The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 1 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x1 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

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Starting point is 00:01:07 And let's hop into the show Episode 1, God, you Roll that in true It's a good show Wow What a great needle drop too! oh my goodness all right well we got two more episodes all out so we just want to make these discussions short um but part of me was skeptical about i didn't even watch the trailer for this part of me was skeptical

Starting point is 00:01:43 about this show that it would just be something capitalizing on the boys and could be just be discount boys uh but it's something very different and the writing and quality and acting is just as good yeah this well deserves to be a like a companion piece to the boys this is really really really great stuff and i i love for a first episode i love that a lot that was that was excellent i'm i'm very much interested in uh i mean obviously you know the boys has the freshness of an introduction of a new world and whatever but i love the kind of characters we're choosing to focus on and you're sure we got a mystery that is i'm looking forward to unraveling it

Starting point is 00:02:30 The way they toy around with, like, certain cliches and directions you think it'll go. They know how to mislead and misdirect. Really well done, but I'm very much invested in our main central character. God, that was really well done, guys. All right, everyone, let's move on. No one else needs to talk. All it matters is Greg said where Greg got his two six. Greg got his opinions in, and you guys are here just a little pretty.

Starting point is 00:02:56 Let us know in the comments where you think of Greg's opinion. Do you agree with Greg? Do you disagree with Greg? Well, let us know. Thumbs up for Greg's take me. Juan, say something deep. Oh, hey. Well, I mean, yeah, this is a day and age

Starting point is 00:03:08 wherein I almost always now greet any sort of spin-off or expansion of successful, you know, franchise core with a bit of skepticism, just because there are so many things that feel like watered down, you know, tributes to the thing we all love. But I think this is a really wonderfully pitched show

Starting point is 00:03:26 so far in that, you know, the boys is looking at all this from inside the machine and from an eye line that is you know more at eye level with the machine whereas this gives you an opportunity to explore a world like this with the implications it has from the shadow beneath the machine and i think that's a really cool thing and then you know everything else i think you know the characters they've laid out here are interesting and appealing the acting is great and this just went places in a first episode i wasn't expecting it took me by surprise just as much as there are moments where you're like sitting there going

Starting point is 00:03:57 okay well if this is going to be a positive reception or a negative reception it's going to go the opposite way you know there are things beyond that where i was like wow i was not expecting them to go as hard or for certain things to play out this way and now you know it's like there's that whole new sense of discovery from episode two of like who who's really going to be the ensemble of this thing aside from you know our main character and marie and i assume cricket is going to come back at some way yeah but yeah no this was a really striking action looks good you know for the most part there were a couple of action moments where i was like okay this is a bit of like a TV editing fight but for the most part when it that's the boys you sure but uh but when it counts and when they do their big crazy spectacular moments those always hit and yeah her power is very striking all that good stuff main girl kind of reminds me a bit of a placement of starlight where she's in a journey of discovering just uh how much disillusionment there is in the universe she wishes to live in but it's also like a form of escapism uh for her to hide from her from her pain you know but at the i i think you could draw a lot of peril it's interesting how when you look at the boy season one the first super that we followed was starlight

Starting point is 00:05:05 yeah along's mirror but then you know of course you're following hewey's journey but following starlight where both were like oh i want to be part of the seven and i have this certain certain sort of vision of what it means to be a superhero and they both seem like their purpose is to be part of the seven, that that is what will define them and make them their greatest self where, but their backgrounds are very different, you know.

Starting point is 00:05:32 Hers is a bit like rogue. Yeah. You know, from X-Men 2000. Ah, yes, Annapackwin, the only rogue. The only rogue that ever existed. Take it away, Koi, monologue. Okay, a few different things. Hit me immediately. One, I actually came from the other

Starting point is 00:05:48 perspective. I didn't watch the trailer, but because I didn't want to know the tone, because I trust in Kripke and Goldberg and what they'd done so far with the boys. I didn't even know that they developed it. Oh, really? I thought there was like a whole new team. Oh, I followed the trades like hard on this.

Starting point is 00:06:02 So I avoided footage, but for the opposite reason, I'm a bit inundated with this spinoff culture and like the, obviously the barrage and superhero content. I like most of it. I like a little over half of it, but I like a lot of it. And I think overall,

Starting point is 00:06:14 it's hard when there's so much of it to find fresh ways, but I thought if anyone could make a spinoff, it'd be the boys team. So since I knew, I think I was more optimistic. But I likewise avoided it because I knew that I trusted them to do what I thought they would. And this is actually exceeding that expectation because the boys to me was the exact right time to make a show that played with what the comics were doing back in 06, which was that was when team books were really popular. That was when it was like the crash of the 90s led to this big surge of new comics in the early 2000s, like the ultimate universe.

Starting point is 00:06:47 and that led to a lot of big team books being commentaries on the team worlds of DC and Marvel, right? You had like the authority we're going to get soon and you had all these like almost superhero superhero teams. So the boys was really jarring in that it was like, okay, how do we do a commentary in a new way? And it was like, let's just see how far we can go. And it was just hit the homers of violence and depravity.

Starting point is 00:07:09 And it was really swinging for those fences. So I think what they did really well with the boys was it came out at the exact right time of, okay we have established superheroes are popular and how do you do a commentary on popularity and subvert those expectations without seeming like you're just doing whatever else is doing with parity and I think the boys did it by addressing capitalism by addressing basically the Amazon of it all with Vought by addressing the political nature of homelander by doing all those things and I was like how do you do that with a spinoff culture and I think what I find most interesting about this show is with the boys there's this whole nest of world where you meet a barrage of characters parade and issue. Some issues feel like their Justice League. Sometimes it feels like specifically Batman and Robin. Sometimes it feels like this. And I was hoping the show would capture the feeling

Starting point is 00:07:54 of you immediately have to be endeared to these characters. You immediately have to care about their powers. You immediately have to feel like what they're a commentary on. And I was worried we would be wanting just the seven. So what they did here, genius to me is they make sure the seven is this overarching paranoia. And like John was saying, the inside

Starting point is 00:08:10 the system, the machine, and then from the outside, but they're making it from a younger perspective. So you're looking up at the thing that we were commenting on looking up at the thing in the first season but whereas I find the boys is a great commentary on a lot of a little bit more right leaning ideas and that

Starting point is 00:08:26 that commentary of power and fascism and those things this is a commentary on what youth culture sees as this progressive movement as being overly progressive for the sake of pandering and in the first episode they're acknowledging a lot of the things a lot of these companies are doing to like look how good we're doing

Starting point is 00:08:42 and acknowledging so this is kind of going at the other angle from like That one's taken jabs at the right and left some. This one's taking the jabs at the left and the right some, but it's coming from a younger looking up perspective versus the authority looking down, all while tying in the world and making it a more immersive world. So I think not only is this a great way to build out the world of the boys,

Starting point is 00:09:01 I've mentioned a few times in the episode. It's a really great like between seasons world building, but it doesn't feel like you have to watch the boys because it's got this overarching young, different flavor. So this is the way to do a spinoff because it could be its own thing, and I'm so immersed. Well, I think especially with, I'm not really familiar with Craig Rosenberg, but knowing some of Eric Kripke's work, knowing Evan Goldberg's work, something that I think they can both really capture very well, especially having Goldberg's prior work as a producer or writer is, you mentioned youth, then this really captures the, you know, college adolescence of it all and that socializing feelings. Again, there's like, there's qualities to it that, that, that, that, that peer.

Starting point is 00:09:44 pressure that shyness that coming out of the shell forming your own identity finding your confidence amongst others it's like there are elements of our main character that remind me of both starlight and huey from season one yeah kind of like mix into one and putting them in a college environment which is so approachable because like that's the character you want to have the eye line for yeah yeah and i like this sympathetic approach that they had with the person who are like oh are they going to be the big super bad but they're not they're really just someone who has been wrong and some way. It also is why, miscalculated decisions. That was cool. The boys does that thing, and I mentioned it like twice in this, but the boys is always so good at being like you

Starting point is 00:10:21 expected. And even once you're three seasons in, you think they can't keep doing that. And this pilot had more surprises than I expected. And this pilot by itself feels like more of a, I haven't seen a pilot feel this much like its own, like, okay, now I'm invested so quickly. Well, you know, I think that there was a lot more, I think, I think, you know, when boys premiered, there was a lot more, I call it more guile to the way it was done where here it's just

Starting point is 00:10:50 more character storytelling I think you know what I mean where I think boy is part of the appeal of it when it first debuted was the commentary yeah you know how how clearly it's bouncing right off of what you just saw at the multi-blank yeah it was so clever yeah but it's still character driven

Starting point is 00:11:06 that's what got us invested but here that's like no we already know the world that are inhabiting and the comment Terry feels very secondary as opposed to the character journey. Like the way they capture the, how haunted our main character, which I feel too, do you know her name, John? Marie. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:11:23 Marie Monroe. Goes down on John. I know the name. Oh, yeah. That's right. Marie Monroe. Marie Monroe. Yeah, like the island of Dr.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Moreau. That's clever. Yeah. The way they capture Marie and how haunted she is by her past, I think always, the way they play with the sound design, the mixture of that. Man, that was cool. throws you into the nightmare. that she's always trying to escape and that she's always put up a front complimented by the the co-leading girl the the youtube personality cricket she feels very relatable for it's because i've just met so many living in l.A you meet a lot of people like that where they have that certain type of bubbly um extraverted personality but you're like you're clearly depressed though you can you can see it and i i thought that she was really well fleshed out um as well but yeah no it it it's commenting on like

Starting point is 00:12:13 influencer culture and oh my god so and that's the youth looking up but it feels authentic that didn't have to say suss like they actually acted yeah yeah can i say the d word at the end d i c is allowed i don't know you to spell it out okay so i'm also impressed one of the things the boys comic does so well is it's it's really gonna try to edit this where we can keep it on it's to be a complicated i'll say the d in the comics the d is used very humorously and i really was impressed at the amount of d used for jokes here and how it worked like These are funny, and this is like that's the type of humor the boys captures, but it was able to do it as a commentary. It didn't feel like it was overdone.

Starting point is 00:12:49 Great use of D. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny and tragic. Yeah, it should be. Yeah, man, this was really, this was really cool. I really liked this a lot. Let's watch the second episode, guys.

Starting point is 00:12:59 Let's get it. Let's do it. All right, guys, what did you think about it? Leave your thoughts down below. Be sure to leave a like, subscribe. Thank you to all. I've been checking out some real rejects apparel. We will catch you all on the flippity flip, which is the very next episode.

Starting point is 00:13:12 See you guys. Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 1 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x1 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

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