Boris
09-02-2010, 11:10 PM
And the show goes on.
As a special end-of-summer offer, I've decided to take turns providing Full Recaps and Reviews™.
Yes, it's worse than you think: I'm starting to like writing them.
Anyway, let's go. Mind the usual MAJOR SPOILERS alert.
We were left with Hughie, shocked with the revelation of his girlfriend's true job, fatally running into Butcher, in what seemed to be a crucial, long waited showdown.
Will Hughie confess the horrible secret to his cruel, vengeful, prone to anger boss?
Will said boss extract bloody vengeance from his treacherous, incompetent, clumsy servant?
Aaaw, what were we thinking?
Billy couldn't care less. He already knows all, and more.
Instead, he's thinking of the implications. Is Annie a spy for the Seven? Has Hughie carelessly told her something about the Boys?
Hughie, being conceived to be the comic relief of the series, suddenly freaks out, fearing Billy will kill him for being a traitor (which is precisely what Billy wanted to do a couple months ago, but let's not talk about that). Even Billy realizes this is totally moronic, and joins us in a burst of laughter, jokingly telling Hughie to grow a spine.
I wish to say I'm particularly happy with Butcher's attitude in this arc. It's a badly needed change of tone, from the Dumb Paranoid With A Bloodlust of the later issues to the Smart Paranoid With A Brain of Believe. Ok, he's still a slimy, heartless bastard, but at least he's behaving with a logic. Notice how he suddenly changes from friendly confident to patronizing uncle to inquisitor from hell, and back. It's the old good cop/bad cop game, and he's playing it all by himself. Not bad. Read further for more.
Meanwhile, Homelander and Annie are on a coffe break at Believe.
Without any meaningful reason, Homelander congrats with Annie (yes, you've read it right) for standing up against Vought Guy. Annie notes that it didn't change anything, but nevertheless Homie suggests to make sure he's having a bad time (actually, Homelander's masterplan is trying to make VG die of heartstroke, a task easily accomplished in a couple of centuries). If they can't disobey his orders, they can at least bear a grudge.
Somebody please call dr.Freud, we've a brand new set of complexes to study here.
(Wait. I've had a brainwave. Notice how Hughie's relationship with the Boys matches perfectly Annie's relationship with the Seven: shady hirings, shocking startings, crisis, etc. That's interesting.)
(And what if now Homelander trusts her enough to invite her to join his Doomsday Plan??? Hey, that's two brainwaves in a row! Thank Beer.)
Anyway, there's time for an update call from Frenchie (which is only an excuse to show the Female's grim revenge on the lollipop-stealing kid, that I found hilarious), and then it's time for the serious stuff.
Hughie and Billy are back home, when suddenly a furious MM rushes out of the office. It seems somebody stole his milk flask, forcing him to run to his momma, and leaving our pals all alone. What an unlucky coincidence.
And now, behold!
Hughie is a bit of frustrated. Why didn't anyone know that Annie was Starlight and tell him (don't know what you're talking about, laddie)?
After all, they have cams all over the Seven base.
And who the hell placed those cams in the first place?
After an exchange of looks that will bury Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in a grave forever, Billy spits it out.
The mole is Maeve.
(Yep, the big secret is over. Isn't Billy a good mate?)
We're told Maeve contacted the Legend out of spite for the Homelander, and the Legend in turn set up a meeting with Billy and Mallory. Long story short, Maeve agreed to place those cameras, if only to cause major embarassments to the Seven (and, beware, all this happened "ten years ago", so it's nothing to do with the 9/11 accident). Official reason for this double cross seems to be a nice set of photos portraying Maeve having wild sex with someone looking as Homelander, who is also prime suspect, that somehow were leaked.
FOR THE DELIGHT OF US ALL, HUGHIE ASKS TO SEE THEM, AND BUTCHER PROVIDES.
(I am sure you were interested)
The Legend buys it, Mallory buys it, but Butcher doesn't. After all, thanks to her there's now plenty of photos, videos and all the rest providing tons of pics and movies showing Maeve drinking herself into stupor and having nasty threesomes, and for all she knows they could go on Youporn live 24/7 (I'm actually surprised Vought American didn't think of a superhero XXX line of merchandise. To hell with comics!). But she doesn't care at all, so the real reason must be something else.
Ok, we'll talk about this later, now comes the best.
After an awful lot of "You're my buddy" "You're one of the team", "it's gonna be alright" speeches, Billy goes out with an excuse, and Hughie is left all alone at the pc.
Just he and the Seven videos.
With a terrible coincidence, the player shows THAT video.
And a sad (or sadistic???) Billy takes a deep meditation about tough love.
It's moments like these that remind me why I love Ennis.
As a special end-of-summer offer, I've decided to take turns providing Full Recaps and Reviews™.
Yes, it's worse than you think: I'm starting to like writing them.
Anyway, let's go. Mind the usual MAJOR SPOILERS alert.
We were left with Hughie, shocked with the revelation of his girlfriend's true job, fatally running into Butcher, in what seemed to be a crucial, long waited showdown.
Will Hughie confess the horrible secret to his cruel, vengeful, prone to anger boss?
Will said boss extract bloody vengeance from his treacherous, incompetent, clumsy servant?
Aaaw, what were we thinking?
Billy couldn't care less. He already knows all, and more.
Instead, he's thinking of the implications. Is Annie a spy for the Seven? Has Hughie carelessly told her something about the Boys?
Hughie, being conceived to be the comic relief of the series, suddenly freaks out, fearing Billy will kill him for being a traitor (which is precisely what Billy wanted to do a couple months ago, but let's not talk about that). Even Billy realizes this is totally moronic, and joins us in a burst of laughter, jokingly telling Hughie to grow a spine.
I wish to say I'm particularly happy with Butcher's attitude in this arc. It's a badly needed change of tone, from the Dumb Paranoid With A Bloodlust of the later issues to the Smart Paranoid With A Brain of Believe. Ok, he's still a slimy, heartless bastard, but at least he's behaving with a logic. Notice how he suddenly changes from friendly confident to patronizing uncle to inquisitor from hell, and back. It's the old good cop/bad cop game, and he's playing it all by himself. Not bad. Read further for more.
Meanwhile, Homelander and Annie are on a coffe break at Believe.
Without any meaningful reason, Homelander congrats with Annie (yes, you've read it right) for standing up against Vought Guy. Annie notes that it didn't change anything, but nevertheless Homie suggests to make sure he's having a bad time (actually, Homelander's masterplan is trying to make VG die of heartstroke, a task easily accomplished in a couple of centuries). If they can't disobey his orders, they can at least bear a grudge.
Somebody please call dr.Freud, we've a brand new set of complexes to study here.
(Wait. I've had a brainwave. Notice how Hughie's relationship with the Boys matches perfectly Annie's relationship with the Seven: shady hirings, shocking startings, crisis, etc. That's interesting.)
(And what if now Homelander trusts her enough to invite her to join his Doomsday Plan??? Hey, that's two brainwaves in a row! Thank Beer.)
Anyway, there's time for an update call from Frenchie (which is only an excuse to show the Female's grim revenge on the lollipop-stealing kid, that I found hilarious), and then it's time for the serious stuff.
Hughie and Billy are back home, when suddenly a furious MM rushes out of the office. It seems somebody stole his milk flask, forcing him to run to his momma, and leaving our pals all alone. What an unlucky coincidence.
And now, behold!
Hughie is a bit of frustrated. Why didn't anyone know that Annie was Starlight and tell him (don't know what you're talking about, laddie)?
After all, they have cams all over the Seven base.
And who the hell placed those cams in the first place?
After an exchange of looks that will bury Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in a grave forever, Billy spits it out.
The mole is Maeve.
(Yep, the big secret is over. Isn't Billy a good mate?)
We're told Maeve contacted the Legend out of spite for the Homelander, and the Legend in turn set up a meeting with Billy and Mallory. Long story short, Maeve agreed to place those cameras, if only to cause major embarassments to the Seven (and, beware, all this happened "ten years ago", so it's nothing to do with the 9/11 accident). Official reason for this double cross seems to be a nice set of photos portraying Maeve having wild sex with someone looking as Homelander, who is also prime suspect, that somehow were leaked.
FOR THE DELIGHT OF US ALL, HUGHIE ASKS TO SEE THEM, AND BUTCHER PROVIDES.
(I am sure you were interested)
The Legend buys it, Mallory buys it, but Butcher doesn't. After all, thanks to her there's now plenty of photos, videos and all the rest providing tons of pics and movies showing Maeve drinking herself into stupor and having nasty threesomes, and for all she knows they could go on Youporn live 24/7 (I'm actually surprised Vought American didn't think of a superhero XXX line of merchandise. To hell with comics!). But she doesn't care at all, so the real reason must be something else.
Ok, we'll talk about this later, now comes the best.
After an awful lot of "You're my buddy" "You're one of the team", "it's gonna be alright" speeches, Billy goes out with an excuse, and Hughie is left all alone at the pc.
Just he and the Seven videos.
With a terrible coincidence, the player shows THAT video.
And a sad (or sadistic???) Billy takes a deep meditation about tough love.
It's moments like these that remind me why I love Ennis.