The Reel Rejects - STRANGER THINGS Season 5 Episode 7 REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So you ready, Johnny? I am ready. Let's do it, gang. So Will's gay? I guess. I guess I never saw it coming. I'm coming out. I want this specific friend to know.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Anyway. Well, it's all the people that matter, you know. In this world. Yeah. and Mr. Clark Is Mr. Clark there? He doesn't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:00:36 I'm worthy enough to be part of this coverage. Mr. Clark in the back like, I'm cool with it too. I won't kick you out of my class. I have a device that can amplify your genus. I have a device that can make the people of Hawkins much more
Starting point is 00:00:51 amenable to your lifestyle. If I just adjust the frequency. Let those balloons fly higher. we just need a wider color spectrum of balloons is all
Starting point is 00:01:05 just need some rainbow blue let's talk about a stranger all right ladies and gentlemen we have watched episode seven of the Stranger Things
Starting point is 00:01:18 final season even though there's only one episode left it does not feel like this show is going to end still weirdly enough and I'll say this
Starting point is 00:01:31 I want to thank the people who joined our Patreon page you so much those who become Royal Rejects that's what we call you there did you get the full length latch watch along
Starting point is 00:01:43 where you sync up with your own copy so watch the whole thing with us beginning to end like we're sitting on the couch and join the entire thing like we're sitting on the couch around Will
Starting point is 00:01:52 as he confesses to all of us yeah the entire giant cast of characters and also Also, usually royals get access to our shooting schedule, just like they got access today. So we got some questions that we're going to answer from our royals. You guys are going to be part of our review that way. And, of course, does help offset monetization issues that we run into every single day.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Copyright claims galore over here at RR Nation, as well as another way you can support the Chanel, if you wish. Buy yourself an RR apparel tea. Like many one of the real rejects, stranger things inspired teas we have at our shop, rejection shop.com barcode here on screen patrons get 50% off but if you can't do any of that please just like the video leave a comment and then help out the engagement here john gregory i guess we got to talk about the biggest moment of the episode linda hamilton got a scene to be a little messing that's what everyone's probably talking about it's what all their questions are from the patrons today how do you feel how did you think of the penultimate john uh the penultimate linda hamilton
Starting point is 00:02:57 appearance was great. She's so almost a character and I'm really excited for the payoff of the final episode and finally having just a bottle episode about her. You know, we get in her whole backstory and then we snap out of that
Starting point is 00:03:12 only to find that they won. Yeah, everything's taken care of. Sweet. No, this is I've been enjoying the momentum and just the sort of the pomp and circumstance of season two, season five part two, season two of
Starting point is 00:03:28 season five yeah it's interesting because I know that the the journey of the show thus far for people has been one of a lot of hype
Starting point is 00:03:38 but also because there's so much hype there's also a lot of propensity for being like I don't know if this hit or that hit but I am very excited for the finale and this has had some like really top notch
Starting point is 00:03:49 stand out beautiful character moments you know started the episode off tears in my eyes ended the episode off with well not quite ended the episode off I feel like the episode kind of the
Starting point is 00:04:01 episode was ending and I was sort of like oh I guess this must be the ending shot versus having that feeling we're like oh damn they're about to cut the black aren't they no much more just sort of like a oh then we just sort of trail off down the road we only have to wait like a few days
Starting point is 00:04:17 yeah it's true it's not the same as waiting a home on yeah yeah where I am I'm generally liking this part better than the first chunk and I have very much enjoyed what we've done here so far I feel like episodes five and six are kind of a unit together and have felt very satisfying
Starting point is 00:04:36 episode seven feels kind of like it's setting up episode eight in a lot of ways but I did really love a lot of what I'm sure the most talked about standout moments will be which is like Will's big scene and Dustin and Mike
Starting point is 00:04:51 you know or not Dustin and Steve having their sort of you know, come to Jesus or their little reunion moment, their clearing of the air. Yeah, they convert to Christianity. They become gay also.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Gay Christians. Gay Christians. Yeah, I liked, the things I like most about this particular episode were individual character beats rather than like the action. But it is satisfying in the moment to, you know, watch everyone get brainwave.
Starting point is 00:05:21 But there is kind of, you do in an episode like this, start to realize, Is that trope of like, okay, so who's going to have said the, yeah, exactly what you pointed out, that the key phrase that will unlock someone else's mind. And part of me finds that very charming, but also what it happens like three times in one episode. Like, okay, okay, okay. Let's calm this down. Can you pass me the pen?
Starting point is 00:05:44 Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now this is the upside down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a play. Which, again, always very fun in the moment. but but yeah like looking back on this episode it does feel more like it is it feels kind of like incomplete or it feels yeah just like it's the next transition into like a big you know
Starting point is 00:06:05 it feels like an episode of the season yeah i this that's one of my weirdest complaints about season five is a lot of them don't feel like chapters the way how and not every season of stager's things succeeds in that way i think one and four are the best at each one of them feeling like a chapter yeah and then uh two and three have their episode episodes that feel like chapters as well as five uh like but most of this does feel like an episode yeah so yeah i i think what they're doing is the only thing like the up for the upfront thing is last night when we shot the last two at john and i were like we have to delete social media so nothing it's ruined and so we did and the only thing i saw was a couple of people
Starting point is 00:06:49 who i'm aware of who were like is anyone finding this really lackless and really that's like the social media sentiment and then i saw the top comment on our video at like three in the morning that was like i don't care what anyone says and usually when that's that that means oh there's a lot of backlash happening or something but i'm like don't read any of it don't want i don't want anything to influence i don't want to know why you want to say anything yeah and so i i don't i actually have no idea what what the backlash is or what it's over or what the discourse is and i think watching this i can i can kind of guess what it would be at as a stranger thinks man because it's hard to do both because if you look at volume one the big complaint was it's all fucking plot and no character stuff and then this one is like we're gonna slow down plot yeah give you like character scenes that might seem like they're coming in at the moment when we want momentum on plot and action because usually a show will set up all the emotional stuff first and then do the plot and action and this is kind of done a weird structure so i can see how momentum can feel
Starting point is 00:07:54 stilted to state the character parts because at the end of the day I'm like I'm of the mindset of I will rather get a let's have some people might not think
Starting point is 00:08:07 is necessary I really don't know if people like that scene or not of Nancy and Jonathan resolving but I'm like I really cared about them
Starting point is 00:08:17 in the first season and Jonathan having the thing with his dad and abandoning dad and like him possibly able to have a future and not do the same shit as dad did like i see a lot of these threads and i'm watching payoff i'm like oh this is worth it yeah and will you know it's been
Starting point is 00:08:34 set up since the first season that he's probably gay and it's become more clear that he's gay and it's like they made it a bodily clear last season so to and this is a story of acceptance and it started with will vanishing and for him to come to acceptance so i really like that and uh yeah so i I think, like, them taking the time to, you know, Steve and Dustin, that scene is so emotionally cathartic and rewarding. I thought that was beautiful. Even, like, well, getting really, like, one of my favorite things they included was Mr. Clark.
Starting point is 00:09:02 The amount of times Mr. Clark has asked to, like, save the day, and he has no idea. He's saving the day. Yeah. It's so cool to see. So there's so much, I absolutely love that they're doing. Whilst I can acknowledge it as a whole, like, we're seven episodes in, so I'm feeling, like, pretty confident of saying this, as, as, as, like, a whole season, it's like yeah it's a little clunky at times
Starting point is 00:09:23 you know and some stuff is just really not singing as high as maybe it should like I think a lot of hopper is not really singing that high again said a lot we harped on it a lot harped on hopper a lot last time and a lot of it does feel very repetitive sadly when it seems like they had a lot to set up
Starting point is 00:09:40 after bringing him back from Russia but maybe they ran out of ideas for him and 11 especially is feeling really lackluster which is a bummer to my two my two favorite characters that was her feeling the most like underridden and yeah so like having that is is a bummer and but i like the scene with her and cali like plot wise with that seizing but again that was a scene though that i felt had more richness for a cali you know which is good yes than i then i did for 11 everything that
Starting point is 00:10:10 involves 11 and callie has been more yeah more engrossing on the calli side because she's the one who's talking and exposing and and and or expositing, whatever. Well, 11 is just kind of smoldering. Yeah. Well, and Kelly has been through something like, obviously very traumatic, but also very engrossing and unique.
Starting point is 00:10:33 And so, like, you know, she comes with a lot of aura just in general. Well, she's also got to live in, like, the city in the real world and be a criminal. And, you know, so she's got a whole backstory that a lot of people didn't really care about. But we like, you know?
Starting point is 00:10:46 I'm sure there's some people in the comments who are, like, we like that episode. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know what episode that is we've got to be people out there riding for episode seven. Season two. That was a good one. We like to give us the spin-off.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Yeah, so that... Bring Mohawk guy back. Part of me wonders if maybe some of the underdeveloped stuff happened because of... I don't want to speculate too much because a lot of it is just that is, you know, T.MZ speculation of, like, what... I don't know if David Harbor and Millie Bobby Brown were having some real issues on set and so they didn't want them to do too much together. don't fucking know bottom line it does feel underdeveloped and we are almost done with the series so it's a real bummer when 11 is like the main character and uh yeah max coming back and immediately uh you know having the resolve with lucas paying off that thread is a beautiful
Starting point is 00:11:38 opening scene so yeah like they're focusing on if you're going to end your show focus on the characters and the wrap-ups of that and the sad part is they kind of did most of that already with hopper and eleven so they don't really have much to develop for them here yeah it feels just like they're the biggest crescendos of a lot of their relationship have already come to pass and now it's like whenever especially like when hopper is on screen i appreciate what his performance is i think david hart you know he's he's really you know sinking his teeth into this you know sort of advanced degree of just like duty and death wish and uh you know it's engrossing in the moment but yeah it doesn't
Starting point is 00:12:20 I don't know. Yeah, it just feels like they're kind of done, except for the action. I feel like them as actors are also over this. Yeah. That's the vibe I get. Sometimes you watch a show and you're like, I think Steve Carroll's ready to leave the office. Yeah, yeah. I think Billy Bobby Brown is ready to be done with this.
Starting point is 00:12:36 And I mean, David Harbour is certainly having enough going on in life that it seems like he's probably going to be happy to be out of the biggest spotlight on Earth for a while. Definitely. That's right. Oh, yeah. I don't know the details, but I know he had to like. step away for a bit but uh we did preview some of the questions i am liking this i'm there's there's too much for me to really enjoy and i will miss it i wish it was feeling a little bit more like it is concluding yeah so it does have me a little worried that we're gonna really accelerate that pedal
Starting point is 00:13:09 in the final episode i'm not in a complimentary way like it should be big but we're going world ending stakes here, which I think Stranger Things has always done a really good job at writing that line of it's technically world ending, but it really feels like it's all happening in this small town. Right here.
Starting point is 00:13:31 Yeah, this is like, oh, we're dealing with, you guys are handling the whole like collision of another world. It's an encouraging event. Yeah, we've got it really well. And it's funny because you're saying encouraging, it does feel sometimes a bit marvelized in the way it's being done with.
Starting point is 00:13:46 just how big it is and less intimate so that's the thing is like i think it's kind of confused the pitch to the audience of do we want it to be the big crescendo big finale violent epicness or do we want it to be the more intimate and i think they're trying to have both and perhaps it's not fully succeeding with a lot of people well it's like for for me it's almost like there's this in and out of there are times when it feels like the characterizations and the character beats are like fused with the plot in a nice way and then there are other times that there are other times where it's like oh i really like these character beats but they feel kind of like detached from like oh the momentum of the plot yeah so like yeah sometimes they feel aligned sometimes they feel disaligned
Starting point is 00:14:27 and it kind of goes in and out of that so yeah it's like some of my favorite moments of the show have been in this season there are some things that i think stand with some of the best things the show has to offer a couple moments that have you know achieved new high water marks but yeah just like as a fully rounded experience it's a bit funky well I mean, we'll reserve our final verdict when it comes to the final episode. So in the meantime, let's read some questions from our patrons. We do this a little different than we normally do. We admittedly preview this in between.
Starting point is 00:14:59 And there's a lot of similar question around one thing. Yes. So we're just going to shout out the questions and the patrons to give you guys an idea, and then we'll just talk about it in total. Everyone wants to know about Linda Hamilton. Linda Hamilton, how are you feeling about her star making turns? So a lot of it's revolving around Will, so I'll read the first one, then John, you read the second. And then like Sean Levy and the Duffer brothers, Resident Z is saying, hey, gang, right before the final episode.
Starting point is 00:15:32 And I feel like there's so much going on, a bit nervous about how everything will tie together. But what has been your favorite moment of Volume 2? Mine definitely has to be Will coming out, the one he loves. either one he loves the most, just so much emotions. You know what? I'm going to edit this in real time. All right. Because you have a different question, but you've highlighted that.
Starting point is 00:15:52 So here's what we're going to do. We're going to come on these other two. Yes, yes, yes. And then we're going to struggle back to you because that's a good transitional question. 100%. 100%. Where are we at? Jaydell?
Starting point is 00:16:04 John, you go with Jadel and I'll read Jad. All right. Jadel says, hey, Greg and John. Hello, Jadel. Hot take. In my opinion, Volume 1 felt stronger than volume 2. and I've seen a lot of people online share similar sentiments. Volume 2 has had its moments,
Starting point is 00:16:18 but mostly felt like more set up over payoff. Maybe the hype made it seem bigger than it was. Kind of funny, the Duffer brothers said they didn't want a Game of Thrones style backlash to their series finale. So now I'm really curious and low-key excited to see how they stick the landing. That said, Will's coming out was a big moment. Did it land for you emotionally, even with the angle that he did it, partly to prevent Vecna from using it against him.
Starting point is 00:16:44 I'm a bit torn on how they handled it. I appreciated that it happened, but tying it to Vecna, possibly using it against him, felt a bit off almost like he was forced to. Still, really glad he had the support of his loved ones in that moment. And then Jaden is saying,
Starting point is 00:17:01 how did you all like the moment? Would Will coming out to everyone? I was in tears watching that scene play as by man. Oh, he's a superhero. As a by man. Bye, man. Yes, I'm here to pleasure both.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Get a single bound. As by man, who has only come out to four people in my life in the last three years. Now, that scene made me want to shout it. I know what you mean. That scene, maybe want to shout it from the rooftop. I'm very happy they had all that whole moment, so good. It's interesting to get two different perspectives on. because he jaden really loved it and jadell it's like and i'm and i'm weirdly in between both because
Starting point is 00:17:46 when it happened when they first cut to the scene i was like oh he's gonna tell his mom and like oh maybe not oh he is i was just gonna tell his mom and mike okay that makes sense i was gonna tell everybody this kind of weird that we're just like doing this like coming out intervention scene suddenly and it just felt like we're stopping what seems like a momentum moment to like take a pause to do this but then when it proceeded i really liked the scene and what they gave and provided and see and i actually understand what jdell's saying that it seems a bit like they wrote their way into trying to justify it or something sure i'm like i don't think i mean like everyone's been asking us to directly acknowledge this so we need to come up with the reason to
Starting point is 00:18:27 have to directly acknowledge this other than just him being a character you know and i i get they were trying to like actually weave it into the advancing plot and make it feel like a necessity for the plot that is about to unfold i understand uh them wanting to do that does it feel a little bit like they you could feel the seams of them trying to get creative on to do that like was vectna going to use that in some way i don't feel like that was really what they were saying perhaps i think it was more about how he identified that veckna has a weakness and that weakness is there because he has a secret and he's too afraid to face his secret and he wants to keep it a secret and because of that that ways that that creates a vulnerability and a way to um that the way they
Starting point is 00:19:17 can like go against him and use exploit it in some way and he was to me I thought he was just recognizing like oh I don't think he was like Fectna's going to use my homosexuality against me I think he would say that oh I have a secret that clearly I have a lot of shame behind and it's totally different when you're in a small town like this in the fucking 80s you know it's it's not the same thing as it even today it's hard for people we just had jaden right now so he's only come out to a few people so back then it's even harder and so i think by him coming to that place of acceptance where he can feel more confident in his own skin that just made sense to me and so when i first was introduced i could start i was feeling like i'm 80% in 20% questioning the placement
Starting point is 00:20:02 of this and then eventually that just washed away so uh yeah i i liked it i thought it was a really powerful moment and I thought you know Noah Schnapp's an interesting actor to me because when he's doing like the fraught emotional scenes I think he's great sometimes the only time is when I feel like his line reading is off is when he's just doing like
Starting point is 00:20:21 Vecanus here, we're too late you know, shit like that. Yeah. The only test the times where I think the line reads off when he has to do like the dramatic shit. Good with the emotional stuff with like the action movie dialogue not so much. Yeah but when it's like super dramatic I'm like there's really selling this shit right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Yeah. I'm curious to chew on this. In the moment, I thought it was kind of conscientious, I guess. It's weird because, yeah, it's the idea that he brings out all the things that cause you pain and anguish. But, you know, I did like the idea that it's like, but to really cut to the core and to, you know, the biggest weapon he would have is something that, yeah, that causes you pain, but also that you have no support for. And that kind of made sense. to me in a way and Vecna is a character you know Henry's compiling these kids around him to you know pull it you know pull together his master plan and all sorts of stuff there's like a weird
Starting point is 00:21:22 emphasis on things dealt with communally versus alone so in that sense and as like a crescendo moment for this episode I did think it kind of interesting and yeah it's like I liked all the versions proposed I was like okay
Starting point is 00:21:37 telling just Joyce beautiful telling Joyce and Mike even better telling everybody like it is an interesting kind of like growth to that scene but I'm also like well a secret held a secret shared it all loses the burden a little bit but you know it's still a secret if only your mom and will and Mike know you know so maybe yeah getting everyone who's important to you into one place and saying this is the truth this is how I am so that everyone knows in case that you know, becomes a thing that, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:09 psychologically Vecna tries to throw it will or whatever. Just like having the confirmation that everyone loves him going into this and accepts him this way. Somehow made spiritual sense to me in all of this, you know, because again, it's all about, yeah, it's the whole happy memories versus painful memories thing.
Starting point is 00:22:27 And, you know, if you can get like a really big surge of love before going into this dangerous scenario, then I feel like that kind of functionally checks out for me. But I can, I, sort of open to the whole sort of chewing on and conversation around this because I get
Starting point is 00:22:41 why it would feel just sort of like, I guess we need to shoe on this in now because it's a few minutes from the end of the episode and we got the finale to go and that's going to be a lot of action so you know. Yeah, it's more like a pacing placement thing. Yeah, sure. Not a why are you fucking doing this show? No, no, totally totally.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Yeah, it was more of that. And I think it would have been more believable if like after he confesses and everyone's like hugging and everything that then Hopper doesn't go over. And he takes off his shirt, walks out, he's got his big American flag tattoo on his arm. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:13 He's like, I won't stand for any of this bullshit. No. Not going on the mission. He goes out and just blows himself up there immediately. Like, Callie, I want you to use your powers to wipe away the gaitess. I want everything to be the same except. Joyce is like Hopper. It's my son.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Let him be gay, Harper. You homophore. Hopper, the homophop. Oh, homopher. Oh, you know. I was just like a band to there. That's why, that's why David Harbour's upset. They made hopper of home.
Starting point is 00:23:52 He's like, I don't support this. I want to be happy for Will. What's going on? Hawkins does not get gay people. He's just worried for Will because it's going to be hard for him and he doesn't want him to suffer. I was hoping him in 11 would end up together. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Protect each other when I'm gone because I want to die. It's funny because it doesn't make sense. Anyway, thanks for the question. All right, we've got to make these next two quick. Resident Z. Yes.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Back at it. Basically, he was saying his favorite moment. He wants it in our favorite moment of volume two. My personal favorite moment of volume two, I have two. If we're going on with my action moment, it has to death. definitely hands down go to the moment with uh run with vekna when will's taken over and snaps his leg
Starting point is 00:24:44 it's just such a badass moment yeah so fucking cool yeah him taking over it was boss action wise emotional wise i just as a fan i got to go steven dustin yeah like that scene okay like we talked so much about it last time of the thing where they could just not admit how much they love each other and they've had this like building of relationship this entire time and they just can't say that you're my best friend and that's like the love dynamics the bromance
Starting point is 00:25:13 of the story and for them to just come right out and say it and admit that this is where this hurt and lashing out was coming from was nice you know because it was like so messed up what Steve said so to have that paid off and acknowledge him like yeah the writers knew what they would do yeah so I really love
Starting point is 00:25:29 that yeah it's my two favor I feel like we're in agreement All right. Hell yes, I'm talking about, baby. Yeah, hell yeah. Want to remaster T's? Let's do it. Master T. What are your thoughts on the lack of death so far? That's not true. A lot of soldiers have died. That's right. A lot of soldiers we really cared about.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Barb died in season one. Yeah, that's true. And Mohawk guy died in that flashback. Mohawk guy died, and they brought the actor back and everything. That's right. And presumably the whole gang died. Bob died in season two. Bob died season two. Oh, my God. What's his name? I mean, Brenner finally died.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I keep wanting to call him Jason Inman What's the fucking I have not slept in like two days No, fucking brother Max's brother Oh yeah yeah Billy That's so
Starting point is 00:26:17 Dave Jake her Montgomery I think it's because he played Jason Red Ridge Yeah I didn't play Jason That's true I was like what are I even getting the name Jason Yeah
Starting point is 00:26:25 Yeah He's he's dead But no you're right No one's dying and they're just going to kill off half the cast in the next. I mean, it's weird, because, like, what we've done so far, I'm not surprised that no one has died quite. There are a couple of moments where I thought opportunities presented themselves.
Starting point is 00:26:42 I thought Jonathan was going to die in the last episode. I thought Jonathan might die. I thought they were Titanic eating his ass. And for a second there, part of me was like, this would be majorly messed up, but part of me was like, what if they, what if I would find it so funny in a show like this, if they were like, well, we just didn't account for what would happen if she jumped through that rift and she just got splatter on the roof holly yeah just splat
Starting point is 00:27:05 uh not that this is the kind of show that we make a choice like that but at the same time half my brain wondered i was like what if what if they're like we got her back but it's bad um but yeah i don't know like it's something that looms over this stretch of the show because it's the cast is commented on and everyone's aware of it and i am sort of wondering about it but also we haven't had like ample opportunities for people to die too heavily based on what we know they've lived through before so well i feel like if they kill off hopper which i don't think they will but if they did i would hate that they do it especially for all the reasons i've said before but especially now because i don't feel like he's been particularly a well-written this
Starting point is 00:27:52 season and given as much service i think oh what the hell he's just like dead now So I would hate that. I don't really feel like anyone's even positioned right now where they would go out in a way that would be meaningful. Yeah. I mean, if Steve died, it would feel like a repeat beat of Eddie. Yeah. And I mean...
Starting point is 00:28:12 I don't feel like anyone needs to die. I'm not as hung up on the whole somewhat... I'd be more upset if they were like... They should have died and then they didn't die. Or like, oh, we thought this guy was dead. And now they're not. Like, they did that with Hopper. I understand.
Starting point is 00:28:27 but if they did that this season with anyone were like they clearly should have died from that or nope they thought they were dead in the last couple minutes they came back and they were alive then I'd be a little annoyed yeah I'm given what this is in tribute to also like I'm not super mad like game of Thrones is a little different
Starting point is 00:28:45 because somebody brought it up here like you know it's set up a world where like anybody could die at any time for at least a period of time and this show has killed off characters that we like but it doesn't have that same vibe of like oh someone's got to die yeah you know and i mean this team is pretty seasoned at this point no no yeah yeah but that's uh i guess uh we're not as that i guess we're not super bothered by it no not super duper bothered by it
Starting point is 00:29:11 all right it's a thing but we got one last one all right ryan baines has anything about this fell under one to you all i feel like episode seven was six and it could be a significant drop-off exposition dump and fell flat at the end after the strong ending beginning from six and it's seven i was expecting a huge cliffhanger leading to the finale i don't feel like we got that what's a lot yeah i was kind of just going by the numbers of what we got to do next i can meet you there that it didn't feel like the huge cliffhanger john and i both have the same response when it was ending oh it's ending oh this must be the last show but like i said we kind of discussed earlier that it seemed like the volume two's interest was more on the emotional stuff than it was
Starting point is 00:29:51 the plot crazy stuff yeah which is an argument in it of itself of where the focus ought to be I found this in stretch of the show richer, personally. I found it whelming if there was a... I would say part one was whelming, and this is like slightly above-whelming for me. Yeah. I like this a little more than part one. Personally.
Starting point is 00:30:16 I mean, none of them reached as a whole of volume two versus, which is kind of weird, because when the future, if you watch this, you're not going to be like, well, let's move on to volume two. just watching Season 5. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:29 But as a whole of Volume 2, I think it is a better chunk than volume 1. I don't think any of them reach quite the heights of episode 4, though, if that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:30:40 You know what I mean? That makes sense. Like, episode 4 was was probably still like the coolest episode they've done out of this whole season. Definitely a mic drop moment. Ha.
Starting point is 00:30:51 I mean, will drop. Will drop. A Vec drop. A demo drop. so yeah that was cool all good stuff all around all good things
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