Gen V season 2 has made its Prime Video debut – and, surprisingly, we've already realized a good deal about its main thriller.
First teased in Gen V season 2's initial trailer, The Odessa Venture looks as if it'll play an enormous position within the present's newest installment and probably present solutions to a few of our largest questions on The Boys universe. And, with season 2's first three episodes out now, we've discovered greater than we in all probability anticipated to about this secret experiment and its ties to Compound V.
Full spoilers instantly observe for Gen V season 2 episodes 1 to three.
Just like the Supe-killing virus that was created and examined on quite a few Godolkin College (God U) college students in an underground facility referred to as The Woods, The Odessa Venture is a covert operation carried out within the bowels of the Vought-owned instructional establishment.
We're instantly given some indication that it's tied to the event of Compound V, aka the blue-colored serum that grants superhuman skills to anybody injected with it.
This season's first chapter, titled 'New 12 months, New You', opens with a flashback to 1967 and introduces us to Physician Thomas Godolkin. The college's founder and right-hand man to Physician Frederick Vought, i.e. the inventor of Compound V and founding father of Vought Worldwide, Thomas Godolkin tries – and fails – to cease his fellow scientists from self-administering a prototype model of the Supe-creating serum.
Lengthy story quick: all of them die because of the numerous results that the serum has on them, whereas Godolkin seemingly perishes from carbon monoxide poisoning after a fireplace breaks out within the lab they're all current in.
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Quick-forward to the current, and Gen V's main protagonist Marie Moreau is on the run after breaking out of Elmira Grownup Rehabilitation Middle following her imprisonment in Gen V's season 1 finale. It's not lengthy till she's tracked down by the Supe often known as Dogknot to the sleazy motel she's hiding out in. Fortunately for Marie, Annie January/Starlight, who was final seen fleeing to whereabouts unknown in The Boys season 4's finale, arrives and saves Marie.
How Annie discovered Marie is a query for one more day, as a result of Annie quickly tells Marie {that a} Vought insider instructed Annie that Vought is trying to restart growth on The Odessa Venture. To seek out out if that's true, Annie convinces a reluctant Marie to re-enrol at God U and, within the course of, discover out what Venture Odessa truly is.
Coincidentally, Marie has her personal ties to it. Reuniting along with her besties Emma and Jordan in episode 2, aka 'Justice By no means Forgets', Marie fills them in on the covert experiment. Later that episode, Emma – who groups up with Polarity, the daddy of deceased God U scholar Andre Anderson – discovers a secret room within the Thomas Godolkin wing on the college's library.
Amid the Nazi, KKK, and different right-wing paraphernalia, Emma finds a file on The Odessa Venture. Racing throughout campus, she finds Marie and Jordan, and palms over the file to the previous. Cue a shocked Marie studying it and studying that not solely was she a part of The Odessa Venture, however she was additionally the one survivor.
However wait, there's extra. Episode 3, titled 'H is for Human', Marie visits Aunt Pam, one of the best buddy of Marie's useless mother who's refused to see Marie for years. Keep in mind, Marie by accident killed her mother and father when her blood manipulation powers manifested throughout puberty.
Anyway, after an initially frosty reunion at Aunt Pam's house, Pam begins to confide in Marie about what she is aware of about The Odessa Venture. Basically, Marie's mother and father couldn't conceive naturally, nor might they resort to IVF therapy as a result of it was too costly. Step ahead Vought, which provided them a option to have a child (i.e. Marie) by way of its personal IVF-style therapy at God U.
That's not all. Pam exhibits Marie some print images of the day she was born – and, who's standing there holding Marie as a new-born? None apart from Cipher, aka the college's enigmatic and just lately put in new Headteacher. Because it occurs, Cipher, who Pam calls "Physician Gould", helped to ship Marie.
That's… loads for Marie – and, by proxy, us as viewers – to absorb, however the three-episode premiere of top-of-the-line Prime Video exhibits' second season isn't the primary time we've come throughout Venture Odessa.
In The Boys season 4 episode 4, aka the one the place Homelander takes a ultraviolent journey down reminiscence lane to the lab he grew up in, a reference to one thing referred to as 'Odessa' might be seen on a bulletin board.
On the time, the one factor we realized about Odessa was that it's a "excessive safety mission of the strictest confidence", and that anybody discovered to have damaged the non-disclosure settlement (NDA) over the key mission could be sacked and sued by Vought.
Now that we all know The Odessa Venture has been going because the Nineteen Sixties, it's believable that Homelander, who was born in 1981, was its first success story. It's additionally doable that, given her personal start, Marie is the one time Vought has recreated the method that created Homelander.
As a lot as Gen V continues to tug the veil again on The Odessa Venture and Marie's involvement in it, although, the issues we be taught in The Boys' sibling present elevate some attention-grabbing questions.
For starters, is it a method for Vought to create new-born people with Compound V already woven into their genetic make-up? Due to The Boys, we all know the chemical substance could cause negative effects. Injecting it into kids, teenagers, and even adults is an invasive and extremely ache process, too, so these two points could be solved if Vought finds a option to engineer new-borns with Compound V already locked into their DNA.
If Vought desires to restart The Odessa Venture, does that imply Homelander, the US' newly-installed shadow president, desires to create a military of Supes from start, too? Contemplating he's simply been drafted in as God U's new Dean, is Cipher secretly overseeing the resumption of this analysis? Is Marie protected or, as a result of she's the one different success story apart from Homelander, might she be used a guinea pig to attempt to recreate/good the process? And what influence might all of this have on The Boys season 5, aka the Amazon TV Unique's ultimate installment that's due out in 2026?
Hopefully, Gen V season 2 will fulfill our want for solutions in its subsequent 5 episodes. With every week to go (on the time of publication) till its fourth chapter lands on one of many world's greatest streaming providers, let me learn about your Venture Odessa theories within the feedback beneath.
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