The Reel Rejects - GEN V SEASON 2 Episode 7 REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:52 All right, well, that was episode 7. of GenV our penultimate episode of season two. Next week is the finale. Reveals were revealed. Rumors were proven true and lots of blood. Let's see. Let's start. Actually, before we get to everyone's thoughts,

Starting point is 00:02:08 I do want to thank Prepper for making this possible. It is a R-rated show filled with bondage babies and lots of blood. Not an easy thing to put on YouTube. So Prepper, thank you very much for chopping this up to be able to be on YouTube. John, what did you think of the episode? I like the episode. I thought this had a lot of really nice

Starting point is 00:02:23 character-oriented scenes while also in a pretty fun and gripping way got us to the crescendo that'll lead us to the end of the season and whatever transition into season three I assume there will be yeah overall I thought this was pretty

Starting point is 00:02:39 strong as compared to last week at least for my taste you know this felt at least I was always locked into the character stuff and every actor who got like a dramatic monologue moment the thing with polarity I thought was great the conversation between Marie and and Kate, I thought was great. Even just getting to see this whole other side of Doug

Starting point is 00:03:00 was really fun and charming. And yeah, this is funny. Like, you know, it's that moment where like now that you, I hadn't heard that theory of what the twist would be. And then, you know, when you hear it, you're like, oh, yeah, the signs are friggin' all here. But yeah, I quite enjoyed it. And it certainly gave me a foreboding sense

Starting point is 00:03:21 of what is possible next week with this. you know, Godolkin out on the loose. You got Nazis. Greg? It's tough when you want to engage with comments because you're supposed to. And then the part of my brain's going

Starting point is 00:03:37 are now half the comments going to be mad at me for telling you guys the theory. That a comment told you. That a bunch of comments said on our video because, yes, we were fortunate enough to get screeners. And at the time of us filming this, it's only aired up to two by five.

Starting point is 00:03:53 six is not aired yet yeah yeah six is not aired in real time of us filming this and i think it was around four or five when that theory was starting to populate the comment boxes i don't think it's a i remember it now that i've seen that reaction i think it was in three or four i think it was when we first had the the cipher godulkin like first beat down so i think it is something that's been out for a few weeks it's been out for a few weeks and it's funny we theorized it in the episode of Yeah. So it's just a fun twist of things to reveal. And yeah, compared to last week, I think it's so much better. It's so much more engaging. Compliments a little bit more things that occurred last week. Elevate them, I should say. You know, Marie leaving off with Kate kind of amount into something.

Starting point is 00:04:43 Good drama. Then they all got back together real quick. Now I'm going to back together. Trying not to sound like an asshole right now. Because, yes, John? Yeah, there's something odd about the plotting, but like the emotional resonance is like way greater. That's an isolated singularity episode.

Starting point is 00:05:03 It's pretty strong. I like the way the ending reveal plays out. This is an episode that's supposed to sort of leave you with its final moments, and its final moments are very strong. It feels very Baltimore-esque in the way it goes down, like Goblet of Firelike. and I love the performance of the other guy. I don't know if I'm going to love it more

Starting point is 00:05:21 than the main guy we've been following. We said that earlier in the episode. You're like, this show. I mean, it's crazy how he took over during the recap. It's like, well, now he's gone. Yeah, like how much stronger now is him when he's in his actual form? Because it seemed like he was able to do all these things

Starting point is 00:05:36 by transferring himself into this random guy's body. So if he's able to do that already, is it just stronger now? Like, I'm curious to see. how that plays out the way the cleansing goes. And I really appreciated this scene with Annabeth and Marie and Annabeth confessing that she had actually had a premonition of the whole thing that caused their rift, that caused her divide, that they both equally share this traumatic memory in a lot of ways where they both feel responsible for their parents' deaths. And yet it was easier

Starting point is 00:06:12 to blame. I like the, I like those grieving nuanced touches. And it was more of a scene that that I'm glad we got because I was wishing we would get it last week. And I like how Marie is rather stubborn. You know, there's like a couple of scenes where its characters trying to convince her to do something, whether it be go heal Kate's brain and why or, hey, don't go into that room. I saw a premonition. And in any TV show, nine times out of ten, the character will come around. And in both scenes, which are kind of back to back, Maurice, you know, stays her course and she doesn't let up.

Starting point is 00:06:44 So I love doing a characterization like that That goes against the norm I do feel like There's something kind of off in terms of like This season as a whole with the way some advancements go And there's some stuff that I feel is very repetitive But the strengths of the experience of this episode Outweigh whatever cons

Starting point is 00:07:06 Personal cons I was feeling that come to mind That's the end of my spiel I really like like Marie's sister, Annabeth's revealed. That was cool. I really like when a twist can re-contextualize an emotion. And we have had Marie as our lead for two seasons. And the basis of Marie to me is guilt. Like she is always thinking about her family. She's always thinking about her sister. She was looking for her sister for a year and a half on this show. And three years total with you throwing the boys there just as far as our experience with the show. So to

Starting point is 00:07:37 add the level of Mary Beth knowing and having her blame her sister as a way to cope, really is so human and I really like that twist because I like when a twist doesn't change everything it just recontextualizes something and I think they did a really good job there making that emotionally

Starting point is 00:07:56 resonant but also then getting right back to stubborn Marie like I thought that was really effective to be like oh my God this changes everything okay let's go over there and it didn't feel like it undercut it like they took just long enough and then it went on to the rest of the plot

Starting point is 00:08:09 so I thought that was really cool like B plot it made Mary Beth's introduction how it was and all that stuff really hit for me more um it's weird i you know you guys know i'm a weekly release guy there are some episodes that i wish were like paired but that'd be such a weird release model i feel like if five and six no six and seven were paired i would have liked six a lot more and i feel like six and seven felt like one complete thing because my big issue with six was you know five was a cliffhanger going into the prison break six was like and we're out of prison like it just happened and then six kind of felt like it was just setting up for marie to leave

Starting point is 00:08:44 and then when it's marie left i was like i don't know if i really feel like that was be something she'd do in this episode it does feel like there's a reason for it so that pair of episodes does make my negatives about six stronger but seven to me is still about like the average gen v episodes so it is much higher than i've held about six um and this show's good like we cover it for a reason i'm saying average is bad but this episode is like back to the high bar that is bought TV. So I really liked those and I like Polarity. I do wish they

Starting point is 00:09:15 hadn't had a master of magnetism in a room with metal not wheeled more but you know that was a that was a huge like okay what's what's going to happen and then it never happened. There's almost enough to be like well he's like kind of overwhelmed but I'm like he clearly has like a

Starting point is 00:09:31 quick second between getting you know pummeled or shockwaves or whatever that he could have yeah. There is like an action movie trope where like you know you're fighting Jackie Chain you do it wanted time. And like I felt that vibe. But if you add that plus magnets, I'm like, man, there's a lot of metal. Um, but and even why was he gonna stab him himself? He's a magnet. Anyway, um, it is a much better episode and it sets up a really cool villain. I really think Adulkin's a great slow burn. I really think going into the finale, we've got some high stakes of like a homelander power level Marie plus this like infinite power villain. And I really, my favorite thing about the outfit is it's kind of like Magneto's outfit. It's kind of like Magneto's out. fit. Like 60s comic characters wear diapers and capes. And they kind of did that. And that was really

Starting point is 00:10:15 fun because it's very GenVe, very the boys of them, to turn something like a superhero fit into a joke and then to have a bondage baby commentary on it. So all that stuff really worked for me. Most of my negatives are kind of episode six as negatives that weighed this down, but this was good enough to elevate

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Starting point is 00:12:07 thank you huell for being a big part of my fitness health journey for the last year you guys rock and thanks for sponsoring this video i'm kind of wondering if i'm how do you guys feel about the sam and emma stuff i think that's going to be the finale like that emotional because they've had some well they won't days i like that the mirroring of episode four what was the first episode with jung carlo was that that was last week oh last week i like the mirroring of episode six is meet cute between them was him being arrogant and like aloof and then this episode was him growing emotionally so those two scenes were almost exactly the same conversations but one with maturity so I liked this episode being the same

Starting point is 00:12:52 talk of like I'm working on it versus like hey girl um I still feel like there's a lot of there's something skipped over to have gotten to that point though with them I think that's why it's going to be a three deep thing right like it's going to be the hey girl and then I'm working on it and then a thing that's what I think it's Greg

Starting point is 00:13:07 That's a weird thing about this season is like I really liked that scene in the cafeteria where he's talking to her and like I'm weird and I just want to be normal and yeah all the stuff we've been through and it's this, like this episode and the last episode I think are a good kind of metaphor

Starting point is 00:13:24 for the season overall because yeah it feels like there are the beats feel a little more scatter shot and a little less fine tuned in terms of pacing but in an episode like this there's really great writing and nuance and acting work and stuff that shows you what the vision would be if it was all done like smoothly.

Starting point is 00:13:44 So it feels like you're kind of oscillating between watching like a really well-rounded show and then watching a show that's like almost there. And it for me survives on the strength of like, I like the idea of what they're going for. And especially with, you know, Sam and Emma, that's been a kind of slow gestating thing over the course of the season. So I at least, I don't know, I appreciate what they've given. those characters to go through and especially Sam and especially this idea of like Emma isn't

Starting point is 00:14:11 trying to like just bring him right back into an old dynamic but she is the one person who's willing to be like hey you know like this guy's been manipulated and like you know imprisoned and abused most of his life maybe we should create some grace you know and I think that's well handled

Starting point is 00:14:29 I also think that part of it is like a functionality thing because I think we all suspect Greg and I feel like there is like a nuts and bolts mechanical aspect of like we need this thing happening and then this kind of like vague dream boy over here so that maybe next week we can have some kind of major conflict or a fight or something between them

Starting point is 00:14:49 I guess yeah sure I don't know it doesn't seem like they're like an emphatic like main point of what we're doing here I just feel like that plot point came in out of nowhere with him like wanting to get back together with her it does feel plot convenient I don't feel like it was like placed in prior to that episode and now they're like second half the season riding that and now he's like super jealous guy I'm like you guys been gone for like apart from each other for a long time and nothing there was nothing really to rekindles strong that was a yeah rekindling of chemistry or relationally and now he's just back and he's also like seems extremely normal and healed I'm putting a lot of weight in this finale healing at least yeah and I don't know if it's just the idea that you know there's so much stuff we have we cover and then we come into this weekly because we're not big that polarity moment when he's healed i don't know why it feels like it got there her level of

Starting point is 00:15:48 strength the show that's where i'm at odds of myself because the show definitely justifies how she developed her skills to skyrocket to where it's at right now there was something in that moment though where i found myself questioning the the casualness of the level of power of how she did it and it seemed to not really make a moment like a huge this is a thing that Polarity's been struggling

Starting point is 00:16:16 with for such a long time and it's a quick reclamation to it like he gives such a great reaction as an actor in that moment but it felt a little bit quick for me these episodes are really short that yeah that felt like the end

Starting point is 00:16:28 of an episode moment that would be like whoa and then week to week you wait and instead it was like well that was just to level up to show she's going to do it to Gudalkin and then rediscovering his power and what he can be at at full health instead of just charging in superhero-like. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:16:44 Sometimes I feel like there is some missing beats for me, and it's hard for me to put my finger on the pulse when we immediately talk about it. Some shows that it's easy for me to do, and then other shows I have a harder time finding the words, like I have been today. All I know is I got, like, inclinations of moments or something, so it's kind of off to me in this moment. and I don't quite know why, outside of taking more time to let this thing, you know, cooking the pot a little more or something. I definitely feel like this season is a little uneven compared to season one and the boys. But I think moment to moment, the emotions are strong enough in the average episode that it's like that quality. But I definitely think when I stop and look at stuff, I'm like, I don't know if that really, okay.

Starting point is 00:17:29 But I'm emotionally invested enough that I don't, unless I'm analyzing, feel that. Yeah, I like the tension a lot of the last few minutes, but overall, I'm kind of, I feel a little bit indifferent a lot of the time when I'm watching stuff happen in this year. I'm not quite there, but I understand how you're there, because there are moments when I'm distracted, and I'm like, that's weird. well it's little things too because i don't know like it's all fiction and power scaling yada yada but like with marie i guess part of me each time is like i expect her to be more depleted given like the magnitude of what she's doing and granted she's not bringing polarity like back to life uh but i don't know being that this is like the what second or third time she's you know healed a thing in any capacity i guess i would imagine it to be more of a energy

Starting point is 00:18:19 drain rather than like quick we got to move on to the next place let's go to goddolkin right you know and she's like kind of that way after she heals him uh because that's like so extreme but even then she's like kind of on her feet and they just carry her out right but she brought her sister back to life i feel like that would be more harder than healing godolkin that that was a dead person yeah because like neither him or cypher or polarity are dead so yeah it's like it seems like She had a lot of, like, damage to repair, but, you know, like, a loss of literal life is, like, Trump card of all. What is, do you guys understand the power when she, when other people are in the room and then other people are starting to bleed? I don't understand what's happening.

Starting point is 00:19:03 I don't know what happened to Kate. Well, that happened, too, when she was healing Annabeth and that everyone was bleeding and their heads were hurting. I don't know what's going on. She just doesn't have a control of, like, the residual blood in the room as she's focused. Like it's affecting all blood. Maybe it's, yeah, some kind of like blood bubble. Field of energy or some kind of, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:19:25 Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just the Debbie Downer. Let us know in the comments what you think about the blood bubble. Let us know what you think about Debbie Downer. Is Greg, like in the show, a traitor? Mr. Cynicism over here. You still say you liked it. Mr. nitpicky, apparently.

Starting point is 00:19:40 You still say you liked it. I do like it. To defend that. I do like it. You're just looking at the things. But it's one of those, yeah, it's a, it's a, season where it's stronger in individual episodes and moments

Starting point is 00:19:50 than maybe the overall grace of the, you know, episode to episode story. It was not as good as five which is my favorite, but it was better than six and that was the bar I set. We started this episode fine and by golly, did we finish it fine? We'll be back next week for the GenV season two finale.

Starting point is 00:20:06 Let us know in the comments below what you think is causing other people's heads to get all rumbly jumbly. Do you think that Marie is going to fix Kate next week? I'm enjoying the Kate arc a little bit more than I'm enjoying the Sam mark and I feel like they started in a similar place. They're giving Kate a little bit more time to develop. So I'm curious where that relationship goes next week.

Starting point is 00:20:20 Do you think M and Sam get back together? Do you think Mary Beth and Marie get to like walk away into the sunset as brother as sister sister? Let me know in the comments below. We'll be back next week for the finale. Like this video. Comment to this video. Thanks to Prepper. Thanks to you.

Starting point is 00:20:33 We'll see you in a week. Bye.

The Reel Rejects - GEN V SEASON 2 Episode 7 REVIEW!!!

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