#the umbrella academy spoilers

[psycolynx]

HOW UA SHOULD HAVE ENDED

Hard cut to Klaus talking to the girl on the bicycle

Klaus: “Did we save the world or screw it up again?”

Bicycle God: “You were never the problem”

She holds up an action figure of Reginald and crushes it in her bare hands. Marigold lights emerge from it. Golden light envelops everything

Hard cut to Klaus waking up in bed. He is wearing pajamas covered in marigolds.Street noise can be heard from outside.

(From offscreen) “You okay, Hon?”

Klaus looks over and Dave is cooking breakfast in their flat

Klaus: “Yeah, just had a weird dream.”

Looks out the window and sees an empty lot where the Hargreeves mansion should be.

Klaus: “Wasn’t there a building there?”

(Naïve Melody by the Talking Heads begins to play over a montage)

Diego and Lila Are wrangling their kids into the camper van. One of the kids gives Lila a picture of her family in a field of bunch of orange flowers (marigolds)

Luther is stripping and the obsessed lady in the crowd is Sloan. He has a marigold in his mouth. He takes it out and gives it to her.

Viktor is playing the violin with Harlon. Sissy is setting the table. She sets a bouquet of marigold into a center vase.

Allison is gardening while Clare and Ray play in the yard. She is planting Marigolds.

Five is teaching at some university. An older woman comes in. “Dolores” he says as she kisses him. He has a Marigold in the lapel of his suit jacket.

Jennifer serves Ben at the dinner. Closeup on her pouring coffee. He has a Durango flower tattoo that says “Jennifer” and she had a marigold tattoo that says “Ben”

Cut back to Klaus staring out the Window

Dave: No, been an empty lot as long as I can remember

Klaus, smiles: Yeah, I don’t know why I thought that

Camera Zooms out from the window as music continues

Reginald, voiceover: And that is how our unlikely heroes manage to create one timeline where everything was fine.

BTS footage plays with the final credits 

[stevenrogered]

love it when writers don’t even remember details from their own show

[leoktzchen]

I think I’ve seen some similar takes on this already but the whole lila and five get stuck in the time line subway subplot had a lot of potential actually but they just BUTCHERED it with the whole romance thing

imo the could have just done this:

- show them bickering and arguing, fighting over wich station/line to chose next in a sibling like manner

- show lila falling asleep on fives shoulder as she keeps mumbling about some stupid thing Diego has done while five tops that story with an even more stupid anecdote from their childhood

- show five trying to shave himself without a mirror and failing miserably until lila rolls her eyes and goes “give it here you absolute imbecile” and then helping him out BUT STAYING AT A REASONABLE DISTANCE AND NOT BREATHING ALL OVER HIS FACE

- show them freezing on the subway floor, five mentioning how they could save body heat by staying close to each other, visibly uncomfortable, and lila pulls a face but they end up falling asleep shoulder to shoulder NOT CUDDLING

- show them at the greenhouse timeline, covering the walls with self-drawn maps and complicated calculations, brooding night after day after night, trying to figure this out with lila drawing little hearts on the paper with her kids initials in it

- show five finding the map on the subway, immediately rushing to tell lila whose face lights up like a supernova and as she exclaims “fuck, we’re going home!” she tries to high five him (it doesn’t really work, because five does NOT do high fives) and then pulls him in for a hug. five just about lets that happen, but he smiles a tiny smile and they arrive just in time for Christmas

basically instead of the romance that gave everyone the ick, they could have just gone for the whole sibling like dynamic between the two of them that I adored a lot in the previous season(s)!!!!

[suzieloveships]

Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy got me like

[lostfangirlz]

So the point of the umbrella academy is to not fix you’re family trauma and kill yourself for being born

[cupidsatdawn]

“It’s so hard to please tua fans”

Literally all we needed to be happy

[roguelov]

Genuinely why would Lila not be happy in a relationship with Diego???

THAT MAN WANTED TO BE A HERO, HE WANTED TO BE NUMBER ONE, HE WAS A FUCKING VIGILANTE FOR FUCKS SAKE HE KNEW THAT NORMAL LIFE SUCKED AND WANTED TO DO MORE!!!

AND YOURE TELLING ME LILA DIDNT THINK TO TALK WITH HIM ABOUT THAT SHIT?????? THAT MAN WOULD HAVE SAID ‘YES MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE GO WRECK HAVOC ILL PICK UP THE KIDS TODAY AND DONT FORGET NEXT WEEKEND ITS MY TURN TO GO PUNCH SOME PEOPLE’

DIEGO WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD “BOOKCLUB��� AND HAVE SUPPORTED IT 110%

[deadlydelicious]

They keep making fat jokes about Diego (which I already don't like because of the fatphobia of it all. The guy has 3 kids and works as a delivery driver, of course he's not fucking ripped anymore)

But David Castañeda looks....exactly the same as every other season, so it literally makes no sense?

Edit: AND THEN HE TAKES OF HIS SHIRT LATER AND HE'S LITERALLY SUPERHERO RIPPED SO WTF WAS THAT EVEN ABOUT?!

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

has anyone checked in on aidan in a while, or...?

[itsmahree]

hazel should've been a writer for s4

[laurrelise]

okay i gotta be so honest one of the ONLY good parts about season 4 is when five is sketching in his little book and lila goes “dear diary, why do i always wear suits?”

that was fucking hilarious i will die on this hill

[underdeveloped-loveinterest]

Unironically, the funniest part of tuas4 is that a version of five decided to make that cafe in the subway station and everything that's served there is bad. Five chose that menu knowing what he, and other fives, like and made the active choice to make the coffee taste bad and the food incorrect.

[navs-bhat]

Someone please answer me why does LUTHER HAVE THE APE BODY

That's not his default

His default is super strength

Please explain someone please

[vendettafrank]

klaus i love you

[acenya]

"Go to Hell” is basic.

"I hope your favorite show gets a horrible ending and your favorite character turns into a Cthulhu looking abomination that erases your other favorite characters from existence" is terrifying.

It’s possible.

It has already happened...

[cupidsatdawn]

I think the saddest and craziest part about season 4 is how they were able to work with a boy since he was 13 YEARS OLD and give him and a love interest who is 15 YEARS OLDER THAN HIM?! When he just turned legal age, it was as if they were waiting for him to turn legal age so that they could do this weird pedophilic home-wrecking relationship, but genuinely, there’s a need to be more protection for child actors, because what is this, and I’m sincerely sorry for Aidan and other child actors who had to go through this kind of stuff.