- Generation V Season 2 episode 6 is now available on Prime Video
- Includes an important cameo by the boys that no one predicted
- The character in question revealed some great new details about the Odessa Project.
Generation V Season 2 episode 6 has arrived on Prime Video and is packed with intriguing revelations that not only set the stage for the next two episodes of the show, but also the boys‘Fifth and final season.
Titled ‘Cooking Lessons’, it contains a cameo by a character who first appeared in the boysconfirmed our prediction that Marie’s sister Annabeth has superpowers and revealed a ton of important new details about The Odessa Project / Project Odessa.
Full spoilers follow immediately for Generation V the last entry of season 2. Come back now if you haven’t seen it yet.
Welcome back, Stan Edgar.
Let’s deal with that big cameo first. After escaping Elmira, Marie and company decide to hide out in an abandoned library to plan their next move against Cipher. That’s the plan anyway, until The latest Big Bad from the Amazon TV show manages to track them down and sends the Norse god-inspired Supe Vikor after them.
Luckily, Marie and her friends are rescued by someone we weren’t expecting to see: Zoe Neuman, who murders Vikor using her mouth-based tentacle abilities. For those who need reminding: Zoe is the daughter of dead Supe politician Victoria Neuman, who was murdered by Billy Butcher in the boys season 4 finale.
However, that’s not the big cameo I’m talking about. Moments later, we see that Zoe has been accompanied by none other than Stan Edgar, aka the former CEO of Supe’s manufacturing megacorporation, Vought Inc.
There is no mention of how the couple met. Remember, after Victoria’s death in the final episode of the boys In season 4, Zoe was sent to Red River, also known as the institution founded by Vought for orphaned children of Supe. Meanwhile, Edgar was last seen being rescued by Victoria, aka his estranged adopted daughter, in season 4, episode 5.
Until now we didn’t know what had happened to him. But, considering that Zoe is Edgar’s adopted granddaughter, he must have tracked her down to Red River, become her guardian, and brought her back to live with him in his underground base of operations.
Project Odessa’s ties to Homelander and Cipher’s plan revealed
But I digress. After agreeing to accompany Edgar back to his secret headquarters, Marie and company soon discover the truth about the Odessa Project.
As it happens, the Odessa Project was devised by Godolkin to create God-level superhumans who were supposed to rule planet Earth. This plan was mocked through an inscription on a pedestal upon which a bronze bust of Godolkin sits in the courtyard of Godolkin University (God U), which reads: “The path will begin here, where mortals become gods.”
According to Edgar, the Odessa project failed at first. However, a breakthrough was made in the 1980s, and surprisingly, it has something to do with Homelander. This is because, as I predicted in the aforementioned Project Odessa explained article, the boysThe main villain was the first Supe created as part of the show. Marie, then, was not the first and only person to come out of this.
That’s not all. Again, as I described in my Project Odessa article, Compound V, i.e. the serum that gives people superhuman abilities, can cause side effects in children, adolescents and adults. Injecting it into an embryo as part of, say, an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program would avoid this problem and ensure that babies are born with Compound V written into their DNA.
Generation VThe last chapter confirms it. In fact, Edgar says the advent of IVF allowed Vought to inject Compound V into Odessa subjects at the blastocyst stage (essentially, an early-stage embryo). The newborns would be born, well, with Supe’s creator serum as part of their genetic makeup and would therefore be more powerful than your average superhuman. For your information, Edgar was the one who shut down the Odessa Project. Initially, Marie did not display superhuman aptitudes, so she was considered a failure, hence the closure of the program.
But wait, there’s even more. In the latest episode of one of Prime Video’s best shows, Edgar also admits that Godolkin has the power to stop Homelander.
Later, when Edgar shows other top-secret Vought files to Marie, we glimpse a high-frequency whistle device, as well as a superpower-blocking neck brace. The design of the latter resembles the same ones used by the Supes imprisoned in Elmira, which is basically the boys Take on the mutant inhibitor collars that the X-Men and other detained mutants are forced to wear in Marvel Comics. However, it’s unlikely that any of these devices will work on Homelander.
Anyway, Edgar also tells the triumvirate that Godolkin thinks he can control Supes. We have already seen examples of this in Generation V season 2, with Cipher, who fans believe is a human vessel controlled by Godolkin, being able to control Jordan during his staged fight with Marie in season 2, episode 4. You can remember it via my Generation V Season 2 Cipher’s powers explained piece.
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Is this another clue, then, that Godolkin is the heavily scarred individual we saw in that hyperbaric chamber in the fourth episode of this season? And confirms that he is actually controlling the man known as Cipher to manipulate events from the shadows?
Edgar seems to think that Godolkin and Cipher are completely separate people; in fact, he says as much by telling the group that while Godolkin wants to control Supes, Cipher wants Supes to rule humanity. In a separate scene later, Cipher tells Polarity that he wants to eliminate 75% of the Supe population from Godolkin University so that only the strongest remain, lending credence to Edgar’s claim.
However, when the trio tell him what they know about Godolkin and Cipher, Edgar soon changes his mind. He also didn’t believe the old rumor that Godolkin had survived that terrible laboratory fire in 1967, but what Marie and company tell him forces him to change his mind.
Understandably, all of this raises new questions. Are Homelander and Marie the only God-like Superdivines in existence? And, after his big story dump, can we trust Edgar, or is he just using everyone to eventually regain control of Vought in the boys season 5?
Also, despite the Nazi and KKK memorabilia in that secret room at the Godolkin University library, is Godolkin really a good guy who wants to help Marie and company stop Homelander? If so, is Cipher/Godolkin pressuring Marie to unlock her true potential because she’s the only one powerful enough to kill Homelander?
I suspect the answers to this last one are “no”, with “TBC” being the answer to my other queries. Hopefully, we’ll get answers to those questions and more in Generation V The last two episodes of season 2. Lord knows we as a fanbase will be upset if we have to wait the boys‘Fifth and last season to get them.
