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Does anyone else get frustrated with how the kids absolutely refused to explain anything to the main character in the first movie but also get mad at him for not understanding things they for whatever reason would not tell him?
@@wickedthemadhatter9713 yeah the books are better did you read the epilogue book too it's good and explains why none of the kids remember anything after going into the maze.
This being only on the movies, this doesn't explain the true "Flare" virus. When James Dashner wrote the books, he wrote the Flare as a virus that slowly ate away the brain and driving the victim utterly insane, rather than yet another zombie virus. The movies really don't adhere to the books, and don't represent the world of Maze Runner well at all.
@Clu Rosencrans the cranks are insane people, not zombies. the virus was made as a way to kill off human populations by destroying the brain. it mutated in the process, and just made people go insane. they dont attack to eat. theyre just extremely aggressive
I remember a part in the scorched trials book where an infected that Thomas was fighting tried biting at him, much like a zombie. I can’t quote it because I read the book years ago but I remember he was with a girl that was crank in a dark tunnel when it happened.
The natural immunity of Thomas's group did not degrade as they aged. In the books they explained that they included a number of non-immune children in the maze experiment as a sort of "control" to see the differences between immune and non immune brains
and the part near the end of the last book with old to literally baby selection of people in the random extra last-ditch WIKD maze experiment near the end where thomas and his friends saved all the random immunes from, but that's just a story thing that happened I've forgotten mostly besides a few iconic moments
Something I noticed about the movies is that it’s airborne when it’s convenient for the plot. When we meet Brenda, she walks literally a foot away from dozens of cranks and is not infected, but we know she isn’t immune because she is infected later. But then Jansen gets it from just being near the infected. Great movies, but inconsistent
In the books, it makes sense since she is actually immune. In fact, just about everyone in the world had caught the virus, and you were either immune or you slowly became a crank.
@@SoupyMittens I agree, but I enjoyed her character more in the movies. They made her more of a person rather than just another side character, and her being non-immune just added to the message that innocent people had all this happen to them because of something they had nothing to do with.
I genuinely feel that movies would be much more logical and fun if they actually adapted books properly. Including the fact that the cure did not exist.
@Sexy Olaf Hollywood loves stretching out franchises that don't need it, but compress the ones that do. The Maze Runner was always going to be a better TV show than film series, and it's disappointing that they gave up on adapting the Kill Order and Fever Code.
I always got angry at the Maze Runner movies because they just made the Flare a zombie virus. The Flare in the books is so much more interesting and horrifying to me instead of just generic zombies that spread the disease through bites and scratches.
@@jasdanvm3845 the Flare in the books makes you slowly go insane. This can take the form of groups of people unable to feel pain but aware enough to use tools and somewhat know strategy. It's hard to describe because I haven't read the books in a few years, but I remember being very creeped out when compared to the movies which i saw around the same time.
In the books the infected keep apart of their humanity even as they go insane. It's recognizable that they think and have emotions. They form groups and some live in almost normal communities. Overall one of the biggest differences between the books and the movies is that in the books the infected can talk and try to toy with the main characters.
If only Wicked had a SINGLE economist on their team they'd have realized that wiping out populations doesn't actually save limited resources, it just reduces the manpower available to process said resources, causing further shortages and reducing the chance of discovering alternatives.
Well in the books when wicked releases the virus humanity is sectioned off in a melted Alaska and miscellaneous mountain tops. Their decision to release the flare virus was because all viable farmland had been destroyed by the solar flare. In the decades it would take for the land to become usable again humanity would be unable to sustain the populace that survived the flare. Wicked thought a virus would be simpler and more controllable than mass famine.
the PFC (Post-Flares Committee) were the ones to release the Flare and wicked was formed to stop them but wicked was made up of former PFC members so yeah
If you were infected you're saying you'd want to die on the floor coughing out your lungs instead of riding atop a flaming truck into the halls of vahalla?
Gonna be real the most notable thing I remember from this series is the literal horde of homeless people completely overrunning the entire city in a matter of a few hours.
@@RoanokeGaming I will also be fair I only ever watched the last movie in the series and didn't read any of the books so the homeless stampede seemed a lot funnier out of context.
In the prequel book, The Kill Order, it shows that the virus mutates incredibly fast. It was supposed to kill people quickly and painlessly but within a couple hours of people becoming infected (they were actually darted with the virus from helicopters) the virus had begun to change causing the infected to lose their minds and begin to cause harm to themselves (tearing out their own eyeballs etc). Its honestly a great book and pretty scary. How quickly the people in it lose their grasp on their own sanity is the stuff of nightmares.
I read the prequel without knowing it was connected to the Maze Runner series, which I only knew a little bit about, until the end of the book I remember enjoying it more as a stand-alone book than a part of the series
@@jackgahagan3908 So why not call him the pencil holder or the wall climber or the asker of unanswered questions or the tier of shoelaces? I think the comment pointed out that such title feels arbitrary and unconnected after the first part.
As someone with absolutely no experience with the franchise, I'm thoroughly surprised at how interesting the backstory for this premise is. The solar flare, the deaths, the virus, etc
the books pull it off so much better than the movies, I'd recommend reading the book series first as the flare is actually a really cool virus that isn't a generic zombie virus.
A lot of the backstory described comes from the fourth book "The Kill Order" and possibly the fifth "The Fever Code" although I haven't had the opportunity to read that one. The first Maze Runner movie was actually a pretty good adaptation in my opinion all things considered however when the second movie released it was like they dragged in the screen writers from the Percy Jackson movie adaptations and had them write a fan-fiction inspired by the books. Almost right away many of the major plot points got thrown out the window and while there were a lot of loose references to scenes taking place in the books they strayed way too far from the original stories. Ultimately a disappointing end to a promising franchise.
I read all the books and also watched the movies. If you go in expecting something similar yet different in a (good way) in my opinion then you'll be pleased
Because movie adaptations are garbage 👍 Most of the time the authors are there for "input" aka the director tells the author to fuck off because they can tell the authors story better and then 90% of the people watching the movie hate it because they loved the movies
Haha not the only thing starnge about that 'solor flare' as if it were to turn the tropics into a dessert the emp wouldnt just fry tech but our complex nervous sytems redering most complex life brain dead or the gasus impact would drastically increase the hydrogen levels in earth atmosphere in 10-15 years (if earth gose through the cloud) most likely making earth in habitable for humans
Exactly in The Death Cure, we learn that there is a drug that can hide the effects of the virus making it much scarier not knowing who is infected. You can't hide the virus in the movie because it literally changes your body.
Nah I prefer the flare virus to be like a zombie virus because it sounds a lot more like the virus in the books to be honest I did like both the books and the movies because they both had a sad story
I love and hate how different the story gets after the first book. What I didn't like about it was how they made the infected literal zombie sin the movies, but in the book they made them very slowly go insane throughout different phases, and by a certain phase their brains turn to goop and they become mindless flesh thirsty people that can creepily still talk. (I read all three and watched the first 2). Also, the story of W.I.C.K.E.D. and their motives are SOOOO much different than the books. FOr example, the entirety of the scorch trials were actually well, trials made by them in the books, while in the movies it's just an lazy fugitive cliché along with some zombies. *TLDR: In the books the virus drives you insane and makes you blood thirsty, while in the movies it's a zombie hoard virus. Also W.I.C.K.E.D. is much much different.*
You do realize that they stayed true to the book right ? I get in the end you think zombies but if you literally slowly go insane and lose the ability of feeling anything and etc you ARE becoming a zombie . You jus do . You don’t think you don’t feel you don’t question . So in reality maybe you’re mad they didn’t go slow enough with how the infected was but even then they showed us the different stages . I think if you reread the books and watch the movies you’d see they stuck to there guns with this and captured the flare
@@WZ4RD3 but they still look like people, not whatever creature they put in the movies. They're people, they're not rotting away, they don't look like roided out gollums. And apart from the fully gone, they can even still comunicate
@@drakewingcopperheart2533 yeah actually the last two explain the virus in full depth and the fourth is literally how the virus was created and how they tried to survive it.
I’d say the flare virus is probably one of the scariest viruses in fiction, just the way it rots away at your skin and all the black goo and all that stuff is just so horrifying
It's also horrifying in the books as you feel your body slip away at random slowly going insane while slowly loosing control of your actions, you're still intelligent but also lack vital functions such as rational thinking, before you have close to 0 control and now it's already to late
It doesnt do that in the books though, instead you slowly get to see yourself go insane and kill everyone you love, while still being capable of speech and thought.
I feel like all 3 of the Maze runner actually spinning around a concept of a un-escapable maze which shown in the first movie They tried to escape and find the correct way to save them self or save humanity but hit a dead end every time Ex : At the first movie they tried to save them self from the maze but they didn't know outside world already fucked up ( dead end ) At the 2nd movie they found the way to cures the virus but BOOM the doc are dead ( dead end )
In the book they had to come back to the maze and try to release people that were being used as a “second” batch of people, and then deedee(teresa or however you spell it) got her plot armor nerfed to the point of dying
Basically everything past the last 20 minutes of the first movie is just nonsense when compared to the books. Still love both the books and movies though, just in different ways.
I know people always say the books are better than the movies, but this fact is most certainly evident when it came to Maze Runner. The movies were a massive disappointment and veered off from the plot from the beginning. You knew the movies were going to go to shit when they cut out the part about Teresa and Thomas talking to each other through their minds. Something actually vital to the entire plot of the series.
@@alteredbeast192 same haven’t read them in awhile, but Yea I think it was when they found the way out from the maze, it was a “portal/door” that was invisible/ hard to see. Pretty sure they ended up having to jump to make it through.
@@alteredbeast192 if i'm remembering correctly, there was a part in the maze where the floor seemed to drop off leading to an endless chasm. upon following a griever, thomas and minho (i think) watch it jump in the endless chasm and see it "disappear" midair into what they ended up escaping into. i think the other part of the puzzle was using the maze patterns to form the one-letter instructions-jump float stiff blood (i'm probably forgetting the order and some words)-and they eventually use that and jump into the "griever hole".
The maze seems like an oasis for humanity IMO, but I guess we should put monsters in a maze around it so we can take people with disease resistance and check on how they react to situations. It’s not pseudoscience, it’s bad pseudoscience... but a good movie.
There are major differences between the books and the movies which fix most of the continuity errors in the movie. In the first book, instead of showing Thomas the maze, Minho shows Thomas a ton of maps of the maze since it changes daily; re-using formats once a month. Thomas notices this and overlays the maps using grease paper in order to discover the route to escape. He also doesn’t kill the griever using the changing maze, instead he throws it off a cliff he found while running. That cliff is actually the exit, but it’s hidden with holograms. He finds the hole in the middle by throwing vines into the hologram until they latch onto the hole in the middle, which tells him where the exit is. Grievers can also be killed simply by turning them off with a switch that is found inside their gelatinous body. The grievers also didn’t spread the flare, they spread a neurotoxin which disabled a memory inhibitor in their brains left by wicked. The same chip also allowed Thomas and Theresa to have a sort of telepathy between them. The last movie was pretty much completely different from the books too; in the books they had these neat teleporters which would basically disassemble your molecules, then reassemble them elsewhere. Of course, someone turned this into a gun and managed to disassemble people’s molecules without telling anything to reassemble them, so it would just turn them to dust. Which added a little bit of threat to the whole scenario. All the immunes escaped the facility through a teleporter and ended up on the island, btw. Not through the quad copter thingo
The architecture of this so called maze is an engineering triumph. I love to meet the person who designed it. Imagine living in ones own constructed maze that change and shifts giving you a surprise every once in a while
imagine how fast they could have cured the virus if they had spent the billions of dollars used to create giant underground structures, bases and such into actually finding out how to cure the disease
God of Maze Runner universe: Ok I made climate change even worse, now what? Angel: Not create a deadly vir- God of Maze Runner universe: *LETS MAKE A DEADLY VIRUS!*
Normally in a movie trilogy the second movie isn't that memorable but in the maze runner it was more than memorable because the basically completely changed the plot
Fun fact: Them crashing the car in the tunnel (18:47) wasn't part of the script. The director didn't want to do the shot again so he just rolled with it.
Lol I heard they crashed a motorcycle, and the incident was so bad the lead actor was put up for six months with broken bones. I was amazed the movie still got done with that.
@@Norinia I think you're referring to this. Dylan O'Brien had an accident on the third movie. He fell from the hood of a car while shooting the train scene and was struck by a film crew vehicle. He was hospital for ages and it stopped filming for almost a year. I'm glad he's doing better.
@@austinblackburn8095 he signed something at the start I bet. There’s a reason why actors don’t usually do there own stunts as they have like 0 coverage if they do get injured
Immune kids weren't born 15 years after the flare virus started. Kill Order shows Theresa was already born. She was a young kid at that time. I think I remember WICKED coming for Thomas at the very end of that book too. Mary didn't know the cure was Thomas' blood. She thought his blood would be like all the other immunes and freeze the effects of the virus for a couple of months. Newt, in the book, wasn't immune at any time. He was one of the "control" group. Basically WICKED wanted to see if him being around all those immunes would help him build an immunity. There is nothing in the book that suggests that the immune kids will ever loss that immunity.
@@RoanokeGaming at least it finally kinda answers my question where did the flare virus came from and to be honest lot of people were mad that they made it into a zombie virus instead of people being a bunch of psychopaths but in my opinion it would be a lot more sense if they were zombies cause zombies are kind of psychopaths
Don't know if you've covered it Roanoke. I think seeing you cover the Alien franchise's xenomorph lifecycles from a microbiologists point of view would be really cool. If you read my suggestion, cool video so far, and thanks for reading.
@@BuggaBoy69 or they were just smart and actually social distanced and did their best to distance themselves from people, a better example involving the chinese would be during the famine, the government stayed plump and fat even when the famine got worse
That second example is not them being smart (or i guess in a way it is), its them just being greedy. And the French know how that usually turns out when the people starve but their rulers get fatter.
@@guyfieri148 The outbreak started only miles away from a government medical lab that had been studying the covid virus for years. This isn’t even a fringe conspiracy, all that info was on the news when the outbreak occurred ~December 2019
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Read every article on the books in Wikipedia to find out about the world building, knowing the rest would simply piss me off. The "virus" should have been an extra-terrestrial or (future) organism.
If I had a nickel for every time Walton Goggins was in a post apocalypse with no nose I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
Really liked this book series as a teen, especially with the greater story revealed at the end of Maze Runner. I forget if I ever finished reading the series, I should go back and do so. It'll probably be worse than I remember but always a good trip down memory lane
Two things about this series Firstly they'd have saved themselves a lot of trouble by just wiping out that 30% with death squads viruses are a shortcut and shortcuts backfire. Secondly Teresa got what she deserved although I would prefer she suffered a lot more maybe tortured a bit.
Is it in the books too? Hollywood always have the characters being stupid like that to fuel the plot, cause drama because they have no imagination. Notice that Hollywood also always change the story, not just practical stuff like length but just for the sake of changing the story.
@@Fridaey13txhOktober yea that’s the point but faster and easier to understand is the characters actions and not the whole background concept on how all movies are repetitive and unimaginative
@@Fridaey13txhOktober She dies in the book too but differently a piece of ceiling from the collapsing building crushes her and she says sorry with her dying words. Still hate her guts though personally I'd kill her wouldn't even work with her to break into the Wicked city.
reading the crank palace made me realize how absolutely horrifying the flare actually is. in the movies they kind of gloss over it and make it out to be zombies. and though it's hard because we discovered how scary it is through Newt's thoughts, they probably could have done a better job than they did in the movie.
during the recap, don't forget the fact that in the process, surface temperatures in the US were actually sent high enough to literally boil water, as well as causing a tsunami to game end new york, leading to one group fleeing under the city via the subway network, and they learn in the process that the surface temperature has made the water hot enough that if you fall in, you get literally boiled alive.
@@M3dicayne I think it was in fever code and they went down there where others were, heard the water and started trying to escape, water almost takes one or two of them out and then they slam a door shut and climb up into a tall building that becomes there home for a while
@@RoanokeGaming The last city civil war would *probably* attracted the attention of a Lot of hungry infected (similiar how the noise attracts the zombies from the legendary *zombieland*) maybe the walls protection would have worked but the rebels destroyed the walls so I am not too positive maybe only other isolated cities remained
As far as “last cities on Earth” go, I prefer New London. Would rather deal with sub-zero temperatures and working conditions that would make Charles Dickens cringe, and a totalitarian government than dumb leaders.
I'd like to be with Roanoke during any sort of apocalypse just for the fact that he could identify easily exactly what version of zombies and how to avoid getting infected as well as effective forms of defense
Governments suck and will start conflicts for petty reasons. As pessimistic as it sounds the government making a virus intentionally and it backfiring horribly is quite believable. *cough, cough, fever*
@@archmagosavagadro5420 It would also be obvious if one was engineered, which in the alleged example you are implying, is not the case, since more than a fair share of scientists have studied COVID-19 and have found no evidence of it being engineered.
@@inkoalawetrust bullshit studies of the original strain have just restarted the initial team has also been found to have some individual that held some conflict of interest in the first investigation
More likely it’s because younger brains are able to reroute important functions to non-degraded areas of the brain (neuroplasticity)-but yeah enzyme is probably the film’s version of immunity
Could you cover the books next? The movies completely botched the series. The movie Flare virus and the book Flare virus are portrayed with vastly different symptoms albeit with one similar symptom: mania.
Books were great, and the movies were trash. I was so hyped for the first movie, and was disappointed. I completely dismissed the movie series altogether after seeing the trailer for Scorch Trials.
@@howardbaxter2514 yeah it’s a shame how they just use the books as a basic guideline and then just do their own thing. It’s like the Percy Jackson movies, don’t follow the plot of the book at all
28:36 I had vertigo once in my life so far and it occurred during the summer of 2016. I honestly don't know what caused it. All I know is that I went to bed fine, and the next day it started immediately from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to sleep at night and was gone the next morning. It was a debilitating uncomfortable experience being that disoriented for an entire day for over 12+ hours. I was pretty much confined to laying on the couch in my living room. No matter what position I was in, there was a terrible falling / rolling feeling. Only 1 specific angle being absolutely still provided some relief. Not being able to visually focus and see straight was highly frustrating as my eyes involuntarily rapidly repeatedly scanned from left to right. Every time I tried walk, it felt like this heavy pull of gravity, tipping like a boat on the ocean, causing me to lean into and hang onto walls and doorframes for support, bracing myself. What also sucked was that closing my eyes and trying to nap in the hopes of alleviating symptoms neither worked to reduce my discomfort nor was it even possible to actually rest, causing increased irritability along with more stress and mental fatigue, making me feel even worse. I hope I never experience that misery ever again.
I have an idea for another series: The Black Fever/Blood Plague of State of Decay! It's waterborne, and causes flu like symptoms, and is outright said to have been made from a real one, while being made by people to see what would happen basically.
I appreciate how the wicked used the group well in finding the resistance groups. That was smart of them and I wonder whether it was premeditated or spontaneous.
The most exciting part of this trilogy was when the huge search was underway, and it ends up taking several minutes, and there's this clever red herring. It turns out that actor is Barry Pepper; hes been in lots of stuff. For some reason I thought he was the guy who played Bill from Bill and Ted.
Roanoke's vids always put me to sleep in a good way. I can litterally go to a seminar of him just talking about Bio stuff and not be bored because of his voice and how well he explains things.
Same. Roanoke has both saved me from watching series I wouldn't have liked and pointed me towards ones that I really liked because I don't care about spoilers most of the time.
Unfortunately there isn’t much to say about it, it’s smallpox that’s weaponized. Division 2 isn’t about the virus any longer but powerplay and tribalism, the virus is just a ”trigger” at this point for whatever exposition for future titles. It’s really too bad they didn’t continue with the virus from the 1st being the danger, it was way more interesting.
@@Ohem1 Sure, but there's a video worth there, since Smallpox is well known enough one can make a really solid analysis. Though I suspect it's been done a few times before.
I liked the maze runner monsters, they reminded me of the 28 days later infected but with a nice twist of the infection coming from an attempt to make a non horrible death virus. Lol
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 I *remember* that from the second movie! Yeah they looked at the skeletal remains of the personal woman replicant from the first movie(forgot her name but she is the only replicant with the ability to reproduce and have an extended lifespan) so that does mean the replicants are essentially genetically enhanced clone humans not biological robots
@@thedoruk6324 that's why they are called replicas and not androids, they aren't exactly enhanced, they are basically clones made to be slaves, with an expiration date programed into them
after reading through the first and second book fully recently, I believe that the cranks in the death cure film are simply meant to be more like the ones in the novel, but while I'm absolutely certain that's what it is it can also be explained that they aren't long gone cranks like the ones we have seen in the second film. side note in the books, Thomas, Newt, Minho and everyone else found within the city along with the original Gladers are all infected with the Flare and are considered cranks in the novel.
25% into your review, I had to stop and comment that you are doing such a good job in recapping the plot. I am reliving once again how amazing the plot and premise of this movie is. 2024 and all I could remember was that there was a solar flare and it caused the virus. You made me remember that the solar flare caused destruction of the earth, and the scientists created the virus as population control, but it all got messed up.
I read all the books when I was younger but I never understood the virus. Like why it happened or where it came from. I know in the Kill Order they talk about Sun Flares or something but It's at the early stages,it kinda just makes you go murder happy I think. But then in the maze runner and forward people are just downright crazy. So great video!
It’s amazing how watching these videos gives you information you might receive in a college lecture while at the same time being entertained. I’m taking notes for when a zombie apocalypse happens
The books were badass. The movies were meh. They only really kept the important bits and even then they heavily changed the important bits. Like there's a part where a kid gets struck by lightning and it goes in detail of how his skin is all chared and he's begging them to kill him and a metal ball that wraps around your head and suffocates you. The books were badass and less kid friendly.
I know this is humanity and it’s always greedy and stupid, but couldn’t Teresa also mention “Hey there is a brunette woman in charge who knows how to make an Insta-Cure. Pls make sure not to shoot her.” Especially since it’s Jansen who shot her, he’s so desperate for a cure! Teresa told them nothing at all. Idk. I blame Teresa for a lot of this lol, I’ve only seen the first movie so I was shocked when she was snooping 🤣. She also should have made that small jump, as her way of paying back the group she betrayed. Oh well lmao
@@Bone_guy in the books you just kinda hate her for the betrayal, she still died there and said sorry, but yea she is still unlikable in both ways after the betraying bit
Thanks for watching guys! I am not sure I will every cover an entire triology again lmao Hope yall have a good weekend!
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Does anyone else get frustrated with how the kids absolutely refused to explain anything to the main character in the first movie but also get mad at him for not understanding things they for whatever reason would not tell him?
But . . . artificial conflict!
Because the movie is fucking garbage compared to the books
Sounds like:
1) a bad relationship
2) crappy teachers
3) crappy babysitters
4) crappy boss
5) office drama
@@wickedthemadhatter9713 I loved the books, the movies angered me just like Mortal Engines and City of Ember.
@@wickedthemadhatter9713 yeah the books are better did you read the epilogue book too it's good and explains why none of the kids remember anything after going into the maze.
This being only on the movies, this doesn't explain the true "Flare" virus. When James Dashner wrote the books, he wrote the Flare as a virus that slowly ate away the brain and driving the victim utterly insane, rather than yet another zombie virus. The movies really don't adhere to the books, and don't represent the world of Maze Runner well at all.
@Clu Rosencrans dude, you missed the point entirely
@Clu Rosencrans the cranks are insane people, not zombies. the virus was made as a way to kill off human populations by destroying the brain. it mutated in the process, and just made people go insane. they dont attack to eat. theyre just extremely aggressive
I remember a part in the scorched trials book where an infected that Thomas was fighting tried biting at him, much like a zombie. I can’t quote it because I read the book years ago but I remember he was with a girl that was crank in a dark tunnel when it happened.
@@TallyFox2 the crank wanted their noses
I think that the movies may be unfaithful but they are dumb fun action movies that I can somewhat enjoy
The natural immunity of Thomas's group did not degrade as they aged. In the books they explained that they included a number of non-immune children in the maze experiment as a sort of "control" to see the differences between immune and non immune brains
Yeah newt was one of those “ control” children but they never told us that until the end of movie 3
and the part near the end of the last book with old to literally baby selection of people in the random extra last-ditch WIKD maze experiment near the end where thomas and his friends saved all the random immunes from, but that's just a story thing that happened I've forgotten mostly besides a few iconic moments
Something I noticed about the movies is that it’s airborne when it’s convenient for the plot. When we meet Brenda, she walks literally a foot away from dozens of cranks and is not infected, but we know she isn’t immune because she is infected later. But then Jansen gets it from just being near the infected. Great movies, but inconsistent
I would argue that the basement Cranks were definetely different than normal ones
In the books, it makes sense since she is actually immune. In fact, just about everyone in the world had caught the virus, and you were either immune or you slowly became a crank.
Brenda is immune in the books, the movies kinda sucked
@@SoupyMittens I agree, but I enjoyed her character more in the movies. They made her more of a person rather than just another side character, and her being non-immune just added to the message that innocent people had all this happen to them because of something they had nothing to do with.
it kinda works the same in the books too
I genuinely feel that movies would be much more logical and fun if they actually adapted books properly. Including the fact that the cure did not exist.
I love how they completely cut out half the lore.
@Sexy Olaf Hollywood loves stretching out franchises that don't need it, but compress the ones that do. The Maze Runner was always going to be a better TV show than film series, and it's disappointing that they gave up on adapting the Kill Order and Fever Code.
@Sexy Olaf Yes but they could at least not add an entire train scene that is nowhere in any of the series.
Shush, let me believe that newt could've been saved
@@soup223thereal3 I was watching the summary and only reading the books besides the first movie I was so confused the whole time
I always got angry at the Maze Runner movies because they just made the Flare a zombie virus. The Flare in the books is so much more interesting and horrifying to me instead of just generic zombies that spread the disease through bites and scratches.
What is the difference?
@@jasdanvm3845 the Flare in the books makes you slowly go insane. This can take the form of groups of people unable to feel pain but aware enough to use tools and somewhat know strategy. It's hard to describe because I haven't read the books in a few years, but I remember being very creeped out when compared to the movies which i saw around the same time.
So it's quite like the comic "Crossed" , where people turned to psychopath instead of zombies
@@risiwayne2067 I don't think that's an accurate comparison.
In the books the infected keep apart of their humanity even as they go insane. It's recognizable that they think and have emotions. They form groups and some live in almost normal communities. Overall one of the biggest differences between the books and the movies is that in the books the infected can talk and try to toy with the main characters.
If only Wicked had a SINGLE economist on their team they'd have realized that wiping out populations doesn't actually save limited resources, it just reduces the manpower available to process said resources, causing further shortages and reducing the chance of discovering alternatives.
Well in the books when wicked releases the virus humanity is sectioned off in a melted Alaska and miscellaneous mountain tops. Their decision to release the flare virus was because all viable farmland had been destroyed by the solar flare. In the decades it would take for the land to become usable again humanity would be unable to sustain the populace that survived the flare. Wicked thought a virus would be simpler and more controllable than mass famine.
@@tycoughlin735 bruh
@All_lives_matter, reject fabricated racism by govt Go on then. If petrol is not made from fractal distillation of crude oil, what is it then?
the PFC (Post-Flares Committee) were the ones to release the Flare
and wicked was formed to stop them
but wicked was made up of former PFC members
so
yeah
@All_lives_matter, reject fabricated racism by govt yeah I thought you were full of crap
minho was my fav character but i really felt bad for newt even after many years remembering it makes me feel sad.
If you were infected you're saying you'd want to die on the floor coughing out your lungs instead of riding atop a flaming truck into the halls of vahalla?
I know right, such a dope way to go out and people still wouldnt choose it.
witness me!
@@Nautules83 WITNESS!!!!!!!!!! *fucking dies*. MEDIOCRE
If I'm gonna out, I might as well go out happy.
Or WITH A BANG.
IM TAKING US BOTH TO MY GRAVE
Gonna be real the most notable thing I remember from this series is the literal horde of homeless people completely overrunning the entire city in a matter of a few hours.
If only, if only
pretty cool scene when everything goes to complete hell lol
@@RoanokeGaming I will also be fair I only ever watched the last movie in the series and didn't read any of the books so the homeless stampede seemed a lot funnier out of context.
Sounds communist
@@napoleonbonaparte9222 what is your definition of "communism"
Why does Roanoke make biology more likable than my own teacher
happy to hear you are enjoying the science!
Roanoke is teaching the important stuff
he doesn't flaunt around crap we wont remember that following week like teachers do
Because he has passion for it. Your average teacher does not.
I’m currently watching this in my biology class so DOUBLE LEARNING
In the prequel book, The Kill Order, it shows that the virus mutates incredibly fast. It was supposed to kill people quickly and painlessly but within a couple hours of people becoming infected (they were actually darted with the virus from helicopters) the virus had begun to change causing the infected to lose their minds and begin to cause harm to themselves (tearing out their own eyeballs etc).
Its honestly a great book and pretty scary. How quickly the people in it lose their grasp on their own sanity is the stuff of nightmares.
This was just Hitler's plan with extra steps
Pandemic/apocalypse movies change when you begin to pity the people who *lived*
I read the prequel without knowing it was connected to the Maze Runner series, which I only knew a little bit about, until the end of the book
I remember enjoying it more as a stand-alone book than a part of the series
“Force multiplier” is the most unexpected s replacement for firearm I have heard yet
Its actually a common term for attachments for weapons like sights/dots muzzles although I prefer handheld
Well, all weapons are force multipliers.
I would have gone with subtraction tool
life subtractors would work too wouldnt it XD
dakka
Called Maze Runner: contains no mazes after first movie
Gotta love Artifact Title eah?
Thomas had never seen such bullshit before
Its about he who ran the maze not the maze itself
Kinda wonder wut other brand it would go under lol
@@jackgahagan3908 So why not call him the pencil holder or the wall climber or the asker of unanswered questions or the tier of shoelaces?
I think the comment pointed out that such title feels arbitrary and unconnected after the first part.
2:46
"Universe where chaos reins supreme."
An Inquisitor has been dispatched to your location for spreading this vile heresy.
Purge the heretic! He blashpemes against our God-Emperor's holy rule!
It's not like there would be any warning. The planet would just get virus bombed.
I am here, where is the heretic?
Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne
@@Vaw. Lost Lamb, heading for the slaughter.
As someone with absolutely no experience with the franchise, I'm thoroughly surprised at how interesting the backstory for this premise is. The solar flare, the deaths, the virus, etc
the books pull it off so much better than the movies, I'd recommend reading the book series first as the flare is actually a really cool virus that isn't a generic zombie virus.
Read the books, the movies are garbage especially lore wise
Read the books before watching the film, trust me
A lot of the backstory described comes from the fourth book "The Kill Order" and possibly the fifth "The Fever Code" although I haven't had the opportunity to read that one. The first Maze Runner movie was actually a pretty good adaptation in my opinion all things considered however when the second movie released it was like they dragged in the screen writers from the Percy Jackson movie adaptations and had them write a fan-fiction inspired by the books. Almost right away many of the major plot points got thrown out the window and while there were a lot of loose references to scenes taking place in the books they strayed way too far from the original stories. Ultimately a disappointing end to a promising franchise.
I read all the books and also watched the movies.
If you go in expecting something similar yet different in a (good way) in my opinion then you'll be pleased
It’s a shame they made the cranks look and act more like zombies then just crazy people in the movie
Because movie adaptations are garbage 👍
Most of the time the authors are there for "input" aka the director tells the author to fuck off because they can tell the authors story better and then 90% of the people watching the movie hate it because they loved the movies
Newt's death scene was extremely disappointing
Or have them use their "branches" like tentacles/hands, it would actually be useful in seizing insects and rodents.
Yeah, I really didn't like how much they changed stuff.
@@griffinbird3000 Ikr, I hated how all the emotional weight of him pleading for Thomas to kill him was taken away
Humanity pulled what I like to call a "Giga Gamer" play and got a victory royale on Plague Inc.
Fight the plague mode
Humanity: "My Face is My Shield"
Griever: "JUST DIE ALREADY!!"
From what I could tell, that solar flare dropped humanity's average IQ by tens of points. That's the only explanation I could come up with.
Even the scientists are only rocking like an 80.
Yoo when okuyasu got smart lol
@@furkanucar4522 I may be stupid, but at least I'm not dumb!
That's actually a great explanation!
Haha not the only thing starnge about that 'solor flare' as if it were to turn the tropics into a dessert the emp wouldnt just fry tech but our complex nervous sytems redering most complex life brain dead or the gasus impact would drastically increase the hydrogen levels in earth atmosphere in 10-15 years (if earth gose through the cloud) most likely making earth in habitable for humans
Scientists:"We have to find a cure"
Mary:"I found a cure"
*Shoot's the scientist
Scientists:"We're going to need more research"
*Shoot's cure carrier
"those kids somehow immune to the vius, let throw them into a death maze with dangerous bio-monster"
there wasn't a mary in the books right?
Omg that's so true 🤣🤣🤣🤣 WICKED has to stop killing unnecessary people-
I mean Thomas was the cure really, she was just the one who synthesized the cure from his blood
It's about control
The virus was way way different in the books, and imo was a lot scarier and cooler
Exactly in The Death Cure, we learn that there is a drug that can hide the effects of the virus making it much scarier not knowing who is infected. You can't hide the virus in the movie because it literally changes your body.
@@michaelburke9137 and kill order shows that it was created in purpose
Nah I prefer the flare virus to be like a zombie virus because it sounds a lot more like the virus in the books to be honest I did like both the books and the movies because they both had a sad story
Your opinion sucks
@@michaelburke9137 no
I love and hate how different the story gets after the first book. What I didn't like about it was how they made the infected literal zombie sin the movies, but in the book they made them very slowly go insane throughout different phases, and by a certain phase their brains turn to goop and they become mindless flesh thirsty people that can creepily still talk. (I read all three and watched the first 2). Also, the story of W.I.C.K.E.D. and their motives are SOOOO much different than the books. FOr example, the entirety of the scorch trials were actually well, trials made by them in the books, while in the movies it's just an lazy fugitive cliché along with some zombies.
*TLDR: In the books the virus drives you insane and makes you blood thirsty, while in the movies it's a zombie hoard virus. Also W.I.C.K.E.D. is much much different.*
You do realize that they stayed true to the book right ? I get in the end you think zombies but if you literally slowly go insane and lose the ability of feeling anything and etc you ARE becoming a zombie . You jus do . You don’t think you don’t feel you don’t question . So in reality maybe you’re mad they didn’t go slow enough with how the infected was but even then they showed us the different stages . I think if you reread the books and watch the movies you’d see they stuck to there guns with this and captured the flare
@@WZ4RD3 but they still look like people, not whatever creature they put in the movies. They're people, they're not rotting away, they don't look like roided out gollums. And apart from the fully gone, they can even still comunicate
Aren't there four or five books?
@@drakewingcopperheart2533 yeah actually the last two explain the virus in full depth and the fourth is literally how the virus was created and how they tried to survive it.
@@rafewarren1034 Thought so
"Sorry, but I just really hate cancer"
Bold statements only on this channel 😤
Roanoke out here spittin straight facts, telling the people what they need to hear
i feel bad for cancer cells
Feel like I might need gloves for that hot take 🔥😳
Cancer sucks
👾🤖🗯
I’d say the flare virus is probably one of the scariest viruses in fiction, just the way it rots away at your skin and all the black goo and all that stuff is just so horrifying
It's also horrifying in the books as you feel your body slip away at random slowly going insane while slowly loosing control of your actions, you're still intelligent but also lack vital functions such as rational thinking, before you have close to 0 control and now it's already to late
It doesnt do that in the books though, instead you slowly get to see yourself go insane and kill everyone you love, while still being capable of speech and thought.
Eh idk
@@SoupyMittens something something "If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me"
Scp 610 : nah
They should have called the first movie Maze and the rest just "Runner"
I feel like all 3 of the Maze runner actually spinning around a concept of a un-escapable maze which shown in the first movie
They tried to escape and find the correct way to save them self or save humanity but hit a dead end every time
Ex : At the first movie they tried to save them self from the maze but they didn't know outside world already fucked up ( dead end )
At the 2nd movie they found the way to cures the virus but BOOM the doc are dead ( dead end )
In the book they had to come back to the maze and try to release people that were being used as a “second” batch of people, and then deedee(teresa or however you spell it) got her plot armor nerfed to the point of dying
Movie 2 : runner
Movie 3 : runner²
That's stupid
The Maze Runner is talking about Thomas not Minho not Ben and not the Alby Thomas plus he’s the main character in books and movies
Movie 1: Pretty much by the book.
Movie 2: What book?
Movie 3?
@@lovescarguitar movie 3 : what movie 3 ?
Movie 1: the book had pictures
Movie 2: who told y'all I could read?
Basically everything past the last 20 minutes of the first movie is just nonsense when compared to the books. Still love both the books and movies though, just in different ways.
I was so angry about this fact that i actually left the Cinema when i saw the second film.
This is quite a-maze-ing!
Nice joke u are funny funny man
you know I have a *Flare* for puns!
Stop XD
@@RoanokeGaming even more funny funny man
Both of you should be ashamed of those puns. They're great.
The movie’s virus is very different from what was in the books, as in the books the virus degrades your mind, and isn’t just the average zombie virus.
the way they discovered the exit in the book was so much more in depth and interesting. I would very highly recommend it to everyone.
I know people always say the books are better than the movies, but this fact is most certainly evident when it came to Maze Runner. The movies were a massive disappointment and veered off from the plot from the beginning. You knew the movies were going to go to shit when they cut out the part about Teresa and Thomas talking to each other through their minds. Something actually vital to the entire plot of the series.
I haven’t read the books in years don’t they find an invisible portal or some shit at the edge of a cloff
@@alteredbeast192 same haven’t read them in awhile, but Yea I think it was when they found the way out from the maze, it was a “portal/door” that was invisible/ hard to see. Pretty sure they ended up having to jump to make it through.
@@alteredbeast192 if i'm remembering correctly, there was a part in the maze where the floor seemed to drop off leading to an endless chasm. upon following a griever, thomas and minho (i think) watch it jump in the endless chasm and see it "disappear" midair into what they ended up escaping into. i think the other part of the puzzle was using the maze patterns to form the one-letter instructions-jump float stiff blood (i'm probably forgetting the order and some words)-and they eventually use that and jump into the "griever hole".
@Bzake it’s in 3rd person
"It's kinda like Huger Games or Divergent"
You're right, I personally keep confusing The Hunger Games and Divergent with The Maze Runner
How are you here..... out of all videos.
Is your pfp zeldris from black clover
Everywhere I go, I see his face, it is missing a mustache, and it is everywhere I go.
BRUH UR EVERYWHERE
I mean your username is right but I still don’t like it
The maze seems like an oasis for humanity IMO, but I guess we should put monsters in a maze around it so we can take people with disease resistance and check on how they react to situations. It’s not pseudoscience, it’s bad pseudoscience... but a good movie.
Funny thing is, that’s how the series ends. They find a second maze area with no monsters and decide to live there
@@dweebicusmaximus no?... They go to a safe haven, not to a maze.
The monsters are a good idea, but need to be geared towards defending the place instead of keeping it's people in
@@dweebicusmaximus I think you might need to rewatch the movies, that’s also not the case in the books
the movie literally says they release antibodies in adrenaline situations, reason why most of the runners, had better immunity
There are major differences between the books and the movies which fix most of the continuity errors in the movie.
In the first book, instead of showing Thomas the maze, Minho shows Thomas a ton of maps of the maze since it changes daily; re-using formats once a month. Thomas notices this and overlays the maps using grease paper in order to discover the route to escape.
He also doesn’t kill the griever using the changing maze, instead he throws it off a cliff he found while running. That cliff is actually the exit, but it’s hidden with holograms. He finds the hole in the middle by throwing vines into the hologram until they latch onto the hole in the middle, which tells him where the exit is.
Grievers can also be killed simply by turning them off with a switch that is found inside their gelatinous body.
The grievers also didn’t spread the flare, they spread a neurotoxin which disabled a memory inhibitor in their brains left by wicked. The same chip also allowed Thomas and Theresa to have a sort of telepathy between them.
The last movie was pretty much completely different from the books too; in the books they had these neat teleporters which would basically disassemble your molecules, then reassemble them elsewhere. Of course, someone turned this into a gun and managed to disassemble people’s molecules without telling anything to reassemble them, so it would just turn them to dust.
Which added a little bit of threat to the whole scenario. All the immunes escaped the facility through a teleporter and ended up on the island, btw. Not through the quad copter thingo
The architecture of this so called maze is an engineering triumph. I love to meet the person who designed it. Imagine living in ones own constructed maze that change and shifts giving you a surprise every once in a while
That would be Thomas. He designed the Maze.
Would be great as a stronghold, relocate the control stations and external access points to the Glade and watch as the maze consumes your foes
imagine how fast they could have cured the virus if they had spent the billions of dollars used to create giant underground structures, bases and such into actually finding out how to cure the disease
Well technically nobody has built the maze. It is not real.
@@davidcook680I don't know where you heard that, but the maze was definitely real. In fact there were several mazes built
God of Maze Runner universe: Ok I made climate change even worse, now what?
Angel: Not create a deadly vir-
God of Maze Runner universe: *LETS MAKE A DEADLY VIRUS!*
Yah screw humanity! rofl
God is like that manipulative parent who has like 4 kids and only one of them is stubborn enough to not be affected by his behavior.
@@Skyisgoingbacktopluto and that one kid who doesn't listen made it only worse
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 , , , yeah, basically what abusers do when they get called out by their victims, make it worse.
@@Skyisgoingbacktopluto wait who's the abuser in this scenario?
1:17 Roenoke: I don't like bionicle
Ted Cruz: I'm gonna end this mans career
Scary times we are living in! 😂😂
@@RoanokeGaming real scary
The final movie is so underrated. I think it was really well done and well concluded.
It’s always a the last movie of a a a trilogy with a giant citybeing kaboomed
Like with dark of the moon
Normally in a movie trilogy the second movie isn't that memorable but in the maze runner it was more than memorable because the basically completely changed the plot
yea the second movie was way off from the books
What? In a movie Trilogy the middle movie is usually the best. Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future Pt 2, Godfather 2 etc
God I absolutely hated the movies after that
@@KirbyDerbi terminator 2 and spiderman 2 r good examples too
@@michaelhurley886 why man why Here’s what I think plot doesn’t matter it never mattered nor it will ever matter
Fun fact: Them crashing the car in the tunnel (18:47) wasn't part of the script. The director didn't want to do the shot again so he just rolled with it.
Lol I heard they crashed a motorcycle, and the incident was so bad the lead actor was put up for six months with broken bones. I was amazed the movie still got done with that.
@@Norinia I think you're referring to this.
Dylan O'Brien had an accident on the third movie. He fell from the hood of a car while shooting the train scene and was struck by a film crew vehicle.
He was hospital for ages and it stopped filming for almost a year. I'm glad he's doing better.
@@tylermiller9212 oh okay, I heard it was because of a motorcycle, guess I had my info wrong. Still, pretty awesome he returned after that.
@@Norinia He better have gotten a fat check to stop him from suing.
@@austinblackburn8095 he signed something at the start I bet. There’s a reason why actors don’t usually do there own stunts as they have like 0 coverage if they do get injured
Never thought a ghoul could topple a post apocalyptic dictatorship did ya smooth skin? 20:07
Everywhere I go, fallout references
@@artyom642 i don't know why this sounds like something said in the books
Fallout 3. S M O O TO H S K I N
Immune kids weren't born 15 years after the flare virus started. Kill Order shows Theresa was already born. She was a young kid at that time. I think I remember WICKED coming for Thomas at the very end of that book too. Mary didn't know the cure was Thomas' blood. She thought his blood would be like all the other immunes and freeze the effects of the virus for a couple of months. Newt, in the book, wasn't immune at any time. He was one of the "control" group. Basically WICKED wanted to see if him being around all those immunes would help him build an immunity. There is nothing in the book that suggests that the immune kids will ever loss that immunity.
I love that you did a summary for all 3 movies in one video. This is pretty amazing especially with all the cut scenes too. Keep up the great work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@RoanokeGaming at least it finally kinda answers my question where did the flare virus came from and to be honest lot of people were mad that they made it into a zombie virus instead of people being a bunch of psychopaths but in my opinion it would be a lot more sense if they were zombies cause zombies are kind of psychopaths
@@Dragon.um5tz I’ve never seen someone talk so much and say nothing at all.
@@theblockchaindoesntlie4503 ummm ok thanks?
@@RoanokeGamingnow are the greavers exactly
Patrolling the sun scorched Wastelands almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter.
@William King FROSTPUNK
Vale true to caesar
@@archmagosavagadro5420 It's AWE true to Caesar
@@marimcgee8379 AWWW SHIIIIT! I've always been bad at infiltration. I never should have joined the ncr rangers
@@marimcgee8379 it's AVE but ok
Don't know if you've covered it Roanoke.
I think seeing you cover the Alien franchise's xenomorph lifecycles from a microbiologists point of view would be really cool.
If you read my suggestion, cool video so far, and thanks for reading.
You're in luck, he made a video when alien covenant came out.
I think it's still on his page's play list.
@@shadesofdusk4031 It's been gone for some time. Don't know why, but Alien seems to be a movie franchise no one really makes videos about.
@@lordodysseus that's unfortunate, but with a new movie rumored to be coming out near October 2021 maybe we'll see some new content.
@@lordodysseus Warner Brothers is ridiculously copyright happy so that might be why its gone
@@lordodysseus search for AcidGlow, he's all bout Alien
Really impressed by the level of medical and neurological research that went into this. Even included the fascinating case of Henriette Lacks
Government: We need to eliminate 30% of the population.
Me: You people first.
notice how the people who are in favor of eugenics or extreme population control never include themselves as possible targets...
@@getschwifty5537 kinda like how members of the Chinese government never got sick because they had the Covid Vaccine from the start
@@BuggaBoy69 or they were just smart and actually social distanced and did their best to distance themselves from people, a better example involving the chinese would be during the famine, the government stayed plump and fat even when the famine got worse
That second example is not them being smart (or i guess in a way it is), its them just being greedy. And the French know how that usually turns out when the people starve but their rulers get fatter.
@@guyfieri148 The outbreak started only miles away from a government medical lab that had been studying the covid virus for years.
This isn’t even a fringe conspiracy, all that info was on the news when the outbreak occurred ~December 2019
"I don't like bionicle"
Roanoke,
God forgives.
But I do not.
*grabs Cordak Blaster* "Peace was never an option."
I dont think god would forgive though
@@justyourstruly6270 God has nearly infinite mercy, but his mercy does not extend to those who dislike bionicals! Quick take his address before nord tries to stop us!!!
Just waiting for some dude to say “god isn’t real”
@@joe_pinch God isn't real Mata Nui is
2000s era young adult novel writing: awful characters, awful story, cool worldbuilding
And unnecessary love subplot.
I agree, while Maze Runner story is horrible with just few interesting characters, the worldbuilding is very interesting.
Read every article on the books in Wikipedia to find out about the world building, knowing the rest would simply piss me off.
The "virus" should have been an extra-terrestrial or (future) organism.
If the authors put the same amount of time and effort into the characters and plot as they did the world building, they're works would be incredible
@@TheLoraxshadenough they’re too horny/are forced to write in romances to appeal to publishers
Maze runner 1 was my favorite movie for years, but ended up forgetting about it for a few years. Good ol nostalgia!
Roanoke should become a Hollywood narrator. I want to see a movie start out with:
“The year is 2136 and earth is boned...”
Normal human being: gun
Roanoke: f o r c e m u l t i p l i e r
can't say the g word without risking demonetization.
It's because youtube is garbage.
20:09 “What are looking at smooth skin?”
Obviously your disgusting face
“Never seen a Ghoul before?”
Nice fallout reference
If I had a nickel for every time Walton Goggins was in a post apocalypse with no nose I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
Literally my exact thought lol
I wondered if that was him...poor guy, he has a cute nose too
Wow ur late on Walton and this 😂
@@sensaiuriah5440nope you are
It's like they actively go out of their way to doom mankind
Government: *surprise pikachu face*
After seeing how people are reacting to covid, there are legit stupid people out there. They drag everyone down with them.
Really liked this book series as a teen, especially with the greater story revealed at the end of Maze Runner. I forget if I ever finished reading the series, I should go back and do so. It'll probably be worse than I remember but always a good trip down memory lane
The story is pretty ok, the characters are unlikeable lol. The movies are dogshit if you expect them to follow the books in any way whatsoever.
Same
Two things about this series
Firstly they'd have saved themselves a lot of trouble by just wiping out that 30% with death squads viruses are a shortcut and shortcuts backfire.
Secondly Teresa got what she deserved although I would prefer she suffered a lot more maybe tortured a bit.
Like being eaten sliced cuz she literally the cause of the cure being delayed to the point where it didn’t matter
@@jesusllanas9318 Not her fault, it is the Hollywood plot formula.
Is it in the books too? Hollywood always have the characters being stupid like that to fuel the plot, cause drama because they have no imagination.
Notice that Hollywood also always change the story, not just practical stuff like length but just for the sake of changing the story.
@@Fridaey13txhOktober yea that’s the point but faster and easier to understand is the characters actions and not the whole background concept on how all movies are repetitive and unimaginative
@@Fridaey13txhOktober She dies in the book too but differently a piece of ceiling from the collapsing building crushes her and she says sorry with her dying words.
Still hate her guts though personally I'd kill her wouldn't even work with her to break into the Wicked city.
reading the crank palace made me realize how absolutely horrifying the flare actually is. in the movies they kind of gloss over it and make it out to be zombies. and though it's hard because we discovered how scary it is through Newt's thoughts, they probably could have done a better job than they did in the movie.
during the recap, don't forget the fact that in the process, surface temperatures in the US were actually sent high enough to literally boil water, as well as causing a tsunami to game end new york, leading to one group fleeing under the city via the subway network, and they learn in the process that the surface temperature has made the water hot enough that if you fall in, you get literally boiled alive.
Wait, you are saying they survived a boiling water tsunami UNDERGROUND? I mean, water likes to flow down pretty effectively...
@@M3dicayne I think it was in fever code and they went down there where others were, heard the water and started trying to escape, water almost takes one or two of them out and then they slam a door shut and climb up into a tall building that becomes there home for a while
"The younger, the better"
Spanish Flu: Allow me to introduce myself
Wait in the *End* the protagnist literally holding the *Cure* and looking at the ship indicating he *will* return to help people
ahhhh so thats the plan then, wonder how many people could be left?
@@RoanokeGaming The last city civil war would *probably* attracted the attention of a Lot of hungry infected (similiar how the noise attracts the zombies from the legendary *zombieland*) maybe the walls protection would have worked but the rebels destroyed the walls so I am not too positive
maybe only other isolated cities remained
@@thedoruk6324 "the last city" lol
@@timfrank7461 I mean technically it *is* one of the final human cities that still standing well was anyway
As far as “last cities on Earth” go, I prefer New London. Would rather deal with sub-zero temperatures and working conditions that would make Charles Dickens cringe, and a totalitarian government than dumb leaders.
I'd like to be with Roanoke during any sort of apocalypse just for the fact that he could identify easily exactly what version of zombies and how to avoid getting infected as well as effective forms of defense
This one deserves multiple likes just because of the whole amount of time he spent watching and summarizing all these movies
Fun fact: Roughly 40% of the clips shown in this video are actually just from normal life in 2020
The rest seemed to tame to be in 2020
@@kyle18934 yeah I think Alot of people Thought Corona Was Just an Average Virus
@@snooze2699 it is isn't it?
@@kyle18934 I meant like a Average Cold but yeah something like that
except that the black goo will be from the "backseens"
I'd say they stopped being concerned with ethics when they decided to just start sacrificing people
Gotta come up with some convoluted and artificial way to produce conflict, otherwise we wouldn't have a story!
Governments suck and will start conflicts for petty reasons. As pessimistic as it sounds the government making a virus intentionally and it backfiring horribly is quite believable. *cough, cough, fever*
@@archmagosavagadro5420 It would also be obvious if one was engineered, which in the alleged example you are implying, is not the case, since more than a fair share of scientists have studied COVID-19 and have found no evidence of it being engineered.
@@inkoalawetrust bullshit studies of the original strain have just restarted the initial team has also been found to have some individual that held some conflict of interest in the first investigation
@@gsesquire3441 it could not be engineered but it could still come from a lab lets see what the studies will say
More likely it’s because younger brains are able to reroute important functions to non-degraded areas of the brain (neuroplasticity)-but yeah enzyme is probably the film’s version of immunity
"Oop, there goes the cortex, let's just boot up the files in the stem real quick-"
Can you do a video about a mechcanical disease from the game Homeworld Cataclysm called "the Beast" please?
let me write that down!
@@RoanokeGaming
Yeah!
Oh god, the screaming.....the fucking screaming *[euthanizes infected cruiser with siege cannon]*
My uncle gifted me the whole book series, and my god my brain never knew how far and better it is from the movies.
100%. Scorch Trials was by far the best book in the entire series. It’s an absolute travesty what the movie turned out like.
Could you cover the books next? The movies completely botched the series.
The movie Flare virus and the book Flare virus are portrayed with vastly different symptoms albeit with one similar symptom: mania.
Unfortunately, Roanoke only focuses on movies, as far as I'm aware. I would love to see a review on the books though!
Books were great, and the movies were trash. I was so hyped for the first movie, and was disappointed. I completely dismissed the movie series altogether after seeing the trailer for Scorch Trials.
@@howardbaxter2514 yeah it’s a shame how they just use the books as a basic guideline and then just do their own thing. It’s like the Percy Jackson movies, don’t follow the plot of the book at all
28:36 I had vertigo once in my life so far and it occurred during the summer of 2016. I honestly don't know what caused it. All I know is that I went to bed fine, and the next day it started immediately from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to sleep at night and was gone the next morning. It was a debilitating uncomfortable experience being that disoriented for an entire day for over 12+ hours. I was pretty much confined to laying on the couch in my living room. No matter what position I was in, there was a terrible falling / rolling feeling. Only 1 specific angle being absolutely still provided some relief. Not being able to visually focus and see straight was highly frustrating as my eyes involuntarily rapidly repeatedly scanned from left to right. Every time I tried walk, it felt like this heavy pull of gravity, tipping like a boat on the ocean, causing me to lean into and hang onto walls and doorframes for support, bracing myself. What also sucked was that closing my eyes and trying to nap in the hopes of alleviating symptoms neither worked to reduce my discomfort nor was it even possible to actually rest, causing increased irritability along with more stress and mental fatigue, making me feel even worse. I hope I never experience that misery ever again.
Sounds like Meniere's syndromee. Check with your doctor, but stemetil and dakness helped me. Please do see your doctor, my friend!
Mans at 20:04 really lookin like he’s about to say: What’s the matter Smoothskin, never seen a ghoul before?
Sorta Tokyo Ghoul
Fallout
I have an idea for another series: The Black Fever/Blood Plague of State of Decay! It's waterborne, and causes flu like symptoms, and is outright said to have been made from a real one, while being made by people to see what would happen basically.
For real, I’d love for state of decay to have its plagues explored
I appreciate how the wicked used the group well in finding the resistance groups. That was smart of them and I wonder whether it was premeditated or spontaneous.
The most exciting part of this trilogy was when the huge search was underway, and it ends up taking several minutes, and there's this clever red herring.
It turns out that actor is Barry Pepper; hes been in lots of stuff. For some reason I thought he was the guy who played Bill from Bill and Ted.
Force multiplier, ended...seems like papa Roanoke tries to avoid big brothers nono words :thinking_emoji:
force multiplier is inacurate metal projectile launcher is. Force multiplier means melle weapon
Susan is very, very picky about who is allowed to say what on her "platform."
@@joshuavidrine889 if I remember correctly when I read the book that's what they call the guns in the books.
@@joshuavidrine889 Susan Shekelzinsky!
Force multiple or shooty bang bang
I really wish the movies were more like the books. In the books the characters slowly started to lose their minds not just turn into zombies
TLDR: Humanity in the Maze Runner series had it coming.
And Teenagers make poor savers of humanity.
@@paladinboyd1228 Ask Ikari...
Roanoke's vids always put me to sleep in a good way. I can litterally go to a seminar of him just talking about Bio stuff and not be bored because of his voice and how well he explains things.
Bro every time a video comes out I instantly watch it these videos are so addicting.
Happy to hear that!
@@RoanokeGaming I seriously enjoy the content it’s very detailed 🙏🔥
I honestly don’t mind the long summary’s
Same. Roanoke has both saved me from watching series I wouldn't have liked and pointed me towards ones that I really liked because I don't care about spoilers most of the time.
I just skip them ive seen the movie or series already
could you do the dollar flu from "The division" its Interesting to see an non-zombie virus be covered!
I see you are a man of culture as well
Unfortunately there isn’t much to say about it, it’s smallpox that’s weaponized. Division 2 isn’t about the virus any longer but powerplay and tribalism, the virus is just a ”trigger” at this point for whatever exposition for future titles.
It’s really too bad they didn’t continue with the virus from the 1st being the danger, it was way more interesting.
@@Ohem1 Sure, but there's a video worth there, since Smallpox is well known enough one can make a really solid analysis. Though I suspect it's been done a few times before.
i think ive seen someone make a video about the dollar flu virus before
Do you know who ate all the doughnuts
That one dude kills it in roles with guys that don’t have a nose.
30:10
"Essentially the younger the better- well that actually sounds pretty familiar"
-Roanoke 2021
Imagine not liking bionicle.
Sounds like heresy
Frankly a justifiable reason to hate someone
That's sounds like treason
Imagine not thinking that people are entitled to their own opinion
@@baseddrugdealer5086 somebody r/woosh his ass
Damn whish they're was a cure....
*shoots person who made cure*
*shoots person made of cure*
I get the chills when I see a video longer than 30 minutes. You basically replace Netflix for me!
I liked the maze runner monsters, they reminded me of the 28 days later infected but with a nice twist of the infection coming from an attempt to make a non horrible death virus. Lol
I read as the *Blade Runner* and thought Mr Roanoke finally cover the half human half synthethic *replicants!*
Glad you are doing okay bro!
Well, the replicants are equal to humans, their cells and body parts are equal to regular humans in a molecular level
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 are they
I thought their biology and creation differentiated from humanity noticeably
@@thedoruk6324 If i remember correctly they have microscopic serial number in their cells or something like that, but thats it
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 I *remember* that from the second movie! Yeah they looked at the skeletal remains of the personal woman replicant from the first movie(forgot her name but she is the only replicant with the ability to reproduce and have an extended lifespan) so that does mean the replicants are essentially genetically enhanced clone humans not biological robots
@@thedoruk6324 that's why they are called replicas and not androids, they aren't exactly enhanced, they are basically clones made to be slaves, with an expiration date programed into them
The entire background music is so fitting.
Makes sense since it is the menu music from The Last Of Us
Finally someone noticed :)
@@yaboihanz7658 you're welcome
Hearing the music makes me sad that I won’t experience a movie or game better than the last of us ever again it is amazing
What is it called?
I heard Tlou2 didn't do well....
Walton Goggins ghouling it up before dealing with vault dwellers.
As someone who is very interested in military stuff, but has no idea what force multiplier means, this will now be the definition i go by
I mean.. I guess a bullet could be a force multiplier. They multiple force alot
The g word gets people zucked
@@OrDuneStudios man, fuck youtube
Bionicals were my favorite toy as a child im literally shook
I used to play with Bionicals as a child
after reading through the first and second book fully recently, I believe that the cranks in the death cure film are simply meant to be more like the ones in the novel, but while I'm absolutely certain that's what it is it can also be explained that they aren't long gone cranks like the ones we have seen in the second film.
side note in the books, Thomas, Newt, Minho and everyone else found within the city along with the original Gladers are all infected with the Flare and are considered cranks in the novel.
Sounds cool I like it
25% into your review, I had to stop and comment that you are doing such a good job in recapping the plot. I am reliving once again how amazing the plot and premise of this movie is. 2024 and all I could remember was that there was a solar flare and it caused the virus. You made me remember that the solar flare caused destruction of the earth, and the scientists created the virus as population control, but it all got messed up.
Person: gets attacked or starts attacking
Roanoke gaming: *force* *multiplied*
what are destiny 2 weapons doing over here?
@@hungjurysr425 shusssssshhhhh no one needs to know
I read all the books when I was younger but I never understood the virus. Like why it happened or where it came from. I know in the Kill Order they talk about Sun Flares or something but It's at the early stages,it kinda just makes you go murder happy I think. But then in the maze runner and forward people are just downright crazy. So great video!
Same here but I also didn’t know where the virus came from I always fight it had to do a solar flares but it’s kinda like the exact opposite
it explains it pretty well in kill order
The music from the last of us in the background is realy cool.
glad you liked that brah!
Glad you put it in there, just gives me a little bit of ptsd but thats ok 😅
@@RoanokeGaming Can you make a video about how the cordycepts infection molds people to the wall and shit from tlou?
Much better than its sequel
@@jswid2251 I think he has in the rat king vid
It’s amazing how watching these videos gives you information you might receive in a college lecture while at the same time being entertained. I’m taking notes for when a zombie apocalypse happens
"When Roanoke gaming uploads a video"
me: *CLICK*
@Alex2979 hello
This sounds like a god-awful movie series watching from this perspective, but interesting from a discussion perspective.
The books were badass. The movies were meh. They only really kept the important bits and even then they heavily changed the important bits. Like there's a part where a kid gets struck by lightning and it goes in detail of how his skin is all chared and he's begging them to kill him and a metal ball that wraps around your head and suffocates you. The books were badass and less kid friendly.
@Jack Schlechter oh
@@MrNickTheKid11 I heavily disagree
@@watsoncouch3800 COMMIE
@@MrNickTheKid11 yes, yes I am. How did you know buddy?
I know this is humanity and it’s always greedy and stupid, but couldn’t Teresa also mention “Hey there is a brunette woman in charge who knows how to make an Insta-Cure. Pls make sure not to shoot her.” Especially since it’s Jansen who shot her, he’s so desperate for a cure! Teresa told them nothing at all.
Idk. I blame Teresa for a lot of this lol, I’ve only seen the first movie so I was shocked when she was snooping 🤣. She also should have made that small jump, as her way of paying back the group she betrayed. Oh well lmao
Honestly I believe that the flare reduced the general iq of people in this verse
Don’t blame Teresa, blame the Hollywood plot formula.
@@Bone_guy in the books you just kinda hate her for the betrayal, she still died there and said sorry, but yea she is still unlikable in both ways after the betraying bit