Episode Transcript
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to the gen V review series the season finale of season two.
Yeah for the lost track of where we were right now, I am I guess still the number one Kyler and famboy dressed.
Now go check out our impromptu cantea conversations as late so I had no nickname, but I'm joined.
Speaker 2By I am the chosen One Tarfield.
Speaker 1Yes, Lee's gentleman's Yeah, we're gonna talk gen V.
This is the end of that.
We are pretty much done now shows like obviously we got it starting out this weekend, but we're officially out of that big slog, which was a fun time but for us, very hard to bounce lice and content wise.
But yeah, you can go back this whole summer, Alien Earth, Peacemaker, Dexter GENV we're in that.
But yeah, we'll be reviewing it and then sometime in December, whenever we get a date, we'll review a fallout.
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Tairfield, how did you feel about the season two finale of gen V Also, we speculated a lot of what would be the closure.
It was funny the last week we were talking about it there would even be a season three, and then the day after Eric Crepp is like, yeah, if those the viewers, it's there, So that's the plan.
But what were your thoughts on the ending here?
Were you satisfied?
Were you wanting more excited for future ventures with these characters?
Potentially?
Speaker 2I am always down to get future adventures.
I enjoyed this season.
I enjoyed the things that we got, but there are still things in this finale that were rushed and left poorly written.
I think they could have done things a little bit differently in this finale.
And again, this finale is forty minutes coming off of what like a half hour thirty five minute like semi finale episode, so we really didn't get a lot.
There were a few things that they introduced in the show where they brought in familiar characters, and those characters served really nothing.
I don't know why they brought in these characters just to offer like maybe I don't want to say reprieve, but to offer a thing that benefited our characters in that moment in that episode, And while they planted seeds for future things, there really wasn't anything to come from that.
I imagine probably in retrospect after we watched The Boys finale, that this season will actually and it's finale will actually age a lot better.
But I don't think that's it's It is a maybe.
I don't think though that's it's not good.
Though, like you again, it is a maybe, but you shouldn't you shouldn't be doing a show that's gonna merge with this show, It's like, what's a good example.
It would be like the Mandalorian season finale looking better if we got a book a bulb a fet season two.
When we watch a book fet it's like, Oh, it makes the Mando season finale so much better.
Like that kind of a thing.
I don't think that that's the way to go about it.
So at the end of the day, I enjoyed the season two.
I think it was really like a good amount of fun.
And this finale it doesn't live up to my all time you know, high standard bar for what a finale should be with a show.
But I like some of the things that we got in this episode.
I like where our characters kind of got, and I like some of the other things that they they had appear in this episode.
I just wish that it was executed a little bit stronger.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think I'm pretty in life with you.
I think for me, I maybe enjoyed it a bit more because trying to dance around it in the spoiler section last week, I feel like everything that happened went down kind of as I expected it, So I guess that's where I'm coming from, where it's like, oh, I think they'll do this, and they did this, and yeah, I think there was some strings here, they tied off some storylines.
But at the same time, I don't know.
I think I it's gonna be tough.
I think, like what you're talking about, how it's connected.
I just don't know is it going to be to the situation where it will help or hurt it because I I'm trying to think of the best way to say this without spoilers.
So I'll say this, and I hope this isn't much of a spoil and I don't think it is.
I think I said I not.
I think I know I said this to you earlier that to me.
If the other spinoffs Awestly, Vaught Rising is way in the past, right, so I don't think we have to worry about that.
And then if the Boys Mexico, we don't know the plot of that, but if that's not connected, I think the spinoffs are gonna serve much better if they're not directly connected to the main continuity of the Boys, which obviously The Boys is ending next year, right, so that shouldn't be a thing.
You shouldn't have to worry about connecting there.
And I think that's the prob where sometimes the show does have its own personality and its own agenda, and then other times it does feel like and not too much to the Boys, but it almost feels like you like, I don't think they exist.
But I would wonder if you just watch gen V how you would feel about the finale, you know, because they'd say you didn't watch the Boys.
And I'm sure they do, right, I'm sure the crossovers there, so I'm sure they're not worried about that.
But as we've seen before when we talked about MC and other stuff, we have talked about them that Kyle Renn film episode where it's like people they doing homework and watching things that are connected.
They still do that, but I think people have a lot less attention spend now just because the amount of content there is right, and don't have to feel like, oh, I got to watch these eight episodes of this that And I'm not saying it does that.
I just feel that they set certain stakes.
And again, my biggest complaint for this whole season and continues with the finale, that overall, still the finale good character's good, we got some arcs going on.
It's still a pass and I think I might still technically like season two better than season one.
But these characters, they just get out of the odds so quickly, you know.
And even then, this felt like this is going to be a very big situation, felt like it was handled pretty easily.
And I think the other thing that's tough too for me is I wish it was more secluded to just these characters.
In this episode, they start to introduce other characters and stuff we've seen before, but other characters and other ramifications like if you do this, this might impact that and if you do that, that's gonna impact this person.
But I think the resolution's quite easy, and I think they figure out a way to just kind of dovetail like, oh that was crazy, right, Well, let's see what happens next year, you know.
So again, there were some good moments here.
I think I sound more negative than I am.
Overall of yours say hey, did you like it?
Yes, But on like a critical level, there's things where I enjoyed it.
But it's not going to be and I don't think gen V was either.
It's not gonna be like my top ten shows of the year or anything like that, right, I think GENV had its issues with the Boys other than the last season.
Every season and the Boys coming out did that, and I think that's sometimes the show feels a little handcuffed by the Boys if they can't do too much or stretch too thin.
And I'm kind of at odds of where they end this show.
It ends in a way where I don't know if I I feel like there's no good answer because they're saying something in the ending and I was like, Oh, that'd be kind of lame if you did that, and then they went against us, Like Okay, that's cool.
But then once they went against and I'm like, do I even want this though?
Like I don't know.
It's a tricky place because I like all these characters and I like the world of the Boys.
I do think that we really like.
I guess they can talk about season three.
We'd have to see what happens in the Boys finale.
I know it's called GENV, but they gotta like there's nothing to do with that at school anymore, you know, like that school just feels so like the school is so minor in this episode, but or in this season, but you know we'll see here.
So we got some people in chat white gamers saying, I love them both.
You're talking about Mandalorian and uh the show I'm assuming or right bo fed Uh, let's see every episode has been over forty minutes better than Peacemaker.
That's a good question, Tarr.
What which show do you like better?
Gen V season two or Peacemaker season two.
Speaker 2Mmm, I'd say gen V season two.
I'm enjoying one Peacemaker and so he's super Mike saying every episode has been over forty minutes for GENV.
Yeah, I think it was under the forty.
Speaker 1I think this show was.
I think technically with the credits it was only thirty five minutes, but the credits did get like forty one.
So but even then, Peacemaker's worse, right because you tune a Peacemakers thirty seven minutes.
That's me.
It's it's like a thirty two minute episode whatnot?
And that's where and again I don't hold that too.
That has to be the thing that's what makes it a bad episode for me.
That's that's a tough one.
I honestly they're pretty neck and neck.
I will choose because we don't.
I don't know why.
Kirkland said.
Is Thisten the Weekly Geek last Yek with him and Dylan they're talking about something.
He's like, we don't do ties here, and I'll just throw that out.
That's never been like an a stalage rule here at KIK.
First, I think we don't do them because we like the debate.
So as Kirkland says, I won't do a tie, I think here's the thing.
I think Peacemaker is highs were higher than this show.
Like everything that happened in episode six and seven, I don't think GENV ever got to that level where while they're doing some really big stuff here, some big reveals, some big characters stuff, but I think I had more issues with Peacemaker overall.
So I think technically, yes, I put gen V over peace Maker, even though yeah, definitely I think my score I think Peacemaker is like a six, and I think definitely gen V's higher than a six.
It just never got to that height that I kind of felt like we were always in a good mode in GENV, but we never got to a stellar episode.
There's not that one episode where I'm like, oh, this season had blank episode, right, that's where I can see a peacemaker and say, hey, episode six and seven, those were some really great like maybe almost you know, nine, ten, eight ten, really high stuff or GENV just was consistently good.
That's what I would say with that, let's see supervises.
I think I'm I think you guys both give season one and eight.
That's interesting.
I guess we can.
I don't know what we're gonna flip it up.
Tare off the bat, what would you give the season?
Because we're talking about the seasons now.
I think I'm like at an eight point five.
I think it's better than season one, but not like a a leap and bound.
So that's where I think I'm at.
So we're switching up, we're giving our overalls and the non spores.
I think I'm an eight point five for gen V season two.
Speaker 2I go I go a little bit higher, go eight point seventy five.
Speaker 1Okay, I don't even know.
Speaker 2I wouldn't go a nine.
Speaker 1It's not nine.
Speaker 2I'm on the cusp like I'm close.
I'm close, but the finale in the semi finale just didn't do it for me.
Speaker 1Yeah, so yeah, we'll have to see.
I think I'm maybe I'll actually go to like a a point twenty five.
I'm doing the reversit ty, I'm going down one more.
Doesn't feel even eight point five ish, But uh, all right, we've bounced around it long enough.
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All right, I want to jump right to we're doing.
We're gonna we're doing like a Tarantino.
We're going from the end, go in the beginning.
I want to go to the end of this also, we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff, but they're on the run our heros.
Right, we lost nobody, which I didn't think was gonna happen once we lost the real actor of Andre, because I thought maybe even Polarity would but he he even made it, you know.
Okay, we did lose one.
I don't know if that's what you're smiling about, but I'm not gonna count that character.
But yeah, and our main cast of returning characters, we didn't lose anybody, which, like I said, not a surprise.
We already had to lose the main character, not by choice.
Right.
Our gangs together, they're kind of seems like they're all friendly, they're bonded.
You know, obviously it's not perfect, but they're that kind of guards Galaxy put together fan thing, right, almost like the boys.
So of course they're talking about what their plans are.
I did actually really like the joke when Jordan uh is the pay of them, right.
I always forget they're that character's name, but I remember now.
I love the joke when they're like, oh I got a PM ME two and Jordan's the girls, Yeah, I got a pe too, and he flips into the man and they're like, hey, that's not fair, like because I'll see really yeah, a good running joke all the time in real life, right, is about you know, easier for men to pee, which is you know, most of the time accurate.
You know, you never know.
But anyways, this is happening.
They do their business that come back.
Lights are flickering, and we kind of talked about this, we said, I said it could be Hughie.
I said it could also be Starlight coming back.
And we got that where starlight uh flies down and she gets them.
And this is where I was torn, Taylor, because I thought so she asked, hey, you want to be part of the resistance, and I thought, okay, if they say no, here it feels like some of the other stuff will talk about where they don't want to mix it with the main show, right because Emma starts going off like, oh, we're kind of our own thing, we're kind of a team by ourselves.
But then she says like, oh, well but we could you know, create a partnership.
So at first it's like, if you say no, you make that thing of why don't they ever pop on the Boys.
It's just because while they're on that show, right, But then they do say, yeah, we'll join up.
So then my mind went to right a way of like, are all these characters gonna be in The Boys?
Like I don't there's cause like and not that I don't want them, because like I do like these characters.
I think it's just because knowing The Boys is in its final season, The Boys already has tons of characters and tons of storylines they have to close off, right, So if they're kind of in an episode two of just like a rebellion and maybe there's a point where they need saving and they come in as like a new gang just to help and who he's like, who's ease and starts like, oh, they're some friends, Like I have to see kind of like what you said, I have to see how they're used.
I don't think how it's used going forward is gonna make this season or finale like top tier.
I don't even know if it could make it much better.
I think it is the quality of what it is, because I still think they do do some things where it's, hey, we don't wanna get too close to the Boys, but yeah, yeah, we'll team up with the So I really need to see the final season of Boys to see how this plays up for me, I kind of thought, Okay, they're gonna be on the run, and that's why they don't link it with Starlight, right, because maybe people are after them, trying to kill them, and that would kind of make sense of why they don't join up with the Boys because they're right on the run for their lives.
Like, okay, I could believe that, right.
It super remikes as though be background cameos most likely seeing I don't want, like that's to me kind of cheap then, so I feel like there has to be like a perfect bounce off.
I don't want them in the show too much, But now that they said, hey, we're gonna be around, I don't know if I want just to be background characters either, Like I would like an episode where they're not vital as far as they have new bunch of storylines, but in helping the team.
So I don't know.
I'm very mixed on this.
I'm gonna wait and see.
It is remind me of that meme of the Boys started, you know, to parry doing parodies of the DCU and the MCU, but now they have just become that and it kind of is that but yeah, what did you take from you know, them joining up with Star the Star Lighters and that whole squad.
Speaker 2It seems like I legit thought that they weren't going to team out there for a second, and it kind of fooled me.
But uh, the whole time, that's my expectation, because this whole time is just going on thinking they're gonna team up.
Theyre gonna team up, the two shows are going to combine, like it just makes sense and they've talked about it, but it still fooled me.
But anyways, yeah, they're they're teaming up, and I'm totally okay with this, Like I want to see these characters interacts.
So we got like a train popping off at the end there and then and I forgot Yeah, so I'm down for it, I really really am.
And I'm excited to see they all interacting with Butcher and how Butcher well, Butcher doesn't like all soups, but he still is working with them.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So, and of course show it's to black Nor who appeared in this episode as well.
Speaker 1Right, Yeah, there was lots of boys actually, and even then we got Sister stage back, so there was lots of boys that doesn't count, doesn't but he's fine.
He wasn't last season, so I give it to them.
Speaker 2But yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1Okay, So to that point, then, so let's talk about Goodalkin.
Yeah, it's that's exactly what I thought was gonna happen.
I thought because we talked about, oh, how'd Homeland react all this stuff?
And I just went that's where this show, and I will say I think suffers from it being a spin off that's tied to the Boys, right, and I won't say tied to the Boys is in a timeline of the Boys, because they keep doing this stuff like oh, this could change everything for the soups and Sister Stage just talking about like, oh, you gotta be careful how you approach Homelander and all this set up and not even homelanders calling and she changes it up.
Goodalkin's doing streams and what not, talk about how he's there to cleanse the soups and how there's you know, all these week soups around.
It can't be that this, like this whole threat obviously go Dulkin through Cipher has been there the entire season, but this actual threat of him coming out his whole body killing people lasts like under twenty four hours, and I felt like they beat them, I guess, I want to say pretty easy, but easy enough, you know, like it did not feel what they made up to be.
It just felt like they were like And that's why I will be interest to see how these characters are in season five The Boy.
Right, it's I think season six of The Boys.
Speaker 2I don't know what season it's five.
Speaker 1I think it's five, Yeah, I think so.
So for no, yeah, I think so.
Maybe we have computers fact check for me.
So for me, it's just that it felt, Okay, we have gen Vier's doing their own storyline and it's going towards somewhere, but we had to quickly shut that off because this storyline is so big that obviously it would impact Homelander the rest of the shows, So we can't have this continue.
How many seasons stay there?
Okay, so there we go.
So for me, this is where something like Invought Rising or even Boys Mexico, you could probably do a big threat because you don't have to worry about OHA's impact Homelander and Butcher and all this stuff.
That's to me what this felt like they were trying to make it seem a big deal and make it seemed like in the universe, and maybe even when we get to The Boys season five, they'll have Homelanders say some sort of throwaway line.
But that's just what it is.
It's it.
It feels like just like anytime The Boys with the people to be like, oh man, there's a really terrible situation where a bunch of people died, it was so cool, or just something where it's like, oh, yeah, we stopped a missile crisis here in Cuba.
I didn't mean to make this say that, but like not that they're getting it again.
But just like in The Boys, they'll flippantly say stuff like that where they in between scenes went and stopped in a trosy right like saved a crime something like that, and it's not worth the show because it's not part of the main storyline.
That's what this Goodalkin thing feels like.
In The Boys, be like, oh man, isn't that crazy?
Like even Starlight did that.
She's like, man, Goodalkin coming back, sister saved feeding all that stuff.
I should have known.
Like it felt like a like a full like NPC character just giving you some quick exposition of man.
That sure was crazy.
You want to come to the main stuff now, So yeah, it's you know again, obviously we didn't have him slink later.
I thought he actually had a re really good scene to send him off.
I thought, like, again, that actor is Yeah, the actor's phenomenal, Like not just to surprise it, but just the actual scene of him talking about Andre.
I've said this before, Hamish Slinklinger needs to be in a bunch of stuff, whether it is big mainstream stuff or people like the Nolan's and the Scorsese.
He's like, they need to get this guy because he's just so damn good.
And that scene that in any other actor talking about Andre and just oh man, he was the best.
We just feel like, okay, which is still a good thing, right, It would just like it's just honoring uh, a fallen actor who was important to the show, and let's give him some cred.
The thing about Hamris slinklater in his performance, he makes me believe that he's just talking about Andre and it's so heartwarming and it feels so believable.
He's such a damn good actor.
But yeah, the Godalguin stuff.
The whole all means Sister Sager have a plan and they're making out doing all this stuff, and she's like, I remember the plan, Like that's where the only reason I thought he might lives because he kept mentioning his plan, and now it's like, well that's also gone.
So I think the Godalkhin thing, you know, in concept, kind of cool, but when you tie it to the Boys universe, it can only get so big because Homelander, the real big bad, is just over there, right.
But even had Godulkin being like, oh maybe we can take that Homelander, you know, so, yeah, what do you think about all this stuff?
Speaker 2I'm again just disappointed that Goadulkin is one and done, not even twenty.
Speaker 1Four hours and yeah, an act.
Speaker 2So that's that's what really really bothers me.
I would like to have seen a little bit more from that, the whole thing with him and Sister Sage, like she we get everything kind of revealed.
Okay, it was her plan and that's how Cipher was on point and knew everything at all because of Sister Sage.
So there's that, but yeah, it's just it's an interesting dynamic.
At what point did she or he reach out to her?
I guess because she's not as old as he is.
But she fell in love with him for some reason, and he would have been like a limbless, charred corpse.
I just it's a weird, weird, weird, weird thing.
But I like their initial plan that was that involved Homelander, and yet it wasn't a level of him controlling Homelander.
It was it was a different plan.
Speaker 1But no, it might have been though, because he say that in this episode.
Speaker 2He yeah, he did say he wanted to control Homelander, but she was like, no, like our plan is for something else, Like we're supposed to use Homelander, not not her plan.
Yeah, and so that's another interesting thing too, where you have him and his abilities really showcased here, and that's why I wish that they kept him around a little bit longer.
Because you have the Odessa soups, which are Marie and Homelander.
Then you've got like the Formula one soups, which is him, Stormfront and Soldier Boy, which they they don't age, so those are like the the ogs, and then yeah, the Homelander the Odessa ones which are really hard to tap into.
And he couldn't tap into Marie obviously before because she is in a Deessa and it's super super powerful, but I would love to have seen him take over Homelander for just a little bit.
Yeah.
Speaker 1I again, that just becomes I think if you do that, then then you make that character the new that becomes the new big bad, right, And I think they want to all the focus on Homelander for next season and that's where that's where I think it's kind of it's kind of tough.
But yeah, we did.
Uh we did say goodbye to uh get talkin.
That was it.
Uh.
He did take over Marie for a little bit because he was testing himself taking over a bunch of soups very easily.
He's taken over multi once and then he did take over Marie.
It's fun to see that actors get to play bad for a little bit and do the scenes and you know, try and kill her friends.
Clarity came and made the safe.
But again, I also just thought how he was uh defeated, was I don't know, kind of easy.
It felt felt very I guess it wasn't that fast.
It just felt maybe anti climatic of like, Okay, he's he's done, he's gone.
You know, I was expecting some twist of like his body was exploded, but he was still going controlling Marie somehow, you know, like I didn't know what was going on.
But no, that's not it.
She got away and she's all good, you know.
So, yeah, what did you think about Jordan breaking things off with Marie there?
I forgot to mention that in the ending.
Speaker 2I think it's it's fitting.
I mean, their relationship has not been working out and Marie is just kind of like mentally abusing Jordan to the jury, Yeah, say too, like their relationship would have worked out for sure, but Marie just kept you know, self sabotage and not really she just like she highlights this episode like, oh, I just let it all go to my head at being the chosen one and all that kind of stuff, and she did because it's what really ruined her in her relationship with her friends, and she should have just you know, brought them in, like earlier when Emma had a really really good moment with with Marie and I can't remember the other one who can control stuff, but just like kay, kay, yeah, we're a fucked up family, but we're all in this together.
Yeah, like Emma's and it shouts again to Emma two where she was able to just like grow super big and then shrink back down all in her own without having to eat or puke or anything like that.
She did it all and just fucking drop kicks Godalkin, which is super badass.
I really, I'm super stoked that Emma's kind of come to this full circle moment like that.
That's super cool.
Speaker 1So and she kissed that dude do who was there?
Speaker 2I told you, I told you they were.
They were alluding to this nothing.
Speaker 1But I'll give you that.
I'll give you well, no, I was.
I thought there's something going on with the friend l because I still thought there.
That was a moment too, when when they take down Goodalkin and they have all their friends there and she kicks and kicks them and then she's like, I can't remember her namething, Oh do your thing, And of course she uses her pubes power to tie up Godalkin, and and then you have yeah, and then you have the friend that touched her and took Goodlkins power for a little bit.
So you know what she says, she's a lame power, but she made it work.
You know, she took out this big threat, so good for good for that soup there's still there's still a spot for her on the roster somewhere.
Yeah, I thought there's something going on there and I was wrong.
That's fine, and I was still wrong about this, but I do I will say again another negative.
We never came back to that that uh cafeteria girl, So she's still just like living her worst life.
Yeah, like it felt like a strange It gets a nice addendum.
I guess, like a one episode.
Oh cool, look what's happening.
But I thought there's gonna be a bit more.
But yeah, Emma did kiss that dude.
I will say that I still think her same way that Jordan Marie will end up back together.
I still think Sam and Marie will or Sam and Emma will end the back together eventually.
You know, something's gonna happen.
He's gonna die, you know, it's just kind of the way he goes.
Maybe not, we never know.
Me Sam will meet someone I don't know.
Uh, but yeah, and you mentioned Kate.
Yeah, I thought that was a really good scene, like you said, of them bonding hugging in the uh some I think they were in a dorm room or where were they hiding out.
Speaker 2Of there in a dorm room.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, because right there telling to other students, and yeah, I think it's good that we finally right.
We got the moment too where Maria healed Kate fully.
I wasn't sure what was happening because she tried to heal what was his real name, hey Miish Lincoln anyway, it wasn't a Doug or Blake or something like that, but anyway, so HEYMI schlink.
Later they try to heal him.
Marie had just done a bunch of healings, so she couldn't do it.
When she was taking so long to heal Kate, I was worried that she still couldn't do it, So they're gonna wait.
And I also was worried they're gonna do something where and not worry like I would have been intrigued by the plot that Marie was gonna say that, oh she she couldn't heal her, like she's still tired, but like Marie was always making excuses not to heal Kate because she was worried.
But no, she did heal her.
And again that's why I don't know how this works, you know, I guess this budgetary stuff.
She takes her hand, she heals her.
They're both bleed by the nose.
The kid's like, thank you, Marie, and they just cut right away.
There's not like to me, they should be like a big moment of one Kate getting her full powers back, but two, this is like a I feel like this is a big moment where Kate was like a semi villain in the first season who betrayed them villainous in this season.
Last episode, they had a contentious argument about, Hey, I can't do this because I don't trust you.
Kate said, hey, I'll never use my powers against any of you, and when push came to shove, Kate didn't do it.
She stuck to her word.
So they felt like this was gonna be a really big scene for the two and it was like, oh, cool thing.
It was like she had an itch, you know, like and not the actors.
The actors did a good job as portraying that.
I just thought there was gonna be like, hey, let the actress that portrays Kate, like, let her have like ten to twenty seconds just to feel like, man, I'm whole again.
And it didn't happen.
But I liked the scene leading up to that.
I did like that scene barring I could use a little more, and I do like that now we talked about this, Kate had a bumpy road.
I think they're kind of in the earlier season two.
I think some of the stuff they made are so like hating the group and kind of going against them.
I think it was all a bit easy for to I want to help you guys.
I hate you guys, so I want to help you guys again.
I think the beginning the season with Kate's character was messy, but I think overall, they did get there.
They did redeem the character.
They gave her a nice little arc, and I'm happy that she's a part of the crew.
I do wonder, though, do you I'm not trying to be more, but but I wonder do you think she still would have been a part of the crew if the Andre actor was still with us?
Because Sam I could see because Sam was all like he was kind of mentally unstable, right, But with her, I wonder if she was gonna be more on the bad side because season one set that up, and I wonder if it's like, well, we're kind of down a character.
You know, she's with the group already, let's put her like and I don't know for sure, but what do you think.
Speaker 2I think so, I think so.
Speaker 1I mean you think like she would have end up a good person or you think she would have been on the bad side.
Speaker 2I think she would have ended up on the as a good person.
I really really do.
I think that was kind of Yes, they wanted to go in a perfect world where the Andre actor was still alive.
I think, okay, yes, you you immediately got that three seasons.
They're already thinking about three seasons of the show.
But I think you get, maybe this season, if he's alive, Kate and Sam being evil for a period of time instead of them becoming good in between seasons one, and I think you get more content of them being evil and them could being conflicted and eventually making that transition back.
And maybe that's Andre's help or whatnot.
Who knows, because I think Polarity wasn't really gonna be in this show a lot.
I think he was definitely there and president in the first one, but I think with the absence of Andre, Polarity kind of fills in that void a little bit more.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah, you're kind of true.
I forgot about Polarity who's gonna stay back.
He's not going with them, not just staying back.
Yeah, yeah, i'd say kind of risky.
You know that guy, Like, I don't think he's gonna just get killed, but I feel like that is risky.
You don't know, they could just destroy you because you help them out.
I don't know.
And that's another thing I will say too, where when they're doing Godalkin puts out these video messages right like come here, there's a class, there's a seminar, right, and then he kills these people, and you have that one guy who's naked just ran down the school saying, oh this is happening.
It felt like the Godalkin thing and a separate the classroom was.
It was nothing like to the school.
It did not feel like a big threat all.
I felt like this guy too, because obviously we have learned about some soups not aging, but I don't think that's like a It's not a not rare thing, right, even for soups, I feel like they'd be It's rare to find those soups that you know, Soldier Boy, like, we've only met two of them in the Boys, right, Soldier Boy in storm Front where it's like, Okay, they donate, so here's a third one, and here's the third one that one thought was dead too, you know.
So I felt like it was very minor.
It didn't feel like it had that impact on the school.
Sure, they had a couple of students say, oh, you know who's back and he's hosting a seminar, but then we saw all those characters in the next scene and they died.
So I also thought that wasn't done the grace that it felt very small scale.
Adulcun coming back, so let's see, yeah, and polaritally.
Like I said, I don't know what he's I don't know.
I feel like it's a risk staying there, but I guess we'll see, hopefully in season three if we get it.
And that's where yeah too, I hope, we hope the numbers are there, and I hope we do get a season three because the boys would have ended, and I feel that they will have way more freedom gen V season three, you know, to do whatever they not whatever they want, but kind of whatever they want because they don't have to worry about, oh, it is this gonna impact Butcher, you know, Homeland or anything.
They can do stuff and not have to worry.
So I hope that, uh, let's see great use of the butthole as a trojan horse.
Yeah that was a fuck but that that's something that worked really well as far as the theme of the show.
And I talked about the girl, the pubes, and that guy.
These were characters that would have been looked at as lesser than on the Soup's thing, right, but they helped beat Dolkins.
So it kind of showed that, you know, no soup is lesser than right, They're just like no person is lesser than Everyone has a skill or everyone can do something that someone else can't do.
Right.
So also, yeah, quite the way to travel.
But you know it was it it helped them get the win, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2It really really did.
That was that was something that just Jesus, fuck shit all my office here.
That was just that was something else just I was not expected.
I could just see else And they foreshadow it too, like because they keep having to pop up throughout the the but my god, he was like what is his power?
You can just take anything up the ass like he had six people in there.
Speaker 1I feel like it's kind of like he's like a so you know in Superman Peacemaker where they have like those pocket universes and you going to a different universe.
I'm not saying it's that, but I feel like whatever his asshole can do, they go into like they show he shrinks people like, like that's what his asshole.
I maybe I don't know if it's other other places too that can shrink.
But it was just the butt then, yeah, I guess that just shrinks people go.
You go in there and then you can travel.
Obviously he still looked in pain to get them out of there.
It's not just like an easy procedure for him, right, but uh uh it it was on the Fall of Godalkins.
There you go.
Do you do you think this like Godalkin gets mentioned in The Boys season five?
Speaker 2Oh, I hope, So I think I mean, Homelander's gonna have a scene where he's talking about I'm sure, And I mean it's definitely gona affect Sister Stage because Sister Sage she left Polarity's vault door open and seeing she knew how things were gonna go or how it all plays out.
Speaker 1Yeah, so Polarity when Blacknurr is talking like you can talk now you know, because I don't forget, but I was just remind of, right, that's a new guy, like an actor as black Nor who's still some skills.
But yeah, it's I wonder my theory is with Homelander when him and sister Sage are fighting, He's gonna list off all these things that she's done wrong.
It's been like blah blah blah blah blah blah the thing they have with good Dolgan blah blah blah.
Like it's just gonna be like a very quick in the middle.
They might have a small argument about like what were you doing down there?
But it doesn't really lead to anything in the boys, right, you know, like it shouldn't have anything to do there.
So are we missing anything or anybody that we haven't talked about?
That's uh, springs your mind.
Nothing really had with Sam, Like he was there, but he didn't I have like a I did, like he faced off with them as a new boy for there for like a second.
Obviously they might do that in the future, the whole Jean Gray, Wolverine, Scott dynamic.
But you didn't have really like a big moment in this episode.
Speaker 2This is where in terms of like characters.
I mean, I agree with you, Sam did not have much going on this episode, but characters that were not really impacting much of the story Stan Edgar and his granddaughter, and they appeared in that one episode, like two episodes ago, just purely for the fact that our heroes needed a place to stay, so they get to stay here.
I'd have some good food at Stan Edgar's house.
So I think that's that's a con Like, why why introduce that?
Because their whole plan is like, if you can get to Godalkin, then we could find a way to stop Homelander.
That's all it is.
Yeah, and fortunate because there wasn't any juice to follow up with this.
I thought for sure that we would get something, but no, that.
Speaker 1I guess could tie into if they if the gen Viers are in an episode or two, they have that connection with John Carlo, right, so maybe they can tie that back together.
But yeah, I think it was as of now, didn't go much place.
Sue Mike says, uh, Sam was the biggest disappointment the season.
They gave nothing to work with.
Biggest disappointment season.
That's interesting to think about because I did really like the episode where he went home.
I thought that was a good episode.
I liked that as far as they thought their kid died it what like seven or eleven somewhere around.
Then they only have a certain amount of stuff, and then you know, like the parents can't talk to him because of X Y and Z Vaught fucking him over right, and then when he gets there, he thinks, like he's so paranoid he think his parents are gonna call Vaught.
So I did really like that episode.
I I liked him, and I liked him for the first to say four, I'd say in the back half, yes, I think we talked about though that they turned him back good so easily.
There wasn't much to chew on there.
But it's the biggest disappointment, like if I had to think about all the characters, because Emma, yeah, she says she's never a disappointment, Marie, that's fine, she being character Kate Polarity, Yeah, I could agree with you.
I'll agree with you in the back half Mike that I think they didn't really know what to do with them, so but yeah, we'll see they didn't do much with the puppets either, so no.
Speaker 2They didn't.
Speaker 1Let's see, Polarity yeah, is there anything else?
Speaker 2I can't think of anything else.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, well I think that's it.
We've already done the rating.
Unless you you know, change your mind at all, up higher or lower.
Speaker 2No, it's still the same.
Speaker 1It's still the same.
So there you go.
So, yeah, we've done it.
We've done gen V season two, the finale, season three, like if it's there, yeah, we'll be there.
Will the show be there, and.
Speaker 2The same pitch, we'll be there.
If the numbers are there, we'll do the show viewers are there.
Speaker 1I think that luckily I had to look beause I just sa on the side there when I keep a track that I think the gen V numbers for us did good.
And then I also think with the boys being gone, if there is a season three, a lot of those people that don't watch GENV will go over to that as like a void right of oh, man, I have no more boys.
Well this and even then, if these characters get one episode and they like any of them, or even half an episode, they go, oh, I should check out that show, right, So no, what, we'll be here for season three.
I think it's just the times when we get those four show blocks, it's it's tough for us people.
We we try our best.
I don't feel think, oh that's not tar, but it's like the watching doing this, we upload to all the separate feeds, Patreon, editing and everything like making the time.
Uh, it's sometimes, you know, hard.
So we appreciate people that listen and subscribe, and especially people on Patreon because you guys, if it wasn't for Patreon, we wouldn't be doing half the stuff we do.
So we appreciate all you because yeah, sometimes those four blocks, it's it gets it's it's tough.
So I'm happy it's over and swer Mike says, I, which I agree.
They basically completely drop the political stuff in the back half.
I agree, but I think the reason I'm fine with that because they did shift in more of the group dynamics of Marie with her sister.
Even the sister for me is somewhat like a disappointment more than Sam because they added her and I just feel like I still don't really know her yet and she's just part of the crew now, you know.
And I guess like the way they added her, but I feel that maybe if these run times were longer, we could have got more scenes with her Marie or her and other characters.
She just kinda feels like she's literally like that younger sibling that that's tagged along.
But I think the reason I'm not worried about that is the dynamics shift into like can we trust Kate?
Is Maria going too far?
What Cipher up to?
I think another reason as well, too is I'm not worried because I feel like The Boys will be riddled with political stuff, you know, So I feel like you're gonna get a lot of that there, especially with the stuff that air Crep said today of like, oh yeah, it's uh he said, yeah, we're doing the storyline he about he says, has nothing to do with the real world, we swear.
So it's like, I think you're gonna get many, like many political stuff, which is probably a good thing for them to change up a little bit, because I'm sure we saw last year that there was some people being like, oh, The Boys is getting political now, I can't watch it, even though The Boys from season one has been a political show.
But sometimes when it's put up to someone's face they finally see it, they're like, oh my god, have I been watching the show the whole time?
It was political.
It's like, yeah, you have you just you didn't understand what I guess what was going on, But uh, I get the mike if that if that's and I agree with you when I brought the uh Cafeterira lady, I really like that storyline up.
What does it mean to be a human right now in a world that is like run by soups in like a Nazi Germany sort of way, where they will treat you as slaves, They'll treat you as like lesser than dirt, Like what does that mean?
I think we had a good glipse into it, but we didn't the full, the full shebang.
So yeah, yeah, but yeah, I know we'll be back for season three and honestly, next year we will be back for the boys.
This final season, that's gonna be a very fun time.
Lot's of payoff.
It's gonna be interesting see what happens.
And I promise when we are back it will not be boring.
