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First review, this time covering Creature Commandos. I am your
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Speaker 2: I'm the Doc Foss taylor Field, the Doc Foss taylor Field.
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Speaker 1: Without further ado, Creature Commandos Penultmate episode episode six. I
can't remember the title. I think it was pray At
the Skelet, which I had to google.
Speaker 3: It means.
Speaker 1: Friendly skeleton, so that's nice or buddy skeleton.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just searched up Prayet.
Speaker 1: I didn't search up skelet because I feel like I
kind of figure what that was. But yeah, what do
you think about prayet skeletitic Man Russian listener?
Speaker 3: I had to just listen to it.
Speaker 2: I actually I enjoyed this episode a lot. It always
catches me off guard when they throw in all the
different gore and whatnot. But there's there's backstory in here
to one of our characters. I feel like we haven't
really gotten yet, and so it was Actually it was
neat to see the backstory of them and how things
kind of transitioned and changed, because they seemed like a
very heartwarming person at one point in their life and
then just shit really hit the fan. We got some
really cool kind of cameos in here too. Yeah, it's
just it's it's it's quite something all in all.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was a good episode and it just kind of
was further in the plot as we get to the
finale next week, and I guess they where this concludes.
It concludes an established point where Okay, things are kind
of like going to be closing in here and it's
going to be coming full circle. We're gonna kind of
get to see certain characters interacting with each other that
we've wanted to see for a while now. And yeah,
I think I think it was a lot of fun
and I enjoyed it. But I don't know if I
have anything else I can really highlight specifically in the
non spoilers. No, no, just as it was good, it
was good. The show is like I find like it's
a weird James Gunn kind of effect where there's something
with like intro music and intro parts like to his
episodes and the shows that he does, where I just
don't want to hit the.
Speaker 4: Skip intro button.
Speaker 2: Usually like when this, when I boot it up and
I'm watching this and this that theme kicks in, It's.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 2: I like this, Steve, and I'll watch the whole intro
because it's just it's fun, it's it's engaging, and it
just kind of sets that tone for what you're in for,
and the show continues to just be a surprise.
Speaker 4: And now we reviewed What If last week.
Speaker 2: And not that I was making comparisons, but I think
that there is a defining line between these.
Speaker 4: Two shows, where what If had a lot of just.
Speaker 2: Bad comedic low notes, where this show is just hitting
very high comedic high notes. And I appreciate that they're
they're trying to be funny both of the different shows,
and again they're both very different universes and franchise. But
I think if you have that good writing behind it,
you can really do Wonders. And this show has really
good comedic writing that's been put into it, and so
kudos to James Gunn for that, and just tie that
in with really emotional moments and good story beats and
elements too, and you have a really really engaging narrative.
And that's what this show has, and so it's it's
been very captivating and keeping my attention week to week.
So yeah, it's funny because I got home Masked and
was like.
Speaker 4: Okay, what are you podcasting tonight?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, we're.
Speaker 2: Doing a Skeleton crew and Dexter and then Creature Commandos.
Speaker 4: She's like, what's Creature Commando's.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, we've watched it together multiple times and
she's like, oh, oh, that's.
Speaker 4: The Marvel one. Like no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No no, that's the that's the DC one with Frankenstein
and fifty fift though.
Speaker 3: You know she was close.
Speaker 4: She was close. Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, if there's nothing else, w said, we're gonna
skip on down to our first ad break and then
we'll be back.
Speaker 3: To unravel this package that is a S Creature Matters
episode six.
Speaker 1: We're back, Taylor. Feel are you ran that down? Because
I definitely did not.
Speaker 3: I plag oh, I got okay, I break the fourth wall?
Uh where do you want to go?
Speaker 1: And by you, I mean me because I want to
go to kind of how you highlighted of just being
surprised by like the level of like like gore and
like just mature content. I think across the board and
I feel like it shocks me or like gut wrenches me,
because it it's only it's the whole show throughout. Like
we'll have like a nice little, I don't know, very
PG looking scene. We have some like characters just talking
about whatever, moving on to the next task, and then bang,
just someone's head gets blown off and just like brains
and guts everywhere. I guess there would be guts in
the head, but you know, the brain cuts or I
don't know, maybe it's just like we're at a brothel
and just some of the things people are saying. I'm like,
oh my god, right, this is like a mature show.
And I remember getting that a lot in you know,
the Great Legend of Vox Macina, Like that show is
very much a mature show. There's like boobs in that show,
Like it's very it's raunchy at times, but it's not
that all the way through. So it's like when those
moments happened, they just it's like, oh right, okay, yeah,
I know, you know, little Timmy can't be in the room,
and the show's not like it is a mature show.
But I like that they're not just using it as
like a like a shock way where that's not even
the right term, because I just mentioned that's what works well.
It like in your face over the top of like
beat you over the head with just like our dick
jokes or something like like I feel like the humor
hits so well because it's it's not just all humor,
like there is a very like emotional human like stories
going on amongst these creature characters. Like ninety percent of
all flashbacks have been like very like tragic and like
emotional most of the time, usually you know, involving like
a lot of innocence in some way shape or the form.
Speaker 3: The Weasel one was like bringing me to tears.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Doctor Phosphorus one, this was like the
most fucked up out of pretty much all of them.
I would say, there's just what happened here, But yeah, no,
I'm loving the formula of the show. I'd like how
we're spending some time with the character on their origin,
but it's not the whole episode is just that character.
Like I think they do such a good job at
balancing everything throughout. But and you know that involving the
mature content, like, I think it is handled well because
I think there's moments in like if you take like
peace Maker for example, peace Maker, Peacekeeper peace one of
the pieces whatever the show was with John Cena that
I always get wrong. Yes, peace Maker, I feel like
at times that's like over the top of the dick jokes,
So like you never fully know with James Gun, but
I think they did a good balancing act of all
of that. I spewed a lot at you there, but
mostly just the more mature themes and yeah, what do
you think about it?
Speaker 2: Tother Yeah, I think again, the fact that you have
these mature themes just popping in it can really catch
me off guards still even though just yeah, you forget
that this is an adult oriented animated show. So when
you see the bride push her hand into a guy's
chest and pull out his heart and then like squeeze
it and crush it and the guy just dies looking
at it, It's like, holy shit, that's after his arm
was broken in half.
Speaker 4: Just stuff like that. It's just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2: And yeah, just the connection between the gore and the
comedy and the humor, there is a non abundance of it,
and I'm thankful for that. They know when to draw
the line, they know when to play it cool and
just to hit that high note and kind of like
leave it on a high note and then move into
something else. And with these characters in their backstories, it's
been nice having each episode kind of focusing on their
backstories and giving us a little bit more context to them,
and it is very sad the things.
Speaker 4: That they've gone through.
Speaker 2: Like you said that Weasels had a that was really
really terrible, having to watch his little girl that he
befriended get crushed to death. With the cops, we're just
more focused on like shooting and killing them than saving anyone.
And then they top it in this episode when you
have Posterus, like he was trying to like cure cancer
and his family ends up being betrayed by these gangster guys,
these crime people, and they're like his kid and his
wife are executed on the floor and he's crying and
they take him and they rub his hands in their
blood and then like put his hands all over their
dead bodies for evidence, like oh, this.
Speaker 3: Is fucked ah geez.
Speaker 2: And then he turns into yeah, Phosphorus and he just
goes and like murders this the crime guy, and like
his kids and everything like that just goes on, like
he just absorbs this killing frenzy spirit. He's just he's
let loose. And I like that because it's kind of
like Harvey Dent in the Dark Night, when Harvey Dent
becomes two face and he's like, you know what, fuck it,
he lost Rachel and he's just turning into this yeah,
this monster, right, he doesn't care anymore. So I think
that was very fitting and he just just some crazy shit.
When he walks up to the gate and the guy's.
Speaker 4: Like, can I have your name?
Speaker 2: I can put you on the list, and his foster
just GRIBs his face.
Speaker 4: It just fucking melts his head, like Jesus Christ. Just brutal, such.
Speaker 1: A brutally skill set too, Like just all the montage
of the kills that he did, like there wasn't a
nice one in the mix, like the one where he's
just holding the guy's ankles until they just melted and
then he follows death like God, it is just horrible.
And I feel like I just assumed anything he touched
would be a like just melt like that, But it
seems like he can kind of choose when it's working
or when it's not.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, it's just it's.
Speaker 1: Very very tragic, horrific origin story. So I feel like
when he becomes just a villain, well, like we don't
get a lot of that just throughout the flashback, I
guess in this episode because where we have him later on,
you just kind of crack in one liners and like,
I love all the humor around him, but you don't
really see that side of him. You just see the
skeleton man and then on the surface you would assume he's,
you know, a bad guy. But I think that in
this episode they showed him as like an innocent doctor.
Obviously it goes through that whole thing with his family
horrible gets turned to this thing, and then he's like
mania cole vengeance, like I'm gonna go murder all these people.
You get that side of that. But then like later
on in the modern timeline, when he's interacting with that
girl that's calling him like the prey at sclet and
then at the end he's like tossing her and they
just kind of bond that way. I think it's still
showed that, like there is nice elements to this character
still in there that you know there's more than meets
the eye. It's kind of the theme with all of
these type of suicide squad creature commandos types.
Speaker 3: Wow, maybe not maybe not the main theme.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's there's still many characters just straight
up assholes, but it's it's usually just more than meets
the eye, at least for the creatures side.
Speaker 3: So I like getting that.
Speaker 1: But it's also not just like, yeah, he's he's just
a straight up bad guy or no, sorry, he's not
just a straight up good guy that was in the
wrong place. Like he is pretty complicated that, like all
these characters are, Like they're not just good or bad. Weasel,
although you know he was putting a shitty situation, I'm
sure he would still fucking murder someone if he was
hungry and in a room with one person, right.
Speaker 3: Like, I think he still has those traits. He's still
an animal. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just really liked what they did with doctor Foss here.
Did they call him that or you just put it
in your name?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm like, I'm like hearing it now,
I'm like hearing the characters call him Doc Foss.
Speaker 4: I don't think they call him that in the show.
That's just me winging it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. Album M we get Rick Flagg
not doing much this episode.
Speaker 1: He's pretty much just on the mend, brutalized by what
people are thinking was Frankenstein, even though we know it
was the clay face. The clay Face, but no mention
of clay Face in here at all. Do you think
that's I mean, we've or did I miss something?
Speaker 4: No, they didn't mention it.
Speaker 2: But I just think it's funny how clay Face kind
of ties into another Easter Egg.
Speaker 4: I just feel like they're the.
Speaker 2: Characters that have been peering in here on cameo basis
have been really Batman centric.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting ready for is animated Batman show. I
don't think that's actually well, I guess we already had
Cape Crusader, but that wasn't That wasn't a James Gun thing.
Speaker 3: That was well before his time, right.
Speaker 4: I you're the you review that with with Travis.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I did, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know next time because that was that was
on Amazon, right, yes, on the Primal Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Anyways, anyways, I brought up clay Face because he wasn't
mentioned here.
Speaker 3: Do you think we're getting next episode?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Maybe an Easter Egg or not even any stregg a
bread crumb for something down the line, because it just
seemed like he was set up in like a bigger
player type of setup. But uh, I don't really want
them to focus on that threat when we already have
the princess to deal with. Next episode, which uh yeah,
our crews they're at the gates literally, they're they're ready
to kick some ass. And I don't like her odds
because just seeing doctor Fosterhorus pop off can't end well
for her. Seeing the bride pop off on those those
two brothers in the brothel, that was another gut wrench moment. Actually,
when the brother comes in, he's like, oh, yeah, let's
kick some ass, and then his head just blows up
because he's just like right there with a gun and
I'm like, man, this is just the show is amazing.
Speaker 3: They're just going for it. So I like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we got the bride, Doc Foss, fish Lady
that I always Nina, I always forget her name. I'm sorry, Nina,
and oh my forgetting Weasel wasn't there. It was, uh,
who's the last chap with our crew?
Speaker 2: Uh, Nina, bride doctors were in the brothel and then
Doc Foss comes after, and then Weasel comes after as well,
because what's gone Franks Sign's coming, so it's just them.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't remember seeing Weasel there.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, they're at the gates.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of looking like more of a setup for
what the World War three situation that Circe prophesized about, right,
Like she's got her armies right now, she's got her legions.
She's sounding a lot more extreme now, like we've got
to murder these these creature commandos and uh yeah, I
don't know, like for me getting this, like, do you
think this would have happened if if they didn't go
back to like murder her? Like, do you think this
this actually would have happened? Or was Circe's vision something
that was kind of like she said that and that's
that's something that led it?
Speaker 3: What is going on here? Well?
Speaker 4: Oh that spooked me?
Speaker 3: Was that you? That was not me? That was that
was a ghost?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just out there. There's uh, you know,
our our Facebook pages been dropping some weird things. I
think one of our former members is going a little
loopy here in his isolation, like.
Speaker 4: We we need a wellness check on them.
Speaker 3: I think so as well, Yes, we're not doing that
right now.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you mentioned how how did your word that
the the visions here from Circe and just how the
princess maybe have gone through with this if they the
cretrikmnos didn't initiate this and instigate this.
Speaker 4: I think you're right, And I.
Speaker 2: Think that again, someone wants this to happen and wants
the queen to die, right or the princess, Like I
should I should say it because who hired clay Face
and put clay Face in that position?
Speaker 3: Right? M hm?
Speaker 2: Like someone wanted to ensure that the government believes Circe's
vision and that this was one hundred percent accurate and true,
and then we need to kill her. So there's still
a larger enemy at play here that we don't know about. Yeah,
kind of pulling the strings. And I think that, yeah,
this is forcing the princess's hand to kind of step
out of her shell and go to war because now
she has like she has the American government that they've
just opened up to, right that we learned they just
opened up to the world through trade and diplomacy and
all that, and now the world is kind of showing
their true colors, like, hey, we're trying to actually kill you.
Speaker 4: Now, that's like what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Would you be upset if it like that? Whole because
we got one more episode left. In these pretty short episodes, right,
Like I think this one was twenty four minutes or so.
They've all kind of been around that average. Like, I
don't think that's really enough time to like introduce someone
that was pulling the strings, like the puppeteer, and then
also deal with them and be satisfied with it. Like
it just seems like too much at once. Are you
okay if that isn't resolved the season and like it's
just like, oh, it's this guy and then we'll find
out next season what happens with that.
Speaker 2: Well, only because we know that there's a season too come,
So I think that I can live with it.
Speaker 4: I can.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna get the baseline story kind of
wrapped up here in our basic villain kind of just
taken care of, and then we'll get some.
Speaker 4: Little nod to the main big baddie, and.
Speaker 2: That'll be the big cliffhanger to kind of keep us
engaged and excited for the second season.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I would prefer it being that way. Honestly.
Speaker 1: I just think it's way too much to cram into
a twenty four minute finale. I wanted just nice, epic
finale with the princess, and then some truths come out
a little bit of shock and surprise, and then like
the team together, like we're the family, you know. Oh yeah,
looking off in the sunset, our next threat about coming
to us. So yeah, I do hope that is what
happens there. Oh there's another question I was going to
ask about. My gosh, my brain's on the fritz one
day back to work after the holiday, and I'm just
I'm just toast right now because there's another player that
we were doing. I was gonna ask about that, the
Gi Robot thing. You know, it's not looking as likely
he's gonna come back right away. I still don't think
he's forever gone.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: Do you think he's I don't think he's forever gone.
Speaker 2: I think that he will come back, at least I hope,
because I mean, you can't have Sean Gunn just only
doing weasel grunts.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to bring him a bigger.
Speaker 3: They're paying him the big box. Yeah, he's the highest
building the cat's built. That's not true. I hope it's
not true. Otherwise there's some major collusion going on, ye
g I Robot. And then.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess I do think he's going to
be back. It's partly my heart saying that. Mostly my
heart's saying that, But I'm not so confident it would
be this season thing, just because we haven't really hinted
to that at all, that we're building him or we
found someone that can do that or even have him
or his pieces. I'm just I think I'm holding on
to hope more than anything.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess we got Rick Flag. Yeah, he's bleeding
out with Waller. Waller still seems like very out of
the loop of what's going on. Do you do you
think that's true or do you think she knows more
than what she's revealing.
Speaker 2: I thought that she might know more than she's revealing,
but at this point was seeing her kind of get
rocked a little bit by Circe's vision. I think that
this I don't think that's the case anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's getting played by there by either
Circe's vision was like tweaked, or maybe some of her
bosses are like doing something nefarious, because I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like it seems like.
Speaker 1: Someone that's gonna be wanting to invade or war with
Paulis Nayav whatever those places called, like they could be
one of my main suspects for someone that's really pulling
the strings here, especially someone that might be abusing the
creature Commando protocol thing. Obviously it should be Wallers, but
you know, she's got bosses above her, so.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not really confident in a lot of that, but
I'm just sniffing out some sussry with the whole structure
of what's going on there. Yeah, and I am excited
for Rick Flagg to wake up and actually dialogue with
people and figure out what's going on because I was
super on the side when everyone just blamed the princess
right away, like it seemed pretty urgent. But since he's
been out of the loop, I feel like there has
been nothing but sorcery from the Princess.
Speaker 3: So it's just been like a timing thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was just how the show's going,
but it just seemed like a jump. But as of
right now, I feel like, if you see, I don't know,
I just want him to wake up and interact with people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, especially because we got the finale, like we
need to yeah, need to get him back, and we
had him interacting with Frankenstein for so much.
Speaker 3: So that's the other thing too.
Speaker 1: Frankenstein's on his way right, so he's gonna see the bride.
That's gonna be another thing that we have to cover
in the in the finale, and what's gonna gonna come
to that. I'm a new one hundred percent put my
money on the Bride because she's a total fucking badass.
She I always forget how like super strong she is,
like you already mentioned when she just snapped that guy's
arm with her little fingies. But yeah, no, she she's
just she's like resilient. She has so much durability. She's
probably gotten hand stamina, you know. If we pull up
her character she like we did in the X Men show.
But yeah, she's just total badass. I feel like I
see the look, I'm like, okay, Frankenstein's bride, and then
I see her with guns.
Speaker 3: Okay, she's a good skilled.
Speaker 1: Gun person, but she's also just superhuman with her strength
and everything in speed and Frankenstein, you know, seeing him
just squish people's heads to a pulp. Still put my
money on the Bride, you know, because it's not like
Frankenstein's gonna fight back or anything like he's in love
with her. I liked his little fucked up dialogue that
he had with the pilot here of just like yeah,
I know, and they're gonna do this, We're gonna be
so in love, Like do you.
Speaker 3: Believe in love? I know I do, and I've gone
back and forth on it.
Speaker 1: I think in small doses it's it's it's appropriate. I
like that humor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, it's it's innocent humor and him just
saying it how it is, like, oh, yeah, you know,
you go do what you were born to do and
play your small role in this larger plan of me
getting my love and all that. So I think that
David Harvor is doing a good job as Frankenstein. I'm
quite enjoying his character.
Speaker 3: Mm hm cool.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, there's nothing else. I'm okay to wrap this up.
We got Dylan Muss in the chat Big Creature Commandos fan.
He's watching every episode. He's just not joining us for this.
I think that's what's happening because he made it this
far and so did all of you, So thanks for
tuning into this week's episode. Of course, we got the
finale next week, tons of things on the feed, tons
of things dropping right now, So catch you there and
we'll be here by bye bye. I almost did it
again where I just leave the studio instead of end stream,
so