#and gen v ep 8

[purpleplaid17]

Jess Watches // Sat 11 Nov // Day 53 Synopses & Favourite Scenes

Cassandro Film

Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.

Gael García Bernal was outstamding. I felt everything he was feeling, particularly in the scenes without dialogue that focused on the subtleties of his facial expressions. He just was ths character. I loved his style, especially his many different shirts, and that long red coat at the end was stunning. Also, Roberta Colindrez & Raúl Castillo being in this was a bonus treat and makes me want to rewatch Vida.

A Business Proposal Ep 6

When plans for a confession go awry, Tae Moo takes Ha Ri on a date by the sea disguised as a work trip. Cha Sung Hoon confronts a red-faced Young Seo.

The cinema work-date was very cute so ofc it got interrupted. Even though he had to crawl out on his hands and knees lol he was still polite to the worker and even waited, hidden, for HaRi after the film. Then the beach work-date was possibly even cuter, but him stalking her Insta to see what she likes spoiled the full potential of it. Also, YoungSeo taking every opportunity to not 'cross the line' is a level of petty I aspire to. But the drunken kiss was a hard nope for me. She was heavily inebriated while he was slightly fresh at worst.

Gen V 1x08 Guardians of Godolkin (Season Finale)

Cate and Sam team up together and free the captured supes from The Woods creating chaos on campus.

Marie's powers looked so cool when she was by the helicopter. And I was like WTF when 'he' showed up and did the thing. So to immediately see they were captured but still very much alive was a huge relief. I've enjoyed this a lot more than The Boys tbh, mainly due to actually developing their female and queer characters.

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[thegirlwiththeblush]

THE?? END?? OF?? GEN??? V??? EP??? 8???? WHAT???? THE???? HELL??!?!?!!?!?

[that-cynical-bittch]

The new episode of gen v sucked 😭

[faeriesthrall]

homelander when i catch you🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🪚🪚🪚🗡🗡🗡⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️🪓🪓🪓⛏️⚒️⛏️⛏️🪓🪓🪓⛏️🪓🪓

[meugamer]

Gen V: episódio 8 e final já está disponível

Chegou nesta quinta-feira (26) e já está disponível online no Prime Video, o episódio 8 e final da 1ª temporada da série do mundo de The Boys, Gen V. E você pode assistir ao episódio final da temporada da série sendo assinante Prime, onde os brasileiros desfrutem de economia, conveniência e entretenimento, tudo em uma única assinatura por um preço muito especial. No episódio 8 e final de Gen V,…

[crismakesstuff]

im so excited for invincible s2b now that it has an official release date… and that release date is march 14th

Let me talk about why that has me worried for the future of the show

‼️also no hate to any other shows mentioned‼️

I want to start with these two images :

invincible compared to the boys and now hazbin hotel has BARELY gotten any offical advertising on this level. The boys also got ads in times square for the promotion of s3 and the spin-off gen v im pretty sure but I could be wrong.

Don’t get me wrong I am rly happy to see an animated show get promotion at that level and I think more streaming services should do the same but why is it that invincible, a show on its SECOND SEASON gets nothing? The official invincible accounts have to do most of the heavy lifting themselves with generating hype on their twt,insta and tiktok. People complain that the accounts often make “an announcement for the announcement” but they have too! They literally have no other option! It sucks to see invincible show signs of a show thats clearly being tampered with by executive fuckery that has led so many other animated shows to an early grave.

Also I NEED people to realize that invincible’s release schedule NOT THE FAULT OF THE CREW

I see people regularly being rude and borderline aggressive to crew members online (which ive seen happen in other fandoms too) but the amount of people that were bitching and whining about the hiatus saying things like “this is why we shouldn’t let animators have good working conditions” and people agreeing with those takes were INSANE. The crew have no control over when the show drops or not, that is a decision left up to executives.

Now why could this delay be happening ?

a little bit ago amazon made this announcement to its customers:

this very well lines up with what many people began to speculate online as to why invincible had such a weird release schedule for season 2. They release the first half and get people hooked on the first 4 episodes ending on a massive cliffhanger and then release the second half after ads are introduced in hopes of making more money bc ppl don’t want ads in the middle of their shows.

Even then many people (myself included) think that it would’ve ultimately been better for the sake of the shows own hype to just wait to release them in March back to back all 8 episodes. Because the midseason break just kneecapped the hype the show had built up so hard and now many people are reasonably frustrated.

Because there was no clarity on when the show would be back. Most people assumed it would be a month long break for the holidays which shows have done for a long time. And then fake leaks came out that the show would come back in early January, and then the invincible accounts were virtually silent, and people were saying the break was intentional for fans to (recover) for ep 4. It was all over the place

What should fans do going forward?

Best thing you can do is stream the show legally if you can! TALK about invincible, don’t let the hype die out. Get this shit on trending ! Boost any official posts online showing that there is still a demand for this show! If you can, buy merch! Read the comics legally ! LET AMAZON KNOW WE STILL CARE ABOUT THIS SHOW!

again no hate to the other shows here bc ive watched all of them! I just want invincible to get some of that love too because this show is so amazing and you can tell how much love the crew has put into it <3

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LONDON THOR GIF PACK

click here to be directed to 361 gifs of LONDON THOR as jordan li in gen v eps 1-8 + the deleted scene posted on twitter. all of these gifs were made by me from scratch. you’re welcome to crop or edit them however you like, but credit me if you release them. like or reblog if you plan to use them, thaaaanks.  

[sweetpumpkinmouse]

Spoiler Warning for Murder Drones Ep. 8

I have thoughts! (that is mostly out of order)

-Everyone’s DEAD!

-I was so shocked to see Uzi and Nori being sweet together. It was pleasantly nice.

-I love the sound effect for space.

-“Nobody traumatizes these weirdly hot robots but me!” Bi Uzi is canon! :D (I did that part early, but I love it)

-V’s alive…cool. It was kind of cool to see her ride a sentinel. Got to see her apologize to N (even if it was a fake N), it was nice to see. I hope the shippers love it, minus the trauma. /gen

-N and Uzi are such dorks! I love them!

-THE TRIO IS BACK BABY!

-Didn’t get apeshit N, sadly. But we did get ✨traumatized N✨!

-Uzi and N helping each other while they are both in pain. With Uzi’s being physical and N’s being mental. The poor fellas.

-Some sweet sappy Nuzi moments. And N going, “That’s my girlfriend!” Awww! And Vizzy (and maybe even the nuziv polycule, I live in denial) might be canon.

-THAD’S SKATEBOARD!!!!!

-Nori is proud mom.

-NIGHTCORE! NIGHTCORE! NIGHTCORE—

-The sentinel is doing a bit of trolling.

-J and V fight-scene!

-My J hate has returned and is justified! I know we were all expecting some big betrayal, but I guess J still sucks. (my hate for her is purely theatrical)

-I’m cringe and I’m free.

-Cyn’s eyes when Uzi ate the blackhole: 😦

-Uzi’s new eyes are very pretty.

-Khan and Nori divorce arc real???? And Khan is way too fucking into it. (EDIT: Apparently not, Nori was behind the door with Khan, I just didn’t see her. Oh, well. It’s sweet)

-The teacher is a mood.

-V and N are at school now and can be “normal kids”. 🥹

-N’s art is improving!

-Doll is really dead. Rip.

-Uzi has full control over her robo-bat form! Yay!

-I love the end credits.

-Uzi’s tail is Cyn now. I love that scene.

-I feel like the ending is very open-ended, which I think is nice. I actually like that we got an open-ending instead of a concrete set future, makes the fan-creations more fun.

-Can’t wait to see the fanfics and fanworks after this! :D

I do feel like some things were rushed and/or were not as fleshed out as I hoped, but I still think it is a good ending.

“Don’t be sad because it’s over; smile because it existed.”

[pinkcrocss]

What do you like about Marie and Jordan individually and what do you like about them as a pair?

Thank you for the ask! ❤���

For Marie, I just love her so much. First of all, I am always happy to see a black girl lead in any kind of diverse, non-stereotypical, non-sassy-side character role like this.

But I also appreciated how realistic she was. Like, I understood almost every choice she made. I saw people get mad at her at the start for not always doing the altruistic, "right thing", but for most people, self-preservation comes first. She didn't owe those other characters anything (especially after how they treated her) and I loved that she had a back bone and would actually talk back to people. But at her core, she is still a good person despite everything that has happened to her and still chooses not to be corrupted by Vought's influence once she understands the true material cost.

For Jordan, they're just such a nuanced character. One, I always have a soft-spot for the Lancer character archetype. The highly capable, second best, who can never quite out-do the main character (e.i. bakugo, reki (from sk8), Ron from HP (fuck jkr, but no other examples are coming to me atm)), and Jordan is just that. Like, yeah, they were kind of a bitch at the start, but it's so clear that they are secretly a softie and the world and their experiences have forced them to have a tough shell. Also, their powers as an allegory for gender identity, yes, it's on the nose (although, as someone who grew up reading 90s/2000s manga like Ranma 1/2, not that unheard of), but I think the show handled questions of their identity really well.

And finally for Limoreau...

idk where to start. tbh, as someone who has been hyper fixating on characters and ships since high school, I never really have a clear explanation of why I ship the characters I do. I either like it or I don't. But Limoreau is such a pleasant surprise because the chemistry was there from the start, but it felt like one of those queer dynamics that the writers would be too scared to pursue (think Arthur/merlin or Gojo/Geto). I think the fact that our MAIN PAIRING is a queer, interracial couple with no white people, shouldn't be as revolutionary as it is in 2023, but it is! I hope this is a positive direction for on-screen storytelling.

But also everyone loves a classic "enemies to lovers" (yes, I know they're not EtL in the true sense, but I consider Rivals-to-lovers as a subset of EtL, so I'm using it as an umbrella term). I think the reason people like EtL dynamics (Especially in het pairings) is that there is always an underlying respect beneath the "hatred". Like, to see someone as a threat, you have to see them as at least an equal.

It was clear from the start that Marie and Jordan were more alike than different and it was Vought and the corrupt nature of Godolkin pushing them to compete. They're both lonely in different ways, and I love the idea of them finding acceptance and a home with each other (Also all three actors are extremely attractive and have great chemistry, so that never hurts).

Do I wish their relationship had been paced out a bit more? Yes. But that was my issue with all of Gen V. I think the whole show would have benefitted from 12 eps, instead of 8, because development was needed in most areas.

I also just want to note, for all the people saying their relationship "came out of nowhere", I truly feel that if Marie looked like Erin Moriarty and Jordan looked like Chace Crawford, most people would have clocked the romance from the beginning, jus saying...

[teamfreewill2pointo]

On one hand, 13 episodes of Countdown and 8 episodes of the Boys is a regular number of eps for a Supernatural season On the other hand, Kripke takes forever to film. // A couple episodes of Tracker before the Amazon marathon begins // However, after the Amazon filming, will there be a hiatus in which a revival could be done? (Like there would be if it was a typical 21 episode filming run)

Let's look at the Gen V timeline to compare: Announced Sept 2020 Amazon gives order Sept 2021 Leads Announced 2021 Filming Begins May 2022 Wrapped Sept 2022 Premiered Sept 2023 If Vought Rising follows a similar timeline, we're looking at Announced 2024, Filming 2026, with a premiere 2027. The Boys: Mexico was announced Nov 28, 2023, and I haven't heard of any new developments on that other than they are taking their time so who knows.

Tracker season 2 is filming July 16 2024 - April 22 2025 with a hiatus Aug 1 - Aug 6th. Season 5 of The Boys will be filming Nov 2024 to Summer 2025.

The Boys, Countdown, and Vought Rising will also use block filming, which means Jensen won't need to be committed for the entire filming stretch. Now Rob did take 3 months to film one episode, but that's because there were a bunch of him in the one episode. It all depends on when Vought Rising is filming and how much he's on screen for each of the shows, but he could have time for a revival in there depending on the scheduling on the filming blocks.

[harleyxhoward]

Ep. 8 Spoilers (The Boys)

Rapid fire main feeling/takeaways

- While I’m deeply upset we didn’t get to see the hostile takeover like in comics, the ending scene gives me hope for a bizarre dystopian Season 5 with all super humans having dominion over America, especially with a Gen V S2 tie in.

- I was waiting to see Ashley’s mutation, assuming it would be some Marvel’s Medusa style hair manipulation judging how her skull started moving.

- Why is no one talking about Kimiko finally having a strong enough tether to Frenchie that she SCREAMED? She wanted this at the beginning of the season, and I’m glad they didn’t just ignore it for her character arc.

- I’m not surprised Vicky got killed, but it annoyed me that it happened when she was fully surrendering and her daughter was ultimately subjected to her same tragic past at Red River.

- Grace deserved it, sorta kinda. Why was she provoking a young boy who clearly can’t control his abilities by offloading every horrible thing about him to his face like that was going to yield something positive? I liked her, but the second that scene began I knew her fate was sealed.

- I really thought Firecracker was going to fully die from some overdose/disease because of the milk pills, but now I’m thinking that pretty much every supe that takes part in this New World Order are going to get killed by Butcher/the virus. Probably (better not be) Annie, Kimiko, or Ryan, and I’m assuming the gang from Godolkin would also find an antidote or safe haven as well.

[plaguerat00]

⚠️GEN V EP 8 SPOILERS!!!!!!!⚠️

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OH MY GOD.

R.I.P CATE'S FUCKING ARM, HOLY SHIT.

I thought for SURE Jordan was about to fucking die there, I was waiting for it.

FUCKIN HOMELANDER I KNEW HE WAS GONNA SHOW UP.

Marie took that laser blast like a fuckin champ.

BUTCHEEEEER SCCCRRAAAAAAAAAAAW

[mariejordans]

Listen I adore limoreau they're the first new ship I've had in a long time and I know the show only has 8 eps but omg they're skipping so many important things with them wtf we should've gotten to see flashbacks of their first time where's the convo after all the angst last episode we need more development and depth. I really don't think they anticipated how popular they were gonna be not as a ship but just romance in general they thought it was gonna be like the boys where 99% of the fandom could not care less about who is dating who but this is a college show and the dynamics and potential of the ships is 1000% greater than that of the boys and I LOVE the boys but it's not that show. Also although the boys doesn't kill most of its characters I think gen v is gonna be different we're loosing at least one main the finale and more in s2

okay this post kinda got away from me and i just started rambling (probably nonsense) so please forgive me if none of this makes sense and/or sounds stupid 😭

first off, anon i COMPLETELY agree with you on the first point. like, don’t get me wrong, i’ve loved and appreciated all the limoreau scenes we’ve gotten so far but right now limoreau just feels a bit….underdeveloped ig? i’m not saying that the writers need to take three seasons to get them together (that would be torture), but it feels like there are so many loose ends left with them and i don’t see how they can tie them all up in the final episode, considering it’s supposed to be a tie-in to s4 of the boys and SO MUCH SHIT is happening.

it feels as if the writers shoved in as much limoreau content as they could into the first half of the season and then were like “alright that should be enough” like???? no? we have not seen a proper conversation between jordan and marie about the state of their relationship since, what, episode 5? and they never resolved the issue of jordan being insecure about marie wanting to be with ALL of them, not just their masc self? if the kiss in tonight’s episode is the last limoreau romantic content we get, i’ll be very disappointed bc i feel like they definitely could’ve at least wrapped up that arc in less than eight episodes.

and don’t get me started on what happened during the memory wipe. the two main characters had SEX and we don’t even get to see the build-up to how and why that happened? it’s not as if marie and jordan don’t remember, bc cate literally gave them their memory back, so it kinda feels like we missed a couple steps in this episode 😭 like, yes, the kiss was super cute and soft and adorable and yes i was kicking my feet and giggling, but at the same time it felt a bit “whoa why we going so fucking fast” bc as far as WE know, they haven’t really talked about the kiss or the sex. like, i feel robbed a little bit bc this is supposed to be like THE main couple 😭

i also think you might be onto something with the writers not anticipating how popular limoreau bc the boys (while they do have some beautiful ships kimchie ily) is not exactly a ship/romance-heavy show and ig they expected the audience to take after the boys?? idk if that makes sense but 🤷🏼‍♀️

as for gen v having major characters killed off, i kinda agree, i kinda don’t. i think mostly bc they’ve already killed off two major characters (luke, who i am counting even though he was alive for 1 ep bc his death was a MAJOR plot twist bc he was literally being promoted as a main/lead character, and indira) and then they also killed off dr. cardosa, so i’d say the kill count is pretty high already. i think the characters most likely to die are andre or cate (or andre’s dad but idk if i’d consider him a major death.)

i think marie and jordan are probably the safest of the main characters (KNOCK ON WOOD!!!!!!) and should they survive this season (god willing!!!!) i think they will remain safe, if not safer. limoreau are the biggest draw (for newer viewers who haven’t seen the boys at least) to the show right now in my opinion. almost everyone i encounter who likes this show got into it because of jordan and marie. i got into it bc of jordan and marie. i don’t think it’d be smart of them to kill off their most popular characters (at least, i really really hope they’re smart enough NOT to do that) so (again, KNOCK ON WOOD!!!!!!!) i think they are safe.

cate could go one of three ways i think; 1, she lives and ends up going full villain/anti-hero arc (which works well with the theory that marie is gonna blow off cate’s hands so she can’t use her power); 2, she has a whole redemption arc where she sacrifices herself for the group; and 3, (this one seems the most far-fetched to me idk if they would actually go this route) cate dies and becomes a martyr or symbol of the entire supes lives matter thing or whatever it’s called. either way, cate is going to go through some deep deep shit in the finale.

ppl have been saying emma and sam kinda have death trope written all over them, but idk i just don’t see it. i could MAYBE see one of them dying, but also not bc apparently there was a scene from one of the promo trailers of emma in the woods as a prisoner and considering this hasn’t happened yet, i’m thinking maybe it could be a cliffhanger for the end of the episode into season 2? as for sam, i honestly have no idea what the writers have planned for him. personally, i think it would be cruel to kill him off after what he experienced in the woods, not to mention his brother already is dead so it’d be kinda fucked up to kill both riordan brothers but 🤷🏼‍♀️ anything can happen in this show

as for andre, i hate to say it, but he’s kinda useless. he’s probably the weakest supe of the group if i had to pick one and i could definitely see andre dying being used as a way to either solidify cate’s villain arc or like, shock some sense into her(?) bringing her back to the good side, idk 🤷🏼‍♀️ plus there’s the whole controversy with chance, so unless andre survives and they decide to recast him, i really wouldn’t be that sorry to see him go. also, i think his dad is almost for sure dying, my main question is what the hell happened to him and how did he die bc that was random as hell.

i really just hope limoreau and cate survive, they’re probably the most interesting characters in this entire show (i may be a bit biased but it’s fiiine), plus the actors are so so so great, it’d be such a shame to lose them. i’m a little ambivalent on sam and emma, but i don’t really WANT them to die, and with andre, i kinda just don’t care for reasons explained above.

honestly, i think if they kill off another main character this season, it might lessen the chances of killing off another main character in the second season (unless they add more characters to the main cast), and if they end up surviving all the main characters, someone is def getting killed in s2, idk if it’ll be both, but again, anything can happen in this universe so i guess we’ll have to see 🤷🏼‍♀️

[kyriathanatos]

Wow uh I was REALLY enjoying the new Boys spin-off Gen V, was thinking about how good of a spin-off it was for not falling to common spin-off pitfalls, had watched 7/8 episodes in one day,

and then I watched ep 8 and that last episode really fucked it all up completely huh?

Semi spoilers I guess for Gen V

You reveal someone to be a traitor, set up an episode redeeming them, then the NEXT EPISODE suddenly they go little ms fascist and start killing everyone doing the whole “supes are superior!” Trite that seems wildly not in character even a little, to the point I was desperately reading the wiki to see if I missed something somehow between last night and now.

And then you have another character who’s been tortured physically and mentally but who wants to be good and a super hero just suddenly get flipped to TURBO fascism from hearing one single “make supes great again, we’re better than humans!” From a random kid which he then uses to justify throwing away the relationship you spent like multiple episodes building.

All for what? So everyone could have a fight scene? Tension? So you could make villains and heroes even though everyone was pretty consistently characterized until then? Jesus dude. What a crock. And then it just ends with a cliffhanger.

And that’s to say nothing of the end credits “hehe look it’s character you know from main show :))” shit, which the show had avoided doing to this point and felt refreshing and like it was a new story in this universe rather than a hanger on to The Boys. I was thinking it was one of the best spin offs I’d seen up until this, goddamn.

Man what a disappointment

[pearlzier]

on s2 ep 8 😽😽 still contemplating whether to watch gen v after or go straight to s3 bc i wanna see the loml