The Venture Bros. is my favorite show. The day I heard it was canceled, I was crushed. The day I heard it was being concluded with a feature film, I swelled with hope, but it was diluted with worry, I'll concede. Far too many shows end unsatisfactorily, and that ends up more or less tainting the whole series. (It's impossible to rewatch Game of Thrones without remembering how it all ends, innit?)
I'll say this: This finale wasn't what I was hoping for. I struggled trying to avoid that sentiment, but that's just what it is.
However, it's not necessarily a disappointment in itself. I know that having to end Venture Bros. this way wasn't what Hammer and McCulloch wanted either, but they had questions they needed to answer and they did what they could to do so.
We ascertain the origins of Hank and Dean's birth, along with the truth of the Monarch's relation to Rusty Venture. But in all honesty, a lot of the plot feels shoehorned in. New characters and events that are related to these mysteries but honestly aren't ultimately all that necessary given how it all concludes, a "villain" that doesn't really matter or go anywhere, whose motivations are sloppy and resolved underwhelmingly, and just fills in to explain a loose end, etc.
On my part, I'd been dreaming of it all ending with Jonas Venture's decapitated head being thawed by the OSI and going rogue, trying to force his way back into an immortalized existence and destroying anyone in his way, hero and villain alike. Cementing him as the ultimate antagonist to the series, as had been otherwise implied as each season progressed. Something to bring Rusty and the Monarch together to stop him and finally push past their traumatic childhoods. I personally feel that that would've been a much more satisfying ending to it all. But c'est la vie.
In spite of a direction I wouldn't have chosen, I can write my own fanfiction about how I would've done it all day, but the series has ended. And I can look at it and feel it's resolved enough, even if I'll always have a handful of loose ends I'll be daydreaming of. And who knows? Maybe down the line, someone somewhere with the means could get the resources to run one more season or something.
In conclusion: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is an ending if it has to be. I wanted more, the creators wanted more, but they did a good job regardless.
Review by Atomic ClownVIP 2BlockedParentSpoilers2023-07-22T12:25:06Z
The Venture Bros. is my favorite show. The day I heard it was canceled, I was crushed. The day I heard it was being concluded with a feature film, I swelled with hope, but it was diluted with worry, I'll concede. Far too many shows end unsatisfactorily, and that ends up more or less tainting the whole series. (It's impossible to rewatch Game of Thrones without remembering how it all ends, innit?)
I'll say this: This finale wasn't what I was hoping for. I struggled trying to avoid that sentiment, but that's just what it is.
However, it's not necessarily a disappointment in itself. I know that having to end Venture Bros. this way wasn't what Hammer and McCulloch wanted either, but they had questions they needed to answer and they did what they could to do so.
We ascertain the origins of Hank and Dean's birth, along with the truth of the Monarch's relation to Rusty Venture. But in all honesty, a lot of the plot feels shoehorned in. New characters and events that are related to these mysteries but honestly aren't ultimately all that necessary given how it all concludes, a "villain" that doesn't really matter or go anywhere, whose motivations are sloppy and resolved underwhelmingly, and just fills in to explain a loose end, etc.
On my part, I'd been dreaming of it all ending with Jonas Venture's decapitated head being thawed by the OSI and going rogue, trying to force his way back into an immortalized existence and destroying anyone in his way, hero and villain alike. Cementing him as the ultimate antagonist to the series, as had been otherwise implied as each season progressed. Something to bring Rusty and the Monarch together to stop him and finally push past their traumatic childhoods. I personally feel that that would've been a much more satisfying ending to it all. But c'est la vie.
In spite of a direction I wouldn't have chosen, I can write my own fanfiction about how I would've done it all day, but the series has ended. And I can look at it and feel it's resolved enough, even if I'll always have a handful of loose ends I'll be daydreaming of. And who knows? Maybe down the line, someone somewhere with the means could get the resources to run one more season or something.
In conclusion: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart is an ending if it has to be. I wanted more, the creators wanted more, but they did a good job regardless.
It will remain in my library warmly.
That's my piece.