The Umbrella Academy
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So heres the good news: Allison isnt dead after all.
Since her superpower relies entirely on being able to speak, her superheroic abilities have been utterly neutralized.
For all intents and purposes, shes what Vanya always seemed to be: ordinary.
And maybeThe Umbrella Academyis gearing up to make the case that thats not such a bad thing.
Long before her horrific injury, Allison had decided not to use her superpower anymore.
And its not like being superheroes has brought anything but conflict and misery to her siblings.
In flashback, we see the circumstances that led Hargreeves to suppress her powers in the first place.
Now Vanyas powers are back, and Hargreeves isnt around to unring that bell.
Her new mentor, Leonard, gets her to flee back to his place.
Come on, dude.)
And then he keeps hugging her.
And wont let go until she finally passes out.
What I like about this scenario is that there are no easy answers.
It is also undeniable that Vanya represents a massive threat to the people around her.
Theres only so much her family can do for her now.
Maybe this could have been different.
Maybe things would have leveled out if Hargreeves had trusted Vanya enough to continue her childhood training.
But this situation has spiraled out of control.
There are no good answers to this problem.
And its about to get a lot worse, because Vanya has also grown more powerful than anyone understands.
I guess she plans to drown Agnes while forcing Hazel to watch?
She wants … well, she wantssomethingfrom them.
I guess well find out in the finale.
Episode eight came in at around 50 minutes; this episode clocks in at an extra-punchy 44 minutes.
Like Vanya, Klaus seems to be discovering superpowers he didnt even know he had.
Now sober, he discovers he can have brief physical contact with the dead.
He also quizzes Five about time travel presumably to see if he can do it too.
Truly a Cinderella story for our time.
Five returns Dolores to the department store and says good-bye.
He mentions that they spent 23-and-a-half million minutes together, which works out to almost 45 years.
I wonder if Mrs. Kowalski ever found Mr. Puddles.
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