No like the way Homelander deliberately yelled, "STAY BACK" when no one was moving to make it seem like Marie was about to attack him and he was defending himself... that's what truly had me gagged; I was like this scene is a bit too familiar to what I be seeing in the news...
This show was a pleasant surprise. I liked it better than the Boys season 3 tbh. And college is a wayyyy better setting than high school to watch young people running around getting into insane situations with no parents around. Finally some writers have realized that.
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH! I feel like not enough people talk about how good it actually is. The way it represents Gen Z doesn't seem forced unlike with other shows nowadays.
I think feeling forced and manufactured is fine if it feels fresh and fun, Euphoria for example feels written by older people but is shot so well, I don't mind season 1 at all. With this, it felt like they had Gen Z writers. The lingo, the syntax and flow, it felt very crass and of the time when people are desensitized and tiktok obsessed. Not just referencing things for the sake of it but the characters are actually realistic and deep
@@simplyawful543western mainstream fiction in general doesn’t hold much esteem for psionic/mind powers and usually sidelines the telepathic/psychic characters in favor of “unga bunga” strong characters. It is a surprise when a character whose abilities logically trump everyone else’s doesn’t get randomly killed off and sent home on a bus.
EMMAS STORY WAS NOT REVOLVED AROUND PLEASING SAM!! It was abt her struggling with her ppl pleasing ways and need to be liked. Sam was an exploration of that but I hope we get more next szn! 😌
Idk I gained a ton of respect for Emma throughout the season. She didn’t have an ED because she specifically had body dysmorphia and wanted to be skinny, it was because it was her actual power and it “made her feel strong” or special. Obviously that could still be a metaphorical parallel but it at least goes beyond it. I feel like they did a good job at also making having an ED extremely unfun and damaging like how Emma’s feelings just nose-dive when someone asks her to shrink or she mentions teeth erosion and such. When she said “my mother taught me how to purge to shrink” I was like wow, this is LAYERS! Seeing how her mom is always trying to influence her into chasing perfection and success any way possible it just all added up why she tied her powers to purging. Finding out her powers are tied to her self image (how gorging food made her grow because she felt big/fat, and the opposite) and getting talked down into feeling small made her shrink, I feel like they can pivot her out of the ED dialogue by never making her have to shrink again. She really seems to enjoy being big, and tying her powers to confidence rather than food is a good journey for her to take.
I’m So excited for how Emma’s powers are evolving and how they can tie it in with the overarching theme of disillusionment that the mains are going through and learning from
Yeah I feel like the way her power works and is intertwined in this exploration of ED brings to mind a kind of literal "emotional eating", where she finds herself "consumed" by other people's perception of her and how it makes her feel. It's interesting that even growing to a gigantic size couldn't protect her from everything. Her vulnerability even at the height of her power kinda foreshadows how becoming popular tied her self-esteem to being perceived as superhuman, which exposed her insecurities since it ended up shrinking her confidence once Sam no longer saw her as a hero
Marie didn’t murder her entire family, it was just her parents; her sister is still alive but hates bc she sees her as a monster for killing them. I love your work Rumi!
What really pissed me off about Cate was when she compelled Dean Shetty to slice her neck and she didn’t allow Marie to save her. It was really messed up that she made her relive her trauma, then brushed it off like it was nothing.
Dean shetty was evil as fuck and deserved that though, willingly making innocent kids fucking sick and suffer and die in terror and not giving a rats ass, it was sad for marie but there couldn't have been a better fate for the Deen. Also marie isn't an innocent person either, she chose to use her powers to kill the rogue supes instead of subduing them because it benefited her goal of meeting her sister again.
I think she did that because she was focused on her own trauma and how Dean Shetty’s death would be healing to her rather than how damaging it would be to Marie
@@psychosocial2443 can you even blame Marie for wanting to see her sister again? Whether or not her brutality was warranted is up for debate but you're seriously acting like her wanting to see her sister isn't a strong enough goal to want to stop the rouge supes? I think that even if it was the "morally right thing to do" she should have no reason for not wanting to do whatever it takes to not only stop the rouge supes from hurting more people. Even if she was trying to simply subdue them, do we really know if she would be able to just subdue them due to her lack of knowledge of her powers? Marie is 18 or possibly 19 going into her first year of college. She's only had them for 4 or 5 years and still is barely able to grasp the full extent of her powers. So with that knowledge I cannot in good conscience call her a bad person for killing people who are also murdering other people in cold blood.
@amrechtmn But she knows the circumstances that those rogue supes have been put through, she was at risk of ending up being just like them herself. She was willing to save Deen shetty despite KNOWING everything she was planning and how she tortured people just like herself. Also I find it very odd that she's suddenly capable of using her powers to kill in the last episode despite that being pretty much her biggest truama in life. I don't hate marie, she's actually probably my 2nd favorite character after cate but people aren't critical enough with her character to the same degree as the others.
Neuman as a minor antagonist is so slept on. Her reveal of her true powers to Marie gave me chills. Also when Marie blew up Cate’s arm I gasped and dropped my food in my college caf so thanks Gen V
Thank you for being one of the only creators i’ve seen mention how Homelander siding with Cate and Sam was racially motivated because Homelander at the end of the day is a racist, not just because he’s pro-Supe. He called Marie an animal 😭
Homelander is definitely not racist in skin color terms, everything he's done points against that. The only human he respects, is black. He hates anyone else who isn't a supe, and respects supes, regardless of race, and it's very clear.
@@blushbb.everyone who has seen the show knows how bad he is as a character, but he makes the series worth watching with his menacing screen presence And people always love good villains.
@@apoorvsingh4459 I haven’t finished the boys and stuff yet and yeah he is entertaining - I was just sharing an experience with my comment so idk how that correlates but thank u
@@blushbb. just saying that it's normal to enjoy the character because of his entertainment value, without liking him. Don't need to feel embarassed about it
Marie, not fully knowing the extent of her powers makes sense for the show, because not only is she only a freshman, but she was sent to a halfway house for accidentally killing her parents, so there wouldn’t have been anyone that she could safely practice with, without fear of something worse happening to her.
This show was such a pleasant surprise - I genuinely think I enjoyed it more than The Boys. If anything it’s gotten me SUPER hyped for The Boys season 4. I think the Gen V/The Boys writers may be some of the best working right now.
I feel like there’s something to say about our immediate reactions to Homelander. Like I saw him and and I thought everything was good. I passively associated him with Superman forgetting that bros actually a Nazi with powers
No same like why tf did i sigh in relief knowing everything about that man 😭 i think it’s just because as the audience we fell into the “the heroes save good people” mindset that the GenV characters have, because we’re not watching it from The Boys POV. Like Marie was relieved to see Homelander and she wants to be in The Seven which is depicted as a good thing, so i completely forgot that Homelander was Homelander for a split second lmaoo 😭
@juliusirving463 its the music and framing! We are supposed to feel that way! I love how the heroic music slowly becomes more and more off-key, so even if someone watching does not know/forgets homelander is a bad guy, you get a building unease in the time between his descent and calling marie an animal.
I’m surprised to hear you say you didn’t like Marie in the first two episodes and that she didn’t feel like a main character. The first episode is literally 90% Marie's pov. We meet every single character when Marie meets them. We cut away from her pov very few times but for the most part beat for beat we are discovering this world and these people through Marie and Marie only. That's how every episode goes we discover things as Marie does for the most part. I found her very easy to have empathy for and the way I found myself invested in her journey was what had me binging all the episodes. Plus she is clearly still very affected by her past trauma at the beginning of show which is why it may seem she’s limited in her powers as they are very rooted in that. I also heavily disagree with the notion that she was constantly putting herself in bad positions when the one mistake she makes is breaking curfew and going to a party. Other than she literally follows the straight and narrow and actively avoids unnecessary drama when she tells andre and jordan to fuck off and to leave her be.
I feel like a lot trauma Cate had with her family and being touched starved and locked in a room for 9 years before going to God U was overlooked just because of her cheating with Andre… It’s unfortunate 😢
Andre was such a useless man and I truly felt it when his father was having seizures and he could barely do anything about it in the ambulance even the paramedics were done with him. Sidenote: supe paramedics with invincibility should deal with supes in my opinion. Even though he was black frat boy coded I love that he never did anything representing misogynoir with Marie, I held my breath waiting for weak beta male energy because he felt like nothing compared to her and that never happened and I was glad. On top of that Andre's actor supports red pill content where he hates women and black people- what a weirdo.
The Boys’ Writers know how to perfectly get you engaged in their world. The writing is so raunchy, and satirical but still able to take itself seriously in a way that doesn’t dilute the focus of the stories they try to tell. The set designs and Easter eggs of in-universe characters / branding is very immersive too. Excited to see more from Gen V season 2.
unrelated but we NEED a video about black erasure and colorism in the entertainment industry. It's become even more of a significant issue these past few years, especially with shows about the black experience. EDIT: just watched the one you made like a year ago. It was great but would be even better if it was more about the erasure of black people with biracials than colorism imo.
No cause Her casting is almost meta lol, I didn't even care for the boys cause they didn't have any diversity or black female cast members but then there's this and I'm like, double edged sword. Marie is supposed to be a black girl and her being black is a big thing in the show and she has two darker skinned parents but the actress playing her is biracial? What am I missing.
@@kimberleywilliams7802yeah it really says a lot about these casting directors and what they think of bw. I have to say that although Marie is biracial, she still reads as a black woman unlike the ambiguous biracial girlies they usually go far. Plus she has locks, we rarely ever see that in the media so it's still a win in my eyes.
@@priscilla8068 Yeah I like Jas, and I enjoy her as Marie so I'm not as miffed about it as I would have in the past. Even still, as an MC she has to be desirable and while they could have gone for a full black woman that looked like her with her shape, they didn't which again, is telling about what they think about black women's desirability.
@@priscilla8068 her actress looks biracial if you search her up tho. It seems that they purposefully darkened her skin and gave her a black hairstyle to make her look more black.
Loved Cate and still love her haha I’m excited to see how she deals with the aftermath of what’s she’s done. I dont think she’s completely evil, I feel like she just snapped under the corruption of Vought, the school and her surrogate mom Shetty.
I thought Cate was going to be the typical mean girl at the new girl; Marie And I thought Emma was gonna be the annoying roommate but gladly went a different route😭
It’s been renewed already but The Boys season 4 comes out next year so we’ll probably see all, if not most, of the Gen V characters in the new Boys seasons.
Guys cate and Sam were the only ones who knew the woods and what the school was capable of that’s why they did what they did, the others had no clue and ended up locked up like cate and Sam warned them.
Since you liked Gen V, I would 100% recommend The Magicians. It's a Harry Potter/Narnia inspired tv show but set in college and it is criminally underrated. Gen V reminds me a lot of that show. The difference is that they are Millennials.
This is the best! Jordan had the best character arc by far and it's fitting that Jordan and Marie are a ship. They have the best powers and I'm a sucker for adversaries--to-lovers relationships. Their relationship/perspectives give the character a lot of depth, and I think that will resonant with ideology of gen z. I didn't like Cate from the start either, I thought she was just be a mean girl who had a heart of gold in the end, and that seemed to be the case until we learn about the lying and manipulation she had done to her boyfriend and friends. I was a little surprised at her and to see how easily she changed into the baddie in the end Great show!! As a current college student I ate this up, whole season done in a good (although short) binge sesh
I think the reason we don’t get a lot of college shows is because some screenwriters are taught not to set stories in colleges. I like gen V but I think Vaught/superpowers are the unifying principle. In a normal college show you have a pre-defined amount of seasons per character so to keep the show going you have to always introduce new ones. Great video btw!
Emma is my absolute fav bc she's a bro thru and thru. Always supporting others, giving so much of herself. She's so raw and impulsive and pure. I love her to pieces.
Andre really was a waste of space. He just has extreme daddy issues! I think they are setting him up to be somebody in season 2. I also love how Sam got so easily influenced and it seems unrealistic but when you get on social media you are like ohhh yeah this can be true
See I stopped watching the boys after ep 3 cause i genuinely did not care about anything that was going like it was all midly intriguiging but the characters didnt grab me or interest me in any way. Now with GenV i was hooked from the first scene. The story telling was sooo good and every character was so interesting and compelling. Plus the talk on social media just added to it once again bring back weekly releases please and thank you. The hate on Andre had me cackling every week too. Im so glad its getting a season 2 😆😆😆
You definitely need to go back and watch The Boys because the future seasons of Gen V are going to be heavily influenced by the events in The Boys and vice versa-The Boys is actually a phenomenal show!
something i noticed that was really interesting, just how both shows juxtaposed one another in terms of the main characters and their motives. going from “we must take back what these corrupt supes did to us and whatever shitty thing they did to others like us with no power, physically and politically” to “the non-supes are abusing us and no one is doing anything about it, the truth must be out there.” it really switches up from the main series so u can see it from another perspective without the bias against supes from the past 3 seasons.
As a person of color im kinda ashamed that I didn't see the racial aspects of this shw. Cause when you outline it the way you did its kind of hard to ignore. Great show
I would love an Emma and Starlight crossover because they both have similar backgrounds and mothers who are practically the same. I think Emma could learn a lot from someone who has been through it before. I hope they can keep the shows separate with little crossovers till it all comes together in the end because it can be too much to have to watch 1-2 episodes from different shows to get the full story whereas as it stands now you don't need the info from Gen V to learn of what is going on in the boys. the CW's DC universe did many crossovers with their shows but when rewatching just one of any of those shows those episodes are jarring to watch in the middle of a season and you either skip them or seek out the other parts of the episode in other shows. If they can keep the seasons sequential like this till the end it would be smoother to watch over again.
My hubby worked on American Gothic with Antony Starr & has nothing but good things to say about him. Fun fact hubby worked on s1 the Boys doing some of the big explosions when Homelander attacked the military base & didn’t clock Homelander as Antony he’d worked with.
ive never watched the boys (i plan to now), but i was so intrigued by Gen V and it did not disappoint. I know that the Boys is more satirical, so I was pleasantly surprised when Gen V was a little bit more serious, like yes it did have its moments of crazy chaoticness, but the social commentary was really impactful, like how for Marie, she would cut herself to use her powers, and she also did it a lot if she was upset, referring to self harm, and also with Emma. She basically was sculpted by her mother to have an ED to become popular, referencing how social media puts pressure on ppl, especially women, to have a certain body in order to succeed in media. If I had to complain about ANYTHING, i just wished that the episodes were a little longer, but thats it. Also, spoiler...... im SO MAD that they corrupted my baby Sam. I was really rooting for him and i hope that he comes back to the right side soon
Piggy backing off of the idea that setting the show in college is better than high school because we don’t have to worry about the parents, I absolutely agree that we don’t have to think of them in terms of limiting our characters in the traditional sense of having to listen to your parents, but I love that each character (save the Riordan brothers), got to show us representations of viewers with our own parents. Gender queer people can probably relate a lot to the scenes with Jordan’s parents, the high expectations of Andre’s father wanting him to follow in his footsteps, all of it includes very cool insights to the pressures that Gen Z feels on top of the weight and hurdles of being young people in this decade. Great commentary! I’ve been waiting for someone to highlight the social commentary and the importance of this show with representation for Gen V. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts when Season 2 comes out!
I loved this show so much! I loved The Boys but I’m more invested in Gen V now. Also enjoyed that they really shined a light on issues like Marie cutting and her PTSD, Emma’s ED, Sam’s hallucinations, and more.
I had finally caught up with every Voughtverse show between catching up with this show every week. And one thing I will say is that the writers seem to HATE Warner Bros because of the way they portray the Vought company. Vought has the greatest, most influential superheroes in the world. And the Seven, most of them anyway, look like and have the powers as the Justice League. With a neverending amount of products from billion dollar blockbuster movies to...shampoo? And yet, the company is constantly in damage control mode because the image of what a superhero is supposed to be is constantly getting ruined, either because of their decisions or the heroes themselves. I don't think they predicted this part, but a few of said heroes have literally assaulted people but the company doesn't give them any real consequences for their actions and lets them keep their careers playing hero. And I can't think of a better comparison than Warner Bros!
I think we can all agree that it is super well done. I like that it’s set in college I’m tired of high school narratives and I like it parallels our generation’s lives but in a super hero context. Marie and Jordan’s relationship is the best relationship and very relatable to the problems and aspects that regular people go through nowadays.
Marie is the 13th known of victim of either being harmed, killed or threated by Homelander. Honestly Sam and Cate aren't next because I don't think they're sadistic as Homelander.
I personally watched Gen V to support Jaz Sinclair and glad i did because the show is good! I actually ended up watching The Boys, which was on my to-watch list, definitely recommend it as well
This was the best show I've watched all year. I started The Boys a few months ago and when hearing about this coming out, I lowkey wasn't too excited and thought it wasn't gonna be as good as The Boys. I am so glad I'm wrong and I love how they are telling the storyline. Imma just need more Marie and Jordan content PLEASE
The finale being 30ish minutes i think is due to re edits. We know a big fight scene for Jordan was cut based on comments made by their stunt doubles but also London Thor said it was 'Different to what I shot'. The rumour ive geard is that Sam was meant to be the main villain of the episode and be defeated by the others in the episode, but then when they began on the boys season 4 they changed their minds and decided to keep his character alive. It makes srnse since he's so powerful all season and then gets taken out by Andre using a cattle prod when we've literally seen someone try use the same thing against him in the past and get killed before it could take effect. Both shows filmed last year, so I do wonder if that scene was a reshoot?
Glad I watched the rest of the show after episode 2. For next season I want to see more of Aaron and his dad's talk about what he knows about the woods. Maybe Aaron surprises us and becomes a hero to save everyone from the medical facility. I wasn't surprised by the ending Homelander and Vought thrive on supes being superior.
So happy the show critiques have returned. I have missed them dearly. Can you do a critique of The Other Black Girl? Would really like to see your thoughts of that one.
I thought about watching the show, but didn’t seem like something I would watch. Now I’m 6 minutes into your video and need to stop because ready to watch it 😂
All good points. I’d like to also add that when it comes to little dystopian sort of media that tries to pit superpowered people down as the oppressed minority, they usually sort of fall flat. I mean we obviously see Marie kill her entire family with her period, and almost every person with V has a story of accidentally, effortlessly ending innocent lives. A lot of shows ignore the actual danger of the oppressed class, and just portray the normies as evil haters. I like that the show doesn’t shy away from the issues. it really gives weight to the principles argument for a world without super-powered people so we can empathize with both sides. At the end of the day it’s like we can’t blame either of them for being hurt, and we remember who the blame belongs to. The greedy rich capitalist idiots who wrecked society for their own benefit while the people under the system fight each other. I think the show is pretty smart
The first content creator to point out the radicalization of white men being illustrated by Sam’s character! I never thought of that before! I also picked up Jordan’s relationship with their family and the connection with Asian culture and its value of boys over girls. So, of course Jordan’s father would view Jordan taking their female form as a slap in the face to the “honor” of the family.
I feel like Marie is still figuring herself out just like her friends which in terms she is also figuring her powers. But by the end of the day she’s the only one that’s powerful enough to kill homelander. But the only thing that is her downside is the fact that she’s a good person
19:19 home lander isnt racist he made that very clear in season 2 of the boys when storm front brought her nazi shit to him, he’s pro sups but is not racist.
Exactly. There might be a slight racist hint to him? Only because he’s a raging narcissist. But again, more than racism specifically it’s just about him seeing everyone else as inferior. The less you are like him the more inferior you are to him. So slight racism, sexism ablism etc may be a consequence of that, but it’s more about him just seeing himself as number one
@@cookiestrong8757You're spot on, and on top of that, he sees anyone who is a Supe attacking other supes as a traitor, essentially. Thus, his "Animal" comment.
I would definitely still consider Homelander racist, you can’t place the bar at nazi lol there’s a loooot of room before that. He has absolutely no problem w/ racism and helping white supes/citizens over non-white ones
Emma and Marie’s powers are an allegory on common women problems Marie feeling guilty over something she couldn’t control ( ie a woman on a period) her getting her powers on her first period is wild. But I did read somewhere that they did that on purpose so they could add a dynamic of problematic but normal issues.
I hadn’t seen the boys yet when watching gen v And I really liked the show! I prefer it to the boys (that I have since seen because I liked gen v so much) But I think gen v has more diversity in story telling whereas the boys has less variety because there are only like 3 women in the show that get an actual story line and one of them left lol soo (don’t get me wrong, I still like the show but it doesn’t hit the same as gen v) Gen v ismore relatable, but then again I am gen z so I guess that makes sense Def liked gen v and I hope they get a season 2
Some of my takeaways: Now I really want for Marie to be the one who eventually kills Homelander. I also have this fantasy fight in my head in which she takes out Butcher/Supercancer. She is one of the most powerful supes in the franchise. She just hasn't yet learned how to use them. But she is learning. Sam is basically a good guy, but has been radicalized in a very understandable manner to an indefensible agenda. I do worry about the lingering affects of that push to "feel nothing." Emma is the best. I would like to see her use the giant mode more. She was even able to overpower and restrain Sam when she was 20 feet tall. I agree about Jordan. Love the character. However, they are way to obsessed with ranking against their peers at the expense of positive bonding with their peers. I'm hoping their relationship with Marie has a positive effect on them in that regard.
I genuinely don’t like Andre everything techknight said about him is true he walked around campus trying to convince people golden boy was his (BROTHER) and that he loved him meanwhile not only was he jealous of Golden boys status and strength, but also his relationship with cate 💀
This show is so good!! All the social commentary and satire hit ! I agree I hope they explore more of Emma, Marie and Jordan !! They were all interesting complex characters, honestly even golden boy when though he didn’t have much screen time
Like they wanna show young people having sex but always set it in Highschool... is a college setting too boring for drama? And aren't there less restrictions? Anyway this show did what I asked for
It was so so good! I loved it. I am surprisingly not that much a fan of the boys, so I almost didn't watch it, but something of the vibe is better in Gen V and I absolutely loved it.
Absolutely LOVED this show. Quick note tho - Homelander isn't racist. He doesn't believe that white people are superior, he believes that HE is superior (he has a god complex). It's why he wasn't ever super bothered/on board with Stormfront's rhetoric about white genocide etc. He doesn't care about humans as a species, regardless of their race. Him attacking Marie and siding with Cate was because Cate's side was supe supremacy, which Homelander is even more strongly about since S3 of the Boys.
@@reviewcentral8406 I'm not saying that he isn't racist at all, and it's the boys/gen v, so no doubt that it was an international mirror. Probably should have said he isn't 'simply' racist. I just feel like simply boiling him choosing Cate over Marie and that interaction down to him being racist misses the bigger prejudice he has. He's basically every '-ist' you could be, but again because he thinks of supes and more specifically himself as far superior. From what we've seen in the boys, I feel like his hierarchy is: Homelander, able-bodied 'all American' supes, American supes, other supes, American humans, other humans.
To your point, like I was lokey reveling in how diverse the show was but it didn't crystalize to me until Homelander's racist arse arrived - and I was like "oh yeah, they intertwined diversity in an understated way that we were all able to appreciate it - and make it sensible to the plot." There's A LOT well done w/ Gen V
The ending was a BIG WTFFFFF moment. Cate was a great antagonist, Andre I hope he sees Cate’s a lost case. Jordan I wasn’t fond of at first because they almost got Marie expelled. Emma was treated the worst. Her mom 🤮 Andre just putting her on a possible s mission. Homelander: 🗑️ He’s got to go. He didn’t ask no questions, he just blazed Marie! 😢 Just happy she survived.
I love how you referred to them as college kids 😭!! Because we are everyone else has this stupid idea that oh yes hou people are all legal adults so therefore you’re all adults because of that and like that couldn’t be any further from the truth 💀 your twenties are basically puberty part 2 electric boogaloo emotional development and maturity
I like cate I think she felt she owed dean sherry because shetty was the first person ever to let her be herself and not be scared so she saw her her as a mother figure and shetty used that to her advantage you can tell care felt bad for doing those things but she felt she couldn’t say no to shetty and at the end when she did all that I just think after realizing she was being used she never wanted to be that again so she became this “villain”
Homelander's arrival at God U at the climax of the conflict felt like a very on-the-nose subversion of Deus Ex Machina where the God that resolved the conflict of the story saved the (political/media) machine instead of the heroes.
lol. I did not think for one second Homelander was gonna be helpful. I was terrified the second he popped up on my screen. I immediately knew it was going to get worse. When has he ever shown up and not brought terror and destruction?
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No like the way Homelander deliberately yelled, "STAY BACK" when no one was moving to make it seem like Marie was about to attack him and he was defending himself... that's what truly had me gagged; I was like this scene is a bit too familiar to what I be seeing in the news...
And also calling a Marie an animal WITHOUT hesitation like????
💯 That’s when I knew he was going to pull some shit!!!
@@idk-man125 I just know they’re gonna eventually kill Homelander off for that one 😂
@@idk-man125for attacking supe kind, not because she’s black…
@@DanielHernandez-gx4kh Please recognize the microaggrive double entendre- Homelander is openly racist.
This show was a pleasant surprise. I liked it better than the Boys season 3 tbh. And college is a wayyyy better setting than high school to watch young people running around getting into insane situations with no parents around. Finally some writers have realized that.
For real. These high school aged adult themed shows just ain't it anymore.
Agreed. It being based in college was the best thing
The boys s3 felt underwhelming
Gen z had to make it to college age for the shows to stop being high school age though ..
@K.C-2049 how old are you?
the absolute CHOKEHOLD Marie and Jordan have on me!! like I have nawt felt like this about a ship from a western tv show in a MINUTE
RIGHT???
I literally started watching the show just because someone made a edit of theirs here.
i was so surprised to see them kissing and they instantly become one of my fav ship ever in 3 seconds
I L-O-V-E them. So much. Jordan and Marie have my whole heart ❤️
Idk it fully came out of nowhere
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH! I feel like not enough people talk about how good it actually is. The way it represents Gen Z doesn't seem forced unlike with other shows nowadays.
THISSSS
I think feeling forced and manufactured is fine if it feels fresh and fun, Euphoria for example feels written by older people but is shot so well, I don't mind season 1 at all.
With this, it felt like they had Gen Z writers. The lingo, the syntax and flow, it felt very crass and of the time when people are desensitized and tiktok obsessed. Not just referencing things for the sake of it but the characters are actually realistic and deep
Probably cuz it's not pg friendly
You got to remember Marie and Emma are freshman in college and still learning their powers. Dr Cordova said Marie doesn't know how powerful she is.
Plus, both of them have experiences tied to the family that are traumatized them about their powers
@@reviewcentral8406 I never said it was the same. I just said they both have trauma tied to their parents and their powers.
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Honestly I didn't expect that Cate would have such a key role. When I first saw her in episode 1, she was giving very much side character
honestly loved how her character creeped up into a bigger role
@@anthonyhowlett same. It was unpredictable that they would take that turn
Idk how y'all thought the person with MIND CONTROL would have no part in the story
@@simplyawful543western mainstream fiction in general doesn’t hold much esteem for psionic/mind powers and usually sidelines the telepathic/psychic characters in favor of “unga bunga” strong characters. It is a surprise when a character whose abilities logically trump everyone else’s doesn’t get randomly killed off and sent home on a bus.
@@BlackXSunlightooh good point about the western mainstream media bit
EMMAS STORY WAS NOT REVOLVED AROUND PLEASING SAM!! It was abt her struggling with her ppl pleasing ways and need to be liked. Sam was an exploration of that but I hope we get more next szn! 😌
Exactly!
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Idk I gained a ton of respect for Emma throughout the season. She didn’t have an ED because she specifically had body dysmorphia and wanted to be skinny, it was because it was her actual power and it “made her feel strong” or special. Obviously that could still be a metaphorical parallel but it at least goes beyond it. I feel like they did a good job at also making having an ED extremely unfun and damaging like how Emma’s feelings just nose-dive when someone asks her to shrink or she mentions teeth erosion and such.
When she said “my mother taught me how to purge to shrink” I was like wow, this is LAYERS! Seeing how her mom is always trying to influence her into chasing perfection and success any way possible it just all added up why she tied her powers to purging. Finding out her powers are tied to her self image (how gorging food made her grow because she felt big/fat, and the opposite) and getting talked down into feeling small made her shrink, I feel like they can pivot her out of the ED dialogue by never making her have to shrink again. She really seems to enjoy being big, and tying her powers to confidence rather than food is a good journey for her to take.
I’m So excited for how Emma’s powers are evolving and how they can tie it in with the overarching theme of disillusionment that the mains are going through and learning from
Yeah I feel like the way her power works and is intertwined in this exploration of ED brings to mind a kind of literal "emotional eating", where she finds herself "consumed" by other people's perception of her and how it makes her feel. It's interesting that even growing to a gigantic size couldn't protect her from everything. Her vulnerability even at the height of her power kinda foreshadows how becoming popular tied her self-esteem to being perceived as superhuman, which exposed her insecurities since it ended up shrinking her confidence once Sam no longer saw her as a hero
Marie didn’t murder her entire family, it was just her parents; her sister is still alive but hates bc she sees her as a monster for killing them. I love your work Rumi!
What really pissed me off about Cate was when she compelled Dean Shetty to slice her neck and she didn’t allow Marie to save her. It was really messed up that she made her relive her trauma, then brushed it off like it was nothing.
Dean shetty was evil as fuck and deserved that though, willingly making innocent kids fucking sick and suffer and die in terror and not giving a rats ass, it was sad for marie but there couldn't have been a better fate for the Deen. Also marie isn't an innocent person either, she chose to use her powers to kill the rogue supes instead of subduing them because it benefited her goal of meeting her sister again.
I think she did that because she was focused on her own trauma and how Dean Shetty’s death would be healing to her rather than how damaging it would be to Marie
@@psychosocial2443 can you even blame Marie for wanting to see her sister again? Whether or not her brutality was warranted is up for debate but you're seriously acting like her wanting to see her sister isn't a strong enough goal to want to stop the rouge supes? I think that even if it was the "morally right thing to do" she should have no reason for not wanting to do whatever it takes to not only stop the rouge supes from hurting more people. Even if she was trying to simply subdue them, do we really know if she would be able to just subdue them due to her lack of knowledge of her powers? Marie is 18 or possibly 19 going into her first year of college. She's only had them for 4 or 5 years and still is barely able to grasp the full extent of her powers. So with that knowledge I cannot in good conscience call her a bad person for killing people who are also murdering other people in cold blood.
@amrechtmn But she knows the circumstances that those rogue supes have been put through, she was at risk of ending up being just like them herself. She was willing to save Deen shetty despite KNOWING everything she was planning and how she tortured people just like herself. Also I find it very odd that she's suddenly capable of using her powers to kill in the last episode despite that being pretty much her biggest truama in life. I don't hate marie, she's actually probably my 2nd favorite character after cate but people aren't critical enough with her character to the same degree as the others.
@@psychosocial2443 NTM on Marie, this is giving Cate stan energy.
Neuman as a minor antagonist is so slept on. Her reveal of her true powers to Marie gave me chills.
Also when Marie blew up Cate’s arm I gasped and dropped my food in my college caf so thanks Gen V
Clicked with a quickness😭 love me some Gen V
REAL
Thank you for being one of the only creators i’ve seen mention how Homelander siding with Cate and Sam was racially motivated because Homelander at the end of the day is a racist, not just because he’s pro-Supe. He called Marie an animal 😭
Homelander is definitely not racist in skin color terms, everything he's done points against that. The only human he respects, is black. He hates anyone else who isn't a supe, and respects supes, regardless of race, and it's very clear.
@@blushbb.everyone who has seen the show knows how bad he is as a character, but he makes the series worth watching with his menacing screen presence
And people always love good villains.
@@apoorvsingh4459 I haven’t finished the boys and stuff yet and yeah he is entertaining - I was just sharing an experience with my comment so idk how that correlates but thank u
@@blushbb. just saying that it's normal to enjoy the character because of his entertainment value, without liking him. Don't need to feel embarassed about it
@@blushbb.OH NO HAHAHA he’s definitely still an amazing and astoundingly well written character so fair enough !!! Just not a good person
Marie, not fully knowing the extent of her powers makes sense for the show, because not only is she only a freshman, but she was sent to a halfway house for accidentally killing her parents, so there wouldn’t have been anyone that she could safely practice with, without fear of something worse happening to her.
This show was such a pleasant surprise - I genuinely think I enjoyed it more than The Boys. If anything it’s gotten me SUPER hyped for The Boys season 4. I think the Gen V/The Boys writers may be some of the best working right now.
It’s crazy seeing that every character is hurting themselves every time they use their powers but they still help people.
I feel like there’s something to say about our immediate reactions to Homelander. Like I saw him and and I thought everything was good. I passively associated him with Superman forgetting that bros actually a Nazi with powers
I had the opposite reaction, that when I saw him I knew this wasn't going to end well
@@tragicallyfrankie idk what it is bro. I just forgot how fucked up he is when he flew in😂😂
No same like why tf did i sigh in relief knowing everything about that man 😭 i think it’s just because as the audience we fell into the “the heroes save good people” mindset that the GenV characters have, because we’re not watching it from The Boys POV. Like Marie was relieved to see Homelander and she wants to be in The Seven which is depicted as a good thing, so i completely forgot that Homelander was Homelander for a split second lmaoo 😭
@juliusirving463 its the music and framing! We are supposed to feel that way! I love how the heroic music slowly becomes more and more off-key, so even if someone watching does not know/forgets homelander is a bad guy, you get a building unease in the time between his descent and calling marie an animal.
It felt like the reverse of the Get Out ending lol
I’m surprised to hear you say you didn’t like Marie in the first two episodes and that she didn’t feel like a main character. The first episode is literally 90% Marie's pov. We meet every single character when Marie meets them. We cut away from her pov very few times but for the most part beat for beat we are discovering this world and these people through Marie and Marie only. That's how every episode goes we discover things as Marie does for the most part. I found her very easy to have empathy for and the way I found myself invested in her journey was what had me binging all the episodes. Plus she is clearly still very affected by her past trauma at the beginning of show which is why it may seem she’s limited in her powers as they are very rooted in that. I also heavily disagree with the notion that she was constantly putting herself in bad positions when the one mistake she makes is breaking curfew and going to a party. Other than she literally follows the straight and narrow and actively avoids unnecessary drama when she tells andre and jordan to fuck off and to leave her be.
I think everyone loves Jordan. Plus their connection with Marie
@@reviewcentral8406 yup
I feel like a lot trauma Cate had with her family and being touched starved and locked in a room for 9 years before going to God U was overlooked just because of her cheating with Andre… It’s unfortunate 😢
Andre was such a useless man and I truly felt it when his father was having seizures and he could barely do anything about it in the ambulance even the paramedics were done with him. Sidenote: supe paramedics with invincibility should deal with supes in my opinion.
Even though he was black frat boy coded I love that he never did anything representing misogynoir with Marie, I held my breath waiting for weak beta male energy because he felt like nothing compared to her and that never happened and I was glad.
On top of that Andre's actor supports red pill content where he hates women and black people- what a weirdo.
Wait fr 😭
Well he did have that line where he asked Jordan “if it was bc she was black” as a “joke” 😬
@@crazierthanusince96 thats just a black joke dw its not actual hatred
tbh, i love the gen v characters way more than the boys
The Boys’ Writers know how to perfectly get you engaged in their world. The writing is so raunchy, and satirical but still able to take itself seriously in a way that doesn’t dilute the focus of the stories they try to tell. The set designs and Easter eggs of in-universe characters / branding is very immersive too. Excited to see more from Gen V season 2.
Jaz Sinclair ate up her role I’m so excited for her to learn how to pop heads 😂
❤😂😂😂
literally my fav show rn esp being in college. never thought i’d relate to characters so hard in the boys universe 😭
I thought I was the only one who was so annoyed by Andre. 🤣He was just there for most of the show watching everyone else do stuff
unrelated but we NEED a video about black erasure and colorism in the entertainment industry. It's become even more of a significant issue these past few years, especially with shows about the black experience.
EDIT: just watched the one you made like a year ago. It was great but would be even better if it was more about the erasure of black people with biracials than colorism imo.
No cause Her casting is almost meta lol, I didn't even care for the boys cause they didn't have any diversity or black female cast members but then there's this and I'm like, double edged sword. Marie is supposed to be a black girl and her being black is a big thing in the show and she has two darker skinned parents but the actress playing her is biracial? What am I missing.
@@kimberleywilliams7802yeah it really says a lot about these casting directors and what they think of bw. I have to say that although Marie is biracial, she still reads as a black woman unlike the ambiguous biracial girlies they usually go far. Plus she has locks, we rarely ever see that in the media so it's still a win in my eyes.
@@priscilla8068I love seeing locs and natural hair, feels like we don’t see it much.
@@priscilla8068 Yeah I like Jas, and I enjoy her as Marie so I'm not as miffed about it as I would have in the past. Even still, as an MC she has to be desirable and while they could have gone for a full black woman that looked like her with her shape, they didn't which again, is telling about what they think about black women's desirability.
@@priscilla8068 her actress looks biracial if you search her up tho. It seems that they purposefully darkened her skin and gave her a black hairstyle to make her look more black.
Loved Cate and still love her haha I’m excited to see how she deals with the aftermath of what’s she’s done. I dont think she’s completely evil, I feel like she just snapped under the corruption of Vought, the school and her surrogate mom Shetty.
right right 😭
All that fucking gaslighting and manipulation on top of her childhood trauma was bound to fuck her up when she has mind powers and can hear thoughts
I thought Cate was going to be the typical mean girl at the new girl; Marie
And I thought Emma was gonna be the annoying roommate but gladly went a different route😭
They need to fr make a season 2
its been renewed for season 2
@@the_fynethyme yayaya
It’s been renewed already but The Boys season 4 comes out next year so we’ll probably see all, if not most, of the Gen V characters in the new Boys seasons.
Guys cate and Sam were the only ones who knew the woods and what the school was capable of that’s why they did what they did, the others had no clue and ended up locked up like cate and Sam warned them.
Since you liked Gen V, I would 100% recommend The Magicians. It's a Harry Potter/Narnia inspired tv show but set in college and it is criminally underrated. Gen V reminds me a lot of that show. The difference is that they are Millennials.
Gen V also reminds me of Misfits
Omg the magicians is sooo good one of my all time favorite shows I’ve rewatched it way too many times but tbh I wasn’t a big fan of the ending ☹️
I’ve watched The Magicians legit 5 times. It’s my favorite show.
@@yary281we definitely deserved a season 6
This is the best! Jordan had the best character arc by far and it's fitting that Jordan and Marie are a ship. They have the best powers and I'm a sucker for adversaries--to-lovers relationships. Their relationship/perspectives give the character a lot of depth, and I think that will resonant with ideology of gen z.
I didn't like Cate from the start either, I thought she was just be a mean girl who had a heart of gold in the end, and that seemed to be the case until we learn about the lying and manipulation she had done to her boyfriend and friends. I was a little surprised at her and to see how easily she changed into the baddie in the end
Great show!! As a current college student I ate this up, whole season done in a good (although short) binge sesh
its a good day when rumi posts
love you lots
I feel like Cate wouldn't have been in her villian era if Andre had given a shit before she started killing people 💀
I feel like she won’t be in her villian era if the gang just let her mind come apart or Sam get her in the jumaji episode ☕️
Stop calling things an era.
Home lander did not intend to end her. Using her as a scapegoat is very valuable. Having easy to manipulate supers on deck is useful.
I think the reason we don’t get a lot of college shows is because some screenwriters are taught not to set stories in colleges. I like gen V but I think Vaught/superpowers are the unifying principle.
In a normal college show you have a pre-defined amount of seasons per character so to keep the show going you have to always introduce new ones.
Great video btw!
Emma is my absolute fav bc she's a bro thru and thru. Always supporting others, giving so much of herself. She's so raw and impulsive and pure. I love her to pieces.
Definitely the best show that came out this year! As a person in college rn. Gen V is a show I never thought I needed
Andre really was a waste of space. He just has extreme daddy issues! I think they are setting him up to be somebody in season 2. I also love how Sam got so easily influenced and it seems unrealistic but when you get on social media you are like ohhh yeah this can be true
See I stopped watching the boys after ep 3 cause i genuinely did not care about anything that was going like it was all midly intriguiging but the characters didnt grab me or interest me in any way. Now with GenV i was hooked from the first scene. The story telling was sooo good and every character was so interesting and compelling. Plus the talk on social media just added to it once again bring back weekly releases please and thank you. The hate on Andre had me cackling every week too. Im so glad its getting a season 2 😆😆😆
Did you watch any more of the Boys? Because I feel like a lot of Gen V would go over your head if you haven't
You definitely need to go back and watch The Boys because the future seasons of Gen V are going to be heavily influenced by the events in The Boys and vice versa-The Boys is actually a phenomenal show!
something i noticed that was really interesting, just how both shows juxtaposed one another in terms of the main characters and their motives. going from “we must take back what these corrupt supes did to us and whatever shitty thing they did to others like us with no power, physically and politically” to “the non-supes are abusing us and no one is doing anything about it, the truth must be out there.” it really switches up from the main series so u can see it from another perspective without the bias against supes from the past 3 seasons.
As a person of color im kinda ashamed that I didn't see the racial aspects of this shw. Cause when you outline it the way you did its kind of hard to ignore. Great show
This is a small thing but I also love the character's styling in this show. I feel like their clothing conveyed so much.
Especially Emma she totally dresses like a normal Gen Z girl
I would love an Emma and Starlight crossover because they both have similar backgrounds and mothers who are practically the same. I think Emma could learn a lot from someone who has been through it before. I hope they can keep the shows separate with little crossovers till it all comes together in the end because it can be too much to have to watch 1-2 episodes from different shows to get the full story whereas as it stands now you don't need the info from Gen V to learn of what is going on in the boys. the CW's DC universe did many crossovers with their shows but when rewatching just one of any of those shows those episodes are jarring to watch in the middle of a season and you either skip them or seek out the other parts of the episode in other shows. If they can keep the seasons sequential like this till the end it would be smoother to watch over again.
My hubby worked on American Gothic with Antony Starr & has nothing but good things to say about him. Fun fact hubby worked on s1 the Boys doing some of the big explosions when Homelander attacked the military base & didn’t clock Homelander as Antony he’d worked with.
ive never watched the boys (i plan to now), but i was so intrigued by Gen V and it did not disappoint. I know that the Boys is more satirical, so I was pleasantly surprised when Gen V was a little bit more serious, like yes it did have its moments of crazy chaoticness, but the social commentary was really impactful, like how for Marie, she would cut herself to use her powers, and she also did it a lot if she was upset, referring to self harm, and also with Emma. She basically was sculpted by her mother to have an ED to become popular, referencing how social media puts pressure on ppl, especially women, to have a certain body in order to succeed in media. If I had to complain about ANYTHING, i just wished that the episodes were a little longer, but thats it. Also, spoiler......
im SO MAD that they corrupted my baby Sam. I was really rooting for him and i hope that he comes back to the right side soon
Piggy backing off of the idea that setting the show in college is better than high school because we don’t have to worry about the parents, I absolutely agree that we don’t have to think of them in terms of limiting our characters in the traditional sense of having to listen to your parents, but I love that each character (save the Riordan brothers), got to show us representations of viewers with our own parents. Gender queer people can probably relate a lot to the scenes with Jordan’s parents, the high expectations of Andre’s father wanting him to follow in his footsteps, all of it includes very cool insights to the pressures that Gen Z feels on top of the weight and hurdles of being young people in this decade.
Great commentary! I’ve been waiting for someone to highlight the social commentary and the importance of this show with representation for Gen V. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts when Season 2 comes out!
So glad you made this video. I remember watching the first episode thinking "Imurgency is being fed today!"
It is 3:33am in australia, i cant sleep, and im so glad i just opened this app
glad to help your insomnia
Ok but didn’t anyone else see Butcher after the ending credits tho????? It looks like he’s gonna team up with them👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
i loveddd gen v!! so glad ur talking abt it cus it needs more attention, it really deserves it. it really grew on me as the season went on
I loved this show so much! I loved The Boys but I’m more invested in Gen V now. Also enjoyed that they really shined a light on issues like Marie cutting and her PTSD, Emma’s ED, Sam’s hallucinations, and more.
I had finally caught up with every Voughtverse show between catching up with this show every week. And one thing I will say is that the writers seem to HATE Warner Bros because of the way they portray the Vought company. Vought has the greatest, most influential superheroes in the world. And the Seven, most of them anyway, look like and have the powers as the Justice League. With a neverending amount of products from billion dollar blockbuster movies to...shampoo? And yet, the company is constantly in damage control mode because the image of what a superhero is supposed to be is constantly getting ruined, either because of their decisions or the heroes themselves. I don't think they predicted this part, but a few of said heroes have literally assaulted people but the company doesn't give them any real consequences for their actions and lets them keep their careers playing hero. And I can't think of a better comparison than Warner Bros!
I think we can all agree that it is super well done. I like that it’s set in college I’m tired of high school narratives and I like it parallels our generation’s lives but in a super hero context. Marie and Jordan’s relationship is the best relationship and very relatable to the problems and aspects that regular people go through nowadays.
Marie is the 13th known of victim of either being harmed, killed or threated by Homelander. Honestly Sam and Cate aren't next because I don't think they're sadistic as Homelander.
Wow didn’t expect you to cover this ? Love to see more different kind of show reviews
I personally watched Gen V to support Jaz Sinclair and glad i did because the show is good! I actually ended up watching The Boys, which was on my to-watch list, definitely recommend it as well
This was the best show I've watched all year. I started The Boys a few months ago and when hearing about this coming out, I lowkey wasn't too excited and thought it wasn't gonna be as good as The Boys. I am so glad I'm wrong and I love how they are telling the storyline. Imma just need more Marie and Jordan content PLEASE
i was never planning on watching the boys or any of the other shows connected with it but seeing how much you love it convinced me!!
I was getting so hyped like hell yeah… but I forgot Homelander isn’t a good guy 😭😭
I really loved the finale! Ashley was also really funny
I have yet to see what the true intentions of Neuman are, can’t wait for the boys S4!
Oooooo I have been waiting for this one 🤭
Oof I’m seeing hype for gen v I’ll be back lemme go watch it quick
I’m back
Was definitely an amazing watch
Been waitinggg on this thanks bro
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The finale being 30ish minutes i think is due to re edits. We know a big fight scene for Jordan was cut based on comments made by their stunt doubles but also London Thor said it was 'Different to what I shot'. The rumour ive geard is that Sam was meant to be the main villain of the episode and be defeated by the others in the episode, but then when they began on the boys season 4 they changed their minds and decided to keep his character alive. It makes srnse since he's so powerful all season and then gets taken out by Andre using a cattle prod when we've literally seen someone try use the same thing against him in the past and get killed before it could take effect. Both shows filmed last year, so I do wonder if that scene was a reshoot?
Nah what had me gagged, was like was the part when they were in the sealed away hospital with nowhere to go, but Shorty was still drinking a smoothie
Glad I watched the rest of the show after episode 2. For next season I want to see more of Aaron and his dad's talk about what he knows about the woods. Maybe Aaron surprises us and becomes a hero to save everyone from the medical facility. I wasn't surprised by the ending Homelander and Vought thrive on supes being superior.
I prefer this show over the boys. Which is rare for spin-offs
So happy the show critiques have returned. I have missed them dearly. Can you do a critique of The Other Black Girl? Would really like to see your thoughts of that one.
I thought about watching the show, but didn’t seem like something I would watch. Now I’m 6 minutes into your video and need to stop because ready to watch it 😂
Speaking of college shows, I like The Magicians, it’s like an adult Harry Potter/Narnia college series for millennials.
All good points.
I’d like to also add that when it comes to little dystopian sort of media that tries to pit superpowered people down as the oppressed minority, they usually sort of fall flat. I mean we obviously see Marie kill her entire family with her period, and almost every person with V has a story of accidentally, effortlessly ending innocent lives. A lot of shows ignore the actual danger of the oppressed class, and just portray the normies as evil haters.
I like that the show doesn’t shy away from the issues. it really gives weight to the principles argument for a world without super-powered people so we can empathize with both sides. At the end of the day it’s like we can’t blame either of them for being hurt, and we remember who the blame belongs to.
The greedy rich capitalist idiots who wrecked society for their own benefit while the people under the system fight each other. I think the show is pretty smart
The first content creator to point out the radicalization of white men being illustrated by Sam’s character! I never thought of that before!
I also picked up Jordan’s relationship with their family and the connection with Asian culture and its value of boys over girls. So, of course Jordan’s father would view Jordan taking their female form as a slap in the face to the “honor” of the family.
7:58 YEAH I CAUGHT THAT
It’s so exciting when my favorite commentary person also peeps the same things 👀
I feel like Marie is still figuring herself out just like her friends which in terms she is also figuring her powers. But by the end of the day she’s the only one that’s powerful enough to kill homelander. But the only thing that is her downside is the fact that she’s a good person
19:19 home lander isnt racist he made that very clear in season 2 of the boys when storm front brought her nazi shit to him, he’s pro sups but is not racist.
Exactly.
There might be a slight racist hint to him?
Only because he’s a raging narcissist. But again, more than racism specifically it’s just about him seeing everyone else as inferior.
The less you are like him the more inferior you are to him. So slight racism, sexism ablism etc may be a consequence of that, but it’s more about him just seeing himself as number one
@@cookiestrong8757You're spot on, and on top of that, he sees anyone who is a Supe attacking other supes as a traitor, essentially. Thus, his "Animal" comment.
I would definitely still consider Homelander racist, you can’t place the bar at nazi lol there’s a loooot of room before that. He has absolutely no problem w/ racism and helping white supes/citizens over non-white ones
Emma and Marie’s powers are an allegory on common women problems Marie feeling guilty over something she couldn’t control ( ie a woman on a period) her getting her powers on her first period is wild. But I did read somewhere that they did that on purpose so they could add a dynamic of problematic but normal issues.
I hadn’t seen the boys yet when watching gen v
And I really liked the show!
I prefer it to the boys (that I have since seen because I liked gen v so much)
But I think gen v has more diversity in story telling whereas the boys has less variety because there are only like 3 women in the show that get an actual story line and one of them left lol soo (don’t get me wrong, I still like the show but it doesn’t hit the same as gen v)
Gen v ismore relatable, but then again I am gen z so I guess that makes sense
Def liked gen v and I hope they get a season 2
He was like NO STAY BACK .......... cops are bad with gunns imagine lasers
I watched this show in one sitting 💅
Some of my takeaways: Now I really want for Marie to be the one who eventually kills Homelander. I also have this fantasy fight in my head in which she takes out Butcher/Supercancer. She is one of the most powerful supes in the franchise. She just hasn't yet learned how to use them. But she is learning. Sam is basically a good guy, but has been radicalized in a very understandable manner to an indefensible agenda. I do worry about the lingering affects of that push to "feel nothing." Emma is the best. I would like to see her use the giant mode more. She was even able to overpower and restrain Sam when she was 20 feet tall. I agree about Jordan. Love the character. However, they are way to obsessed with ranking against their peers at the expense of positive bonding with their peers. I'm hoping their relationship with Marie has a positive effect on them in that regard.
I genuinely don’t like Andre everything techknight said about him is true he walked around campus trying to convince people golden boy was his (BROTHER) and that he loved him
meanwhile not only was he jealous of Golden boys status and strength, but also his relationship with cate 💀
This show is so good!! All the social commentary and satire hit ! I agree I hope they explore more of Emma, Marie and Jordan !! They were all interesting complex characters, honestly even golden boy when though he didn’t have much screen time
No wait you are so true about the blackasian ship on amazon 😅😂
They also got bottoms now Josie and Isabel also our wlw blacksian rep❤
Andre is just a metal bender. He can manipulate magnestism and magnetic fields like Magneto from the X-men
Like they wanna show young people having sex but always set it in Highschool... is a college setting too boring for drama? And aren't there less restrictions? Anyway this show did what I asked for
Would love to see a video on I am not okay with this it was mentioned in the cancelled show video
It was so so good! I loved it. I am surprisingly not that much a fan of the boys, so I almost didn't watch it, but something of the vibe is better in Gen V and I absolutely loved it.
Absolutely LOVED this show. Quick note tho - Homelander isn't racist. He doesn't believe that white people are superior, he believes that HE is superior (he has a god complex). It's why he wasn't ever super bothered/on board with Stormfront's rhetoric about white genocide etc. He doesn't care about humans as a species, regardless of their race. Him attacking Marie and siding with Cate was because Cate's side was supe supremacy, which Homelander is even more strongly about since S3 of the Boys.
@@reviewcentral8406 I'm not saying that he isn't racist at all, and it's the boys/gen v, so no doubt that it was an international mirror. Probably should have said he isn't 'simply' racist. I just feel like simply boiling him choosing Cate over Marie and that interaction down to him being racist misses the bigger prejudice he has. He's basically every '-ist' you could be, but again because he thinks of supes and more specifically himself as far superior. From what we've seen in the boys, I feel like his hierarchy is: Homelander, able-bodied 'all American' supes, American supes, other supes, American humans, other humans.
To your point, like I was lokey reveling in how diverse the show was but it didn't crystalize to me until Homelander's racist arse arrived - and I was like "oh yeah, they intertwined diversity in an understated way that we were all able to appreciate it - and make it sensible to the plot." There's A LOT well done w/ Gen V
My ranking of the group(power wise) is
1:Sam
2:Marie
3:Cate
4:Jordan
5:Andre
6:Emma
The ending was a BIG WTFFFFF moment. Cate was a great antagonist, Andre I hope he sees Cate’s a lost case. Jordan I wasn’t fond of at first because they almost got Marie expelled. Emma was treated the worst. Her mom 🤮 Andre just putting her on a possible s mission. Homelander: 🗑️ He’s got to go. He didn’t ask no questions, he just blazed Marie! 😢 Just happy she survived.
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I love how you referred to them as college kids 😭!! Because we are everyone else has this stupid idea that oh yes hou people are all legal adults so therefore you’re all adults because of that and like that couldn’t be any further from the truth 💀 your twenties are basically puberty part 2 electric boogaloo emotional development and maturity
Yes! I loved this show way more than I thought i would!! 😃💜
I like cate I think she felt she owed dean sherry because shetty was the first person ever to let her be herself and not be scared so she saw her her as a mother figure and shetty used that to her advantage you can tell care felt bad for doing those things but she felt she couldn’t say no to shetty and at the end when she did all that I just think after realizing she was being used she never wanted to be that again so she became this “villain”
Homelander's arrival at God U at the climax of the conflict felt like a very on-the-nose subversion of Deus Ex Machina where the God that resolved the conflict of the story saved the (political/media) machine instead of the heroes.
lol. I did not think for one second Homelander was gonna be helpful. I was terrified the second he popped up on my screen. I immediately knew it was going to get worse. When has he ever shown up and not brought terror and destruction?