Speaker 1: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another episode of
Geek First Podcast. I am one of your hosts, the
shape Shifter Taylor Field, and I'm joined.
Speaker 2: By I am the Man of Many Faces Kirk Compatser Yes.
Speaker 1: And we are continuing our trek into the DCU with
Creature Commandos episode five. Before we get to that, a
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This is this is gonna be like a jam packed
end of the year kind of weekend because we've got,
like we're talking about tonight, Creature Commandos, We've got Star
Wars Skeleton Crew, and then we have Dexter a whole
bunch of other reviews that are coming there, and then
we've done You and Me did a nos Forratu review
as well yesterday, So lots of stuff. And I think
Dylan's doing his Game of the Year a side quest
with you that's sneaking in there too.
Speaker 4: So plus I kind of forgot what IF has been
just releasing throughout the Christmas period.
Speaker 2: Have you been watching those? Because I definitely have not
been watching those.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, but I know we.
Speaker 1: Have to do something about it because Travis mentioned it.
But I think I think there's five episodes left at
this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it ends on the twenty ninth, so a couple
of days left here, but I mean the shorter episode
so it is pretty easy binge model. But yeah, no,
I boot it up Disney Plus to watch Skeleton Crew earlier.
It was just like, holy fuck, right, forgot about that show.
It's just it's been a busy holiday. It's been a
good holiday so far, but definitely a busy one, So.
Speaker 1: That's something you can definitely stay tuned for as well,
because I can't guarantee that'll be like a before the
New Year kind of thing because we just we're power
through and we.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, no promises.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that, But there's lots of other
stuff you can you can search up on our feeds
and stay tuned for and check out lots and lots
of good stuff.
Speaker 3: So go to our channels. Kirkland, what did you think?
Speaker 1: And I always forget if we do non spoilers and
then spoilers with this because it's their shorter episodes, but
whatever you want to.
Speaker 4: Try, try my best to avoid some spoilers here. Yeah,
episode five Creature Commandos. We're getting pretty close to the
end because if I'm not mistake, and it's only seven
episodes total. I know we mentioned this every single week,
but as you're off on our instro there, we do
have a lot of things going on, so I get
forgetful and uh just the different shows than what the
lengths of them are. But uh yeah, I feel like
personally this was a bit of a not a disappointing episode,
but I think I was just wanting more for it.
It very much feels like just kind of a like
a half step up and just building off of I
think what was hinted off of last week.
Speaker 3: I'm just surprised. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: I thought you're yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I like, I think it has some good stuff
in here. It's just like the plot things that I
was excited to really get into after last week. I
think we just really didn't do much with it. It's
just like, well, yeah, next week, well we'll get there,
you know, the old they the old subverting expectations of
us thinking that we'll be getting the answers here and
not so much so curious if you felt the same way.
Speaker 2: But uh no, I still think there is some really
good stuff in here.
Speaker 4: I am enjoying the overall substance of what's happening. I
think we got a little bit more backstory stuff with
a certain character that I don't know. I do like
this character, but just the more backstory stuff with them
I get. I think it just really solidifies the one
dimensionalness of what the character is, which is fine. You know,
if that's the character, that's the way that it's written,
that's totally fine.
Speaker 2: But I just find I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would rather be spending some especially with the flashbacks,
because we do have like a full kind of crew
to really flesh out their backstories.
Speaker 2: I think there's just more.
Speaker 4: Interesting ones, but I don't know, it's still maybe a
necessary thing to show here. But yeah, overall, there is
still some good stuff in here. It's still a good,
solid time. I think some reveals that happened in here
were really fun, and yeah, I know it's a good time.
It's just maybe coming off of last week that I
was really riding a high coming into this one. I
was just maybe a little bit yeah, just just just
wanting a little bit more on the plot side of things.
But there's still some like really wild, mature level content
of like violence in this episode. There's some real brutal
things that happen. But yeah, I know it's yeah's it
would give me at least, you know, it'd still get
a thumbs up for me. I guess I'll say that
in my last whole closing thoughts there, But yeah, what'd
you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: It was definitely a hook for me. And I feel
like this show.
Speaker 1: Every episode that I've been watching since that first one
It's just been kind of bringing me up and up.
Speaker 3: And up more and more.
Speaker 1: I've just been more hyped on this on this this show.
So I'm enjoying it and I'm glad that it's kind
of turned around for me. I thought that there was
a lot of stuff that was really fun. Yeah, it
was very very gory and very brutal, but there was
a lot of things that I was just really really
driving with. One character in particular is just kind of
cracking me up because they're just kind of really daft.
It's just that kind of innocent humor. Where is my kryptonite?
It works for me.
Speaker 3: I really really like it. We got a cool reveal
in here too that I'm.
Speaker 1: Really excited to talk about, and I feel like that's
that's pretty big for things to come, I guess. But yeah,
I think that it was just another great self contained episode.
It didn't go too crazy or off the rails, and
for twenty something minutes I felt like this was a
lot longer in a good way, and but by the
time it ended, I was like, man, I really would
like a little bit more because I feel like, Okay,
we got a got a cliffhanger here, and I want
to see where we're gonna go next.
Speaker 3: So I think the show is really really doing good
for me.
Speaker 1: I really like it and I'm having a great time
with it.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're gonna switch over to spoilers now, I mean,
where do we go spoiler wise?
Speaker 2: Where do we go spoiler wise? Yeah? I think the
thing that I was.
Speaker 4: Alluding to in my my all thoughts is I was
just expecting us to get like the full on clash
of Flag and the other creature commandos in this episode,
just revolving around the Princess. And I don't know, like
I definitely I'm not gonna say this was like a
waste of an episode, because we do get some good
stuff in here. We get some really intense combat between
like the creature commandos and the Princess's guards and just
just the military, so all that stuff was good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just think that because of the amount of episodes
that we have and I did confirm it is it
is seven, so that's you know, we're getting pretty darn
close to the end here. So yeah, just with how
little amount of time we have left, it felt like
maybe I didn't need this like in between episode. But
you know, we'll see how it feels in the end,
and if there is just certain areas, I might have
really preferred them to shift some of the focus. But yeah,
as now that's kind of how I feel, because like
there is still some good juice of Frankenstein and Flag,
like discovering clay Face. I like that whole reveal there,
like an Xbox usage in here that trip me out. Yeah, yeah,
that was really cool to see on screen there. But yeah, no,
So although I did like all that, I just I
guess I'm just that excited to see that that eventual clash.
So they're doing a good job, I guess building up
that suspense, but I just want it now, just a
just a glutton, I just want it.
Speaker 1: Well, I almost thought that, okay, that did Flag get
actually killed in this episode, because I mean, I don't
feel like anyone's technically safe in this show, because I'm assuming,
uh g, I Robot is technically like done skis he's
not coming back at least?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel he's been pretty quiet.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm getting less confident that you know,
they'll be bringing him back, but who knows, maybe in
a big finale type moment.
Speaker 2: I feel like my biggest, my biggest.
Speaker 4: Denial on Flag actually being killed in that scene is like,
I just think you're losing out on a lot of
juicy substance of having like one of the Creature Commandos
be the one that like, you know, like murders him, not.
Speaker 2: Just like Clayface. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just seems like something that's like really off to
the side, like a total third party type entity here.
There's no like major other characters that are like around
this moment. So like if he just dies off screen,
I just feel like they're they're missing out on a
lot of stuff there.
Speaker 2: But who knows. Who knows. But yeah, I'm a bent man,
I'll say, no, he's not dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with you. And
I'm hoping that that is the case with Clayface. That
really caught me off guard.
Speaker 1: I was not expecting that, and I'm just I'm trying
to wrap my head around.
Speaker 3: It because this is this is the DCU.
Speaker 1: Travis is reaming me out about it because I was
kind of not really well versed and how the universes were,
But this is the DCU, and so technically we're getting
a clay Face movie upcoming, and so that means that
this is the clay Face of that.
Speaker 4: Movie, right, I Uh, I want to say no, but
I I guess that would work because this is technically
like yeah, as far as my mind kind of wraps
around that you were dealing with, like this is the
oh my gosh, corn sweat Superman and Batman, we don't
know who he is yet and we have all these
familiar characters, and so yeah, I think I think this
this is and maybe that movie will be a prequel
leading up to this kind of scenario.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, there there you go.
Speaker 4: So it just seems like and we kind of did
a newscast on this topic already, so go check out
if you want for their discussion on the subject there.
But I just feel like to have a full movie
on like this version of a clay Face it's just
a lot less appealing to me than if it is
the more like kind of version that we got from
Batman Cape Crusader style, where he's just more of like
a human character that's just.
Speaker 2: You know, want the xbox living on his couch.
Speaker 3: He's just like a big.
Speaker 4: Gall of monster, right, Like, Like, how do I follow
a whole movie around this gall of monster and like
really feel attached to him. So yeah, I'll wait and see.
But if that is the reality that we're living in,
I definitely I'm not gonna say red flags. Maybe some
some yellow flags around that whole idea of what that
movie would be, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so again, it caught me off guard.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting it until they said it, like clay
Face and yeah, just play an Xbox and talking about
them is scare lesbians and all this crazy shit.
Speaker 3: But I'm curious to see who the employer is.
Speaker 1: And why this this person is kind of like trying
to manipulate to try and kill the the princess, and.
Speaker 3: It seems like there's a bigger story here.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the Princess, that whole kind of possibility
is fake and that we don't.
Speaker 3: Have to Well, yeah, I'm pretty confident that it is
fake and this is a whole entire setup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it seems it seems like it's definitely at
least dramaticized from what the reality could be. But I
still think that the end result could be like her
nation at war with other people, just with how extreme
she kind of feels at the end of it, right,
She's like, all right, we got to kill all these
creature commandos, and she just seems a lot more extreme
and yeah, just ready to go out for blood than
she's kind of ever felt throughout the whole episode.
Speaker 2: So I also feel like there's a lot more.
Speaker 4: Just that maybe that she hasn't what's the word, I'm
looking for some ulterior motives, you know, like just something
that hasn't really been revealed yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think so. I mean, she's definitely.
Speaker 1: At the end of the episode, I felt like there
was something going on there with her, and but again,
she's for some reason just infatuated with with Flag and yeah,
there's just such such a weird relationship between the two
of them there.
Speaker 3: But who knows.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how that kind of unfolds
and what her real goals are, because I feel like
her army is completely decimated because she was dealing with
that chick and those insurgents who were obliterating the army
and attack on the cow Sole now here, like the
Bride and Phosphorus are just fucking annihilating the army because Phosphorus,
which what a wild execution when he takes his clothes
off and he just like throws the birds up and
the tank just drives through him and like his birds,
like his middle fingers just go through the two drivers
the tank and like just incinerates through them.
Speaker 3: Like what a crazy visualization.
Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, I was super down with that whole
fight scene.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And poor Alexi just what he say, like, oh you
want me to drive break car and all this kind
of stuff, Like he's just he was not good at
bullshitting and he paid the he paid the price.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of you don't want doctor Phosphorus in
the in the back seat.
Speaker 2: If you're a newer driver, you really don't. Yeah, that
was a pretty visceral scene. Where was I going to
go next?
Speaker 4: Uh, anything else? Kind of on just what happened there.
I was gonna mention, like the Frankenstein flashback stuff.
Speaker 3: No get into it and I'm down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So for me, again, this is kind.
Speaker 4: Of what I was alluding to early on, where it's
not like it was bad by any means, but I
just think I'm I'm kind of okay if we if
we don't get any more Frankenstein flashback stuff, and honestly,
I feel like this might have been even one too many.
Speaker 2: I would have been.
Speaker 4: Okay if we just have what we had. I think
it was episode one with the flashbacks around the character.
Speaker 2: Like David har performance is good. I like his line delivery.
Speaker 4: I like seeing him just kind of get somewhat of
a bond with this this elderly woman who's blind and
her cute little dog there. But really it's just like
by the end of this, it's like, Okay, no, he's
just a monster, and you know, like there is no
real humanity in there, Like like I guess he has
human tendencies in some ways where he's just like a
total hopeless romantic, but I don't know, it just seems
like his moral grounds or just with the obsession of
the bride, and I don't need any more flashbacks of
just us getting to that end result with that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's it's a sad way to end that sequence when
he just murders the lady and goes off because he's
just obsessed with getting the bride to be in love
with him. But just that trait, like it's I'm liking
more maybe the comedic spin on that obsession as opposed
to this like dramatic emotional stuff and like spending flashbacks
on it so long winded way of saying, it's just
getting a little too old for me. I think it's
funny when he's with flag, you know, and he's talking
about you know, like did.
Speaker 2: You did you mention me?
Speaker 4: Did you mention how I'm awesome I am? And like
maybe the break the bride will hear it and then
she'll be impressed.
Speaker 2: Like I do love all that stuff.
Speaker 4: But I also like that because it's not just like
the main jokes that are dropping, like it is you sparingly.
But then I yeah, just what I've already said about
the flashback, I wasn't the biggest fan of.
Speaker 2: But what do you think about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the the flashback I thought it was. It was
good enough.
Speaker 1: It caught me off guard that the woman was like,
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be alone, and he.
Speaker 1: Just is like, I'm not gonna leave you alone and
just kills her, Like god damn. I thought it was
the same old lady who has had the phone from
like his guard earlier on but that's apparently not the
case because we saw that old lady that was working
for him and he she had the cell phone with
like the Zach Effron background wallpaper.
Speaker 3: Or something like that.
Speaker 1: But in this case, though, no, no, it's it's a
different relationship. And I like that they had this great relationship.
You know, she dies, she eats it. That's very unfortunate.
But uh, yeah, he just he does crack me up
because he's he has such a young adolescent mentality. And man,
when Flag is on the phone, try call him the
princess and he's just frank, Like Frank is just insinuated.
Speaker 3: Oh, like just put a good word for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally when Flag just covers the input part of
the phone and he's like, Frank, shut the fuck up,
that just really got to me. So I think there's
a there's a little bit more that we can kind
of like, uh pull out and pull off from from
that in a humorous way. So I'm down for it.
I'm down to see where we go with it. But yeah,
that's that's probably my only real highlight. It's just their
relationship and their dynamic, and so I'm excited to see
a little bit more of that because it's definitely working
for me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, heah, yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's really anything else release to this episode.
I mean, aside from just the action and then the
flashbacks with Frank. It's it's pretty cut and dry. But
again for me, it was it was exciting and I
definitely enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 4: Definitely just feels like a step in the road, you know,
to get to our next destination on the adventure, which
I guess that's every episode, but this one just wasn't
as special for me.
Speaker 2: But who knows. I am still looking forward to what's
going to happen.
Speaker 4: They're setting some good things up and yeah, just really
showcasing some of the power levels of these characters I
think is always great to see because Doctor Phosphorus, like
he's always been around, but I feel like this was
like his pop off episode where you're really like, oh
my god, this character is like incredibly overpowered. Like when
you just walk through that tank, you know, just just
melts those those chaps and yeah, just a brutal way
to go and really just emphasizing that like, yeah, these
these are monsters, these are just murdering hundreds of people here,
you know, the bride included, and yeah, no, it's it's
pretty pretty well to see. But yeah, two episodes left,
coming to, two.
Speaker 1: Episodes left, Yeah, Pennultimate next week favorite words.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 1: And we will deliver the review for you, so till then, everyone,
you can tune back it because again we're going to
be recording live right now Skeleton Crew and Dexter Original Sin,
but those episodes will be dropping on our main feed, uh,
spaced out over this coming weekend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we will see you in the search bar.
Less you have anything else you want to end on?
Speaker 2: Nope, no, you got it all right, See you later