Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my video for the boys
season 2 episode 7 it was diabolical if you're new to the
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from the episode on the video so careful for spoilers obviously from episode 7 if
you haven't seen it yet we'll do top 10 and comic book easter eggs as we go
along and there was a lot of comic book stuff going on during the episode
starting with number 10 the intro with the guy getting brainwashed by all of
stormfront's social media programming watch out for that facebook feed that'll
get you the episode basically starts with that
guy just waking up in his bedroom in his home he lives with his mother and
it looks like he's a stormfront fanboy and just
spends all day on facebook just reading his social media feeds twitter
everywhere and he's just soaking in everything that
she's doing with her social media push until he learns the convenience store
clerk is a superhero that he's been seeing this whole time
and he's convinced that he's a terrorist because stormfront's rhetoric has been
telling him that so he winds up killing him
later in the episode she winds up throwing this guy under the bus
too using him for her campaign so it just shows you how much she manipulates
people number nine pretty big celebrity guest star john noble from fringe and a
bunch of other stuff guest stars as butcher's father so
butcher's mother has to trick him into coming to her apartment in new york
city to meet his father because they have such a strained
relationship you learn all about butcher's backstory and obviously you
kind of see what they're doing this for they're trying to create a parallel
between his upbringing with his domineering father who sounds like he
mistreated him maybe he physically abused him and his younger brother you
also find out what happened to his younger brother and how he died
and it gives you a sort of parallel for homelanders upbringing with vogelbaum
because vogelbaum later in the episode talks about how crappy he was when he
was raising homelander i needed him to be the strongest man in the world
but you basically find out that butcher blames his father for his younger
brother's death i know there were a lot of theories about what was going on with
butcher's younger brother but you learned that he wound up killing himself
he probably just became super depressed maybe he had some sort of psychological
condition and his father also tries to pin some of
the blame on butchers saying that he went to join the
sas before his brother wound up killing himself so butcher's been carrying this
around this whole time with him and that's where a lot of his darkness flows
from why he's so hardcore number eight bunch of bad parents in the
episode starlight meets up with her mother but her mother
inadvertently gets them captured by black noir by calling it in to vots
tower oh i talked to ashley no mom you don't understand i'm trying to be on the
dl while this is all going on you have
frenchie and kimiko's storyline they weren't in the episode that much but
they're just there protecting the congresswoman they do bond a little bit
so their relationship is on the mend and she starts to teach him that special
sign language that she had with her brother so
i think eventually by the end of the season they will have some sort of
relationship together you also have all the stuff going on on
the side with the deep in the church of the collective and a train
i'm surprised that a train is sticking around for all that stuff but you
remember they're kind of holding all this stuff over him like we'll help you
get back into the seven if you do what we tell you to do
otherwise we're going to throw you to the wolves
they have this funny storyline with eagle the archer remember he's meant to
be their hawkeye avengers parody the guy that was helping indoctrinate the deep
into the church in the first couple of episodes
and they just throw him right under the bus the funny explainer that he gives at
the end of the episode though when they're watching him at the bar
is that he refused to cut his mother out of his life but at the party for the
church leader he just completely 180s on him and the deep just kind of nods his
head and goes along with it so i'm actually kind of wondering if a train is
going to be the one to eventually save the deep from this cult he also
references a meeting that he's going to be having with stan edgar really soon
maybe they'll pay that off but the way they ended the episode kind of makes you
wonder there's this whole big story line going
on with the church so i'm hoping that they pay that off in some funny way by
the finale number seven all the adult movie
parodies of the seven that lamplighter makes huey watch with him
there's one for translucent the queen made one is called queen made pleasure
slave a reference that they pay off later in the episode
which itself is a comic book easter egg big black noir which is another
reference that they pay off later in the episode when maeve rips his mask off
revealing what he looks like underneath the mask
then his starlight pulls an a train and that's the one that puts huey over the
edge he's like no more please please don't make me
watch any more of these movies sean ashmore was great in this episode
you could just kind of tell that he knew that he was going to die
very soon he's like i'm either going to die at the trial or vought is going to
come get me homelanders going to come get me
or black noir is going to come get me he does not care at all but it is funny to
watch huey talk him into helping him save starlight oh we're going to go get
the wife consensually the whole thing with starlight is they
were keeping her in that superhero proof cell that they have inside vought's
tower so you do have to imagine that black noir
does this a lot like he goes around and takes down other superheroes that go
rogue or really anybody that wants to get rid of he's sort of their
private hitman inside the seven so that's why he's the one that goes after
starlight at the beginning of the episode and the one that tries to take
her down after she escapes from her cell lamplighter makes a bunch more jokes
about sneaking college girls in the secret entrance he also tells them about
hanging out with marathon who's the person that a train wound up
replacing on the seven number six homelander and stormfronts
rally in front of the soldier boys statue so they're trying to pump up the
crowd against the congresswoman from earlier that also shows up at the trial
later in the episode and they go on and on about thoughts and
prayers it's all this rhetoric that sounds very familiar if you know what
they're talking about but the big soldier boy easter egg is that he's
actually going to be played by jensen ackles during season 3.
there's supposedly some crazy storyline they have planned for him
but he's basically their in-universe version of captain america from the
avengers soldier boy is supposed to be the first
american experiment in creating a superhero now he wasn't super successful
but the storyline for season 3 that they have planned for him is supposed to
explain that and i think it's going to be different from the comic book soldier
boy story stormfront has to explain to homelander
why keeping starlight alive is more valuable to their tactics their grand
plan she genuinely gets all misty-eyed at the
sight of a baby girl just because she's thinking about her daughter who died
recently so homelander naturally being the good
boyfriend that he is wants to cheer her up
tells her about ryan so obviously this is huge number five
homelander takes stormfront to see ryan i feel like everybody could kind of
guess where this was headed the minute you saw stormfront
look at ryan she gives becca the business left and right trying to
undermine her with every single word that comes out of her
mouth there's this really funny moment though when they're watching the lego
movies that ryan made and homelander is about to tell him that they're crappy
movies and you can see stormfront stare some daggers at him like no you have to
tell him that it's a good movie you need to encourage your son but the
movie that they're playing is actually based on the blind side he just talks
about a bunch of other movies that he created they're all very positive movies
he seems like he's a very creative child but stormfront
kind of starts to work her magic her insidious magic saying do you do any
normal kid stuff and she actually talks about video games she even name draws
pewdiepie which was hilarious i thought it was funny that he would show up in a
boys episode then they start to plant the idea of the
movies that homelander has appeared in trying to turn ryan into a superhero
fanboy so that eventually he'll want to be a superhero with them and use his
powers you can kind of see the way they're
trying to manipulate the situation they want him to be excited to become a
superhero someday it still feels like it's really early in
the ryan storyline with all the super boy stuff that's going on so i'm
wondering how much of that is going to spill into season three there's still so
much that could happen in the finale but number four homelander and
stormfront then take off with ryan so home leonard's stormfront
has shown ryan the truth they take him up in the air so that he can see that
his neighborhood is fake everything is fake you're fake mom
stormfront even basically tells becca to her face that she's going to be ryan's
new mom now the reason why this is a big deal is it
sounds like ryan might become a more important character in the future
just remember everything there's still so much that they could do with his
character now he kind of seems like he wants to be
a superhero a little bit or maybe learn about his powers so i'm hoping that they
deal with that in a much bigger way during season three
but number three butcher forces vogelbaum to testify against vought so
after mallory and mother's milk come to visit him
and don't quite get what they need and she tells mother's milk that he should
basically take off with his family butcher comes back to meet him and just
gives him the business sipping tea as menacingly as you could
possibly do the reason why this is super important
is because their ace in the hole lamplighter winds up burning himself
alive later in the episode i love butcher's reaction to that too oh don't
worry i got it all sorted out the crazy thing about their conversation
is that when vogelbaum is telling him about homelanders origin story
homelander actually started out as a really good kid when he was around five
or six like he says he loved davy crockett stories he loved the woods
manifest destiny but then because they needed him to be
the world's most powerful superhero he started to quote unquote work on him
so vogelbaum really is to blame for homelander being the psychopath that
he is in present day but when butcher sort of turns it on him
and says i'll kill your entire family like he turns on a dime the same way
that homelander would so they want butcher to be a bit of a parallel for
homelander it is weird that vogelbaum is surprised
by that how could you be such a monster when he literally just told
butcher that he was a monster when he was raising homelander
but number two starlight versus black noir huey in lamplighter so lamplighter
takes huey to the main conference room instead of to starlight cell because we
find out that he wanted to kill himself in front of his statue
that the seven which they had already replaced bumming him out so r.i.p
sean ashmore is just funny to see him go from the x-men movies to playing such a
hardcore character who's a bit of a parody on the pyro character from the
x-men movies but if you haven't read the boys comic book the lamplighter
character in the comics is meant to be more of a green lantern easter egg
huey has to saw his hand off so that he can get around they kind of play it for
a joke a little bit later like wait a minute is that a human hand that you're
walking around with uh yeah okay we need to go then black
noir and starlight have a proper superhero fight because they're both
super strong they trash the place black noir almost kills her because he
is a badass but queen maeve winds up saving her
with an almond joy turns out those allergies will really get you so watch
out but the real big deal here though is
them ripping his face mask off and showing you what he looks like
underneath so his face is scarred from a lot of that burn damage which is
probably from earlier in the season when he took down that energy-based superhero
but if it wasn't clear before he is an african-american so i think it changes a
lot of people's expectations for the storyline for the black noir character i
think they're going to be changing that from the comics
he's a very big very critical comic book character so now just suggest
all your fan theories based on that but if you have read the comics please don't
post any black noir spoilers in the comments because they still might wind
up doing some of that for the tv show then obviously number one is the
trial at the end of the episode butcher gets vocal bomb to come testify
but right as he gets ready to speak everyone's heads start exploding left
and right both superheroes and regular people
r.i.p shockwave you have to remember that this is happening on national
television so potentially millions of people are watching this all go down
but if you look at stormfront and homelanders faces they don't seem that
surprised by it so it sounds like they know
what's going on and it's all part of some plan that they had they'll probably
spin it as some sort of terrorist attack and try to use it as part of their
compound v campaign that they're on they've been a lot of theories about who
that superhero is that's exploding all those heads but obviously it is a
superhero with the ability to do that the only person we've seen with that
ability was cindy from a couple episodes ago remember she was hitching a ride at
the end of that episode when she escaped so it's possible that she came back and
she's doing this as far as we know shockwave is the only super that they
killed in that room ashley is still okay the congresswoman and mallory are still
okay in butcher as he's reacting to it all just seems like he is ready to go
to war with a vengeance and i can't wait to see what crazy thing he winds up
doing in the finale but the important thing to remember is
there'll probably be some sort of cliffhanger moment in the finale because
the boyz has already been renewed for season three and it'll probably go to
season four and hopefully season five as well but
let me know in the comments what your favorite moment from the episode was and
if you spotted any big easter eggs that i didn't mention in the video
my finale video will post next friday just like i would normally post my
episode videos and in a couple weeks the mandalorian
season 2 episodes will be starting i'll be doing videos for that and then we'll
get avengers one division episodes later this year so there's a bunch of big
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earlier today it was announced that marvel is going to be crossing
characters over from andrew garfield's amazing spider-man movies with
spider-man 3 and tom holland click here to learn about that and click
here for my boys season 2 episode 6 video
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe i'll see you guys tonight!