The Reel Rejects - THE WALKING DEAD: The Ones Who Live 1x3 "Bye" Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: March 10, 2024

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I think they've been getting better each episode. How? How? how how because they don't have time to do any meandering episodes there's some solid directions on meandering and it's so focused and the stakes are so different and high

and even like the walkers feel fun again yeah it's just it's a fun it's also kind of fun I feel like it's a show you might not say with this show but it's kind of fun because because uh Mishone we know her we know these characters so well to the point where we can watch this and see Rick

as this, you know, shell of his former self where Michone has just gotten here and she's not going to accept this verse in a Rick. But not only that, but I think she's incapable of playing this role. She is so

she's stubborn. It's hard for her to lie, but in all the great kind of ways and she's also like relentless in her love that no matter what, she just sees the truth at all times. She's like, I don't care of what you said anyway. I know she just knows whenever he's bullshitting.

That would have been the right time to be like, and you have a son. She would never buy that lot like when he's like, it's over, all that. She's not going to buy it. And to make it to put up any facade at all that he does not care anymore. Like, yeah, all right, okay.

She, I love it. I love just how much of a four. of nature she is with her love yeah and she's gonna be the thing that is like it's like the reeling him back in so slowly you know going with the leave going okay fine you're gonna stick with me okay we're gonna get you into the team uh follow the act all right i'm gonna go out here into the field with you push this car kill these walkers let's make out for a bit it's over Jordan, like, this, this, this, like, do, do, da, da, do her.

She's, she's not going to give up. She is a, a very proactive, Helen of Troy. Yeah, she's amazing. Yeah. And this, the acting is top notch. And I feel like, and I've, I've said this before, part of the struggle of the Walking Dead is that about halfway through, they wanted to make this evolution of this bigger world, of this, like,

faction bit like yeah but it was impossible to buy into it because it was always such a personal small knit group and it just they didn't have the budget they didn't have the right writing model and then you have this series where i'm just like i'm fully bought into this like i fully believe that this is like uh you know from the epicenter of the city state that this this is some massive ever-growing force and the stakes feel so high in the ranks and just all of it just the world building has been so top tier and to get all of it through the perspective of these characters where you know the exposition doesn't feel forced it just feels earned through their experiences like i feel like that's why the weight of this is so intense because rick even though

he's been elevating through the ranks even though he's been recruited to this like coup like effort doesn't even know why doesn't even you know and the fact that like we're going to continue to find and navigate this

all with the backdrop of like the world's worst spy in the form of Michaud man I'm just having the time of my life right now sorry that was an excited I feel like, who's the friend, the main girl who's becoming a real problem here,

who's like, I don't trust this Michelle girl. Her name? Can't forget her name. What's her position? She, well, she was up to like, not quite lieutenant colonel, but in that similar vein. Person in charge of the team. Below general, above sergeant. I feel like she should have picked up by now who this woman might possibly be.

I think it's surprising. but also I think it's believable in the sense that her entire existence and everything that she's really bought into Ocophor's vision and I think she's so blinded by the fact that now all of a sudden

in the same way that Rick is playing this game she's playing this game with all the high up brass and I don't think she's thinking I don't think anyone that's thinking straight except for Terry O'Quinn I think in a situation In an apocalyptic landscape like this, you know, whatever, what we value most, those options become a lot more limited on what we can assess what we value most.

And oftentimes, and what I imagine what you value most is probably anything that gives you some semblance of hope because it's in our nature to survive. Yeah. You know, and she's lost everything. And so her. As a world away. And keeps going home. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

She's also, I think that really helps too. she's a foreigner and to be dealing with that side so i think the patch she goes out as frustrating as it is i think makes her some really compelling drama with because i'm when she's saying he's my family and stuff i i get the sense she really does care about right i she i believe that a thousand percent but i think rick would easily shoot her if he had to well i i think i don't think he wants to but i feel like he would if he had to i think that's going to be the balance of all of this is rick is going to have to make some really awful decisions Yeah.

And, you know, I think the interesting thing is, you know, and I said it last episode, we have not met our big bad. We have not met the top of this ladder. And that was definitively confirmed in this episode. You know, I mean, and not to like jump into the world beyond at all. But I think I see where a lot of this is going. season two of the world beyond really kind of focused on

like the scientific efforts of the CRM which can be described as less than stellar and like you combine that like the use of like the 500 year plan and I know I've said it like three times already but that is the most

like out of the 90 playbook fascist thing that you could describe And I think not only are they envisioning a world in a very particular shape and way, but anything that does not fit that mold must be exterminated. And we've already seen that. They literally gassed out. And even Jada is kind of looks like a Nazi now.

Well, and it's easy to imagine every one of those people have been now part of multiple communities that have fallen. that have all tried it a different way and this is somehow the only one that's still making it and I think that fascist minds like that was one of the really interesting parts of the civic republic and how it was set up this idea of okay

or under martial law and military control for X amount of years and then we're going to hand that off to a democratically controlled government and that is clearly where this is like well we're almost there and we've all seen what happens when we try democracy in the apocalypse and I think people in and just look at the real world

people will always opt for security over freedom it's a common denominator I mean like look at the United States after 9 o'clock first thing we did we passed the Patriot Act basically just gave up half of our freedoms you know and I think people in this world where it's exacerbated to the point where you can't even like walk down the street without risk and getting bit by a walker I can only imagine

that the sentiment and what they're doing they genuinely believe is for the greater good especially because anybody that survived that long at this point has experienced the same iteration that Rick and all their characters have gone through which is like yeah we had a settlement but the settlement got overrun

and everybody that I care about died and then we tried again and it happened again and then there was a crazy guy who ran a prison you know the guy with a baseball bat named after his wife you know but it's like these

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bogged down with world building and not focusing on your immediate narrative and making that compelling enough yeah and that's i love how at the end of the day it's all so character driven you know like i think what i've seen some people not most clear for that right away not most who have had a hard time accepting what andrew lincoln is doing here but he's going through a character arc it's like you wouldn't just come back as like i'm rick the leader you know like he's going through a character arc right now and as of course like it is kind of and it and i love that because it puts you in the perspective of what moshone must be experienced yeah i've seen those comments of people going like i get that he's you know broken and traumatized

this not the rick i remember and i'm like yeah that's what moshone is going through right now is this is not the man i remember and i need to bring back the man i lost yeah you know and and but what andrew lincoln does he's he's constantly in conflict it kind of reminds me of in a sense um Leonardo caprio's performance in the departed of a dude who's just like deteriorating and it just can't get a fucking win no matter what he's doing it's and it's just like always on edge but he can't show that he's on edge you know i i love that uh i love those layers and for the utmost confidence of michone uh to be that support and to just smile in his face and smile in roman's face and and not fall for any of this this these beliefs these philosophies

that are being spewed her away this this this military that functions like a cult. You know, I love I love how they keep it within character and then you get these nuanced moments like with the artwork that you kept making fun of and I love how the show acknowledges that

like Rick's apparently a good artist out like you kept making fun of that and I never thought about it and then the show acknowledged like Rick did not draw that. Rick is actually a connoisseur of the fine arts Greg he's a patron

I thought that was I thought that was a really beautiful touch and for like Walking Dead fans for you know the flip with jadis as well to me like i didn't see her in world beyond and and my my leave off with her was in season 10 of walking dead so to to to watch such a con like to this to show just how different things have how different things are like this dude like the last time we were with her in walking dead most we didn't see world beyond right like last ever with her walking dead she was part of rick's camp you know and then she was leaving

And so to see like this evolution, you know, is wild. And I think she's a very kind of underrated character. Yeah. Well, I think that's what's wonderful about this is I feel like to give an actor like her the opportunity to now take all of that and all the potential of this character and like fully unleash it has been really fun to watch. Something that I'm trying to remember because I haven't watched World Beyond or the last season anyway since it came. out. But I feel like we've been to Cascadia before. Like we've been to this place before. And like please correct me internet if I'm wrong and I'm sorry if I am. But I'm almost sure that that's like where the facility was that a lot of these experiments and all. But I'm sure

a lot of this will come into focus soon. And part of me wonders if these stories are colliding or some of this is past tense. And I have so many questions. But how does the submarine show factor in? The submarine? Tales of the Walking Dead. It's just... The Fear of the Walking Dead spin off. Yeah. Do you see that one too? Yeah, the submarine one? You actually watched that one? Of course I watched that one. Is it good? No, it was honestly, and I'm sorry if you feel differently, I thought it was of all the things the Walking Dead has ever done. One of the most, like, low budget, low quality, like, horrifically. And the ironic part is the concept was kind of fun. I did not know it existed until a few days ago when I was looking through AMC plus to see what do they have here?

It's not Walking Dead. And I was like, you should react to it. There was a fear of the Walking Dead, not a spit off of Walking Dead. A spit off of Fear of the Walking Dead. So there was a period in like season three or four of the Walking Dead where they would do these like little break off shorts. Okay. Like, it was like on an airplane when the walkers started. Like, I'm trying to remember all of them.

But they did these many ones. And then when Fear the Walking Dead came out, they did the submarine one, which is just, it's just so bad. But, you know, I don't know if I could ever. Is that, has it necessary to watch Fear of the Walking Dead? You know, it's, it's funny because the show had like so much promise. I watched the first season. I was like, I don't think I can do this. I heard that's like the worst season.

It is definitively the worst season. I mean, I think the interesting thing is it's like probably one of the only shows that the entire cast of characters is no longer the cast of characters. But that's not entirely true. But, yeah, it gets really good and then it gets bad and then it gets really good. I'd like to watch. Lenny James, I've said this before, is and has been for since he was in Jericho, which is an amazing. Have you ever seen Jericho?

No. Oh my God, Greg. Remember the posters. Big white letters. Yeah. Big white letters. That's exactly it. And mushroom clouds. Can you tell I have a type? But he was one of the stars in Jericho. And I think he is one of the most fantastic actors.

And more than anything, more than seeing Michone and Rick together or even Rick and Daryl together again, I want to see Rick and Morgan together again. because those two I would love to see like Rick and Morty together I don't know about that no no it wasn't that 40

stop Greg please how many people do you think stopped watching our reaction after hearing I don't know maybe I cut it out in the edit don't cut it out I cut out I cut out I cut out a lot you know I got cut out a lot

well there's so much talking points Michael, we got to go, we got to leave I got to work on videos What did you all think of this episode What do you think is going to happen At this summit of the brass It's gonna be Negan Could you imagine

Yeah That's Rick Nice to see I get a little hip toss here I got my new baseball bat And he does not sound like that Yeah Yeah

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