Ok so Umbrella Academy Season 3 ends with a big cliffhanger that seems like it's ripped
right out of the ending of Fight Club. Even the ending shots are set up in the same way
and if you're here then it probably means you have no idea what's going on.
Well you're in luck chump as throughout this video we're gonna be going over the biggest
WTF questions to give you some clarity on what exactly is happening in the show.
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Season 3!
Ok so the first big question I think we need to talk about is Who Is Sir Reginald Hargreeves.
Well in the series we have had hints towards his backstory and Season one's final episode
opened with him at his wife's Abigails side as she lay in her death bed. Season 2 showed
us that he's infact an alien and this opening scene in ten was actually his home planet.
He said farewell to Abigail and took with him not only a jar of Orbs that he opened
up but also a white Violin that he later gifted to Victor. Now in the comics we get some of
what happens after this fleshed out when we read more about the character. We discover
that his planet was dying along with his wife and that he set out amongst the Cosmos in
his private Vessel the Minerva. This was with his private bodyguard Abhijat who doesn't
feature in the comics and instead a lot of his role is shifted over to Pogo.
On Earth Hargreeves invested in several businesses, he became a Nobel Prize Winner and also an
Olypmic Gold Medalist.
In Season 2 when the family travelled back in time we discovered that he had teamed up
with the Majestic 12, a group of illuminati-esque members who have some basis in the real world.
For decades now there have been conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious members
that make it up and they're meant to be a number of high ranking scientists, military
leaders and government officials. According to the rumours they control world events and
also hide the existence of UFOs.
The group was apparently formed all the way back in 1947 under the orders of President
Truman and after recovering an alien spacecraft they began to cover up the truth from humanity.
They and Hargreeves worked together for a long time and he helped them in several technological
advances which is when he became so involved in the space race. We discover in Season 2
that he's attempting to reach the Dark Side of The Moon, which we learn the reason for
in Season 3.
Turns out Abigail is there and I believe that his ship crash landed on Earth after dropping
her there which is why he was desperate to get back. She may have been shot out in an
escape pod esque station which we see Luther was put in charge of guarding.
Now Hargreeves ended up severing ties with the group after he discovered that they were
complicit in the assassination of JFK. After that he went into somewhat obscurity, formed
the academy and enacted the next part of his plan.
Now I believe that the Hotel itself might actually be his downed ship. When the environment
transforms around it it seems like some kind of vessel with a cockpit inside of it. I think
that Hargreeves plan was to reset the Universe and he wished to unleash the orbs, let them
get absorbed into women in order to create life, take these children, nuture them until
they matured and then use them as a way to power up the machine.
This would then allow for the unvierse to restart so that he could be with Abigail.
This explains why he got involved in the space race, tried to get to the dark side of the
moon and also trained the academy. However it might also be possible that you can just
sacrifice lives in order to start it up, but adding the orbs into it explains why the 7
members at the end don't need to die in order for it to be charged.
I think that the ship carried it's own defence mechanisms in the guardians and that this
stopped him from accessing the ship which is we see with the Soldiers.
He sent a number in but they were all wiped out and thus he decided to train the Umbrella
and Sparrow Academy so that they'd be strong enough to take them on. In the training session
we see they're literally fighting over a bell on the floor, which foreshadows the seven
bells that he talks about them having to ring.
We also learn that there were 43 women who ended up giving birth to children with special
abilities and that he tried to adopt all of them. However he only managed to get Seven,
making me think that he wanted backups just incase the others either left or died.
Now he originally tried this with the Umbrella academy but due to Ben dying and Number 5
disappearing they slowly started to fracture and eventually the group split up. Thus he
ended up taking his own life in order to bring them back together for his funeral. My guess
is that he had put the pieces in place so that they'd discover the hotel and then they
themselves would end up powering the machine up with the universe being reset through that.
This would then bring him back to life and he could carry out his own plan.
However, things went awry and after the apocalypse happened they had to travel back in time.
This eventually led to them meeting Hargreeves and after he realised that they weren't the
kind of students he could train he started to track down others.
This was basically his endgame and Hargreeves is really the villain of the show with his
ultimate goal being to reset the universe so that he can be with his wife.
Judging by the final scene it seems like they rule over the entire world and that the pair
have their fingers in every form of industry and infastructure. With her at his side he
likely changed the face of the planet and will probably be the big bad come the next
season.
Now his plan to restart the universe would've happened either way without the apocalypse
or not. We discover that Project Oblivion is something that he wanted to carry out for
a long time and that it's the reason Pogo ended up leaving his employment. This was
a suicide mission and discovering this is also why the Sparrows decided to medicate
him so that he couldn't manipulate them into doing it. Klaus stopping him from taking his
pills allowed the character to get back into his proper frame of mind and he ended up manipulating
him for most of the season. He became an apparently good father and this made Klaus try and win
him favour with the family once more. Hargreeves then planted the idea in their head about
resetting the universe and he killed Luther to unite the group.
This was his plan all along and it didn't really matter if there was a Kugelblitz or
not.
Now that kinda leads us into my next question which is 'Why Was The Kugelblitz created?'
Well this ties into Harlan killing the mothers of the Umbrella Academy. After he ended up
getting his own special abilities he said he felt them upon his mother's death. However,
he couldn't control his powers and thus he killed their mothers instead. This meant that
they were never born and thus if they were never born then they could never have created
the new timeline by travelling back in time and then travelling to the future to be part
of it cos..it's a lot of timey wimey wibbly wobbly s**t.
Though we don't know exactly how Pogo goes out, he was killed along with the reality
as were all the other characters that don't make it through the portal.
Now normally the comission would have kept things in check but as we know, they were
wiped out.
We actually discover that 5 ended up creating the Comission which again...is a bit of a
head f**k. Five states that he doesn't remember doing this and therefore it could be his future
self rather than being a variant.
I think that it has to be a version of him from later down the line as he tells him not
to stop the apocalypse and he also says Oblivion, of course hinting towards the Hotel.
Just incase you don't know, that's the true name of the Hotel and this was revealed in
the aptly titled 3rd volume Hotel Oblivion.
Now the other questions you probably have over the ending are how did Luther come back
to life.
Though he would've returned in the reset, he showed up back at the hotel along with
Klaus. I believe that this is the next evolution in Klaus's powers and just in the same way
that he can return to the land of the living, I believe those trapped on the other side
can be brought back too.
Early on the season was very much about him mastering his abilities and this is likely
the next step.
Now I'm reading your mind mate, doing a professor X out here and not only do you want to subscribe
but you also don't want to ever unsubscribe either.
Ontop of that you're wondering if Sloane exists in this reality. The answer is a mystery but
I am leaning towards yes due to everyone being returned and all their wounds being healed.
However, she should've came back in the elevator as she was at the hotel so potentially the
machine might have sacrificed her. There is the possibilty that Sloane would not have
existed in a new timeline if the Umbrellas had been born so she might have actually been
wiped out in order to not cause another paradox.
It's strange she's the only one not there especially as we get a second version of Ben
in the credits scene. This is another...reading your mind, ey what did you say about my mother....anyway
this is another question you have. Well there actually exists two versions of Ben in the
franchise. The first version is the initial one who was with the Umbrellas that died as
a child. He became a ghost but his spirit was put to rest in the second season.
However when they went back in time and changed things Ben was altered too. Neither Harlan
or Hargreeves met him because he was a ghost and therefore his mother wasn't killed and
he was seen as being someone who could be selected by Reginald.
So this Sparrow version exists but so does the original because he wasn't killed in first
timeline.
The only person who doesn't seem to be affected by anything is Allison who still has a bandage
on her arm showing that she hasn't healed. Because she is the one that pressed the button
inside what I'm guessing is the cockpit she likely was protected from the effects.
Remember this was designed by Hargreeves so that he could be with his wife and he likely
didn't want to lose the memories he had of her with the universe reset. It's possible
that the one we see ruling over everything actually has no idea that his plan worked
and rather than living peacefully with his wife he decided to do this because he didn't
know the alternative.
Putting himself at the top like this would make him and Abigail a target for people that
want to overthrow him and if this was all a plan to get her back I don't think he'd
go through with it if he had any memory of what had come before.
Now another question over Allison is what's up with Ray.
He returns at the end to be with her and it appears that the pair finally got their happy
ending in the present. Now I've kinda gone back and forth on this and there are really
three outcomes. The first is that he was transported into the present after Allison pressed reset
like my mate used to when I was beating him on Smackdown.
However, this would cause a paradox and if they wanna go for the fourth apocalypse in
a row then him being in the future could be the cause of it. He would've only have been
brought forward if they went back in time but they couldn't have gone back without the
first ha....sorry my brain hurts.
Now the second option is that the person who pressed the button gets their hearts desire
in this new universe and that all the rules go out the window to make it work. This would
mean he's her childs father now and that there is no paradox created.
The third version and one that I think might be the most likely is that he's a hallucination.
Throughout the series Allison had several of them and I think that's most likely the
case here.
Anyway I think that's all the major ones but if you have any other questions below then
make sure you drop them in the comments.
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