The Reel Rejects - PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 Episode 3 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:14 Let's jump into the show. I saw some blurbs say episode three is where it really starts to take off. And I would agree as of now. I loved one and two, but three was awesome also. all right gang we made it peacemaker season two episode three if you've made it this far on the video thank you for joining us if you would leave a like on the video that would be a big help subscribe hit that notification bell so you can be notified when episode four comes your way huge thank you to the folks over at prepper for chopping these together keeping the peace and hey if you happen to be listening to this in a podcast format if you could leave us a little bit of a rating that would be very much a I appreciate it. Gang, Roxanne, I'm coming to you first. Yeah, Doug. How are you feeling, episode three?

Starting point is 00:02:05 Man, I thought that was awesome. I feel like what we were requesting after one and two was more ensemble because we were getting a lot of peacemaker and hardcore. And then in this one, we still got a lot of that, but in a completely different sense and to a different degree. and we also got more of our team and our squad. So I really love the direction of this season. I honestly know it's a little early to say this, but I love season one, but I'm kind of preferring season two

Starting point is 00:02:36 because I'm seeing how this affects the entire DC universe and where this plays in. And as we're seeing in different universes, Argus and what we're doing in pocket dimensions and kind of what the tone is, I just am so into this direction. I also think that John Sina does not get enough credit for the incredible work he's doing on this show.

Starting point is 00:02:58 This is a tough role that he is playing. And he's doing it with just balls and grit and tenacity. I love him, and he makes peacemaker for me. So yes, all around. Heck yeah. Gee, how do you feel? I thought it was a really great episode. I thought it was the best one of the three so far.

Starting point is 00:03:17 kind of by a long big gap there for me margin yeah that's the word I was looking for thank you why margin you say wide margin or why margin? Why a margin and not perhaps like what other words are

Starting point is 00:03:33 there I said wide y'all yeah I like how I like how with Chris especially when he's having that conversation Harcourt, the way they drive home how, oh, in this world, there's this sort of like front

Starting point is 00:03:52 that everything in his life is better. And you're kind of expecting, or at least, you know, I bet a lot of us are, well, okay, well, nothing's perfect. So what will be imperfect about his life here? And even though he's got the glory as peacemaker, his life as Chris seems imbalance and difficult in its own way that he doesn't have in his other world. Like he's got clear struggles in his other world, his actual world as Chris, but this Chris deals more in that idea of like someone who's famous who has like drug addiction problems and has a very big ego problem. And it's kind of cool to draw this illustration of how even though one Chris has a much more painful past and a more painful journey, it has helped shape him

Starting point is 00:04:37 into someone who's a lot more humble and more in tune with his emotions because of those experiences. It's a really good point. And then you have the connection there with him and Harcourt and Amelia. That's the thing is I feel like in our world we get to know hardcore really well. Like that identity of like we call hardcore for a reason, but they're really purposeful about like, oh, we're using last names now. And I really feel like here you're seeing this other light side of Amelia and seeing like Joel Kindman being brought into the fold

Starting point is 00:05:09 as well is. Did you guys know he was going to be in the season? No, I had no idea. No idea. I was really excited to see him because, yeah, I mean, they flash back to him a lot. There's a lot of reference him a lot. So I'm curious what they'll do there with him and Rick Flagg, Sr. There's got to be some type of thing happens where they do meet and forgiveness abides. There's so much about parenting and sons in this show. So, yeah, I mean, I want to talk over every single thing that happens here.

Starting point is 00:05:34 There's like action and other characters, brotherly stuff. So, yeah, I mean, I thought it was great. It's great. So, yeah, John, I, you, whatever else. Michael Rooker, Trest. as a Native American. That's all I took away from it. Yeah, that is an interesting indigenous choice that they have made.

Starting point is 00:05:49 I'm sure that will come into play. I'm sure whatever his weird backstory is is going to be quite colorful. But, no, I agree with both you guys. This, yeah, on the heel, like, I liked the previous two, but this one has me, like, super engrossed for where the story is going to take us and where the possibilities of this world could go, or at least this alternative to universe, could go. and yeah I feel like the distinction

Starting point is 00:06:16 they have drawn very effortlessly is in yeah like in the first season you know everybody by one set of names especially like peacemaker vigilante etc and here it's yeah I have like my brain is defaulting to calling him Chris here each time and yeah I'm thinking of her more

Starting point is 00:06:32 as Amelia now and it's just like a nice use of the other like you know the names of characters are every character needs a name, but it's also like an important thing that I feel like so often the use of a name can be sort of like expository or sound unnatural, but here I feel like it's used in a fascinating and very sort of character-rich kind of way. And yeah, like this episode had like a really great blend of fun, but also tension because again, any of these sort of like, oh, perfect

Starting point is 00:07:05 alternate universe stories make you just immediately apprehensive of what is going to be, yeah, the shoe drop or the you know the monkey's paw twist but um yeah like getting to see him in his element and getting to see him in a world where he can apply all the things he has learned to really you know um appreciate it seems like the chris who lives in this universe doesn't actually appreciate the life that he has and the things that he has and without that core loss of keith he probably couldn't and so yeah i feel like the argument so many of these kinds of stories are about like well you know they're going to have to accept that they can't just jump into this universe and this is one of the rare times where i'm watching one of these going i don't know

Starting point is 00:07:44 maybe could like i know there has to be testing and i know there has to be some kind of again shoe to drop here but at the same time especially when you're thinking mathematically about like okay well they're trying to kind of like smush this into the dc u from the dc e u it's like you know i could imagine this working out in such way where he doesn't ultimately go back to the universe that we know what really um you would have to bring over that whole cast of character I also just feel like you can't maintain a world you didn't earn. Like, jumping over here would be so untrue to... That's a lie.

Starting point is 00:08:22 It's a lie. And it's a lie to... Even if you tell the truth, you're still living a lie. Because you didn't earn these relationships. And one of the reasons I love alt-reality or Pocket Universe stories is because it really explores the nature versus nurture element, right? Like, I, that's a question that I think that I love, I love diving into because I think that to think that everything is nature and to think that most people are not a product of

Starting point is 00:08:54 their environment and nurture is to me kind of absurd. Of course, some things are nature, but most of us are products of our experiences and what you do, the choices that you make. I refuse to believe that we're not who we are because of the choices we make. That is why we are who we are. And so I love that we see in this episode when hardcore is like, you know, he was stepping out on her and he's popping pills and he's changing his mind every three days. And that's not the Chris that we know. That's not the peacemaker we know.

Starting point is 00:09:31 Our peacemaker has a completely different set of flaws, including some similar things like the like a day. of habits and being an addict with cocaine, women, whatever. But not a cheater. Not a mind changer, right? So it's like, I love watching this. So I don't, if she is really in love with the

Starting point is 00:09:52 other guy, like oh, that universe is Chris, she's not in love with our Chris, because that's a different person. So I don't know, John, like him just to go over there. I'm not saying I expect it to happen. I'm saying it's the rare instance of this trope where I'm not

Starting point is 00:10:08 sitting here going well of course he's or I'm not focused on well this will never take I know because of you know movie math that this will never take I'm just kind of able to be caught up in this and I hear what you're saying to at least wonder about the fork in the road rather than going well obviously he's going to take this other

Starting point is 00:10:23 the fork that leads back to the universe that we know because this won't work out okay I hear you well usually a multiverse story is a movie and it's like oh they introduce like some good things but then they quickly introduce like a conflict of oh, well, you don't have this here.

Starting point is 00:10:39 That's going to be a problem, isn't it? He's saying, like, okay, that's why he's going to go back. It's more telegraphed where this show, this season is so much just you're hanging out with who these people are. Like, you see them on the day they're all hung over and how they all interact with each other and just talk about life and get to know Adrian in a way that's not, what's your backstory? How'd you grow up? Just like learning about someone about what their interests are is telling of a person, of itself and how also disassociated he is and also how disassociated he is with the

Starting point is 00:11:12 violence that he commits but he's got this like embarrassment about spiders and stuff he feels like he'll be judged for that and and i i agree with you roxy on those points like the part that stood out to me was when he's with hard court and even though she seems drawn to this new version of chris he's talking about facing his pain and that's so new for him and the reason reason why people act out the way they do is because most of the time it's because they have something in their past they have to contend with or accept or talk through and plain and simple he wouldn't be able to do that if he if he's living the lie right he wouldn't have had those skills and he wouldn't have that ability well yeah he'd have to also fess up that he killed the

Starting point is 00:12:00 other like there's a lot of things he can't be truly honest about his past in this world like It's a tall order to, unless he is and people accept him. But that is a tall order. Even if he did that, it's still a lie because it's not true to who he is. Like, say that he just takes on this guy as his brother, but that's not your brother. Because you are who you are because you didn't have your brother. Yeah. And I think at the end of the day, I'll realize that his family is at home in his own world.

Starting point is 00:12:30 But okay, at the same time, I will say, because obviously I can't go through one mother effing show without mentioning having dead people i don't i honestly this is the most i ever understand anybody's choices because there is no world in which a family member of mine dies and i know they're in a different world and i don't go there and stay there i'm doing that rejignation i'm interrupted this video because the start of this year here's some photos i started off at 218 pounds and had over 20% body fat since then i've dropped close to 50 pounds i am now at 7.9 percent body fat pretty proud of the results now focus on like building muscle so when i tell you i take health seriously i really do mean it that's why a few times a week i do drink today's video

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Starting point is 00:14:44 I, like, period. Goodbye, guys. Goodbye, John. Goodbye, Greg. Goodbye, everything and everyone I know. If I know that my dead people are alive somewhere else, I'm done. I'm done with this place. What is it?

Starting point is 00:14:58 Did we ever learn about his mom? That's a good question. Walked out, dive. She must not be in the picture. Oh, yeah. I always got the sense, yeah, it was just like a single dad situation. No, I think we remember.

Starting point is 00:15:11 I think we definitely learned. Some line. Yeah. I bet we could Google it. Oh, I have a question for you guys. How do you feel, I know we talked briefly after the previously on for episode one about how they're including Peacemaker and the DCU. How do you guys feel about bringing more like we have some Superman references?

Starting point is 00:15:31 We're obviously dealing with. The Suicide Squad. We have references to Amanda Waller in episode two, but we don't know. I'm assuming it's our Amanda Waller. How are you guys feeling about the peacemaker's place in the DC right now and what they're including? I don't really think about it, honestly. Okay.

Starting point is 00:15:48 That's probably good. It's been so contained to the, you know, yeah, I'm sure they'll answer that. But yeah, so far it feels just like we're in peacemaker world and we're doing peacemaker stuff. Even with Joel Kinnaman coming through, you guys were like. Because that's all. already so much a part of the character and it's been here since before and like all that stuff didn't really didn't really except for the acknowledgement of like oh suicide squad is canon here sounds like suicide squad and the suicide squad to go out to cordomaltese so yeah like those things you know put me there for a moment but i was mostly just chuffed to see joel kinneman again because again like i i loved him in the suicide squad especially like he was one of my favorite characters but also Yeah, having him back is both a great opportunity for fun, but also a good opportunity for, you know, dramatic foiling and all sorts of stuff. I like how in the Suicide Squad, he has authority over peacemaker through most of that journey, at least in their dynamic.

Starting point is 00:16:48 And then when they check into the office, you can see how, like, scared and bumbling he is around. He's intimidated by him. Because he's had a whole different life, too. Yeah. It's like an office. He's just a guy in an office in this thing. Yeah, it's really funny. Do you guys think this is me allowing my mind to wander?

Starting point is 00:17:05 I can already feel you guys who are going to get annoyed with this question, but I'm asking it anyway. Does this mean that Margot Robbie is our Harley Quinn? That's a great question, actually, because there has been speculation that she won't return, speculation that she could. I think everything in the Suicide Squad is canon. It's got to be that she's Harley Quinn.

Starting point is 00:17:25 I think, I mean, they might recast her, but I think everything that happens in the Suicide Squad is canon. They reference it way too much. Yeah, but we could also, everything in Peacemakers can and except for previously on, and there's no Aquaman, no Flash. So, you know, you can always recon things. Yeah, we can, but I don't know, I'm not really too caught up in it. I don't hate the question. I'm just not too caught up.

Starting point is 00:17:47 Hate the player, I don't hate the game. It's fun to think about, but it's not of great consequence to my enjoyment or experience of this particular show. It's more just sort of like a neat thing to wonder on the outside. Right. Because season one references like Batman a bunch and... Um, they reference other characters throughout the journey, too, in season one, none of which I can remember at this moment. And Abadio is, um, there's a green arrow. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I wonder Stephen Mell was really upset about. Um, but, uh, Abadio, it really was his whole thing. I know, I remember exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Um, is the daughter, like, her old character, she's the daughter of Amanda Waller. Right. And so, and, you know, and the whole, and Harcourt and, um, Economos were introduced in the suicide squad and their journey so pertains to, like, like, every, Beyond Chris's journey, like our other two characters link so much to it. And the fact that they're saying like going to Corto Maltese, I think it's too much to ask for like constantly having to tell the audience.

Starting point is 00:18:45 Like, okay, in this movie, here's what's canon. And this show, who's what's canon? That'd be, I think it's way too. I'm not asking for that at all. Yeah, you know that I'm not. It'd be frustrated. I would be like, what are you doing, James? I'm kind of curious who Abadio is in the world that he's.

Starting point is 00:19:01 maker's gone to now. I mean, maybe she's the top-ranking Argus officer here. Yeah, like. Oh, my God. Running the show. Maybe Amanda Waller is deceased, and maybe she took over. Like, maybe she runs Argus. We don't know.

Starting point is 00:19:16 Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot. But Rick Flagg, seniors, I think they're going to kill Eagley. No. This early? Or by the end of the season? If I were to venture a guess, I would say since they're only letting

Starting point is 00:19:33 five episodes come up I would say episode five that would be devastating I really don't want them to kill Eadley that's my guess or something crazy or it dies in four and then five is like some big revenge like there's a reason he had

Starting point is 00:19:48 James Guns been really insistent on like he's not releasing six to eight to the press that usually people do that all like it happened with the last of us they always say that so it can change but right now at this moment of time only people have seen the first five so uh we don't really uh i think eagerly will die i'd be surprised if eagerly doesn't die they're like eagley is expensive

Starting point is 00:20:09 yeah i'm gonna alternate universe eagerly who knows um but yeah but rick flagg senior's the one that i'm super curious because they set that up really well in episode two and that's with his motivation there and i've got to imagine they'll they'll have some scene where the two like unite with each other. He gets to meet multiversal version of Rick Flagg, Jr. Yeah, I wonder

Starting point is 00:20:34 even if in the next episode or something like that they raid his house or I guess maybe somewhere down the line here they actually get into Augie's, you know, construct and find,

Starting point is 00:20:47 you know, I can imagine all sorts of ways in which we could spill these characters into alternate dimensions. Yeah. And that's going to be pretty fun. I want to know more

Starting point is 00:20:55 about that alien character that we keep seeing there. Oh, yeah. that guy who keeps passing through. He doesn't say hi, yeah. Get a whole episode just about that guy. All right. Any other stray observations before we hit it?

Starting point is 00:21:08 Gang, leave us your thoughts on Peacemaker, Season 3, Episode 3. Very much enjoying the show so far. Can't wait to check back in with y'all next week. And stay patriotic out there. Cheers.

The Reel Rejects - PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 Episode 3 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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