Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of the geek Verse podcast.
I am your host, Taylor, and today we are continuing our spoilers
in depth review of The Boys season four. Now, of course I might
be wondering where's Travis Well in light of a recent video that he had posted,
I had to take legal action. My lawyers finally came to the aid
that I find I needed them to help me. Finally they let them.
They've been slacking so bad. It's been absolutely horrendous, the quality of service
they've been providing, and just the fact that Travis has been able to just
spread all this distant misinformation online. It's been horrible. And so the final
straw was this video. That was the that was the kicker, And so
the lawyers came down hard removed him from being on the review this week because
this is just absolutely horrible. It's it's unjustified, it's it's terrible, terrible,
terrible, terrible. So he's not here and we'll see maybe he might,
he might fight back. While he's going to fight back, he might
be back next week, who knows. But for now, I'm running the
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now, And you guys want to ye about The Boys episode six. So
we're going to get into our non spoilers thoughts first and then we will deep
dive into our spoilers thoughts after. So this episode, man, I stayed
up till midnight I was watching it, and this was just an absolute delight
to this show. In parton me, if I'm probably extremely biased, I
love this show. This show just it cracks me up, and it has
certain keynotes of innocent humor that really just land for me. And that's the
way the cast members react to these different scenarios and the scenarios that just happened,
like it's just such a realistic situation in this world that they've created.
And I think it's that sense of realism and the seriousness of how these characters
respawn is just what really cracks me up. And these different circumstances. And
this episode had just such an outrageous situation that really it blew my mind.
It was it was hilarious. But I think how things progress in this episode,
we got an interesting moment with one of our characters, and to me,
I felt like if there was ever a turning point or a potential moment
to kind of sway said character over this could have been that time, but
due to certain actions of another character, it just was reinforced and cemented this
character's position in this certain narrative with their surrounding members. So there's that,
you have the interesting stuff that kind of again happens with Homelander and just the
characters that he surrounded himself with. That was very interesting, and you get
a little bit more of the backstory on the overall kind of goal and plot
for what the certain certain members were trying to do. There was one good
revelation here and if you well, I won't say that that's a spoiler,
but it's a Travis told you, so I'll leave it at that. Other
than that, we got some very very fun, like I said, humorous
moments too. I I just think this episode was absolutely just a step up
from where we've been so far, and it just felt silly and ridiculous,
and I like that. There's not really any filler episodes. Well, some
of the stuff is filler. It's filler in the sense where it's progressing the
narrative, but in this case, in this episode that we got to it
just feels like we're we're on a little bit of a side adventure, but
it's not really a side adventure because it is also progressing in a narrative.
But I just I like these small little objectives and missions like Okay, today,
the Boy's got to go do this. It's like, Okay, we're
gonna go and enjoy an hour long adventure of what the boys are up to,
and then just shit hits the fan, all help breaks loose, and
it just totally doesn't go their way. And I love that. Every single
week this is just this is a highlight, and I really enjoy my my
Thursdays when I get to sit back and indulge in a little bit of the
Boys because the episodes don't disappoint. They really really don't. And so I
really want to go ahead and rewatch this because I think it's it just cracks
me up. Oh my goodness. A lot of familiar faces too, again
for looking at gen V. I guess one particular familiar face from gen V
which was interesting nonetheless, but yeah, it was just there's just some interesting
stuff that happens with their characters, and it's not much else I can say
that's non spoilers because it'll just be spoilers. So we're going to call it
their end of the review that I'm just kidding our first ad break and then
we'll be getting into spoilers right after that. And we are back. So
where do we start here? I guess we get the boys spider Man officially
introduced, and they can't label it any harder of a Spider Man than just
the safe words and they so we got web Weaver and his introduction was just,
oh my gosh, what the heck? And then just had to go
in there and like shoot these drugs up his backside, back end, and
then got some web put on his cheek and just say, oh, his
apartments webbed everywhere, Oh my goodness. Basically, there's a secret meeting going
on and a train let the boys know that this meeting was taking place.
Hey, you're gonna want to get in there. It's at tech Knight's house
and tech Night was from gen V And so the plan is Hueye is going
to wear Webweaver's costume and basically sneak in there because web wea we was somehow
invited by tech Knight to come to the party. Now, the reason he
was invited is, Huey slowly begins to learn is that oh, he's here
to be his sidekick, and not in a heroic sense, more so a
I need to fuck your whole sort of sets and just led to this crazy,
crazy thing where he goes into the basement dungeon of Tech Knight, and
Ashley ends up going down there and has a very vigorous experience tickling Huey's feet
is Huey is still at full in costume and gets this hue gets like like
saddled and strapped into this this bench thing and they're just like teasing him and
tickling him, and he's just he doesn't know the safe for it, so
he's just spouting out like oh Torrentula like different things. It just absolutely cracks
me up, just the bockle that he's in, and it escalates quite heavily
too, because originally he's he's in there and he's not supposed to see the
seven, but the seven is there, which is not great. And so
he's got MM on the outside, he's got chemico and he's got starlight on
the outside too, So they're all basically keeping tabs on him as he's supposed
to get in plant the bugs and get out and derails obviously when Tech Night's
like, hey, let's go to my dungeons. He Hue follows along with
him, but that whole dungeon sequence, he just it's absolutely bonkers. It's
some crazy shit, and I could not stop laughing at just how Hue was
handling it. And this is the fallout too, of how he's dealing with
his dad dying and now he's in this freaking dungeon, just being uh dominated
and having to sit on a cake and fart on it just to appease tech
Night as he's like choking himself. It's just some crazy shit. Oh my
goodness, absolutely bonkers. But the real thing you're going on with this party
is that you have a lot of political I guess powers where Homelanders trying to
appeal to them. He wants to get them on his side, and a
lot of these guys are very much living in radical and ancient mindsets, and
so when Homelanders kind of prescribing to them like hey, this is what we
need to do this that they're they're not totally sold on it. And I
think when he's trying to lean on Sister Sage, it's interesting because again that
kind of falls to the sidelines because Sister Sage gets brain damage, and so
she can't technically help him in this sense, which it works out because there's
a whole bunch of stuff here that it could backfire, like a tran could
have been caught as the bad guy here. There's so many things that go
sideways here, and so that bites Homeliner in the bite. This Homeliner is
trying to pitch to our radical political powers here that hey, we need to
do this and this and this, and so they're basically counteracting and saying,
well, if I'm being Devil's advocate, what are you gonna do about this
party of people and this and that and that, And so it ends up
really kind of wearing him down. I guess you could say, you get
to see him be emotionally compromised in this sense. And so he's he's turning
to Sister stage. But Sister Sage was briefly caught by MM and Starlight and
Chemico and MM ends up shooting her in the head, and so that leads
to brain damage. And we've seen that she does that to herself just to
kind of let off steam, and so she immediately turns and she's just this
basic person who is just talking ridiculous and not not anywhere near the intelligence intelligence
that Homelighter needed at this time. And I think it's just it was funny
because you see now what what his his his reaction to Sister stage, because
no one has seen this except for the deep and I thought that maybe it
would be a little bit more of a progressive thing, or it would just
kind of open up and or people would figure it out as like a weakness.
But I think that it just he doesn't know exactly what is going on
here because she got shot in the head and he sees that, but he
doesn't know exactly what's going on, and you don't. He doesn't know until
later when Firecracker or fire Starter, I don't know fire Lamplighter. I'm getting
Lamplighter confused with h with them. It's Firecracker, I believe, Yes,
so many fires Lamplighters and all that. So Firecracker is basically dealing with Starlight
in this in this tech Knight's house. And that's where I was alluding to
in the non spoilers where it felt briefly, briefly like Firecracker could have turned
over maybe if Starlight had been more sincere and not like drugged her and knocked
her out unconscious and then escaped because she really genuinely seemed like she was listening
to what Starlight was saying, So that would have been an advantage to them
if they were able to kind of reel her in, because she's already feeling
exiled from Sister Sage and Homelander and a few other characters too, so she's
feeling alone and that's something that again it's not that you want to take advantage
of it, but it's something that could have tipped the scales over towards the
boys over towards Starlight, because I think Firecracker would have leaned towards that reconciliation
that they had there briefly, but of course Starlight kind of side railed that
when she drugged her and basically left her out there. That comes back into
the fold at the end of the episode when Homelander is just like what happened
to everyone and he's in his suite and Firecracker basically confronts him, lets him
know like, oh, you basically made me who I am. I owe
you everything. He's accusing her of being the spy because when Firecracker tells him
that tech Night's dead, Starlight escaped all this stuff. He's thinking, Okay,
well you let Starlight escape, then how do I know you're not the
spy? And so that's when she confides in him, tells him everything,
YadA, YadA, YadA, and he believes her. And the final kicker
here is that this is something Travis pointed out to me a couple episodes ago,
was that in her trailer there are some drugs that helped produce, like
breast milk and whatnot, and she was taking these drugs. And so when
she's confiding and telling Homelander everything that she would do everything for him, she
pulls her shirt down and just squirts the load right onto him and he's just
like flabbergasted and like can't barely process it, and it's like head over heels,
like oh my god. And then you get this scene where he's just
curled up and yeah, just going to town feeding away and he's just so
on cloud nine. So it's going to be really interesting to see how that
dynamic is going to progress, especially becomes Firecracker now holds a significant amount of
power over Homelander, and originally Travis hid Pitchell maybe this is something that Sister
Sage and Firecracker are doing to get the edge over Homelander. But it seems
like Sister Sage and Firecracker are very much opposite ends here and not on the
same team. So this is definitely how Homelander gets into the team and the
court of Firecracker. Sister Sage definitely botched her her position here when she was
supposed to help, but Victoria Newman ended up helping Homelander in this meeting,
so Sister Stage really ruined that for herself. Of course, it wasn't her
fault. She got shot in the head and that well warranted her to be
a little bit a little not all there. So that's that and that's where
things concluded. We learned from this meeting as Victoria Newman is standing up for
Homelander and they're trying to appeal to all these political powers that they want to
use tech Night's resources and his prisons and turn them into concentration camps. For
I guess the people that are basically resistant, people that aren't necessarily listening to
this new power shift. So we can see where their homelanders trying to turn
the United States into like this totalitarian dictatorship of a country. So that's an
interesting thing in itself to see how that's going to progress and how that's going
to turn into the next few episodes, and I guess the final season as
well. So after all that, yeah, hue gets saved. We learned
that tech Night gets he wants to put some holes into Hueie and and fuck
the holes. And tech Knight gets caught though, and so Kimiko is trying
to torture him by stabbing him. He's like, oh, yeah, fucking
do it. Stabs just not working. So how do they actually upset him?
They log into his laptop and do his bank account, start donating money
to like Black Lives Matter and all these different things, and he's freaking out
like no, no, like that's that's not what he wants. So his
butler, who raised him since he was a little boy, ends up choking
out Tech Night, killing him, and then that's when you learn Huey learns
the safe word is Indya. So Web Weaver is absolutely the Spider Man of
the Boys. And I guess Indya just like Will Ferrell is Cannon in uh
in this universe. So there you go. Everything we we were just so
freaking funny. It was absolutely hilarious. What else do we have in this
episode? We have a moment here in the mansion of Tech night where and
then it was after he shoots sister stage in the head and he starts to
have like heart attack, panic attack, actually passes out on the ground,
so they need to get him out of there. They call a train.
A train shows up real quick, like, okay, reluctantly, I'll take
you to a hospital, takes him them to the hospital. And as he
gets to the hospital and puts him of them on a bench, there's a
little kid there. A little kid looks up and just smiles at him,
and a train smiles and then and leaves. I love that so much.
It felt like a real just a good moment for a character developing, and
I feel like something's gonna happen, a train's gonna die. But I like
that a train is actually officially helping the boys now, and I like that
a train had that moment with that kid. There's the oh, what was
it called The Boys? Will Ferrell and a trained movie that they're doing.
Gosh, was it called the Making Making a Train? Why can't I remember
what it's called? Well, Anyways, it's the previous few episodes you get
to see that they're working on this movie a Train and Will Ferrell together,
and it's just kind of like the story of a train becoming the hero or
something like that. And I feel like this season has been that where a
train is becoming the hero. And this was just a real big step for
our character to do something like this that was just down to earth and simple,
but it meant everything that little kid, and he's trying to do better
for his family as well and just try to appear like he is an actual
hero. And so I like that. I like what he's aspiring to be.
So I think there's some good stuff to come from that character. As
far as other seven members go, Black Noir is just out. He doesn't
want to be Black Noir anymore. He's got his mask off so he can
see what looks like and he's just he doesn't understand the character and he's a
wants to take a new gig. And then we got the Deep, who
is just trying to act like he's top, but he's not because he was
left behind with Black Nor at the Tower, so Homelander does not need him.
But their dialogue was pretty funny. I enjoyed it. What else do
we got in this episode? I better check my notes here. So Starlight
could have made favorite with Firecracker, Ashley Dungeon, web Weaver, Spiderman Sea,
So I think I got all of that. The only other big kicker
would be Butcher. So he has Victoria Newman's former hobby. Basically, we
saw that he got the leg off. He's keeping him hostage and wants him
to develop a supervirus from what the Sheep's head basically was that could target and
kill soups. Now you have this dilemma here because it unfolds that what this
doctor could create and why they stopped researching this virus was that if they needed
to get something strong enough to actually kill Homelander, they would have to make
something that would just be so potent it would be airborne, and on top
of that, it would basically spread and kill every soup on the planet.
So that means a chemical in Starlight like his not his real son, but
Ryan would also die. It would be so so terrible. So there's that,
and then you have Jeffrey Deane Morgan's character as well, And the whole
thing with that is he's egged on Butcher to try and go through with this.
You have Butcher's former wife who's appearing there, and you get this flash
realization that oh my god, Jefferdine Morgan actually sezes his wife and how does
that possible? And then it goes through all the cut scenes of the fact
that this was a real character, but he's he died and he's just part
of Butcher's imagination now. And this is exactly what Travis called. So kudos
to you, Travis for landing this this prediction prediction. I think that was
pretty fantastic. They laid it on hard in this episode, and I was
when I was actively looking and watching it, I was like, Okay,
this is pretty apparent. You can see how Butcher is reacting to jeffreydine Morgan's
character as opposed to the doctor, and how the doctor's reacting to uh,
to Butcher. So it really really well done, and I thought that was
that was an interesting revelation, just the fact that Butcher is just becoming more
and more unhealthy and it's not not looking good for him. Frenchie is still
in jail, he was not in this episode, but he is actively avoiding
any visitors of Kimmico is still going to the police station to try and see
him, but nothing is coming out of that. But yeah, I think
I think that is pretty much everything in a nutshell. We have some transfers
of power, So Sister Stage is losing some of her power obviously because we
have Firecracker proving to be more valuable and dominant to Homelander at this point.
We have Victoria Newman who had to make some really shitty alliances with these political
radical old idiots, and tech Night's house. Tech Night is now dead.
And yeah, we have just a few interesting new developments. So it'll be
very interesting to see what happens in next week's episode. I guess next week
would be as Travis, It's the penultimate episode, so it'll be very cool
to see how that goes. What else is there? I think that is
everything, So anything that I missed we'll touch upon in next week's episode when
Travis may or may not come back, depending how the lawyer's fare against his
lawyers. So thank you everyone for tuning into this week's review of The Boys.
You can catch us again doing more reviews for The Star Wars, Acolyte
and House of Dragon. Will be back on Sunday, so there's that.
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