The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 3 Episode 1 & 2 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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Starting point is 00:02:19 Like, I don't, I like this, but it's nowhere near my excitement. that I had in season one or season two it's sort of like I get it we've we have not seen these games before which I do very much enjoy right like the new card game very cool but I don't I don't like I'm not like super I'm just not stoked on it like I was before but how do you feel uh yeah the emotional pull of it is not as enticing because I think part of what made the first season so interesting is the mystery box around what the hell is actually happening and now we know what's happening yeah but now the emotional core the intrigue of it is getting back uh our wife and potential child and yes it's it's also sort of different in the fact that you know there's a major time

Starting point is 00:03:15 jump between the last two seasons and then this season being five years and it's it's funny because I think the in real life the time jump is about three years between season two and season three. So you feel some of that as an audience member if you're watching it, you know, on on Netflix, as it's originally intended. But for us, we just watched season two like not too long ago. So there isn't really a ton of space between. So I feel like when it comes to us as viewers, we're getting this like giant enchilada of an experience of a experience of show rather than how that maybe intended to be where you're viewing it as like something over the course of a few years so you there's like that that sense of um nuance like newness like if you watch this and it had been two years or something like yeah yeah because you you get that that space in between it so there's like that emotional memory of oh this is what this was like more so than the literal memory of uh we just saw you you know part one end and then we're getting into part two and now we're getting into part three um yeah it's

Starting point is 00:04:27 i i i'm intrigued um as to see how he's going to get her back the the plot armor is thick uh at least in that first episode and i think the game itself is intriguing the the strategy of what's happening because our motivation is to get our girl back whereas the first two seasons It was like, okay, we got to get out of this place. Yeah. Granted, that's still the motivation, but because it's not a double entendre of a motivation, it's not quite the same. But I'm intrigued by these new characters, and, you know, we were getting back to the sense of, you know, people do vile or downright dirty things for the sake of survival. But it does sort of, again, hit different knowing that we.

Starting point is 00:05:19 know why they're there and what this place is because to our knowledge didn't have to be here. Everybody came back on their own choice. Like, I'm looking for a near-death experience. You're like, why? Right. What do you want to do this?

Starting point is 00:05:35 Why do you want to kill other people? Like, you guys were perfectly, I don't know if you're happy necessarily, but you guys were in society. You escaped this hellish place. And I feel like the justification unless your life is like downright trash like all around and you're like well this is the only place I fell alive I feel like that makes sense but a lot of these people in that first game just seemed

Starting point is 00:06:00 like regular civilians and there's like even kids in there I'm like why are kids in here the first one was a it was a meteor so the people didn't really have a choice they just all kind of experience this thing but now do we have the element of choice as far as how we're going to go about this and I will say because I said during the reaction the this being a sequel if this feeling like a sequel because part one and part two you know is the the entirety of the deck okay we're just getting one step closer to figuring out what this thing is um with this being a sequel i do like that the emotional center isn't him avenging his friends anymore it's i feel like um i feel like with it being something that's like i need to preserve and and save my wife it's more i don't know like not altruistic maybe that as well but i don't know it feels more heroic rather than this thing of self-discovery and you know because look we've we've been down that road before and that was my concern going into season three i was i don't want to

Starting point is 00:07:05 feel like retreaded waters emotionally because you know how many times can we lament about our friends and granted you know in life you know you do do that but as far as the narrative goes i feel like you got to switch it up and i feel like on the premise of how we got him back into the show it narratively makes sense and for his character it makes sense while we're back here um so yeah i'm i'm intrigued i don't know what the ultimate end game is because it feels like the last season felt like an ending it was like all right we got out we're gonna live our lives now and i don't know how you find a even more satisfying ending to an ending ending that was already something that felt like he was resolved yeah what do you think yeah i just um i

Starting point is 00:07:55 we see um usagi go off with the guy in the wheelchair i don't remember his name obviously she's talking about her dream she's talking about her dad and she's like i can't tell my husband but the the time that i'm in the dream is the is the time that i actually i want to go back there because i get to see my dad that's what she said in the one-on-one then we see her disappear with the guy in the wheelchair. I would have made more sense if, and I'm also thinking maybe there are more people choosing to go back because they want to see like a loved one in this,

Starting point is 00:08:25 in this world if their loved one is there. But the way we set it up when we first saw the characters, they're like, we're looking for a near-death experience. And we're learning that it's like by their choice. It's not like you just got chosen by the borderlands and you end up there. It's like they're looking for this. type of excitement, although I don't think they expected people to be dying. If they hadn't already been there before, right?

Starting point is 00:08:56 They're like near death experience, have no idea what it's like. Somebody gets shot at the table and now you know what it's like. Now you know where you're headed. But then it's so weird when we get to the world that there are people who are like, oh, yeah, we've been here before. And I'm like, okay, I get why Arisou is here. and I also get why Usagi is here because she wants to see her dad

Starting point is 00:09:20 but the rest of the people why but why? What are we doing? Yeah. Like if we were able to make the choice and you're like meds, coma, two minutes live in this world I'm like basically

Starting point is 00:09:36 it's an intriguing script. It's a good idea it's like it's sort of like virtual video games right? It's like you just take me into this world people are dying i might not die if i can figure out this game um but i just feel that you know in in terms with what you were saying you know season two did have a really great ending and i said where are they going to head with this and i don't dislike where they're headed i still like this show i'm just the plot armor and certain things are like are really strong in this season

Starting point is 00:10:14 they were in season two versus season one. The reason why I thought that it was like really, really great is that you did not know who's going to die next. You're like, I'm not going to get attached because that person can be dead in a heartbeat and then all of a sudden, I don't know if they

Starting point is 00:10:30 got a new writing team or they were like, listen, we need Harrison Sue to live, obviously throughout this whole thing because he's Alice. So I'm not like mad at it for that, but obviously I can see. where there's certain things where it's like come on I think he would have been like I don't know if he would have survived all of this right or if he would have been that altruistic about strangers and saving them being really close to a million arrows but I do like that they are coming up with new ways to show us how people are going to die they don't just get lasered now I'm interested in that the arrow thing was cool I the bullet out of the bullet out of the the on the card table is cool um i'm wondering if there'll be other cool ways that people die and i know

Starting point is 00:11:20 that sounds weird but it's like oh if it's a mix of saw and this then it would be like really different right like how can you show us with something different in the way that they die not that we need that for the story but just so that we get a little something different yeah something a little different yeah and another thing i'm kind of and again and again And the show, the premise of the show, the fact that there are games is another world's lost country. I feel like the way that they execute these different games, the way they are able to continue to diversify them. Right. I think that in and of itself is interesting.

Starting point is 00:11:58 But I feel like what made that interesting the concept on top of that were the characters, their internal states, how they respond to these situations and their choice to continue fighting. for an end that they don't even know what it is, right? The mystery box plus the arcs plus the perseverance is what made this show. And now we are at this place where we've entered season three. And I, granted, you know, we're only two episodes in to an eight-episode season. I'm willing to get the show the benefit of the doubt. But I'm having a hard time kind of visualizing what Erasso's arc is going to be this season. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:40 because his motivation is got to get her back got to get my wife back and potentially my kid back because she's pregnant she doesn't know but I know so how does he change from where we started off which is five years later from where we were to the end of the season it's like also yeah the the fact that he I guess this is like a more of a nitpick but I'm willing to I guess

Starting point is 00:13:10 suspend my disbelief that he's changed so much in five years because I guess Ereso or used to get changed the course of his life because prior to the accident he was like he was a gamer like his family was like down on him from being a slacker and all this stuff and so far

Starting point is 00:13:26 they're not even in this season but yeah it seems like he really changed his life around the last five years so I think him going from zero to hero made him interesting and I'm wondering how they're going to continue to make him interesting other than the fact that he the one who's the professional here right he's the most capable because i feel like if you're

Starting point is 00:13:45 for a show like this you have to continue to find new dimensions to your characters so you can find how how do we make them tick because granted that's a very understandable motivation you know gotta save my girl and got to get her out of here and maybe part of it is having a more honest relationship maybe being able to connect with her in a way where you hadn't before because even in the second season when they would try to connect and you know the couple of the games with her trauma she would push

Starting point is 00:14:16 him away and it seems like without the the structure or the location of the games they were able to connect but she still keeps him at arm's length emotionally in some ways and at least in relationship to his dad

Starting point is 00:14:31 so maybe within this new season they can get even closer in her resolving her or finding some sense of closure with her mystery or her feelings about what happened with her father. Yeah. I feel like, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:49 with this, with the same character, the same, we have to switch up the game a little bit. It's just, it's the same game. And by the game, I mean, the writing of Alice. He's still the problem solver, the smartest one in the room. He's the one that's going to save everybody. I think it would be cool to see a switch

Starting point is 00:15:05 up that obviously he's going to remain that person but maybe if he had someone else on his side like helping him solve it um and then maybe that person dies i don't know i'm just saying like switching the game a little bit maybe with writing him he might not be the smartest person in the room he might eff up but not not die but get close to it i don't know it's just it's still a little bit of the same game where it's like he's in there he's going to be the one to think think think think how can we solve it which is very enjoyable to watch him do don't get me wrong i'm just saying how are you going to switch it up we'll see well and you know we i'll say this i think

Starting point is 00:15:44 some of these new characters seem like they have the potential to be really interesting over the course of the show the chick with the blue hair uh for sure the guy in the the black suit you know he he seems cold-blooded so i'm like all right i'm happy we have these these new characters that we kind of didn't have the first couple times i do miss our older characters though i'm not going to lie and i hope we do get to see them again to add to this cast But so far, you know, it seems a little, it does seem intriguing, at least in that regard. We're changing up the structure of how things are done because it's a tournament. We're still very early in that tournament, but I am still looking forward to seeing how that all unfolds.

Starting point is 00:16:22 Because, you know, if it's a tournament, only one person gets to be on top. And we do have friends and other people within the structure of how these games are played to eventually come to heads with. and you know husband and wife obviously they love each other how is that going to resolve itself so i'm i'm curiously on that regard to see where things go but yeah we i don't want a little extra spice you know a little extra spice to make this season i pop a little bit more in comparison to the first season yeah i agree so we are looking forward to watching the next few episodes seeing what they do with it we appreciate you guys for joining us um leave your comments tell us what you think about this new season are

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The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 3 Episode 1 & 2 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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