Speaker 1: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another episode of
geek Verse podcast. I am one of your hosts the
meeting Taylor Field that I'm joined by.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the boys, Kirk Combatzer.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are here to continue our trek reviewing the
animated show Creature Commandos the DC Project by James Gunn.
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We love you guys very very much. So what else
we got popping off a craven review? There's the Lord
of the Rings of War, the Heure and review that's
gonna be dropping with Kirkland here and Dylan Muss and
then we have and after nine it's gonna be popping
up this Sunday. What else do we got cooking side
Quest next Monday with you and then me and Dylan
doing the Video Game Awards, then Indiana Jones Great Circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, review the Video Game Awards, gonna be exciting to
talk about. I really have not been paying attention, you know.
I've been on the krk Herim whatever the fuck we're
talking about whatever we're calling whatever we're signifying that title
as I don't like the name of it, but we're
going with it. So I really haven't seen much other
than our GV Discord has been popping off about the Vega. Yeah,
just that discussion. So I'm excited to, you know, watch
my own recap and get a lot because I heard
there's some spicy announcements tonight, and yeah, go check out
the GV Discord. It's a great place to chat about
all these things.
Speaker 1: That's right, Lots of different channels for different topics and
different things in particular.
Speaker 3: What else is there? I guess, yeah, Kirkling, we got
Dexter this week.
Speaker 2: That's right, I got Dexter this week. It sounds like
but uh h, I hype's not really high on that one. Yeah,
I don't know, so we'll see how the trailer goes.
It's always it's always fun to at least talk about
Dexter when it's when it's about because whether it's really
good or really bad, I guess it's a it's a
good thing to discuss, but hopefully it's good.
Speaker 3: Just spaying an hour and a half long review with
a good story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see if it makes it
as long as this one, because these Creature Commandos episodes
are not very long. And uh, I'm just gonna I'm
just gonna take it away. And I I wish this
was a binge model show, you know, like when it's
twenty minutes and you have to wait a week in between.
Like I, I'm intriguing, Like I I I think this
is my favorite episode out of the three that have
been released. I was really vibing with that. I really
like the humor, just more team like interaction has been good.
I much like everything that I am seeing. It's just
a bummer. Now it's like, okay, yeah, I guess I
gotta wait a week, and like I guess on the
other hand, this is a crazy busy month schedule wise.
It's already a Christmas month, so it's like already intense
with just planning family stuff. You know, we got lots
of reviews and stuff around, so I guess maybe in
one in one way, it's a blessing to not have
to binge the whole show in one sitting, to you know,
rush to get a review out. But I just feel
like it doesn't it's not really like planting a lot
of seeds of like what could be possibly like leading into,
because you just don't have much time to really lead
into like a really I don't know, engaging cliffhanger. Like
week to week, it seems like every episode is gonna
be kind of just focusing on a character, and then
after that it like is just pushing along like kind
of a unified story because they are all together, but
it seems like we have our main crew on an
adventure and then we kind of just take a moment
to like focus on a character. Obviously, like the first
two episodes were released together, so it felt like a
longer episode on the release, but just having this one
as a standalone, you know, it's not a spoiler. It's
in the name. It's definitely a gi Robot focused one,
but we only have twenty minutes, so it's like kind
of like eleven minutes of focus on that and then
like nine of focus on like kind of the crew.
And I don't know, like I sound negative, I definitely
don't want to sound that way, because I did really
like this episode. I am enjoying the show overall. I'm
really liking the humor of it. I like the action
of the animation. I'm liking pretty much everything about it.
It's just it's only seven episodes, right, like like like
it's going to be a short show, and I kind
of wish I was able to just eat it all
at once. So yeah, and like it's one thing being
just like greedy and like I just want the whole
show right now because it is so good, But it's
another when they are like an hour long, you know,
and it's like, Okay, I do like this is week
to week. There's lots to just theorize on what's coming on.
It doesn't really seem like it's the type of show
that's really going for that. So yeah, I think personally
I would have liked the binge model, but still really great,
really really dig in the show. I definitely recommend it
to people. It's it's one that I bring up now
when like people are asking there is so much content
to consume, but I still suggest people check out this
show if you are able to find it, because I
still have to go to my Blockbuster guy, you know,
in the dark alley to get my copies on this
because it's it's not on Crazy. I found actually on
Prime Video. It's like through Stack TV or something like
another additional thing. But it's just weird to me that
it's not on Crave because it's usually you know, everything
that goes on HBO or Max whatever it's called, goes
right on there. But is it just because it's like
a Max only thing and like really trying to keep
it contained in that streaming. I don't know. It's weird
to me just not have it available on Crave for
us here in South Canada. But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3: It is and what it is.
Speaker 2: Discuss discuss, uh.
Speaker 1: I think that you're you're spot on with the fact
that this should have been a binge watch. This just
being weekly. Their episodes are so freaking short, and it's
it's tough enough for me to try and remember everything
that's going on from last week because they are just
such short episodes. Even we did to get two episodes
last week, but this time around, I will say, on
a positive note, this episode was much more my kind
of groove. I really really enjoyed it. I was really
having a good time with it. But it's so freaking short,
So that's just such a con for me. And yeah,
it would have been nice if we could just binge this,
get it out of the way, because I mean, we
got we're still working through like Daredevil season two, which
I need to start watching that because we need today good. Yeah,
so many things just in the works right now, and
just for this to be a weekly thing for such
a short thing as it's just it reminds me of
when I was doing Clone Wars reviews for like the
the final season and then Bad Batch. It's like, man,
it is tough because they are such short episodes and
there's only so much you can break down. But yeah,
at the end of the day, like it's that's fine there,
There's there's still some fun things in here to talk about,
and I'm looking forward to breaking down one scene in
particular that just made me laugh and I knew it
as soon as it was as soon as the door opened,
I was like, oh, no, I know exactly what's going
on here.
Speaker 3: And I was telling Madison like, this is so great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the new Madison was like, Oh, they're really like sexualizing.
Speaker 3: These characters show Man.
Speaker 2: You know, they're spicy, it's bloody. Definitely feeling more r
rated than Craven that I just watched, you know, to
break the fourth.
Speaker 3: Wall, absolutely, I will agree with that for sure. But yeah,
is there anything else nonspoilers you want to throw out there?
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think so. I will say, like,
we're three episodes in seven episodes total, if I'm not
mistaken honestly right now, like, if it keeps on pace,
I want more of this show. I want more seasons.
I'm digging kind of what's going on. There's some things
that are a little like hinting towards something by the
end of this episode, and it made me curious as
to kind of what the overall impact that the show
will have on the greater DC, because they've already addressed
things that have happened right in the DC universe. Yeah,
so I'm curious if they're gonna like it's one thing
to just add on to a world that's already established.
That's like going from live action to animated, But I
think it's a whole nother to kind of continue on
as if we like, okay, live action and then were
jumping to the animated universe that's still contained in the
same universe, but then we're gonna jump back to live
action at like, you know, building upon what was introduced
in the animated show. I'm curious as to kind of
what that is gonna come or better better yet to say,
like what's gonna just grow off of this? And and
if they're gonna just have this as like a one
thing that James Gunn wanted to do just because you know,
he's he's the guy in the chair. Now he can
do whatever he wants. He can animate himself into his
own credits if he wants, and he just wanted to
do the one show just to do it, or if
they are really liking the potential of telling stories this way,
and because I'm I'm I'm loving this, I'm really really
digging it. I want more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I think a lot of people
have been well preach not preaching, but it's been very
very creature command.
Speaker 3: It's it's at a very very war reception.
Speaker 1: So I think that you're gonna see more of this
kind of stuff popping up, which, yeah, which is good
because so far, I'm I'm as I said, I'm driving
with this episode. I had a good time with it.
So yeah, but I think we can get into our
our spoilers thoughts now, So we're gonna take a quick
ab and then we're gonna get into the nitty gritty,
so we'll.
Speaker 3: Be right back and we are back, so right off
the hop this is.
Speaker 1: Uh gosh, I can't even remember his name. It was
just an episode that was focused on him. G I
Robot g I Robot, Thank you. I was gonna call
him IG robot g I Robot eleven.
Speaker 2: You're getting in the Star Wars.
Speaker 3: G love it. That's right.
Speaker 1: This was an origin story episode for him kind of
well not necessarily origin story, but like a little bit
more of his history and back.
Speaker 2: I'd say origin though, right, because it's like it like
is explaining why he is who he is and then
kind of what happened after that and just kind of
explains like yeah, like like his his skill set, but
also his motivations, I feel so I would say it's
kind of an origin story in the same vein that
like the previous episode was Bride of Frankenstein's origin story, right,
like we see the flashbacks and like just splices of
history for like running Away from Frankenstein, where in this
one it's spliced in throughout the episode of like flashing
back of the World War two time and then like
the sixties time and then kind of what got him
to where he is now. And I kinda know that,
you know, we've jumped around with putting a couple of characters.
I feel like that is gonna be the trend of
the show, like focusing on a character because how many
members are there. I'm gonna use our background one, two.
Speaker 3: Three, four five, Not Frankenstein.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess he would. He would have been coupled
already with uh with Brida Frankenstein. So I think like
we'll be probably just focusing on like a character in episode.
But then, like as I was saying in the non spoilers,
just kind of doing that and then also at the
same time progressing the story forward. So like the I
like that formula. Actually like although I want longer episodes.
I think it's still decent the way that they are
doing it. It just again because I am liking it
when stuff's going on, And then I checked the run time.
I'm like, man, I only have seven minutes left of
this episode, Like fuck, it was just getting good. So
a little bit of a bummer there, but yeah, I
think that's what's gonna happen. Then obviously, like the finale,
he probably won't have a flashback. It'll probably be all
stuff going forward at least. Yeah, yeah, what I would hope.
Speaker 1: I was afraid that him getting killed be like, oh,
I finally am like kind of latching onto a character here,
and they're killing him off. But I'm sure that they're
you know, they're going to bring him back. They're going
to rebuild him better than ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I was, Yeah, I was gonna say that.
I don't think he's uh, he's a goner forever. I
would be kind of shocked because I feel like, on
one hand, he is extremely OPI it seems compared to
other members of the group, But to just go through
like his whole origin and like it still seems like
we're really early on in the show at least telling
these characters stories, and out of any character that would
be the most believable to come back would be the
guy that is a robot and has been like reconstructed before,
and for my own I would want him back because
I just like the comedy around the character. I like
how you have this character that's just programmed a certain way,
so the humor is around that, right, Like we're already
kind of talking about that previous episode when everyone's sleeping,
he's guarding the door and he's just recounting his victories,
you know, like at this battle like fourteen Nazis and
like everyone's asleep, but he's just announcing it into the world.
So I like, I really like the humor all around him,
you know, the great shawangun voicing Gi Gi robot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he does a good job. He does a
very good job with the voicing of this character.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was just he was a lot.
Speaker 1: Of fun getting to see how he's basically gone from
laboratory to laboratory and just going through tests getting some
pretty cool upgrades. Because when you see him in his
first conflict, and he has kind of like an iron
giant mode, I'd say where he like rises up and
he's like this this shooting and killing, and then.
Speaker 2: You choose to be yeah, Superman.
Speaker 1: And then it changes because when he's actually engaging in conflict,
he's got like, okay, his top are attaches and he's
got like a hovercraft thing going on. Yeah, which is
pretty cool. But what what did you feel about his
last kind of owner? I guess before he was put.
Speaker 2: In prison, Michael Ricker that his name, right, YANDU Yeah, yeah,
I mean I love the whole all the flashbacks, especially
that he's just like he was built for a specific purpose.
And then it seems like Michael, especially like the way
that he's like voicing the character. It seems like he
is just like a nice guy and you know, like
he's just gonna have a buddy now, like this Gi Robot.
He went through killing Nazis and now he's just gonna
have a buddy. And I wasn't expecting like the Nazi
thing until they went like he actually went there, and
then you're starting to see the tattoos. I'm like, oh man,
there's gonna be a fucking get together. At first, I
thought it was going to be like a total what's
the word I'm looking for, Like a total case of misunderstanding.
Uh right, Like like like I thought it was gonna
be like anti Nazis or something. He just pops off
and that's something that just haunts the characters that he
just murdered a bunch of innocent people. But no, I
also found it hilarious when he just stands up, he's like, sorry, buddy,
you're about to get shot in the face, Nazi or
whatever the hell he calls him, and then just pops
off on a blood spree and then of course he
gets like arrested for it. But I found that just hilarious,
and it like starts very wholesome and like nice, you know,
and oh yeah, no, I was gonna be a soldier,
but my bum leg here and like like he's just
he's just totally jazzed about having this buddy. And just
the way that Michael Rooker is like delivering the lines too.
I think at the time, like I was convinced this
guy was gonna be, you know, an innocent person, a
nice individual with nice views of the world and other individuals,
and I was just kind of like, man, I kind
of like this Michael Rooker as like a hero character,
even though it's not like the live action acting of
the character. I've just only seen him really play villains. Well,
actually YANDU is not really a villain by the end,
but still just like like a kookie weird character, whereas
this guy just seems like a nice generic white dude.
Uh and then just shocked when the gun gets pulled
up in his face. But that's what happens when you
fascist views and you're a Nazi. So there you go.
Sorry to you when you're midsip, terrible time.
Speaker 1: I took a quick, quick, little quencher. I totally agree
when that scene when he when the guys got him
in the car and they're driving, We're just going to
a meeting, you know, but freedom and stuff.
Speaker 3: I thinkeet, oh fuck, I know exactly what this is
gonna be.
Speaker 1: And they go in there and like Gi Robots inspecting
the people's tattoos, and he's like hmm, and then he
sits down and then the banner on stage opens up
and it's a big swastika and just Gi Robot. You
can hear him mumble under his breath, like, oh boy,
he knows. He thought he was friends with these guys,
but then he knows what's gotta go down.
Speaker 3: So that was really funny.
Speaker 2: Funny is like a lot of his character is like
that robotic, you know, stereotypical robot where he's just ones
and zeros, Like there is no like gray areas. It's
just like ones and zeros and and like I have
my directive to kill Nazis and that's it. But he
still has like some human like like qualities in that regard, right,
He's just like, Okay, let's do this, and then gets
up and does his directive. But like he still has
that human quality to at least like process like, oh man,
like this is not exactly what I was hoping it
would be, but it is what it is. So now
I gotta do what I was programmed for. And then
so that humor around the character is just is just fantastic.
So yeah, yeah, that was hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see his friendship kind of expand to
he saves I can't remember her name, Nina, or.
Speaker 2: We forgot her name last week as well, but saves
he saves her when the tub. That was kind of
a nice heroic move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, brutal too, just being she's I mean, they it
was generous because they she was direct suffocating, I guess
suffocating outside. So they put her in a bathtub with water,
and then they just put the barbed wire over tops.
Speaker 3: They wanted to keep her.
Speaker 2: Alive so she couldn't get out, Yeah, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And even the bride's arms were fixed too. It's just
it's yeah that it was all a decoy to get
them out of the castle so that they could go.
These people could go and actually try and kill the princess,
which was a crazy scene. It was a crazy epic
battle there.
Speaker 2: And mm hmm. Yeah, she fucks up the one dude's face, well,
scratches the one guy and then really fucks up the
one dude's face with the gun and then Sirce that's
her name. Also, I didn't realize last week, but that's
Anya Chilatra. Who did you watch Witcher? She's Jennifer of Vangerberg. Yes,
and I've only seen her in that and I loved
her as that character. I actually had never finished that show,
so that's my I haven't either guilty announcement there, but
she was fantastic in the first two seasons, and that's
a character that I really love from Witcher three. So
I'm like there's a different type of casting. You know,
we'll see if she can really do it. But I
was actually really impressed by that. So to see her
voicing Circe, uh was kind of fun there, and I
thought she just straight up murdered the princess like instantly, right,
she's she just like desert her power, but just blows
her blows her back, and fuck she got messed up
by mister Fosphorus, by Weasel first and foremost. I was like,
is Weasel really gonna be just like the Captain Marvel
of this situation? He just comes in in like one
taps this like super powerful character U shreds shreds her
up and then yeah, Phosphorus burns her face just like
a bunch of ultimate moves are used on her and
it's pretty durable. You know, she took all of it
and wasn't killed by the end of it.
Speaker 3: That's right. She throws the line ut like you have
no idea what?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's that's what I was gonna lead into,
is like, obviously that's setting up towards something, and just
the way that it was said, I I don't know,
it's probably just like a this season this show type situation,
but it had me thinking about what I was kind
of alluding to with my spoiler free section of if
this show is going to be leading like starting something
that's gonna be leading into like the future of more
DC films, whether that's live action or even shows. Do
you think it's just gonna be like a like a
this season threat. I feel like that's definitely most likely,
but just I don't know. It had my mind bouncing
around the ideas of a potential introduction from this show
that is like a big deal going forward in the
DC universe.
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna be a threat here and there,
just for this this season.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be.
Speaker 1: I think I think everything's gonna be kind of contained,
where you have the threat that Peacemaker show has that's
contained to its own thing, and who knows, my season
two will kind of piggyback and be the same threat
or it will be something else. But I feel like
all of James guns projects are very much like start
to finish. This is the story and this is just
it's concluding here, and that doesn't mean it won't reprise
in another project. I think you can keep something open
ended a little bit, and I mean James Gunn does
do that as well. But I think ultimately this main
villain will be something that's just present here because we
are seven episodes total and we're I guess we're borderline
entering the halfway point when we move in towards episode four,
so there's still a lot of story to tell, a
lot of juice that's still in there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think someone like Peacemaker could actually be
like a really fun inclusion, not necessarily like Adam to
the show, but just like interacting with these types of characters.
Speaker 3: Obviously I could see them adding him obviously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like obviously it's like in that rated vein,
like he would work the humor around him. He's already
interacted with Weasel before in the Suicide Squad movie, so
it makes a lot of sense there. And uh, there'd
just be I like, you would have to have John
Cena voice and like it woud obviously have to be
that same character. And I feel like that's a pretty
easy thing to do. You know, Johnson is busy guy,
but drop some voice lines here and there. It's easier
than you know, putting on the whole attire for the
Peacemaker character.
Speaker 1: Could have done it while they were doing Peacemaker, Like James,
that is true, Like, hey you just get here's a mic,
just record some lines for me.
Speaker 3: So yeah, who knows? Is there anything else you wanted
to throw out there?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else that we didn't really talk about?
Like yeah, not a whole lot of focus on the
other characters with the Bride, right, Yeah, we didn't have
enough Frank sign in this. Uh no, but we know
he's coming, Yeah, we know he's coming. And yeah, the
Princess ended up being well, she got roughed up a
little bit, but she ended up being okay. They saved
her in The Weasel was a big helping hand in that.
But yeah, no, I think we kind of hit everything
I wanted to say. Oh actually, yeah, that's what I
was gonna say, is I was hoping Gi Robot was
going to meet up with his old boys like that
he was in war with, because the one guy I
can't remember what his name was, but the one that
like basically gets him like after the war, he does
mention that like it was twenty years since the war.
So it made me think that maybe he could like
meet up with them, as I don't know out a
veterans type thing, but situation never came out. I just
thought it would have been like a wholesome moment of
him meeting up with his boys again because that's who
we wanted to see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cool, Well, yeah, I'd give this episode of passing grade.
But yeah, I think it was all around. It was
a good time. So hopefully the upcoming episodes keep on
this trajectory upwards. For me, yeah, but we'll be back.
Speaker 3: We got again.
Speaker 1: As I said at the beginning of this episode, lots
of stuff dropping on our feeds. To just go to
our social media channels to check out what is the
latest and greatest.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I guess we'll see you in the search bar.
Have a good one.
Speaker 2: Chuck up.