The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 4 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x4 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

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Starting point is 00:02:19 also apologies tech knight i should have said uh i just keep getting him his name confused with the rapper tech nine uh anyway now roll the book god no my dude no no with it on yeah accessories tools Of course, got to leave us with a little moment of Zen. What? What happened? Did they pull in the psychic guy to, like, neutralize the situation and bring them all back? I don't know what just happened. How we went to the bed from the...

Starting point is 00:03:13 It's exactly like the cut with the psychic guy, so I wonder if either somebody else has his similar power or if they brought him in as their neutralizer or something. I'm confused. This is an interesting episode. I was like, is there something wrong with the footage? I was like, did the internet cut out? It felt like a disassociate.

Starting point is 00:03:38 What just happened? I'm still confused. Narratively, I cannot explain that. Derek Wilson, I hope he's related to the other Wilson because he's incredible what just happened how are they in bed how did they get what how did they leave the house they were ex-mening yeah um all right i guess let's try to take in what just happened yeah i need i'm immediately like message board greeting in my head like what is it

Starting point is 00:04:08 what happened i rarely want to read what people are thinking but i'm like what just happened that was intentional right it must well there was the music cut and everything yeah yeah no it's You're right, because that threw in his little montage, too, is implying that it's like a jump cut of, like, you know, sexy time. But, like, what? Narratively, I don't understand. Yeah, I don't get it. They just needed some way to end the episode,

Starting point is 00:04:32 and then next time they'll cut back to mid-fight. Show us the chronology of how they all got back. Yeah, like, there must be a reason, because she was, like, mid-sentence, which, like, we know how the sentence ended. So they cut it off at a place that we'd understand what was going to happen next. But then the jump cut, and then the further jump cut,

Starting point is 00:04:48 implies there has to be something to like narratively explain like is there a psychic like you said is there like maybe that's the dean's pat what's happening but why would this psychic do specifically that like when the time

Starting point is 00:05:04 omission was explained through strong pheromones with her getting like assaulted and then you know explosion unless of course it might have been a memory wipe situation could be you know where like they actually retrieve Sam and then they wiped

Starting point is 00:05:20 the memories of them. Yeah, it could be. And so they were playing it like, okay, from the moment, because what happened is that Jordan and Marie were about to hook up and then Cricket came in and... Oh, and now they've got Cricket and... Yeah, yeah. Like they took Cricket and Sam. Yeah, or like, so it's like, okay, let's just wipe the memory and then just

Starting point is 00:05:42 put them in bed together so that way that's when they... That's so clever. If that's what happened I'm just making a guessing. It's an interesting thing to have that twice in an episode because once was pheromones now it's like a mind wipe but they did talk about mind wiping people in the episode first two episodes.

Starting point is 00:05:58 They mind wiped about Sam Pryor and Matt's. Yeah. So maybe it was like the Jordan moment was about to they were about to get after it and then they just wiped back to them finishing. Yeah, yeah. And the doctor's house too. Yeah, maybe they had some kind of woods related you know like alarm or something he can sound

Starting point is 00:06:14 that'll get people in there and then yeah, maybe they can just wipe the memories, place everybody back, and then clean up this mess. And that was pretty public. Like, the doctor was alive. He would have called somebody. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, you know, the mess of them breaking in is like, yeah, that puts their, like, careers and they're, you know, schooling at risk. But at the same time, you know, I feel like it also stands to, it stands a threat to revealing the woods and what's really going on down there. So maybe they did just, like, clean this up.

Starting point is 00:06:43 And then, yeah, probably take Sam and Cricket and imprison them. And all the jarring editing for his insanity was like, that translates into like, you know, us being disoriented, which they used well for the edit. But now, while us being disoriented, it's got to be purposeful. Yeah, yeah. Maybe the psychic thing was a mislead. Maybe. Could be. Make you think it might have been that.

Starting point is 00:07:02 Like the jump cut earlier was disorienting. Or maybe they mind wipe via psychic. Maybe they use psychic to mind wipe. Oh, yeah, maybe he's how they do it. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's like maybe they could leverage him. I thought it was, I thought it was really odd placement. Yeah, because it didn't feel like an intentional jump cut.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Well, I think, I'm saying like the use of the psychic in this episode, I thought was just odd in total. Like, okay, I understand her talking to the psychic to... But it did seem like a forced DSX Machina. Like, we need this thing. Yeah, like, and for another, you know, gross out bit that the boys universe does. And then they're kind of impassive reaction to it. I'm like, I still feel like they would be very, uh, disturbed by what just happened at least marie even though i know they seem some horrible shit but that is

Starting point is 00:07:46 a very disturbing you know sexually graphic violent thing that suddenly witnessed and go through and to also um due to someone yeah it is uh protecting yourself essentially uh it's so i'm like okay this whole thing just kind of feels it felt like off to me i'm like all right i get gross out gag humor in the boys but this whole thing feels like this odd uh and of fitting but maybe that was placed to establish the psychic side of it and then they like that and i hope so yeah because there's a time because there is a gap there for marie when she is on the bench too now she's in because it almost plays like a vision when you first are there then it's not actually a vision it's a thing that's really happening yeah well yeah it's

Starting point is 00:08:36 like the initial jar of that moment does work i think in editing where it's like oh we were just on the bench and now we're here what's going on but yeah it's the it's the handling of the gag that feels a bit strange and it feels like one of those bits of like yeah it's well within this universe for this guy to be a complete creep but at the same time we gotta get like a weird

Starting point is 00:08:56 gorgia we haven't had a weird gorgag in a while and a gross sex one as that's been 40 minutes since a dick we gotta do one somewhere you know and then let's get back to the plot yeah yeah overall this episode felt the most disorganized, obviously, besides those two cuts.

Starting point is 00:09:14 But if that was the purpose, I would really like it, like, in the greater scheme of the season. Like, if it was intentionally disorganized and messy, because all the Tech Knight stuff was also very efficient and lean. Like, they did really good editing around, like, you know, intermixing, like, his lore and backstory, and, like, Tech Knight, you know, has that same fetish slash disorder in the comic. And I missed his name drop. So, like, I missed the initial joke. But once I realized who he was, like, that was really played well. So it's not like the episode was messy, but I think enough was messy. I'm hoping it was conscious.

Starting point is 00:09:44 Well, the episode's perspective is that of like paranoia, what is real, what isn't real the entire time, you know, from Sam's perspective of constantly questioning what is reality, the way they play with the psychic of what is real, what isn't real, even with tech night of trying to uncover the truth of behind everyone's deception and lies. And lesser even Aaron discovering like, you know, how deep this goes and them trying to unravel that mystery and then all of them being disoriented by Tech Knight being able to rip things apart. Like even the interrogation is its own way

Starting point is 00:10:15 like truth's being revealed like disorienting. Yeah, yeah. Strange. Very strange episode. Yeah, no, it was strange. It is very strange and I guess like watching however episode five plays out would be a little bit more telling of how this one ultimately factors into the bigger equation of things.

Starting point is 00:10:34 It's funny that the first three were saying like week one, two and three could have been separate. but this episode form like the next one like this feels the least like its own you could watch each of the they're all part of an ongoing story but each of them feels well rounded in isolation up to this point and this one certainly feels like okay this is like you know another interstitial chapter on the way to the next part of the plot it it has that feeling of like yeah we learned some stuff you know we rubbed up against a new potential villain and the most like progress we made was at least getting Sam out and that situation, but we don't really even know how that ends up right now. It seems like he's most likely back in, you know, the woods. So I feel like in a way, it is one of those more like, let's explore some stakes.

Starting point is 00:11:24 Let's explore some uncomfortable situations for the characters, but it doesn't feel as much like we're moving things along. In a way that it felt like it was going to? I don't know. Like when they all have that showdown at the end, I was like, oh, damn, we're already getting to something like this. we're already kind of and I'm sure there will be a reward

Starting point is 00:11:42 to the rug pool at the very end but as it stands just right now like yeah it does kind of I don't know what to call it because it's not filler you know because it's still doing things for the characters and it's still expounding on things but it doesn't feel as substantial as just like

Starting point is 00:11:58 oh yeah you know like I could have like we've said of the past three episodes I could have taken one of these and just chewed on it all week you know I think it's good though for the internet culture to have something like this though because now instead of having the first three at once everybody talked about it a little bit and now everyone that jumped on the first three episodes

Starting point is 00:12:14 this is the first time they've been like well I have to wait a week and everyone is going to be saying like did yours break two? Like I feel like Twitter is going to be like really alive waiting for a week for this. This might build an audience this might grow it because it's everyone now waiting going like what the hell. Yeah sure that's a good time to break it up is like

Starting point is 00:12:30 have your three that feel like you've got some closure wait, have one that's insanely disorienting, grow your audience even more because everybody's discourse. Yeah well i think there i just think there are some beats though because there's a lot about it that i loved i mean i love tech knight's portrayal i think like um like a bruce wayne who's like out in public and showing he's got powers instead of like uh dual identity in it except there's like hidden identities they're like a pervert yeah yeah psychopathic pervert he's like he's more of like if

Starting point is 00:13:04 bruce wayne was american psycho yeah sure i really like that portrayal and i think the actor did a fantastic job of like with his on-camera presence and his public charm really does shine but it meshes well with it when the camera's not rolling as well i think he was excellent and and um i i liked uh the the the action moments were cool i really like i can't remember a freaking name which one cricket yeah emma emma yeah i really like emma here and um even the reveal of her power would just seem like a lot of people who weren't aware that she could actually do herself was really cool like the exact opposite effect and you know consume now it's great on tv and bigin she's my favorite character for sure i think she's great i think she's

Starting point is 00:13:50 amazing and i love her chemistry as well with sam and there's some just little beats like i said i don't want to harp too much on that one beat with the psychic that i thought was really odd but i did think it was odd though that and not much of a even though my radar was like yeah they're gonna hook up. When it came, I thought it was a little odd other than like I thought we were still building sexual tension with them. Like it'd be the

Starting point is 00:14:18 next time. That would be like someone would come in the room, they'd stop. I didn't think it would be like, oh, it's happening now. And then the also the revelation that she did unveil not just a tech night, but to a bunch

Starting point is 00:14:34 of people in the room. Yeah. And with cameras present. at least. But the cameras aren't live, right? It is a recording. Yeah, I imagine it's just people in the room, but there's all the people are in the room. Yeah, those people in the room, you'd think there would be more... The next day at school, she's like number 20.

Starting point is 00:14:50 Revelation stakes at hand here. And ammo for fellow students to use against her climb range. Yeah, yeah. So I thought there would be a little bit more, and maybe there will be. It just kind of felt a little inconsequential, and only to the drama between Jordan and Marie, which just led to them hooking up.

Starting point is 00:15:07 Seems like a real positive that she told to everyone that she doesn't have powers. So, yeah, that moment still played a little strange to me as well. But because it's like episode four out of, what, eight, that I'm sort of just waiting to see how it factors in versus judging, you know, what the overall narrative is with it. But right now, yeah, there's just a couple of things I played a little bit. Whereas like the other ones, I didn't really have much of a criticism. and torts we're here i'm like i just kind of a little suspicious of how some things are going to play out and if they're actually good or effective but it's the overall i really enjoy my time here um yeah sometimes i do and i kind of feel this way with the boys too sometimes i i feel

Starting point is 00:15:52 like you guys probably eat up some of the more like gross out gags more than i do for me sometimes i'm like yeah i don't know i'm like ah it's kind of amusing but the times it does feel like they're they're they're just doing it to do it i mean it definitely that's how No, that's how I felt about this one here. Like, I, I'm not, you know, bring me a macro eggplant emoji. You know, like, I'm not necessarily, like, coming to this show for that stuff. That's not necessarily my flavor, like, that I seek out. I can't enjoy that.

Starting point is 00:16:24 But here, yeah, no, like, that gag, while, you know, wild and shocking, you know, didn't really add much to the episode for me. Even the holes joke thing was kind of like, all right. well that's so the comic was very much of the time of how much can we push our boundary and I think I explained this episode one but this was when everyone was doing commentary on stuff so this became a commentary on the commentary almost like once scary movie had done seven scary movies there was things making fun of scary movie I feel like the boys was the thing that was like okay we've got the authority we've got the supreme squad I forget the last but we've got all these commentaries on team books and the boys was like we want to look at the over all comic industry and parody it, but we're going to, instead of pushing the violence or the political commentary, we're going to push the gross out, because 2006 was like the age of gross out sexualization stuff.

Starting point is 00:17:15 So I feel like the show, the boys, was able to satirize that politically and to change everything to being like a commentary on our pop culture system, whereas this show is more of a commentary on college and growing up, but it does tie more into sexualization more

Starting point is 00:17:31 directly, so they're able to do a lot more of the comic stuff, which is then in turn, hyper-sexualizing gross-out stuff. So honestly, this feels more directly akin to the boys' comic than the boys does, but it also seems like an opportunity for some of the sensibilities of very 06 time to be like, what if dick jokes every episode? Like, it seems very much that. So it does feel more like the comic, but the comic feels very of a time.

Starting point is 00:17:55 So I don't know how much this translates, but I think it's also great for the ratings for Amazon to have a dick joke an episode. Like, everyone's going to be talking about it exploding. Sure. Like, it's just, it works narratively. for the sales, which is Amazon, ironically, in the Vot parallel here. Yeah, yeah. Vot Plus is selling D. I mean, the Holes thing is a bit more of like a character trope or character beat for him.

Starting point is 00:18:19 So like, yeah, I don't know. Like those things are all, they work on me, but I wouldn't say they're like a draw. The Holes thing worked for me better than the exploding D. They make me squirm and laugh. Yeah. The whole thing is directly, like, I remember a double page spread in the comic of like it lands the final bit as him going at Robin and I was like like it was very very a lot

Starting point is 00:18:39 in the comic book and this was like I was really worried for some poor ward Oh yeah But that'd be a great Joseph Gordon Levitt came Fair enough To live on that timeline Fair enough Or you know Chris O'Donnell

Starting point is 00:18:54 Whoever like any Robin Like it'd be funny if it was more obscure I mean generally I like Just to clarify Generally I like the vulgarity Yeah generally I really enjoy it But there are times where I feel like it's a little forced. It works best when it's narratively serving,

Starting point is 00:19:10 whereas this felt like they were like, it's been a little bit. Yeah, yeah. When you believe it's a part of this world that you happen to be passing through, not yet. Like, we need to drop one of these in here because that's what we do. I would say of the episodes,

Starting point is 00:19:25 this was my least favorite, but it's in part because of all the things we just mentioned, but also I do feel like it is suffering from, it needs to be talked about before the next episode. This one is the one that feels kind of incomplete. sure yeah maybe that's the point I think it's the start of act too yeah and it's like it's it's a show not a movie in a way I feel like if you're shifting away from okay we just drop three now we gotta drop one I think maybe there's a strategy in dropping one that feels like this may improve with the upcoming episodes or something like the context of this might solidify itself and calcify when we get to the rest of what's happening I think we'll get the rest of the puzzle next episode I think I think they should have made it it it would have serve to help make it clear what

Starting point is 00:20:09 happened in that cut? Like, is it a memory? Do they not remember what happened? Did they just go back and hook up? I guess I would have ended it there instead of tagging it with Tech Night because then I think the mystery lingers a little better. Let's say it is memory wipe

Starting point is 00:20:25 and they don't remember. Then it's like, ooh, like how'd that happen? And I would have been more jarring to have them in bed together than credits than the joke. Yeah, made credits to, yeah, the Yeah, I would throw the tech night at the post credit. Like, I'd throw that at the end, and then you've got that, like, what's happening, and it feels more resolved than a montage. Yeah, totally.

Starting point is 00:20:45 Yeah, it was a little weird. Because it's like a double button. Yeah, it's like, why are we doing two bits? And also, why is there a song? These things don't connect. Yeah, totally. No, it's the most sort of, it's the least refined episode. It's like, it's one of those things where it's, like, all the things I've loved about the show so far are in here.

Starting point is 00:21:02 And, like, there's lots of good work in here. But, yeah, it's just like the proportions don't feel as satisfying as everything up till now, but not in a way that makes me go, oh, the show's dropping off, or, you know. Well, because we had some worries and criticisms, that means we hated it. We hated it. Let the record show comments. And we always hate everything, too. Unless we love everything. And all we're doing, really, though, is we're just taking some other discourse we heard on the Internet and just regurgitating it here.

Starting point is 00:21:32 Because we don't know how to form an opinion on. We have none of our opinions. What are we shows of this week? What did we like in the last six days? Because that's what we actually like. What audience are we placating to? Oh, that's true. Let's, oh, boy.

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The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 4 REVIEW!! The Boys Spin Off | 1x4 Breakdown, Reaction, & Ending Explained

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