How Did I Get Here

Anyway’s I’m madly in love with the bastard robot. Captain and Krupp I’m sorry for putting you on pause but the metal man calls for me like a sailor at sea I must answer

I cannot even imagine suddenly having another consciousness thrown into your body. Or being that new consciousness and having to realize that you were not there first. it’s so interesting….

In HOL and HOL2 we see his pants are tied off right above where his knees would be. He lost them as a Bounty Hunter, thus ending his career early on.

But in HOK, and the very end of HOL2, we see these tiny baby growths of feet. Considering the intervals between both times this occurs makes me confirm that Gene has a condition that limits his regeneration. I think it may be a disability amongst his species.

Like Deadpool for example. He regenerates from any inflicted wound, but it looks very baby like during the process.

I don’t think Gene’s body can physically get past the little growth part, and therefore fails and comes off somehow. I’m unsure of how, but it could be like lizards shedding their tails or deers loosing their antlers. Body rejects the new limb because it can’t recognize/provide for it, so it does a makeshift ‘ding dong ditch’ and just. Fucking falls right off.

Detail I noticed (BOY HOW I NOTICED); While Gene isn’t the one actually installing BH’s new arms, he’s very clearly instructing K-S0 on what to do. Lightly reassuring (more himself tbh) that yeah, that should do it, that’s probably gonna work.

I honestly wonder if Gene just couldn’t bring himself to be the one to do it, or if he physically couldn’t.

(Remember in the murder mystery when Gene says he’s shaking after travis entirely fucks up any chance he has with Oberon? I see that happening far worse with BH’s life in his hands.)

He also very well could have had K-SO do it because he didn’t want any of the blame if BH didn’t make it. He’s already to blame for everything else, I don’t think he could live with the guilt of leading BH to their death.

I also wanna note how awkward Gene acts after BH doesn’t die. I feel it’s a mix of things. He’s ashamed and guilty. He’s wholeheartedly ready to pass out. He’s exhausted. He was entirely convinced (again) they were gone. He’s defensive. He’s subconsciously trying to regress back into his mindset of ‘see? They survived. They can handle anything, even loosing their arms!’.

But I feel it’s a big enough kick in the ass for him to finally do more, y’know? Because once BH is, again, forced to handle Nipulon alone (Lizzie holding off security) he’s already got a backup plan ready because he’s not willing to risk it again. ‘Just in case, I probably won’t need it but, just in case.’ AND WOW! HE ACTUALLY DID NEED IT! OKAY.

Do you know how fast Gene would have to move in order to not only already be at the BH museum, but to drive it DIRECTLY into the Rhea Pharmaceuticals the second he gets word that Nipulon’s already left?? He had to hack the bounty 5K, track Nipulon’s signal, PUT A BOUNTY ON HIM, and Then somehow figure out how to DRIVE THE MUSEUM. (All while moving himself with no legs mind you.)

Gene is so much smarter than he or anyone else gives him credit for. GOD.

And a line that sticks with me is near the end, when gene proclaims very angrily, ‘You’re not the one who should have a bounty, it’s Nipulon!’

Because BEFORE BH got nabbed, Gene was desperate to convince BH that, hey! Maybe a bounty on your head isn’t so bad, we can still make a name! And y’know, how Gene is encouraged/excited whenever he sees it get higher. ‘I kinda like seeing it get higher, is that crazy?’ OUT THE WINDOW. GONE. ALL OF THAT NO LONGER MATTERS TO HIM AT THE END.

Do not get me STARTED on Gene during the court case btw

The way Nipulon tries to appeal to Gene’s hunger for recognition, to have a name again?? He offers Gene everything he lost. His name, his fame, a pardon, his legs. Only if he denounces BH once and for all. SPECIFICALLY BH, MIND YOU. NOT HUMANITY, NOT LIZZIE, BOUNTY HUNTER.

AND GENE SAYS FUCK YOU, YOUR FULL OF SHIT AND YOU KNOW IT

Gene, who wanted nothing more than to be known again, tosses ALL of that away. He witnessed first fucking hand what that selfishness did to BH, and can’t bring himself to tolerate it anymore. He just wants his family safe.