{"id":1324,"date":"2024-08-22T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2024-08-22T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:46:31","slug":"issues-with-the-umbrella-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Issues With The Umbrella Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just finished the fourth and final season of the Umbrella Academy. (Warning: there will be spoilers!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall the series was good but honestly the acting and dialog made it. The actors were phenomenal. The dialog was great. But the plots just weren&#8217;t there. They often didn&#8217;t make sense and there were a lot of loose ends and things that I just wish they had better explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just a few things that I took issue with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If there were so many women who mysteriously gave birth around the world at the same time, where are the others?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why did Hargreeves only take seven when he clearly could have gotten more? (He does get another set from season 3 but I&#8217;m sure there were more opportunities to get more.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why didn&#8217;t other children of the women have special powers who weren&#8217;t in the Umbrella or Sparrow academies? Coming of age you would think all the people born on that day would exhibit powers at some point in their life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Probability states that he should have been able to get a lot more chinese girls due to the one child policy. There isn&#8217;t even one chinese girl in the series. I would think those children would be the number one of who would be &#8220;available&#8221; to adopt. Probably more chinese boys too since China is almost 18% of the world population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am really glad they tied up almost the whole thing at the end as to why all these apocalypses kept happening but that plot got a little tiring after season two. Glad they were able to sum it up at the end but it still annoyed me throughout the series&#8230; like can&#8217;t they come up with something else?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ben dying never made sense in season four. Hargreeves killed Ben. Okay but then we had a flashback during season one on the after mission and them wondering what the hell happened&#8230; They should have known&#8230; unless Hargreeves altered their minds before they got back home, maybe?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did Lila and Five really spend seven years in a subway?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I like this plot but seven years is way too long and they didn&#8217;t look like they aged during that time. Lila did mention she got a gray hair but I was expecting a lot more aging during this time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I mean after a week I would have been sick of it. I think it should have been a shorter amount of time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If they were really stuck for seven years, how would they not have hooked up sooner? They seemed to have only hooked up during year 5 or 6&#8230; I would think it would have been more like 2 or 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The whole thing with the hotel in season three made no sense. In fact all of season three didn&#8217;t.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why weren&#8217;t the Sparrows working their asses off to try to save people from the Kugelblitz apocalypse? Why were they acting like nothing else was going on?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did Luther and Sloane have time to plan a wedding? Where did that come from?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How was the hotel so accomedating? Where were the other patrons of the hotel?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the hotel was the last thing standing why wasn&#8217;t everyone flocking to there?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And how in the hell was Lila able to eat sushi when pregnant? Seriously. That bugs me. Pregnant women can&#8217;t eat sushi. (One of the many reasons why I never wanted to procreate.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did Harlen know where Viktor\/Vanya was at the beginning? Did he sense her and just up and leave whatever life he had wherever he had to go to New York?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why on earth would you ever ring the bell??? It didn&#8217;t seem like they even needed to anyway since the thing that saves the world was right on the fucking floor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So Five created the Commission? And if he did, why would it hire assassins to hunt Five?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luther&#8217;s hands were always different. If he was part ape, he should have had consistent hands throughout the series but he does not. Details matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There were things that I did enjoy about it despite these glaring, hard-to-overcome plot holes. I liked how it ended. I liked that they were able to rushly explain how everything happened but you would have thought another Five would have thought about doing that at some point. Five was a very smart dude. I loved how Diego was very serious about saving Kennedy in season two. This world would be different if he weren&#8217;t assassinated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are probably other issues I had with it that I can&#8217;t think of right now. There were times when Bri and I just looked at each other and tried to figure out what was happening but we couldn&#8217;t. The plot just wasn&#8217;t the best. Overall I wouldn&#8217;t watch it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the fourth and final season of the Umbrella Academy. (Warning: there will be spoilers!) Overall the series was good but honestly the acting and dialog made it. The actors were phenomenal. The dialog was great. But the plots just weren&#8217;t there. They often didn&#8217;t make sense and there were a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,17,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probably-should-be-a-tiktok","category-t-v","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}