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it to the jenniver v season 2 episode 8 the finale of season 2 i want to thank everyone every single one of you who has been on this journey with us watching all of jem v starting right from season 1 we cover so many things over here we upload daily so if you haven't yet subscribe and click that notification bell rarely ask of that but I figured why not start the video off that way if you made it this far with us now before we go into anything it's important we're checking with our feelings see how we're doing beforehand because we take whatever that is in with us when we go watch something let's start with coy coy how are you feeling right now got a headache a little dizzy but uh you know that's that's been my life since I flew and I got vertigo at 37 years old and realize that having your health is wealth and then as you age and fall apart into decrepit reality you go man youth was great and Benjamin Button makes more since every year. How are you, Greg? I'm better than that. Damn.

That's heavy. I feel like I'm on a boat all the time, Greg, and it's really disoriented. I've, I've been having some real health problems lately, and it really kicked in again yesterday at the time of filming this, back on the bathroom floor. It was a really bad thing. And so today, I don't know, my heart is a little bit having a hard time feeling things at the moment. So I'm hoping I get to a spot of feeling more.

John, we don't need to go through you. I'm part of us today. Heartless, I said. I'm a little hungry, but it's finally. Let's ignore the one that's doing okay. How are you feeling, John? I don't know. Don't top us.

I'm doing all right. John died. It's a bit of a tumultuous weekend. Had some, you know, some important conversations with people in my life. Also had some very nice friend interactions, some nice cinema interactions. So it's been a little bit of every. kind of, you know, vivid side of the emotional spectrum for me in the past 48 to 72 hours. Oh, heck yeah.

But yeah, I'm doing good. I'm excited to be here with you guys. And at this moment, I feel nice. Oh, nice. I love to hear it, man. I'd love to hear it. Well, how are you guys feeling today? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below.

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oh shit last resort makes sense I'll test it on myself Damn, right through the coat. Oh, and there's also an earlier era of it. He was saying that there was like, it wasn't completed yet, or perfected. Burning alive and living through it. Oof. I'm so sorry about the carpet. It's fine.

It's probably fine. He's like totally broken, huh? Well, his ribs hurt, and that's where he hit him. Yeah. I don't know what the fucking is happening. But if this is true, it was always Godalk him. And it's supposed to be like a hundred. He took the same V that a soldier boy in Stormfront took.

It's called V1. He won. So he doesn't age. But you do. I'm the second puppet. The first one is dead. Oh, yeah. Good news.

Like it did. Ben news expired six years ago. Nice. Thank you. I mean, he must be age. from the amount of like beatings he took on the fight oh yeah yeah he's i thought it was sort of place yeah so it was like 96 and i was i was getting work trying to fix vcr's and i got a call from this guy went to his house dr fielder nathan fielder 1996 he asked me all these questions about

myself like my my my family and my friends and can she heal him i can't do anymore i'm i'm too From Godolgan, I can try again in a few hours. Thank you. Thank you for trying. Aw, dog! Sweet guy. You know, then Gatalkin, he jumps inside my head, and the first thing he has me to is killed Dr. Fielder, and, you know, I try to fight back.

But it was like I was in a box inside my own mind. They identify. If he can control anybody, why didn't he just control Marie? Oh, uh, he can't. She's just too powerful. That would suck if you die. Man, I want Doug to make it. Should we call an ambulance?

No, no, no, that's too risky. I have a friend who's an attending at White Plains. I'll trust him. I'll take you. Hey, I got to tell you guys, no matter what happens. I so appreciate what you did from here. I thought I was going to get away. He should stay in the show somehow.

Yeah, please. He spent more of his life trapped in his own body. I want to have some time with Doug. Make him your intern. But as that guy, he probably couldn't take. I imagine he couldn't taste and all that. Oh, my God. He's just catching up on all.

life's pleasures it seems like he wasn't able to actually have any senses he's just riding the body like a car is like metallo yeah it must suck to get in that much to shape as an actor then they make you pig out like that with your shirt off you couldn't film that tomorrow thank you thread count. Everything feels so good. I wonder if the actors watched each other who are like consulted each other for their performances. You've just been touched because they're similar in their cadence and delivery.

Blunted. Yeah, you're right. He's doing a good job as Cypher in this actor. And now, to be able to feel everything again. Life is a miracle. Some life. You were right. About it all. Planting Odessa for Starlight to find.

Sending Marie back to school. Every domino falling just as you said. Love you, Sage. Pretty fantastic. I'm good at selling her intellect. They've got me in this apartment, in the tower. Oh, nightmare. Yeah.

I haven't lived with anyone since I was a child, but I can't move for you. You won't move in? Oh, Godokin's dead. Whatever, not. I've never seen you like this. So vulnerable. So weak. Of course. I'll move in with you.

We can buy a peloton we will never use. We can f*** like rabbits on a seven conference table. I like that. Let's see it. Cut two. But we have to find a way to introduce you to Homelander. I just have one more class to teach. Wait, what? First, I am going to go pee in a toilet, holding my own...

In my own hand. Yes. God, what a fucking world. Did you say class? You've gotten everything you want out of this place. Not everything. What's more important? I'll show you.

He wants to do a cleanse, doesn't he? So, uh, you can't need people I can reach out to. He's been lonely for decades. 29 years. I tortured people. It was God, I sure felt like me. God, that's gotta do a number on your mind. You'd have been so proud of Andre.

Oh. I mean, I just love that kid. I'm always figuring out ways to f*** with him. Andre actually pissed in his coffee somehow. Do this day I have no idea how I got a guard to do it or something

Legend That one thousand percent Sounds like my son He risked everything For the sake of his friends What a nice dovetail All the way to the last episode Your son is the greatest hero

I ever seen That he's a lot Oh yeah Of course God damn it No! Come on! Is it noir? I felt like something was going to happen. Someone was about to get attacked. I fell for it. I was so in.

Yeah, it seemed like a death was coming. Oh, is that like the fan-in-war? Yeah, I called it. Hate that. Marie has to leave. Leave where? Anywhere but here? Gadorin wants to stick his hand up or? metaphorically uh you don't know

you could take over a body forever you can change in the bathroom it's just up the hall okay thanks oh no her premonitions for later what do you want to do well not having godok in your brain it's my vote I mean he was already in there he convinced me that I was so fucking special

that I was the chosen one all that bullshit I'm not special kind of special anything more than a girl who cuts herself when she feels sad fuck that that's just so not true yeah you still have all these powers if you guys weren't around I'd probably

probably be puking my guts out and scarred in 16 pizzas. You won't. I did. You saw it. We're f***ed up, but we also have people to help us carry all this fucking baggage. Hmm. I mean, we're kind of like a cute little... ...up family.

Those guys who load airplanes. We stick together. So much more sensitivity. Are we hugging? Oh, God. This is one step closer to... Two of three, seven, I feel so right. Girls get it done.

I'm going to drop a deuce. We're going to figure it out, all right? Hey, I'm sorry. I know. I mean it. Whoa. Oh. Go for it.

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oh thank you oh that was such a nice moment I hope it goes well This is the thing with this show that you don't get in the boys You got the feminine inequality Which allows a little bit more of that softness I'm Thomas Godolkin You may recognize me from

My memorial bust on the quad Or the false reports of my death Holy shit There have been many lies told about me Over the years Maybe Greg's normal I don't trust I'm a proud superhero

Oh what have you done And I am here to write a terrible wrong. That is not the way to tell home matter. Oh, exactly. That's exactly. Effective immediately. All student rankings have been reset to zero. And I am opening my advanced seminar to every student on campus. Yes.

Ugh. Regardless of PowerSet or major, we'll have the chance to join the top ten. And one step closer to joining the seven. No way. Oh, geez. For a lucky few. The chance to become truly exceptional. Oh, no, truly exceptional.

It's a trap, obviously. Yeah, a trap for what, though? 90% of the population? What, he's going to lure Marie to the seminar to save everyone? She can't go. I'm done being the chosen one. Whatever we do, we do it together. She's finally a team player.

Look, whatever he's planning, all these people are in danger. We have to warn everybody. How? We get a bullhorn. I know how. I'm Marie Moreau. And this is. for every student at god you who thinks they're going to climb the ranks by going to

thomas god god does not believe him passes a homelander no class no rank is worth your life woof rufus you guys can't go to this seminar okay it's too dangerous you are the last person anyone should listen to your fredge himself oh my god a thousand-year-old guy rises from the grave takes over and it's just labowski chill bro wants us to get to Marie and he's going to do anything to make that happen so so don't go those guy hates Marie sorry man I didn't want it to go like this but for your own safety I got to keep there it is I hate it drawing on his face it's been a while he roofied off you have a dick on your face you too sam you too what's good play is

uh you didn't go the whole seminar thing seemed fishy side with you guys didn't do anything to stop the drawing though that's some of my best work what can i say i love us and i know us inside and out soup to nuts soup to nuts you're rufus a psychic i'm a bit of a polymath a psychic who uses your power to incapacitate coeds for your own sexual gratification no i would never not anymore sir he doesn't because you are exceptional but because your failures your failures undeserving of the gifts you have been given oh this is a slaughterhouse that's why it's a small group to start you've been complacent you've used your powers for money you don't you don't deny that call

prove that you belong or die trying one simple test i am going to try to push that but And you have to stop me. He wants to feel the power? I think he's whittling people down, keeping one or two. Lisa Henning ranked 32, and currently bombing intro to improv. Jesus. What the fuck, Daniel? He was in my head, controlling me.

Uh. Nike all the way. Oh. Oh. Oh. Boils are coming back. We get our danger room sequence after all. Maybe the next group will do better.

He's fucking killing him. Don't go over there. He's killing them. What a smart way to whittle them down. Yeah. Just have him do it themselves. In the seminar room, he's making everybody kill each other. He's crazy. Oh, poor guy. Calling the hurt.

Yeah, you can't go there, Marie. He said Seifer wants to kill all the weekend, useless soups. That's why he opened up the seminar. He's just going to mow them all down, one group at a time. Unless you come in to save them. Gee. Look, I know there's a chance that you're never going to forgive me for leaving you twice. And, and, I forgive you.

You do? But we can't be together. Oh. What? Marie, this isn't going to work. Why? We always just end up in the same place. No.

And I don't want to be angry with you. Aw. Wait. Can we just... Marie! Did you see the naked guy? Did you see the naked guy? Yeah, that really sucks.

But Jordan, from where she's coming from, they're coming from. It makes sense. I've been running from these visions my whole life. Maybe I'm supposed to run toward it. Run toward what? We can't just let Godalk and puppet, Marie. We've been trying to find you.

We've got an idea. We're going to climb in this guy's in the wall, sneaked. I've never been able to control more than two or two. Yep. Power. I'm thirsty. So not only are you calling the herd, you get a workout. Yeah, exactly. What are you doing?

Learning. Applying my own principles to myself. I'm accelerating my own evolution. Why? For us? Bullshit. This is not part of our plan. No, not bullshit. I'm doing this for our future. Once I am powerful enough, I will be able to control her.

Murray. Why? If I'm strong enough to control one. enough to control one odessa baby that means i'm strong enough to control the other one two yeah homelander there's no reason to there's every reason power the reason that we have been held back for so long is simply homelander look what you're doing to yourself why is an ocean land a dolphin Oh, homelander is so fragile. He's so fucking weak. Oh, no.

Cannot tolerate any competition. There, you are signing your death warrant. And so we have had to embrace mediocrity to celebrate novelty acts. No more. Wow. Our plan, face two, remember? Which homelander is a vital part of? I know.

But my plan is so much better. better betrayed after everything we've been through all the obstacles we have overcome i want to do this together with you he'll leave you to the wayside sage don't you want that too oh god something more important to him we need music you don't even see you no more yeah it's all power control oh creepy make them dance creepy oh they're broken bodies

I love a surprise musical number it's it's rotting him though it's interesting I don't know if that's going to come to play this season or future well they could keep feeding off Marie Marie can keep like replenishing him you killed the alien queen which definitely should have prevented any more extra hatch because her breath had high levels of ammonia which fed the eggs. Oh my God.

This was established in the second movie. Look, I get it. Obviously, you got studio guys who are all we need to plant seeds for the sequel. But I feel like it's kind of a disservice to your fan base and also just not great storytelling. This dude loves to talk. You can talk now.

You can leave now. I wonder what he thinks of alien Earth. It was an honor, man. This is all just a very big misunderstanding. I was just driving that man to the hospital. She fixed you. I don't... The hemoporesis on your right side is gone.

The trimmer in your right hand is gone too. Hemaparesis. Did you love your wife? What? Cancer. Then losing your son. I'm not talking about my son or my wife with you. Why is she doing this?

You're still gonna die? What's her game? Polarity. Just not today. Well, because he can override the mind control, so she probably needs him. Not that it matters. Anyway, everything ends the same. surprised she couldn't anticipate godolkin's turn and like not have plan B unless he's

plan B because she would have to have variables aligned it by love yeah unless she was actually in love enough to not think that was possible yeah okay there we go oh plan V that's right no P plan P for polarity He's like That dumb ass left the door correct Smartest woman, my ass Got away with you, don't even worry by Person, smartest person, my ass

Vance, where is my next class? Oh no Plenty of room Come on. Oh no They're all in his He was moving funny I think they're all in his

I think you're right They'll just have to turn up the pressure Pump up the volume. Whoa, he looks like me for a certain angle. One more student for the seminar. Marie's not his butt. Marie wouldn't get in his butt, so she's like, give me a grand entrance. Reject Nation, you and I make decisions every day.

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That's code Rejects to get $50 in lineups after your first $5 lineup. A prize mix. It's good to be right. You're early. We're not quite ready for you yet. Could you come back in like an hour or two? If you let everyone go, I won't kill you. Well, that sounds like a really nice offer. What do we think, kids? By the way, I totally get why you use your hands. It's not really functional. Just feels right.

Yep. Just a natural instinct. Cool. It's like when you communicate with your hands. Yeah. There it is. Sonic fart. Oh my God.

How many? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, yeah. Grand entrance. Oh, yes! So many! Could at least shrank for him. Nice, way to go, Greg.

Oh my gosh, she just did it. Nice! Hell yeah! Yeah! Oh my gosh. Pupes. Oh my god. You work.

Hell yeah. Took his power. I'm controlling him. Holy shit. I like how their powers came into play. Yeah, I should have thought of it. Am I controlling them? Oh my god, that's awesome.

Now don't control them. We gotta get everybody out of here Yeah, 50 seconds until he's back to normal people So let's hurry up You gotta keep tapping him Yeah, why can't she just keeps tapping Oh, he's gonna have it Also while he's controlled, do something

Yeah, kill him Don't just leave like he's completely incapacitated Okay, good, Marie's still in there I thought there was leaving We beat you Oh no, no, no, kill him first, then monologue Take his blood, do something all of us even the useless ones take that all for one all the rejects your own test

splote him thank you oh no shit no where are you polarity yeah come on polarity yeah you wasted too much time milking this shit man you know the key to evolution That's what makes diamonds after all. Marie. Now it's her sister's vision. Let the bodies hit the floor. Oh, blood angel wings. Oh, my God, this is it.

We're in the end game now. Get out of here, Annabeth. No, Annabest. No. Where are you, Polarity? My friends. Now is the time for hard choices. You are the worst pre-cog I have ever met.

And you don't even go here, sweetheart. You don't even go here. And the only thing worse than weakness is treason. It's wasted potential. Have all betrayed your kind. Yeesh. There is no place for you here at this school or in the world to come. Woof.

I wonder if anyone will actually die. After that alien speech, I think maybe. Uh. Finally. Yeah. My man. Yeah, come on, Polarity. Oh, hell yeah.

Now use the swords. No, come on, stop. Everyone's taking too long to act. She's back to being herself because of the wave, like, EMP blast. Correct. That was for Andre. Thanks for the level up. Asshole.

She's a stump. A full circle from her sponsor. I need a scapego for a Godalkin for another massacre on this campus. Is that her first head explosion? No. Look, I've tried running. We all have. We aren't going anywhere.

I'm glad you all learned valuable lessons and all that shit. Staying is not an option. You have to go. Together. Now! The runaways. But together. Come with us.

I need to stay. So this is a stupid mission. It was. But now, I don't know how I'm supposed to keep. going with that Andre, but I'm going to. He's going to be with me as long as I'm here. Emma, you need to let me. I'll be in touch.

I promise. Hell yeah. You're a real one. She sees Andre and him. He'll be so proud of you. What a thing to say. Sorry we judged you, Greg. Yeah, Greg, I'm really sorry.

It's just my sister and... Aw. We back in the Polarity 5, Phantom 5. Does anyone even know how to get in touch with Stan Edgar? No fucking clue, but I'm gonna need a bathroom soon. I'm gonna go now. Pick a corner. Fucking unfair.

You and Sam seem to be getting along quite nicely. Nope. Nope. I was wondering if Anna Beth was there. Godok instead. No one's looking for you. You can go back to your life. You're trying to get rid of me. I just want you to be safe.

And that might not happen if you stay with us. Oh, and then I'll have to search for you again. I'll stay. You guys need all the help you can get, so. Oh, from you? Whose visions are total fucking bullshit. Wow. Rude.

You're a hero, Marie. Starlight. She's here. Love a bookend. Holy shit, Starlight. She likes to be. called Annie. I heard about Cadolkin.

Fucking Sage. Leaking all that Odessa Intel, and I fell for it. If you guys hadn't figured it out, we would be in such deep shit right now. But I'm impressed. A lot of us are. This feels so weird. We could use you. For what?

I feel like I play an app right now. You want to join the resistance? I'm putting together a team. You can already have a resistance? Hand that feeds. Yeah, right? But yeah, no, like some sort of merger. Corporate synergy.

crossover how'd you find us just a simple grid search 200 square miles around the university took 30 minutes oh my god train let's go this whole thing everybody's just standing around shooting the shit in the wide open it's the first thing i'm putting the bullet in you guys are fucking rebels now act like all right all right all right well prepper thanks for you down i know that this was a walk in the park took no extra fine tuning crawling out of butts blood battles and lots of other gen v parapherals easy stuff you guys are overrated prepper go hire them if you need an editor ladies gentlemen we watched gen v season two episode eight the finale of season

two been pretty good overall one for sure kind of downer for us some mixed bags but here we are at the final episode to discuss what our thoughts are we go to coy first coy first coy first coy first what's your thoughts first thoughts uh it ended differently than i thought it would mid-season but exactly how i thought it was more emotionally resonant than i had assumed um i thought we'd get a big team joining the world of the boys by way of Starlight. I did not expect A-Train and the whole team to get back together, making it the whole team. Like, I never would have expected the sister, never would have thought Kate and Sam would be back

together. So it was kind of cool to see, you know, some of the brotherhood of evil mutants and the X-Men team up to join together with, you know, the big original team. So I think that's really fun. I like the idea of resistance and, you know, the community working against Homelander and all those elements and sister Sage. seeming to have a long-term plan. I'm wondering her phase two would have been.

I assume it's something against Homelander. Overall, the episode had all the emotional weight I wanted it to. We were a little worried last week about, you know, whether or not that would land with how that episode left us feeling. But it did feel like we had a big bad with Kidalkin. It did feel like there was a genuine threat. There was, you know, an awesome action set piece in a danger room. There was a lot of world building out to set us up for the boys.

So I think as far as a season goes, it wasn't quite as strong as season one for me. But as far as a great example of world building, like a spinoff show that interweaves back in, it did all the things in that way. I wanted it to. And again, this was coming off of losing a lead actor. I'm sure in the original outline, you know, he was going to be the polarity moment at the end. I think they did a really good job pivoting and making polarity, a very interesting character. it's funny because the first half of the season

I didn't feel the DNA of what I think it was meant to be originally scripted as because I'm sure they had like a five year plan the second half I was like oh that's where the actor would have been like I see Marie as healing the actor instead of his father and then he would be the one to end the big fight and they would all team up I felt that more in the second half

so it was really impressive that they were able to make us care about polarity and invest in the relationship between like Emma and him and all those little details. So really impressive writing. I love also that they honored the actor up until the end. I really think it was beautiful to honor the actor with that last Hamas Linklater speech.

You know, you always have that thing when there's a big moment of emotional resonance and then you kill the person. I was so invested in the emotional monologue. I didn't see it coming and that's impressive when it's the obvious. So that was great. And then to make it about chance,

I thought was really special. So overall, really love this episode. Overall, really liked the season. Good assessment there. As always, wrong work.

John Humphrey. Oh, that's me. Do better than Koi. Oh, here we go. Step aside, boys. I was actually mind controlling Koi and speaking through it. Those are John's words. That's why I talked about Nanish Nail so much.

I was very excited to hear that drop. Yeah, yeah, good needle drop for the end of the season. Yeah, this is one I think will unfold a little bit in my mind. And I kind of feel how you felt last time. I like the whole season, I'm sure I'll kind of understand how I feel in totality as the days go by um i liked a lot of this i i enjoyed the episode a lot and there's a lot of you know cool and sinister and cathartic moments uh it's an interesting season because like the way it's proportioned and the way the events are played out there's certain things where you think like oh this could

have gone any number of different directions or this could have at least perpetuated for longer or grown a little bit before we shut it down um i'm a little taken aback i guess that we dealt with Godalkin here and now just because at the end of the previous episode I was like oh I'm kind of excited to see what this adds to the crossing culminative boys season five

so the fact that we're just kind of done with that now it was a little it was really cool and cathartic in the moment I'm still kind of curious as to if I like that choice overall or not but yeah I mean like his whole plan deviating from sage I do agree kind of with your

assessment that maybe she should have considered that this guy, given his mindset, might not, you know, be one to just go along with her and let her take the lead because as much as this guy clearly is drawn to her, it doesn't seem like he's interested in anybody else being status one. So, yeah, I thought this had a lot of really strong emotional moments. I really liked a lot of the way we got to stuff with the characters, not that there aren't, like we discussed last time, like certain beats that feel like we didn't quite get to witness them ourselves um but i liked a lot of just yeah the performing and the ideas and the the emotional themes i thought there were a lot of great moments like you said

to honor chance per domo and to also you know let i think it's been really interesting and cool to have something like that that lets this character of polarity shine but that you can also really feel the kind of DNA of what was to come before um yeah marie and her sister's night like all all the stuff I like between the characters and my curiosity as we go on talking here is more just like the how we got there of it all but so far in this moment

I feel good about it and I like the season and I thought this was a pretty strong episode I don't know if it would be the best episode of the season but I thought it was pretty strong yep my turn now do it better you were just speaking through the both of us

you were mind controlling us both I'm so powerful it's actually We're on a Rejectation. It's all just Greg's opinions. It's Greg just using his hands off the screen. I feel, again, you know, if you were here for the intro, I'm having an off day. I don't want to just say it's because of that why I ultimately feel like this was just fine.

It's weird. It played out like almost exactly like how you'd expect any other television show to to play out from the last episode you know like it was it was very straight forward and I said it about episode six when I was going this seems like the path or typical beats like a marvel show would go down and then the way this went it was like yeah that's about it except R rated you know guy comes in a little bit late in the show ends up getting drunk with power the team unites together and they beat the bad guy there's no real surprise surprises that went down and it was all good like I think I I there's parts to the sage not anticipating that they don't say but I like that sage gets to show a different side of her because instead of just being the mastermind you get to see more of the vulnerability and because her performances on the emotions have to be more subtle and internal when she is feeling hurt she can express it in her eyes.

but they're not going to give her the dialogue to divulge that. So I thought her performance was really good there. And that helped me buy into the fact that she was not doing her sage thing with anticipating moving forward. It was really obvious Godolkin would die to me this episode, right when he was in the bedroom going, we're going to get a room together. Like that's just telegraphing. And even when Doug died, like, I was bummed when Doug died. But it was a scene that was playing out like, okay, something's going to happen right now and Doug's going to die, you know.

And that's what I mean. there's like no real surprises I felt to that where it went on like I who's the actor who plays uh Doug Seifer hamish link later hamish link later excellent performance again I like him as Doug more than I enjoyed the New Goodolkin he was just given the most generic side of Godolkin to play in this last episode, unfortunately. So we didn't really have much to do the fun beats, the relishing,

the mind games, and such. But I liked his performance. It just seemed like the payoff to him finally coming into his own didn't amount to much other than danger room and him wanting to level up his powers a little bit and playing out

almost how you'd expect with a little bit of a twist of them sneaking in through the guy's butt. Even the their students didn't die I just realized yeah yeah a lot of the other I mean some of them must have right they carried them out at the end and like oh yeah all that blood it did feel like like uncharacteristically less savage they even had a line of dialogue about the alien where it's like well no one died it's kind of undermined the whole thing and then they did it yeah I like how homelander's just calling her yeah it's so funny about that just like I just have his number saved my phone

homeland her like of course you when it's normal but I don't know it's just it's funny to be the way it looks yeah um yeah this final episode was you know it did its job it did its job well and it had emotional moments that i thought were good like what did you guys list there were some emotional oh uh yeah hamish i think you know that when he is with polarity in the car is is a beautiful speech especially because very recent cypher was giving a very like messed up thing to say about his son and now he gets to undo that and it's good to come through the voice of the guy who he was hearing from prior really enjoyed that love the bookends i don't i just sound like the most negative fucking person of the forest love comes out of my mouth

like they do the flashback at the beginning of this where he injects himself and i'm like i feel like i learned anything from this scene like what do we need i feel yeah we all do I'm like, I just got to conclude it. I feel like the reveal that he is the chart up body controlling Hamish Linklater kind of lets you imagine everything that would have happened there. And then, yeah, if he's got this power, well, he must have taken some V. And I guess the real point of doing that is to give you the idea that V1 is a specific thing. It took it right as he was burning and that's a different. Yeah, they said that in the beginning of the season, right?

That this was like the first iteration of it. They were like, it's not complete yet. But everyone else died in the study. so how did he like we saw him inject himself and like he's one of the only ones that like you know that it's proving he's the exception special but we all would have known anyway we didn't need to see it it's fine I mean it says that's a I'll talk that up to it actual nit thing but yeah the rest of it it just seemed a little bit of run of the mill outside of a few emotional moments like what I like that this season was doing was allowing itself

to feel a little bit more like a college show and I said it during the reaction because Because you have a lot more female characters, that allows more for that soft femininity side to come through to allow a little bit more sensitive moments in a way that feels very different to what the boys offer, which is very fucking masculine. The boys. It's the boys.

It's right there in the name. It's the boys. Even the girl is one of the boys. Exactly. And they have like, they freaking have starlight and stuff. Of course they do. And it's not like the boys doesn't have its heart and sensitivity, but this allows for moments like young adults who are gathered together who are all dealing with their traumas to be like we're fucked up but we have each other you know like those soft touch moments like that are really nice so you know overall i'm happy the show exists i like the season i didn't love it uh there were episodes i i a couple that i loved um but overall yeah i do feel like it there's some shortcomings and i wish we didn't kill off hamish link later because he is a phenomenal actor so fun to watch

as both characters. Yeah, truly. I really want to watch more of his stuff. I need to, like, seek out Hamishling Glader work. Yeah, this guy, like, glowing reviews. And so I kind of expected it to be a little bit more surprising. But I guess Gen V allows us to be the superhero show that the boys is not. Right, so then the boys can take all the left turns because Gen V is like,

we're doing this college show. Yeah. This actually becomes a super, a traditional, that was the thing with this. I felt like it became a traditional superhero show. R-rated CW. Yeah, and that's the thing that I am kind of curious. Yeah, that's the thing

that's kind of sticking in my craw at the moment, because partly, I could almost, I started to wonder about how much they're willing to actually let these shows glide back and forth between each other or really factor in importantly in a way that would like maybe require

you to watch this before the boys season five or something like that, because again, at the end of episode six, it felt like, oh, I see. see it now. This is all going to collide in season five and then you tie it up in a way that we're like is anti that almost. You're like we're wrapping all this shit up now and then we're just going to recruit the kids and then they're going to go over to the boys and we're probably going to get a quick explanation as to who they are for the people who miss this. And I almost felt like a sad ending would have been stronger. Yeah. Or something like that both for the

continuation because I assume this show will continue beyond the boys, but also for the fact that we've known if you're plugged in to any degree that this will again culminate with that and so yeah i don't know like not that it's a bad choice to do what they did and not that like having a cool superhero team upending is a bad concept but it does in execution and especially with an oddly toned down sense of carnage in this episode like it does feel more like you are going toward convention whereas like i felt even gen v season one which markedly tonally slightly different from the boys still had like that kind of like sharper edge and anything could happen feel exactly yeah that's a good way to put that yeah this did not feel like anything could happen no i kept hoping

because of the speech with black noir that something would make me feel that way but then i feel like that was a commentary on the fact that it was going to end like that yeah yeah i like the surprising relationship that forms with emma and polarity i like that in the very first episode of gen v like season one she is contending with the fact of how her sister views are like a monster and she's trying to prove to herself that she's not a monster so to have their ending moment be her sister viewing her as a hero closing the book on that arc

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kind of not a big deal everybody's like I know we live in like weird superhero world but it's kind of a big deal what just happened then they're like yeah I'll go to a seminar cool sign up seems like an interesting guy

there's nothing made out of that this would be like a viral moment spreading there's staff at this school I think Homelander would be like jetting there. He would be on site. Yeah. There's so much off to me about the world with the Godolkin announcing himself like that so publicly

where it said there's like 225,000 people watching his stream. It makes the world feel smaller. It does. There is something there that just was like, I don't know why. This is like feeling too small and low for me. But hey. Homelander called. He tried. Homeland or tried. It takes too long

to fly. In season five of the boys, we're going to show what scene he was calling from and it's going to be revealed he had way bigger fish to fry he's the president he's the president now he's got bills to side but okay so sage wanted to introduce godolkin to homelander yes why was homelander calling her does he already know that sage is with godolkin no he didn't know he was alive that she likes she's like we want to do it subtly we got to introduce you he was like you know teleconferencing so that was homeowner being like what the hell's going on i imagine so she must have given some indication of her involvement

with Godolkin prior? I think he was just like, oh yeah, why would she call Sage specifically? Why would he call Sage specifically due to this if he did not know about any of this? Like, where did we leave them in the pro? What's her status at the end of season four of the boys? I saw a promo going around on Twitter that she's in, that

she's like the CEO of Votnau or something. That makes sense. Okay, well, then which they do not say in the show. I guess that would make some sense, I suppose. But if you go on Twitter If you look at the other side plots online. You want to see some other viral videos on Twitter. In the moment, I guess I just went like,

I'm so used to them going back and forth and her trying to corral homelander and shit like that that I just, I don't know, I feel like he might call her because she's that smart. I don't know, but it's one of those choices. It gets you entertaining multiple head cannons and it's not quite as clear as it could be.

And that's not what you want, arguably. Yeah. Yeah. Good season, not great. I liked Kate. I liked her kind of arc over time. I could honestly keep going, but I'm just not going. Do it.

Do it. Engagement on the video. Two hour of you, 40-minute show, Greg. Take it away. That moment I'd roll out the record. That was supposed to be like this whole thing with the Greg guy. That was supposed to be like a moment when she kisses him. And I'm like, this guy just shows up.

He's like, I like you, Emma. I'm tall and blonde. He was like the boyfriend in Wednesday or something like that. He's just kind of around and you're like, this guy's not enough of a character that he is suspicious now and then you get to the end and you're like, oh, I guess he's just a good guy. Yeah.

What if Sam was okay? And I just, and I don't, I don't understand how Sam has fully, like I understand he had that scene with his mom on the playground and learned the truth about his condition, but that doesn't eliminate his condition. Greg, you go to therapy and they tell you what's wrong.

You don't have that problem. You don't have it anymore. It does feel like we go to therapy. It feels like, of you with you. We went from the start of him embracing like, oh yes, I am messed up and I got I got to deal with these things and I got to stop

running and letting people nullify the pain for me. And then we skip to like, yeah, I'm healing now. Yeah, he's a normal guy. Yeah. A guy named Sam. Got normal levels of jealousy, you know? I'm at least talking about him and that means I'm fine. Nothing else can be wrong. And it's weird because I like a lot of the work that

actor did and I like the, like I feel like a lot of the scenes with him could work with the other fleshing out and the other time in between accounted for. I feel like all of the actors are doing the work given and are portraying their arcs. Definitely.

Like, not a single slide on an actor in this show. No, they're all amazing. There are writing elements and pacing elements that undermine the acting they're doing. Yeah. But hey, that could just be us.

It should have been 10 episodes. It's another show. It could be out of tune with the audience. We're very curious what you guys think in the comments by the time this air. Well, leave your thoughts down below on why you thought this was

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