Dad what are you doing? What I should have done long ago
Welcome back everyone this will be my full dc peacemaker episode 7 video there's a whole
bunch of easter eggs so we'll break it all down if you're brand new to the channel be
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haven't seen it yet we'll start at the beginning and work our way through shot by shot talking
about easter eggs moments as we go along starting with the episode title stop dragging my heart
around a reference to peacemaker's father white dragon in the way he's been abusing him physically
emotionally since he was a child manipulating him which sort of feeds into peacemaker's realization
that his brother's death wasn't his fault he finally comes to terms with that he realizes his
father is the one who's truly responsible for the death of his brother even though he's the one who
accidentally killed him the actual opening scene is the full reveal of what happened to his brother
it starts with them both listening to that same motley crue song the peacemaker was just playing
on the piano at the end of last week's episode in fun fact if you didn't realize this john cena
actually does play the piano in real life so he was really playing that song on that piano
while they were filming it but the song was motley crew's home sweet home so they're jamming out to
that in the past in their records just having fun rocking out like a couple little kids his
brother even seems like he could care less about their father's whole dogma the whole kkk of it
all like screw that let's just rock out and get chicks that's why peacemaker loves hair metal
music in present day so much because emotionally he's kind of frozen at that point in his life
the last time that he was really happy before his brother died and when his brother literally says
let's smoke all day and just tongue kiss hot babes literally that's what peacemaker has been doing in
all the episodes when he's slowly broken down emotionally to the point of crying on the floor
they also confirmed my theory about the way his brother died his father forced them to fight so
that he could earn money off of them and he just accidentally killed him with a punch to the head
in exactly the wrong place with just enough force but the whole idea here is that their
father white dragon liked the brother more than peacemaker and spent the rest of his
life letting him know every chance he got and just generally treating him like a piece of crap until
peacemaker finally calls him out on it and kills him the way robert patrick said that james gonna
explain the character to him the white dragon character before they started filming is that
he was designed to be so vile just to explain how peacemaker could be so messed up in present day
they do further the butterfly plot in this episode but the episode is mostly designed to be
peacemaker vs white dragon the butterflies had just taken over the entire police station the
prisoners from the jail because they absorb human memories they learned all of the team's plans from
a lock who knew that mirn was planning to destroy their cow alien so the butterflies engineered this
plan to create a teleportation device to transport their cow to another secret location and it is a
massive alien cow although the term cow is kind of misleading it's just like a giant butterfly-ish
blob creature that they milk for that special honey the actual alien cow itself looks like
something inspired by james gunn slither movie if you were getting slither vibes from this that's
probably on purpose if you've never seen that movie it's a sci-fi horror movie that he directed
really early in his career about this alien parasite species that comes to earth and
starts taking over the population doesn't that sound familiar wait a minute oh wait that's
what the butterflies are doing on peacemaker and the way they describe it it's the only
one on this planet and the butterflies don't have another way to replace it so they kill it they
kill their food source they kill the butterflies judo master escapes again hilariously he's not a
butterfly but he was working for them i love that the first thing that he does is go for
another bag of flamin hot cheetos they're like his kryptonite the cheeto jokes on peacemaker
are kind of like the fresca jokes during the boys season two would you like a fresca
white dragon reveals he's got all of his hypertech and peacemakers helmets lojacked and they use
the trackers to find him but by the end of the episode now that peacemakers killed his father
i do wonder if heading into a possible season two or just more peacemaker crossovers and future dc
hbo shows and movies he'll just stop wearing those helmets all together or if he'll commandeer all
of his father's folding space pocket dimension just because that place has all the hypertech
gear that the team would ever need for any kind of future missions together because now that mern's
dead harcourt has kind of taken over leadership of the team it seems like the vibe will be if
they do get a season two they'll just continue to exist as they do now at the end of this episode
maybe add like another suicide squad character to the roster like another c or d-list funny
character that's kind of a villain either way i just hope they don't let all of white dragons
hypertech gear go to waste it also seems like amanda waller if she found out about this place
would really want to get her hands on all this gear does anybody need a pocket folding dimension
just feels like we could put that to some good use like even batman doesn't have a pocket
folding dimension inside the bat cave peacemaker reveals that although the diary is fake and full
of terrible collages he would totally love to make a diary with collages that are actually
good he also enjoys journaling learning all kinds of little details about peacemaker along the way
leota finally comes clean to the team about all of her secrets the fake diary she planted the
fact that she's amanda waller's daughter but the funny thing is is that harcourt totally
figured out what happened with the fake diary on her own and confronts her about it and mirn
knew that she was amanda waller's daughter the whole time and didn't tell anyone her whole story
arc is about balancing herself in the morally gray area where all suicide squad-based stories
operate they keep referencing how she has a talent for this kind of work she's a chip off the old
amanda waller block so she'll probably continue with the team after the finale should they get
a season two and just be more sure of her choices and actions on missions she won't hesitate as much
the same way that peacemaker had that brief existential crisis in the middle of the series
but now he's more sure of himself like he doesn't have a problem killing the right kind of people or
the right kind of bad people she makes a reference to mars attacks that's a movie about aliens from
mars invading kind of like the butterflies from another planet are invading earth then when the
two douchey kids at the convenience store start going on about how good boondock saints is they're
right boondock saints is an amazing series i think they included that reference in the show just
because james gunn is a fan of that series in real life white dragon and his posse take out their van
his suit is meant to be hardcore hypertech he doesn't care about the other team members he's
really just here to kill peacemaker and he'll just mow through the others to get to him but
here's the thing vigilante definitely makes up for being such a weirdo this whole time winds up
being super useful during this whole white dragon fight the couple white dragon fights to take place
across the rest of the episode like the first time he stops him shorten his tracks using his guns and
his bombs the second time they finally pay off his earlier observation inside the folding space about
white dragon's armor weakness the cloth portions between the armor plating sticking him with the
knife disabling the suit saving peacemaker's life yet again like he saves his life at least a couple
times in this episode but on the flip side of that he also brought all those helmets which helped
white dragon track them down again in the episode right after they escaped so having vigilante
on the team is kind of like a 50 50 situation he's a savant with weapons he's amazing but he
also gets you into as much trouble as he gets you out of when he takes off in the clan member's car
that he steals hilariously they played don't close your eyes by kicks as he literally tries to keep
from passing out then when peacemaker uses the raccoon to distract white dragon in his posse
they make a bunch of raccoon jokes and it feels like it's mostly meant to be a guardians of the
galaxy rocket raccoon reference like economos says he didn't expect this to happen when peacemaker
picked up a wild raccoon as if to imply raccoons are way cooler than you think like rocket from
guardians also steve agee who plays jon economos was one of the ravagers during the guardians of
the galaxy movies they're still in the middle of filming guardians of the galaxy 3 right now
the actor who plays mirn is also playing a secret new villain in guardians 3. the rumor is is that
he's going to be mcu high evolutionary but then the butterfly queen brings her minions to kill
mern or they kill the butterfly that is mirn they do give him this kind of funny but touching moment
with harcourt when it reaches out and touches her just as it dies so r.i.p only james gunn could
get you to care about a little bug like this judo master returns to get revenge on them it's a solid
action scene harcourt has had a couple good action scenes this season but they're usually with guns
this is really like her first major brawl fight love the way that leota just tases the crap out
of him too so he's still alive he can come back in the finale it'll be interesting to see which
way he lands i'm sure they'll use him mostly for some comedic action scenes he's still technically
working for the butterflies like they're paying him but they're trying to take over the planet so
maybe he'll eventually help the team out or start working for amanda waller after the finale if he
survives this whole scene of peacemaker running out of the woods waving his arms wildly from the
clan members kind of feels like an indiana jones raiders of the lost ark reference for the shot
of him running through the jungle just waving his arms at the plane as the tribe is coming after him
we find out that vigilante pees like butters from south park pulling his pants all the way
down to the ground because he's just that weird when white dragon starts making all these weird
biblical references he talks about the story of abraham that's the story of how god asked abraham
to sacrifice his son isaac to prove his faith he almost did but god stopped him claiming that
he passed the test before he could finish landing the killing blow so when he's saying 40 years ago
he was tested that was when peacemaker was born peacemaker is meant to be 40 years old in the dc
eu it's why white dragon says he should have killed him the moment he was born
when he's laying in a peacemaker he also kind of reveals that he's bi that's what he meant when he
said the peacemaker laid with both men and women but when he mentions the forces of bamfomet that's
actually the deity that's allegedly worshiped by the knights templar but it is a dc character
inside the dc universe it's still worshipped by the knights templar within the dc universe but
its main power is foretelling catastrophic events and it's from the doom patrol comics the one the
white dragon is talking about in the context of this episode mostly sounds like a metaphor for
the suicide squad itself and i think he's mostly referencing the events of the suicide squad movie
in the starro mission with vigilante's help like i said peacemaker finally kills his father stands up
for himself they save eagerly's life with the help of these regular vets it's a very funny
sequence i love the way that leota also reacts to eagerly hugging peacemaker in the very complex
very well thought out prayer peacemaker offers god about sleeping with an ugly woman to thank
her for taking care of eagerly while he would have been in prison the reason why he reaches
for his phone and takes another picture of them is because he wasn't able to do that the first time
eagerly hugged him at the beginning of the series he didn't have his old phone with him at the time
and vigilante also destroyed his old phone which had a bunch of other eagerly photos on it so he's
just trying to fill up his new phone with a bunch more to replace them love the way they totally win
the vets over with all their speeches and they try to join the team just cocking the guns like
nope nope sorry that's not happening you're not joining us you would just die you would
not be useful in this fight they make even more butch cassidy sundance kid references they have
a really long drawn out argument about the plot of that movie in the way that had a downer ending
so they'll probably wind up paying that off in the finale in some funny way where the current
roster here of team members probably survive i think the idea is that mirn was probably the
only team member that they planned on killing off but we'll see them doing that slow walk to
camera is meant to be another guardians of the galaxy slow walk reference because just like the
guardians this team is a group of total a-holes that wind up saving the day also that kind of
pays off the apple dumpling gang reference from earlier this season then the post-credit scene
this week is just a bunch of outtakes and funny moments in bloopers from the police briefing if
you look closely in the background here you can see one of the deputies behind him on the right
breaking and laughing in the middle of the scene while he goes on and on just saying more and more
ridiculous random stuff it's important to swing the hips and we're finished now thank you very
much thank you for attending but if you spotted any other easter eggs in the episode that i didn't
mention in the video write them below in the comments my full peacemaker episode 8 finale video
will post next week just like normal supposedly there's going to be some crazy dceu cameo scene
so we'll see who winds up showing up james gunn did say the peacemaker series would help set up
some future dc project so maybe that's what he's talking about they also just released a
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