The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 3 Episode 3 & 4 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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Starting point is 00:02:09 We will be dropping. Okay. So how do we feel now? Because we, in the first couple episodes, we were like, we still like to show. We're warming up. And now I'm like, I'm back to the Alice in Borderland I know and that I love. With this last episode, because, like, people are dying and the games are savage.

Starting point is 00:02:36 People are dying. The games are savage in this episode four. And, yeah, I like it. I'm still curious to see where it's going to go. I think some of the motivations aren't the strongest for me still. Yeah. I like that we're back to this place of, oh, people are dying in savage ways. People are sacrificing themselves for other people and you're going out in unexpected ways that are really sad.

Starting point is 00:03:06 So I dig that part of what's going on. Yeah, Airso is still, you know, that smart leader that we know him to be. and yeah it was interesting seeing the guy's backstory the guy in the wheelchair and like why he's here and what he sacrificed or you know what he experienced in trying to access the place of the land of the dead and yeah what's he going to do what's his choice going to be as far as you know is he going to stay there as a resident is going to get more information about the place and sacrifice Usagi, but it doesn't make sense why he would want to sacrifice Usage if she's one of the best players and he just wants to continue playing and because the games aren't as fun if there's nobody there

Starting point is 00:04:00 and all the good people aren't there. So I don't know. We just have to see how it all plays out. Well, it's basically like if he doesn't kill her, he doesn't get back, he doesn't also get to go back home. So it's like either you stay here and probably die or you kill Usagi and then you have your citizen you can go back and forth as you want but i agree with you that the the terms of why they want to keep um erisu around not that strong compelling of a story they're just like we want to be entertained no good players and i'm like that's it okay yeah and i don't know i think that our team is cool i think that you know what it is i felt like because the accelerated nature of the season um we haven't had a lot of time bond with our our team yeah not at all for us to care for us to

Starting point is 00:04:51 care about the the individual people that are on each their sides you know yeah like okay we have like the guy who's a drug addict and then we have the girl who was abused and no boo and then we have our our blue hair chick and then I think on uh you soggy side who's left because we got usage and we have the dude in the wheelchair And I don't Those are the only ones that I really remember It's only you can't attach anybody else No it's it's just the guy

Starting point is 00:05:21 With his girlfriend that I believe are still alive Wheelchair guy and Osagi on her team The guy and his girlfriend Yeah that he was like You can do it climb And she did start to climb They didn't die So I think there's only four left

Starting point is 00:05:37 Okay yeah four four and five left But yeah, I feel like But we don't really care As much about them as we did And with the people in season one and two, right? Yeah, and I'm trying to figure out what it is Because I remember when we're off the bat I really liked the blonde-haired dude

Starting point is 00:05:55 And how cool and how smart he was Yeah And I really liked the girl who was with him Before we learned her backstory And especially after we learned her backstory She was super dope Yes, I'm agreeing and I was trying to think so too

Starting point is 00:06:11 think of why as well but I think it's because we didn't spend enough time with any of these other co-stars the supporting characters we did spend time with Krishna the blondie and that other girl right we did like when they would get the thing like it's sort of like we spent

Starting point is 00:06:28 time with this guy the guy the Rambo guy who I kept calling Rambo who just died he killed himself and killed all the rest of him with that bomb I'm like why did we not get to know him like we did with the camo guy in the other season so that when he dies and looks at erasu like i got this i'm going to kill him all that we feel a little bit more yeah because i feel like in the other seasons there's an emphasis on the individual or is this as an emphasis on the group as a whole but the thing is

Starting point is 00:06:57 when you do that i feel like there's uh one we know that people are going to die but two the The level of investment is disproportionate because we've had two seasons with Eroso and two seasons with Ysoggi, so we don't really have as much time to really get into these other people's motivations. It's more for like support slash canon fodder for what the nature of this world is. But I think they're fun. I think they're well-acted roles, but it's not grabbing me in the same way that our initial cast of characters were in those bonds. that we created and yeah and I guess some of the logic with the with the hopping and the trains I mean that game was fun and I really like the games that we have here you know with the can and and the bingo but yeah I I like it I know this sounds probably comes across as

Starting point is 00:07:59 more so negative but I'm still engaged I'm still enjoying the the mystery of how they're going to figure this out but I can't put my finger on it I wish that this this yearning thing the emotional aspect of what made those other two seasons as strong as they were what was still present that personal connection that desire to to fight and find out what's on the other side

Starting point is 00:08:29 but obviously we know it's on the other side so you have to like compensate that or replace that was something else. And I don't know if the show is doing that in all cylinders. But I think that, you know, I feel like it's relying on the fact that we know these characters more so than building up what their relationship has become in the last five years to get us to want them to see each other again. And I want to know what's going on with Usage and her, is her dad still alive?

Starting point is 00:08:58 Or is, you know, her, you know, still feeling the void of that is what keeps from these games. I feel like we haven't found a strong reason for her as of yet, at least like in the sake of persistence or at least, you know, getting her closer to whatever that thing is that she's here for in the first place. We have her connecting with the dude in the wheelchair, the professor. But, yeah, I don't know. I want something, and I'm still trying to figure what that thing is. but I did really like this last episode the most.

Starting point is 00:09:36 I felt like that was the most we've gotten to feel that group camaraderie, that teamwork, that this is our people who we have now bonded with sort of thing. And the fact that people sacrifice themselves does feel more akin to the stuff we loved in those earlier seasons, and I really appreciated that. The deaths are sad and they're brutal. And, you know, there is this element. Though I don't feel it as strongly as I did in the other seasons of how the hell they're going to get out of this, there is still that thing there. But yeah, that's what I'm feeling right now in this moment.

Starting point is 00:10:13 You know what I think? I think in the first two seasons, the reason we liked it, they spent more time. I can think of a very specific episode where they are all sharing food and they're like, are we thinking about what happened? Like, how did we get here? But then we just start joking with each other. one of them's eating ramen somebody else is eating and then we go to a flashback with like the the girl has sex with the kid the nerd alert kid but we have a flashback about her at like school anyway we have some flashbacks they're all talking getting to know each other trying to break down what happened to you why did you when you ended up here right and in this we don't talk about it at all and we did have an option when we were all together we were getting supplies and I was like, okay, this feels very similar to what we've already seen.

Starting point is 00:11:07 But we haven't really utilized a moment where we've gone, why did you come back? Yeah. Why are you here? Because we need the justification. If I knew why Rambo came back because he was like, I don't know, he's like, my freaking wife is still here.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Or I don't know. The guy here, I know a guy that came back here, he's in a coma, he killed my son. Gotta go in there, find him, kill my son. And then that guy, he lays on top of him, bomb goes off. Now I kind of care, because I'm like vengeance, right? It's the same thing with big sis, little sis. All we saw, really, was her saying, big sis, she gave her a cane. It's a sweet relationship, but couldn't we have taken a little more time that goes, like, why are you here?

Starting point is 00:11:56 Like, how did you get here with your sister? Like, we did do that. in season one and season two and i think that's what we're missing now yeah i need to feel what we're fighting for yeah and even though this last episode blastrooney really really loved it and i think because um no rules every everybody could die right now which was again i'll just is the owls in borderland i know where i go nobody is safe and that's where i want to be because if you want to keep me on the edge of my seat you can't give people this this like plot armor where I think they're not going to die

Starting point is 00:12:32 because then I'm just like, it's fine, he'll jump, nobody, I'm not worried that he's not going to make it to the other train. You know what I mean? Except, you know, we did see the girl die on the train, she got hit by the pole, but we didn't know her, so we didn't care as much. And I'm not saying you got to spend a whole episode and all these characters.

Starting point is 00:12:50 That's not what we did last time. We just spent a little bit of time getting to know them, making them likable characters that we wanted to sort of sit with and just hear them talk. Yeah, I also feel as though with these games so far in these first four episodes, we know in the first episode, you know, he's fighting for Usaga, but we've mostly just been spending time with Aerosop doing the games and like him in strategy mode.

Starting point is 00:13:16 But there's this big thing that happened in that five years past. I would like the show to remind us more what Arisone is fighting for and why he's fighting for. Show us flashbacks of what their life's been like in the last five years. and you know why he loves her so much granted we got to see why they're so connected in that second season and obviously in the first season some but yeah i would have liked more of that because i feel like that's what really makes eras of who he is his heart and his motivations and i felt like obviously we've set up his motivation but remind us and like show things in the world that you know give him that that that north star that central focus and we did see some of that you know we see people talking about eraso and the fact that they they you know want to push on with him like he's off in the distance and the one girl's like i wish somebody loved me the way that he loves his wife so you know that stuff's there but like let's

Starting point is 00:14:18 spend that time with him you know we got that one moment where they're like oh we're almost going to get each other with no the trains cross um yeah i maybe we'll get that in these next few episodes you know i'm still you know on the ride we're only halfway through the season but yeah that's what i'm feeling in this moment yeah um you know it's just funny we see erasugo from a guy who doesn't work he's on video games 100% of the time obviously he's put into this world the borderlands where he thrives because he knows games and he's very smart but then skip to five years later he literally i don't know if you guys look but i look at everything sometimes there are like um certificate There was like three certificates on his wall in his office when he asked someone to enter into his office.

Starting point is 00:15:07 I'm like, oh, so he's from a guy who didn't work video game guy to five years, like, which it's possible. But he did say coming out, he's like, this university is the best. I wish it was better. I wish ours was like this. So I'm thinking you just graduated with a bachelor's and now you already have this like, I don't, it just seemed quick. It seemed quick The certificates looked like They were like doctorates on the wall

Starting point is 00:15:32 And he was like come in or whatever I don't remember But it was quick We fast forwarded through it It maybe would have been nice Just to see how did we get here What was the What was the motivation?

Starting point is 00:15:45 Probably it would have been good To just hear a line That's like my motivation is that I get to live Cool I like to hear it And now I get to live here with my wife But the fact that they don't remember It's hard for us because that's not going to be his motivation. So, yeah, it's like I still like this show and I'm very much in back with it because of these last two episodes.

Starting point is 00:16:11 I thought episode one and two, yeah, could have laid a little bit more foundation. Even in here, maybe a little bit more getting us to care. But I do really like what has happened in these last two, even though there's been some unbelievable things that have happened. it's still been a fun time still good to watch and um i'm excited now in seeing what has happened here where there's like they don't hold back anybody could die and now i'm really ready for the last four episodes yeah buddy you know um so anyway do you have any last thoughts so you want to tell the peeps about this um no but i think that is well my my last thought is I'm curious to see what that thing is

Starting point is 00:16:55 with him being back in the city and it seems like everything's normal, like pre-destruction, pre-mediar and what the game could possibly be there, because we saw them climb up into something. So it seems like some like, I don't know, virtual recreation of whatever that reality is.

Starting point is 00:17:12 And, yeah, we haven't spent much time with the dude and the suit because we know the two of them are like in cahoots. They're like, maybe the guy's running the show, the guy that was your ass, he's the Joker. So what is their relationship? I'm curious to see more of that.

Starting point is 00:17:27 And I'm curious to see what the hell Anne has to do with this. What is her role in all this? Because she administered the drug to bring Erisov back, but we haven't seen what happened to her. Right. So yeah, I'm still hoping the show's going to answer my questions and hope we can end on a really satisfying and interesting note.

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The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 3 Episode 3 & 4 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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