The Reel Rejects - GEN V 2x8 Finale' Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:09 All right, people. Leave your thoughts for Genevieve down to the comments below. Let's go. Well, Prepper, thanks for you down. I know that this was a walk in the park. It's like no extra fine tuning. Crawling out of butts, blood battles, and lots of other Gen V paraphernalia. Easy stuff.

Starting point is 00:01:35 You guys are overrated, prepper. Go hire them if you need an editor. Ladies gentlemen, we watched GenV 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, Coy.

Starting point is 00:02:02 What's your thoughts? First thoughts. It ended differently than I thought it would mid-season, but exactly how I thought it was beginning of the season, but it was more emotionally resonant than I had assumed. 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

Starting point is 00:02:26 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 i think that's really fun i like the idea of a 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 um 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.

Starting point is 00:02:59 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 spin-off show that it interweaves back in.

Starting point is 00:03:25 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,

Starting point is 00:03:46 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.

Starting point is 00:04:07 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 lash ham. a slink later speech um 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

Starting point is 00:04:31 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 uh overall really love this episode overall really liked the season good assessment there as always quite strong 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 Manish Nails so much. I was very excited to hear that drop. Yeah, yeah. Good needle drop for the end of the season.

Starting point is 00:05:00 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. I liked a lot of this. I enjoyed the episode a lot and there's

Starting point is 00:05:18 a lot of, you know, cool and sinister and cathartic moments. 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 godolkin 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 and So the fact that we're just kind of done with that now is 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

Starting point is 00:06:11 Given his mindset might not You know be one to just go along with her let her take the lead because as much as this guy clearly is drawn to her doesn't seem like he's interested in anybody else being status one uh so yeah i thought this had a lot of really strong emotional moments uh 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

Starting point is 00:06:52 said to honor chance perdomo 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 um but so far in this moment i feel good about it and i liked 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

Starting point is 00:07:26 strong. Yep. My turn. Now, do it better. Yeah. You were just speaking through the both of us. You were mind controlling us both. I'm so powerful. It's actually everyone to reject nation. It's all just Greg's opinions.

Starting point is 00:07:42 It's Greg just using his hands on the screen. I feel I again if you 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

Starting point is 00:07:58 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 play out from the last episode you know like it was

Starting point is 00:08:12 it was very straight forward and I said it about episode 6 when I was going, this seems like the path there are 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.

Starting point is 00:08:32 He ends up getting drunk with power. The team unites together and they beat the bad guy. There's no real surprises that went down. And it was all good. Like, I think, I, 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

Starting point is 00:09:05 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 and we're going to get a room together

Starting point is 00:09:27 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

Starting point is 00:09:40 that where it went on. Who's the actor who plays Doug Seifer? Hamish Link later. Hamish Linklater. Excellent performance again. I like him as Doug more than I enjoyed the New Godulkin. I want a dumb spin-off. What a like old chap.

Starting point is 00:09:59 The guy who plays New Godalkin or original Godolkin. Oh, man. He was good. He was really good. He was just given the most generic side of Godulkin to play in this last episode, unfortunately. So he didn't really have much to, you know, do the fun beat. the relishing, the mind games and such. But I liked his performance.

Starting point is 00:10:20 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 other students didn't die, I just realized. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of the other, I mean, some of them must have, right?

Starting point is 00:10:43 They carried them out at the end. Oh, yeah. all that blood it did feel like uncharacteristically less savage they even had a line of dialogue about the alien

Starting point is 00:10:52 where it's like well no one died which kind of undermined the whole thing and then they did it I like how Homelanders just calling her it's so funny about that I just have his number saved my phone Homeland or like of course you would

Starting point is 00:11:06 it's normal but I don't know it's funny to be the way it looks yeah this final episode 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 was some emotional. Oh, yeah, Hamish.

Starting point is 00:11:26 I think you want to see that. When he is with polarity in the car is a beautiful speech, especially because very recent, Seifer 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 here in a friend. prior really enjoyed that love the bookends i don't i just sound like the most negative fucking person of morris stuff comes out of my mouth like they do the flashback at the beginning of this where he injects himself and i'm like i don't feel like i learned anything from

Starting point is 00:12:01 this scene like what do we need i feel yeah we all like i'm just kind of concluded i feel like the reveal that he is the chart up body controlling amish link later kind of lets you imagine everything that would have happened there. Reject Nation, you and I make decisions every day. But on prize picks, being right can actually get you paid. Now, truth, my wife is a massive football fan. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I got to go back to our hometown.

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Starting point is 00:13:30 It's good to be right. 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. but 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 made like you know that it's proving he's the exception special but we all would have known anyway we didn't

Starting point is 00:14:00 need to see it's that's fine i mean it says that's a i'll talk that up to an actual nit thing uh but yeah the rest of it 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 you have a lot more

Starting point is 00:14:23 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

Starting point is 00:14:39 it's right there in the name the boys even the girl as well one of the boys exactly yeah and then you know they have like they freaking have starlight and so they have 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 over

Starting point is 00:15:12 all 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 hamish link later 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.

Starting point is 00:15:46 I felt like it became a traditional superhero show. R-rated CW. Yeah, and that's the thing that's that, 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 important. 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 it now this is all going to collide in season five and then you tie it up in a way that 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 uh 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

Starting point is 00:16:45 but also for the fact that we've known if you're plugged into any degree that this will again culminate with that and so 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

Starting point is 00:17:32 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 was really beautiful. However, I don't understand.

Starting point is 00:18:07 how you go to Goodalkin University, this guy comes back from the dead. And it's like, kind of not a big deal. Everybody's like, I know we live in like weird superhero world. That's kind of a big deal. What just happened? And they're like, yeah, I'll go to a seminar. Cool. I'll sign up.

Starting point is 00:18:30 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

Starting point is 00:18:48 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 too small and low for me

Starting point is 00:19:03 but hey Homelander called he tried. Homelander traffic. 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.

Starting point is 00:19:16 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 was like,

Starting point is 00:19:32 she's like, we want to do it subtly. We got to introduce you. He was like, you know, telecom. 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, what's her status at the end of season four of the boys?

Starting point is 00:19:57 I saw a promo going around on Twitter that she's in, that she's like the CEO of Vodnau or something. That makes sense. Okay. 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.

Starting point is 00:20:14 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 that gets you entertaining multiple head cannons and it's not quite as clear as it could be.

Starting point is 00:20:34 and that's not what you want, arguably. 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.

Starting point is 00:20:47 Engagement on the video. Two hour of you, 40-minute show, Greg. Take it away. That moment. Did it pay off that? Well, 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.

Starting point is 00:21:03 He's like, I like, I like you, Emma. I'm tall and blonde He was like the boyfriend in Wednesday or something like that where he's just kind of around And you're like this guy is 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 guy

Starting point is 00:21:16 Yeah What if Sam was okay And I just and I don't I don't understand how Sam has fully 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

Starting point is 00:21:32 What's wrong you don't have that problem You don't have it anymore. That's why we go to therapy. They can tell you. We went from the start of him embracing like, oh, yes, I am messed up and 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.

Starting point is 00:21:54 This 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 could be wrong. And it's weird because I like a lot of the work that 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.

Starting point is 00:22:11 Yeah. I feel like all of the actors are doing the work given and are portraying their arcs. Definitely. Like, not a single flight on an actor in this show. Oh, they're all amazing. There are writing elements and pacing elements that undermine the acting they're doing.

Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah. But hey, that could just be us. It should have been 10 episodes. It's another show we ended up in our 10 episodes, boy. We could be attitude. with the audience. 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 peak, A.F.

Starting point is 00:22:44 Yeah, no count. We are so back. Why you thought this was the best episode ever. Leave it all in the comments below. What are your theories for boys' final season and how Gen V will factor in? Will they be main characters? Will they distract from our other main characters? Leave your thoughts down below.

Starting point is 00:23:00 Two huge casts come together. Let's see you guys. soon. Peace, Reject Nation.

The Reel Rejects - GEN V 2x8 Finale' Breakdown & Review!!!

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