The Reel Rejects - IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 7 REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:48 one thing happened this episode i know 50 things happen this episode but this will forever ever be known as the episode that we lost Richie. Yeah. Period. I mean, like the fact that so many things went down, but that is, I will think about this episode of TV until the day that I die. And that moment, because it was such, I think you said, Titanic moment, the door moment at the time, that was, all right, let me throw it to you, Andrew, because I actually can't speak

Starting point is 00:02:18 right now. You're good. No, I mean, what do you think? First of all, thank you to the fun. Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry. Yep, yep. Okay, yeah, let me do my job first. Thank you to Prepper for helping edit us down.

Starting point is 00:02:28 This show is very difficult to edit, and you guys are absolutely crushing it. Thank you to you guys for supporting. If you want that extra good, good, go over to social media at Real Rejects. That's where you can follow us. If you're on Apple and Spotify, five-star thumbs up, I honestly think we deserve it after what we just went through.

Starting point is 00:02:43 And we are here reading your comments in the YouTube, being your emotional support animals that we are. Okay, thank you for reminding me that. You're good. I think it speaks a lot, too, when someone like you who is a prolific TV watcher that it hits you like that, it really hit me too. I mean, it's one thing to sacrifice yourself,

Starting point is 00:03:02 which I think is such a noble thing to do, but for a child to do it. I think it really speaks volume of the testament to Rich's character. Like, we already were so in love with him. Just his quick wits, just how harmonious he was, how much he brought the group together, and how positive and optimistic he was. And he always shined a light on everything.

Starting point is 00:03:22 and to see that light, like, the way it dimmed out from such evil forces, but he wasn't, like, willing to ever let anything happen to the love of his life. It's just, like, it's so shattering and so tragic. He's like, I don't, I constantly always say this. I know where you can claim that we're guilty of recency bias. I don't care. He's one of my favorite TV characters. And I can say that even just in one season of watching him versus, like,

Starting point is 00:03:51 watching something for 10 seasons or five seasons whatever he's an amazing character he's so flushed out so three-dimensional he just hits everything that i want to watch in a character and to see him go out that way it's it's it's really i'm just i feel so awful for him and for us as an audience because we love him so much it's just such a such a noble act of bravery to do that for someone you love and i think roxy hit it best like it's really hard to find people like that to put yourself in the line of fire literally for someone you care about. So such an incredible character that they wrote for the show. And I'm so sorry that I don't know the actor's name offhand, but he did such an incredible job. At the end of the day, it's beautiful words that

Starting point is 00:04:40 are written on the script, but the actor still got to perform. And he did such an incredible job. That scene, I can only imagine how emotionally draining that scene must have been to do. And he freaking nailed it. And I totally agree also with Roxy that all these little kids are such superstars and can't wait to see how their careers blossom because they are all so fantastic. We talked already about this in the last episode.

Starting point is 00:05:05 Like they already destroyed us from the group that we already had and I'm just so obsessed with this group too so to lose another one, at least one so far. Really just heartbreaking. So tragic. When it comes to just the rest of the storylines,

Starting point is 00:05:21 um i freaking what storylines with just like bowers yeah right so it's all about rich of course i'm gonna have to rewatch the episode no joke because i actually was not i i was like gone i i think the the and i'll let her have it from here after this i i just think um i appreciate all the comments that let us know about madeline stow's character mrs kersh from it chapter two i actually did rewatch that scene before coming in here today so that definitely was some good world building even though i don't feel any more sense empathy for giving away the location. I understand perspective. It doesn't justify what he did. So that was definitely some good lore that they finally got a little bit of the backstory.

Starting point is 00:06:00 We could go, we could spend some time there, of course, in season three, if hopefully we get there in 1908. So I thought that was some really great stuff with Pennywise, the actual clown that he takes the form of. But I thought that was all really great. And so terrible what happened to him as well. But of course, all about Richie. But go ahead, Tara.

Starting point is 00:06:19 Yeah. So, I mean, in the other storyline, at the beginning of this episode, they really do put you in a perspective of, you know, Madeline Stowe in looking at Petty Wise, like, as her dad. It was quite a twist to me that at the, towards the end that she's like, you're not him. And I'm like, wait, what? Like, did you really? Okay. Yeah. I was like, whoa. That was, that was, you dumb bitch. That was wild to me. You know what I mean? And she killed, you know, so many people because of it. you know especially we've been talking about rich a lot you know he was he was perfect but not enough but we've not been talking about him enough i know i know but but in it specifically you know in the beginning it did put you in the perspective of that he was this like fun loving dad is like a clown even though he's still freaking weird still has a weird voice like he smokes he drinks and then like okay he goes in the woods he gets taken it's it's cool to see that foundation of the story just to be set it's not anything that we've seen before it gives him a little bit of like

Starting point is 00:07:24 a human nature side to him which is weird because he's still a beast um i think that what they did right in the ending of rich's story which is why i think it hurt so much is because rich is really the heart and the light of most all of the episodes i mean he's the one that's like let's fly this plane let's get it to main street at first when we first are introduced to him he's by the lockers and he looks at marge and he's like what he's like he doesn't even know what they're saying and i just thought every moment that they give him the eyeballs the coolest thing you ever seen it's it's just he's such a bright moment in in all of the episodes and give such a likeness to it so it it's a really smart writer's move even though it's very damaging and really depressing um to

Starting point is 00:08:16 have him go out like that because he is that person he to me the writing is not oh he's so young I would never see a young kid doing that no really I would for rich I would he they set it up the right way so that every moment of that with Marjorie just like dying he decides to tell her a story while he while full well knowing he's going to die to save Marjorie's life and then they say I love you at the end it's just it's adorable it's a great It takes you up, takes you down real quick. That's all you can really ask for, I think, in good TVs, it manipulates your emotions. That's kind of what we're here for.

Starting point is 00:08:57 The story of, you know, comes from Cuba, comes here, he doesn't know what she's saying. When she says, you should take a picture, it should last longer. And when he realized he wished his response was, I wish I could. it's just like it's pure yeah it's so pure and it's young love and I honestly feel like they were meant to be together forever like I know that I'm such a sap and lover love and chipper ships but like he just loved her and he did and he just like what I think really touched me too is that obviously all the adults are panicking there's mass fire everywhere they're all trying to get out alive some of them are trying to protect the kids but

Starting point is 00:09:41 a lot of them are trying to just breathe and protect themselves. And in this moment, Richie, who has been fed alcohol, who has been, like, had so much smoke inhalation.

Starting point is 00:09:54 He says, Marge, I need your help with something. And he's like, there's plenty of room, having the wherewithal to be her protector still in that moment.

Starting point is 00:10:03 He saved her life. Yeah. And nobody else did. And she would have died. And there's no question about that. For sure. Because Dick, couldn't get to her. And so just like the fact that she has to live knowing that,

Starting point is 00:10:17 yeah. I can't even. I mean, it was just so beautifully moving. And yes, it's the fact that he's a child, but it's who he is as a person in his soul that you never get to grow up to, to see where he ends up. I mean, that kid could have saved the world. So yeah, just that, it was, it was such a touching moment. You guys are right. There were other things that happened in the episode. We don't know what's going to happen with Will at the end there. The Pennywise stuff in this episode was so well done. The, when he takes Madeline's husband's head off, that looked effing amazing.

Starting point is 00:10:50 And then eating it too. And then eating it. The effects, I don't know what y'all are talking about. The effects are incredible. The Pennywise stuff, the voice, the backstory of why he chose the clown because the kids were attached to it, drawn to him. Everything about this episode was absolute perfection. The only reason I'm okay losing Rich.

Starting point is 00:11:10 is because we couldn't have had him for more than one episode left anyway, that actor, because we're going back in time. So it's like, otherwise, I honestly, like a lot of people wanted to quit The Last of Us, I would honestly be thinking about quitting this show. But, you know, we couldn't have stayed with him anyway. This secured this show as like a top 10 show of this year for me. I had the way that that moved me, I can't even like, that fucked me up for the rest of my life. I'll never forget that moment

Starting point is 00:11:40 where he puts her in the box and then lays his body on top because she wants out. And he was still comforting her in that moment knowing his end was so near. And I think also what this episode did as hard as it was for us, the audience, showing us the ramifications

Starting point is 00:11:54 for his friends and for Marge. They didn't like... Just gloss over it, which a lot of movies and TV shows will do with stuff like this. That's what I was saying. Some will do that and it's like, it gets a little annoying as a viewer.

Starting point is 00:12:07 It's like, no, we want... As hard as it is, we want to feel that for the people who are closest to when a tragedy like this strikes, and they really hit that on the, they really, you really felt that for the characters that were closest to them. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was mentioning during it. It's like, how does this impact of people? That's what we want to see the impact. And oftentimes we don't.

Starting point is 00:12:28 It's like, because they've just got to keep it moving. This is why I prefer television to movies, because we're actually able to let things breathe and to live with these characters. And I don't know if in. 90 minutes, I would have been as attached to Richie. But we have spent seven weeks with him. You know, we've spent two months of our lives with this guy. Or I guess he was in the first episode. Episode two.

Starting point is 00:12:50 Right. We've spent a month and a half of our lives getting to know. And every week, all three of us being like, that's our favorite character. He's the best character. Totally. If the world had more people like him, it'd be a much better place. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:03 Like those parents did right by their kid. I mean, the eye patch. if I heard even after my eye was recovered the way the eye patch every day

Starting point is 00:13:12 for the rest of my life yeah let me ask you guys this we have one episode left we just watched Penny Wise

Starting point is 00:13:20 be in Will's room given the the lights with the lights what are you guys hoping to see what are you

Starting point is 00:13:27 expecting I mean I'm expecting something a little bit similar like the first it film

Starting point is 00:13:33 where Beverly got taken with the dimming lights or she wasn't afraid of Penny wise anymore kind of like will right there they're going to go down lily ronnie and um uh and marge they're going to go down there after the ladies the ladies they're going to go down they have the

Starting point is 00:13:49 artifacts so that's something that's in their favor and it's the only artifact that we have because we apparently just decided to uh incinerate the other one because he wants to use it as a form of fear um which yeah really really really stupid uh but yeah uh so I'm hoping we don't lose anyone else. I truly do not know. I was being told in the comments that I was completely wrong that Ronnie is not supposed to be Mike Hanlon's mother. So we know that Will is going to be safe. It doesn't matter because in the moment we're still going to feel that tension and scared for Will, of course. But, you know, after what we just witnessed with Rich, you know, the stakes are extremely high. We don't know who's besides Will, we don't know who's

Starting point is 00:14:33 going to make it out. So I'm really immersed with just the show as a whole and just enthralled and also I'm really scared because I have no idea who's surviving. What are you expecting? What are you hoping, Tara? I'm really, I'm hoped for vengeance. Like, okay, Ronnie's

Starting point is 00:14:49 dad is with Rose and now Fannual's like, yo, we got a freaking problem. And I'm hoping that, you know, the military gets overtaken by the people who've been there and are actually have been saving people somehow to throw them aside because they're a bunch of idiots and have the people

Starting point is 00:15:10 actually have a real win here. I don't know if that's possible. But I do really like that storyline that these, you know, original, Aboriginal, like they're there from the top. And now it's like they know what the F is going on. And they have gotten zero credit for it. And like, you know, we do see a few conversations where they're like, we're just supposed to sit here and watch this shit happen. And now that I think Daniel or whatever his name is has come in and said, we've got a problem. I think that they have enough of a team up, especially

Starting point is 00:15:40 with Ronnie's dad, to I don't know, do something good and make something good happen. We'll see. I'm just really, I'm looking for vengeance in the last episode. I want to feel like somehow we've won and I'm not quite sure how that's going to happen, but

Starting point is 00:15:58 I want that feeling. I'm with you and I think that the thing that will give me that feeling is watching Marge be the one to put Pennywise down somehow. That'd be awesome. Because, yes, you're right, Lily has the art effect. And remember, Marge tried to grab it from Lily, and Lily wouldn't let her. I think it'd be unbelievable if Marge is the one, because think about the arc from her from the beginning of the season, where we, all three of us at some point, we're like,

Starting point is 00:16:27 Marge is the worst. Yeah. Now I'm obsessed with Marge. I love Marge. She's grown so much. And the thing that happens when somebody dies is that it's tattooed on my shoulder. You become better or bitter. And for her, I think that she is going to take Richie's death and become better.

Starting point is 00:16:44 And I think that she is going to be the strongest best version of herself because of him. He taught her to be a different kind of person. And so if she can be the one ultimately to, obviously we know you can't take Pennywise out like entirely, but to put him to sleep or whatever it is to save the town to close up the, circle whatever uh that would make me feel a little ounce of joy yeah carry his strength at least right yeah and to put him to sleep for another 27 years until the it uh chapter or the first movie can take place i'll also say the last thing i'll say is seeing dick uh holler in face to face with penny wise as one of the coolest moments too i've ever seen just television movies it was so and

Starting point is 00:17:28 to see him saying dicky like because we know where this character ends up in the shining and in Doctor Sleep, just to see these two iconic characters face-to-face interacting with each other. Like, yeah, I know it's in the stories or whatever from I think what I've read or seen in the comments, but it was so cool to see, like,

Starting point is 00:17:46 face-to-face them interacting with each other. It was so iconic. He's doing an amazing job that actor too. Oh, he's great. He's doing phenomenal. And when he says, the sergeant's like, how are you doing? He's like...

Starting point is 00:18:00 The F you think I'm doing? Yeah, yeah. I think I'm doing that's a load of question. Not well. Like he looks like, and props to the HMU team because like you're making him look sweaty as hell. I don't know whether you douse him in olive oil or what, but whatever, yeah, it's working. Tara, any final thoughts before we get out of here?

Starting point is 00:18:18 No, man, quite an episode. Very good. Well, well written. I think, yeah, taking us up, taking us down. My whole thing for any episode of any television, even a movie is like make my take my, take my emotions and make them go somewhere. This episode did that. Definitely.

Starting point is 00:18:37 Appreciate you. I don't know that we're ready for next week, but we're going to have to do our darnness and send kind words in the comments to help us get through this time. We love you, Rich. RIP, Richie. And we'll see you next time. Later, Rejects.

The Reel Rejects - IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 7 REVIEW!!

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