The Reel Rejects - WHAT IF? Season 2 Episode 2 REVIEW & BREAKDOWN!

Episode Date: December 24, 2023

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I liked it more than a lot of the first season. It wasn't quite as strong as the first episode for me because we both had the exact same moment of like, well, that was rushed. Like the, if the episode had gotten like five more minutes, it would have been, the conversation between ego and his son was all of a sudden like, I've always hated you. And I was like, whoa. Or I've always expected this if you kind of turned quickly. It was like the ending of Guardian. It's a lot like Guardians too. It was a lot.

It was like 30 minutes of Guardians 2 condensed into like 30 seconds. Yeah. Maybe less. I mean, I'm assuming, you know, everyone that's seen Guardians 2, if you're watching this, you've seen Guardians 2. But it did make the episode feel like it is a little disjointed. Overall, though, man, this was my most anticipated episode next to the Mad Max episode from the trailer. But this like delivered for me.

I love the 80s Avengers. The Avengers is a comic that I've enjoyed since I started reading comics So it was cool to see some of the characters And the iteration that was not quite the comic But like more familiar It was great to see that team dynamic I thought it was really cool how they

Much like the Joss Whed and Avengers Played their power set off each other And we talked a lot about The use of the vectors and the size and scale And the directing I was really impressed overall Overall yeah I mean I still think It started off stronger to me

and got a little weaker as it went personally for me and I was trying to figure it out because I was trying to hold on to like the jovialness that the episode was filling me with because I was like oh this is really cool we are doing alternate versions of our Avengers and having a former earlier era

but it kind of did just kind of sort of go down the path of the things that I thought were a little lackluster story-wise of what if season one where by the time we I didn't really feel like we got to see the uniqueness or distinctiveness of all the Avengers characters.

And that's the appeal to put in them here. Yeah. After a while, it's like, okay, yeah. When they're first introduced, when they're at Coney Island and they're fighting, you get a tease of that. Then I thought it would be, like, more amplified by the time you get to the finale. And so it was a similar fight, but different. Similar five just with a bunch of faces people, like a bunch of, like, ego duplicates.

And they essentially did plot points similar to another movie that we've already seen. Also, the Captain Marvel stand didn't do anything. didn't do jack shit right yeah yeah what was her name who was that i don't know uh dr wendy lawson marvel oh she's marvell right but like she didn't get that's i mean like a marvel stand and she gets to do anything yeah no she didn't do anything no but she's marve like the character oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um yeah i didn't think she really provided anything here so i thought like in the big the first chunk of it was when i thought we were going to do something really it felt like it was it was really interesting setup of okay what if star lord was abducted instead given to ego and he

turn and it seemed like he actually wasn't evil no like at all six months he might not have been corrupted as completely as you know the i was still oh yeah no there's a way to justify it it's still i this setup was infinitely more interesting sure than how it ultimately concluded though oh damn what if they have to fight the avengers have to fight star lord and he is he has become the loki of this world effectively yeah he has become the loki of this world has become the god that ego wanted him to be, essentially. Yeah. Like, that is a very interesting setup,

and he has caused all this destruction, and what do they do about it? Like, it was fun. I liked hope bonding with him. There was a lot of, like, really fun things that were doing. And a fun throwbacks and fun references. Like, you know,

I mentioned a few with the Hulk scene and all that stuff. That was fun. It was great to see that tech. It was the lasting impression of the episode that kind of was like, all right, yeah. I mean, it did feel more like season one.

As far as like, and we're going to rush to the end. Like, that was my big issue of season one was it would open with a press, premise that for me didn't always feel as important as the comics, but then it would definitely like, once in Bruce rush to the finish line, and this had more of the pacing of what I had problem. Yeah, I mean, but what are you guys in the comments thinking? Did you feel this way about it?

For me, yeah, I thought, like, I like getting Michael Douglas to have him, have him be a lot more fun. Playing the Ant Man that we know from the comics. And also with Haley Atwell, getting to be old peg. Old Peg. Yeah, in real time, I enjoyed the relationship between her and John Slattery, because we've never really gotten to see a lot of that between like how they knew Steve differently and like that relationship as how it pertained to the winter soldier that was all fascinating yeah yeah and it's

like aesthetically it was cool to have you know goliath there yeah foster but uh i wish we got to get a little again if they if they actually cut out some of this ego stuff yeah and they just focused on the avengers and dealing with star lord like you need the ego stuff for the backdrop i get it right for the background explanation and someone to fight since they don't want them fighting a kid. Good luck, young Avengers. But then it would have a lot of us actually zero in on like what makes King Tachaca different than King Tachala. Yeah, because he definitely moved.

He had a bit of swag like Tachala, but I don't know what his actual motivations are, you know, or personality. Yeah. You know, like Hope Van Dine little girl got way more flesh than a lot of the other Avengers. Yeah, that's why she's a member of the team. Exactly. Forb without powers. We don't know why.

Like Dr. Wendy Lawson, like she got more of a, like she could have used more. And so I really think that they kind of dropped the ball a little bit in terms of storytelling in the last like, I don't know how these episodes were like 28 minutes. Yeah, the last like seven or something like that. Yeah, the third act would definitely felt like that rush. I worry about it. So it left. So it did kind of leave me a tad disappointed because it was a little because everything else leading up to it, I thought was really interesting. It kept getting better and more interesting.

And then it kind of just went down a very predictable cliche path. It did wrap itself up as clean as possible. Like, let's make sure the kid's good. Especially after a compelling episode of last episode. Right. Like the only real complaint I had about last episode was Ronan, again, was underused. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't really a character.

But here, I'm like, oh, man, they had all this great stuff and they didn't really utilize or what it. Instead, they just turned it into Guardians too. Right. And I did enjoy the Avenger setup more than the delivery. So I liked the first two acts, and it did rush. And there's something I do like. about Hank adopting. Yeah, that's cute.

Yeah, yeah. And I think, though, that what last episode showed us is you can do a little bit more of that mature touch. And I think they could have utilized a little bit more of that mature handling of it. You know, like, she's Hope and Hank are obviously haunted by the loss of Janet at this point in the timeline. And they made them so chipper. Yeah, there's no real reference except for the great prop. And I could have used a tad bit of like emotional weight. And I think that would have actually made the chipperness be more felt if they balance it out.

So, yeah, I know I'm doing a little bit of the like revisionist reviewing thingy. But it was all there. That's the thing. Yeah. They put those puzzle pieces down. They just didn't connect them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But overall, still better than a lot of season one for me.

And the animation still really spectacular. The sense of scale was cool. And two thirds of it, I see. still really enjoyed it's just that last third which is the it's you know if like the first if the first third was the weak part to me i wouldn't really be talking about that but when it's over you're like but when it's the last third that is the weakest part it's what the episode is left me with so i guess that's why i'm like honing in on it so sure yeah yeah i agree uh better than a lot of season one not as good as episode one of season two good to see those characters wish the ending had left

a little bit more of a resolution that felt deserved but overall a lot of fun All right, guys, what did you think about? Leave your thoughts down below. Be sure to subscribe. Leave a like. And, hey, we will catch you all soon. And up for me to this, Patreon of the day, shout out. All right, John, pick a name.

Eric Horst. Eric Horstman, you know what? I'm going to get you for Christmas. What did this year? What do we got? I am going to get you a... You know, in my head, I was like, like oh it's eric it's got me a good one and i just got so caught of my own head of the pressure

of it's okay we can't even i can't even think of something right we can we can workshop a couple things open up you know amazon or adam and eve dot com you know whatever we need to do i mean you get you out of anyone you buy our shirts the mostest you've got a real rejects tattoo oh my god you know you know what i would love to do but you got to be on your deathbed in order for me to do this i've really I've really thought about this. Okay, okay. Is that when you're on your deathbed, yes.

I will get an Eric Horstman tattoo. Yeah. And I'm like, how cool, but you got to be in your death bed. Yes. Otherwise, you know,

who knows. And you're going to be in the room, getting the tattoo. Because like you might be, I can get the tat, like you keep that real reason to say, to get your name. It's like,

what if he does something? It's like really weird or messed up. And I'm like, oh, crap. I really want to be associated with this guy. Get a portrait. I got it. know that you made you made it as a good person so yeah sure sure so you then get your tattoo

but you i got to get before you die because then there's the if you don't see it then there's how am i going to get on camera and get the views for it you know uh right so i got to be this guy to get a reaction to it i got like we can we can both do it we can die and subscriber yeah oh wow john just following my lead well see because you can get his name tattooed oh yeah just totally hop off my hard work here just piggyback off of my idea you know what i don't need your tattoo i'll get david's i mean i'll get eric something totally different yeah why not yeah as long as it's not better than my tattoo then we're okay where are you going to get them okay uh i am i can't give it any i'm thinking about his death already a pair of underrews with eric's face

on them wow so i can wash it watch the quality go down over time my tattoo's permanent Nah, dude, I'm going to launch a company in your name. Call it Eric's cheeks. And I'm going to be strapping people's cheeks all across this nation with your face right on the back. And it's going to have a, it's going to be you. But it's your head on Michelangelo's David, you know, so like show up your Adonis physique. It was like half of his face on each cheek. And then you have to squeeze your cheeks for its face to come together.

I don't know where I'll create with that form fitting to your cheeks so that the effect is always. Oh, he would love that. That would, yeah. Imagine, I mean, like, he's openly gay, right? Like, I didn't just out him. I would be very surprised if Eric Horst fit was like, what, you, how dare you for reveal this?

Eric seems like one of the most assured and proud people we have ever interacted with. So I, I will be very, I'm sorry. I feel I would be very surprised. I mean, I'm going to put you back in the closet on your deathbed. We can always cut this out, but the internet's forever. It's true. So someone's going to come down with this clip.

My present to you is outing you. And I guess my present is being an accomplice to that. Anyway. Not looking forward to when you die, but man. You're not going to die. We might get a trending video. We will come to your funeral and live stream it. And.

With my. sleepless suit that day. So the tattoo is on full display. Yeah, and I'll be just strapped in the underrews, nothing else. Very Christmas, Eric.