter. I gotta get this letter.
I gotta go. Well, I can do bossing.
I gotta go get in my car and get get.
This letter figure out where Ava's from a little bit.
So basically, Ava's like, I'm overwhelmed and and that's when
I was like with the urge to like make out with Beatrice.
And then it's like, I mean with gratitude.
Apparently, she's overwhelmed with gratitude.
Yes, that tracks. And then she goes waxing poetic
about the amazing wonder of being alive, and that is a sure
sign that she's thinking about dying.
So Mother Superior is immediately suspicion, as she
should be. And they have a discussion about
having a discussion about how Mother Superior being the former
warrior nun and going through what she did means that they can
have a discussion about her understanding Ava's
contemplation about life. There's a lot of preamble to
just be like, I get it, Ava, yes it was.
And that is exactly why I phrased it in that manner.
It was the classic we're having a discussion to have a
discussion without the words that we're going to say out loud
when we could have just said, hey, I get it, you're you're
going to kill yourself for the cause.
I kind of did that. Tried to do that one time and.
It's done, yeah. Been there, girl.
Clearly it didn't. Yeah.
So basically they have a little like, yeah, I get you.
It's like it's like the sorority or like frat Bros are back
together and they're reminiscing about the time that they tried
to save the world by killing themselves or something,
sacrificing themselves. So they're in the club now
together. So yeah, Ava wants to protect
everyone and and do so by, you know, basically giving her life.
So she's making the world safe for everyone to live on.
And Beatrice, she's giving Beatrice a life.
I mean, does she love her other friends?
Yes. But I think her main motivation
is Beatrice. Agreed.
So they embrace. And they embrace.
And I love this from Ava Like, I I I love her character growth up
till this point, truly, because I find the situation really
interesting for her, because she understands this concept of of
fully sacrificing herself in such a unique way because she
already died. And you know, she said to
Michael, like, she's like, hey, you know, when you die, there's
literally nothing. Like, that's it.
You're just dead. So, like, she understands the
finality of doing that. And now she's in this position
where she's willingly choose to do it so that others, quote, UN
quote others. Aka Beatrice can keep living,
like can have the thing that she was denied and like is now
choosing. It's just it's a magnificent
character growth for you though. Like, I just love it.
Truly well done. OK, so Speaking of feelings,
Bree, dear Beatrice, Dear Beatrice, what the fuck is she
writing? What was her Emily Dickinson
poem? Was she?
Can't you write poetry? What was she going to write on
that letter? Dia Beatrice.
So I think that she probably wrote, crossed some stuff out,
wrote some more, crossed some stuff out, or like when she did
get back to the letter, but basically it said hey, hey
bitch, I love you. Don't know if you realize that
yet, because you're apparently oblivious.
So I told you that because. I'm a dumbass.
I haven't told you because I'm dumb dumb and we could have been
making out in fucking the Alps. But no, I'm an idiot and you're
an idiot. So that didn't happen.
We're both really queer idiots and here we are.
I'm about to sacrifice myself for you and I will not get to
have a life with you. This sucks balls.
But in the end, I'm doing it for a worthy cause, and I hope that
you can Remember Me as you live your life out of the shadows and
the habit. OK, everybody.
Freeze free for that. Who just freestyled that out of
nowhere? Because it does sound like
something. Ava's not a poet, let's be
honest. That's something she would
totally write like. Just like those words.
Because it's just. It's just like mind vomit.
Like, I love it. That's exactly what she was
saying. OK, I would counter that.
Like, I agree with all that I love it.
That's kind of my new head cannon.
But I'm going to link a video that I sent to you.
Bree of one of our Discord friends created a like an A I
edit of like Ava's letter to Beatrice.
Like they wrote it and then like did like a I voice.
So if you want some angst and heartbreak, I'm going to link
like it. You could also Google Ava's
letter to Beatrice on YouTube. Like check that out, it will
break your heart. It's more I thought it was
beautiful, but slightly too eloquent for Ava.
Yeah, I agree. I'm like Ava is not that
eloquent. What you said reads more like
her voice. But like you still combined mine
and that one, I think you would have a good.
I do think she would say something about how they were
both dumb not to just. Yeah.
Oh yeah, for sure. I think the regret would be in
there for sure. Like, I'm sorry I'm such a
dumbass, but you're also oblivious.
So like your Beatrice reading that you're like, this is sweet.
Wait, what? Yeah, like, why are you reading
me? Exactly?
Like she could never be totally sure that Beatrice would receive
that with her affections or whatever.
Also, can Eva ever be 100% serious when she's like in an in
an emotional state? Because her default is comedy?
Like so? Don't know she would absolutely
quippy quippy through that parts of that letter.
Yeah. So I hope Beatrice gets that
letter. I may have to write the write my
version. That was amazing.
You edits from what I said. You're going to have to.
And I voiced her exactly. What Bree just said and he was
always Beatrice reacting. Like I really am.
But then she's like. That's why I love this dumbass.
I guess. Yeah, I guess I love her.
She's right. So who's?
This, I guess. I mean, I am a masochist.
Yeah, for real. Like opposites the track, for
sure. OK, so speaking to of an
Avatrice moment. So after all of that, with Mila
Superior, we head outside and everybody, the troops are
getting ready for battle. So we're getting in the van,
We're getting all our stuff together.
And Beatrice was already like, I'm ready to go.
She's like, in the van, like, why is it taking everybody so
long? And Ava approached because she
looks to be real. She's always, she's the person
who's like 1/2 hour to an hour early for everything.
So like, she was ready at dawn and everybody else was like,
waking up. Let's be wrong.
So Ava approaches. And Beatrice was like, super
focused on the weapons and it was like, wow, got that look in
your eyes. And Beatrice is like, what look
is that? Like she's already pissed off
and annoyed at this whole mission because she's like, this
is going to go awry. It was lying to me by the
superior and told me some shit, I'm on edge like this knife.
And it was like, well, you look like you're about to Aikido
someone into submission. Features like, better not test
me, bitch. So like, yeah, there's.
There's there's some tension. There's some tension.
It's a lot of tension. And I I you could tell from the
way that Ava approached that she was being very tentative and
trying to walk on egg shells with Beatrice, because Beatrice
is obviously in a mood. And yeah, from her three months
staring at Beatrice that entire time, she she knows that when
this mood arises, it's best to be careful, however.
And one like I get it because Beatrice is just like she's
fucking holding back and not telling me what's going on.
And that's obviously going to piss her off because haven't we
like, gone past? This, by the way, right?
It's like we're moving backwards.
Totally, totally. Totally.
And like so it was like, let me try and compliment you a little
bit. That goes.
Sideways. And it's like a blow to the gut
with Ava. She's like, she gets in the get
in the van like a little wounded puppy.
She's like, oh man, my girlfriend punched me.
Yeah, it was like, not in the good way where she could have
aikido me into submission. Yeah.
No, no, no anything. Was like a flirty thing.
But she's like, yeah, it was. Come here.
I'm into that, Yeah. I mean, you know, we could take
10 minutes. Yeah, like, you know, Nope.
I'm here for it. And and Beatrice is just like no
mission mission. If you're not going to tell me
everything, it's mission or nothing else and not mission
position. Yeah, so I think also Ava, cuz
like going into this, Ava is of the mindset like I'm not coming
back, same thing as Michael. And so I think she's trying
purposely to, like be playful in their last moments together, You
know, and. You can kind of see it on
Beatrice's face, the way she's looking at Ava during this
conversation. It's like this mixture of like,
concern and focus and betrayal, a little bit like you're saying,
because I think Beatrice knows she's astute powers of
observation and can, like, really tell something's.
Going on with Ava like. Mother Superior and confer, but
like Beatrice is not going to like directly confront her.
Especially like in the middle of like the troops all getting
ready. You know Ava's the leader.
I don't think Beatrice a break command quite like that.
Beatrice is an extremely astute observer about everything
outside of herself. Yeah, for real.
And I think part of this too, is that, like, the secrets, like in
the past, like she's able to get, like, get past Ava secrets.
And I think at this point it's like kind of eroding Beatrice of
selfconfidence a little bit. So that's why she's radiating
this, like don't fuck with me energy.
And I think maybe that's why she's like, alone in the van
with her thoughts while everyone else is getting ready, like she
wants some distance. She's alone with her gun.
Yeah, exactly. But I think it's, I think I
would think that her, that's, that's just in my head.
What I was about to say sounded really weird, but I don't know
another way to say it to it, The interest servicing her weapon.
Yeah, like it's like a comfort thing for her.
Yeah, it's like the the, I don't know, like the, I was gonna say
the monotony of just like doing something mindless a little bit.
While your thoughts are going 1,000,000 miles an hour, Yeah, I
agree, a cute little saddle ritual for her too.
That like it's a common thing. But yeah, so after that we hard
cut to Mother superior and the not hot priest having a
conversation. She's like, listen bitch, you
better not be coming to me to absolve you of your sins because
God is not giving me the strength to deal with your
bullshit today. Yeah, and he's like, no, no, I
get it. I get it.
I need to accept my penance. With open arms, my mother's
like, yeah, OK, so show me their actions.
Maybe that you repent by bringing every single one of
these women home because they're worth like 10 of you.
Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Cuz this means, like, all talk,
no actions. She's like, yeah, show me.
Maybe show me that you're not a little piece of shit and I, you
know, don't make me regret not shooting you in the head.
I don't regret the not hot priest either and he does not
get my patience. No, no, I am not a.
Not have priest apologist I I want him gone.
I don't like it, Father Vincent take a train elsewhere,
although. Anyways, unfortunately he then
leaves this conversation and gets into the van next to
Beatrice, or tries to and and Beatrice is like, oh hell no,
you're not coming with us. There's no way because, you
know, I was trying to choke you out because so I'm still.
I still have not forgiven you at all.
I think. I think it's part of them.
And like, I think Beatrice, the the tactician at this point is
like, we're about to go on this really important mission.
I don't need another fucking wild card because we saw how
that went last time. And like, no, this mission needs
to go well, exactly. And Eva tries to plead with her,
but Beatrice is like not budging because his actions thus far are
not are like basically not getting him into her good
graces. And Eva reasons with her by
playing the duty card. She's like, listen, neither of
us trust him, but he has security clearance to get into
Adrial's church that no one else has.
So we kind of need that. And like, you know, you're a
nun, isn't like, forgiveness your job.
That was cold, Eva. That was cold.
Don't pull out the nun card, right?
Why are? You.
Pulling out the nun card like girl, you ain't a nun either, so
we're not having none of it. Yeah, but unfortunately, like at
the reminder. Of like what her actual job as
an OCS Tactical nun is, Beatrice is Acquiesce's, and it's like,
fine, get in the van, but I'm not talking to you.
Which is good. And like, you know as well as I
do that that was going to be one awkward ass car ride.
Absolutely. Like you're just like one of
those car rides. It's just awkward silence.
I can just see AM S sitting in between them going.
That cloud looks like a butt. I was like, no, she's trying to
find things to like and and Beatrice is looking out the
window like such a child. Ava.
Yeah, like that was just she's just trying to get people to
laugh and nobody's laughing. He's just like crickets for some
reason. In my head, it's like them being
in an elevator together with bad elements.
No, totally. Like, however long that car ride
actually was. Yeah.
No, absolutely. And the kind of wrap up that
scene we get Michael and Jillian exchanging a doomed I'll see you
again, like you guys. No, that's not gonna happen.
That's not having it. And Mother Superior closes this
out by giving the troops A rousing pep talk that starts
with the talking heads quote in French and ends with a Don't
fuck it up. I gotta love her.
Gotta. Love her.
Gotta love the strategic uses of swear words.
Mmhmm. Because like for the ratings you
only can use so many so like they they use those.
Well, they do. I appreciate their use.
Absolutely. Alright.
Alright, but I think we need. To hydrate for by Jesus 'cause
of the Halsey song that plays in this scene.
Something to say on that This is the perfect song choice who are
going into battle. Yeah, because of the lyrics,
whoever chose this 9000 points. Oh my God, yes.
And I don't know how much it cost to get this Halsey song,
but money well spent, Yes, very much so.
I'm not a woman. Oh my God.
Yeah. Also, this whole album is really
good if you've never listened to it.
Please do if you want some queer music in your life.
Yes, do yourself a favor. So like I said, first A+ plus
plus, plus, plus, plus, plus Song Choice and we get all of
these aerials of the city as they drive to a 00 trash
nightclub. And Speaking of, we do get a
shot of Adrial's followers milling around looking like the
aftermath of a PTA meeting. Oh my God, yes.
And there's just all these like kind of like young 30s to 50s
people in like kind of normal people close with like.
Packets and shit. Yes, if this was America, they'd
be there to ban books in the school their kids don't go to.
Exactly. This is that is that is school
board meeting that tracks. They're mingling afterwards.
There's cookies in the corner. So Can you imagine what kind of
cookies Adria would serve? I don't want to know.
Fig Newtons. It's a healthy cookie.
His favorite? Sure it is.
He has them imported especially. Imported from the Other realm.
He felt like delicacy is that he's like, raised him and go get
me that. And they like, bring him snacks.
No, no, These are not American Fig Newtons.
No, no. They're otherworldly fig
Newtons. Yes, I stole them from Ray's
Kitchens. Jesus Christmas.
Yeah, well, thank you. So yes, we get the the image of
all the followers milling around while Camila and Yasmin are up
above them, watching the multitude of people that have
been crammed full of Demon. So the Nun truck rolls into
Adriel's underground parking garage to find a handful of
uniformed Hench men guarding the area.
And when they challenged when they, you know, are like, what
are we going to do about these dudes?
The not hot priest is like, I got this and so he gets out and
I don't know where he came up with this fucking plan.
I know it makes me laugh, but it's the most dudely thing that
he's ever done. Hey guys, listen, you got to let
us through because I've got all of these virgins for Adrial's
pleasure. OK, but the the the guard that
looks at Michael, the guard that looks at Michael, and then
Michael looks back at him. Like, just kind of shrugs, like,
and here's the thing, I have something to say about this,
because Michael can be inversion too.
And Euro trash Jesus strikes me as somebody who's pansexual.
Oh. For sure.
And I think this was a remark of
like, Angel's not A to dude. My take is that the guard that
looked at Michael was like, well, how come he picked that
dude and not me? That was my.
OK. That is fair.
I thought you were fair. It's like I want to be a.
Virgin. What the fuck?
I'm like, bitch, you sleeping with a dude beside you?
Yeah, obviously, because y'all in the Nazi gear.
Yeah, mmhmm yeah. Anyway.
You're so 100% hands actual, let's be honest.
Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So the head goon chooses to
believe him just in case he would get in trouble with Adrial
if he didn't let the virgins in and motions to the other goons
to go ahead and get the ladies and gent but not hot priest is
like no, no no, no, no, no. You cannot molest the virgins.
They need to be virgins by the time they get where they're
going. No touchy touchy the virgin
these or Adrill's harem. And you may not touch them.
So hands off they. And I'm like sure Jan cuz it'll
break his holy covenant. Yeah.
I don't want to know anything about Adrill's holy covenant.
No. I didn't need this conversation
quite, no. I could have skipped it, thank
you. And why did he come up with
that? Where in his.
I assume like medieval times, like Andrew is the king and he's
like I'm bringing the virgin sacrifices.
This will make sense to these Hench men.
Yeah, I like, I know like the the Hench men are from like OK,
I I the people that are the Hench men are from like our
time. But like, maybe the Wraith
Demons? That are taking over their
brains. Understand this logic Maybe you
know what that tracks. Yeah, he's like, you gotta go
old school with this diversion. Virgin sacrifices.
That makes sense. Exactly.
So got some virgins coming in. It's fun time.
And they do a quick praise Adriel, which I quick to hail
Hitler and it's just the way they do it.
It's so it's just so it's such a parallel.
Yeah, it is. And as they're walking off, I
guess to go find Adriel and be his virgins, the Chilean jams,
the frequencies of communication, except for
theirs. And Beatrice and Ava agree that
that was too easy. And I'm like, yeah, you think
so? There's some people that look
like goons. Coming towards them turns out to
be Camila and Yaz, and they have a quick reunite.
And Camila is not too happy to see the not hot priest.
And Ava explains that he's born again.
Again. And I appreciate that line.
Me too. I like that I had to leave it in
there. So she gives them a rundown of
the plan. But when Yaz is like, so but
what's the exit strategy? How are we going to get out of
here? Everybody's just quiet and
she's. Like 00 K but like, I don't
understand this from Ava's point of view, like if her big plan is
to sacrifice herself so everybody gets to live.
How? Does that work?
If there's no plan to leave this place at One Piece, is this just
like a hope for the best? Situation in my opinion, I think
she's like, all right, Michael and I are going to go destroy
Adrial and then everybody else will be free of their demons and
then they can just get out of here.
That's fair. But I have to keep it realistic.
I got to keep it underneath my hat because then everyone,
Beatrice, will know what I'm doing and that's.
Me. Thank you.
So she gets the suicide memo,
Suicide Squad memo and is rather uncomfy.
Ava gives her the option to wait outside and but she's in for a
penny and a pound of flesh because Camilla says she's one
of them now. And I get the feeling that Yaz
has never belonged, belonged and now that she is being included
and said, being told that she is one of the the order of the
Cruciform Sword, that's like these are the people she
idolized her entire life. Yes, Like her whole family's
deal was to, like assist to them.
And like her family had to exist.
Almost like it's its own separate entity from everything
else. So like, she's part of the team,
but not she's on the periphery. So like, yeah, I think this was
a huge moment for Yaz. For Yaz, I think this is the
thing that is worth risking her life for.
Is being a part of this group and doing this for the cause
that they're that they're doing it for?
And to fight with the Warriors, there's nothing else.
So there's nothing else tops that in Yaz's book.
And she is amazed and is like, that's that's it.
That's how this works, because Ava does the cutest thing ever
and pretty much Knights her into the crew.
She's like, you're a sister. Word out.
Here's a cross on your head, sister warrior.
Here's a cross on your body and I'm spreadsheet.
And have her kneel and do the cruciform sword.
On Oh my God Knights her Oh my God, Beatrice would have just
been like for. Fuck's sake, for a back sake,
can we get this over with? I need to figure out what you're
holding back, Ava. Yeah, so it's adorable and I
love it. But Beatrice says that is not in
any way how that works. This bitch is making this shut
up. Yeah, and I OK, I have to say
that even though I think what Ava does is adorable, I would
totally be the Beatrice and be like, not bitch.
That's not how that works. But sure, I'll accept in a more
Beatrice way. Ava's like, yeah, but we don't
have time for the whole like, getting back grab.
Let's move on. Let's go praise, praise God and
kick some ass. It should have been the orders
motto from the start. Right.
That's like their storm and fury, yeah.
It should be on their like coat of arms or whatever they.
Can. Even do it in Latin.
If they exactly perfect, it would be wonderful.
However, here we are, so guards that actually think they're
suspicion come in and holler and draw some weapons.
And I'm like, y'all just not figuring out there's that the
virgins are not so like. Virginy, virginal, and are here
to fuck your shit up. Why do they have weapons?
Yeah, like this. Is on the level of.
On the level of dumbass, read that.
Don't. Be suspicious.
Just don't be suspicious. They were super suspicious just
standing there knighting, yes. Knighting Yasmin?
Not weird at all. Super virgin behavior.
What is that girl doing to her? So what virgins do?
It's not. Virgin.
She's super virgin. What's happening?
I don't understand. Uh she's getting re virgin.
She's virgin virgin. Again, yes, born again.
Virgin. So there's a lot of gunfire
while Yaz tries to convince herself this sister warriors
don't run, but you know, people with this sense of self
preservation do. So I get, you know, and we see a
shot. Then we see like a random shot
of Christian looking like he's had a thought for the first time
in his. Oh my God.
That's so good, Yeah. It's like, what's a virgin
that's away from him? And then it's like he's hearing
the fight go down or something and then put back to the fight.
And Beatrice is like, we need to end this right now.
And it was like, I got this, I got this.
And then there's lots of badass fighting, including the part
where Beatrice takes out a guy by telling Ava to phase and then
throws a knife through where she was a second before they hit him
right in the forehead. That was so good.
It was great idea. Fight coordinators and then CGI
and everybody that was love it, love it.
I love that shot. So at the end of the fight,
Beatrice asks because Michael has skidded off.
Oh yeah, he's gone. He is skidded off and because
Ava gave him a nod to go do his little do duty, his spy Michael
Bombboy things. So he's gone.
And Beatrice notices this and is like Ava, darling, Ava, darling,
where's Michael gone? Because we know it wasn't to
fetch the tea. She's like, who's Michael?
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know her.
I don't who? Michael?
I don't know her. So yeah, she's yeah, she's like,
hey, where to talk to Michael. And Ava gives her a flimsy,
like, well, he split off to go find the ark.
And of course, Beatrice is not buying what she's selling.
You could cut to the avatrice tension with that knife that
Beatrice embedded in that guy's skull.
Yes, you can. I was the one.
She was like sharpening in the van.
Yeah, it was. So everybody splits up after
that. Let me get our mission on.
Yeah, let me get right on into the mission.
OK, I have to point out two things during that scene that I
love. The other the other thing I love
when, like the gang gets reunited is the way.
It's Camilla and the not hot priest and the way she's so cold
to him, she's like, yes, I love it.
Vincent. Vincent like he's a naughty
schoolboy, Like. He's dirt and I love that.
So you go Camilla. He's on the same page as
Beatrice when it comes to him. And I love it.
The other thing I love is during the fight, there's a there's a
part where Beatrice and Yaz are like behind a column and they're
watching Ava fight. And Yasmin's like fangirling
over Ava. She's like, wow, she's
incredible. And Beatrice is like, yeah, she
is and it cuts to Ava being badass, but but like in the
foreground is Dora being super fucking impressive.
So with her arms out and I'm just just hydrate for Dora
because damn, girl. I think you're too naive when it
comes to trusting the not hot priest, but your fighting skills
are impressive. Yes, ma'am.
I would like you to fight more. Yes, fight more, more exciting
scenes with Dora. She's very fun to watch.
But. Yeah, I love those two moments.
Okay, so now we've entered Adrial's Hell Castle and the not
hot priest Camilla and Sister Dora take the lead here.
They enter the church and are immediately greeted with dozens
of brainwashed Adrial cultists on their knees deep in prayer,
channeling all that focused brain power to the creepy metal
cross above them. So that's where we're at.
And they're like, great. Meanwhile, Ava, Beatrice and Yaz
for some reason are winding. I don't know why Yasmin is with
them, but sure. And they're winding through the
building looking for the Ark and Michael already pieced out he's
doing suicide bomb things. And Eva is like girls.
I got this. I'm the warrior nun and she
leads them to a dead end And Yasmin's like, but the Ark's not
here. Isn't this where Gillian said it
was? B, she's the Super scientist.
I'm confused. But Beatrice, Queen of
observation, is like. Yeah, I know Ava did this on
purpose. She was lying.
And let us know where because Ava has an ulterior motive here.
And then we get as Beatrice is calling her out, we get this
really cool shot of Ava staring at like the crack in the wall
and that like cross light. Or the the lit up.
Cross reflects in her eyes. Which such a cool shot and so
clever and I just love it. And after that, we transition
into the Avatrice Love confession.
We've been patiently waiting for two seasons 4.
So basically it reveals she's like, yeah, she's like, I'm on
the suicide bomb plan. You caught me.
And she's like, listen, the only people who are supposed to be in
danger here are me and me and Michael.
So I went through all this trouble because of you.
I want you to live your life. And.
Not everything is about me and I I understand what that means.
Now you told me that way back when, but now I understand in my
heart of hearts what that means. And then the song him to her
starts heartbreakingly playing in the background, which is such
a stupidly. Perfect song.
And I'm not crying. You're crying.
I know. I can't listen to that song
anymore because of this scene. Because this whole scene is so
perfect. Because Ava.
It's Ava and Beatrice's character arcs finally
converging. Like up to this point, Ava has
been on this journey to learn how to be selfless in a selfish
world, while Beatrice is learning how to live her life
and not exist behind her skills or like hide herself or not
really live her life. So I think at this point, when
they're having this conversation, Ava is much
further along than Beatrice in the character arc.
But I think this moment of meeting in the middle is what
pushes Beatrice. Over the apex into her full arc,
if that makes sense, because I think this is what gets her to
like the end of the episode or the end scene after the episode.
I guess so. In the scene, Ava is like fully
embodying the duty and aspect of the OCS the way Beatrice always
does, stating that this is the warrior nun's job.
Like sacrificing myself so that others can live.
That was, that's my job, and your job is to protect me while
I do it right. And like, logically, yes, she's
correct. Like, sacrifice is the burden of
Halo bearing, and Beatrice understands that.
She's very logical. Except.
When it comes to Ava. So Beatrice's response to that
fact that Ava is stating is no Ava, don't.
And that's because, to Beatrice, Ava isn't just the warrior nun.
Like, I don't think Beatrice ever saw Ava as just the warrior
nun, perhaps the way she saw Shannon.
I think that Ava was always something more to Beatrice.
And that's what's kind of like making all of this really hard
for her when in the past it wasn't.
And after Beatrice was like, no, don't.
Ava kind of sits with that for a second.
And like processes. Like, really processes what?
Beatrice is saying, and then takes a step closer and explains
why she's making the sacrifice. And she's like, I'm doing it for
you so you can live your life. And for me, the keyword is live
like. There's a fundamental difference
between existing and living, and Beatrice has spent a lifetime
just existing, like going through the motions, being a
part of something bigger than herself, like the OCS, taking on
roles where she can hide. Where she's valuable as a part
of something because she has the skills that are seen as valuable
to a team. But really, Beatrice has only
truly lived for like those two months they spent in Switzerland
and. Eva.
Was there for that. She bore witness to Beatrice
living, Beatrice being Beatrice on her own, moving freely in the
world like no habit, no hair ties, like just Beatrice being
the young woman figuring out who she is and what she wants.
And experimenting with her identity, wants and needs, which
I think is something Beatrice has been suppressing since her
parents were like, no, you can't be you, so you know.
And Eva, you know, is witnessing this aspect of Beatrice like
her, living her life on her own terms, which is everything Eva
was denied since the car accident.
And it wasn't a choice. Like Beatrice truly chose to do
all those things. She's like, I have to hide for
self preservation. Whereas Eva was forced to do it
by circumstances. You know, one bad accident
stripped her of her entire childhood, her adolescence,
normalcy, and eventually her life when that sister of the
orphanage was like, we're done. So Eva was really robbed of her
life? And she understands more than
anyone the value of what living your life really means.
And so to me, it's more heartbreaking and truly fitting
that Eva is the one making the bigger sacrifice than just
fulfilling the job description of the warrior nun, like Eva's
willingly giving up her chance at living so that the person she
loves can finally. Have her chance to live
something Beatrice was denied as well because of her family and
society. She was born into that shame
that's read into her the self hatred, that fear.
Which is why I think she was able to live in Ava's presence.
Because Ava, just from the beginning, from the very first
time they had that conversation where Beatrice came out like
Ava, has supported her unconditionally and just being
herself and gave Beatrice that safe space to just.
Be loved. And to me, that's something
that's just rare and beautiful in general, and it's what makes
the story of Avertrest so profoundly wonderful to me.
You said it all perfectly. It's having a lot of feelings
about them and the scene in particular.
Many feels exactly the feels. I'm like jealous of Yasmine
getting to like roll in the corner while this is going on.
But it's it's just, it's the perfect climax to what has been
going on with them. It is where you see Beatrice
actually say the things. I mean, when she's telling Eva
no, she's saying what she wants out loud for the first time.
And that is, I think, another thing that gives Ava pause
because she's like, oh. You're being honest.
You're being honest and you actually like you.
You're in. You're in this too.
Like for sure. Damn, I wish I had wrote more in
my letter about. Yeah.
Can I have a minute? Yeah, hold on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. I got a Do you have a pin?
Yes, Yasmin, do you have a pen? What's?
Going on, Yasmin is totally character that always has a pen.
She's the book. She's like she's got a notebook
and under her disguise she stole one from one of the guards.
Yeah, I completely I love everything you said because it's
all true. And again perfect song choice.
But the the the acting was the. Acting.
But. We're not done.
We're not done.
We're halfway through the deal, OK, so we didn't get to the kiss
yet. So Eva then, you know, tells
Beatrice like, look, the sacrifice is worth it, so you
can live your life. But Beatrice's response here is
first a reflexive I won't like. It's almost like stubborn, the
way she responds. She's like, I won't, I'm not
going to do any of that. But then, after a pause, she's
like. I can't.
And it's like that breathless, scared.
I can't. I don't know how to do that kind
of thing. And to me that makes sense
because Beatrice has never been able to live on her own.
Like, the only time she really ever lived was with Ava.
And, you know, living your truth like that is very scary.
And so it's to her she needed support to be able to actually
do it. So there's that aspect of this,
I think, that's holding Beatrice back.
And the other component is that in order for her to actually do
this, to like live her life and be free, it means she loses.
Ava forever And so it's like star crossed lovers tragic thing
where it's like just when they were at the point where they
were about to begin it ends you know so yeah I think so the the
won't she says I won't is like that habit reflects for Beatrice
whereas the I can't is like the reality of all this really
sinking in and it happens really fast for her.
And so I think Beatrice tries to stop the horrifying reality by
like, lunging for the crown of thorns and Ava smooth a F tangos
out of Beatrice. Beatrice's like move into this
like embracehold and she's like, Yep, I got you now and this is
my last chance because I wrote the letter, but the letter's not
enough. So she kisses Beatrice and Simon
describes this act right here as the only moment of selfishness
Ava has in this scene. And I think bisexual Jesus, like
you should have been more selfish this Asian like, in my
opinion, you know, I think you know.
Yeah, like girl, what the fuck? You could have like had a whole
ass like make out such. I mean, I know Yasmin's there
and it's awkward, but still, I don't think she minds.
She don't care. She would have left if she
minded. Also, I think Yasmin's just like
what is happening. Yeah, like what's?
But anyway like the the kiss itself.
The kiss then transitions really beautifully from like a
shellstock to Beatrice who's like, what the fuck is
happening? Like I open deer cotton
headlights situation when Ava first kisses her and then
finally Beatrice does the selfish thing and lets herself
live in the moment and then she kisses.
Ava back and it gets really gay. Really sad and there's face
touching and like forehead resting and it's like a classic
safic kiss. Let's be real and I'm just gonna
hydrate to all the G's I well played, well played, Alba and
Christina. The intense querity of this
scene. The intense querity, so good and
like, you know, if you're gonna have one kiss and a season,
that's the one you get. Like, that's a great one.
Not gonna lie, yeah. That way.
And there's a there's a moment after Beatrice does just go in
for the kiss where you see her pull Ava towards her and you see
Ava kind of has to rebalance. And I was like, oh, that's
that's, that's. Awesome.
Well, like, I don't think Ava was expecting.
No, I don't think Ava was expecting the reciprocation.
And the the way that Beatrice reciprocated, it was just like,
Oh yeah, she confirmation validation.
She likes me. She like, yeah.
So I think that that reciprocation is what throws Ava
off, actually. And so that when she phases out
of there, she joins Michael. Like, yeah, because like she
strategically brought them to this dead end where she can meet
Michael down below like a floor below.
And he immediately asked her, he's like, are you okay?
But it's like evident how conflicted Ava really is,
because like Ava, I think selfishly did not want to leave
that moment and. She just looks so out of it when
she phases down with Michael and it really does take her a second
to be like head back in the game kind of thing.
I think that threw her awful lot.
Beatrice's reciprocation, Yeah, it's really sad.
And poor, poor Beatrice is like all left alone with her feels.
And Yasmine, who's been standing there the entire time and she's
confused a F because she's like, I just watched nuns make out
what is happening. What is?
Happening. What was she doing?
Like the warrior nun is weird. What?
I mean, cool. Great.
Like, just gay rights, but. What?
Aren't we supposed to be fighting?
Yeah, like, aren't we supposed to be stopping?
Adrian, we had to stop. We have a 10 minute looking
fish. And I'm like Yasmin, Welcome,
welcome to the queers. Welcome to the queers.
That's what we do. Stop in the middle of a fight
for a make out you gotta be gay. Whatever you can.
Be gay. Do crime Bday drills, ass.
Yeah, let's go do some crime. Great.
Scene 100 of it. I feel like I could write an
entire paper on that scene, but easily.
It's a massive class in many things.
Yes, because I don't want to keep us here until 90,000
o'clock. I guess we'll move on to, yes,
actually asking what Ava was doing.
Like, where is she going? I mean, she doesn't ask about
the whole kissing thing. She's just like so.
She wants to. Where's she?
But more importantly, where is she going?
And what's going on? And girl, get with the program.
Did you not hear the Super gay speech?
Yeah, I know. So B explains that Ava's
sacrificing herself, and they agree that they can't let that
happen, but B points out that they don't know where she is
now. And that this plan has gone
upside down. And that gives Yasmin an
epiphany. Wait a moment.
Adrial's first church was inverted.
So that means they're focusing all of those PTA prayers
downward, which means that the cross has to be below them, or
the art has to be below them. And the cross.
So did, yeah, down level. Obviously she went in the floor
guys. I know.
Did you know where Abel went like?
Yeah, like, I get why. I get why Beatrice would be
distracted. Obviously her world just looked
upside down also. So anyway.
They get the they figure out what's going on in a way and so
we switched to Michael's head appearing over a huge opening in
the floor which I think was a nice shot.
This is very good camera work in this season and he and Ava have
a meeting of the We should have been Dead 2 Lives ago club and.
Reiterate that if they don't do this, nothing they love will be
left as it is. So everything will die in perish
and go away and they'll have to watch it go to hell.
So they jump down the hole and the symbolism some Max me in the
face on the way down. This is like this is a symbolic
act of all right, we're just going to down the rabbit hole
into into the unknown. Yep, so.
They jump and when they get to the bottom, he compliments, Eva
says. You've been practicing.
I just it helps out of place. How does he know?
Yeah, like this he You've been watching her suck at phasing or
something? Right, because she fazed in
front of him. Yeah, so weird mine.
But yeah, even has been getting better with Halo control.
That is true. The only thing I can figure is
that it was related to something that got cut out.
I don't know. Or like when he saw her in
Beatrice like fly out of the church and they like crash
landed and so when he went with her, he's like, I guess I'm
falling to my death with Ava because she sucks at landing and
she landed pretty smoothly. Maybe it's that.
Maybe, I guess, But it still feels weird, I agree.
I'm like, is that an insult or compliment?
I don't know what's going on here, but they both feel the
energy of the worst club mix to ever hit the rave scene because
they're like, oh, it's this way, hear that?
Awful. Base of this, yes, and I just
see Adriel behind a whole platform with his spinning his.
The Adrial Remix, the mix we don't need.
Adrial would have that in his mix for sure.
Well, for sure, like at least three of those.
So after that we go to the not had priest Camilla and Dora.
So they're back with the creepy Christians, and they're getting
in position when they spot creepy Christian, who's
overseeing the prayer group. It's not the not the Bible
pastor like youth group leader that I want.
My God, this man is the creepy fuck.
OK, so the not that priest is like, ah fuck.
Well, he's here. I guess I'll take care of him.
You guys do your thing. So they set their plan in motion
meanwhile. Eva and Michael Down Under are
recapping their plan because she's a useless bisexual and
Beatrice's lips have fried her brain, so she's like, what are
we doing here again? I forgot.
And so he's like, girl, we're going to suicide bomb in this
place. He's like, we're going to do a
bait and switch, make it look like we're using the crown to
stop Asriel, like everyone expects us to do.
When I'm close enough to him, I'll give the signal and you
Halo pulse me into oblivion. Boom.
No more Asriel, no more us world saved.
And he was like, OK, cool. I just need to hear that one
more time because my brain's not working.
And Are you sure, Michael, that this is going to work?
Because like, word on the street is that Asriel cannot be killed
in this realm. And Michael's like, yeah, I
heard them rumors. Heard them rumors and like,
while we are on this realm, Divinium and the Halo are from
the other realms. So theoretically those two
things can kill him here. And it was like, great.
I'm so happy. We are betting our lives on
shitty semantics and Michael's like, no, no, no, we're betting
our lives on faith. And it was like, that's.
Disgusting Sir, in this in this world.
OK, and you want to know something?
This whole, this whole, like, semantics thing.
You know what this reminds me of?
Remember in Buffy there was that one like demon from like the
ancient past and there was like this legend about him, you know
this where he was like basically like there's no weapon that's
been forged that can kill this demon and that's like in the.
Book of one of Giles, his books. And so they're operating.
Yeah. So they're operating off of
like, wow, fuck, no weapon and can kill this guy.
And then Buffy is like, that bitch was born millions of years
ago when there were swords. And so Buffy's like, faces the
dude, and he's like, no weapon. Forge can kill me.
And she's like, yeah, it's like the 2000s bitch.
And she pulls out, she's like, see this grenade launcher that
was forged way after you were born.
So it's like operating off it reminds me of that.
She's like, yeah, I meet this grenade launcher.
See how that works out? Or.
Like the the demons from Buffy that turned out to be like super
tiny. And in the book, the translation
was actual size. Yeah, exactly.
So semantics can be funny or work to your advantage.
So like, that's what that's the energy of this whole plot line.
For me, it's that Buffy plot line.
Absolutely I need launcher. Yes, Oh my goodness.
These these, these two. I don't know what to do with
them. I just love that he was like,
what are we doing again? Yeah.
And I was like, so feeling a little woozy here.
Michael, could you explain the plan to me again?
Because I would kind of just like to go back upstairs and
find me. Can you imagine if if she had
done that and they just find a bathroom somewhere, That would
be great. That would be great.
All right, well, that didn't happen.
In the next life. However, in the next.
In the next yeah. In the next fan fiction, I'm
going to write that. Damn it.
Yeah, so we're going to go to a little bit of Christian and the
not hot priest and the church with.
Not hot priest stalling Christian and getting into a
theological debate that no one wins because it's like you can't
put two true believers together and expect there to be any other
outcome because it's like my God doesn't punish errors.
Well your God's about to be wiped from the planet and he
sounds like a toddler. This is like my dad's better
than your dad. Exactly, Jesus Christ.
We're members of the Country Club.
You can't even get on to the property.
Fuck. Off sit with.
Us so goons take the not hot priest away, but he sees Camilla
and Dora putting like fridge magnets on the cross.
Like Dad put my paper on here. He's like those little poetry
magnets and they're making, Oh my God, yeah, Adrial is a duty
head. Exactly.
That's what happens in my head is like, they're like, oh, these
are those rosary explosives in my head.
They're like putting fridge magnets up there.
Oh my God, they're just like fridge magnets are so.
Fun though. I know, right they are.
I want a giant Adrial cross with that could put fridge magnets
on. That would actually be a good
use of a giant Adrial magnet, you know?
Yeah, for for serious. So there he sees all this and he
redirects some goons to them and and Camilla is like, so the
plans coming undone and uses that opportunity to dress down
and get ready for the fight. And I'm like, did you not think
that he was going to see you out in the open with your goddamn
poetry magnets? I know.
Like ladies come now. You're supposed to be a covert
organization. I know, that's why I.
Understand that Camila is relatively new to like, being on
missions. That was the whole thing in
season one, right? They're like Camila is green and
new, but like, come now, basic training should have taught you
some stellars. Like Dora trained somewhere
else, so I figured you'd be better at it.
But yes, alas. I just, like, see them in my
mind, trying to do it from further away, you know, It's
like trying to throw. They're like tossing over them.
Simply go back to pretend to praying.
You should have at least exchanged clothes with one of
the idiots. I know it's real 101.
Yeah. What was Vincent teaching you?
Nothing. He taught them nothing like this
is Vincent's fault. Let's be real, not hot.
Priest Yes. Everything is not Hot Priest's
fault period, Anderson. That's basically the end of that
saying. Yep.
That's the main take away. Although I.
One of the things I do love during the conversation, when
they're like, my dad's better than your dad, one of the not
hot priests, his arguments that his God is real, is that, well,
he sent us bisexual Jesus, so obviously he's real because he's
like Ava Ava's existence. Thank you.
I mean, yeah, I Jesus. You can get on board with that
argument. He's not wrong.
So there's that. Not wrong.
Not won the argument. OK, so then we shoot on over to
Evan Michael, who from fine Adrial.
Finally, he's like, dramatically standing all alone in a giant
room with the arc and an aesthetic cross, letting light
into the room. Because drama, if we've learned
anything over the past season, is that Adrial is a giant drama
queen. I was going to say he's such
he's Oh my God, the worst. He is the worst.
Absolute worst. There's nobody to do.
This was unnecessary. He was just doing it because
he's a he's a drama queen. So Michael's like enough of this
bullshit and he marches right in, trash talking Adriel, right.
He's just like typical boy. He's like no talk, just fists.
And then Lilith is like the wild card everyone keeps fucking
forgetting about. She pops in and she's like, not
today. And just like rips Michael's
heart out of his body, which is just crazy.
Like, Oh my God, that's some dragon energy if I ever saw one.
I was like brutal, brutal. And then I'm like, OK, it is
Lilith, so I could see it, right, Exactly.
And poor Mike, so Michael's like.
Loop he did and even screams in horror because like now her plan
is very much coming undone because half the suicide team
has has been killed. Couldn't even do the suicide.
And Israel very casually is like well that's over thank God.
And Lilith had popped out of existence.
She's like heart keys and then leaves.
And so she reappears and slashes Eva to the ground and like takes
her talons and like digs it, I assume into Ava's like skull and
like pulls her hair back and gets her like on her knees.
So Ava's like trapped while Adrial's approaching.
And this is when his grooming ass, like, lets it slip,
basically what he wants, which is just power.
Like he just wants everybody to bend to him instead of Rea.
And he basically admits that here.
And Lilith, who's brainwashed at this point, is just like, Yep,
I'm on board. I'm his Hench men, Here we are.
And it makes sense why he and the not hot priest would have
gotten along. Oh, yes, absolutely.
Because they like power. That's it.
And full stop. Well, I mean, Adriel's viewpoint
and how he sees the world is exactly like, not hot priest
power. No power, More power, less
power. That's all they see.
It's just that hierarchy. That's it.
And justify the means as long as the hierarchy is there exactly.
So at this point, Ava's like, knelt and then Adrially gets on
her level and he's like you all. Thank you Ava, for that
spectacular failure. Rea's pet is now dead.
Thank you Lilith. And you brought the Halo
straight to me. I now have all the cards, like
thank you for that. And Ava gives it her last shot
by like, reading him to self a little bit and she's like,
listen. I've been on the other side.
Now I know the truth. I know you stole that Halo from
Brea. And then she says a power that
dwarfs you, interesting, a power you can never outrun.
And I think that line is really significant.
And it's indicating to us that the power of the Halo is
something that Israel, again, like you said, he's all about
seeking power, and that's a power source above him that he's
trying to control, which like, is his whole objective, right?
But I think usually people who think in these terms of
hierarchical powers also operate a lot on fear, because the Halo,
by definition, if it's more powerful than him, is something
he'd be afraid of inherently until he can control it and
master it, right. So this whole situation with him
kind of reminds me a little bit of, like the Icarus myth,
because he's someone at this point, he's flying too close to
the proverbial sun with his fake wings on that quest for power.
So to me, Adrial is just doomed to fall based on how this kind
of, like, plays out. But Adrial's like, yeah,
whatever. But I'm not going out without a
fight. So he, like flicks His wrist
turns on the arc and like shit's about to go down and we like
rudely cut away. Yeah, and now you comparing him
to Icarus has me thinking about how his wings would look.
They would totally have sequins. Oh my God, no.
He'd be like one of those birds like those in.
So those like incandescent birds will like you look at them and
the colors like black one way but in the light is like a
light. Color shifting?
Yes. TB.
Color shifting. Peacock extraordinaire.
Jesus Christ. I don't even see that, that,
that that attracts. So back to the church.
Always the Church. Boys Dora and Camilla getting
overwhelmed by possessed peeps does not look pleasant.
And you got be. And yes, finding some friends
quote. UN quote.
Yeah, yes, it's terrifying. But bitches like, I'll handle
this. Oh my God, I love her.
She's like, I got this. Wait in the car, darling.
You can wait here, darling. I'll be back momentary.
Let me take care of this, my purse.
Hold my rod so the possess are back to prayer time and
kumbayaz. By this point, when we switch
back over and Christian is taunting the nuns, is like,
well, it's only worse for the ones below and then motions for
the goons to bring them along grouse.
I hate Christian. Yes, me too.
I hate him. All right, so while like,
basically at this point, like all the plans are falling apart,
like the Michael plan and the Ava plan, and then there's like,
the OCS plan, it's all coming. All the threads are coming
undone. I I have to say that I felt a
little bit of petty when Michael's heart got yanked out
of his body because I was like, see you see, Ava, what happens
when you try to sacrifice yourself?
Yeah, No, maybe. Maybe this is a sign.
This isn't the plan. This isn't the best plan.
Little bit of petty and me came out, then let Alas, Eva is
still. Eva is now just like, how do I
salvage this shit? And unfortunately, while she's
trying to figure this out, Adriel is pontificating about
how he's like, listen, I'm not the bad guy.
He's like, I'm not the bad guy. We're on the same team, like
totally. Can't you see it?
I'm here to liberate humanity from the Christians because
Christianity really is just here protecting power and like all
the sinners and all that stuff, which like he's not wrong to be
real and he's like you know I'm doing good and like meanwhile
like Lilith is like manhandling Ava.
Like I'm like the whole thing doesn't read well dude and the
the the like ark is Paul saying Ava's like what?
This is what she's like. How is what you are doing?
Different from what the you're saying you're fighting against,
you're doing, you guys are playing by the same playbook, so
you're not that different. You're both doing the same shit.
You're just seeking power. What the fuck?
And anyway, he's like, he's like, it's fine, it's fine.
But then what he says is like, to me, I think it's like really
key about this whole like, big cosmic thing.
Because he's basically like, listen, we're what Ray is trying
to do, what he's like. Basically there's like cosmic
forces beyond your wildest imaginations.
And like, Earth is just some playing ground that all these
big bads are using because they see you as beneath them.
I'm trying to liberate you. They're just, they don't give a
fuck what happens to you. You're like the staging ground
for like the bigger war that's about to happen essentially,
which like I think partially a part of things.
What he's saying is actually true because of the way their
storytelling here, the way Simon's kind of like sprinkling,
you know, not sprinkling, but he's rather like you're you're
getting like you start with like a very myopic view of what's
happening. So like a very, very like zoomed
in times like 1000 view of like the bit, the situation.
And then each episode, each season he brings back the focus
so you can see the bigger, bigger, bigger picture of
everything. And so I I do agree.
I think that, like, the stuff that's going on on Earth is like
a small part of, like, the bigger picture cosmically.
And I, you know, I think Rea is like one of the bigger players
in the cosmic stuff. And this guy is like a weasel,
basically. Absolutely.
Yeah. But the deal is that, like, Eva
now is like, OK, so now here's his quote UN quote truth.
Rea's given me her quote, UN quote truth, and so I think
ultimately Ava's having doubts about this whole thing because
she's stuck in the middle. She's like, I have this power
source that like everybody wants.
So now I'm monkey in the middle by default.
And Ava's MO at this point is like, I'm just here to save my
friends and you know, humanity also, whatever.
So I need to figure. Yeah, I need to figure that shit
out. So yeah, and I think Ava's like
in the ultimate dilemma here of like, but what if I'm on the
wrong side? What if my sacrifice with
Michael is ultimately for nothing?
So I think she's just like. Fuck like with this new.
Information, you know, Absolutely.
Yeah. Reva Eva is in an untenable
position pretty much because. He has no idea what the fuck
they're dealing with. No one has any idea what what
they're dealing with except for the people from the other realm.
And they are always speaking in these.
Cryptic. Yes.
So it's. And trying to control everyone?
Yeah. No.
It's very much a political game. Like she's trapped in a
political game she didn't ask to be in the middle of and trying
to navigate it as like a 19 year old, 20 year old or whatever.
Which is, like, so fucking hard. It just wants to run away with
her and like, that's fine, we get that.
But it's hard for Ava too, because they're, you know, Raya
and Adrian are both unreliable narrators to her because they
have their own motives, and so they're giving her information,
like and painting it the way they want to.
So really, Ava doesn't know the full truth, and we never really
will at this point. But what an impossible situation
to be in as the bearer of this, like, power source.
Everybody's trying to get like poor Ava.
As much as Adriel tells is telling the story through his
own lens, he's also telling some truths and that the Earth is.
Just a pond in the middle of this fucking giant ass war.
Yeah, totally. And there's no way for them to
have like the only thing they have is the Halo in their to
their advantage totally. And so.
Yeah. And also like when he's saying
like you know we're on the same side, like I'm trying to
liberate the earth by subjugating the earth, basically
he's presenting himself as I'm lesser of two evils.
Yes, he is. Yeah.
So he's like basically like Ava, you have no choice.
Like freedom is done. Choose me and I keep her away.
Or, like, choose her. And either way you're gonna be
subjugated. Like, who do you want to be your
master? It's basically the choice he's
giving her here with like, no information.
I was just like, man, I just want to go back to the Alps,
Yeah, No, I also want to go back to the Alps.
Can we leave? I think we should have, you
know, have another vacay to the Alps and explore that whole
kissing thing that was happening.
Yeah, now there's something there.
Maybe we can save the world, Who knows?
But since you save the world through lady kisses.
Agreed. Best possible way?
Or kisses at all? Queer kisses.
Save the world, yes. So we don't get that, but we do
get a Beatrice fight scene because that is our consolation
prize. And I guess we'll take it.
I mean, we'll take it. Oh my God, what a fight scene.
Yes, amazing. The fight scenes this season
were out of this world. So Beatrice, we get a shot of
her walking towards this fight like she's a badass motherfucker
on a nighttime stroll. So she's just like.
Walking up to the these dudes who aren't paying any damn
attention, and when they do turn around, we see Cardinal Fuck
Face is what I'm calling him. He's back.
One eyed Admiral Cardinal Fuck Face.
He just reminds me of a failed pirate at this point.
He thinks he's so much more important than he is.
Yes, ego out the wall. So Beatrice tells them that
they're standing between her and her wife for life and offers
mercy to whoever walks away. Now and then we get the most
appropriate music for Beatrice's last fight scene of the season,
Ave. Maria.
So good. What a good.
Choice. So Ave.
Maria playing while she's like, I'm offering you mercy, bitch
and you're just gonna you're gonna get your ass kicked.
Yep, it's on you now. You chose this and B says like I
warned you and then gets her super super cool savvy staff out
and opens it like the collapsible cup I had for
softball games. Which I am a big fan of.
I love cool gadgets like that. And yeah, super smart.
You use it for different things, I imagine.
But you know, shit's about to go down when Beatrice puts her
chainmail veil. Oh my God, it's over once that
goes on her. Face it's over.
So B kicks the ass of about 15 dudes, including Like and
Cardinal Rear Admiral Eye Patch. Fuck Face sneaks up on Yaz in
the meantime and does like the creepiest thing possible that he
could have done. Oh my God.
Not necessary. He's that guy that your parents
are always like. If he gets near you, yes.
Don't take candy from strangers. That's where that rumor started
this creepy ass. We don't trick or treated his
house. No.
What a creepy fuck. Thank you.
So he thinks I'm behind? Yes.
And he's like, I'm glad I don't have to fight her, but I can
take you as a hostage. And I'm like, can you also shut
the fuck up and get out of here? Me.
Just if we're gonna kill her, just do it.
We don't need. These words, Yeah.
She's like, Nah, I'm a sister warrior.
I love it. Yes.
Love it. So they have a nice little fight
and he's think he thinks that he's won and he's taunting her
about killing Mother Superior because he doesn't know that
she's back. And she's like, no, Mother
Superior is alive and still with me.
Yeah. And she's all the while she's
pulling out her nifty secret crucifix knife.
Which I want one of those. Thank you also.
Mother Superior gave her that. Yes.
I was also wondering if like Mother Superior is me is the
weapon. That is what it is.
Wonderful. So she takes that out and stabby
stabs him and he's like, well, tis but a flash wound.
Yes, well referenced. Thank you.
But she informs him in her true nerd fashion that she severed
his femoral artery that pumps blood at quiet and impressive
rate. And as soon as she stabbed him,
I was like, oh, bitch is smart. Like the first time I watched
this scene, I was like, that's smart.
OK, yes, first time I watched this, I was like, I've seen this
before. So she she kills him.
Villanelle here. Because Villanelle does that.
And killing Eve like it's a it's a yeah, it's the smart way to
kill someone because like, if you only need a tiny puncture,
like all their blood's gonna come out.
So like, I was like femoral artery.
What a nerd. She's got it.
She even like tells him like he. She even gives him like a a
scientific. Physiology lesson like.
Anatomy and Physiology lesson at the time that she's doing this
and so he called. He like this is the most Rear
Admiral fuck face thing to say ever.
Because the way he calls her and on Holy bitch Oh my God.
The voice, the voice. That actor is so good at being
as creepy as possible. He wins the Creepy award for
sure. Is.
I don't know.
I did not know how to feel after that, but.
So B gets done with all the assholes and closes her super
cool fun staff and goes to check on Yaz.
And Yaz is like OKOK gathering herself and she's like, OK,
let's go. But B is like, you've done
enough, you've done enough, you can keep safe.
And I have to do this alone. I have to go get my wife, yeah.
And that means you can stay here.
So the the shot of Beatrice getting on the elevator gave me
some feelings. Hydrate.
Yes. Hydrate for Beatrice getting on
the elevator. Because Jesus Christ.
Oh my God, yes. What a moment.
Thank you, Christina. Yes, everything about this scene
is marvelous. My favorite.
My favorite thing about it, though, is just Yasmin coming
into her own as her own as a sister warrior.
I love that. I even love Yasmin's like last
line, where she's like, I'll just sit here and bleed.
For a little why? Just bleed turn out of made-up.
Yes, I love Yasmin. Well, well played.
So unfortunately, we're going to leave that kick ass scene and go
to the dungeon where Adrian is on his bullshit about why he
needs power. Blah blah blah whatever.
But what is important is that in the portal.
A bunch of Wraith demons show up in a cloud of red and because
they're his goons, so they wouldn't got somebody and
they're now dragging with somebody through that portal and
that somebody is Rea. So Adrial's master plan at this
point is now revealed. His goal was to go get Rea, get
the crown of Thorns, imprison that bitch, and then take her
place as head honcho, aka. What we call God is my
assumption. So he's like, great, I've got
everything because I have the perfect fool that is now the
Halo Bearer. I have all the cards to make
this finally happen and Ava tries to plea to Lilith playing
like the sister card. She's like sister Lilith who I
ignored for it. Please help me.
It was like, absolutely not. This is happening.
It was more like sister, what was your name?
Again, right, Lily? Laura.
Laura, help me. That sort of paid more attention
to Lilith. That's like this is what happens
when you ignore friends and they hold a grudge cautionary tale.
They make out with really, really old dudes.
Listen, you failed Lilith in so many ways.
That was such a big way. Oh my God, no rose.
Anyway, that's not saying. Anyway, so upstairs Camila and
Dora are feeling the tremors of what's going on below, AKA
pulling ran through that portal, which I imagine has to take a
lot of energy and doing all the things and Camila's like.
All right, we need to help Ava. So guess what?
The cross. Remember the cross.
Tis an amplifier. An energy transmitter.
And guess what? Camilla has a I'm so sorry.
Camilla has a Direct Line into Adrial's brain.
I would not want to know what's going on in there.
No. So, Dora, Dora says we'll buy
you some time. And then this is like now and
then all of the nuns that have been hiding in their disguises
amongst the peoples. Starts to undisguise themselves
and fight, and Camilla takes out one dude in a badass manner on
the way to the cross and then puts her hands and forehead on
it. Red light, green light 123 need
it also that PTA meeting is. Over.
Yeah, guys, somebody ate all the cookies.
So it's. So what started the fight?
All right, so that that that kerfuffle is happening upstairs.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Freya is now through this portal.
Pedro's projecting all of his hurt feelings onto her.
He's like you may be sad for hundreds of years.
And I. Was in prison because of you and
blah blah blah, whatever. So then he's now got the crown
of thorns. He's like heading over and he's
like, I'm gonna use the power to free every living creature from
your tyranny. I don't know why that's his
accent, but. Oh no, it's totally him.
It's super give me super dramatic.
Thinks he's a good actor but isn't really on the stage.
Vibes. I know.
For real and like while I'm super Team Rea, I agree to a
degree that he's saying truthful things here, but I really hate
him, so whatever. Anyway, so Adriel goes to put
the crown over his head, and Camila, meanwhile, is hugging
the cross, and she telepathically is.
Screaming and all I can think of is.
Yeah. Rocky, I'm like, well, that
happens. That happens so because of her
psychic connection and screaming and is screaming inside of his
head, Adrial ends up on the ground like incapacitated,
pretty much having a the most the biggest migraine of Camilla
ever. And he drops the crown, so
there's that. And then Lilith removes her
literal talons from Ava's shoulder, which made me hurt,
and then goes to help him while Rea crawls towards the ark.
And then we go back to Camilla, hugging the cross and the fight
that's going on around her and I feel like the possessor starting
to kind of wake up a little bit and be like what the?
And then Adrial stands up as the art portal closes and Eva, like
Grunt, screams and draws her sword.
Yeah, and Lilith goes to to fight her, but Adrill's like,
no, no, no. I've been waiting for this.
Okay, I haven't. No.
He does say though, he's like he calls her, I think Warrior Nun
when he does this. And I think for him, he's like,
I've been waiting for this Warrior nun.
I think for him, he's fighting near Ridge.
Yeah, exactly. This is catharsis against being
betrayed by like, Ariana. I think that's what partially
this is. It's not even Ava, that's, to be
honest, it's not Ava. It's about getting revenge for
the betrayal in the beginning, so.
Exactly. Yeah.
So they fight, and Ava phases through him, stabs the shit out
of him and other. Good move.
Other good move. Great.
Love that And unfortunately, Lilith, I'm starting to get
tired of this. Lilith, can we?
I understand you're that you're grumpy about this and I think
you're very justified. However, can we not hold up the
progress of the mission and? And she says she starts to be
David back because now Ava's fighting someone who can also
face and she doesn't quite have the timing of that down and who
would because we see how effective it is when she uses
that tactic. So she's a little phases on out
of there for a second and then Ava gets her Zen on and like
clears her mind to anticipate Lilith's next move and use the.
Force. And right as Lilith phases back
into about to cut the shit out of Ava, Ava slices and dices
her, and then continues to fight with Adrial, who starts using
his superpowers at that point because he can.
OK, yeah, I thought this was interesting because it almost
looks to me like he's harnessing wind.
To like. So many wonder like maybe if
these powers they have in the other realm or like elemental
powers, it totally sent me there too.
Yeah, because I mean, it's comedy, fantasy #1, but also
like in like the religion, mythology, a lot of like power
stem from elements. So I'm wondering if that's like,
what they're kind of trying to depict here.
Yeah, totally make a lot of sense for for him to be sort of
like a minor wind harnessing being whatever.
So yeah, And Lilith is healing in the meantime because she's
got all that demony other world energy in her, and Adrial
manages to knock. See, this is where this is where
you're going to be like, ah, because I'm like, Adrial manages
to knock the wind out of Ava. He does.
And now he's just kind of playing with her and like, time
to end this and take back what's mine.
Shut the fuck up grandstanding. It's like that villain that
tells them the entire plan while just pontificating and walking
back to whatever. The hubris of the ego.
But hey, who's who shows up behind her?
Her wife. Yay.
Wifey came to save me. Yep.
So be sure.
So I'm just in time to watch Ava's like last ditch effort to
end this once and for all because she's like, this isn't
great. I got my sword.
Lilith is somewhere. There's Angel coming at me.
Oh, Michael's dead body. The divinium's still there, even
though he's dead. So I wonder if I can just like.
Do the suicide plan anyway, so she does she Halo blast
Michael's body, which activates the Divinium and detonates the
quote UN quote bomb, which is my goal.
And like then we get this pretty interesting shot.
We're just like the Divinium all lights up super, super bright
blue and it just like goes everywhere.
You see it clearly going to Adriel and then like it goes
ricochets back into Ava and you like see it kind of like going
through her legs or chest. And ultimately, that blast takes
both of them down. Lilith, interestingly, was
spared because she phased the fuck out of there and was like,
fuck this shit, I'm out and she leaves and Beatrice was far
enough away from the blast zone that she was good.
So it's just Ava and Ariel that are affected.
Ariel seemingly is down for the count, Ava is on the ground and
starts coughing, so she's like still in our plane at this time.
Beatrice hightails it over to her and like props, Ava up.
In her arms and she's like, you did it, you did it.
It's over. Even though you shouldn't have a
bitch. What the fuck?
Like, internally dangerous best. But she's like, OK, it's OK.
But. Eva knows that it's not that
simple because she has blowing Davidian protruding from her
abdomen and she's actively coughing up blood at this
moment. So she's like.
Just let me rest. Let me rest for a minute because
this is I don't feel so great. So Beatrice is like, OK, take
your time and Ava like does this cute little like nuzzle into
Beatrice the shoulder and Beatrice is in this little
protective. And it's so.
Cute. And for me, this is like POV
Beatrice being like I'm never letting you out of my sight ever
again. I'm gonna protect you.
And ever. And for me, Ava's like, well, I
never thought I'd see you again, let alone touch you.
So let me like, savor this little puzzle.
I have a cuddle while I'm here. Before it all goes to black.
Yeah, just a little cuddle. Yeah, just a little.
Cuddle so we get that last little moment of cuteness before
all all fuck lets loose. When?
Because of course it wasn't that easy.
Adrial starts laughing his like, evil classic evil villain.
And they're like, fuck, how do you laugh without a face?
That's my question. I don't.
Know. What was that?
Yeah, because like, his face is like melting off and he's like
pulling a shrapnel Shard out of his eye socket.
I don't understand it. Yeah, his face is like straight
up, melts, melts, healing or whatever, because it's like
fiery healing. But yeah, I don't know how he's
making sounds. It's really weird.
And what I found really funny is that like, Lilith sees this part
and that's when she's like no and.
That's when she abandons. Adriel is this particular scene,
the creepy laugh, the melting face she's like.
This is too much. Yeah, this is too.
Much for me. You've gone from one level to
another level and I'm not here for it.
So she, like tippy tap toes taps out of there.
Yeah. But like this was the tipping
part for. Little, Not the other, like, not
the world nomination. I know.
It's really weird. She's like.
This is it. Bye.
I don't follow their reasoning, but I'm glad you're kind of
back, right? Me too.
I'm like, sure. OK I.
But appropriate reaction, just like Ava's rightful screaming,
no. While Beatrice is like pulling
her to her feet and she's like this, we need to get out of
here. Your minute is over, Ava.
We gotta go. So Angel starts, like limping
closer and like his body is, like slowly being put back
together, like his ankles being set into place.
And he's getting better and better and he's like, haha, I
told you I cannot be killed in this realm.
OK, fancy pants. Yeah, whatever, bitch.
That's the appropriate reaction right there.
Yeah. OK, so the nuns are winning the
fight upstairs, and Camilla activates the fridge magnets
screaming at everyone to run. So all of those little fridge
magnets, the poetry words that Adrial's a duty head serves to
explode the cross. When we get Ava and Beatrice
hearing slash feeling this explosion and it's like a game
of tennis to see who can make more racket downstairs or
outfairs, it's. Like the better.
It's like, what are they doing throwing a ball?
Bowling ball at the floor. You're not the billions.
Somebody's got a broom. I'm trying.
To sleep bitch, I have to get up and pray at 3:00 in the morning.
So with the cross gun, the Halo puts a little pep and Ava's
step, and she tells Adria that she may not be able to kill him
in this realm, but she knows something that can.
Guess what? He has to be a dramatic and ask
what it is and she says semantics.
Where in play bitch sorry that she should have been at the end.
I agree, because it's Ava, she has to say semantics.
So she lights up our lives and the room with the Halo and calls
for some backup the oldfashioned way, which is using the Halo,
which brings down the trash bounty hunters and they
literally pull. Adriel apart Yes, because they
are not of this realm. No.
And Adriel goes, bye bye, thank God, like a peep in a microwave.
Thank God. My question though, is like, why
didn't her Halo blast that blew up the Davidian bomb called the
trash? Thank you.
He's. Like, doesn't that take a
fuckload of energy when they've been like, ah, there it is.
Also like. It wouldn't also be easier for
them to like sense where the Halo is because we have the
portal open, so that's like thinning the divide.
So I would think they'd be able to sense it easier with the
portal being open. My only my only explanation for
this is that with when and when Eva goes to intentionally call
the terrasse demons down, she's has a sustained use of the Halo
rather than just a boom. Yeah, so that's the only thing I
can figure. Yeah, I I yeah, I think so too.
But anyway, Adrian's gone. Yay.
Hi, Adrian. Hi bitch.
That was not bad to see you go. That was 1000 years saga.
It didn't end too serious. She could have died a long time
ago. Oh my.
God, Justice for Ariela. All right, so as Adrial is being
killed, Christian takes a deep breath, almost like the mind
control of his cult was broken. And then he looks at the not
have priest like, for you, where are we?
Who am I? I don't think he knows what's
going on. I think like he's having
thoughts for the first time. Like Marie said, which is a lot
for Christian. And so let's move on.
Who cares? Back to the women.
So now Adrian was gone, and they're at this point surrounded
by the trash demons. And Ava and Beatrice are like
the next logical targets because they're like, oh, Halo.
And Ava, who cannot stand her on her own at this point, is trying
to, like, shrug Beatrice off. She's like, you leave, I, you
know, they want the Halo. I told you not to follow me
here, and Beatrice doesn't say anything.
But. She looks at Eva like there is
no way in hell I wasn't going to follow you here.
And I'm not leaving you alone. Absolutely not.
So the demons are kind of like, snarling and getting ready to,
like, take their next victim. Just like the dream ran cuts
through stomp stomp. It's almost like that was the
future. Anyway, we're all living in a
wheel of time. I'm.
Literally. OK, as somebody who's been
watching the Wheel of Time, like, this is Wheel of Time shit
to me, I'm like, was that the future?
We're not like the universe is folded on itself in itself
again, this is so wheel. Of time.
It's not funny. Which, like, OK, if you're sad
about Warrior not ending, go. Watch Wheel of Time.
You will not be disappointed anyway, so this is real time.
Ava's vision from the Crown of Lords playing out and the Line
of Trust team is just like the vision and start going.
They go away and then some weird stuff happens.
We're like no words are really exchanged other than.
Stop. But like Rea looks at Ava and
they stare at each other and Rea nods and Ava nods and like Rea
goes back in the portal and it's like Ava's nodding.
She's like. I get it, And then?
Beatrice asks. What the fuck was that?
And he was like, I don't know anything.
So I'm like, what was that exchange?
I'm so confused. Was that like her saying?
Yeah, I'm sparing you from I'll let you keep the Halo or is it?
I'll. Bye.
I don't know.
Or like is Ava like to me like logically I would think that's
like remember what we talked about last time and Ava was
like, yes, that's logically what I would think.
Too, Yeah, I think they struck some kind of deal.
But then, like, I don't know if Ava's dying and like, has no
oxygen. She's like, I don't know.
What's going on? I'm just like literally
collapses or she literally can't tell Beatrice because of
reasons, Yeah. Or like.
Did they make some kind of like deal in the dream?
And it was like, now you owe me a favor.
I spared your girl. Could be more questions.
Questions that will not, maybe never, get answers to that.
I want answers to them upon questions.
Questions. But I always loved that.
But Ava's like, I understand. It was like, do you?
She's like, I don't know, anything.
I decay. I'm gonna collapse now.
I get out of this conversation. I just love that.
To me it's funny, but just yeah, I think they struck a deal or
some shit. So the not hot priest walks up
to the spot where sunlight is shining through the giant hole
in the evil church. Because symbolism, the light has
come again. New.
Everyone's starting a new, so he takes off his collar.
Also symbolic and is relieved the fight is over and the nuns
are hugging, but that's cool and all.
Back to the queers. B wants to get Ava the fuck out
of there, but Ava's like, not going to make it.
Let me just have another cuddle. B's not about that life.
And is like you're going to heal bitch, and Ava is breaking the
bad news. That's not going to happen.
This is too much to come back from the divinium in my body and
she tells Beatrice to take the Halo.
But Beatrice is like, no, it's not your time.
What do you think you what do you You may be best miss to all
Jesus, but I am your wife and you do what I say and she tries
to convince Ava to survive. And Ava's response to This is
why are you always saving me? Oh my God.
OK, I love this moment too, when Beatrice is like holding her and
she's just like smiling at Beatrice as she's dying, which
is just like peak golden retriever girlfriend behavior
and. She's like, why are you?
Always trying. Why are you so nice to me?
Why like? Me like me.
Yeah, she's bleeding out. Yes, I'm dying, but.
You're so cute. You look cute.
And then Beatrice has this like single tier that comes out of
single tier when she's holding Ava and like, OK hydrate for
Christina cuz like girl that control the control for the
single tier. Well played man.
Well played. It's not the only time that
happens, I it's. I know, but it's just the
control to do that. I know anyway.
I know, I know. It's a.
Kiss that. You gotta gotta hang on to the
cute moments cuz starts getting this thing is so gay it hurts.
I know bees tear falls and Lilith approaches with a
solution because now she's going to be helpful.
I guess the one. 80 the pivot. Yes, the the pivot.
I know a way. There's one way to heal her, but
you need to hurry. So she turns towards the portal
and bees like Nope, Nope, Nope. Find another way.
He was like, you know she's right.
It's the only way. I know she's the worst, but
yeah, she's speaking the truth. She's not lying.
So they get her up to the portal and then Lilith kind of slinks
off to let them be gay together and and so they're sitting there
on the edge and Ava's just like struggling to be alive, like let
me go and B's like can't gay caress and.
For like I'm gonna let you go anywhere.
Yeah, exactly. But then B's like be free and
that chokes Eva up even more. So she gay caresses the gay
caressing hand that's caressing her.
And Eva says the words. I love you.
And Beatrice hears them, and Beatrice hears them, and there
is a collective awe, and one very loud finally.
From the peanut gallery in my brain, Beatrice smiles, and as
we all wait for her to say it back, she releases Ava into the
portal instead. And.
Then what does she do bro? Wait because then as like my
brain is like insert a meme from the office of Michael yelling No
seriously because I can't function and meme is me.
So Beatrice waits till Ava's gone and says I love you girl.
What the fuck? What the fuck?
You're supposed to be the logical character.
What the fuck? I know you don't do feelings,
but the fuck? She just sacrificed herself for
you and everybody yells. Why are you?
Saying Why are you saying this to Lilith?
Who's in the room? Yeah, we don't fuck.
Lilith doesn't care. She don't care.
Lilith could give a shit about your love, all right?
She's like this fucking dumb ass Jesus, these two.
Finally, this is the dumbest time to do this you 2.
Oh my God, you're so gay. She's a She is a she is a
useless lesbian like she is the textbook.
This was textbook useless lesbian behavior.
It really was. It's maybe the last time I'm
ever going to see you. Let me wait until you're in the
portal to reciprocate. Yeah.
Hey, I love you. You must have not said it at
all. I'm sending that through the
portal, yeah. I'm sending vibes through the.
Portal Love you. Love you entrance.
Get your shit together. Okay.
So somebody needs to arrest Netflix for this choice because.
You finally figured out what it means to be to love and to love
someone back. So like, call back to, like, her
JC days with Mary and Mary is like, she's like, I think I love
him. Mary's like, bitch.
You don't know what that word means.
This is all hormones. And so it's an actual crime
here. That's Eva did not get to hear
Beatrice say I love you back. So somebody make the petition to
arrest Netflix because this is a crime.
Actually, there are so many crimes that need arresting for,
but this one should be at the front of the.
This should be a. Federal offense?
Yes, all the federals that means.
The other world Federals like. Yeah, but Geneva Convention.
Yeah, exactly. This is a war crime.
Thank you very much. Well, and this is where we get
to the part where another, that one tier slides from Beatrice's
face. And I'm like, yeah, because you
didn't say I love you in time, so.
You're going to break out the single tier.
Girl, this was your fault. You could have said it, yeah.
And I mean, you feel like Beatrice just realized, like, it
syncs in what just happened and she starts to kind of
hyperventilate a little and is like, panicking.
And Lilith is like, girl, it's OK You did what you had to do.
You should have said that earlier, but yeah.
What the fuck? Get it?
I guess. Maybe if you kept me around, I
would have told you. Thank you if you had remembered
I existed, right? Maybe I could have, like,
smashed your heads together. This is old Survenge.
He's like if I was around sooner we would be here.
But OK. But no.
You're saying I love you to your wife as she's already gone.
So good job, bitch. So she drops a little more, a
little more cryptic knowledge if there's a holy war coming.
And I hope we end up on the same side.
Hi. You have a choice in that I.
Know what the hell? I know that you know stuff that
Beatrice doesn't know. Beatrice is obviously the last
one to get any memo in the existence of any reality,
because Ava and she's been Ava's been obfuscating around
Beatrice, and Lilith is dropping cryptic shit so they have access
to these beings from the other side and know all this
information. Can you not just say it plain?
Yeah, no, absolutely. Well said, so I get it.
We need plot but but we didn't get a continuation so we don't
know. But Lilith beats it out of
there, leaving Beatrice to suffer sitting sitting on the
ark and yet another symbolic super feelings heavy shot of
Beatrice alone with a with the portal that Ava disappeared
through behind her. She cannot follow, she can only
go forward. In this big giant dramatic room
she's sitting in, it's like she's in a room big enough to
hold all her fields right now, Yes.
I don't know if it is big enough.
Quite honestly, I don't know either.
But OK, I have to point something out during the when
they were. Just to get.
Just to hurt everyone a little bit more when they were.
I'm sorry, but when like they prop Eva up on the bench before
that she goes into the portal, Eva tries to lean back into the
portal. And Beatrice holds her and
prevents her from going. That's when she says let me go.
Because like, she tries to go and Beatrice is like, no, like
holding her. Yeah, and that that fact hurts
me every day. Sorry, Bray.
It's alright. I'll go watch some dumb YouTube
shit to forget. Just watch a compilation video,
It'll be alright. All the times they've been gay
together, which is the every time they've been in A room.
Yes, I know. So we fade out from Beatrice
with her fields and we get the name Simon Berry that flashes
across the screen a few times. Writer, director, creator.
And then for some reason we start flying over a field headed
for the OCS compound somewhere in Europe, I think.
I don't know. Where we are.
We land on a fly ass looking Beatrice toying with her OCS
necklace and looking at the toothpick under a glass.
And I guess time has passed. Who knows because she's in
street clothes. Like the whole OCS is like back
in their swing. They're fighting.
There's new recruits. She got no habit on this outfit.
Also, just damn just I'm going to hydrate for the outfit.
There's enough time, it's clearly passed, for Beatrice to
get a brand new wardrobe and like, God damn, she's slaying
and she's having thoughts while she's staring at the sword and
which we're not for V2. And then Mother Superion walks
up and she's like, well, the new recruits are ready for you at
Beatrice. And Beatrice is like, well, not
today. I'm leaving and she's got like a
duffel bag and she's like. Someone else is gonna have to
teach them, and she walks the fuck out of there past Camilla,
who like Pats her on the arm and like recruits training and
Yasmin, my favorite bars. Yas is in her full OCS attire.
She got her own uniform. She's an official, official
sister. So, like, you know, what Ava did
was some bullshit to anoint her. And she's like fully like in in
the thing now, which is so great, But she deserves.
And Beatrice leaves. And then we hard cut back to the
sword and zoom in really, really slowly until it lights up with
blue, which we all know only happens when the Halo is nearby.
And we got confirmation from Simon that that's the that means
Ava's back in this realm. And then it ends and I'm hoping.
That Ava is, she has to be close enough for that to happen,
because it doesn't just happen when she's on Earth.
And I'm hoping that she's meeting Beatrice to make out
somewhere that I'm just throwing that out there because we it
ends and we don't know. But that's what I think happens,
cuz you know, she come back with also some super fly clothing
from the other Realm and yeah, then they just hang out and.
They're dressed for a date. I don't know.
Yeah, maybe somehow she got a message through the portal.
I know you said that you love me.
I heard it nine years later when it got to me.
For real and like, meet me at our spot at 9:00 PM.
You just like I gotta. Gotta go to Switzerland or
whatever GTG peace train the recruits enjoy.
I'm Audi. I'm gonna live my life.
I got a date. Yeah, so she's about to live her
life and Ava's back. And it ends because Netflix says
so. Fuck Netflix.
Well, we've made it to the end of Warrior None Season 2, so now
it's time to get on our hydration scale.
So how many shots for by Jesus for the episode and then the
season for the episode 10 for the season?
I cannot because if I did, I'd have alcohol poisoning.
Fair. All right.
So all right. Yeah, I agree.
Episode, this is a 10. Well done.
Everything about it was great. The season?
Yeah. Enough.
Enough shots that Jesus's apostles in the wine they were
drinking at the Last Supper. That amount of alcohol.
Season. I think that's fair.
Caitlin gives it A7. Caitlin, she put it in my notes.
Caitlin gives it A7, especially with no ending.
Caitlin Salty about the Getsley Fair.
Also fair, yes? Tell us what you thought.
Obviously you guys like it. We're just screaming about it
for like, yeah, we're we're screaming.
We want to talk about it, OK? Yeah.
Like we're we're here for all your feelings, Happy and sad.
Thank you guys again for coming on the Warrior journey.
Listen, we share a brain cell, so we talk about this all the
time. Give us new brain cells to talk
to. The more brain cells, the
merrier. And so we'll see what happens
with the trilogy going to go out, the movie continuation,
whatever. So hopefully we'll be back to
happy Watch or hate watch. We'll see.
Please rather be happy. We just need some happiness and
we'll be covering other stuff in the meantime, Yes, look out for
that. Yes, look out for that.
And before we sign off, Caitlin has a Word of the Day challenge
for everybody, so if you've made it this far.
To see how many people have made it this far, Caitlin challenges
you to leave a review or a comment on whatever you're
watching or listening to the word that she wants you to spell
without looking up. So just try to spell the word
the Elzebub without looking it up and leave it as a comment or
a review for funsies. I feel like that's Adriel's
Halloween costume. Totally.
It's very fitting, so get on you, Caitlin.
So if you made it this far, please leave that as a comment
or review. Try to spell it without
Googling, No googs for you. No googs for you.
Well, that's been our warrior none journey.
Thank you for coming along with us.
And until next time I agree for lesbian Jesus and to gate up all
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