The Reel Rejects - WHAT IF? Season 2 Episode 5 REVIEW & BREAKDOWN!

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Starting point is 00:01:48 Ladies and gentlemen, it's past Christmas when this episode's coming out. So, what you can do right now is tell us, what do you think about this episode? Is this a good one? Does this satisfy your what if scenario? Barryette, tell us what you hated about it. Be nitpicky. Yeah, that makes the internet happy. Argue with someone.

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Starting point is 00:02:31 included but seriously thank you all for helping us have a glorious year at our patreon koi you ready i'm so ready let's do it let's find out what this one's about we don't see the titles in advance we have no idea what it is just fine that is she what 60-0-2 more she will save our world so much for taking a night off watch you watch watch up if the big finale 60-0-2 i'm gonna lose my shit might just be the next episode that was awesome oh that was cool you know what's really cool though what's cool that shirt you're wearing coy it is it's a great way to show you're a real reject supporter a real one a real real reject and also like we got the space babies of the galaxy one we've got who influences the influencers

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Starting point is 00:03:58 Because of my Peggy Carter's? Yeah, nice. You did it. You did it. I need water. We've been doing this for hours. I really haven't drink any water today. I'm like, I need water.

Starting point is 00:04:15 Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm there with you. Concern at the top. Opening pro. I was like, oh, God, this feels like all the problems of what if season one. Just like cheesy fest and like, hey, what if we just swapped out some people? And then it's not like a what if it's like a let's just remake it. Yes. And I was, I had the same concern as you. You got ahead of it a little faster than me.

Starting point is 00:04:41 You were more in about five minutes before me. And then I hit a point where I was like, oh, no, he's right. Because I started to see the through line of where they were going with it. Oh, we're going to combine elements of the Black Widow storyline and the Captain Carter storyline. But, you know, the thing is with all these episodes of what if, every single one of them feels like they could use an extra five to ten minutes. I agree. They should not have done this type 30. They would have all benefited by like a nice 35, especially our least.

Starting point is 00:05:09 I think both of us agree, episode two is the weakest. Because for me, episode two, lands the softest. landed really well. This landed great. Like, it got better as it kept going and the weight of the fight scenes in particular are fantastic. I love the setting.

Starting point is 00:05:28 I just love how much emotion can be evoked solely due to what they're drawing. You know, and like the to throw them into the ironic haunting setting of the nuclear test site, which has imagery that evokes where

Starting point is 00:05:43 the time period, they actually originate from i think it's great and how that ties into red room it ties into both the movies it's like that perfect venn diagram of the russian propaganda and the americana yes yeah like the horrors of their past converging aesthetically not just character wise but and and how they told like really you know they make out the comments all the time about like bucky and see was really a love story and they actually just told the love story version here which i thought was excellent I don't feel personally Like I liked this agent Carter

Starting point is 00:06:18 I thought as an episode It's a really great Like it got to a great point And like again So much of the time Unlike season one So much of the time There can be moments that I think

Starting point is 00:06:30 Are absolutely undoubtedly saved by Just wow look how great this actually looks 100% You guys are keep in mind too We are fortunate enough To be watching this on a screener You know because we're part of the press list for him

Starting point is 00:06:44 and we're fortunate to watch on a screener and that is not as great a quality. Yeah, we're watching this downgraded. Yeah, yeah. As what you guys are get to watch or watch on like Disney Plus servers or something and I'm still like, this looks amazing. Also, you may notice how bright it is in here.

Starting point is 00:07:00 We're watching this under fluorescence. Like if you're watching this in the dark in high quality, it must look even better because right now we're like a little blinded and watching it like on a, you know, screener so this is this show's gorgeous yeah it's absolutely gorgeous and and i and as so much of that again when you're doing animation more than a move a live action with cg i or whatever animation has to has to elicit an emotion it has to it just has to and i think this show is

Starting point is 00:07:32 actually doing it yeah and so i could watch these moments of fight scenes that are just not just like oh look how cool and pretty that is it has weight it has character it had moved the story? A lot of times with like a live action movie you might be like I need to watch like the, it need to be invested in the characters in order to care about the visuals. The visuals can get you emotionally invested. That's what I'm

Starting point is 00:07:54 talking about with the inverse here. I agree. And I think that is the strength of what if season two in particular. Now has any episode so far risen to the heights of this Doctor Strange episode? Not for me personally in terms of a story. I think as a consistency

Starting point is 00:08:10 though, as an over all season, it far out does season one already? Yeah, there's no finale feel. I mean, obviously, we're not to the finale yet, but there's nothing that feels as as strong as episode 8, season one, I agree. But every... No, it's four, right? Four or five. The Strange Supreme one? Oh, and then

Starting point is 00:08:25 it wrapped up in eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're talking about four. I'm talking about just the Doctor Strange episode, yeah. Like, that was like a perfect, like, 30-minute episode. Yeah, it was pretty incredible. But, but for me, this is leaps and bounds above the average feel. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, I would rather have

Starting point is 00:08:41 the problem with season one is that's one phenomenal episode out of like eight fine episode like seven of them are like fine and here I'm like no there's there's a lot of greatness and almost I don't remember much about two

Starting point is 00:08:57 but I have one three four Avengers 80 like there's there's been pretty much something great yeah and every single one of them and it's so funny because 88 was the one I was looking for to most that was like that like premise was but I think that also shows how good the episode have been that the premise hasn't been what's got me.

Starting point is 00:09:13 It's been the delivery on the premise as it's presented. Yeah, exactly. Because this one, like you said, the premise, I was like, I'm a little concerned. And then as soon as it, like, actually let me breathe, I was like, man, this is stunning. I'm invested. I love the convergence of themes and ideas. And the delivery is incredible. My only concern is I still, and I want to, I still don't feel as much for Agent Carter.

Starting point is 00:09:35 Exactly. As Captain Carter as I want to. Because if you, like, have you interviewed him at Haley-atwell? No, no. The second you do, everything Capp's ever done makes sense. Like, if you're in the same breathing space as Haley-A-Wel, suddenly you're like, I would fight for 100 years and go back in time and abandon everything. I would absolutely kill off Rebecca Ferguson to have Haley-Outwell.

Starting point is 00:09:56 Yes, and convert her to Scientology as needed. You do what you got to do. Do what you got to do to keep her. That is what I don't feel from the animated version. And that's unfortunate. That's the only thing that I wish I could, like, connect to. Yeah, you know, and what I'm going to bring it back to the, your point in a second because what's what was missing for me here when i said i wish there were

Starting point is 00:10:15 some marks on peggy what after she was fighting with steve when she's saying i'm tired i'm like okay yeah you're you're saying you're tired we need to see it you know when in winter soldier when he's fighting with bucky at the end and and he's just i could do this all day whatever and he's he's refusing to like give up on bucky yeah he's he's captain america but he still looks like messed up yeah and if they did that with peggy then that would have just hit so much harder. And it's her accent on top of it that feels so posh and polished. It's like she's fine all the time.

Starting point is 00:10:46 Like there's also that verbal element of like, yeah, you're good. It seems like, yeah, you're quitting because you're emotionally tired, but I feel like you can also be visually tired. Yeah, like we need to like physically mess you up a little bit. And I want to care by Captain Carter. I do, yeah, because I like the chemistry between her and Black Widow. And I think this show is absolutely at its best whenever they get past winking at the audience. And that's what I mean by when they get past.

Starting point is 00:11:12 Sefton Jeff Goldblum winks at his self. Yeah. But like they could have easily done with like, uh, with Rachel Weiss's character, Melania, Melina. Melinda? Melinda. Something like that. Melania.

Starting point is 00:11:25 Melania. Yeah, yeah. Um, when they get her grave. Oh, no, that's the other one. What's the other wife? They could have just been like, oh, she's, look at us. We're what if and she's the villain. No, they just, they just do it.

Starting point is 00:11:37 She's just a villain. Yeah. And I think whenever they get past. winking is when the show is excelling. Because in a universe you wouldn't know the other viewers to wink. So when they do it, it takes you out of the suspension of this belief of like, wait, wait, we're in the universe.

Starting point is 00:11:50 That's not special here. It's just the way things are. So when they make it special, I'm like, you guys don't get the premise. And season one did a lot of winking. It was all winked. It was nothing but like, except episodes four and eight swapped it. Four and eight weren't winking. And that's why we're referring to them

Starting point is 00:12:04 as the good ones. Especially four. If I, if I rewatch what if in a year or two, or if I ever do a mass of Marvel rewatch, I'll probably watch episodes 4, 8, and then this as my what if. Yeah. No, I don't, I've never rewatched. I've only rewatched this Dr. Streeter.

Starting point is 00:12:20 I've watched the finale because I do assume that'll tie in to Secret Wars in some way, but that's it. Yeah, yeah. 4-8, this, because this has all been great and re-watchable. Yeah, I think... And Christmas is now I've got a new... I think this has been awesome. This has really been awesome overall. And even like, yeah, I think a lot of this

Starting point is 00:12:36 was really... I can't wait to see. Yeah, I'm curious how it lands at their ninth episode. Can't wait to see. Can't wait to see more. All right, Coy. Let's see more. Let's see more.

Starting point is 00:12:48 By ending this video first. Let's do that. I'm going to get some water. All right, you should. You look vexed. You look how Peggy Carter should after fight. Very tired. You look a little disoriented.

Starting point is 00:12:58 I'm usually tired, but I'm more tired than usual. It's a dehydrated, Greg. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm probably really dehydrated. His eyes are wavering. All right, guys. Let's go to the bathroom. Everybody. Go to the bathroom.

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The Reel Rejects - WHAT IF? Season 2 Episode 5 REVIEW & BREAKDOWN!

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