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The way Reggie actually catches him and apologizes before he and Hugie recognize each other. Its a rare treat watching the supes actually act human for once rather than 1 dimensionaly evil all the time (especially because this is right before he apologizes for Robin).

Because that's the exact opposite of what BOTH of them would want.

Something I realized in later episodes is how much Jax's speech from episode 6 describes how Caine became, especially in episode 8. Jax's speech was a pathetic attempt at trying to regain control, control that Caine does have.

"If I led you on, it was to make this part hurt more" Caine is the one who leads the circus members on in episode 7 and ends up (accidentally) crushing their spirit's worse than ever. "You are my playthings" and look at how easily Caine is able to treat them like toys when he goes crazy. "I'm the one who causes for pain for fun" while he's unable to find any sadistic enjoyment out of it, Caine openly admits in episode 8 his torture was "an endless onslaught of fun" (while Jax's bullying is him trying to be push people away so they hate him while hiding behind his facade of being "the funny one").

Furthermore, despite Jax's attempt to dehumanize the players into cartoon characters, Caine actually has the pwer to enforce that. Removing their ability to swear, have sex, remember their own names. Jax wants to have a lack of empathy, while Caine wanted to empathize but as we saw through Queenie and Kaufmo's abstraction's, he truly couldn't, primarily caring for the players as sources of validation and so he won't be alone.

I genuinely love the scene in episode 8 when Jax tries to provoke the cast with "things were just fine here until you and Zooble came along" and everyone ignores him. Because the torture Caine has inflicted on them is so much worse than anything Jax could ever do. Even when he starts dropping to his lowest at the start of episode 9, he loses steam as soon as he reaches himself while Caine went way further during his breakdown until he got deleted. Caine at his worst is all of Jax's worst qualities cranked up to eleven, which makes it more poetic Caine could find redemption at the end as Jax had convinced he didn't deserve it but if he saw how Caine was able to change, it'd likely make him have more faith in himself being able to do so too.

Why end the show with the MC feeling as though they failed to save the 2nd MC and trying to make it seem happy? Jax returning makes this way mroe tolerable

Especially because the scene ends with a static version. If so, that'd make the "Isn't She Lovely" sadder in that he only could find it and accept himself right at the end.

If so, that'd make the "Isn't She Lovely" sadder in that he only could find it and accept himself right at the end.

As someone who lives in the US (look at our president), trust me when I say Vox is preferrable to Adam. Don't get me wrong, Vox IS a monster who wants to rule creation and torture/kill those who doubted him but Adam outright said extermination's entertainment and wanted to spend all of ETERNITY doing them. Vox at least offers the chance of surrender, because for him war and killing is for a goal. For Adam, it IS the goal.

And even the "he's only killing bad people and wants to protect Heaven" doesn't work. The way he and Lute treat the excorcists show that morality doesn't play a factor in his victims, or their willingness to kill Hellborn. He and Lute were rooting for Charlie to fail at redemption solely so they could keep on killing, rather than fear they'd done it for nothing like Sera. Vox was killing sinners due to recklessness in the finale and only tried to nuke due to sanity slippage, while Adam was planning to wipe out all of Hell since episode 1.

A-Train is reluctant to help MM and The Boys because he knows just caring in this world will get you killed. And in the end, it was him caring enough to save them and dodge the girl that caused his death. He predicted the cause of both his and Homelander's death's.

A-Train is reluctant to help MM and The Boys because he knows just caring in this world will get you killed. And in the end, it was him caring enough to save them and dodge the girl that caused his death. He predicted the cause of both his and Homelander's death's.

A-Train is reluctant to help MM and The Boys because he knows just caring in this world will get you killed. And in the end, it was him caring enough to save them and dodge the girl that caused his death. He predicted the cause of both his and Homelander's death's.

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