The Reel Rejects - ECHO EPISODE 2 Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

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We're going to watch two episodes of ACHO, but maybe this is just in one video? I don't know. What are you guys thinking about the show so far? Coy, let's start with you. Really enjoying it. Surprised at the tone, really impressed at the darkness. That's what I'm, oh, that's efficient. John, I'm ready to love the rest of this.

Oh, shills. All righty, guys. Well, I'm ready to get into it. Leave a like on this video. That'd be very much appreciate. Also, subscribe to Quigran, notification, really a nerve video, and the next episode of Becko is up. Also, thank you to prep for up on a set of.

down these highlights. Full-way, 3-inch and watchlocks with your own copy of Echo that is available for our super sex rejects over at our Patreon page or their giant and I cover several things exclusively with highlights and watch-longs included. Let's get into it. Damn.

Thank you, Georgia. All right. All right. That was truly like under, there wasn't a lot of action, but all the dialogue was so action-packed. Like, the end was the only time, like, obviously the train scene, but they really let that be subdued. I was afraid this episode and then was, like, a third act.

Cacophony? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was really cool. Like, where's Derdouble? He was in the train somewhere. Is that not the name of the show? There actually is a new comic called Daredevil and Echoes. Derdevilaco.

Where is he? Well, is he in Oklahoma? If he went all the way to She-Hulk Landwide. didn't you come all the way to Echolet? Why is he helping out the reservation land? This is everywhere, man. He could be everywhere. That's why I've been so many Matt Murdox.

It's not for it wasn't in the opening credits. Why wasn't he there? You should be white saving. It's going up. Why is it Charlie Cox top billing? Why is it he, the original Choctaw? Yeah, I think it's really good. There is this part in my mind.

There's a problem with social media rhetoric that can often circulate and just the optics around Disney deciding to really because they've been toying with their release strategy. I actually really like what they did with the what if, surprisingly, that one a day. Yeah. That sounded like a terrible idea first just for our end.

And then that ended up padding out really well, just like how it patted it out really well for everyone who bought a shirt at Rejectnation Shop.com. They really were you can, I love, I always love John's like transit. Whatever I met to the shirt, he does the first the hair.

Yeah, man. And then look at my shirt. He's like, I got to get the hair out of it. I just see it. I want to be the Van of Wight of Rejection Shop. I love your design so much, and I just want to accentuate it. Anyway, thank you all of him buying Taze.

And you look good while doing it too. And, I mean, come on. Look at, look at, buff, comfortable. Oh, my God. That's what I like to see. That's what I like to see. I thought that this was a really solid episode. And I like everything that it's built.

to my favorite part about the show thus far and we're going to watch a third episode just a little bit so i'd really prefer if we just kept this really short i mean it gents is the supporting cast i think the supporting cast has really been a saving grace to it because well i think everything shot really well i'm intrigued by the chock talk talk culture uh i i am a little bit like semi nervous about what what's it ultimately going to meld into once we go full uh chalk top mysticism because it's the street level stuff that i find the most intriguing at this moment in time that but i'm completely open-minded is seeing what they ultimately integrate i think my one concern is pretty apparent if you like actually watch the reaction is that uh yeah

i'm just not super emotionally invested in maya right now and i i have no qualms or apprehensions there was nothing about me that was the least bit concerned about someone who is deaf and that could keep I feel like some people are my woes because she she can't talk that it could be a limitation I'm like no some of my favorite performances ever are usually just quiet body language performances with minimal dialogue so I didn't think there would be some type of barrier there right now I can't quite put my finger on it granted it's just a second episode but we did spend a decent amount of time with her in hawkeye while i like her here more and while i like what she serves as a plot narrative device

going forward it is everything everyone and everything else surrounding her i'm talking like in terms of technicality of filmmaking uh cast everything around her i find way more interesting than just her right now and that's my main concern with the journey moving forward that could all that's all subject to change in like literally one episode. I'm not even quite sure what it is that they need to do because I felt like last episode they've bombarded us with a cacophony of information about her and the journey. But there is something that is keeping me at a distance.

And I'm not quite sure what it is just yet. Maybe I'll be able to articulate it later on. But it's not at all deterring me from enjoying the show. I think it's like a cool criminal under. I think it's a cool crime world. I like how it develops into the MCU. I think it's cool that we're getting this Fisk expansion, the shadow, the pall that he casts over everything is really neat. So I really am liking it.

That is the one thing, I guess, not so much of criticism, but I'm craving right now. Craving the hunting for it. Coy. I personally care more about Echo here than I did in Hawkeye as well, but it's starting to get. I see what you're saying. By the end of this episode, I was starting to feel like I wasn't thinking about that as much because that had affected me the first episode

and like half of this one. But with the Bonnie stuff and with the character starting to come into her, like I feel like, you know, she's not in town. Now that she's in town, I'm like, okay,

we're all starting to bring these disparate storylines to me caring about Echo because it's her relationship that's starting to be more apparent and feel. So I think it's going to be for me, maybe for you as well, kind of like Loki season two where we were both worried that he was just like,

I'm an agent to the TVA. And then by episode five, we were like, oh, I see why they had to build all that to him. So I think as long as that turn happens, I'll be okay. But I definitely understand we're coming from now. I hope that happens. I really like that this show, and I think I now understand why they did this all as one binge. I think it's because the audience they're appealing to isn't used to slow content. I think that you have a show that is going to have a lot more dialogue than action.

And I think that people are probably waiting for third act fight scenes or for big bads. And I think when you've got a five-hour delivery of something, the things on social media are going to be like, Dead Devil Fight, Kingpin Fight, Good. And then they won't have to worry about people not talking about, like, the dialogue scenes that would inevitably not be part of social media conversation. So I think the release model is now starting to make more sense to me with this particular show because this episode I really enjoyed, but I'm not necessarily the TARC demo anymore.

I like Slow Burn, True Detective-esque shows. I like more drama. And so I think my attention span After growing up with VHS is aware that this exists And not all of their demo is So I think releasing these day and date Might actually work out for their favor Because social media reactions will be about other things

Yeah So I'm enjoying it. Especially get your Netflix characters over here With a model that resembles something more of Netflix This definitely feels more HBO Netflix And I think that'll be the conversation Yeah yeah I think it's a lot of pros

I think it's like it's primarily a pros experience This is in my upper half of Disney Plus shows so far. Yeah. I like her more than Iron Fist. I like the character of Echo more than Iron Fist. But at least he was like enjoyably bad. Yes, that's true. And in Defenders, we could all be like, why are they going to him so much?

Because we can't get these guys over here. Fair part about it. But yeah, I'm enjoying this more than I expected. And I think that it feels a lot more like David Mac art than I expected. It's got a really wonderful pacing. And it feels like the opening credits if I'd seen separately, it'd be like,

really trying to be true detective, but the show actually feels like that kind of grit. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying it's his darkest true detective. I'm saying so far it's earned its opening credits. Yeah.

I agree with pretty much everything that you guys have expressed. I liked all the things that you guys liked. John Wins, he agrees with everything. I am. You said yes, I'm not on the same page.

I think I have a guess as to what might, not fully be clicking together here because I was kind of noticing it during the episode and I do think it's interesting that they have so many people cast from reservation dogs because what I love the most so far

about this is the times when it's reminding me of that show because that show has a very unique strange but also very intimate kind of tone where you feel like you're just absorbing the vibe of the both indigenous culture and this

a town kind of like this and so i feel like it's neat that they pulled these actors together and when you're focusing on that stuff it's when it feels the most organic and like a real story and that stuff kind of helps mya's character because everyone's like she back what do we do about it like everyone's so kind of up in arms about her but i feel like when you go to maya she's kind of just in this lone wolf action badass story and like all the interesting nuanced character beats are mostly through other people and this episode introduces the idea of like okay she's going to have some you know magical link to uh the first chokta and the power that lies within and that in the moment i was like oh this feels like miss marvel like this this feels kind of something directly pulled

from that playbook it doesn't feel quite as fleshed as when you're just with the townsfolk and they're dealing with you know like what were you doing out with the car with this train hey what do you know about this and everyone's kind of like shuffling truths around that stuff feels nuanced and then you also have the third show which is you know daredevil and kingpin and shit like that and I like that we don't have to be always doing that I like that can have distance but still affect where we are

here but I do feel like there are three shows happening one of them is a very pleasant surprise that you're like man if they could sustain this and yeah merge all of these this could be something really really special and I can still see the potential for that but it was during the train sequence where I was torn because I was like

this is cool I like a low light kind of set piece like this but I also was finding myself like not checked out but just like kind of at a plateau of thrill in that moment and I'm like if I if we had maybe a couple more intimate moments with Maya or times to see her soften or deal with the struggle that she's not maybe going to show to everybody else because she's got to remain maintain that tough face that that demeanor you know I feel like if we could get some moments to peer into her with a nuance versus the requisite stuff that we a know about her and b often feeds the backstory of a character like this i feel like

that would pull it all together but uh as it stands right now i like all the elements that they have and i believe that they can accentuate them all to the utmost but yeah it's like there are three things i like happening here one of them i think is pretty great one of them's pretty good and the other one i'm like yeah this is the meat and potatoes that you need to do a badass you know again lone wolf taking it to the man kind of story but uh that's the piece I'm waiting for the most like reason to connect to beyond all the requisite stuff because of what

kind of show you're watching. Yeah. I feel like there's more to definitely say in terms of what may be working away and not be working. However, this is designed to be a binge experience. So

I'm going to reserve. I'm going to intentionally hold back. Intentionally hold back some stuff. So that way I'm just not like next episode like, never mind. Yeah. It'll be easier just to kind of give a full encapsulate a review once we're done with the fifth episode. So, all righty, guys. What do you think about Maya? Huh? Yeah. There you go. That's a question. I want to name my band plateau of thrill. I don't know what to say. We put it down. Would you rob a train? Leave it in the comments. That's the best vehicle to rob a trick. Subscribe, leave a like. Thank you to everyone who's about to tell you. See us for the next episode. Cheers, peeps. Lex, it is time for your patron of the day shout-out.

Your first one for 2024, and I got to fathom what your New Year's resolution is. And that is to buy more batteries. I can understand that running out of batteries, it's a pain in the ass. Sometimes you're like trying to turn on the TV. You look forever for that remote. And then you're like, okay, here. it is time to turn on the television and then bam you can't turn it on because there's no batteries in there it is a very frustrating process once in a while you want to take out one of

your toys you know to pleasure yourself but then bam batteries don't work so you call up your mom you're like mom i need batteries for my action figure like what action figure you still play with action figures lex i never knew you play with action figures what about don't i just need batteries mom can you please drop off some batteries and then she's like well send me a photo then you send her a photo of it then it's an awkward conversation and then you go damn i should have followed through my new year's resolution a year's supply of batteries yeah double a's triple a's d's nine volts now you gotta have an awkward ass conversation with your mom because you were irresponsibly and then stick to your goals yeah make a list next time l for list lex you can get a pretty good deal on amazon always double a

triple a mceo they'll drive a drone to your house i don't know why you didn't do it lex not my family problem now yeah it's okay anyway good luck with 2024 dealing with this trauma Thank you.