The Umbrella Academy season 4 took a wrong turn with Five and Lila's 'brief love story' and fans are getting the ick from it. Apart from having no connection to the main story, the age gap doesn't look right at all. Do they end up together? What happened to them at the series finale?
SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Netflix's The Umbrella Academy season 4, so proceed with caution.
The Umbrella Academy's Five and Lila 'Ship' Flew Too Close To the Sun
The Umbrella Academy season 4 episode 5 titled Six Years, Five Months and Two Days sees Five (played by Aidan Gallagher) and Lila (Ritu Arya) attempt to travel back to their universe's timeline.
However, things get weird pretty quickly when they get stuck between alternate timelines for seven years. The proximity of sleeping in the same bed, shaving Five's 'beard', and eventually, even establishing their relationship through the woven bracelet Five made for her.
Things were going great until Lila found out Five kept a secret from her: he found out a way back home. As much as Five wanted them to stay in the fantasy timeline, Lila shot him back to reality by calling their 'brief' relationship "survival" and "nothing more."
When Five and Lila finally return to their timeline, Diego finds out that Lila cheated on her with Five. What felt like hours to Diego had been seven years between Five and Lila.
While Five and Lila may not have ended together, The Umbrella Academy showrunner and creator thought it was a good idea to let Five experience what it's like to fall in love with an actual human being.
Showrunner Thinks Five and Lila Are the Perfect Opposites
According to showrunner Steve Blackman, Five deserved to have a love story of his own, and who better would he be paired up with than Lila? The 64-year-old man who got stuck in an 18-year-old's body would have fallen in love eventually.
"I wanted him to kiss Lila because they're extreme opposites and they hate each other. But really, they are remarkably similar," Blackman explained on Tudum, "They're both assassins and they both went through the Commission. So they really do understand each other."
While Blackman is curious as to how show fans would react to this pairing, he got his answer through a couple of tweeted hate posts.
Keep in mind that even when Five is portrayed as a 64-year-old, the real-life actor Aidan Gallagher is 20 years old, and his co-star Ritu Arya is 35. Apart from that, Five essentially tried to steal his half-brother's wife behind his back without an ounce of remorse.
But what fans found the ickiest of them all is that the previous seasons of The Umbrella Academy built what Diego and Lila could have together, only to scrap them up for a fling with Five.
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