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by Captain V
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I really, really loved this one.

Everyone who watches the show has speculated on two things:

1. Are Rusty and the Monarch brothers?

2. Is Rusty actually a clone as well, in a long, sad twisted tradition of family cloning?

This season seems to answer both. However, just not totally definitively... yet.

To me Rusty definitely died multiple times and was cloned. He and Malcom are definitely related. Likely brothers. And maybe BOTH are actually clones.

Aug. 31, 2018, 9:17pm

by beb
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The lack of a Mrs. Jonas Venture has made me wonder if Rusty wasn't a clone. In the end Morpho it sounded like Jonas has inseminated Blue Morpho's wife. Now it looks like he pulled a couple worms out of the clone farm. Just as Rusty did 23-24 years later.

I was wondering why HELPer didn't have a vocalizer, and now we have a model 2 with a vocalizer. Pity he wouldn't join the ventureverse, but like Ben seems to exist solely to pass on information that no one else was in a position to reveal.

I agree that Rusty probably died multiple times. In season 2 when we saw the computers used to program the Hank and Dean slugs they were antique, refrigerator-size tape machines. So probably the original equipment of Jonas' creation.

That Dean is Rusty's clone kind of answers when Ben was looking for signs of that frtus-eating gene in Dean. Rusty obviously had it, was a known problem with the first generation of clones and Ben was looking to see if it had been fixed in the second generation of clones.

And if Ben still has cloning equipment one has to wonder if Jonas will come back as a clone. (Though I think by the time he does Rusty will have concluded that Da-Da was better off dead.

This means that Dermet is the first Venture to have a mother since Jonas.

Back in the 1st ep of this season Jonas said something about how assured his virility was. I've wondered for a time that since Jonas seemed to sleep with any woman around either the world would be filled with a lot of baby Ventures, or Jonas was only shooting blanks all this time.

Loved it when Rusty had the breakthrough that OSI/GCI were just a bunch of children in silly costumes and deadly weapons.

This was my most favorite episode so far this season.

Aug. 31, 2018, 10:29pm

by aett
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Ben was also looking for extra hair growth around the eyes, which more-or-less confirms that The Monarch is an imperfect clone as well.

Sep. 5, 2018, 6:50pm

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