Creature Commandos Season 1 Review

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This is a DynaMic Network podcast.

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Welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly
show where we review superhero films and debate

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the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing
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I'm Johnny DC. And I'm his twin brother, Marvelous
Joe. And in this episode, we are doing a review

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of DC Studios' first ever project, the animated
series Creature Commandos, written by James

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Gunn, the head of DC Studios. Was it a worthwhile
start to the new DC universe? You'll find out

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later on in our review. Before that we're going
to break down the comic book movie news from

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the past week, of which there was just one major
news item, and that was the new official trailer

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for the Daredevil Born Again series for Disney+.
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the podcast. Real quick today, January 21st
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myself. So I just want to say happy birthday
Joseph. If I could get you any gift from DC,

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it would be a big belly burger. Cause it'll
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Marvel, it would be nothing because you wouldn't
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wanted. Nothing for Marvel. I'll take a big
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But with that out of the way, quick to the No
Prize! A No Prize is an award Marvel used to

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give out to fans. Our version, the Dynamic Duel
No Prize, is a digital award we post on Instagram

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for the person that we feel gave the best answer
to our question of the week. What Marvel or

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DC theatrical film are you most looking forward
to in 2025? You basically had four options.

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There's Captain America Brave New World, Thunderbolts,
Superman, and Fantastic Four First Steps. We

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got three answers this week, so let's go ahead
and break down the honorable mentions as well

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as the no prize winner. Our first honorable
mention goes to Mike Williams, who said, I'm

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very interested to see the new Captain America
movie. to see what role the Red Hulk's gonna

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play, and also how General Thunderbolt loss
is connected with the Thunderbolt movie that

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will be coming out later this year. Anyway,
as always, make mine Marvel. Take care. Yeah,

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Captain America Brave New World, I believe the
tickets actually went on sale already. I'm

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really looking forward to that movie, mostly
for the appearance of Red Hulk and the leader.

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I kind of feel like they maxed out the coolness
factor of Sam Wilson in the Falcon and the

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Winter Soldier television series and all of
his appearances from Captain America the Winter

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Soldier and Civil War. We've seen a lot of what
he can do already. So I find myself more drawn

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toward the villains of Captain America Brave
New World than the hero. That being said, I'm

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excited Sam's getting his own movie. Yeah, I'm
pretty excited to see this as well, especially

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after the last trailer that we received. We
still don't know too much about the story,

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I feel, but visually and action wise, it looks
like the movie is going to be incredible. If

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it can capture the same spirit as Captain America
the Winter Soldier, I think we're in for quite

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the treat in a few weeks. Great answer Mike!
Our next honorable mention goes to... Miggy

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Mathingian who said... Hey what's up guys this
is Miggy and like Lizzie said in the Discord

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server, there's only one right answer this week.
It's Superman. It's going to be so good. It's

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going to be everything that you want in a Superman
movie. Characterizes the hero really well.

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And it's the only movie you should be looking
forward to. this year because Marvel sucks.

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It's dying. Just let it die. You know, like
it's been dead. Why are you still trying to

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hang around? Stop it. That's right. Marvel is
dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy. I think

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Deadpool and Wolverine would probably disagree
there. I mean, the movie made over a billion

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dollars. Okay. Marvel's not dead. Marvel is
thriving. The Captain America movie is gonna

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be awesome. And like, Mickey's over here talking
about how the Superman movie is gonna be everything

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you want from a Superman movie. Like, he's seen
the film. What if it doesn't have everything

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you want from a Superman movie? What if your
expectations are too high, my friend? Not possible.

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Superman is gonna nail it out of the park. I
cannot wait to see it. It's gonna be the next

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best Superman movie since Superman the movie
and Man of Steel. Jonathan, do you remember

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everything you were saying about Batman vs Superman
before that film came out? Hey, hey, the extended

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edition was everything I wanted. Do you remember
everything you were saying about Joker 2 before

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that film came out? Too soon, man. Too soon.
Great answer, Miggy. But the winner of this

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week's snow prize is Kat Stevenson, who said,
Hi, guys, it's Kat Stevenson here. And the

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theatrical release that I am most excited for
is Pedro Pascal. I mean, Fantastic Four First

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Steps. I'm so excited to see Pedro Pa- I mean,
the Fantastic Four finally get a good rendition.

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Like with Pedro Pa- I mean, Mr. Fantastic, Galactus,
Silver Surfer, the really cool rendition of

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Pedro Pa- I mean, the thing. Everything looks
so good and I am so excited for Pedro Pa- I

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mean, the Fantastic Four to come to the MC-
Sounds like someone's really excited about

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the casting of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards,
Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movie coming

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out this summer. I will be honest, and I think
I've said it when he was cast and that was

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announced last year, I'm not thrilled about
Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic, but I do like

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him as an actor and I do think he could pull
off the role. Yeah, the reason we mostly chose

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this as our no-prize win is because we've had
good We've had good Superman movies, but I

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feel like we have yet to get a good Fantastic
Four movie. Yeah, I'm really hoping that this

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will be the case. I'm really looking forward
to seeing Galactus done correctly on the big

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screen. I think the scale of that character
in theaters is just going to be mind-blowing.

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I hope it is. And I really like the rest of
the cast as well. So here's hoping that the

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spirit of the Fantastic Four comics is truly
represented on film. You know, they've had

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multiple goes at it from the 90s movie that
didn't get released. The early 2000s franchise

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with Jessica Alba and of course, Fanta 4 Stick,
which came out in the 20 teens. They gotta

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get it right this time. I think they will. Yeah,
to go from one of the worst superhero movies

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to an actually good Fantastic Four movie would
be the greatest comeback in the history of

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comic book franchises. Maybe, maybe. What I'm
hoping is that... It turns a lot of people

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on to the Fantastic Four. Like, I don't think
they have many fans, especially because their

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films have done so poorly. So I'm hoping that
the characters become A-list names in households

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just like the Avengers have. That would be best
case scenario. I guess we'll see. Great answer,

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Cat. You win this week's No Prize. If you're
the listener, want a shot at winning your own

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No Prize, stay tuned to later on in this episode
when we'll be asking another question of the

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week. And now that that's done, onto the news.

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This past week we got the official trailer for
the upcoming Daredevil Born Again television

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series that's coming out on Disney Plus in just
a few months on March 4th. And damn, this show

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looks good. Like I don't know what they had
planned before the whole series retooling,

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but whatever they did really worked because
this show looks not just like a great continuation

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of the Netflix series, it looks even more set.
in the superhero world. That was my big takeaway

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from it because we got a lot of shots that really
seem to immerse the character more in the comic

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book world of Marvel than he's ever been because
we see things like you know multiple costumes

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that he's worn including homages to his gray
battle suit and his yellow costume and things

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like that but we also got glimpses of other
characters like Muse, White Tiger, The Punisher.

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It looks like a really exciting time. It's hard
for me to fathom how they could follow up the

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masterpiece that was Daredevil season three.
And I have to say, after seeing this trailer,

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this is the first hope I've had that they could
actually do that. Yeah, I don't need Daredevil

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born again to surpass the quality of Netflix's
Daredevil season three because in my mind that

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was almost perfection and it was the perfect
cap on that run. That being said, I do think

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it'll come close. It may not be a perfect season,
but I think it's highly unlikely drop the ball

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on this, you know, I think we're looking to
get like penguin levels of good here, but with

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actual superheroics and vigilante fighting.
The action looks almost more brutal than what

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we got in Netflix. Yeah, I do have to say though,
I feel bad for the villain of Muse, not because

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he's a good guy or anything, he's a piece of
shit. But he just gets his ass kicked left

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and right nonstop in this trailer. There's at
least like four different shots of Daredevil

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just beating the ever loving shit out of him.
And I hope it doesn't quite go down like that

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in the actual show. I hope there's an actual
good fight there to be had. Is Muse the guy

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who Murdoch slams the bottle on his eye and
then like kicks in his knee cap? No, that's

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a different guy. Daredevil's kicking some ass
in this trailer for sure. I wonder if Daredevil

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and Hector Alaya aka White Tiger are gonna fight
in this show. That'll be pretty interesting.

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And I'm wondering how they're gonna bring back
Frank Castle into the fold. as another vigilante

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warrior. I'm wondering how they're going to
bring Bullseye into the fold, because I can't

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wait to see his return. Oh, man, Bullseye was
so good in Daredevil season three. Yeah. It's

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just even if the show ends up not being good,
all the elements are there for it to be incredible,

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especially this diner discussion between Matt
Murdock and Wilson Fisk, who becomes the mayor

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of New York during the course of the season.
It just seems so epic in the way that like

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Robert De Niro and Al Pacino spoke in Heat.
or something like that, you know? These two

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iconic characters coming together and just their
discussion. Yeah, they're speaking like they're

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old exes or something like that. But of course
we know the nature of their past relationship

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and it's as brutal as it gets. Yeah, they're
sworn mortal enemies, but they do seem to have

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some respect for each other as it appears here,
which is always interesting. Well, it appears

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like each character has kind of moved on. Like,
Wilson Fisk is moving out to be mayor and it

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sounds like Matt Murdock hasn't been Daredevil
in a while. So it's going to be interesting

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to see how they make their return to superhero
and super villain lives. Yeah, when Kingpin

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asks Matt Murdock why he stopped being Daredevil,
Matt Murdock mentions that a line was crossed.

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And towards the end of the trailer, he mentions
how he was raised to believe in grace, but

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he was also raised to believe in retribution.
And I wonder if that's one of the key themes

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of this season, is him really struggling with
crossing the line due to his rage and how that

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correlates with his Catholic faith, which has
always been. big aspect of the character and

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one of the things that makes him truly unique.
If you guys haven't caught up on Netflix startable

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seasons 1 through 3, I highly recommend you
do so before this next season drops because

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there's a lot of history with these characters
and it's such a damn good show it's well worth

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catching up on. Yeah, absolutely. But speaking
of quality television shows, that brings us

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to our question of the week.

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What Marvel or DC television series are you
most looking forward to in 2025? This is sort

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of a play on last week's question, but instead
of theatrical releases, we want to know what

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series you're most looking forward to seeing
at home. Yeah, for Marvel, they're really seeing

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Your Friendly Neighborhood, Spider-Man and then
Daredevil Born Again and then Ironheart is

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coming out this year, as well as Eyes of Wakanda,
Marvel Zombies and Wonder Man. There's not.

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Too much more going on for DC. Of course, we
have Harley Quinn season five coming up. We

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might be getting new seasons for My Adventures
with Superman, Batman Caped Crusader, and possibly

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Creature Commandos, but also a new series on
Amazon titled Bat Family. Oh, is that the sequel

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to Merry Little Batman? Yes, yep, that's right.
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Be sure to answer before January 25th.

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That does it for the news portion of this episode,
so now let's go ahead and move on to our main

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event, where we review season one of the DC
Studios animated series, Creature Commandos.

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The

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The story of Creature Commandos stems from the
events of Gunn's The Suicide Squad and subsequent

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Peacemaker spin-off series, both of which we
praised on this podcast in our reviews. This

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show, I'm mostly happy to say, is in keeping
with James Gunn's signature crass comedy ensembles

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with heartfelt characterizations, and I definitely
recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Gunn's

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prior work, whether for DC or the MCU's Guardians
of the Galaxy franchise. Creature Commandos

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is only seven half-hour episodes, a pretty quick
watch, so make sure you do just that before

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listening any further to this spoiler review.
Now, I said I was mostly happy to say that

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this show matched the crass comedy and emotional
weight of James Gunn's past works because I

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liked those past works. I'm a fan of James Gunn.
But there was also a part of me that hoped

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Gunn had matured to the point where he was able
to deliver on the emotional aspects of a story.

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without resorting to mature humor. And in this
first DC Studios project out of the gate, he

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delivers arguably his most mature story to date,
one full of extreme violence and sexuality,

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which was somewhat discouraging. Now, I'm fairly
confident James Gunn's Superman movie coming

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out this summer is not going to match the tone
of Creature Commandos, but this show does present

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a barrier to those looking to faithfully experience
DC's new cinematic universe. in the same way

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audiences were extremely faithful in seeing
everything Marvel Studios released during the

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Infinity Saga storyline. Yeah, well, I mean,
Creature Commandos was written, at least the

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specs were written by James Gunn prior to the
existence of the DCU. He wrote them when HBO

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was looking for an animated series from him
coming off the success of Peacemaker Season

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One. So the tone of Creature Commandos, I think,
is more in line with James Gunn's whole vision

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for the Suicide Squad quadrant. of the DCU and
not necessarily representative of what the

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tone is going to be for the DCU going forward.
True, that very may well be the case. Now I

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often criticize Marvel films for their over-reliance
on humor, and while I shouldn't be surprised

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that the guy who made the Guardians of the Galaxy
films was going to bring that humor to DC Studios,

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in part probably because it obviously sells
well given the MCU's financial success. I do

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tend to see DC characters and stories as being
above that, like DC's Oscar worthy, whereas

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Marvel's made more for the MTV Movie Awards
audience. So I never really wanted the DCU

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to be more like the MCU, and I'm slowly coming
to terms with the fact that while Marvel is

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like the really popular sugary soda Coca-Cola,
and while I want DC to be like a fine bourbon,

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not necessarily for everyone, DC actually ending
up like Pepsi is not the worst thing in the

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world, because there are a lot of people out
there of all ages that like Pepsi. I'm not

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one of them, but I can learn to like it, especially
if these mature projects like Creature Commandos

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are relegated to niche animated fare. I like
how you compare DC to Pepsi. I think the analogy

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works. You know, Marvel's red, DC's blue. DC
has a circular logo. It just made sense branding

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wise in my head. Pepsi is also dog shit, so.
Hey, fuck you, man. Don't make me defend Pepsi.

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Now because as a niche exploitation-esque project,
Creature Commandos really hits the nail on

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the head. It feels very much like a successor,
as I mentioned, to the Suicide Squad in regards

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to its mission-based narrative and real stakes
in which any of your favorite characters could

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die. It feels like a passion project from James
Gunn, who does a tremendous job conveying that

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behind every monster is a tragedy. In fact,
each episode of the series is dedicated to

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showing us the past tragedy of an indiviDuel
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helps us recognize the humanity in the characters
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That was my big takeaway from the show was just
the tragedy of the characters. You're talking

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about some of the most tragic characters to
ever exist in comics. And really, you kind

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of need that humor because of some of the horrific,
sad things that you see. happen on the screen.

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You need that balance. Otherwise, it would just
be one heck of a depressing show. And in some

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ways it was, just due to how everything was
presented. Like, I don't think I've seen as

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many instances of dead children in a superhero
project. And it was actually surprising to

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me. And I don't know if that's just because
I'm a dad now, but I was really affected by

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it. And that's not to say that the show was
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if you look at the story of the Creature Commandos
from the comic books, They went through some

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dark shit. Like there was that whole arc where
they were commanded during World War II to

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kill that group of super soldier Nazi children.
Right. And they ended up doing it. And you

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know, there was a lot of dysfunction in the
team because of that. So all these tragic stories

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that you were referring to when you say that
there's a tragedy behind every monster. And

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I agree, that's the biggest idea that this series
sold. I agree. Their misfortunes result in

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a very cynical view of humanity and tone for
the series. which is in contrast to what I'm

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hoping is a very hopeful tone for the upcoming
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for a project starring literal monsters, a cynical
tone is appropriate, I feel, and shows some

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value in cynicism over, say, optimism, because
cynicism tends to help people survive, giving

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these monsters the most human trait of all,
and that is the instinct to survive. That's

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valid. I mean, like cynicism is one of my least
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I guess it is a valuable trait when it comes
to like soldiers out on the battlefield or

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on a mission or something like that. It's good
to be cynical and skeptical of everything and

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everyone around you when your life is on the
line. Otherwise, yeah, I hope more people are

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like Superman. Yeah, that's my hope for sure.
But, you know, when the zombie apocalypse breaks

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out, I will be the most cynical person on the
planet. Now the show revolves heavily around

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its cast of characters, but before we get into
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the show's animation style, which I would actually
describe as this combination of the tomorrow

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versus cleanliness and unique character designs
with the quirkiness and charm of mature animated

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favorites like Eon Flux and just a hint of anime
action. I wasn't actually looking forward to

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this style of animation in the trailers, but
actually grew to love it. the action scenes,

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which were often coupled with some deep cut
song choices that would make Quentin Tarantino

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proud. It also doesn't hurt that, with the exception
of one character, the characters look like

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the actors who voice them, making it easier
to believe the performances and just making

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me really excited to see them all in live action
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2. Yeah, the animation was great. The violence
level. was shocking. It was almost or maybe

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even surpassed the level of gore that we saw
in the Hit Monkey series. Oh yeah, when you

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have like Dr. Phosphorus just like shoving his
hand like slowly through people's faces melting

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it off. I'm like, good, good gosh. Yeah, I think
it was more like invincible in that regard

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because, you know, the animation was a lot cleaner
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little bit more stylized. Like there was like
a lot of blood spray. Here there was less spray

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and it was more just like splatter. I guess,
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All I can say is I'm just glad I binged this
show while I was not eating. Yeah. Moving on

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to the character breakdown, starting off with
Rick Flagg Sr. He was voiced by Frank Gurlow

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of Crossbones fame in the MCU. I didn't recognize
his voice to me, he just sounded like a really

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good voice actor. I had forgotten that Frank
Gurlow voiced the character. He was good in

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the role and well cast as the father of Joel
Kinnaman. I do have to say though that this

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character, more than any other character, looks
the least like the actor who voiced them. Rick

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Flack Sr. actually looks more like James Gunn,
with the white hair and beard, who we actually

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see in animated form in every opening credits
of the show. I'm not sure why James Gunn decided

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to make Rick Flack Sr. look like him, considering
he didn't in the show's promo art, like he

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had black hair, and Frank Urlow won't have white
hair. in the Superman movie because we've seen

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behind the scenes photos of him on set as Rick
Flack Sr. That is a strange call and it's a

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weird way to insert yourself, allegedly, in
the story. I don't understand the justification

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for it at all. I just kind of miss Joel Kinnaman's
character. I wish he wouldn't have died in

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the Suicide Squad. Dude, we're all still heartbroken
about that. Even the guy who killed him, Peacemaker,

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was heartbroken about that. Yeah, I guess that
was a big part of Peacemaker's arc in his show.

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Speaking of arc. Rick Flagg Sr. begins the series
dealing with the loss of his son, Rick Flagg

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Jr., who died in the 2021 film, The Suicide
Squad. Princess Ilana Rostovic took advantage

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of his sorrow in an attempt to manipulate him
into killing Cersei, the clairvoyant, the muscarine

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sorceress who foresaw Princess Rostovic destroying
the world. When the Amazonian expert Dr. MacPherson

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vouched for the captured Cersei's credibility,
Flagg teamed up with Eric Frankenstein to spy

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on Dr. MacPherson. only to learn that she had
been killed and replaced by the shapeshifter

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Clayface. After being put into a coma by Clayface,
Flag awoke briefly to warn Amanda Waller that

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she was wrong to send Task Force M back to Pakolistan
to kill Princess Rostovic, unaware that the

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princess had been working with Clayface to discredit
Dr. MacPherson. Flag was wrong, however, too

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optimistic and gullible as compared to the cynical
monsters he was trying to lead. whose disdain

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for the world and humankind actually helped
them see through the princess's manipulations.

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Yeah, it's hard to speak about Rick Flag as
a character because while I wouldn't call him

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one dimensional or anything like that, he was
also probably the least interesting in a group

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of literal freaks and monsters, you know? Oh,
totally. I actually thought Rick Flag Sr. was

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going to be the main character of the series,
but I was totally wrong. He was knocked out

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of the series like halfway through. basically,
and was involved in the climax or anything

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like that. Right. And he ended up getting manipulated
as well. Right. His whole arc is just him being

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wrong, essentially, like I mentioned. So moving
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who is a fantastic voice actress. It was just
a fantastic character as well. I cannot wait

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for more of her character in the announced upcoming
season for Creature Commandos. She was the

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most interesting character. Yeah, she kind of
had a chip on her shoulder, but you get into

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her backstory and it's really easy to see why,
considering, you know, the people that she

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loved were killed by the people that she hates.
And so she just really had this bitter attitude

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toward everything. But I like the way they portrayed
her as this badass. It's not often that you

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get female characters who are this cynical.
I can't even really think of any off the top

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of my head because, like, you think of characters
like Black Widow and stuff like that. At least

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in the comics, they're closer to this version
of the character. But this version was so much

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more violent. than most other femme fatales
that you get. Yeah, she's like a super soldier

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black widow. Yeah. Now the bride was created
by Dr. Victor Frankenstein as a mate for his

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monstrous creation, Eric Frankenstein. Eric
didn't ask to be created and didn't wanna live

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unloved. So Victor created the bride for him,
though Eric was too impatient and uncouth for

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her to bond with him. Victor cared more for
her, which turned into a romance between him

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and the bride, causing Eric to kill his creator
in jealousy. The bride, enraged by what Eric

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had done, fought him and fled, beginning a pattern
that would last centuries as Eric continued

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to stalk her across the planet. Life is a burden
for the bride and it's hardened her, but her

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experience makes her the perfect leader for
a team of monsters, as recognized by Amanda

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Waller when she replaced Rick Flagg

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Yeah, that was one of the best quotes, I think,
in the show where Amanda Waller was like, we

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need someone who's less of a whiny bitch and
someone who's more just a bitch. It was so

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good. Now, in the end, it's the bride alone
who recognizes that Princess Rostovic was exactly

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the entitled narcissistic person that Cersei
claimed she was, though she killed the princess

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not because of what she would do, but because
she killed Nina Mazursky, the one person the

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bride had grown to care for. I thought that
was a fantastic story choice. The fact that

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the bride was like, you know what, you're planning
on doing all of this horrible shit to humanity.

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I don't care at all about humanity. I'm just
going to kill you because you killed my friend.

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It was a fantastic ending and a great moment
for the character. I think the one thing missing

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from the character of the bride was that she
didn't have four arms like she does in the

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comics. I wish they would have done that in
the series. Sometimes she has six arms in the

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comics. Hopefully they'll do that in subsequent
seasons. Moving on to Eric Frankenstein, he

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was voiced by David Harbour. This was the casting
that I was most excited about when it was announced,

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and I actually like him a lot more in this role
than the Red Guardian role for Marvel. He's

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fantastic, although I don't love what they did
with the actual character. Yeah, we pit Frankenstein

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against Elsa Bloodstone in a Duel episode, and
the backstory of the character was actually

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pretty interesting, but the way he's characterized
in this show... they completely changed him

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and he was despicable. He was the worst fucking
character. I hated the guy. Yeah, in the comics,

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Frankenstein is this wise and noble figure,
but in the show, despite his somewhat likable

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buffoonery, he's cast very much like a violent
stalker, essentially a villain in the series,

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making him pretty uncomfortable to watch. But
also, it's somewhat in keeping with the literary

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character of Frankenstein's monster. who resents
life and demands affection. Mary Shelley's

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Frankenstein is probably my favorite story ever.
So I'm really curious to see where they take

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the Eric Frankenstein character and see how
he grows. Hopefully he does. Do you think they're

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gonna try to redeem him? Or do you think they're
gonna double down and make him even more of

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an asshole? I don't know. I hope they don't
make it so that the bride falls in love with

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him. I hope Eric actually finds a new love and
the bride finds a new love Because they never

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did that in the book. In fact, the character
of the bride kills herself rather than be with

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Frankenstein's monster. Is he called Eric in
the books as well? No, no. I wonder why they

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call him Eric in this show. I don't know. I
think it was just to give him a name. Movie

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gone to Nina Mazursky. She was voiced by Zoe
Chow, who I'm not too familiar with. She's

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been in a number of minor roles in various projects.
I did think she did a fantastic job voicing

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the role. You know, like Frankenstein, Nina
Masursky was fairly different in this show

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than she was in the comics. Here she's pretty
naive when in the comics she was a scientific

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genius who actually helped create the Creature
Commandos. In recent comics, at least. Her

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father created the team in its earliest incarnation.
So that part, they got somewhat right in that

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Dr. Masursky transformed his daughter out of
care and necessity for her survival. James

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Gunn has a habit of killing off innocents in
his works. So I shouldn't have been surprised

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that Nina did not survive to the end, but her
death had a large impact on the bride, and

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I think it's one that will continue into future
seasons. In a way, it's kind of bittersweet

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that Nina died still innocent, still having
never killed someone and becoming the same

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kind of monster that the others were. I was
angry when she died. I was pissed because I

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liked her as a character. And I was wondering
like why they even included her on a team of

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killers to begin with if they probably knew
by her psychological profile that she was not

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a killer. Yeah, her role on the team was not
incredibly practical, you know, up until the

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end when she was tasked with killing the princess
in the water. But for majority of the season,

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Nina simply just wanted a friend, whether that
was GIA Robot or the bride. I think she was

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kind of there for moral support and to bring
some small degree of optimism to the team.

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Moving on to GI Robot, he was voiced by Sean
Gunn, who is James Gunn's brother, and who

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is a much better actor than I think people give
him credit for, particularly when it comes

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to physicality. Now, of course, in an animated
series, you don't really get to see that, but

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even vocally, the fact that he voiced multiple
characters on the show and it wasn't terribly

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easy to hear that just lets us see his range
as an actor. Oh yeah, you compare his Kraglin

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voice to his GI Robot voice. It's night and
day. I thought he was a fantastic GI robot.

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And even his weasel noises, that was like pretty
good. Now, GI robot comes across as the most

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one note character of the team. He simply wants
to kill Nazis. But beneath that was also a

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yearning for camaraderie. He wanted to kill
Nazis, but as part of a team. Literally nothing

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brought him more joy. And it was kind of sad
to see him destroyed. as he's finally getting

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to live out his life's purpose after all these
years. But it was also cool to see him at the

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end with his upgrades. Yeah, in the books he's
called Jake, if I remember correctly, and he

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does get upgrades in the comics. I don't know
if he quite looks like the tank that he is

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at the end of the show though. No, no, he doesn't.
But yeah, there were actually two different

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versions of Jake. I'm guessing this is the number
two version because he wore a number two on

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his helmet. He cracked me up though. I really
love the scene where He's standing guard, you

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know, watching over the princess outside of
her door. And all he can talk about is just

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like, I killed 33 Nazis. And he just keeps going
on and on about that stuff. But like the look

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on his face, it almost looks like he's always
smiling. Right. Yeah. So there's just something

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really endearing and quirky about the character
that I just loved. Yeah, he was great. Now,

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of course, Sean Gunn's other performance was
as Weasel, a role he played in the Suicide

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Squad film. I was really glad to learn that
Weasel was not responsible for killing a whole

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bunch of children. as we learned in that movie.
It turns out he didn't kill the kids, he simply

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tried to save them from a fire, but was mistaken
as a monster attacking them. All the Weasel

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wants is to play, and he's instinctually very
loyal to anyone who's kind enough to bond with

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him over a game of fetch, including the Princess.
It's fairly tragic that because he's not intelligent

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enough to follow orders, if he hadn't intervened
the Princess's assassination, Nina Mazursky

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would have lived. Yeah, that is tragic. But
by the end of the series, weasel became my

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favorite character. Like I didn't really care
for weasel in the suicide squad movie. But

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here, you know, he just kind of reminds me of
my dog. You know, he just totally constantly

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always wanting to play. Even when like you thought
he was going to throw down with a pack of wolves

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and he picks up the stick and plays fetch and
just spends the whole night playing with them.

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And then like his sole motivation to go to the
castle was to play with the princess again,

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because she played fetch with him. It was just
so endearing, so endearing. Yeah, absolutely.

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And still, even though he was responsible for
Nina's death, the character is still extremely

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innocent and endearing because of that. Moving
on to Dr. Phosphorus, he was voiced by Alan

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Tudyk, who is an absolute master of the craft
of acting, both on screen and in his voiceover

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work. He's done a ton of voice roles for Disney,
but he's also done quite a bit for DC, such

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as being Mr. Nobody. in the Doom Patrol and
he was fantastic in that role and I'm glad

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he's sticking around in the new DCU. Well, he's
also in Harley Quinn. That's right, yeah, he

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voices Clayface and the Joker in that show.
Now before he was Dr. Phosphorus, the character

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was Dr. Alex Sartorius, whose family was killed
by the Gotham City mobster Rupert Thorne after

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Dr. Sartorius forged data on a cancer-curing
experiment that Thorne had funded. After being

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transformed into a radioactive skeleton and
avenging his family, Dr. Sartorius, now known

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as Dr. Phosphorus, slid deeper and deeper into
the pit of villainy and power until he was

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captured by Batman. He's the rebel of the group,
and with his skeletal appearance, it was hard

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to see him as anything other than a violent
monster until you learn his backstory and realize

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he, like any other man would, misses his family.
The scene of him talking with the little girl,

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saying he can't have her telling others that
she saw him, was kind of frightening. only

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for him to then be playing with her outside
in the next scene, which was definitely a subversion

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of expectations. I think the most shocking scene
of the whole show was seeing him as a scientist

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being laughed at while being forced to run his
fingerprints over the bodies of his dead wife

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and child. Oh, man, I've never seen anything
like that before. It was unbelievably heartbreaking

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for sure. It's disturbing. And I think that
like disturbance kind of sticks with you for

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that whole episode. which makes Dr. Phosphorus'
interaction with the little girl so full of

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tension, you know. But it was a nice moment
because it showed that he just really wanted

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to be a father again. Right, exactly. Moving
on to the final character in the character

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breakdown, Princess Ilana Rustovic. She was
voiced by Maria Bakalova, who played Borat's

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daughter in Borat 2, and voiced Cosmo the Space
Dog in Guardians of the Galaxy 3. She did a

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fantastic job with this role. You know, the
Princess begins the series as this manipulative

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minx. who we later learn could potentially lead
the destruction of the world. The overarching

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mystery of the show is whether or not this woman
is trustworthy. She's the primary antagonist

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of the series, though we don't realize she's
an actual villain until the final minutes of

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the season's final episode, where we learn,
in the Brideswords, that the Princess was a

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power-mad, sadistic, narcissistic Disney princess
who wants to destroy the world. And that changes

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a lot of how you see the character in retrospect.
and that we knew she was manipulative since

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the beginning, but we didn't realize how malevolent
those manipulations were and for what sick

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purpose. Yeah, I guess the stakes were that
she was in possession of some kind of devastating

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armor weapon that would be used to kill all
the heroes in the world. Was she supposed to

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be some kind of analog to the Amethyst character
from DC Comics? I wonder, because her knights

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were called Amethyst Knights. I was wondering
that. I'm not entirely sure because the princess

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is an original character, but given the way
everything looked and the way she looked also,

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I would not be surprised if that was the case.
That said, they probably did not want to go

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with Amethyst because Amethyst is a teenage
hero in the comics. I do wish they would have

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given a little bit more clarity into her true
nature, like at least shown us this suit of

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armor in storage or something like that. Or
at least explain why she wants to take over

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the world. Is it because... She just wants to
rule everything because I don't love that as

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a motivation. Yeah, it's a pretty weak and vague
motivation as things go. And I guess that would

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be the biggest downfall of the season as a whole.
I agree. It kind of had a villain problem in

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that she's the antagonist. She's the person
they're going up against, but we don't know

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really anything about the villain, like their
motivation, which tends to signal a weak project.

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That said, I think the main focus of this series
was the creature commandos and not her. Yeah,

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the whole show was more character driven than
plot driven. I actually found myself a little

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00:39:22,787 --> 00:39:28,370
impatient with the show after the first three
episodes because plot wise, there's not a whole

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lot there. They basically go to Polokistan and
defeat Cersei, and it's hard to tell where

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this story is going until episode four. But
basically, through the first three episodes,

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the interesting stuff comes from the character
explorations. Absolutely. Yeah, if you strip

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00:39:44,117 --> 00:39:49,613
all of the flashbacks in this series. The story
is very, very simple and actually not that

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great. It's the flashbacks that make this series.
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Episode 1 was titled The Collie Wobbles. When
the nation of Pakolistan goes under attack

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by the sorceress Cersei and her army, the Sons
of Themyscira, Amanda Waller assembles a team

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00:41:01,073 --> 00:41:07,619
of non-human prison inmates known as Task Force
M, or the Creature Commandos, to protect the

447
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nation's Princess Ilana Rostovic, who has promised
petroleum deposits in her country to the US.

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Led by Rick Flag, the team arrives in Pakolistan
and meets with Princess Ilana Rostovic, who

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manages to charm Rick Flag into a sexual relationship.
While Dr. Phosphorus attempts to steal Flag's

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remote that triggers a painful shock in the
team in order to keep them in line, resulting

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in a skirmish between the two, the bride and
Nina sneak off to Frankenstein's castle, where

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the bride was created.

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00:41:43,594 --> 00:41:49,517
watching the castle that the bride has returned.
I actually like how this series follows Peacemaker

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season one, at the end of which Amanda Waller's
Task Force X is outed to the public and to

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the government. And so they strip her of her
ability to form government teams using human

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00:42:01,404 --> 00:42:08,128
inmates. So then she resorts to using non-human
inmates or monsters for her missions. Yeah,

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it's a pretty good loophole and very in keeping
with the character of Amanda Waller. Episode

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2 was titled The Tourmaline Necklace. In flashbacks,
we learn about the tragic origins of the bride,

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reluctantly created by Dr. Victor Frankenstein
from the bodies of cadavers as a mate for Erik.

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00:42:24,838 --> 00:42:30,521
Her education from Victor leads to a romantic
attraction culminating in Victor's death at

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00:42:30,541 --> 00:42:35,665
the hands of the jealous Erik Frankenstein,
who continues to pursue the bride across time

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00:42:36,145 --> 00:42:41,140
and the planet. In the present, the bride and
Nina locate a necklace that Victor once gave

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00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:46,563
to the bride before the two are ambushed by
Cersei, whose sons of Themyscira noticed the

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00:42:46,603 --> 00:42:51,926
bride and Nina entering the castle, resulting
in a brutal fight that leaves the bride and

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00:42:52,026 --> 00:42:57,309
Nina defeated. This episode really makes you
feel for the bride, who again came off as pretty

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00:42:57,389 --> 00:43:03,233
sand-offish in the first episode, but here you
learn why that's the case, and it's a really

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00:43:03,313 --> 00:43:06,738
interesting backstory. Yeah, it was hard to
know where the story was going. The fact that

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she went after a necklace really served to speak
to her sentimental nature, I think, and that

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00:43:11,741 --> 00:43:17,724
she truly loved Dr. Victor Frankenstein. And
I'm wondering if she'll love anybody else the

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00:43:17,764 --> 00:43:22,586
way she loved him. And it was almost like she
lost the love of her life. Got to say, though,

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00:43:22,666 --> 00:43:29,389
it's pretty gross for Victor Frankenstein to
bone this reanimated cadaver chick. Necrophilia?

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00:43:29,954 --> 00:43:34,576
Yeah, yeah, very gross. It's a little weird.
Yeah. Episode three was titled Cheers to the

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Tin Man. In flashbacks to G.I. Robot's history
is explored from his time as an effective soldier

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for the U.S. military during World War Two to
when he was reawakened by a military arms collector

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00:43:46,262 --> 00:43:51,605
after decades of being decommissioned. After
killing a group of neo-Nazis, G.I. Robot was

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imprisoned and later drafted into Task Force
M. When the team arrives at Victor's castle

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to rescue Nina and the bride, They realized
the two were kept alive to distract them from

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00:44:02,524 --> 00:44:08,910
Cersei's forces attacking Castle Rostovic and
the Princess. Flag and the team return to Rostovic's

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00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:14,694
castle, now under siege, and during a chaotic
battle, G.I. Robot is destroyed after saving

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00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:20,359
the team. Cersei is eventually defeated, but
not before she exclaims that Task Force M has

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00:44:20,439 --> 00:44:26,004
doomed the world. I really liked G.I. Robot's
backstory, everything from World War II to

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00:44:26,344 --> 00:44:31,119
seeing Dr. William Magnus converse with the
character and give him upgrades and stuff like

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00:44:31,139 --> 00:44:35,541
that. The upgrade of him like being able to
detach his torso from his legs and just like

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00:44:35,601 --> 00:44:40,243
levitate so he could spin around that way was
pretty cool, even though it didn't really last

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00:44:40,283 --> 00:44:46,165
very long. What did you think of the characterization
of Dr. William Magnus? Because at some points

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00:44:46,205 --> 00:44:50,427
it seemed a little bit sinister. I wasn't sure
how I felt about that. I didn't mind that.

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00:44:50,567 --> 00:44:55,589
I know there's been some flirtation with Dr.
William Magnus being a villain in the comics.

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00:44:55,970 --> 00:45:00,711
So I think it was in keeping with that. I'm
sure they'll do further exploration with the

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00:45:00,731 --> 00:45:05,832
character. Because I think he was planted in
here to establish further DC Studio projects,

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00:45:05,972 --> 00:45:09,873
like the Metal Men, eventually at some point.
Because I don't really see any other reason

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00:45:09,893 --> 00:45:14,355
why he was included here. He, of course, was
voiced by Alan Tudyk. So maybe we'll actually

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00:45:14,375 --> 00:45:19,376
get to see Alan Tudyk play that role in live
action. I was actually shocked when G.I. Robot

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00:45:19,496 --> 00:45:24,357
died because he was so endearing as a character
that you expected him to last throughout the

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00:45:24,377 --> 00:45:28,751
entire series. I'm really glad that they brought
him back, but I do have to commend the show

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00:45:28,871 --> 00:45:32,612
for delivering on the stakes that they set up.
Yeah, I didn't think he was going to die either.

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00:45:32,793 --> 00:45:38,715
It was when he did that I realized, oh shit,
like, is no one safe? Is this like the Suicide

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00:45:38,755 --> 00:45:43,357
Squad? I hadn't really made that connection
earlier for some reason that, hey, these characters

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can actually die in this adventure. Episode
4 was titled Chasing Squirrels. In flashbacks,

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Weasel befriends a group of schoolchildren only
to be confused for their attacker. When a fire

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breaks out, authorities prioritize apprehending
Gweasel over rescuing the children. In the

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present, the team returns to Belle Reve where
Cersei is interrogated and shows Waller a vision

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00:46:06,277 --> 00:46:11,861
of an apocalyptic future caused by Princess
Rostakov's rise to power. Though Flag insists

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00:46:11,941 --> 00:46:17,184
on the princess's innocence after the assurance
from leading Amazonian researcher Dr. Isla

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00:46:17,224 --> 00:46:23,191
MacPherson on Cersei's credibility, Waller assigns
the bride to lead the team in Flagg's place

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00:46:23,491 --> 00:46:29,655
on a mission to assassinate the princess. While
the team heads back to Pakolistan, Erik Frankenstein

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ambushes Flagg at his home with the assumption
that he and the bride were in a relationship.

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Clearing up the misunderstanding, Erik and Flagg
agree to join forces to stop the princess's

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00:46:40,481 --> 00:46:45,404
assassination. It was at this point in the series
when you really begin to understand the deranged

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00:46:45,524 --> 00:46:50,738
nature of Erik's obsession with the bride. Yeah,
it was really unsettling, especially in the

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00:46:50,758 --> 00:46:55,080
next episode when you get into his backstory.
But yeah, I didn't like the character Frankenstein

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00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,502
at all here. This is one of the better episodes
for me and just that the story was probably

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the most tragic with Weasel and the group of
children. I just want to know where those kids

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00:47:04,184 --> 00:47:10,306
parents were and why the school building was
left unlocked. Yeah, where was like the teacher

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00:47:10,347 --> 00:47:15,949
supervisor? I assume that the kids were playing
at the school's playground after hours or like

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00:47:15,989 --> 00:47:20,647
on a weekend or something like that. Which is
why the school was empty during the time that

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00:47:20,667 --> 00:47:25,090
the explosion occurred. That makes sense. Yeah.
But I wanted to be like, don't play with fire,

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00:47:25,110 --> 00:47:29,493
kids. Like, what are you doing? Don't don't
do that. That's like lesson number one. They're

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00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:33,315
like a parent teaches their kids don't play
with fire, don't play with dangerous things.

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00:47:33,796 --> 00:47:37,798
But I really got pissed at the police officers
when weasel was trying to rescue the little

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00:47:37,838 --> 00:47:43,242
girl. And they prioritized shooting him over
rescuing the little girl, you know. Dude, how

521
00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:47,643
did one of those bullets not hit the little
girl? That's all I was thinking about as that

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00:47:47,683 --> 00:47:52,826
scene was happening. Yeah, in the end, though,
it didn't matter, which was truly sad. Heartbreaking,

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00:47:52,946 --> 00:47:58,728
heartbreaking. Moving on to episode five titled
The Iron Pot. In flashbacks, Eric Frankenstein

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is found by a blind medicine woman named Bogdana
after the bride's initial attack and rejection.

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00:48:05,531 --> 00:48:11,133
After being nourished back to health, rather
than leave Bogdana alone, Eric kills her. In

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00:48:11,153 --> 00:48:16,657
the present, Flagg and Eric spy on Dr. MacPherson,
learning that she has been killed and replaced

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00:48:16,697 --> 00:48:21,980
by Clayface. Flagg manages to warn the princess
over the phone that Task Force M is coming

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00:48:22,020 --> 00:48:27,884
to kill her before he and Eric are attacked
by Clayface. Clayface critically injures Flagg

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00:48:27,924 --> 00:48:34,108
before Eric manages to electrocute him. Meanwhile,
Task Force M is ambushed and separated by the

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00:48:34,189 --> 00:48:37,511
Picolestani army shortly after they arrive in
the country.

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Clayface that we've gotten over the past year,
including Creature Commandos, Harley Quinn,

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Suicide Squad, Isekai, and Batman Caped Crusader,
how would you rank those four? Well, I think

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the Caped Crusader version was the most interesting,
but in terms of just faithfulness to the comics,

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00:48:57,002 --> 00:49:01,304
I would actually say it's this Creature Commandos
version. Yeah, now that the other two aren't

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00:49:01,344 --> 00:49:05,566
without their merit, but they were definitely
looser adaptations of the character of Clayface,

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00:49:05,666 --> 00:49:09,529
I also really liked this Creature Commandos
version because he seemed more dangerous than

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the others. Absolutely. Honestly, I'm kind of
hoping that he appears in season two as a member

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00:49:14,803 --> 00:49:20,006
of the team. I thought he worked really well
in Suicide Squad Isakai as a part of the Suicide

539
00:49:20,026 --> 00:49:24,669
Squad. Except you can't really put a bomb in
his neck or like a taser, you know, as that

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00:49:24,709 --> 00:49:31,833
show proved. Magic. Just use magic. I still
can't get around why Frankenstein killed the

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old woman healer. I guess I don't quite get
what happened there. I guess in some sick,

542
00:49:37,195 --> 00:49:43,775
twisted rationale, he figured he was doing her
a favor. by having her not feel loneliness

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00:49:43,835 --> 00:49:48,659
and rejection, but I thought it was unbelievably
cruel. Yeah, at that point there was no real

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redeeming the character of Frankenstein, because
before that you knew that he was an asshole.

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Right, but it wasn't until that moment that
you saw he truly was a monster. Right. Moving

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on to episode six, which was titled, Pre-Atel
Skelette. In flashbacks, we learned that Dr.

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Phosphorus was a mad scientist named Alex Sartorius,
who borrowed money from the mob to fund experiments.

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on a machine that could cure cancer. When the
mob kills his family and attempts to kill him

549
00:50:15,071 --> 00:50:21,032
in the machine, Alex is reborn as the radioactive
Dr. Phosphorus, who kills the mobsters and

550
00:50:21,072 --> 00:50:26,354
fills the vacuum as a mob leader in the Gotham
City underworld before being imprisoned by

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00:50:26,434 --> 00:50:31,975
Batman. In the present, while on the run from
the Pakolestani army, Phosphorus encounters

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a child who reminds him of his lost son, while
the bride and Nina protect a local brothel

553
00:50:37,557 --> 00:50:42,419
and Weasel bonds with a wolf pack. Each of the
team members reunite on their way to Castle

554
00:50:42,460 --> 00:50:47,764
Rustovic to assassinate the Princess. This is
a fantastic episode, really tragic opening,

555
00:50:47,964 --> 00:50:53,609
but I like the way it set up the climax of the
show toward the end. The dance number with

556
00:50:53,649 --> 00:50:58,974
Dr. Phosphorus was a little bit weird. Actually,
you know, there were quite a few musical numbers

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00:50:58,994 --> 00:51:04,038
throughout the course of this series that kind
of stood out to me in a distracting way, in

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00:51:04,058 --> 00:51:08,702
a way that I don't think was entirely necessary.
Like, James Gunn likes to use a lot of pop

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00:51:08,722 --> 00:51:14,046
music in his projects. But in this show, some
of them almost seemed to just pad the runtime.

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00:51:14,426 --> 00:51:19,529
Watching Dr. Phosphorus dance in his pimp outfit
is one of those cases. There was also another

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00:51:19,830 --> 00:51:24,793
instance, I think in episode two, where we actually
saw the band, Gogo Bordello, perform their

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00:51:24,833 --> 00:51:30,137
song, Start Wearing Purple. It was just weird,
it was weird, like a music video. I actually

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00:51:30,317 --> 00:51:35,661
loved that. I loved all of the musical choices
and numbers in this series from Start Wearing

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00:51:35,701 --> 00:51:41,672
Purple. to seeing Dr. Phosphorus dancing. He
was just so drunk on power that he could like

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00:51:41,712 --> 00:51:46,675
get away with stuff like that. Like I mentioned,
I think the soundtrack for this series would

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00:51:46,695 --> 00:51:51,478
make Quentin Tarantino proud. For sure. But
like Dr. Phosphorus had a whole choreographed

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00:51:51,538 --> 00:51:55,180
number with backup dancers and everything like
that. You didn't find that distracting? No,

568
00:51:55,240 --> 00:52:01,483
I was laughing. Okay. All right. It was funny
that it got interrupted by Batman. Yeah, Batman

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00:52:01,503 --> 00:52:05,065
wasn't having any of it. He was like, really
a dance number? Not having any of this shit.

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00:52:06,306 --> 00:52:12,087
The final episode of the series, episode seven,
was titled A Very Funny Monster. In flashbacks,

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00:52:12,127 --> 00:52:17,109
we learned that Nina was born with deformed
lungs, resulting in her father, the renowned

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00:52:17,209 --> 00:52:22,690
geneticist and engineer Edward Mazursky, to
create a mobile iron lung for his daughter.

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00:52:23,170 --> 00:52:27,932
When Nina's mother leaves her family, Edward
experiments on his daughter, turning her into

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00:52:27,972 --> 00:52:33,593
an aquatic hybrid capable of breathing water.
After being teased in school, Nina ran away

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00:52:33,613 --> 00:52:39,245
from home. living in sewers as an urban legend
until she was caught by authorities, resulting

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00:52:39,305 --> 00:52:45,109
in her father being shot while trying to rescue
her. In the present, Task Force M makes their

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00:52:45,129 --> 00:52:49,752
way into the castle's security tower where they
find footage of Clayface with the princess

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00:52:50,172 --> 00:52:55,916
and where Eric finally catches up with them.
Unwilling to hear anything from Eric, the bride

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00:52:55,996 --> 00:53:00,619
dispatches him quickly before the team makes
their way to a lake where the princess is swimming.

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00:53:00,980 --> 00:53:06,059
Nina is tasked with executing the assassination.
but fails and is killed by the princess when

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Weasel, who was fond of the princess, alerts
her to the danger. After receiving a call from

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00:53:11,704 --> 00:53:16,587
Amanda Waller calling off the assassination,
the bride kills the princess nonetheless for

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00:53:16,607 --> 00:53:22,172
killing Nina, and after piecing together that
Cersei was right after all. A new task force

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00:53:22,312 --> 00:53:27,756
am is formed in the aftermath, featuring a mix
of survivors and new recruits, with the bride

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00:53:27,796 --> 00:53:33,148
placed in charge once again. And that's the
series. I really liked this episode. Nina Mazurski's

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00:53:33,188 --> 00:53:38,071
backstory was just as tragic as the rest of
them. But I think I felt a stronger connection

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00:53:38,111 --> 00:53:43,415
to this one because as a father, I have a daughter,
I have two daughters and there's nothing I

588
00:53:43,435 --> 00:53:48,119
wouldn't do for them. Yeah. Seeing Professor
Mazurski's love for his daughter really made

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00:53:48,159 --> 00:53:53,563
you have disdain for the mother and how she
just didn't love the child. You know, it was

590
00:53:53,603 --> 00:53:58,294
really heartbreaking when the father died in
front of Nina as she was being arrested. Oh

591
00:53:58,334 --> 00:54:03,297
yeah, totally. Right in the feels. I do wonder
about the practicality of genetically transforming

592
00:54:03,337 --> 00:54:07,300
your daughter into a gill creature though, especially
when she's having a hard enough time breathing

593
00:54:07,420 --> 00:54:13,084
anyway, to confine her to only breathing underwater.
It was a little bit of a strange solution.

594
00:54:13,124 --> 00:54:17,827
I think he should have kept working on it. Well,
I got the impression that the experiment went

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00:54:17,927 --> 00:54:22,611
somewhat wrong, or that he wasn't fully aware
of what it would do. He was only trying to

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00:54:22,631 --> 00:54:27,982
find a way for her to breathe with the liquid
that was constantly in her lungs. And I'm not

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00:54:28,102 --> 00:54:33,264
sure the result was what he intended. Because
if you think about it, it wasn't that much

598
00:54:33,324 --> 00:54:38,946
better wearing a fishbowl on your head than
it was walking around with an iron lung. Right,

599
00:54:39,026 --> 00:54:43,648
exactly. Again, the final moments of the series
were among my favorites when the bride just

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00:54:43,768 --> 00:54:48,631
straight up kills the princess for no other
reason than killing her friend Nina. I'm really

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00:54:48,651 --> 00:54:52,852
glad that they have announced a season two for
the series because whether we see them in live

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00:54:52,912 --> 00:54:58,531
action or not, I can't wait to see more. from
these characters, particularly the Bride, I

603
00:54:58,551 --> 00:55:03,615
think you could do a lot with this series and
with a lot of DC's characters, like Clayface,

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00:55:03,995 --> 00:55:09,379
like a number of villains within DC. For sure,
yeah, the dialogue was well written. I think

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when you look at the quality of shows like Creature
Commando Season 1, like Peacemaker Season 1,

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00:55:15,523 --> 00:55:20,526
and like the Suicide Squad, you can't help but
be excited for the future of the DCU in James

607
00:55:20,546 --> 00:55:22,127
Gunn's hands as a DC fan.

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00:55:25,950 --> 00:55:31,153
I'm really hoping this isn't the same tone that
we'll see in a project like Superman or other

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00:55:31,253 --> 00:55:38,418
DC fare, Supergirl, even the Lantern series.
But for this, James Gunn's style and tone is

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00:55:38,598 --> 00:55:44,042
absolutely perfect. Now it's not a perfect show,
as we mentioned there are problems with the

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villain, but for the most part, despite its
mature and violent nature, DC Studios' initial

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00:55:49,766 --> 00:55:56,650
foray packs fun action spectacle and dire stakes
while conveying that behind every monster,

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00:55:56,830 --> 00:56:03,574
as I mentioned earlier, is a tragedy. I'm giving
this show 4 out of 5 stars, a fresh rating

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00:56:03,714 --> 00:56:08,437
on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, I would agree with
4 out of 5 stars. That was the rating that

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00:56:08,477 --> 00:56:13,440
I gave the first season of Hitmonkey, which
I really enjoyed. I think there's a lot of

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00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:18,823
commonalities between Hitmonkey and Creature
Commandos. Yeah, I love Hitmonkey for Marvel,

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00:56:18,863 --> 00:56:24,778
and I'm really glad that DC has basically an
equivalent to that. in our universe. I liked

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00:56:24,838 --> 00:56:29,139
season two of Hit Monkey a little bit more than
season one, which I think had probably too

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00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:33,921
many episodes. But for Creature Commandos, they
had just the right amount of episodes to tell

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00:56:33,961 --> 00:56:38,682
the story they wanted to tell, which again was
pretty simple, maybe too simple, but I still

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00:56:38,722 --> 00:56:43,444
really liked it. For sure. Hopefully we hear
words soon as to when season two begins production

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00:56:43,504 --> 00:56:47,605
so we can know around the time that it's going
to come out. But that does it for this review.

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AJ9K helped close this out. Thanks for listening
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Senjou World and Konsole Kombat. Our next episode
is going to be a tie-in to Creature Commando

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Season 1 as we find out who would win in a fight
between Cersei, the Wonder Woman sorceress

630
00:57:29,450 --> 00:57:35,674
villain, versus Morgan Lafay, the Avengers villain.
Actually she started out as a Black Knight

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00:57:35,754 --> 00:57:39,936
villain since his lore is steeped in Arthurian
legend. But it's going to be a good episode.

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00:57:40,376 --> 00:57:44,819
Yeah, not only are these comic book characters,
but they're also characters from myth. It's

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going to be awesome. But that does it for this
episode. We want to give a big thanks to our

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executive producers, Ken Johnson. John Sturawski,
Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Belcombe, Miggy Mtn.

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00:57:52,964 --> 00:57:57,908
Guillen, Brandon Estergard, Nathaniel Wagner,
Levi Yatin, Austin Wiselowski, A.J. Dunkerley,

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00:57:58,068 --> 00:58:03,572
Scott Camacho, Gil Camacho, Adam Spies, Dean
Maleski, Devin Davis, Joseph Kirsting, Josh

637
00:58:03,632 --> 00:58:09,036
Leiner, Mike Williams, and Oscar Galvez for
helping make this podcast possible. We'll talk

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to you guys next week. Up up and away, true
believers. I wish I loved anything as much

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as GI Robot loves killing Nazis.