The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: The Boys Season 3, Episode 7 - "Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed" Review!!

Episode Date: June 30, 2022

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Oh, no. Holy Christ. No, no, no, no. Oh, no. I don't believe. it that is insane oh my god no no no who's your daddy wow wow wow holy moly that is a plot twist yeah i did not see that coming i did not see that coming christ Papa, can you hear me?

You know, it doesn't have the exciting, like, fight factor of, you know, watching Homelander versing, you know, the Butcher Huey and Soldier Boy, but I think I like that episode more. I think I might have to. It's further down the spiral, you know, it's interesting. They've mixed in the drama this season in a very interesting way. And, yeah, everyone's trying to protect their family today. Yeah, it sounds exciting as the hero-gasm episode,

but there was something really compelling about the drama throughout that I thought was very much gravitated towards. Yeah. Too soon to tell. Could be, you know, recent bias. Yeah. Well, we got to see the Deep have sex with an octopus.

So, you know, there's some craziness in this episode, too. Cartoons coming to life, you know, filling in some of the gaps. Good dumb ass. No one's ever going to be dumb. No, someone else. Believe me, I've tried. Doesn't work. The one fetish, no one actually has.

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Mindstorm? What is the... I think it was mindstorm. Yeah, something like that. Had a feeling he would die, um, only because that image from the trailer, it kept coming into my frickin' brink. of soldiers specifically the thought that they showed in the trailer and pounding down the grass I'm like that looks like it's this episode it's probably these here woods yeah but I was like I gotta hope it doesn't but uh yeah there's so much to love about this uh so far I mean like

Jensen Ackles is just knocking it out of the park and in a lot of ways when you find out this twist of like he's the father of soldier boy in so many ways you're like this is so twisted and it's like could be the perfect relationship that a homeland or he could have ever asked for to have this guy as his dad who better to identify with and to show you the ropes than someone who's confident in these old values that don't apply for today as much as it is it is like that is wonderfully woven i don't know if it's like that in the comics um but in terms of the storytelling for the show that's a mindblower right there like it's it's so much because the the possibilities and now it makes me hope more than ever that they keep soldier boy alive yeah that they don't

kill him off because i mean jensenackles is just doing an an excellent job like truly an excellent job and uh like he's he's like he's kind of scary you know and it will make he's unhinged in other ways that you know but he also I like I really like that scene with the priest and the nun because you do believe Huey that dude no you're just being paranoid

it might be the drugs it's whatever's happening in your mind he finds out he's turning like oh yeah this guy's he actually is because as much as there's the whole thing about how he didn't actually storm Normandy you know that that was all just a front at the same time you do see that

but he he is lethal and he can kill anyone and he's a good soldier he's a good warrior yeah and uh he knows how to intimidate and uh i think i think uh you know he's there's trying to figure out what like what makes him likable even though jensenackles doesn't try to make this guy likable i yeah i think about just the confidence or you know i don't know what it is yeah it's like the calmness with which he does most thing not everything but there's like a certain level of like yeah he just seems so like assured and steady. And it also seems like

if you don't piss him off, he'll probably be fine unless you're, you know, somebody that society back when he was around didn't accept so much. It's weird.

Yeah, I wonder how I would feel if I'd never seen Jensen Ackles on Supernatural, but part of it is like, I really have been enjoying the subtle difference of character because he does

really feel like somebody out of that time, somebody who is that sort of loner who, You know, is very much an archetypical man, but who probably does have some issues, but not in the way, like, a Vietnam veteran has, like, you know, he feels very of that great war, you know, World War II sort of era. And I feel like there's maybe something that comes with that that is just a bit homey or quaint when it's not the ugly parts of it.

Yeah. Or something. Because, yeah, he just really inhabits it so well. And, you know, obviously you have, like, Chris Evans to bounce off of because obviously, This is a riff on Captain America and the comics and blah, blah. But I feel like there's something just so gratifying and so rich about what he does and the fact that it is kind of perfect casting, but that he's also really able to bring these layers to it.

And yeah, you really feel, I think, the sort of, I don't know, there's something like really authentic feeling to me about how kind of hard to tell where his allegiance will ultimately lie and how much. on the same side you can be with him yeah um but yeah i mean they interplay with with him and butcher and hughy but then to go one step further and take butcher out of the mix and just him and hughy i thought was was so fun to watch well we don't really know yet how much the the fame and all that matters to him right now yeah you know whereas like homelander thrive so much off of that on the image where it's like yeah he you know he cares about that or at least he did care about that but who is he now

like is the soldier boy of today the kind of guy who would give a shit about that or would he just want to be like you're my kid i'm on your side yeah because you could totally see it seemed like inevitable that there's going to be something that happens that makes them team up i did not see that twist coming and it seems like there were these some seeds planted but it seems like there'd be something planted that allude to that in some way but it was you know like you got some little subtle things and make you look back of like Homeland or revealing

that you were my hero I watched all of your movies and that hey like Stan Edgar and the flashbacks of the animated version of Black Noir's memories saying that there's a baby and it thinks it'll be better than soldier boy it's just like there's some things that make you they could have made did you guys ever anyone in the comments did you guys honestly ever guess that that might be the twist because that is a hell of a twist of me and it just creates such a fascinating complexity and

like what direction will they go in the finale like what are they going to do now that is such a great groundwork for a finale where you're like i have no clue what's going to happen i have no clue other than the fact that it seems like they might team up or soldier boy still might want to take him out or homelander still might want to take him out but either way it creates a nuance i did just i could not anticipate and uh i respect the hell out of that um so much because this season's got me on edge like oh yeah i think that's why i like this more because i'm just so tense the whole time i'm watching it and i and i don't recall being like this like shoulders shrugging the whole time of like i could feel the tension in my shoulders that i'm so worried that's people i care

about are are gonna die at some point or there's something's gonna even with like todd and and and and and and and and and and and i'm thinking like does Todd have a gun like that's where my mind was going it really feels again like anything could happen and it's in a way that makes it i don't know i'm pulled into the point where I'm not sitting there trying to predict things, but at the same time, it also isn't, yeah, raising these obvious things where I'm like, oh, this is probably coming or that's probably coming. Like, it does feel dangerous, and it does feel like

you can't really trust anybody, you can't talk too loud. Like, they've done a really nice job at developing these stakes. And two, I think it's good that they temper the morality with things like what happened with, you know, mind wave or whatever his name was, where it's like, you know, you have huge And it's such a narrative convention for it's like, yeah, he makes him this promise and it is a merciful promise and it's well within Huey's character, but it goes so poorly.

And I mean, it's not that one of the main characters got killed. This guy just showed up this episode for the most part and, you know, is now dead. But at the same time, that moment made the things feel unpredictable from a dramatic sense of like, yeah, you assume that, no, Huey's going to get, he was going to make good on this and that's going to make things. whereas for the home uh you know for the uh soldier boy story whereas now i'm like i don't even know where that is i'm like because he just you know murked the guy on the spot it didn't seem like he really stopped to listen to what they were doing or talking about so it's like i could imagine some version of this uneasy alliance with hewey and butcher continuing i could also imagine it going completely awry and i love that you know each episode they'd manage to cultivate that quality

or even with kimiko and frenchie every time we see them it's like i'm so afraid someone is going to spray bullets through the room or one of them is going to explode or something. Like when they put it when she took the V again, I was like oh God, please don't do something horrific right now because yeah, everything feels volatile and alive.

I don't know if this is intentional, but this is more of like the kind of commentary that I usually like from the boys because we had like one nitpick about the whole thing with A-Train and Blue Hawk the scene wherever the shit show went down

where it seemed like it was just a little too overt for our tastes. It was the, it just seemed like crazy timing right now with, you know, what's been going on in America lately, women's choices of what to do with their bodies. So it's fascinating to have this thing with Kimiko, who has his character arc of someone who's always felt like, you know, cursed and ashamed of who and what she is and a big, Part of this is her deciding what to do with her powers and the choice to put it back inside of her. And that's her choice of what to do with her body. And it didn't sound like political commentary.

Women are allowed to do what they want. They should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies. It's their choice. But then when I, you know, when the episode ends and I pause thinking about it. I'm like, oh, that's kind of like what they're, I don't know if that's the intention. That's the least what I'm getting from. It's part of the conversation. Yeah.

Well, and if you look across the episode. then you have Queen Mave, who is being stripped of that bodily autonomy. We're going to harvest your eggs. And also, though, at the same breath, her taking the alternate choice of, I cannot wait until I am free of this. I choose to give it up, you know? They shot this episode two days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got up to date the scripts. Guys, can we get everybody back in here really quick? We've got to be topical. It's a political. It'll be topical. All so much stuff's happening in America. Slow down. Uh, yeah.

I really like that. Because I like how it just feeds into character arcs for them. And even for Maeve, who has not had much screen time this season, but, you know, as someone who has been so afraid in the last couple of seasons and then slowly found the strength to come out at the end. Ha ha, ha, didn't mean the gay thing, but sure, why not? She did. Not by her choice, though.

And but at the end of the second season, and here, you know, it seemed, I like the mislead of, like, you see. or sword training. She's practicing, gearing up, ready for battle, and that's not at all what's happening, which she is learning, instead of, like, pulling some sneak attack maneuver, you know, kind of like what payback did to Soldier Boy, she's just unafraid now, like, she could die by anything she says, she could just get anything wrong. Like, she could say the wrong thing to set off Homeland or to laser her face. And she doesn't care anymore. Like, She's already in her own mind sort of won just by the sheer fact that Homelander,

she gets a witness in being afraid and being weak. And I like that they've allowed her character to go down that path too. So it's really cool what they've been doing with the arcs of everyone here and then also watching the turmoil they go through because even with Butcher, you know, I like that they were correlating past memories to scenes from. other episodes not from this season. Yeah. So I don't know like how much of the backstory, like these specific core memories that Butcher had

were always part of the writing. We're always there. Like of course it was always implied, especially with the second season, bringing up Lenny, getting the father into the equation, having a confrontation with him. Of course that was always there. It's just these specific memories that do mirror very specific sequences from moments, from season one like when he's beating i forget haley joel osman's character name oh yeah yeah but when he's beating him in the bathroom or when he when he hits hughy in season two um or even or even like the

fact of how he you know tries to get rid of hughy in a lot of ways is like or abandoned hughy is like how he abandoned his brother so i think the correlations the connection the connective tissues that they they strong together from not just because it's easy to kind of just pull from this season usually when you do some type of memory shit like that but the way the editing worked and then to pull from those moments i thought was really neat because it does make it feel like it was always intentional whether it was or not it at least feels like it was those scenes were always intentional to those core memories yeah absolutely and i think it's a really it's a it's a nifty choice as a way to humanize a character and to dig below the surface without feeling

like you lost the character or something like that because especially butcher i feel like you know the Part of the charm and part of the fun is because of how high those walls are. Yeah. And so, yeah, I thought this was a nicely oriented. I mean, it's a harsh storyline. Can't say that word anymore. That's racist. Oh, I'm sorry. A nicely Chinese way to do that.

It was a nicely, it was a conscientiously considered way of plopping that device into the story. and yeah it's like it's it's great because it's in the moment in reality it's like oh crap this is a wrench we didn't account for but also like it really is hard to watch him go through that continually and to see the way that he breaks down over time and and i think carl urban you know he's so much like there's all tons and tons and tons of praise and love for his performance on this show but i thought here it really underpinned how he's so great because it's in those little in between nuanced moments like when he's having that whole reverie at the end when he's standing there considering everything that's just happened soldier boys in the next room he gets the call from annie and you just watch what's happening in his face as he's trying to do the right thing but he just can't fully connect to making the progress and it's there's just yeah it was like again the show has all the pulp and all this fun enjoyable craziness but also they know really well how to you know punch the feels in a way that doesn't feel cloying or cheap or you know oh i've seen this

a thousand times before and i mean we have seen stories like this before but it feels authentic to this character well he i mean he's always been um i guess the difference is is like how he just end up like a murderous monster is he a lot of that is stemmed from him also simultaneously being a protector because he was always a protector of his younger brother so that's he's always kind of been like a there's always been a monster inside this guy that's also been a hero simultaneously yeah yeah so i like the gray that's painted there and even it would felt like a more realistic choice is you know you think after seeing like you know flashback galore and whatever trope it might be where you know modern day character gets to walk through past circumstances of traumatic memories

usually that means like he's going to be softer now he's going to say something that's going to show he's really grown and learned from what happened here now i don't know it could all be like a manipulation tactic because we've seen that happen many times now where he says something he lures friend to situation we just saw recently on the flip on the opposite side of something more messed up with Mother's Milk with Soldier Boy when he drugged Mother's Milk like lured him in but then had a secret motive and so

it could be the same thing but you know with something positive of like I'm just going to act like we're going to get more V-24 and then really he's going to like hide him somewhere or some shit out yeah or take some place to make him dry out yeah it could be that

that's going to be the finale is just Huey and butcher in a locked room trying to sweat it out but I like the ending choice for the moment at least that it because it wouldn't feel undercut if that it's the reveal in the next episode it won't because in the immediate moment i like the choice that also feels just as human for him to not have learned because that's real that's people in real life all the time it's a mess the issue is the identity he has of himself is as i am the one who destroys the lives of people around me and of course the nice thought is to you know be like oh i'm aware of this now and i

will not do it but the reality thought the real world is most people just live off of the identity they have of themselves which is if he the real person would go i destroy lives around me so i'm going to you know whether i like it or not and uh so i like the human quality of that but like i said come next episode if he's not really going to do that i'm not going to feel like something was cheaped out or something like that because it still hits um yeah absolutely it's one of those things too where you know you could fully see him falling back into that that trap of thinking that leaving is going to help right the opposite of helping or or something like that pulling away is going to help when it's not well and homelander getting fooled by starlight surprise they didn't

and he just can go and kill her. I was surprised that, like, Holmiter just didn't snap. He's getting the public back. But that was such a not really move by Starlight because I was like, because even her, I'm like, he's going to kill her. He's going to kill her. He's going to kill her. He's going to kill her. He's going to do it. He's going to do it. And I loved that moment when she did whip out the phone and how he just like panics at the side of that.

There's got to be a way to spin the soldier boy thing because now it's like, you know like as much as homelander is the the head of vaught now and as much as homelander likes to people's attention vaught is also in some ways his number one enemy for everything they did to him as a child and and to now you know a lot of it is vaught is his enemy and vaught is also soldier boy's enemy so you know like we go on a whole rabbit hole of predictions right now yeah of of what can surmise but this show has taught me to fear the worst yeah I mean I think I think in terms of week to week like this is the best the boys has ever been yeah uh it is and I I did rewatch the first two seasons and so I like I think the first one is a really tight like I love a lot of there's things

about season two I love more than season one um but I think season one is just a great like solid first season like it's pretty all rounded yeah yeah even though has a definite not a finite ending because of the cliffhanger um the that is a great season this one though i mean depending on how they landed so far it is shaping up to be like this might be the best one and i'm currently feeling that and i love everything they're doing with like everyone's so engaging and you know mm what he's dealing with with trying to be a dad and i want to bring it back a little bit more to you know mm's motives here with soldier war because i feel like we've kind of it's it's it's never really seem like a it serves as a way to get you worried that something's

going to happen at m but it's never really like even in this episode i i kind of lost side of that like oh yeah he he wants to kill soldier boy for what happened to his family like i even forgot about it for in the in the moment of watching this and i feel like that's a very important thing that has to be executed in some way not saying he has to kill soldier boy but something with that storyline has to feel fulfilled something needs to give and i wonder if there's going to be anything any direct acknowledging or direct kind of reckoning with the fact that they it's like his daughter is being slowly indoctrinated into homelanderism by todd and just the environment that she's in clearly mom is probably at least somewhat concerned about this but

probably doesn't have the reach to make sure that nothing happens there and so it it make me wonder for as much as his mission surrounds soldier boy depending on what happens with soldier boy and homelander it seems like there i can see an inroad for him kind of needing to stow some of his soldier boy rage so that homelander perhaps could be taken out which we assume he probably wouldn't be but again i like that mystery and i have liked his journey across the show it's like even though the most pertinent parts of his story don't feel as engaged in an episode like this let's say I still really appreciate what they're doing with him and it still feels like part of a well-rounded character's story and I do appreciate that they have two modes for him to explore you have his past and his core wounds with soldier boy but you also have the very present that has to do with homelander and his family and I find both of those pretty engaging and now it's more like I want to see him back with the boys though yeah like I want to see him fully fledged back with the boys and and oh man just quick mention. They're good to it

at like if a character only shows up for one scene or like a couple brief moments. They're good at making those moments have impact because like A-Raean with that whole thing of like getting Blue Hawk's heart transplant and like I still don't even... It's like some Jordan Peel shit. I know. It's like what a

horrific nightmare and you're sitting there watching the scene and that's a scene that I think benefits from how brief it is because I'm watching his performance and I'm like okay I can see kind of the shock and horror, but also I can absolutely see how even here or now in this moment, you're probably being suckered back in with the, well, I could, you know, perform to the best of my abilities again, and I can be back on top and I can have movies and I can be a hero, I'd be on the seven. So I'm like, oh, the fight for his soul, even just for that one scene, like, I feel like that is the theme of that character specifically is like, every time you're like, you're so close to get to actual moral human levels.

Yeah. Pulls it right back. I'm curious to see where they go with that character I am fascinated by it because yeah you're you described it perfectly what what they do with him because I thought that was like so disturbing what they did like it's not a victory in the slightest and to have these like

like the it does feel you know like they brought up like the Black Lives Matter and they have done the commentary with him but it's like you are seeing how these corporate white folk are controlling the life and narrative of this black man's life yeah and just the scope of cruelty it's cruel it is it is it is even for a trade i'm like damn that is a cruel thing to do to put this racist white man's heart and put it inside it he literally is going to carry it with him yeah um everywhere he goes how is he going to speak to his brother god uh that is uh that is so that is so cruel and like

the way ashley has just descended to like just so far down the rabbit hole oh yeah corporate PR spin it's so it's so disgust so morbid and um i mean i love the show for doing that oh yeah yeah it's inspired it's inspired cruelty and it's also something that's like outlandish, but then you're like, well, I could see somebody doing this under the right circumstances to keep up, you know, to take an opportunity. You know, keep up the company line. And the stuff with the Deep is just so. So embarrassing.

You'd think you'd have some awareness that you probably would not be into that. Like, dude, you know that people aren't into that like you. Yeah. I'm surprised that deep never found like a message board for that. I feel like you would know. I feel like there's something that seemed off about the character choice in that moment because we've seen him in like other seasons be so ashamed of just the fact that he has gills on his body.

And two, like anytime he does something sexual with the fish this season even is he's like a kid litter no, you know, it seems like furtive and he's like he's trying to hide it. And you know, it's like I guess the arguments he made is like he's been climbing the ranks again and becoming popular again. and then he center of the you know the dissolution

that he is uh you know respected he's not and so I can imagine that he's resorting back with his old behavior now and thinking he can just kind of get away

whatever he wants and that he's earned his way there and because he has relied on his what's his wife's name I forget her name god I wish I remembered um I mean props to her because that's also like

as an actor I wonder what it's like to be that role where so much of you is like the presence and just like you know being off to the side and encouraging but she has such a presence well she's not just encouraging she's manipulating yeah yeah yeah and really holding great interest in the outcomes of all these things yeah yeah yeah that's so gross I know are we going to see I mean we got to see that Hannity appearance yeah yeah we got to see what the deep is like on his own um gonna watch him flounder well because there's a a wonderfully woven episode and oh and black noir can't forget that

this is his episode in a lot of ways too uh what information did homelander get from newman we never learned that right yeah i don't think we did um yeah god them too oh see they take shot of liberals too yes right they were home i mean they're maybe not as much but they're there. The Democrats are the part of the same broken machine. The third party. We need some alternative

to this. We got the one main character to do that towards... Can you enact true change within the system that breaks your back? I mean, the black noir character has always been hyper-sensitive

and it's kind of been like what's made him likable is how sensitive he is in these random moments like playing piano, we're crying or something like that. So I... Or is it not allergies.

Yeah, I like how they're really, like, doubling down on it, but it's cool how they brought it back into, like, a disturbing formula again, to see these flashbacks, but through child animation, child and hand-drawn animation. Yeah, it's... Messed up. And, yeah, it's like, it's just the right amount of demented, because you're like, well, he wasn't much younger when all this happened, and if you had your brains bashed, I guess you would crack a little too. Yeah, because you did see his face messed up, and then, but you didn't see how that happened. Yeah, and so I think like as an unveiling, you know, like I think, I think season two of the boys felt a little bit more like you have to, you kind of got to get a little bit more of this in a binge. Yeah. Like some episodes worked really well week to week and then a part, a big part of it felt like you kind of needed more.

But since episode one, when they did release all three, this just felt like it could have been week to week. from the very first episode and uh i think this i think that's a big part of what makes this season stronger yeah than the others because individually each episode is worth like taking a breather from and just absorbing what they did for that one episode yeah each one stands as a piece definitely um all right guys well thank you so much for being here uh thank you to story blocks for sponsoring this video you can check us out on patreon as well what did you guys think uh leave your thoughts down below and hey let's send this last but not least with a patron of the day shout out john shout out ryan cross project if you do not successfully know how to obviously link this to

the boys i would be so ashamed of ryan cross project ryan okay listen so you uh are the little boy homelander's son and you're getting mad. Ryan's a little bit cross. But what if we got Ryan mad at the right thing? That's the project. Because if we can aim Ryan's anger in the right direction, we could get a leg up on Homelander because think about it. He slags his son off in speech,

but he's got to have some kind of familial connection or bond. And I think you would be a perfect, living embodiment of a, you know, more grown Ryan from the show, which is why I'm hoping we can parlay this here shoutout. The other Ryan, I assume your name in real life must be Ryan Cross, and the project of this shoutout is to get you a guest spot as a flash forward version of Ryan on a future season of, uh, what's the Spanish for boy? Um, the boys. I don't I was going to say, like, Los Ombrace or something, but that's the friends. You know, Los Ninos, there you go.

Los Ninos, that's my project for you, Ryan Cross. I want to see you on the not-so-big-but-big production value screen, my dude, my guy, my buddy, my pal. Hope you're doing well. And don't laser anyone's face off. Could you do that? You did it. Thank you. I tried.

Thank you.