Wedding at the End of the World
As the team begins their work, they quickly realize that they’re not the only ones with a mystery on their hands. A group of mysterious people have arrived in town, and they’re not happy about it. They want to take over Hotel Obsidian and make everyone their slaves. The Umbrella Academy must find a way to stop them before it’s too late.
Anyway, fast forward in time and the structure is built in its entirety. Hargreeves and his team head up methodically, and with guns in hand, tasks these men to head through to the other side to take out whatever may be inside. “Back in a flash,” The lead soldier says confidently. Only, when he returns, several gunshots later, he mutters to Hargreeves “All dead.”
The Hotel Obsidian is in ruins. The Sparrow Academy is gone, and everyone seems to be sucked into the void. Klaus and Reginald are still missing, while Sloane and Luther have announced their engagement before everyone. Viktor is going to be the best man.
Everyone is astonished when Klaus and Reginald show up. Klaus has an announcement of his own, claiming that he’s now immortal. Reginald also praises Klaus, claiming he’s the only one doing any sort of thinking here. The others can only laugh in disbelief. ..
Klaus tries to encourage Reginald to soften up a little before blasting into his full tirade, eventually leading him to the White Buffalo room to practice his compliments. Klaus also encourages him to show up at this wedding to pay his respects to Luther. Klaus is trying to get Reginald ready for his speech by encouraging him to start out slowly and then build up momentum. He also encourages Reginald to attend the wedding so he can show his respect for Luther. ..
The wedding celebrations go ahead, complete with another big dance number, drinks and celebrations. Guys, the world is ending. Maybe do something? Anyway, there’s an interval in this whole world-saving malarkey, although there is a flicker of drama when Reginald shows up at the party later that night.
Lila and Reginald meet for the first time, as Diego introduces them to one another. Reginald even gives Diego some compliments, telling him he’d have made a great father.
At the same time, Ben drowns his sorrows in alcohol, not happy about being shunned regarding the bachelor party. While he mopes about, Viktor speaks to Allison and apologizes for lying. “Can you forgive me?” She asks. “No. I don’t think I will.” Allison replies, scoffing. She’s tired of “being a sucker” and severs their ties completely. Wait, why is Viktor apologizing when Allison is in the wrong here? Allison is turning into quite the villain this season, huh?
Reginald gives a speech in the White Buffalo Room, calling Luther adequate. When Reginald leaves, he heads upstairs to the room and appears to strike a deal with someone. It’s not initially clear who, but as he shakes their hand, Five stumbles away from the party and sees his father in this room acting shadily.
In the last two episodes of the show, everything is left wide open for where this may go next.
The Episode Review
This chapter feels like an episode of Stranger Things, but with a lot more weirdness and inconsistency. We’re not sure what’s going on or why things are happening, and it’s really frustrating because it makes the story feel like it’s missing something.
The wedding at the end of the world is a nice idea in theory, but it comes at such a bizarre time in the narrative. The tone leans so heavily into humour rather than a more somber or bittersweet tone that it almost negates everything that’s happened before. Stan is gone but Lila and Diego don’t really care; most of the Sparrow Academy have been killed but Sloane is happily carefree.
In “Ben 10,000,” Ben is destroyed in this episode, turning into a bumbling drunk rather than the bittersweet guy from before. And his reason for drinking so much? Not being invited to the bachelor party. I do appreciate that this is development toward him becoming part of the Umbrella group but it would have been nice to get some hostility, at least blaming the others for what’s happened to all of his comrades in the Sparrow Academy. ..
The wedding was supposed to be a quick and easy affair, but it ended up taking a lot longer than expected. The plot was also stalled for an impromptu wedding, and by the end of the episode it was clear that the audience wasn’t going to be happy.
This season has been great so far. We can only hope that the next chapter will be just as exciting.
