The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 3 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x3 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

Episode Date: September 30, 2023

CRAZY EPISODE With Twists & Reveals!! Gen V Ep 3 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects After a crazy great Gen V Episode 1 & Episode, we conclude with Gen V Episode 3 giving our Reaction, Recap, Breakdown, Ending Explained, Theories, Easter Eggs, and review! You're invited to the #ThinkBrink Memorial Gala and Fundraiser tonight at Godolkin University. Make sure to dress your best when the doors open at 7PM and you hit the red carpet. We get easter eggs of the Seven - Homelander, A Train, Queen Maeve, The Deep - as we continue to get our darker version of X-Men Mutant High & Sky High. The Gen V cast consists of Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), Luke Riordan / Golden Boy (Patrick Schwarzenegger), Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo), Emma Shaw (Lizze Broadway), Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips), Jordan (Derek Luh & London Thor), Sam (Asa Germann), Indira Shetty (Shelley Conn), Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas), Edison Cardosa (marco Pigossi), Rich Brinkerhoff (Clancy Brown), & MORE. Can't wait for Gen V Episode 4 & The Boys Season 4! This made for such a fun experience especially after never having done a Gen V Trailer Reaction #TheBoys #GenV #TheBoysSeason4 #Homelander #firsttimewatching #reaction #SoldierBoy #TheSeven #QueenMaeve #Maeve #BlackNoir #ATrain #KarlUrban #PrimeVideo Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Aparrel - including brand new LOKI Designs! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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around in there she's going through yeah she doesn't need a she doesn't need to go big she can still like mess with some wires oh just eat some of his brain tissue i love that they're my two favorite pairing all the supporting characters are immediately like fascinating This is the grossest thing possible. Oh, I think he did it. Yeah. 100%. Yeah, so bad.

Sweet. Oh, man. Man. Oh, boy. All right. Wait. Did I pause it too early? We missed something in episode one.

Was it post-crediting? I was like a... Ashley was saying something to the camera and then it was something special they shot, but then it segues into a preview Oh, episode two. For the rest of the season. God, I don't want to see it. Yeah, so I was like, the thing we missed was the exclusive thing.

Got it. But I'm glad we missed it. Yeah, I'd rather watch the show. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that was great. I've been in love with the show. Have you guys seen runaways? Yeah, big fan.

It was the first time I felt like an adult because I was time, Like, I understood the parents born the kids. The Kristen Stewart movie. Oh, I love that, too. You know, that's the one I'm referencing. There are runaways, it seems like there would be a lot of different things called that. Big Joan Jet fan. It's just like, this relates, Joan Jet.

He's always just singing, I love rock and roll when I come in the office. Man, it's a weird tangent, but I'm in. Chitri Bob. No, runaways is a really good, like, the two sets of protagonist show. They wrote it really well. Yeah, I think that, I think this is the way how we're like in Boy. to a bunch of other shows and movies and mixed in with commentary

I feel like this is what it's doing before I mean it's college when normally you associate that with like high school these other stuff but no I thought this was great I mean a lot of things we talked about during the reaction itself that I feel like this show is further uncovering like it doesn't seem like it's

trying no no I don't want to say it doesn't make it sound like they're not putting effort because it's effortless at what it's doing it doesn't feel like they're forcing anything in here If they're, if anything, they are just magnifying other elements that have already been established in their other show and really showcasing that significantly more. You know, like the way how they have touched on, like the, the relationship that they have with Starlight and her mom was probably the closest we got to getting a sense of what the parent-child relationship was like. but of also how tough that can be and it's like depending on what class you are in in society financially of how that can inform your decision you know if you so there's a that was one aspect and here you really do get to see just how tortured it can be growing up and then how they form the these children to morph into a personality that is not really them like

Like when you get to the boys and you see the seven and as that show progresses, it's constantly about peeling back the layers of everyone there. And you see that all of them are just broken, depressed individuals who are not really in tune with the real versions of themselves. And here you're stripping that all back to see the creation. You see the seeds planted of how that forms. Like this is origins. And what this episode did for me in terms of universe building,

because of the mystery. Because one thing we were talking about last episode was I'm not super into the mystery just yet. I'm kind of waiting to see what it's ultimately going to pay off into. And what I think this set up, at least for me, this is the school where everyone goes to before they can even have a shot at becoming a super, you know, one that gets to work. If you're not part of the seven or if you're going to be part of some other team or just have to. some kind of job or you know this is where you have to first go through and now the boys they have already delved into uncovering vat the corruption there a lot of that being given to the public even the whole thing with compound v and this is something that they have to keep sacred because people still want

to go to the school people still want to feel like i can become a superhero and stuff and the people who gave their kids compound V. They need them to go through here to make something of themselves. And this is the season now though they are going to expose the corruption and the evilness

and the abuse that this school does and this school is essential to the boys universe. Right, right. So it's another thing they are up and rooting. Yeah. Like this is an essential ingredient

for the future of the supers. You know what I mean? Like for to have any more super's in the future, and especially when you have the boys, which is all about stopping the super, at least I'm like, you know, butcher and everyone else to have. So I think that as a world building, this is an essential viewing experience mixed in with just great drama, great storytelling, and relatable. I keep wanting to say, if they qualify as teens, young adult teen struggles, you know.

I mean, the freshmen are still playing the teens. Yeah, yeah. I think they do an absolute excellent job. in capturing that loneliness, that adolescent angst, I really think that as a boys' universe show, it's very much essential. I could see how it could factor into the bigger picture as opposed to just a spinoff, you know?

I think that, like, as spinoffs go, enriching is always better. It's kind of like with 3D. I hate when 3D does that thing where it's like, here's an arrow launching at you, but when it does, like, you go deeper into the frame, it's way more interesting. like it's like looking into a book

and this is doing that narratively it's giving us a deeper worldview it's enriching world all the things you were just saying but what I think I'm most impressed by is every single episode you're introduced to an entire swarm of new characters and they're immediately written so well acted so well and cast so well

you hate or love them so immediately and I really like the comic I said I think on episode two it introduces entire teams sometimes in an issue it's a book where if you flip a page you've got a person that within four frames, you're like, I have to know enough about them to care. This is doing that as a show, and I'm really impressed that every time we build on an

episode, us hating Jordan's parents makes us more endeared to her, which makes that scene of the three of them talking more interesting. Us fearing for the dad's fear of what's going to happen to his son makes us more invested in Aaron. And I think that what they're doing is every single episode is just going deeper and deeper and deeper, so I don't still care about the mystery, but I know that when they flip the switch, I'm going to, because by that point, I care about all the pieces of the puzzle. Here's why I think it's important, why the mystery is so important, if I could just make

one last point about it, is that whenever you're with the seven and something is happening with VOT, what does the seven do? They protect it. They fight to cover it up. they're top-rated students. You saw it with Golden Boy. You see it with everyone here. They're not interested in protecting.

Yeah. They're interested in uncovering and potentially exposing the truth. The question is, will they expose? And I think a lot of that relies heavily on Marie. Like, which side is she going to go down, right? Yeah. And is she going to be a contributor to the exposing part of it? And everyone's arts are so.

Or are we going to watch her morph and to be like, oh, you'd be a perfect candidate for this time because you will conceal our seats. Yeah, and that's what I'm enjoying with the pivots. Every arc is like, do they go this way? Do they guess way? And by the end of the episode, you're like, I don't know, but I know the more.

Yeah. You know the person more, but I like that we're still zigzagging. Yeah, so I think that that's why this could be very much crucial. That's, it's not really like, like, okay, to me it seems like, okay, they're experimenting down their run teams. Okay, yeah, this is like nothing really that different. Maybe there's more to it,

but that's kind of what I would, what I gather, it seems kind of that cliche of what we already saw in like the boys already, you know? Like, yeah, they have prisoners and they're experimenting and exactly why, I don't know, they're developing something new to maybe harness or whatever, but

what it's doing with our main characters of what our main, the damage, our main characters. Because there's our main, in the boys, it's the boys themselves and supers. And the supers, our lead supers are also the boys. You know, they are doing the, the mission of that.

Yeah. So that, to me, it makes for a very compelling, you know, putting a hole in the VOT plans. But, Johnny, please, sorry. I don't stop talking about that. No, it's all good. I mean, everything you guys have said, I would echo entirely. And I think that with the central mystery, it's kind of, I still feel similarly to how I did before, where it's like, it's a world where you know there's a nefarious plot at hand.

And it's more about using that to give the characters, you know, interesting ways to develop and confront the scenario and show who they are. And I appreciate, especially after this three-episode chunk, you know, where we're left off because we are left with this moment of like, you know, bad things have happened and a lot of, you know, significant events have gone down. But, like, you know, the cat isn't quite out of the bag and the shit hasn't quite hit the fan yet. but I can see how now this could certainly be that moment because with Emma, oh, I see what you did there.

I understood that reference. But yeah, like with Emma, you know, in this completely compromised situation where it's either going to get worse for Sam and or worse for her too. I think, you know, that's just like a great kind of compelling start especially than when you have that combined moment of Andre's dad being like,

drop this, you know, do not. pursue this i probably have like the last shot was the cliffhanger i was wondering where it would end for all this buildup why it was three episodes that not only did it look like a piece of derrick robertson art who's the artist and the boys but it also puts us in like now we're into the second act of the structure of like things are going to get worse and conflict is rising well i mean beyond that too the marie he joins she sees what she's now like being welcomes i mean there's a team forming there's a turn out they zigzag that's what was getting me like runaways vibes.

Yeah. Or like a teen high school show. Or like a teen show. This episode though, especially, the runaways. Parenting makes sense because you're so focused on both tiers and the interplay between both and all the parents kind of have, even though it's not the same coordinated villainy, an air of coordinated villainy. What I'm so impressed by is that there's like, what, eight leads and I keep, like when you made the joke of and then just to the right she's filming, like that's believable. I really enjoy how well-versed all the supporting characters are that I'm like, this could build on this, could build on this, or not.

And I really like that it doesn't feel like it's coloring in the numbers. Watching this show, I don't know how the episode's going to end, but I also don't know how the second and third act of each episode is going to be, and it's actually captivating throughout. Like, I've really struggled lately with television because my attention span is getting worse by the day. And, like, I haven't once felt compelled to check my phone. I haven't once felt compelled to think about the world.

Like, this show, like the boys, has kept me so engaged that the world outside this, screen is null and void for the runtime, and that is so rare in entertainment right now for me. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm really sucked into it when it's all unfolding. And it's minute by minute. It's not like, oh, just the last five minutes are like,

but it's the whole show is like, what's going to happen? Yeah, and I think it's a smart thing, too, that they do harken toward things like you said 13 reasons. Why, especially with the Golden Boy plot line. No, I mean, from the vague amounts, I know from listening to YMS rant about seasons of 13. I'm just like, I think there's like flashbacks and stuff.

No, totally. And uncovering a mystery. And like that's already, I didn't expect him to stay in the show so much. But yeah, the flashbacks are there. Yeah, it's a solid device. But I think also this show is nicely pitched in that, yeah, it's using its perspective very conscientiously. But yeah, it's also able to without just being a ripoff of various other teen and young adult

shows embody that too to feel, you know, adjacent to and certainly well within the graphic, graphic novel, you know, sense of the boys, but also, yeah, to occupy this separate tonal space that is, yeah, pitched. Like, I could see, it's like if you're a boys fan, I feel like you'll definitely check this out, but I could see some people getting into the boys through this, yeah, especially the younger, like, next wave of, because I remember being this age and feeling isolated and then like, these are my best friends, and then back to isolated, and this is my best friends, and the show's capturing that, but I also remember being really pandered to by adults.

That hasn't changed for me. I mean, that's just like. But, like, I remember being in your, like, late teens, early 20s where you felt like everyone was kind of pandering to, like, yeah, you're an adult now. And then you're like, but why don't you let me do shit? Like, this feels a lot like that. And especially in this parent episode where you can tell the moment where they're like, you're just using me. Or, like, this is being. And obviously, like I said, last week, it's a bigger scale because it's a superhero show.

But I love how that alienation also feels like, how do the parents manipulate what they want into getting their kid what they want? Yeah. And I do kind of wonder, I mean, I'm from a business. this optics perspective because it's gen v they're pitching as like the you know it feels like you're watching young adults on screen and i don't know if that might cause a distance for audiences you know uh before watching it like oh is this targeted for a younger demographic interesting you know because like everyone on the boys is like they're 30s right right and where they're focusing here that's just one question that pops up the other thing that i really

like is the message that every Disney movie pushes now, which is about, you know, don't listen to your parents. Yep. Chart your own pattern. They're out to get you. And three, Luke, I think they did an excellent job with him here because I thought he was just going to show the way they've handled the perspective on when you see Luke is he's just arranged.

He's kind of crazy right now. He's cracked. And then when she shows up with him, you're like, oh. never mind. Yeah. Like they even introduce him upon her perspective. You mean Sam? Oh yeah, Luke Luce wanted out.

Yeah, Sam's one of the, yeah, my bad. Names are out of the three of us. I'm the worst. Sam, yeah, Sam, you think he's scary and that he's a, he can be like manic and maybe a threat unhinged. And then even when. Again, Emma. Tiny. Emma.

Emma. Emma. When she shows up, even she's terrified. And the way they capture it. Oh, that shot through the. The cup, yeah. I now see a spider's POV every time. I'm like, I know what it's like, I know what it's like, bro.

But it captures it in a way like, oh, he's terrifying. But then as she gets to know him, you know, you just see this boy who's broken. Yeah, come of love and waterhole. And you see the sweetness. And it makes sense why they would bond with each other. Like, oh, no, mind, they're just a couple of misunderstood. And like you said, like their trauma bonding felt real immediately. Like, I loved their trauma bonding.

Yeah. I just love trauma bonding. I mean, you got the right show for it. The right universe for it. The boys and Gen Vee, a lot of trauma bonding. Any other bonding is boring. Super surface level, yeah. Can't bond through a love-ass Disney movies.

Bond over pain. Have you met someone without trauma? My God. They're not funny. Boring. They have no personality. They probably have their life together, but I don't care. They don't live in L.A., that's for sure, so I don't know them.

That's true. The interest is in the struggle. All my friends that are doing well back east with kids and stuff, love them to death. lack of conflict in your life. You got that one picket fence. Go live your life over there. You stay sane. We're going to watch Gen V and trauma bond with you.

I'm so impressed, man. The show is like up there with the boys, and I think the boys is one of the best things to come out of TV in the last few years. This is really impressive. If this sticks the landing, like this feels like one of those shows where it can prove spin-offs can be good much of the way that, like,

there was that phase where sequels were so bad. It was like, look, a good sequel. Like, this could be like, remember spin-offs? Like, this is so well put together. Yeah. What makes me wonder about the writer's room, too, because it does feel authentically youthful and in tune with the youth without feeling like, you know, greetings fellow children. Right.

You know, so. And the language doesn't feel like it's heavy-handedly like trying to be young, but it's also not stale. No cap, Coy. No cap. No cap. Don't be suss. This is, this show is straight buzzing. All righty. All righty. Coy, I got to get you out of here.

Good buggy. So, ladies and gentlemen, what did you think about this third episode of the Gen. Leave your thoughts down below. Thank you guys for being here and for being citizens of the Reject Nation. Get yourself some reject peril. Thanks, Coy. We will see you guys next week where we also got Loki. Yeah.

Oh, we're back. Oh, wait a minute. Loki on Thursday. This on Friday? I mean, this is Friday at midnight. This Friday at midnight? That's spicy. Oh, Friday midnight.

All right. Remember rest? You don't. Dude, Saturday. No. Rest is not a vocabulary. G-fuel. This is retroactively sponsored by G-Fuel.

The midnights will be. I've gone back to just grabbing old cans that I haven't thrown out yet. Just suck it down every crowd. Throw them all into one big bucket and I'll just dump it on my head. What's up? Our 10 and ups. We have asked our chat. TBT here to, uh, aren't you guys a shout out with rhymes that incorporate a movie title or character

or TV series. Let's see what they have come up with. Take it away, John. Absolutely. Sufferci like Furby in Gremlins creating buzz that's all whims. Ooh, Ryan Smith, smooth as myth in Troy revealing the pith. Adrian Tim's bopping to hymns in sister acts. all about, again, the whims. Real Nagas, like real sagas. It's Star Wars full of dramas. And their gear, bringing cheer-like cheers clear as beer. Ian Simon shining like a diamond in Oceans 11 with vibes so vibrant.

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Like bling in the bling ring, sparkling and zinging. Kelsey like Gatsby and the great Gatsby, classy and sassy. Kira like Tierra in the princess diaries sparkling with aura Eric Kahn's 39 like Kahn's and the Kahn is on striking like Icons Kahn's my head hurts Nick X like flicks in Netflix flashing those pecks nice Juan Longoria like euphoria and euphoria spreading the gloria I love the character of euphoria on euphoria a static end like a tent in mash so content cliff rodriguez like whizz in the wizard of o's soaring in the bids oh they could

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and Air Force 1 powering the course simply faded like jaded and jade so sophisticated SJ 94 like shore and Baywatch washing ashore Justin Martin like a martini and casino rail shaking the seen what are the rhyme

there's just a bunch of syllable that are like Rosie Beatty Darth Yoda Order 66 like Posey and pushing daisies blossoming the cozy

Flev Doran like torn in the torn curtain weaving the yarn Colin like Rowland and Rollin Kansas keeping it golden

Philip J. Smith Jr. like flipping flipper making the script Jen Smith like Zen in Zen Calming the Den They didn't even try Melanie LeBlanc like swank and Hillary

and Jackie rankin the bank ronkin the bunk Melanie LeBlank Like swank And Hillary and Jackie Rankin the bank All right This is yeah this is going to put a lot of writers

Out of work I think Yeah, yeah yeah knows that right Yeah, no's poetry and those complex interplay between, you know, concepts and rhymes. This is how the Pokemon came up with the reps of all the songs. Yeah, here's 150 Pokemon. Make it rhyme. Thanks, Chad, DPP. Well, guys, we appreciate you all for being here.

And stay tuned next month to see what we can come up with next with the help of our lovely computer assistant. Love you all. See you soon.