The Reel Rejects - GEN V SEASON 2 Episode 6 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:03 Gen V comes your way. That would be radical as well if you're listening to this as an audio podcast. Leave us a little bit of a rating if you could. Boys, the Boys. It's another momentous episode. We are two away from the end. G. How you feeling right now?

Starting point is 00:01:20 I honestly thought this episode was okay. I wasn't super high on it, to be honest. It's my least favorite episode. Yeah. It's the opposite of the housework. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:01:34 Okay. So what lets you down? I really don't like starting in a negative place, but I have definitely opened the door for that. Talk about how excited you are to see Stan Edgar again. Honestly, I thought with Stan, he was just there to dump information. He didn't really feel like a propelling component in that regard of, I felt like there was a lack of emotionality here. I think it kind of slowed down the vibe and pacing. I thought all of cypher scenes were great as usual.

Starting point is 00:02:14 There we go. Yeah. I thought he was like the most exciting part. And the information learned is cool, but I felt like a lot of the information was recited already. A lot of it we already knew. I know our characters have to learn. But there was something in the temperament of some of the interactions that just wasn't making the most sense to me. Or something I was lacking in connectivity.

Starting point is 00:02:40 I need a little bit of processing to really figure out what it is because it's not without its moments. You know, I like the idea the sisters back. I think the prison break thing happened in a, I thought like there was a lot of like random conveniences that occurred barely an inconvenience, you know. The prison break happened really fast. What did Sam say he wasn't going to help? He did. Not that him show, like, not that he wouldn't change his mind,

Starting point is 00:03:09 but in how quickly that goes down. All of a sudden, he's here, and we're breaking out. And then Stan Edgar moment, it was a line between, okay, I see how you're important, but for some reason, a lot of this is feeling like a cameo. you know especially i couldn't get out of my own i mean it's not that i i imagine i moved on pretty quick but there was a part of me i was like i how did you track all this how did you track them down exactly like what did you do you feel like you have very limited

Starting point is 00:03:37 resources at this moment and there was there's just something there that was kind of missing and even with like jordan and marie at the end yeah i'm not i'm not i'm not sure you're also you got to i'll i'm sure maybe you guys will say something that i'm like yeah let me spring word off of that because then they might bring something into clarity for me because it's fine i think it's a fine episode and uh it advances stuff forward but i guess in terms of feeling something i surprisingly didn't feel much when watching this one it kind of just felt a little bogged down and so a little too soap opery for me at times without feeling like a there's a real pulse behind it it is an odd thing because I did have a feeling partway through one of the scenes I think it was between Marie and Annabeth where I caught myself I was like momentarily transported and I was like I should be more affected right now or I wish I was more affected or I should be like caught up in a moment and I can see how much they are giving in the scene and the emotionality that's coming up and yet.

Starting point is 00:04:49 yeah, it's not connecting and I don't know why. And it's not like the scenes themselves are bad. But yeah, this is an interesting one because it is so much info and it is like it feels like a revelation. Is it hand? And yet the episode, it seems like on paper there should be like a revelatory feeling like, oh my God. We just learned about we're trading in like the viscera of action for like, okay, now we're really getting down to the nitty gritty of the context that's going to lead us into the end of the season. And we do get that in a sense, but yeah, it's weird because like nothing's glaringly bad or off or wrong. But yeah, this was the lowest key kind of low impact one so far that had a really exciting prospect at the start of it, I guess.

Starting point is 00:05:38 So that's why for me it's the opposite of last week, so where last week was all surprises. Last week was like every time I expected a right, they took a left, left, they took a right. This one felt like they had to get to the next two episodes, which I feel like. are going to feel like a one two punch finale and there was a certain amount of stuff they wanted to express. So this one kind of felt like coloring in the lines and that this show doesn't normally, neither of the Vot shows feel like they're coloring in the line. So I had an interesting time with this where it was like, we have waited to see the sisters reunite and they're saying all the things I expected. We were waiting to have, you know, Sam and Emma have their, you know, rekindling and they're saying kind of all the things I would have expected. So it kind of just felt like a pre third act, late second act filler.

Starting point is 00:06:27 And I don't know if I've ever felt like a filler vibe from an episode before because the cipher stuff was exciting, but I think that's a lot of Hamish Linklater just being like really dynamic. But that's not to say the actress that Marie is not exceptional. It's just we'd already seen a lot of what was told here in other ways. so it wasn't quite rigoritated like the Homelander thing is new like that's the big aha of the episode the big moment

Starting point is 00:06:55 of the episode is that she is in the same program as Homelander but it's almost like they were waiting to explain that Odessa was homelander this whole time so that when it landed I was like okay but I think it was supposed to be like whoa okay and the whole episode kind of felt like that so I really

Starting point is 00:07:11 struggled I found myself drifting like thinking about life thinking about I had stuff to do earlier and I got stuff to do after this and I didn't like that I was like thinking about that a little bit um so maybe that also cost me some emotionality which is a bummer because I've been waiting for these sisters to reunite for four years uh and and and I didn't quite feel I felt bad for the little sister and I like the one thing I really did like was that we are finding out that the little sister doesn't have as much

Starting point is 00:07:41 animosity for Marie as it seemed like they all thought she did like she immediately told a positive story but i think gregg even said but i felt like there was always a like everything felt like an end then so yeah weird episode for me yeah felt a little balked like the show i always had drama but i wouldn't really consider it a melodramatic show and this is the one that felt melodramatic in the most teen soap operary way that i didn't i didn't feel like it complimented the the experience of this episode in particular. Sam, too, I was getting caught up in some questions, you know, that would come and go.

Starting point is 00:08:25 But I think some of these questions where I was being dismissive as nitpicky, we're kind of getting in the way as, I don't know if they're exactly fully nitpicky. We just saw Sam last week definitely still not fully, you know, himself, right? Like, he lost his shit, harmed his dad. Yeah, I was sitting with his mom on a swing set. of a sudden he's here chilling he's here chilling he's here chilling i'm like i'm on new meds i'm cool and i'm like what what the hell where where this come from what are you talking about when

Starting point is 00:08:53 did this felt like they were supposed to have 10 episodes and had to chop it down did i felt like there was a missing episode and the viking guy showing up like we saw a couple episodes marie almost exploded this guy's heart and we see how much more powerful she is now she literally just resurrected her sister why is she's standing there Metal chess plate. Metal chess plate. Couldn't go through it. She's tired. She needs to build her powers back up because she just used them all on her sister. She needs a snack.

Starting point is 00:09:23 That's when I felt the cameo thing started bugging me with Stan and the daughter because it was like, I guess they just delayed this so that way we could finally have them make their weird entrance into this moment. The Viking guys literally like a big plot device. And then even then the fight, it was like, you fight. No, I fight. and and i don't know i i rarely dislike an episode in vaught stuff and this one just didn't didn't do it marie's choice for leaving at the end i'm mad at that that feels like they just

Starting point is 00:09:57 needed an excuse to separate the characters yeah can we ponder for a second why she did that can we i feel like she has just made herself excessively vulnerable to the situation right now i think they'll rationalize it as she was trying to protect her friends so she's going to go out and she's going to go back to cipher but nothing led to that decision one and it's like like a mirror to what happened with the breakout initially, but in a different context where, you know, she's literally leaving this underground facility to go, you know, this time in their interest rather than leaving them behind to be tortured more. And I see the parallel. And I see it's not in context. It still is sort of like, yeah, why are what?

Starting point is 00:10:33 It feels like it's a, they didn't flesh out a good enough debate over some of these choices. I felt like there's still conversations to have. Now, if you've been part of the Reject Nation for a while, you've probably. heard us mention our site Rejectnation Shop.com where you can get apparel such as this. Now, how did we build that site? Well, we did that with today's sponsor.

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Starting point is 00:12:17 go to bed it'll be fine i'm like you've been so weirdly untrusting of marie and now you're like let's snuggle yeah and also it's the it's the one of them that i don't know if it's conscious or just the actors but that we feel like has the least chemistry with and maybe it's like you know to me it felt like london's jordan's jordan the female Jordan has always been the one that's more connected to Marie. So it's odd that she would not be there to comfort Marie. I literally thought that's where that scene

Starting point is 00:12:49 was going to go. I thought they were going to have some conversation about, because it is so striking and you pointed out I think last week or both of you, somebody, that like oftentimes in the more intimate romantic scenes, it is London rather than the other actor. The guy. I'm sorry, guy.

Starting point is 00:13:05 And it's kind of striking to see them in an intimate scenario. And so like yeah I don't know I got caught up in that somehow and it would be a cool opportunity to build that chemistry or whatever I like that they play with the two different halves

Starting point is 00:13:20 because I do wonder what the whole is to Marie but also yeah I don't know it's weird the scene didn't go either place I'm usually excited for next week because I'm like so high from this one now I'm excited for next week to like cleanse the palette yeah I was a little bored

Starting point is 00:13:36 well and it feels like a crucial it's weird it feels important and yet it didn't feel important nothing like that made an impact in any way like the homelander thing felt like I should have been like

Starting point is 00:13:47 really yeah when she said it was when one of them says like your cousin or whatever like that line should ring harder whereas I had to go like oh right because it does okay well it just seemed like the way how they're dispensing information

Starting point is 00:14:02 there was like you do a little bit of a dramatic punch up here you know be like what You know, have some type of reaction to learning this information instead of we're just processing the information in this room together. Like, there was no real emotional response to a lot of this outside of when they said, you're like Homelanders. Like, I'm nothing like home. I'm a monster.

Starting point is 00:14:28 I don't think that was really what they were saying. You know, I don't think anyone was saying you're a monster. I feel much better. Psychopath. Yeah. Much better that you guys had the same experience because I was pretty self-conscious 20 minutes. I was like, uh,

Starting point is 00:14:40 mine is not in the mood. Why am I not connecting at all? I love this show. I love the last two episodes especially. So yeah, there was, there was something offbeat about this particular one. And I was,

Starting point is 00:14:53 the cast is great. And like the action was interesting when it was happening. And the story isn't, so it's just, it's just an off beat. Because everything else makes sense. It does,

Starting point is 00:15:02 it does, like I hope next week is a palette cleanser and is back on track because it does kind of worry me to get, an episode like this at this point in the story. It's like they slam the brakes when we should have the most

Starting point is 00:15:16 momentum. It's a break out to 30 seconds. They broke out of the big bad prison in 30 seconds and then talked. Everything was ramping up and then the most convenient thing happens for these characters and now it's like to slow the hell down for setups that I'm sure

Starting point is 00:15:33 like here's the thing. You know I'm sure a lot of people I've already been like oh fuck you or whatever you know. Yeah, they're the best guys. Ten minutes ago, they left. Of course. But whoever's still here. This episode did not make me lose faith in the show. Oh, I think seven better would be great.

Starting point is 00:15:49 I still anticipate seven will be a really good episode because they got all of this bullshit out of the way, you know? Yeah, because, like, Cypher was interesting. Like watching, Cypher doing violent shit is really interesting. You know, him losing control. Him beating on Godulkin, him using polarity. him having a polarity slap himself that was an interesting moment with polarity gaining some power over

Starting point is 00:16:14 Cypher in that moment but even here I was like the Cypher had a super strength how did he just like run away he just super durable I always assume that if you have any kind of super power just like you also have durable yeah this the onboarding

Starting point is 00:16:28 like if you get nothing else you're at least more durable than the average person you could take a beating do we have an expectation problem or I don't know I was just so good Well, I don't know because, yeah, I mean, like, I don't know. I think we are all past the point where we're going to be upset if there's not some wacky gore gag or sex gag. I think, you know, we all appreciate action, but this show, all of these shows have proven themselves to be compelling beyond that.

Starting point is 00:16:57 And I think part of the charm of the boys averse and GenVe included is that they do seem to have like, you know, their fingers on the pulse of both society culture and also. you know, comic book tropes and things like that. And I don't know. This just didn't feel like as sharp and in tune. It more felt like

Starting point is 00:17:18 in universe figuring out. I don't understand the choice of why she left. There's this whole moment that I've frozen the recording on of when they're learning

Starting point is 00:17:32 that there's a possibility that they can actually stop Cypher. Yeah. Why would you go out? Why not lean into, let's find out if that is Godolkin, and maybe we can do this. I mean, maybe that's what she's going to, what she thinks she can do. And also, I don't know, maybe she feels like she needs to go to Cipher because he's the only one who can, like, train her up to where she needs to be.

Starting point is 00:17:53 But I feel like there are too many other options for that to be like the clear implication. And especially with not a lot of really strong knowledge, I guess. there's just been a bunch of like it's like you said uh it's like a bunch of ideas have been broached and then there's there's there's this sort of and then yeah i feel like the real motivation is hidden within one of those hypothetical and thens you know the whole episode i it was like they cut to back to another scene where i was like but the point of the last scene you know yeah i don't know i like yeah i can head canon some some ideas but it it did seem like oh okay

Starting point is 00:18:33 like if some of the sister stuff had been it's because like I don't know with her sister with Annabeth it seems like at first there's a lot of opposition and slowly by the end of the episode we kind of seem to be opening up towards some healing of some kind and then

Starting point is 00:18:49 they're just certain to get and that's not feeling fully completed and they're also just getting this idea of what Godalkin was doing and so like she it just seems premature for her like I see her doing that just in the construction of this episode it feels premature yeah and and after every the start of the her from episode one it's about looking for her sister and so much of her sister pushing her away and they only have like

Starting point is 00:19:17 one conversation this whole episode outside of being in the truck and calming her down they had one conversation you think that like a lot of this would go towards that discovering your sister's a soup and like let's let's talk about what it's like to be a soup let's talk about where's the meat of that relationship she gets like 30 minutes with the person who took care of annabeth and five minutes this is the perfect episode to to spread out a little and i and you know variable runtime i feel like allows you to to do a little bit more characterization because again especially checking into what will surely be a very dense couple of episodes leading into the finale and a lot of high emotions there like it seems like a good time for a calm before the storm and to at least do some heavy lifting on some of the emotional themes and the emotional stories you know what i think i figured it out for me at least this feels like the most perfunctory superhero episode it does you know like when any of those marvel shows that we watch when there's like that random episode that were this felt like just another superhero

Starting point is 00:20:30 episode not didn't have that bot specialty of some type of surprising nuance it did have a cw flavor yeah it's felt it's felt more like a network show yeah not a bit it's you know maybe we did need some more outlandishly disgusting where's the naked or the violence or something like that's not what i'm saying you're saying i think it's the interactions that need that were it got dropped where that's what i meant by just straightforward information yeah it's like it's the edge and the personality are like a little sanded down here. Like what Coy was talking about earlier with, yeah, they are

Starting point is 00:21:04 doing almost the exact dialogue I'd expect them to do. And then some of the way the dialogue is going down just seem questionable in how some of these characters are behaving compared to where they were moments ago or last week because they're just going through beats now that they need

Starting point is 00:21:20 to go through. Hope they mean 7-8 is great. Because we got, like you said, we got through the beats. I'm hoping 7-8's a nice big finale and it feels impactful, but this was, I'm very sad after five. Well, the critics got all the episodes, and it's got an extremely high Rotten Tomatoes score.

Starting point is 00:21:36 Yeah, so I'd be surprised if, and who knows, maybe we're just randomly in the minority on this one. Yeah, this is the top rated episode. Everyone really likes this one, you know? Um, yeah, maybe people really like it, but the critics really like the, this whole

Starting point is 00:21:52 season. That's very reassuring, because I was really afraid, like, what if this is that first Vought series where I'm like, And the back half just drops off. So it doesn't sound like that's likely if it's been regarded. So I'm hopeful. Yeah. Well, I do think that overall this season has not been shaping up generally in totality,

Starting point is 00:22:11 as strong as season one is. I forgive a lot of that for the fact of losing an actor. Yeah. One of your leads and having to. And they've done beautifully there. They have done beautifully where it does, they've managed a way to make it feel natural, you know. So there's parameters that have been.

Starting point is 00:22:28 have been up against. Yeah. But even in the ones that I felt were lesser then, I didn't feel what we're feeling now. Which is, this kind of feels a little mundane. Well, audience, sometimes I don't like stuff. There you go. It was cool to get Victoria Newman's daughter.

Starting point is 00:22:46 That was neat. Kind of. I thought that was kind of neat. But nothing in this episode rises far beyond kind of neat. Yep, a lot of neat. Yeah. So, you know, here's hoping that the edge will come back next week, you know. And, yeah, that the story will feel properly calibrated because this was an odd interlude of, of almost.

Starting point is 00:23:06 I think it's, yeah, it's largely that too. I'm like, yeah, getting what you expected and not much more is an odd feeling because there can be a lot of good work on display, but all you can kind of see is the greatness that lies a few steps beyond that could work. But yeah, leave us your thoughts, gang. How'd you feel about this episode? is it your top rated of the season and what are you expecting for the last two episodes? Throw it all in the comments below

Starting point is 00:23:32 and we'll catch you for GenVe season two episode seven next week. Pieces.

The Reel Rejects - GEN V SEASON 2 Episode 6 Breakdown & Review!!!

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