The third season of the Umbrella Academy left fans with many questions. All of the Hargreeves children are in a world where they don't have powers and Sir Reginald Hargreeves seems to be alive with his wife. It is hard to wait until the next and final season, I can tell you that.
Did I just have to look up if there would be another season? Yes. It's just been that kind of week with a bunch of shows I love getting canceled.
One burning question is what happened with Allison Hargreeves. It looks like everything is perfect for her. But could she merely be in a simulation?
In the first season of the Umbrella Academy, Allison Hargreeves used her powers on her daughter. She had to leave after that and was soon caught up in a series of events that saw her trapped in the past. During that time the guilt and anguish of her actions grew and grew.
So of course once she returned to the present she quickly made her way to her house to see the daughter she had wronged.
But Allison forgot that she and her family had ended up in an alternate timeline where Reginald didn't adopt them. This meant it shouldn't have surprised her that her daughter wasn't hers and the father was someone she didn't know. Though she couldn't have known that in this timeline she had been killed before birth.
The knowledge that she had wronged her daughter and can never be forgiven breaks her. As the season continued Allison grew more and more unhinged. Her actions soon crossed the line from hero to villain. She ends up killing Harlan Cooper as she blamed the autistic man for not being able to see her daughter. What makes this action horrific is that Viktor had accidentally given him powers that he never learned to control. So in a moment of great despair he ended up accidentally killing the members of the Umbrella Academy. Hence they don't exist in the alternate timeline.
Allison's action is even worse when you remember that Viktor had removed Harlan's powers so he wasn't a danger to anyone anymore.
Another of Allison's unhinged actions was to rape Luther as she feels she is owed his love and devotion. Even though she doesn't have sex with him, the scene is still hard to watch. No matter how bad you feel, no one owes you sex or love or devotion.
Allison became so consumed with grief that she allied herself with Sir Reginald Hargreeves, her father. This is the same father who was more than willing to throw his children's lives away when it suited his needs. In fact he is so desperate to complete his own mission that after a wedding is unable to sway his children to his side, he decides that one of them has to die.
This doesn't come fully out of left field as he killed himself in the first season to bring all his children together.
When Reginald's plan is about to be completed and her siblings unwillingly sacrificed, Allison decides to stand with her siblings instead of her father. The fact she defied him is one step to redeeming herself. But until she makes up for her past mistakes, I think of her as a villain. Complicated person, but still a villain.
Even though Allison interrupted Reginald's plan, it might not have been enough. The world still changed around her which is a good thing as the world was about to end. The bad part is that her siblings lost their powers. Well to some of her siblings this is looked at as a good thing as now they can lead normal lives.
Did you notice how I kept saying 'her siblings'? There is a reason for that.
What's the reason? Allison doesn't appear with the rest of her siblings. In fact she appears to have her powers as if whatever harmed her siblings had no effect on her.
At the end of the third season Allison returns home and is finally reunited with her daughter and Raymond Chestnut. Now the daughter makes sense but Raymond doesn't. Allison met, fell in love, and married Raymond when she went back in time. But eventually she had to leave him behind in order to return to her own timeline.
Yet Raymond doesn't see anything odd about his situation. He acts like everything is normal.
It just seems too perfect that Allison would get not just her daughter but the man she loved. The Umbrella Academy isn't that happy of a show where characters would get exactly what they wanted. Which means there has to be something much darker going on.
What is most likely going on is that Reginald's plan was a success. It didn't work out exactly like he had planned but he is where he wants to be as is Allison. Reginald is standing next to his formerly deceased wife and seems at ease with what has happened. To his mind his adopted children no longer pose a risk and so what he really wants can't be stopped.
Reginald is cruel and manipulative, but he rewards those he feel helped him. The problem is that the rewards are more curses than anything else. Klaus freed him from the medication and so Reginald rewarded him. First by teaching Klaus about his real powers and then by making sure he didn't get hurt by the plan. Problem is that Reginald made sure Klaus wouldn't get tangled up in his plan by killing him. Don't worry since Klaus learned about his real powers he is able to resurrect himself if he wishes. Something Reginald was aware of.
So it makes sense that Reginald would similarly reward Allison. He got her out of the way by sending her to a simulation that was her fantasy. So he makes her happy in a way that is acceptable to him.
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