This text comprises spoilers for “The Boys” Season 5 Episode 8 “Blood and Bone.”
If there’s one group that could be upset by “The Boys” sequence finale, “Blood and Bone,” it is Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) followers. He does not seem in any respect within the episode, unable to partake within the closing battle after his spurned son Homelander (Antony Starr) threw him again into cryosleep within the earlier episode, “The Frenchman, the Feminine, and the Man Known as Mom’s Milk.”
There’s not even a second-long shot of a frozen Soldier Boy for a tiny bit extra closure. So far as we all know, he is nonetheless frozen and locked in Homelander’s former condo in Vought Tower. Now, on one hand, this might work as a karmic destiny. Soldier Boy gave Homelander the V-One components, handing the world over to a superman-child with a god advanced all as a result of he thought his one-time fascist sweetheart Klara Risinger/Clara Vought/Liberty/Stormfront (Aya Money) would approve.
Soldier Boy screwed the world to assist Homelander, and Homelander, in flip, screwed him. He additionally could not decide to both absolutely embracing Homelander as his son or turning on him, and he paid the value. After spending many years frozen in a Russian jail lab, Soldier Boy is true again the place he began: out of the limelight, in a major place to be forgotten.
However alternatively, we already know this is not the final we have seen of Soldier Boy. Ackles is reprising his function in a spin-off, “Vought Rising,” beforehand reported as a Nineteen Fifties prequel. Since Soldier Boy’s final destiny has but to be written, maybe “Vought Rising” will function extra than simply the previous, however the current, too?
Vought Rising will not be solely a prequel to The Boys
“Vought Rising” being a prequel and a sequel to “The Boys” would not be unprecedented. Most of “Higher Name Saul” was about how Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) grew to become legal lawyer Saul Goodman, however the present additionally featured flashforwards of him hiding out in Nebraska after the occasions of “Breaking Unhealthy.” Within the final stretch of episodes, the sequel story took over fully.
Or the short-lived “Dexter: Unique Sin,” which centered on Dexter Morgan’s (Michael C. Corridor) youth, however with the framing gadget of a near-dead Dexter’s life taking part in again in his thoughts. Maybe “Vought Rising” will use an analogous body of a frozen Soldier Boy subconsciously remembering higher days?
“Blood and Bone” additionally ends with Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) again answerable for Vought as its CEO; Homelander’s gone, however the entire rotten tree nonetheless stands. Stan is unquestionably not a fan of Soldier Boy (he is the one who set him as much as be kidnapped by the Russians), and will work as an antagonist for any potential present-day tales in “Vought Rising.” There can be some becoming symmetry, too, if a prequel about Vought’s earliest days additionally chronicles its enduring future.
“The Boys” Season 5 made positive to arrange “Vought Rising,” similar to establishing that Soldier Boy and Clara’s connection was greater than only a fling. If there’s one factor that is irritating about prequels, it is the sense of narrative inevitability. Killing off Soldier Boy in Season 5 would’ve taken wind out of the “Vought Rising” sails. By as a substitute sparing him, “The Boys” left a clean web page for “Vought Rising” to fill, if it desires to.
“The Boys” is streaming on Prime Video.
