The Reel Rejects - GEN V EPISODE 8 REVIEW!! Season 1 Finale | 1x8 Breakdown, Reaction, Ending Explained, & Post Credits

Episode Date: November 3, 2023

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wasn't sure which direction it was going to go. I feel like the talk of this episode is primarily going to be its last couple minutes. But all of it was great. All of it was great. Yeah, it was all great. I love the directions of what it took Most of our characters, especially with watching the, this divide that happens with Kate of like, is she a villain? Is she not a villain? I still don't even really view her like a full-on villain. I don't. I mean, she's someone who has been scorned, wrong, used, abused in all accounts. And she is fighting. Like, you really do get into the perspective of characters like her and Sam to understand that this is the result of like everything here is reactionary. Everything here is. Everything here. Here is consequences of things that have been instilled or thrust upon them.

And now you are watching the results of that. So I don't, I still sit back. I'm like, yeah, what they did was not the right way of doing it. What they did was not something that I agree with. However, you can understand how it came to be. And I understand how it came to be. And it is awful. But damn, it is a part of me is like, well, yeah, I mean, they kind of got to take.

Shouldn't be killing innocent people, but fuck. Well, they don't get it. It's like they don't have any benevolent experiences with humans, normal humans to, you know, think that there's, you know, any other kind other than abusive, manipulative, yeah. And they've been trapped long enough. And like she said, they see it as a product and, like, a lot of them do. Like, that's that brotherhood of the mutants thing. Like, their perspective is so skewed because they've been ostracized so long. Why would they have any sort of sympathy or empathy?

Because they don't see, if they're not going to see them as the same species, why should they? I think one of their shortest episodes It was just so stacked It was so dynamic and so intense And fast-paced and well-edited Some of those shots were literally X-Men shots Like I am very like Alright good luck Marvel

Because that was like The first issue of X-Men If I remember correctly I think it was like 1964 So apologies if I'd misremember I haven't read it since I was like 10 But there's Coy was born in 19654

Yeah I look great I haven't reread 70 years old When I started reading the X-Men I went to the very beginning and I haven't reread the whole run since

but the brother of the mutants the cover is like Magneto like throwing a missile and I feel like that whole scene with the helicopter and like the way they were using almost magnetism and like them fighting with like a group of different like

that all felt like the origin of the X-Men just from the memory of all the powers and stuff and that was so cool to see actualized like my hero academia or like you know even the later X-Men movies because even when they made X-Men 1 they couldn't fully have like

we didn't have the technology to make something that climactic in 2000. No, yeah. Well, you need something that was truly violent because, yeah, I mean, normally you get

thrust it into the philosophical divide right away between Magneto and Xavier to show the duality of the argument there. However, this, you're watching the origin of how this all comes to be

with them. And this is something that's going to be broadcast and you watch the narrative get controlled via the media right away. The truth gets concealed once again.

and just the manipulation. I'd love to see it. I just love seeing the evil cunningness. It's fiction. So I love seeing it. I hate it in real life, but I love it in TV. So, yeah, it's good drama. It's compelling television, man.

I love watching the crumble of an empire. And you, because you're seeing Ashley, you know, panicking in just this terrible, fraught situation, calling up Marie saying, kill them, and you join the seven, like calling upon her help. to execute Kate and Sam and every one of them who was broken out, Homelander shows up.

And then realizing that that wouldn't work and throwing the sister in there. Yeah. Like I love that beat because it gave her the catharsis. We know she's needed the whole season of

this isn't about my sister. Like she needed that moment and to have it so linearly get like thrust upon her. Yeah. They throw you the character arcs. You see the dissent with Kate, the dissent with Sam

and the arcs with Marie. You know, I love seeing it all. And but I just, the decision that they chose to do with Homeland. Oh, genius. So not just swoop it

and be like, Like, all right, let me put a stop to this. No, he's in a position of authority, and he's going to side of the authority. Like, he wants soups to be the, the winning team. To be the dominant race. Right. Yeah. And, like, he literally, he says, what he said, what he said, what kind of animal are you?

Yeah. Oh, what a brilliant, brilliant line to first, his only, like, he's only got like two lines in this or something, right? Yeah. That's a thing. Because they clearly, because clearly he was not in the mode of Homelander because he had short, scruffy hair that he had in the covenant that Jake Jarlin. I was like, that just looks like, what's his name just walking around? Like, he just had, like, so they had to crop. Did you guys notice the frame?

Yeah. I was like, he doesn't have his normal hair. He looks a little bit different. Yeah. It's brilliant because he takes immediate control of the situation. It is the exact opposite of what Ashley was asking for. Yeah. He's still got the ultimate control.

He's still got the ultimate power. And then the media follows the narrative that he wanted it to follow. And the landing of the episode ties into what John was saying is like, I didn't put two and two together with like the massacre at the school. And this is, you know, the boys is very much a commentary in the general. envy is as well, but towards a younger audience. And I grew up with, you know, the occasional bomb threat and stuff, but we didn't have a school shooting, you know, practice. So I feel like that ending with, you know, them acknowledging it that way is just such

a poignant topical thing right now is that's how it would be spun. And, you know, the way Homelander chose to handle it. And that one line of like, you know, the don't move. I mean, how many times have we seen that in videos with certain people being beaten by cops and shit like that's literally like he's the cop of the universe to him yeah no and it's like anybody else shows up maybe this stops but homelander shows up yeah this is only gonna go one way his way that's the perfectly diabolical way to do this because he's not gonna come in spin off uh he's not gonna be you know any kind of salvation to the eyeline for us to to the ashleys and

everybody else of the world and uh yeah like this is is one of those rare experiences with TV or like I was furious through most of this and like so kind of riled up and mad but in a way that is still like cathartic and I'm not like oh like what a bad episode you know it's just like it's that beauty in the drama of yeah watching all the pieces fall watching everyone make their choices and watching everybody you know confronted with the stakes beyond you know yeah the personal where you know now you're watching all these bonds that we've seen grow and tested rip apart so like you know you know, Sam and Emma is heartbreaking. And I think the way that they present all the arguments or even, you know, Kate going back and forth with Andre, Kate and Marie for a hot second. Like all the debates, however long or short-lived, were really well pitched. And I like an episode like this that really jumps right to it. It's like, we got to stop them from bringing everybody out of the woods.

There's not even really any time for that. They get right there. They let everybody out. And then we immediately go into like fights seasoned with debates. Like every piece of. physicality comes with some kind of argument philosophy and and you know this encapsulates the chaos of being alive in the real world too because so many of the viewpoints are valid and more than ever in waking life for me i've come across positions people have where i'm like i don't

agree with this but knowing anything about how you've lived and and what's happened to you you know, in isolation. I absolutely get why you feel this way and how you think this way. And I thought they did a really nice job encapsulating that quality. I like to be brought up... Encounselating.

I like to brought up the philosophy because that's what I think that the better superhero content does is it gives you a philosophical position for you to think because it's supposed to elevate like the power set, but it's still supposed to be the same human element but at an 11. And I think that, you know, other

perhaps big, to superhero making publishers could look at this in their television and go, maybe the finale can be both intelligent and punchy. We talked about Dark Horse and Vertigo comics? Very much. I think image,

Dark Horse, Vertigo, IDW. They can all learn. Those bloodshot stories could really more nuanced. How many times have we done a reaction where we've really enjoyed the fifth episode because it's the philosophical one. And then the sixth one are like,

oh, they had to punch stuff. This was all of the punching and it was a lot of the big, like this is an action throwdown between the two powerhouses between talking low guy and Sam. We got the, you know, her realizing she could use her powers for offense and defense

and we get a literal disarming while we get a slow-mo walkout shot between love interest. You get all of the cliches, but they feel like they're actually weighted because there's an emotional and philosophical heft behind them instead of choosing one or the other, write it. You know, it's not perfunctory, heroic, action. They've dawned the suit.

Right, right, right, exactly. There was no like, this is a moment of blip. It's actually a loss. And there's no big punch that's going to solve all this. Yeah, and like no one wins here. Like, the soups didn't get their way and the humans clearly are not in a position of power. I love that when there is violence and trauma, no one's winning. Like, this isn't a happiness. In some ways, in some ways, Kate and Sam, even though they are being viewed as the heroes, they're still. being controlled under the VOT media. Yeah, and now they're trapped under the, you know,

thumb of Homeland, which they don't even realize how bad that is yet. And we know that because of the boys. Yeah, no one wins. It's brilliant. Instead of the punch-em-up ending of, you know, everything is great. Space Portals or Minions, like, it's, this is really beautiful philosophical quandary.

I think Minions has one of the most underrated endings. It too. It too gets at that thing of, like, there are always big aspirations, and there's always a big plan. we're going to rewrite the world in this image and yet even still at the end it's still just a turn of the rudder and it's like everyone's arguing like we hey we i know this is all messed up but we can find some better way and that's a turn of the rudder but this you know homelander stepping in you know and and anointing them the real you know media saviors guardians of godolkin and all that stuff like that is still kind of reinforcing the status quo that is inching toward this you know soup fascist state You know, but it's not fully that yet, whereas like this mass, this, this, you know, a situation at the school seems like that's the goal is today, here and now, we're going to rewrite the balances and everything when really that's not what's happening. I totally agree in the imagery they used was so genius.

Like that really sterile, like news photo and all those things to make it feel like this is just slightly more that direction. And the medium use, like this didn't feel like it distracted from the boys ever. And at the end, I was worried that, you know, I thought we'd at least get the big two or not. more. But I like that it didn't suddenly feels like Boys Season 4 negative 1. It gave us a stepping stone like certain other properties used to without it

feeling like it robbed us of an ending. Like that was how you do a post-credit scene. That's how you have the Homelander cameo without it sacrificing the integrity of Gen Z. Because now we can do the we can open you know him looking around that space or not. Well and I think it's funny that Sam tells off Emma, you know

as somebody you just you do everything that you do so that you can be liked by other people and then immediately goes to be under like the thumb of the poster child for that kind of personality and oh yeah like everything you do like he's standing there in front of the tv you know like spinning you know masterminding the narrative and like this is all to serve his ego and his you know lust for adulation uh well they keep some of that um self-harm element there still present it's interesting with andre because he's just like damaging his brain by using his powers.

Yeah. And then you see with Emma that it was more of an emotional thing than it was. Seemingly, yeah. Seemingly, I mean, she goes through something that makes her feel small and then she goes and becomes time. And I do think that is something of like when she would do that, it was psychologically making her feel not worthy.

Yeah. And like that was a really, you know, important. I thought that was genius. I really dug that. And I'm really curious how, you know,

that's going to play. I do think we're going to see these characters in the boys. Is there a counterpoint to when she gets big? It's like if she has just like the best day if she gets being. Well, she felt most confident. Yeah, like if she's not feeling self-conscious and she feels like she can- It's full of life. Yeah, whenever she went big, it was like some, I mean,

heroic partying thing, the first time she got big, it was a heroic moment. Yeah, but no, but I'm saying like something not triggered by food. Yeah, I think if she's able to get herself to feel that consciously, I think she'll be able to get there. I think she thinks she needs something externally to achieve it, but she doesn't. And that's what I think we're going to explore season two or in the boys. I could see them having these four characters. stay in prison through the season and then we come back to season two with them i could see all of jemby

season to them just in this one room just hanging it's all seven dollar budget and solving the problems directed by ryan johnson's already shot comes in yeah yes no powers but we got to kill this fly if the writing's good i'm in uh yeah and i like i like i liked it all man i thought i thought it was all great i mean could it probably use a little bit more meat around jordan and i just didn't really get much there. Yeah, not really a big prominent presence

of the episode. And I thought they were just going to get killed off. I was so worried. I love the disarming. That was a surprise. God,

that was heavy. Good violence all throughout. Solid violence. Good gorgags. Yeah. No sexual things. Coytus. Oh,

only in the recap. I love that in the recaps, they always find a way to include them And then you watch the episode and you're like, that didn't come up. Not related. That didn't come up at all.

I wonder if there's like a quota or like a joke in the editing bed. Like, God include one. There's like, look out. Look out for the deep. Censored myself. And there's Josh Hartnett's slander. Oh, deep. This needs to stop.

He says, he's back. Hey, the Oppenheimer, his presence is incredible. Penny dreadful. Also, that director clearly is not a good director. So his sense of taste. I'm just saying, like, people think like he's a bad actor. He's a great, a black mirror. Hollywood homicide, dude.

Young him and Harrison Ford. buddy cop movie the faculty I mean he's exceptional in the faculty we just all need to collectively

as a culture let Pearl Harbor go it's just one of us for all of us one movie for Ben for Michael Bayst

tag for Hartnett for Kate Beckinsale for everybody Andy Leboitt's joke was great too that was solid that was a really

that was a really four or five people in L.A. joke and I appreciated it I was all on Kate's side until innocent human

started dying and it was like oh someone's got to be the villain well damn it i mean yeah maybe she could maybe she can have a redemption and then butcher uh guess the last thing with butcher he's gonna be i think's gonna i don't know where they're being held surprise they kept them alive at all yeah i'm wondering if they're studying them i want to keep them i want to control them in some way they're always out for mind control

yeah or to like you know find a way to extrapolate their dna and powers yeah what if we could make a version of v that just gives you a specific power So you could choose Or put them through a trial maybe To make a public You know, spectacle of it It's gonna be a saw game Yes

But I definitely see Butcher being You know And maybe they could have him Investigate that area And cause some ramification In the boys I could see it that way Or I could just see them starting the season

With the effects of this Being already established Like this could be literally picking up The minute or You won't get boys season four For a long time though I guess probably not I thought

And I think it's shot They just had The Crip key said They're not gonna air it Until the strikes over I think it's done. I think that, no, it won't even do like ADR in any of that right now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that would probably like a month. So once the strikes over, maybe within a few months. Let me just get it in a couple months. Just release it, day strikes them. You think Amazon's going to be like, let's not move things around for the boy? I think as soon as they can. It's their most reliable thing, especially since they've already greenlit. They greenlit season two, like part way through the airing cycle.

So rings of powers are most big thing. Oh, totally. Yes, there is their most expensive property. Everyone cannot wait for season two. all right guys what did you think about sorry to cut you off john did you have more say there i'm sorry no i'm sorry you were talking i cut you off okay please but here let me come up with another point

you find a sentence rich episode uh gen v finale what did you guys think about it did you love it did you like it did you hate it leave your comments down below debate are you team kate are you team homelander which team are you on team marie I was weirdly excited to see Homelander show up.

Yep. That's the thing about Homelander. You can't wait to see him and you know that as soon as you do something real bad going to happen. He's going to challenge your sensibilities. Like, I don't even like love to hate him. I love him. Even though I'm aware he's the worst. It's weird.

It's a good villain. It is like he is the worst human. Yeah. He's the worst person. I love him. Yeah. And I can't wait to see him get his. but I hope it doesn't happen for a while

because I just want to keep watching the depths of his... Whatever the boy seems like, oh my God, are you going to kill him? Please don't. I love watching him. Even though I hate him, but I don't hate him.

I love him. I don't know what it is about. That's the conundrum is... He's America's ass. Until the show ends, you cannot kill him. Oh, please, yeah. And they should do it like from the comics.

Where, you know, Black Noir is just... Well, I mean, they... That doesn't work anymore. They got rid of that twist. I think they should totally do it. They bring back that... even with the events of season three. Well, Sam has the same sort of cartoon puppet thing.

Do you know the boy's ending in comics? It's brilliant. Yeah, it's genius. But they've changed noir enough. Absolutely genius. It's 100% head of that direction. Yeah. I was like, what?

I'm like, you just rewashed it. I'm like, did I miss something huge? Sam has the same puppet cartoon fantasies so he can become the new black noir and then he can pose his home. There's no way in hell. I was like, this is going to end the way of the comics. I kept repeating in my head because you were so sarcastically since that I was like, did I miss something?

No, there's no way. It wouldn't even make sense. No, no, at all. So many twists are different. And also translucent will be there too. Yeah. All right, guys, leave your thoughts. I'm sorry, John, I interrupted.

And lamp lighter. Well, guys, what you think of the end? Just leave your comments down below. And we'll catch you for the boys season four. Tomorrow when Amazon finishes and puts it out. Thank you.