Turns out vogelbaum made a kid born spring 1981.
Welcome back everyone this will be my full video for the boys season three episode seven there
were so many easter eggs we have to talk about they went full on empire strikes back star wars
if you're brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the episodes they just
confirmed they're going to be filming season 4 really soon too so that means they'll probably be
able to release it by the end of next year careful for spoilers for the episode if you haven't seen
it yet we'll be talking about everything just starting at the beginning and we'll just go
through shot by shot talking about easter eggs and wtf moments as we go along obviously the big thing
that everyone is talking about is them going full on darth vader confirming a lot of our theories
like one of my biggest theories this season is that they were going to say that soldier boy was
basically homelander's father like they used his genetic material to create him in the lab
i am your father i suspected this might be the case after early on during the interviews that
they were doing for the season they said that soldier boy was meant to be the template for what
homelander eventually became and i was like what if they actually made that a literal thing and not
just a metaphor one of my early theories before season two was also they were going to say the
same thing about stormfront like they were gonna have used some of her genetic material and she
would have been at least partly his biological mother but the episode was titled here comes a
candle to light you to bed which is a reference to the nursery rhyme here comes a candle to light you
to bed and here comes a chopper to chop off your head which is like the worst nursery rhyme you've
probably ever heard it's meant to be a reference to old school executions like an executioner is
coming to get you and it's meant to play in with the whole idea of all this toxic masculinity
that's going around and what's happening with soldier boy's character too like terrible people
being terrible fathers and then raising those children to themselves become terrible people
when they become adults sort of playing in with the idea of butcher like they kind of give you an
idea for what his backstory was in some of the reason why he's so terrible in present day we
already knew a lot about homelanders backstory it was the same thing with him like he had no father
they raised him like a test experiment and because of that because he didn't get any of the nurture
or the love that he was supposed to get as a child he just grew up to be this terrible person they'll
probably address this in the finale episode too but the same thing plays in with the whole idea
of butcher and ryan like if butcher doesn't become a better father or a better person
ryan is going to turn out just as bad as homelander the actual opening scene is avat
addressing all the fallout from the end of last week's episode was starlight's instagram post
just revealing everything that they've been doing and everything about superheroes to the world the
funny thing is in real life the boys has a bunch of social media accounts there's one for vought as
it vought is like a real company responding to all these things happening on the show so after last
week's episode they posted basically what you see happening during the scene here with vot trying to
throw starlight under the bus and the funny thing that ashley does here during this broadcast she
tries to deflect attention from the actual truth about superheroes and homelander doing the very
thing that she said that starlight is trying to do to them deflect attention by telling
all these other lies about starlight like look at all these crazy things she's doing and obviously
none of it's true but it's her deflecting attention from what's really going on you have to
imagine now with the revelation about soldier boy being homelander's father if they make that public
and they turn that into a big thing and use it for good pr for homelander how quickly ashley is going
to talk to try and spin this to explain where he's been this whole time and what really happened in
the past but isn't homelander so glad that he didn't take victoria newman's advice to kill
soldier boy before he told tim the truth they had this funny 80s commercial with soldier boy
on the legends tv all about not marrying an ugly wife apparently and then just making fun of how
terrible a singer he is i'm sure jensen ackles had fun doing all those fake ads it's kind of like the
fake ads that they have captain america do in the marvel movies if you look around his room
he's got a payback poster above the fireplace it's this poster here they posted on their social media
account you can also see a medieval themed sword and shield which would have been an easter egg for
like the boys equivalent of a black knight type of character and i love all the soldier boy jokes
about the stuff that he's getting up to while he's just being super bored staying at ground trying to
hide out like do you have any more lube in the whole joke that because he himself is like an
old man in a young man's body he really prefers older women like really older women the legend
reveals that all of soldier boy's stories about world war ii were fake he never lifted a finger
that is a minor change from the comics what they've done is there's actually two different
versions of soldier boy one in the past and one in present day they combined both of those and given
him a slightly different backstory in the comics the original soldier boy did fight in world war ii
he was actually a teammate with mallories but he was a terrible superhero he didn't know how to use
his powers and he basically got his entire squad killed the way the legend explains it soldier
boy never saw any real action and they used him more like they did at the beginning of the first
captain america movie like what if captain america had just done what the military had asked him to
do and been more of a hype man for them selling war bonds instead of actually entering the war
they explained their next target on the payback team is going to be mindstorm
obviously he's a parody of professor x and the x-men he just has low-level telepathic powers
they reveal mindstorm's go-to down is to basically trap people inside their own nightmares it's like
doctor strange too multiverse of madness with scarlet witch and professor x fighting inside her
mind because like professor x tries to go inside her mind to save the scarlet witch from the 838
universe but mcu scarlet witch who's controlling her mind basically attacks him too they used his
whole sequence during the episode to explain butcher's backstory and why he's so terrible
in present day so don't worry i'll get to that too because that was a huge part of the episode they
confirm all of our suspicions about maeve she is still really alive but the global wellness retreat
that she was supposed to have gone to is basically just a version of the bad room that homelander
referenced in earlier episodes they actually featured this in some of the tie-in material
too this is basically the type of room where they would put homelander when he was a child and he
was bad and they just had to discipline him but because he's so powerful how do you discipline
someone who's that strong you put them inside a nearly unbreakable room homelander makes some
references to it too like i'm going to have a son someday who's too powerful to keep in here then
even though they have all these metaphors about fathers children embryos artificial insemination
and it's meant to set at the end of the episode with the big reveal of soldier boy and his true
father they reference him being bruised on his face just to sort of set his ptsd arc and let
you know that he can be hurt by other characters i think to set up more stuff with ryan later on like
they want you to think about butcher and huey and soldier boy coming after him in this season but i
think that's a bit of a red herring like they're probably not going to be able to kill him but the
idea is that he can be hurt he can theoretically be killed eventually by someone and i think that
someone's going to wind up being ryan love the way they treated this scene too when it goes from
really weird to really creepy homelander basically tells her that they plan on eventually killing
her and just harvesting her eggs so that he can have an even more powerful super baby with her
butcher then confirms that they understood soldier boy's ptsd like they understand what's happening
and he's basically just trying to gloss over it temporarily like just trying to treat the problem
with a band-aid so that they can accomplish their short-term goal of killing home later
and somebody else can worry about it like it'll be someone else's problem i think eventually it'll
wind up blowing up metaphorically and literally in his face because that's kind of his power like
he blows up when he has ptsd it's also meant to dovetail with the story line with the temporary
compound v causing their tumors and slowly killing them like he doesn't want to deal with the problem
because he has the short term aspiration to kill homelander like it's all worth it if we can just
get rid of homelander when it looks like they might theoretically wind up killing themselves
just to get to the finish line even though i do think they'll have a more hopeful ending
with huey's character loved all the black noir scenes too just love the way they played this
like a really comedic kind of hallucination in the tone of what happened with homelander in
last week's episode with him talking to the other version of himself it's meant to kind of be the
same thing like these hallucinations that he sees are basically the characters that are part of the
mythology of the restaurant the restaurant that he goes to was a real restaurant when he was a little
kid that he just loved going to it looks like as a young child he used these as coping mechanisms
like the same way that homelander always talked to this other version of himself this is the
personality inside him it sounds like black noir had his own version of that but with these
animated characters and this is just the way that his mind depicted them when he was talking to them
we get the full backstory about why they got rid of soldier boy in the past like all the
terrible things that he did he's way worse than you thought that he was to the rest of the team
and if it wasn't clear the way the black noir depicts all the team members they are
the characters that are from the mythology of the restaurant so that's why all of his former payback
team members look like the restaurant characters but i love the way he depicts himself as this very
gentle sheep just yelling about eddie murphy turns out he was supposed to be in beverly hills cop
but soldier boy bad mouthed into don simpson who was the real life producer of that movie the way
they explain it though that was much earlier in the timeline it was a couple years after that that
they came up with a plan to actually get rid of him they also confirm our theory that stan edgar
was the true mastermind of the plot to get rid of him and it was mostly just because he was done
with him like stan edgar didn't hate soldier boy he was just extraneous like they didn't need him
anymore they had someone better on the way that they were going to create because of the whole
plot with homelander everything in that flashback was meant to be them foreshadowing vogelbaum found
a way to create someone even more powerful who can fly them setting up the reveal about them
using his genetic material to create homelander they also confirmed that soldier boy was the
person who maimed black dewar's face so badly in his throat so that he couldn't talk anymore but
like all these scenes where you see him talking in the past it's the same voice of the actor who
you saw in the flashbacks coming back to voice the character again the funny moment with stan
edgar refusing to stop eating the peanuts because black noir is allergic it's just meant to show how
he doesn't care about any of the superheroes like even though he's kind of helping them by getting
rid of soldier boy it's not because he likes them or wants to help them it's just because soldier
boy has become more trouble than he's worth like they're not making as much money off of him as
they could in present day stan edgar was trying to do the same thing with all the current superheroes
like homelander because he'd found a better way to make money selling the temporary compound v
to the military then mindstorm gets to drop on them and you get all the butcher flashbacks him
getting trapped in his own nightmare and you find out that yes their father was terrible
but because of all of his abuse it eventually led to his younger brother killing himself and
butcher blames himself because he left to join the military to get away from it but also explaining
that it was all of his father's abuse that caused him to become a terrible person like his father
was terrible to him so he grew up terrible and now he's kind of being terrible to ryan so the threat
is that he's going to let huey down in present day like he let his brother down and he's also going
to let ryan down and eventually ryan will turn into another homelander starlight finds out about
all the terrible side effects of the temporary compound bee take it three to five times and is
basically a lethal dose like it'll turn your brain into swiss cheese give you all kinds of tumors
basically it's like a death sentence so that explains all the weird stuff that's been
happening to huey during the episode he also tells butcher hey your brain's licking out your ear
and even though that was meant to be a joke in the moment that could actually literally happen
to them if they continue taking the compound v the whole idea that butcher doesn't tell him the
truth at the end like he wants him to keep taking it because like i said he just wants to treat the
problem with a band-aid because he's more focused on the short-term goal of killing homelander it's
just meant to be more of comic book butcher like in the comics he's meant to be so bad he's so much
worse than the tv show version essentially he's irredeemable that they might have a more hopeful
ending for the tv show version of the character though the whole thing with starlight saying that
she's going to save huey's life whether he likes it or not i think he's just meant to tell you
that huey will have a more hopeful ending like he will survive this he's taken it about three
times even though she said that three to five is lethal i believe butcher's taken at least once or
twice more than huey so i think the idea heading into the finale they take it one more time it's
basically like the point of no return for butcher they did confirm season four and butcher i believe
will come back for season four so i think whatever winds up happening he will survive to season four
they have all these jokes about the deep just being a super freak just kind of continuing
that storyline the joke about aquaman getting it on with fishes but them doing it as a literal
thing on the boys is meant to be a parallel for what stan edgar told the homelander like
well without me here to protect you from messing up everyone will eventually see you mess up and
you'll just out yourself to the world for what you really are it sounds like a version of that
is gonna happen to the deep like without his wife there to tell him what to do he's gonna mess up
and just reveal himself to the world that really messed up scene with soldier boy huey the priest
and the nun i think it just meant to flow with the whole idea of his ptsd and just refusing to
acknowledge everything i think the idea is that huey was meant to be correct the first time like
there wasn't anything weird going on with them and the only reason the nun attacked him was to get
revenge for the death of the priest with all the presidential campaigns and all the cameras on home
later i think they're just trying to set up the idea that eventually soldier boy will be on stage
with homelander and something similar will happen with him where like soldier boy will have a ptsd
episode and something crazy will happen a bunch of people will die and it'll all happen on camera
i've already explained all the supernatural easter eggs like this character here robert singer
the actor was on supernatural and robert singer was also a real life person involved with the
supernatural show the showrunner of the boys was also one of the other creators of the supernatural
show they had the whole subplot with victoria newman just trying to use homelander to get more
power just willing to make all kinds of deals with any person being just as terrible as homelander
she basically does the same thing with homelander that she was trying to do with starlight and if it
wasn't clear the paper with the address that she gave him was the address i think where soldier
boy huey and butcher were hiding out because her whole thing was that she wanted him to take care
of the soldier boy problem so they could focus on the presidency love the funny scene with the milk
too did you miss breakfast homelander taking his kink straight to the source and speaking of milk
very cool mother's milk easter egg here when you see him shaking up the milk here getting ready to
drink it in the comics mother's milk has compound v powers and he gains super strength when he
literally drinks his mother's milk but on the tv show this version of mother's milk isn't meant to
be a super or anything they also confirmed during his storyline that frenchie figures out that they
can use nerve agent to temporarily disable soldier boy so it sounds like they'll use that during the
finale they have the whole subplot with frenchie and kimiko and her wanting to take the permanent
compound v again to get her superpowers but they've kind of gone full circle with her
character like she's had like a full character arc where she realized oh i can still be super
powered and not a terrible person all the terrible stuff was just my personality before the fact
this is meant to show you that some of the superheroes on the show can still have super
powers and not be terrible people but for the most part most of them are supposed to be really
really terrible they do a bit of a cut too to the subplot with a train to follow up with him but his
whole nightmare now that he's living with is that now he's actually got blue hawks heart like he's
literally reminded of the person he hated so much every time he does anything but if it wasn't clear
ashley wasn't lying they transplanted blue hawks heart into a train so like his powers work fine he
can do whatever he wants to with his powers and he doesn't have to worry about having episodes
then if it wasn't clear at the end of the episode when soldier boy learns the truth from mindstorm
about what they did with his genetic material creating homelander he did not tell butcher
or huey so like they don't know what's going on homelander is the only other person that knows the
truth and like i said they play that whole scene like a very darth vader luke skywalker star wars
type of twist like i am your father what father wouldn't want that for his son so if you guess
the soldier boy and homelander we're gonna team up you are correct pat yourself on the back but
remember next week's episode is the finale and they haven't confirmed that soldier boy jensen
ackles is coming back for season four so something really messed up is probably gonna happen to him
but i love the way they play this conversation between them because when he reveals the truth
to homelander it's almost like homelander's brain melts out of his ear like he has the blue screen
of death like somebody reboot homeland or you broke him you broke his brain if you remember
he's been obsessed about this idea for his entire life like he's always wanted a family he's always
wanted a father and he's having this huge existential crisis because the person he's been
trying to kill this whole season winds up being that father so i cannot wait to see the really
messed up way that they pay this off when the two of them come together in the finale like i said
though there's this whole ptsd runner storyline with soldier boy's character that is probably
going to metaphorically and literally blow up in everyone's faces let me know in the comments if
you spotted any easter eggs in the episode that i didn't talk about in the video in my full boys
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