The Reel Rejects - THE WALKING DEAD: The Ones Who Live 1x01 REVIEW!!

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

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us what's up message privately with everyone this video is sponsored by factor i'm doing this for us or then a lot of setup there's a heavy amount of setup damn um i'm not used to it are the other shows kind of like that now i'm i'm still used to slow deliberate i like walking dead a lot well yeah i think the issue is so much time is elapsed that you have to and the place that they've positioned rick requires it to such an extent yeah like i already knew all about like the civic republic and their military and then like what happened at omaha and all of that so break that down for me really yeah yeah yeah yeah so you can take your time a little more break that down for me yeah so Basically, what transpired was during the fall, a element of the U.S. government managed to save a city and create what they call the civic republic.

And the idea is that there was a system in place where there was the city that would remain hidden to the public. And that's where normal civilians live. And then you have the civic republic military. And the idea is that for like 10 or 15 years, it would be martial order, like martial law only. So the military was in charge. But after that, it would transition to a democratic government. And they found these two other cities to create the alliance of three, which is why those circles are the logo, the three each represent the different city. And so in world beyond, we explored their faction a bit more only to discover that they wanted to destroy the other.

cities and that the military element wanted to keep control over all of it. No democratic government, no return to that. And what's interesting is like, you know, I know you're not fully caught up on the Walking Dead, but there are some other very large factions that are brewing in North America and also around the world for that matter. And so I really thought that I was, What I'd have to do is just get to at least Rick and Michone's last episode. Nope. Sorry. Damn.

I mean, I think they, I picked up on that, that part of it. It's when they starts getting sort of the nitty gritty. Some of the choices that I was kind of questioning about, like, why Rick so bad? Like, why do they want, why don't I want him so much or treating him like he's destiny child, you know? Like, he's the chosen one in some way. When they have so many other. people here when when rick was identified as an a i thought they identified it was a b yes but the and it was a fake b okay it was so that they didn't off them or or send him to the the

the city but the you have to remember like when when janus met rick and he first interacted with the garbage people her name is janis not anne we call her anne yeah well whatever you want to call her i think janis was the original name that she went by when she was a garbage person. When she was like, that was when I was like, oh, the show needs to end. But Rick had successfully built

like a multi-village alliance and had built like a little civilization. So he was a leader and they want that. He clearly possesses the ability to keep people alive, to rally people. I'm sure they knew about Nigan. I'm sure they knew about everything that transpired. And so she was the one, like pretty much journaling.

And I'm sure we're going to see her again. I think, I mean, I've seen the trailers so many times. Yeah. After, I just kept watching the trailers over and over. Yeah, I was so excited Rick's coming back. I was watching all my phone. I think I'm pretty sure, but there's a one moment. Yeah, where she appears.

I mean, the thing that I'm most excited about and what was my biggest critique is the Walking Dead when it started. It was a beautiful, intimate drama of a small. ensemble cast of characters and as the years went on you know you have to remember like Walking Dead and Game of Thrones came out around the same time yeah and I think there was a desire by the producer the producers of the Walking Dead to have it so that like when you see like the kingdom and hilltop that it feels grandiose and that there are these like big factions that are being built when in reality the show just didn't know how to transition out of that small ensemble drama into this kind of

bigger world building show and I feel like what they've set up with this you know the walking dead universe or whatever you want to call it is it feels a bit more earned I think the production value across the board has just been raised the quality of the writing and and something that they've done on every one of these shows is like Andrew Lincoln is a co-creator on this like Norman Redis is a co-creator on the Darrell Dixon show and and that's across the board. So they allow their actors to keep a character driven. Well, I think that it's understood that they're all great creatives who have invested, you know, well over a decade now into these characters and to give them that kind of creative

license. The other thing is that we're like in total uncharted territory now in terms of like where the comics left off. And, you know, I'm somebody that that love the comics. And to see it go in these different directions and you have characters that didn't even exist that have become fan favorites. Like Daryl. Like Daryl. And for me, like, I know you haven't watched that yet,

but like I'm already in my mind connecting the dots of at some point, this very big world that they're building is going to collide in a really interesting way. And is the audience big enough to keep up with all this? Well, you know, I think

there's a lot of drop off like all around. There's a lot of drop-off, but I also think that it's a piece of IP that has, like, if you've stuck with it, you've stuck with it. Because I've heard that this show in particular, I mean, maybe there's just a rumor, but, like, they put a lot of eggs in their basket for this specific show to try to regain a little bit more momentum with audience, you know, so, like, it was always a plan to, at first it was going to be a movie, and then now it's so glad they didn't do a movie. It'd be hard to do a movie, I think, especially with what all they had to jam pack in this one episode. But now it seems... Two hours of exposition. Yeah, just like, nothing really happened. They just explained what was happening the whole time.

Yeah. But they need, this to me was like, okay, you need to make it attainable for people like myself. Yeah. Who... Did it feel attainable? It did. It did. At the same time, I think by having so much information, they sacrifice a lot of things.

This guy's last name is porn. I have never seen that. I'm sure he's great at his job. This is makeup artist. I know. I saw what a makeup artist? I have never seen that. Eric,

if you're, I'm sorry. That is crazy. Yeah. Anyway. Did you choose that? No, you don't choose that.

It's a surname. It's given. Have you heard that now somewhere? The name? Yeah. Eric Porn. Have you heard that as a surname before? I mean,

I've heard some. I've heard some interesting names. I've never heard that. I would just change it. Who wants to embrace that? I mean, Eric Horn, you've got to do something else. Speak your truth. You know, or maybe it's the chosen name.

Anyway, he's never, he's still a virgin here before. The irony. I'm, I don't know, sorry, when I was, I was, I just saw the name. I was like, whoa, that's a real name. I'm trailed off there. Eric, if you're watching, I'm so sorry. I do think that they, to judge the episode itself, like, okay, it makes sense to me why. And maybe this is a factor for the, for the idea that I am not caught up in all this extensive world building.

And the show itself knew that there's going to be a lot of people like myself who are not going to be caught up on that shit. Because to my understanding, World Beyond was short-lived, right? Like, it was canceled. Yeah, I think it was one season, maybe two. Really? Like, people actually watched it? I did. Is that the one with a teenager?

Yeah. It was cute. It was cute. You know, I thought it was an interesting attempt at trying to bring in a new generation that was born at the wrong time for the Walking Dead. And I think the issue is that just, it fell flat. But, you know, for me, it was like, I really enjoyed it because I've, ever since we first saw the helicopter in Walking Dead. I mean, you've got to think, this is a seed that was planted in the very, very beginning. Yeah.

That helicopter appears in season one. Yeah. You know, and I think to finally get a return on that and to explore it, like, I was happy to get any sort of content. Well, I wasn't expecting this show to be the one that converges everything. Sure. I thought it would just be solely focused, which I think it's going to go back to is keeping to just focus on the, the, the, the love story and the reunion between Michone and Rick, which is what most,

I think for the ones who have been like, where's Rick been? It hasn't been like, what's the crazy plot world expansion? Yeah. Going on with Rick. People, I think people want the character back.

Sure. Like, that's the best way to tell that cohesive story. To also get them maybe interested in the other parts of them. Because now listening to you going, well, shit, maybe I should watch all these. Because my plan was to eventually, like,

I'm going to finish walking down. I'll get one more season left. And then I'm going to, well, Like, Fear the Walking Dead is a really good example. Like, oh, man, I'm going to watch that. Dude, the show, it started so bad, and then it got so good, and then it got so bad. And the reason that I love it the most, though, is that Morgan, Lenny James' character is the star of it.

It becomes the star, yeah. Yeah, he does become the star. And for me, like, as much as, like, seeing Rick and Michone together again, and even seeing, like, Rick and Daryl together again, I'm so excited. to see Rick and Morgan because their episodes together from the, you know, from the very beginning to when they, they meet again is just some of the most phenomenal acting period in The Walking Dead. And, um, but I think it's interesting because now you have all these protagonists. You have, uh, number one, Maggie and Negan together. You have Daryl and presumably eventually Carol. And then you also have Judith who's still around, you know, Carol. You know, Carol.

What? He's ruined for me that Carol still... I said presumably, I don't know. I don't remember. I haven't watched it in a while. Anyway, but my point is that you have... Now I'm going to watch all season 11

going, what a wasted time. Now I know Carol lives. You have great characters who are all converging. And also the stakes that are being set, particularly in the Daryl show, are like... Really, it's the first time that I'm like,

oh, I'm so interested to see how this ends. But I agree, if this doesn't land, it's hard to imagine that any of them are going to get to keep going. Well, yeah. I like the, I did like the episode a lot. It works for me when it comes to

Rick. Obviously, like, I love Andrew Lincoln. Yeah. Not an unpopular opinion to say he's like my favorite character. And I didn't think I would be interested in this show after he left and season nine is one of my favorite

seasons. I thought, I love that. Is season nine when the Whisper were introduced yeah that's what that that opening episode in the graveyard yeah is i think one of the finest things the walking dead ever did in that it made me scared again i didn't know that the walking dead could scare the crap like an actual scary george romero zombie show again yeah it was it was good yeah and it surprised me too uh but i know i really i love that i love uh season nine a lot so that that's what that that sold me that i could watch more walking dead without rick and To have, but really, I, I am mainly here like everyone else to show up for the reunion, the emotional companionship of Rick and Michelle, which I think that is going to be the central heart of this.

Yeah. And so I think first episode is mainly about world building, some mournful, sorrowful sides. And I am craving them to breathe a little bit better and slow down as opposed, because I don't, I don't think we're going to get that at episode too. I think that it's going to be an identical, insane journey that Michone goes on. Because also, like, it's hard to imagine that Michone just had, like, an anti-aircraft weapon ready to go. I don't think she's alone. And I think there's a lot more story than just, like, Michone having made her way up from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Well, in her last episode, she had a venture with a big group that was like, they were, like, moving, like,

settlers, you know, which is really cool. No, it's a... For everyone else, for me, that was a week ago. And for everyone else,

that was like years ago. Yeah. No, and that's a, I think kind of the biggest challenge of this series is just going to be

remembering stuff. Like, if you just started naming walking dead characters, I probably couldn't tell you who's alive and dead right now. Yeah, well,

you know, that's why I just kept it at season, like, I was finished season 10 and call it quits to know, I think that from a creative standpoint, if they're not assuming that that's where people stopped,

then they're in a very bad creative predicament. Well, I think they have to sort of, though. Like what they did here, I mean, what do you think of the episode in and of itself? Like, I know you liked it a lot. I think you liked it more than I did. In the midst of movie and TV show reactions, you know, such a busy schedule around here. Who's got time to prep gourmet meals?

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Dive into the gourmet life, people. I enjoyed the cinematics of it. I mean, I think one of the, something that bothered me about Walking Dead is that season one was so cinematic. I mean, it felt like a movie. And it was at a time when, like, TV was not typically like that, especially something on AMC.

Yeah. I mean, like, Mad Men had just come out. It was a good time for narrative storytelling on television. Well, the freeway, the freeway shot, about him on the horses. iconic for a reason and you know you flash forward a couple seasons and it's strange because like the special effects got worse i think you know because it became so procedural there was a a great diminishment of quality uh because there was just such quantity of the series and so for this

to be able to be like they've taken a lot of time to really focus on dialogue that isn't cheesy and campy um and there's a little bit but it's still the walking dead so um but it felt cinematic tonally i mean that last scene felt like something out of black hawk down and and i think that that's what excites me is is that and hearing andrew lincoln drop the f bomb you don't often yeah and there's a lot of fbom from angrily well he had like 11 seasons of fbombs to make up for yeah and like weirdly muted f bombs just put a few at times in the show. Well,

the, I mean, the vibe of it really, I mean, it doesn't feel like zombie apocalypse world. It feels a little bit closer to who did, like, who did in 1984?

Orson Wells. Orson Wells did 1984? The book? Yeah. Yeah. Who is Citizen Kane? Orson. Orson Wells also made The Walking Dead.

He was an author as well? Orson was. He didn't know he was an author? Am I getting that? Orson was. Really? It's everything. So he was like the actor, director, writer, and it was also the novelist behind 1984?

Yeah. Now I'm, you're gaslighting me. I'm asking you a question. Why are you gaslighting me? Because I thought Orson and Wells, but I'm like, but no, I know him as like, I'm Orson Wells, the voice and transformers. Not HG Wells. Now I'm really stressed.

Well, look at it later. This feels more like sci-fi, like military apocular show. I think the issue, zombies are boring at this point. It depends. Well, listen, I think. I think what they've been doing is John. From what I can see from the trailers of everything from the new spinouts, like there's more genre shifts happening. Well, I think the whispers and Negan, I mean, they prove that the best villains in the Walking Dead are really compelling people.

And I think what's interesting is that they're grappling with some like big questions of, okay, these are people that have now survived the zombie apocalypse for 10 years, which means zombies really aren't that much of a threat. But people are. and you know they're playing around i don't want to spoil anything um but like they are playing around with different variants of walkers in the last few seasons of the walking dead you had like some climbers which was this really uncomfortable and then uh the darrell show explores a whole other side that's like actually terrifying so i think that we will get more of that as the show progresses um but what's getting set up is like what does the new world order look like yeah yeah like and i love the potential of that of how do you

create a democracy worldwide yeah um in a world that has has to rebuild and endure this and what can you preserve i think there's a lot of very interesting sci-fi and a lot of it feels like uh retro sci-fi too in a way without it being like campy 1950s looking in it yeah yeah which i actually love i love when they do like that retro shit uh but it it has and it harkens back to though That's the impression that I'm getting off of here of what they're implementing. But, you know, I'm still just mainly about character and emotion, and that's why I wanted to slow down. None of it's, none of it's going to work unless they get that. Yeah.

You know, and while I like the romanticism behind the letters and everything, it was, it felt very basic. Sure. And more as just a plot device to give us all the information we needed to get, which is necessary. and I'm going to want the and sometimes even like with the I even though the actress was great the one who kept saying who kept saving the South African character yeah yeah the the partner even though I think she was great sometimes the interruptions there was like an odd the pace of this episode was a little odd yeah and I imagine there's a bit of for Andrew Lincoln I mean I have to imagine stepping back into this role must have its own set of challenges and then to add in the very very of like, not only are you this character, but now you're in a completely different setting with a completely different cast of characters. I'm, I think,

I hope that everyone gives it the benefit of the doubt because I have a wee bit of optimism right now that episode three, once we have their stories collide, and we have two people that have years of chemistry who are both phenomenal actors who are so successful in their own right. I mean, I think that's the coolest thing about bringing Michone back is like, think about the career that's happened since the walking day. Yeah, that's been great.

You know, so, um, yeah. Well, I'm super curious. What do y'all think? Yeah. Did any of you watch any of the other shows? Um, who is Orson Wells? Who is HG Wells? H.G. Wells did like time machine.

Time machine. And, and invisible man. I think it did. Yeah, invisible man. Yeah. Yeah. No, I know who H. Wells. That was a rhetorical question, Greg. Orson Wells wrote

and I was going to say Orson Wells at first and then I was like, wait a minute, but I have a completely different association with Orson. Well, now I'm really questioning like third man and like, is it okay if I look it up quick? Yeah, look it up. Okay. George, who's George C. Scott? Another writer. Are you thinking F. Scott Fitzgerald? Nah, that's great. Gatsby. I'm so tired. Who wrote? I'm getting myself so confused.

1989. Taylor Swift. I wrote 1989. 1984. Oh, my God. That's freaking hysterical. Who wrote 1980? Oh, God.

Who wrote 1984? George Orwell. George Orwell. Horson Wells. George C. Scott. oh man sometimes sometimes my dyslexia just loves to get a good laugh out of me got it to my head too that's why i guess georgey scott that's so funny well it's it's easy to imagine a it's easy for me to imagine orson wells doing something like 1984 no actually i feel like a schmuck right now i don't

I don't know why I compare something. It's not really 1984. I don't know why I was looking for that. No, not at all. I was so confused why you were. I was like really trying to pull 1984. This is nothing like

1984. I do appreciate the show feels like it's in a time capsule of like the early 2000s because it is. Yeah. And or like the mid 2000. I love that.

I just, I just finished, I just finished season 10 and I think some of it does come down with like expectation problem for me as well. of just what I want you know it's what expectations are and

I don't know how well you recall this but the last few episodes of season 10 did this random thing where they just did these very individual character episodes like darrell and the girl yeah everyone got yeah and then like priest guy Gabriel and Aaron like they did these really and I was like oh this is really cool and I want I just want something that's felt like just because it's the

reunion show. I'm like, I want that intimacy. Oh, that needs to be seen. It's a hit. It's all I'm craving. I think they're going to give that to us. I think that we will get it. And I think we will eventually get back to the bigger narrative, but I think having some time for the, I mean, there's a lot to reconcile. And I hope that they understand that drama of being away from each other, the loss. I mean, you have to think, there's a child that was born. There was a child that died. Yeah. There's another child that's no longer a child you know um and rick did stop trying to escape and i think that's going to be really hard for

him to to verbally i think that's going to just be really hard for both of them um but let's do it again next week yeah yeah but i like how it plays a bit on this because he does have a rick does have a bit of a savior complex well it doesn't help that everyone else also wants to give rick a savior complies. I don't, I genuinely don't think he wants it. I think he just wants to like sit in a rocking chair become Herschel, you know, live on a farm. I think this is why Daryl and Rick have always been like really compelling buddies because they both like don't ask to be leaders. They don't ask to be heroes, but they are called to be heroes and leaders all the time when they don't really want to be. And like leading a YouTube channel, like the real rejects. It can't be easy for

for you, Greg. There's got to be a reason why they do it because there is a bit of a complex for them at the same time. Anyway, all righty, guys. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks, Michael, for filling in all the blanks. And what did you guys think? Leave your thoughts down below. We'll talk to you all soon. Ricardo Martinez,

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