I realised as I was 書く my series finale review that I had spent a shitload of time and words talking myself through the バートン death, so I decided to lift the bulk of that out of my original review and have a dedicated バートン death therapy session. Coz I am a totally normal person.
So it was ever-so-unsurprisingly revealed that Satan McHornFace was NOT Rebecca's killer. Cue my anxiety! I'd read ファン theories about バートン being the killer and it made sense and I was ok with it. The Rebecca-Burton rivalry had been set up long ago, and having it be a central storyline in the end was pretty satisfying.
But to be honest, フード and Dawson's trip to the shed was pretty dumb, in my opinion. バートン was already a little creepy, so giving him some spooky shed-basement full of ドール was kinda not necessary (unless there is some extensive backstory to this, 'Banshee' writers?! That あなた would perhaps like to share with us in some sort of spinoff form?!?!?!?!?! TELL ME!!!!!). But they had set up Burton's distrust of Rebecca very early on in the series. We didn't need the creepy dungeon vibe to justify this course of action for Burton. But like I said, if the 'Banshee' writers want to share もっと見る about this with me, I'm all ears!
フード running Proctor and バートン off the road scared the shit out of me. It shouldn't have, but it did, because like I said, I was in Anxiety City. From the promos, I knew this was the Hood/Burton showdown, and that meant very soon, I was going to be in a pool of tears. バートン is my favourite 'Banshee' character, and フード is my 秒 favourite. So there was no good outcome for me または my precious boys here.
The entirety of the Hood/Proctor/Burton showdown was brilliant. Hood's interrogation of Proctor was painful, as Proctor was truly totally vulnerable and desperate for once in his damn life. And their simultaneous realisation that バートン killed Rebecca was chilling, compounded によって the reveal that バートン was awake and mobile...
フード VS バートン was truly brutal. I've read a couple of reviews and ファン コメント lamenting that it was not as epic as say バートン VS Nola in 'A Fixer Of Sorts', but, for me, those are two very different fights, for very different reasons, and their level of 'epicness' should really be contextualised. The Burton/Nola fight was an excellently choreographed and frenzied fight between two people who had really just met, and were both hell-bent on getting rid of each other in order to protect または avenge someone else. So there was a panicked ferocity to their fight that has been unrivalled. The フード VS バートン fight, however, was steeped in the history the characters, including Rebecca and Proctor, had together. Therefore, it was less clinical, and もっと見る blunt, emphasising not their techniques as fighters, but rather their emotional states channelled into brute strength and power. フード was fighting for some justice for Rebecca, and バートン was fighting, yet again, to protect Proctor and his standing with Proctor. So comparing the fights is kinda pointless. The フード VS バートン showdown was brilliant for what it was, as was the バートン VS Nola showdown.
Anywho... I found the fight really hard to watch because I desperately wanted neither to lose, even though I knew バートン was pretty much a guaranteed goner. I have to admit though I was sucked in によって the fake-out: when バートン was choking フード and Hood's dearly departed began flashing before his eyes, I thought 'holy shit they ARE gonna kill him'. It would have been a bold move, but one that would not be out of place on ‘Banshee’. But of course they didn't and I felt like a bit of an idiot, but please くま, クマ in mind that this entire scene was a trauma for me.
Hood's head-bashing beat-up of バートン was soooooo hard to watch (doesn't that hurt Hood?!), but フード dragging Burton's body around the car and throwing him down on Proctor was probably the worst part. I think that is when I transitioned from being upset to being numb. It's not that I think 'Banshee' crossed a line (let's be honest, worse has happened in Banshee), but もっと見る that this was one of my favourite characters of all time, a formerly powerful and formidable if not odd creature, being reduced to a fairly undignified mess. I was 100% prepared for Burton's death, but not this death...
And then it got worse. バートン was thrown to Proctor for the final indignity... The scene was stunning. Proctor was totally torn, バートン was totally torn up. 与えられた their history, this was a fucking disastrous end to Team Proctor, and both Proctor and バートン knew it. The final crack of Burton's neck was sickening. Proctor's response was sickening. The whole scene was horrifying. I'm still not sure what I do with it. It was brilliant, but it was confronting.
Peppered throughout the scene were the flashbacks to Burton's murder of Rebecca. Those minimal flashbacks were far, far もっと見る sinister, sick and chilling than anything we ever saw from the Satanists. I'm trying to decide if that was deliberate または not. As I will discuss in another therapy session (my full series review), the Satanist serial killer storyline was incredibly weak. Despite inexplicably getting the jump on Dawson, フード and Lotus at one point, the Satanists were never really believable as a serious threat. They were always really just a bunch of nutters. However, the moments we see バートン looming over a restrained Rebecca are steeped in violence and rage. Adding to that is the sense that バートン is technically right: Rebecca was screwing up all over the place, and Proctor was letting her away with it. Since being saved によって Proctor from that torturous dungeon, バートン seems to have been pathologically loyal to Proctor, and perhaps understandably so. The torture バートン endured (for whatever reason... TELL ME, 'BANSHEE' WRITERS!!!!) was clearly traumatic, and バートン would understandably pledge his existence to Proctor as a saviour figure. Look at me, defending the creepy little murderer! But seriously, Burton's assessment of Rebecca was not wrong, even if he conveniently forgets Proctor's role in creating the Rebecca monster...
Proctor's own response to Burton's confession and then killing him was pretty clear evidence that Proctor knew exactly why all this crap had happened, and his role in it. As traumatised as I was によって it, it was beautiful to see Proctor comforting バートン at the end and acknowledging that Burton's intentions were pure (well, as pure as 'Banshee' intentions can be...) and ensuring that Burton's last moments were at least spent in acknowledgment of Burton's loyalty to Proctor as a friend, not just as a boss または a businessman または a saviour.
Moving on from those tears, I've seen quite a few ファン コメント around the place expressing disbelief that フード could have バートン so easily. First up, I'm not sure I'd call that fight "easy" for either of them. バートン did get the better of Hood, and almost killed him. But フード was spurred on によって daughter-inspired daddy-power and fought back, as main characters so often do. But secondly, and most importantly, バートン and Proctor came into that battle really fucked up. They had literally just been exploded によって Job/Carrie/Brock's バズーカ and then engaged in a gun-fight. THEN フード smashed them off the road, leading to a brutal car crash, rolling down a ravine-esque wooded area and as a result being pretty physically damaged and probably a little exhausted によって one hell of a day! Hood, on the other hand, came into that fight fairly fresh (as fresh as he ever is 与えられた his fondness for fighting...), and バートン still had the upper-hand for the first part of that fight. Seems to me that that was brilliant management of Burton's so-far immortal status on the show. The only way, realistically, that フード could have beaten バートン was if he was already seriously injured and exhausted.
Anyway, for me, the fight was brilliant and traumatic, a perfectly horrifying blend of brutality and high emotional stakes, an art that 'Banshee' has perfected over its 4 seasons. I still don't think I have processed what I witnessed fully, as it was incredibly tough to experience Burton's death so closely, and so suddenly after the confirmation of his role in Rebecca's death. But I will forever be in awe of Antony Starr, Matthew Rauch and Ulrich Thomsen for their 芝居 throughout the series, but in this scene in particular. My heart... it hurts... あなた bastards!
So it was ever-so-unsurprisingly revealed that Satan McHornFace was NOT Rebecca's killer. Cue my anxiety! I'd read ファン theories about バートン being the killer and it made sense and I was ok with it. The Rebecca-Burton rivalry had been set up long ago, and having it be a central storyline in the end was pretty satisfying.
But to be honest, フード and Dawson's trip to the shed was pretty dumb, in my opinion. バートン was already a little creepy, so giving him some spooky shed-basement full of ドール was kinda not necessary (unless there is some extensive backstory to this, 'Banshee' writers?! That あなた would perhaps like to share with us in some sort of spinoff form?!?!?!?!?! TELL ME!!!!!). But they had set up Burton's distrust of Rebecca very early on in the series. We didn't need the creepy dungeon vibe to justify this course of action for Burton. But like I said, if the 'Banshee' writers want to share もっと見る about this with me, I'm all ears!
フード running Proctor and バートン off the road scared the shit out of me. It shouldn't have, but it did, because like I said, I was in Anxiety City. From the promos, I knew this was the Hood/Burton showdown, and that meant very soon, I was going to be in a pool of tears. バートン is my favourite 'Banshee' character, and フード is my 秒 favourite. So there was no good outcome for me または my precious boys here.
The entirety of the Hood/Proctor/Burton showdown was brilliant. Hood's interrogation of Proctor was painful, as Proctor was truly totally vulnerable and desperate for once in his damn life. And their simultaneous realisation that バートン killed Rebecca was chilling, compounded によって the reveal that バートン was awake and mobile...
フード VS バートン was truly brutal. I've read a couple of reviews and ファン コメント lamenting that it was not as epic as say バートン VS Nola in 'A Fixer Of Sorts', but, for me, those are two very different fights, for very different reasons, and their level of 'epicness' should really be contextualised. The Burton/Nola fight was an excellently choreographed and frenzied fight between two people who had really just met, and were both hell-bent on getting rid of each other in order to protect または avenge someone else. So there was a panicked ferocity to their fight that has been unrivalled. The フード VS バートン fight, however, was steeped in the history the characters, including Rebecca and Proctor, had together. Therefore, it was less clinical, and もっと見る blunt, emphasising not their techniques as fighters, but rather their emotional states channelled into brute strength and power. フード was fighting for some justice for Rebecca, and バートン was fighting, yet again, to protect Proctor and his standing with Proctor. So comparing the fights is kinda pointless. The フード VS バートン showdown was brilliant for what it was, as was the バートン VS Nola showdown.
Anywho... I found the fight really hard to watch because I desperately wanted neither to lose, even though I knew バートン was pretty much a guaranteed goner. I have to admit though I was sucked in によって the fake-out: when バートン was choking フード and Hood's dearly departed began flashing before his eyes, I thought 'holy shit they ARE gonna kill him'. It would have been a bold move, but one that would not be out of place on ‘Banshee’. But of course they didn't and I felt like a bit of an idiot, but please くま, クマ in mind that this entire scene was a trauma for me.
Hood's head-bashing beat-up of バートン was soooooo hard to watch (doesn't that hurt Hood?!), but フード dragging Burton's body around the car and throwing him down on Proctor was probably the worst part. I think that is when I transitioned from being upset to being numb. It's not that I think 'Banshee' crossed a line (let's be honest, worse has happened in Banshee), but もっと見る that this was one of my favourite characters of all time, a formerly powerful and formidable if not odd creature, being reduced to a fairly undignified mess. I was 100% prepared for Burton's death, but not this death...
And then it got worse. バートン was thrown to Proctor for the final indignity... The scene was stunning. Proctor was totally torn, バートン was totally torn up. 与えられた their history, this was a fucking disastrous end to Team Proctor, and both Proctor and バートン knew it. The final crack of Burton's neck was sickening. Proctor's response was sickening. The whole scene was horrifying. I'm still not sure what I do with it. It was brilliant, but it was confronting.
Peppered throughout the scene were the flashbacks to Burton's murder of Rebecca. Those minimal flashbacks were far, far もっと見る sinister, sick and chilling than anything we ever saw from the Satanists. I'm trying to decide if that was deliberate または not. As I will discuss in another therapy session (my full series review), the Satanist serial killer storyline was incredibly weak. Despite inexplicably getting the jump on Dawson, フード and Lotus at one point, the Satanists were never really believable as a serious threat. They were always really just a bunch of nutters. However, the moments we see バートン looming over a restrained Rebecca are steeped in violence and rage. Adding to that is the sense that バートン is technically right: Rebecca was screwing up all over the place, and Proctor was letting her away with it. Since being saved によって Proctor from that torturous dungeon, バートン seems to have been pathologically loyal to Proctor, and perhaps understandably so. The torture バートン endured (for whatever reason... TELL ME, 'BANSHEE' WRITERS!!!!) was clearly traumatic, and バートン would understandably pledge his existence to Proctor as a saviour figure. Look at me, defending the creepy little murderer! But seriously, Burton's assessment of Rebecca was not wrong, even if he conveniently forgets Proctor's role in creating the Rebecca monster...
Proctor's own response to Burton's confession and then killing him was pretty clear evidence that Proctor knew exactly why all this crap had happened, and his role in it. As traumatised as I was によって it, it was beautiful to see Proctor comforting バートン at the end and acknowledging that Burton's intentions were pure (well, as pure as 'Banshee' intentions can be...) and ensuring that Burton's last moments were at least spent in acknowledgment of Burton's loyalty to Proctor as a friend, not just as a boss または a businessman または a saviour.
Moving on from those tears, I've seen quite a few ファン コメント around the place expressing disbelief that フード could have バートン so easily. First up, I'm not sure I'd call that fight "easy" for either of them. バートン did get the better of Hood, and almost killed him. But フード was spurred on によって daughter-inspired daddy-power and fought back, as main characters so often do. But secondly, and most importantly, バートン and Proctor came into that battle really fucked up. They had literally just been exploded によって Job/Carrie/Brock's バズーカ and then engaged in a gun-fight. THEN フード smashed them off the road, leading to a brutal car crash, rolling down a ravine-esque wooded area and as a result being pretty physically damaged and probably a little exhausted によって one hell of a day! Hood, on the other hand, came into that fight fairly fresh (as fresh as he ever is 与えられた his fondness for fighting...), and バートン still had the upper-hand for the first part of that fight. Seems to me that that was brilliant management of Burton's so-far immortal status on the show. The only way, realistically, that フード could have beaten バートン was if he was already seriously injured and exhausted.
Anyway, for me, the fight was brilliant and traumatic, a perfectly horrifying blend of brutality and high emotional stakes, an art that 'Banshee' has perfected over its 4 seasons. I still don't think I have processed what I witnessed fully, as it was incredibly tough to experience Burton's death so closely, and so suddenly after the confirmation of his role in Rebecca's death. But I will forever be in awe of Antony Starr, Matthew Rauch and Ulrich Thomsen for their 芝居 throughout the series, but in this scene in particular. My heart... it hurts... あなた bastards!