HyperPolar23 said:
With the recent episode, I have more summaries in mind.
Surprisingly enough, thanks to Dan's actions, there's a divergence point now.
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"The Full Moon" would go off different.
For one, thanks to Dan having "connections" to make sure the DHORKS wouldn't really have an on-going legacy, the two agents find themselves working as government lackeys under Elise's tutelage, kept to more lenient work for now. Mostly involving helping Elise out on missions.
They come over for barbecues sometimes. Even managing to strike up a friendship with the ever-loveable Chris.
Of course, Loona and Dan stop by again (with Via seeing as how she has nowhere else to go), the entire thing gets a little tense, and devolves into a backyard dick-measuring contest with the two couples trying to outdo each other after Elise "talks them out" of killing each other. NIMBY at it's most literal, and most effective. Even Loona realises she can't really go up against her.
By the time of dusk, they're all exhausted, and still no winner. So they call a truce, or in Dan's case "a mutually-assured cease-fire until further notice". And they just sit down, and join Chris, Elise and Octavia with their barbecue. It's not Road-Runner Burgers, but damned be if Chris doesn't know how to make one.
Meanwhile, the M&M couple deals with the Cherubs in Lust on their own. More specifically Cleetus and Keenie. Because of the nature of their rampage at Lipton's, those two get more unhinged, even sacrificing a homeless man to open a portal to hell, and Collin f*cks out early-on before he gets dragged down with them.
The irony is that they're after Dan for something that was their fault mostly.
To keep it short, it goes off with the M's winning, and the C's escaping.
Thanks to Dan's influence over the days leading up to this moment, Blitz decides to be a little more open to Stolas, and it ends with them still breaking it off, but with Stolas more on the receiving end.
That's because after Blitz opens up to him about his own issues to the best of his abilities (seriously at that), he decides he's undeserving of everything, and Stolas wants to work things through. It doesn't really work.
The difference this time is that it ends with everyone feeling less betrayed, and more undeserving. What better to symbolise this than Blitz using the shiny new travel crystal to teleport to Dan's old apartment, which became their de-facto base on Earth after chintzing the landlord under Loona's name.
He cries himself to sleep that night.
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"Apology Tour" starts off in reverse this time. With Stolas the annoying one trying to cling back, with Blitz being in "Get out of my life!" mode.
So the only reason his Apology Tour goes off is because Blitz interprets Stol's clinginess as a contest, and decides to do it anyway.
Meanwhile, Dan runs into Verosika again, and they decide it's not worth ripping each other's throats out after Spring Break because Dan's little "Defend-the-house-from-old-grudges" adventure a while ago made him soften up tremendously. Especially after what Loona said to him that night.
Dan not only learns that his boss, and one of his current best friends, not only has an annual party hosted by his disgruntled lovers dedicated to hating him, but he learns that he's "more loose than he thought", and he decides to invite himself over just to learn what Blitz is like as someone that currently thinks he understands him the best.
I mean, he wants to see from the outside what a "class-action vengeance party" is like.
Dan kind of figured him out long ago. Blitz's problem is that he's afraid to be happy. So he punishes himself by masking it behind a layer of stubbornness and toxicity because he's afraid if he settles down, and makes legitimate connections to people as himself, "he'll burn it all down no matter how he treats them, or how he acts".
He told him about that night some time after reconciling with that Fizz guy, and he had a bit of a talk with him that helped him acknowledge his emotions better at times.
He knows because he's been in that same rut once upon a time ago. Only difference is that he's content with his lonely rathole existence, accepting that he was a doomed being from the moment he started his vengeance crusades. Blitz still has a chance of fixing it all, and on some level he doesn't want to see him go even further down that road. Not after all that that he did for him to give him a life down here.
I mean the only reason Dan is one of the handful of people that can keep up with Blitz is because "it takes one to know one".
So when the singing part comes, with only slightly different lyrics from Stolas, Dan joins in with an Epic Guitar Solo that just screams "Realize it already you self-hating f*cking idiot!"
Later that night, Dan is waiting for him in the van, and talks him into going for a few drinks after he sees that this all legit got to him.
So when they got back to Blitz's apartment that night, in his drunken crying stupor Blitz hugs and thanks Dan for always being there for him, even at his worst.
After Dan's "I know...", he's out like a light, and falls asleep on the couch. Loona peeks through the front door just before Dan opens it to see her standing there with Octavia fresh from a party.
Loona asks if they're okay, to which Dan responds honestly, they kiss each other goodbye, and Dan goes back to his own abode with Via and Mr. Mumbles.
She asks how her "bastard father's" doing in a worried tone, and Dan slightly scolds her for acting like he was an abusive prick her whole childhood, when he's clearly the best she can get out of her situation. This gets Via to think a bit more about her choices after realising that she's been as much of a bastard herself for wanting things to go her way when that's not how life works.
So Dan decides to arrange for them to talk to each other one of these days, and to get it all out. Because a good parent is the one thing nobody should strive to lose. Or else they'd end up just like Blitzø.
