The Reel Rejects - TERMINATOR ZERO 1x3 & 1x4 Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

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Not bad at all, gang. Matt's and Tomlin really did helm a lot of these. Well, you know, I mean, it does seem like it has a pretty strong and, you know, consistent voice across its, you know, four episodes we've seen so far. A certain grip on its tonality despite the collaborations at hand. What do you think, episode three and four? I thought they were great. I thought they were really great. I'm more into the more

when it's reflecting a little bit more of like the first couple Terminator movies when it's a lot more immediate because you kind of have two storylines happening here you have the one where it is just a direct chase and a race to get to Malcolm and you know stop this Terminator, protect the children

that is very reflective of the first two Terminator movies but it still feels like it's doing its own thing in a really cool way and then the other one where they're really doing their own thing like far and beyond which is Malcolm and Kokomo and Kokoro and all these questions about is humanity worth saving and these philosophical debates that feel like very haunting and ethereal and I really like the context of it and I like

the idea of it a lot I do think it's been a little bit like the ending note was great because it felt like it advanced but for two for few episodes I kind of feel like it's in the same rumination conversation and not really much development there. It felt a little bit dragged out. It weirdly feels like for a show that's so much about a race against the

clock of judgment day, it's the time where it feels like the show is slowing down the most when I feel like there should be so much urgency and the debate going on there and it doesn't feel like the clock they're aware of the clock there because they're surrendering to

the visual tonality. It's that they're trying to convey. So, like, there's, I'm a mixed bag on that. But in terms of, like, the actual media plot at hand, everything with the Terminator, I think, is really great. I'm much more connected to the characters. That's what I've been really wanting to connect more to the characters.

I think, like, this development of heroes is really cool. I keep forgetting the main freaking girl's name. You can be the girl from the future? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. She's great. No recollection of her. I feel like they've said it, like, one time.

I really like her a lot. She's awesome. and the two boys or whatever, but I really like the little girl. So, yeah, I think there's a lot of really cool things happening right now, and I'm excited. I want to finish the rest of the show,

and I really like this direction that they've taken because this first half, what it seems to me that the show has been doing is a bit of that Alien Romulus thing where they're doing your own thing, but there's also a lot of greatest hits happening with a bit of other splicing, other characters, yada, yada, you know how it goes.

And they've, so it's been like a little bit of, an homage piece to the first couple Terminator films, primarily the first one, while setting up this completely different direction

we're going to go with Kokoro and the connection of Skynet which they did like a time jump there because it was like Skynet's going to go online in such and such, you know, a time and then... He said within the hour. Yeah, okay. And then we... So it was technically within

the... We jumped, yeah. It's just like, yeah, like the way we kind of lurched into like, oh damn, and then now the bombs are going off like yeah the time dilation is a little funky and everything in that room time wise yeah is like a little detached it feels like from everything else yeah so i i think that this is like a solid midpoint because now that they've got a lot of familiarity and perhaps that'll still carry on it seems like they really are going to be taking some new directions now yeah the act for the alien romulus act four yeah yeah yeah no too soon their own shit this is what it appears to me like you know they've set up a lot of

things that I really I really I mean I love the terminator franchise even if I don't like the movies I tend to just be happy to be watching a terminator film so yeah I'm really like I'm really liking this a lot this could very well if it lands be probably the best thing terminator thing since terminator two terminator romulus baby killing it yeah no I agree pretty much with everything you said I really like the just echoing the sentiment of the first couple episodes when we were talking about those, you know, like, I just, I appreciate the way they let the dynamics of the plot and the action breathe and the way that they're able to ramp up the stakes and have that, yeah, just sort of relentless, stalking, demonic, you know, like the Terminator is like a Michael Myers or, yeah, like some kind of, you said the, it follows it, like, it's, it, it captures that kind of, you know, you think of Terminator 2 especially. I think because of Terminator 2, people think sci-fi action movie. which it certainly is. But, you know, part of what I love

is that this has really embraced the roots of The Terminator being such a horror movie, such a stalking slasher movie with a robot. So, yeah, just like all the... But you know how that's, like, so simple? Yeah. This is like bigger. This is like the complicated version.

This is like bigger on Terminator, too. Yeah, totally. Yeah, in a way that doesn't feel unnatural to me at all. Like, because you could, like, you know, go for bigger and go for broader and kind of warp the actual core of the subject matter in some way, shape, or form. I feel like certainly other of the Terminator movies are bigger culprits of that than this is. And yeah, I think the ways in which they have expanded are cool.

And yeah, like it has, I feel like I thought that partway through one of these episodes, the Alien Romulus thing, because, yeah, it's nicely using a lot of the tones and imagery from the first movie, especially, but both, you know, Terminator and Terminator, too. There are nods. I'm sure that we're dead. We're all dead. It is a terminate. Like,

that has to be a Terminator Salvation. Like, those things are fun. But yeah, it's that kind of thing where they're not doing them and going, huh?

Which I appreciate. And yeah, like the Malcolm stuff, I think, is good in context of the overall scope of everything. But yeah, in terms of,

like, the execution dynamics, it is the one thing that does feel like, man, you should go outside. I know, time is running out but like for the things that you as a character have expressed are important

I feel like they could slightly better depict the real like juggling act that he's stuck in right now because I think having a philosophical debate just the nature of that action unfortunately creates a situation where you're in a room sitting and talking which is not the most sort of like we're making haste kind of blocking well it seems like there's no urgency on choice yeah and that was the one that's that's what it was really coming down to right by turn this thing online or not and that's what they're all like yeah the whole you know debate has been about in there of these four episodes yeah and i think it lacks urgency i think it just lacked urgency so that was it was and it's just like it really wasn't much variety in terms of a debate like it really

didn't well yeah it's kind of like i've heard the same conversation for like four episodes yeah i'm like i like i like i like i like i like i like it but as long as we're going to spend this time I would like this to become like a kaleidoscoping. Like it is like the question that they're asking and the scenarios, the possibilities and probabilities like are unique and I think there are a lot of ways you can approach that. He said, I want to, okay, I need to prove

that humanity has a chance to progress. And I'm like, we've got none of that. Yeah, what are you going to do? From here, especially, what are you going to do? I think it was the same shit. Is that like, Terminator, I didn't mean Terminator. Judgment Day is going to happen.

and do I turn you online and can humanity be better is like the same just different versions like cover songs of the same dialogue throughout it and yeah I thought that was a lot

this is so great and so new yeah but it seemed like for something that they were introducing an original concept of the Terminator world that's when it seemed to kind of lack sure and instead of like you know riffing on some greatest hits moments

but I'm still really I'm talking about me wrong like I'm really fixated on this in the discussion because everything else is so good that they don't really elaborate on what's this? The thing that's not one thing that wasn't really working as strong. But everything else besides that like few

minutes per episode it's a really like I'm really enjoying this show a lot. Oh yeah I think it's a really really good show. It's well-paced, it's got great mood it's got its brains and hearts in the right places. I like the reveal with Marcus Aurelius. Miss Soco or whatever her name is. I'm just really

that's glad to hear you. Sure. No, I know that's Maximus. That's for Is it Marcus Aurelius? Marcus Aurelius is like a historical figure. Wait, who are you trying to? Did it, uh, terminary, uh, salvation? Marcus Wright. Marcus right.

Right. There you go, the Sam Worthington guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's her reveal. Yeah, totally, which, which is, yeah, like somebody had to be. And I still wonder if, if, uh, the girl from the future is somehow enhanced. But, uh, but, but yeah, getting to that with Missaco, I thought was cool because that's one of those things that, like, you could guess or piece together, just because you know what franchise you're in,

but I thought the way they have done that so far has been interesting and everything in the little tunnels and everything was cool. The mystery with the cat, I think is really cool. And I like to when you can get a situation, like when they go to the precinct, the police station, and like you already know, like, yeah, the police aren't going to be able to, quote, help us. But when a world draws itself in a way where I thought

we were going to get this detective guy and the other, you know, the other, you know, partner, I thought they were going to become some kind of characters and we were going to have some kind of police element to this too or you're in that place where you're like, how far is this situation going to grow and how many people on the present timeline are we going to get involved with it

and then having them pretty quickly and harshly mutilated and kills was just one of those moments where I was like, oh, cool. Like, yeah, I didn't know what to quite expect here and it's an engaging and I think a conscientious right. Like, for whatever gripes about the Marcus thing, on the other hand I do have to give it over

to the writing because like yeah Malcolm Mark Israelis like at least four episodes in so far like I've really appreciated how this is written

and again like because we've had so many people swear to us that this is going to be the best Terminator since Terminator 2 this is yeah doing a really nice job

of actually hitting a lot of those marks and like I'm rooting for them to do some of their own stuff which some of the Terminator movies have also tried failed to do, but I feel like this show could easily stick it. Like, I just, I feel like

in especially the debate between like, when is the continuation of a franchise, a fan film versus like real and canonical? Like, this certainly feels like somebody got to sit down and think it all out and have like a good amount of fun without having to just be restricted to like, just play the hits, you know, while still incorporating

a lot of the, you know, hit elements that you do want to see. So, yeah, it just feels like it just got its full chance to breathe, at least as of now. Well, it's embracing the fate tone way more. Yeah. And that was Timothy Oliphant, you said, as The Terminator? I believe so.

Is Malcolm's not Jeffrey Wright, right? He just sounds like Jeffrey Wright. Sounds a lot like Jeffrey. He sounds like Jeffrey. I would guess. I think I heard that, that Timothy Oliphon. I think that's what I heard. I feel like that was a murderer.

Yeah, I feel like they advertised that. Yeah, maybe. Either way. Let's watch the next couple. Yeah, thanks for joining us, guys. Leave your thoughts on these two. Join us for episodes five and six ASAP. Michelle!

Michelle. Michelle. Well, you're in for a treat. Oh, yes. You get a classic first time shout out here. Oh, gee. M stands for motherly, because I feel like you could cradle me. I stands for indubitable because you are indubitably. Indubitable. C stands for controlling. As I kind of feel like that, if we were friends, I wouldn't really be able to be myself. Oh, look out, because H stands for how you did. which is what I would be asking you because I want to know how your day has been. E stands for equality, which is something I'm striving for in this dynamic that we have. Yeah, absolutely. You don't want to be in a position of too much power. You know, you don't want to be exploitative. I understand.

You know what I mean? And we love that you're here of your own choosing and volition, deciding to spend even more time with us. You're not doing the rest of her name? L. Well, I mean, you know, her username stops there. I already said her name at the top. L stands for loquacious, because I am sure that you can turn a phrase with the best of them. L stands for less than.

Oh, which is kind of part of the emotionally abusive side of our dynamic. Oh, dang, dang. The E stands for extra because we want extra of you in our life. Someone doesn't know as big a word. Oh, wow. E stands for endoscopic. Endocrinology. There you go, because I assume that you have studied that system of human anatomy biology. We all have. We all have, but I bet you're the best expert on the subject, and we would be less than you in that arena of knowledge, certainly. Seriously, Michelle, you've got a great profile picture.

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