The Reel Rejects - SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF Episode 1x5 & 1x6 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:26 John, are you good? I'm so good, gee. How are you? Dude. Leave a like on this video, guys. That would be very much appreciated. Also, be sure to subscribe and click that notification by the notified when our reaction with the last two episodes are up here on the Chanel. Big thank you to PrEPA for helping us edit down these highlights.

Starting point is 00:01:43 And lastly, massive thanks to all of you who have become super sexy to rejects by joining our Patreon page. That's where you catch the full length of watch along where you sync up with your own copy. A Scott Pilgrim takes off. We also cover several things over there exclusively with highlights and watch along as included. Let's see what this is next. two are all about dang scott's a horrible person

Starting point is 00:02:06 yeah fuck scott pilgrim all right all right dang you know the clothes these guys wear in the show are so so fly yeah i just think so john

Starting point is 00:02:24 they are some of the flyest but i think i might have seen flyer clothes maybe once or twice in my life. I would like to buy their clothes. Sometimes I like to buy other YouTubers clothes. Yeah. Double toasted. You know,

Starting point is 00:02:37 I think it's important to support YouTube channels that you watch by buying their merch. I think it's important as well. It's like how John's wearing the Real Rejects merch right here. Who influences the influencers? I like this channel called The Real Rejects and I wanted to support. So I got this T-Shed. That's a real sweet gesture of you to do. Yeah, I need a little time, man.

Starting point is 00:02:55 Real Rejects has shirts that, hey, could be good Christmas presents as well. the best christmas presents like they got this child protection services one look at that pedro and uh baby yoda and then you also got space babies at the galaxy right here love those babies we also have the soda shirts the soda and the snips and then we got all there's a whole bunch of that's a bunch of shirts here dude there's so many here's a new one a christmas one that's being worked on it's kind of a weird one but it's a christmas one wow dang you got the inside track on this stuff i do crazy it's important for me to have leaking the designs get a hype going out there early so guys yeah i mean if you want to just go to like w wwwdrejection shop dot com and then um either gift yourself

Starting point is 00:03:41 or give someone this holiday season while also showing your support for real rejects it's a great way to go about it john what you think of these episodes oh goodness i mean i wish we could keep talking about shoprjectation dot com but i guess we'll talk about the show It was good. Rejectation shop. That shop boy can melt brains. I've seen some of these other intros.

Starting point is 00:04:06 People have been like, what is the shop name? Usually I'm like, it's not that hard, but here we are. So anyhow, Rejectnationshop.com. I like these episodes quite a bit.

Starting point is 00:04:16 You mentioned at one point that they're really good at zeroing in on the melancholy with the X's, but I think, overall they're kind of good at zeroing in on this sort of peripheral melancholy that everyone is experiencing to some degree and so yeah I just continue to be sort of drawn in and and fascinated by the atmosphere they have here because there is like I don't know it just everything kind of matches the

Starting point is 00:04:44 setting you know you're in kind of a colder environment anyway there is a sort of cold that all the characters are working through but yeah I don't know there's also like kind of a nice warmth of camaraderie in here and uh this was quite tumultuous and it makes sense i guess that at episode six we would at least have like the main mystery or rapt um but yeah i mean i've loved you know the the the first episode we watched with todd ingram was just so so kind of wild um and then the who did it episode was was more kind of like focusing in and really getting to the meat of things so i think i had a bit more like outright fun with the first episode we watched today but i'm enjoying just the grace with which

Starting point is 00:05:33 all of this is unfolding really yeah yeah i really like the documentary one a lot um i thought the way they messed around with their camera angles on that one just the the energy the vibe of that one the pacing of it was really to my liking and just the amount of meta commentary that they were doing on top of all that as well and then anything playing on like filmmaker mockumentary sensibilities and something that's just going to tickle my fancy but even messing with the relationship with todd and envy adams was a really fun thing to to dish out you know like one of the jokes in the movie of the scott pilgrim movie uh with wallace was like the amount of action this guy can get and so to see him like manipulate uh oh god and they get him fall in love with him

Starting point is 00:06:25 and how it's like becoming this destructive part on set and the relationship uh was a really joyous experience yeah and then it even led to a really cool fight team with uh romona flowers i thought you know i feel like they're not really gonna be doing much with envy uh it seems like she's the one who's not really i mean she's not one of romano's exes and this is way more romano show right now than it is scott show scott'll punch her by the end of the series we'll do that let's hope so yes so we have that to deal with and yeah the follow-up episode was still very enjoyable it was just such a high from the mockumentary one yeah as i even like when you start off with the rock concert and just like the amount of jokes that they were made like i thought it was

Starting point is 00:07:04 just a really funny fun expressive episode and then the follow-up one i don't know the julie character's like she's enjoyable to me gideon is he's enjoyable to me i don't quite love watching them they're I guess they're enjoyable but they're not they're they're kind of on the bottom of the list for me yeah in a way I feel like the impact of Audrey Aubrey Plaza maybe hits a little harder in the live action because she is able to like really bring her so much in her expression her deadpanness yeah and like I like what she does here I like the work here and I you know enjoy the animation the character and all and stuff but yeah like I feel like she in this medium isn't transposed

Starting point is 00:07:49 in as much of a way to not still feel like you're dealing with like a bit I don't know like in the movie she's kind of a bit character but like when you're focused in on her there's still like a gravity that that she's the center of the moments she's in whereas this feels like she's more

Starting point is 00:08:06 of just like a regular supporting character who swears a lot yeah and I like Goose's backster in the high school that was a really telling flashback that I it made me care more about him and it made me find his character significantly more interesting

Starting point is 00:08:19 I liked him and Lucas Lee together yeah that bond is nice most yeah of his storyline the part of the show that's semi missing for me because we're six episodes in and I do think this part is kind of missing for me is that is

Starting point is 00:08:36 is that we have and I like the ending mystery note there are a bit of that like wonder stranger things to the mystery unfolding and you know like there's no rules to this world uh which i enjoy everything everything nowadays it's like what's the rules what's the rules what's the rules it's kind of refreshing to watch something that just embraces we don't have rules here yeah or if we do the logic only makes sense to like somebody yeah per episode to someone behind the camera and they're

Starting point is 00:09:08 not going to tell you what those rules are yeah which gives it an an anarchic kind of fun spirit that way. Yeah, yeah. So I enjoy that about this show. But we've spent so much time getting to know other people. And I kind of just feel like our main character is Ramona. And if you're going to make that choice, I want to get to know Ramona better. Like we kind of get to know the characters that she's talking to, like the exes we get to know. Each one of the exes we get to know better. And even like hearing about the flashbacks. And maybe we'll get that in the last couple of episodes or maybe the last episode. I don't, I don't know. So that is one part of it that I'm like, I do wish that a little bit per episode, we did get to know a little bit better. Like, sure, we've seen her in the high school and her story of their stories of falling in love with people and, okay, she's got a fighting background, I guess. And then she was a little bit conniving as a sophomore in college, sure. But, you know, like it works.

Starting point is 00:10:07 The structure of keeping Ramona a mystery makes so much more sense when the whole point is it you're watching it from scott's perspective yeah and he's uncovering the exes and then he makes the exes more mysterious and it makes the game afoot a lot more fun but if you're making romona the main character uh you got to do something and make her a little more interesting yeah we got to get a bit more personal with her it's like all these because she's such a dry personality too yeah she's such a motivating factor for so many characters and like i like her presence in the moment certainly like her in the moment presence but yeah i would agree Like getting, feeling like these episodes of each brought us a bit more of an emotional context for Ramona or brought us closer to her in some way.

Starting point is 00:10:52 I still feel about as close or distant as, you know, we were kind of from the beginning. From the first episode, yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, and that first episode when they're, you know, when she and Scott are, you know, having those intimate moments together, those are some of the most tender you get with her. And I like that each episode, they take the time to repeat that ritual. of her dyeing her hair to suit her new moods and pursuits and whatever you know it's not the same as spending some additional emotional time with the character beyond the physical motif and i know part of the humor of and the sensibility of the scott pilgrim world show and movie is there's

Starting point is 00:11:35 no real in between from apathy to extremity you know and and so she falls on like everyone from Scott's friends other than Knives Chow, you know, Scott, like, okay, you got like young Neil, like super apathetic. And then you have Knives Chow's like very extreme. Yeah. And then the drummer are very apathetic. Yeah, totally. So every character. Stephen Stills is very emotional. Yeah. Every character is up front, either apathetic or extreme, right? Yeah. And Ramona would fall under the apathetic category. Sure. So when this is like a motivating driving force for her for some unbeknownst reason, even to herself that she doesn't quite understand you know uh it it loses some of that drive so when you get a slower episode like

Starting point is 00:12:18 episode six yeah it does show that it's a slower episode in a way that i don't entirely find complimentary sure it makes me wonder if because i have five i would i would sing its praises like all day you know i thought everyone was great romano included you know everyone's great but that's a real ensemble thing where is the six slows down a lot to focus on two very apathetic characters. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, and then the Gideon backstory was the most interesting part of it. Yeah, it makes me wonder if that will be an earmark of the binge,

Starting point is 00:13:00 because thus far I have felt like most of these stand pretty, I mean, you know, they're compact, so you want to watch a bunch of them, but they stand pretty solidly on their own. I wonder if that thread may be one that stands more. in totality. Sure, yeah, yeah. I certainly hope and would expect that the next two episodes hold some physical and emotional catharsis and, you know, developments for Ramona.

Starting point is 00:13:22 And so maybe in hindsight those will all register. But I, you know, in the here and now, I can't deny that, you know, aspect of it. Yeah. And then that rests more on the actual whodunit, which, you know, isn't like, which is the mystery, but it's not like an impossible mystery, at least right now because, you know, especially when we get to the end of the episode. And it's like, well, you kind of narrowed it all down. And those are the logical kind of conclusions.

Starting point is 00:13:46 And the question is why Scott did all this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I think this episode certainly kind of leaves you, especially if you're going to take a minute's break, with a couple of things that are maybe a little more questionable than just, you know, appreciation as a lot of the episodes leave me just like appreciating various things. And then this one, yeah, leaves me more contemplating and curious about, again, what's going to be ahead,

Starting point is 00:14:11 other than just what I what's here right now you know yeah yeah because I think the first one of the most appealing parts about the first episode to me was how it's heart and soul and its melancholy really saying hi and I think whenever that's sprinkled in with the comedy that's when it's working at its strongest the show yeah is when there is a genuine sense of emotionality and um yeah it's not like I didn't like the sixth episode just thought it was on the weaker side of of a very strong show yeah so plenty of strengths in the episode which is not not the one i would identify as the strongest yeah but when you're like getting close to the end and it is your who done it up it is your big like who did it episode i felt like it should have had a bit more of an impact i'm curious

Starting point is 00:15:00 because again i again as we've often touched on like i i out of eight episodes i'm curious about the placement of it as number six for certain of the functions of this because we do have two more and often times I associate like a second to last episode with like okay here's some emotional and you know any kind of big physical resolutions and then next episode we're going to kind of pay off all of the themes and then set up for the future so this is I wonder you know if there's not another big subversion or some other kind of shoe to drop or surprise to come and maybe they're luring us into like a false sense of like okay well we know most of what happened and now we just got to wrap it all up you know maybe there's something that else here we'll see guys what did you think about the episode leave your thoughts down below be sure to subscribe leave a like and hey listen for the patron the day shout out gabriel we're thankful for you today you're getting a solo shout out one of the rare ones this month as there's time you better be thankful gabriel for this i assume you're in these united states even though you're no angel you are a benevolent kind person who has been here supporting us for far

Starting point is 00:16:11 too long. For far too long, especially when we, you know, made all those tacky angel Gabriel jokes that are now regret and will never, ever reference. We were hoping we could. We were hoping we could. But, you know, you didn't need pressured. You stuck around. We don't follow religion, but we thought it would be funny if we can convert you. Yeah, exactly. We care about your soul here at the Patreon. We want you to be with us during the rapture as we ascend in God's cupped hands, you know, to Valhalla. And we don't want you to slip through, like, you know, the waters of tyranny and idle-handedness, Gabriel. We want you to be exalted at our side, blessed by the host of the heavenly, you know, promise that Jesus has left for us. This is our way of saying, thank you. Thank you, Gabriel.

Starting point is 00:17:04 On this Thanksgiving month. Yes. If you open your Bible to any of the gospel, Jesus had a dinner with his friends. Jesus had a dinner with his friends. You could pretend like you're having... The worst thing you could have done, Gabriel, is after us making a bunch of jokes about angel shit, is then come back and tell us you're an atheist.

Starting point is 00:17:21 Because then we're just going to double down. Yep, yep, yep. These are going to be the most pious. By now you should have known that that's probably the director we would have got. Next month's shout out, we're just going to say the rosary for like 40s through the whole thing, you know? How many amateurs going to get through? We're going to live stream of mass.

Starting point is 00:17:37 Yes. We're going to rent the local. church out we're going to invite people and it's all going to be in your honor you know so i hope you appreciate i hope you too if you don't tune in live it's going to be really embarrassing but uh in all seriousness thank you for being here for so long it's been a very long time we've been here man and uh thank you for not wavering yeah we love you and i hope to keep you around uh definitely for sure definitely if you go to heaven with us so uh thank you for being you and looking forward to coming up with something non-religious next month for you lift up your hearts

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The Reel Rejects - SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF Episode 1x5 & 1x6 Breakdown & Review

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