Dylan O’brien actually almost died doing the train stunt and had to get surgery and everything 😬

@ethanos1765

6 ай бұрын

And it was even more surprising that Dylan wanted to keep going, but he said he wanted to.

@caitlinmosdell3690

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it delayed production big time. The film was originally supposed to be released in January 2017.

@joshuacoldwater

6 ай бұрын

If you watch very close, you can see the cut. They ended up using 1/2 of the stunt from the 1st day, and the rest 11 months later. There is a quick cut when a bush passes in between the camera and the train/thomas that is where the cut was. It is seamless. Dylan was EXTREMELY lucky not only to survive, but that he was near a hospital that focused early on facial reconstruction. I met him once after a comedy show that we happened to be at, he is just a genuinely kind young man. I truly believe celebrities are nothing more than people, and I thanked him for his work shook his hand, he invited me to walk and chat with his friends, and like I said- just a really nice, funny guy. I hope the industry is filled with more Dylans and less Tom Cruises.

@CaitlinC769

6 ай бұрын

Wait what?!

@hluck87

6 ай бұрын

@@joshuacoldwaterWhat part of the stunt with the car was this? The jump or getting on top of the car?

“No, Thomas is nuts. They’re just loyal” such an accurate description 😂😂😂

The fact newt died not knowing he had a sister, and his sister was right next to him breaks me😭💔 (his sister is Sonya, and he was in the same room as her, and neither of them knew they were siblings 😭)

@amandablevins3572

13 күн бұрын

i know 😭😭

You finally made it to the heart breaking experience of Newts death. The fact that Dylan nearly died due to injuries on set put filming on hold for quite sometime but him coming back and finishing it is still so impressive to me.

Dylan really worked his ass off in this franchise both physically and in his acting abilities

makes me so sad every time seeing newt's death, hes easily the best character and had thomas' back through thick and thin, the letter he gives him destroys me

@craftynite420

Ай бұрын

Real

Does anyone want Oscar to also react to their bloopers? I lived with that stuff when I was adolescent. :) This cast is just a really funny mix.

@joshoconneronechanceplease

6 ай бұрын

yes omg that would be such a good idea!!

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

omg yes! the bloopers are so worth watching, it would be so fun to react to

@petrastein2531

6 ай бұрын

Brenda: *driving a bus full of kids to safety whilst being chased by WCKD through the city* Also Brenda: "What does everyone want from McDonalds?"

@lari5045

5 ай бұрын

omg yesss

Oscar, there are deleted scenes that you really should watch, one of them has an extended conversation between Newt and Thomas on the rooftop that really gives a lot of backstory to Newt and to Newt and Minho's relationship

Since Brenda heard the announcement that Thomas's blood contained the cure i think she knew him well enough to understand that he didnt leave them to "go to Teresa" and that he was actually sacrificing himself to try and save everyone as per their earlier conversation. I tend to assume that Thomas and Brenda do end up together. They do in the books and the final few shots of them do show a closeness... But I'm also kind of glad that the movie doesn't show that happening because it would be completely out of character for Thomas so soon after watching Teresa fall to her death. I kind of wish they'd split the final movie into two. Its so long and has two distinct parts. 1 being the mission to get into the city, the 2nd being the final battle, escape and eventual arrival at the safe place. If they'd split it in two they could have explained more of the plot holes and could have done a time jump or something at the end showing the development of the community, thomas and brenda together and ending on a hopeful note of humanity surviving and on the way to thriving again.

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

That's how the books end, but the film ending implies something quite different. Thomas is not going to stay in the Safe Haven.

I'm with you on the empathy thing for Teresa, I just can't bring myself to feel bad. I sobbed when Newt said kill me tho😭

32:13 it's subtle but, with Teresa's hesitation, they probably implied she felt too guilty to continue living like the others and so decided to kill herself.

@DinkLover69

6 ай бұрын

If you watch closely the pilot was just having a hard time staying close to the building. She didn't just kill herself lol. Feel like everybody misses this....

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

​​​​​​@@DinkLover69 ehm, no lol. If you watch closely the pilot was having an hard time during the entire scene, she just could have easily jumped when Thomas looked at her but she hesitated, that's the point. It's pretty clear

@DinkLover69

6 ай бұрын

Probably hesitated because the Berg wasn't in jumping distance. @@propriov

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

@@DinkLover69 dude, after Thomas screamed her name she was clearly having second thoughts (and was *not* struggling to jump)... it's not that difficult to understand. but see what you wanna see idc 😂

@DinkLover69

6 ай бұрын

It's not that difficult to understand it wasn't in jumping distance @@propriov

bro him writing teresa at the end was an instant mood killer.

Newt last second, turn the knife on himself to protect Thomas.

Newt's "flare-up" to Thomas over Theresa told us not only that Newt was infected but also indicated that Newt was jealous of Theresa. He needn't have been. However, the Flare allowed submerged emotions to bubble to the surface. Later, Newt ripping off his necklace containing his note to Thomas and angrily insisting Thomas take it also says something. Newt was keeping that note to Thomas next to his heart and Thomas must have it. Whether you want to consider the relationship Platonic or otherwise, that act is a species of consummation. Indeed, although I'm really not into Freudian symbolism, the knife struggle, it's not a fight, between Newt and Thomas could also be interpreted similarly. Throughout the trilogy, it's pretty clear there is a very close bond between Thomas and Newt. Closer than between any of the other characters. Several scenes which were left out of the films underscore this relationship, and it's a pity, in retrospect, they were deleted. Where's the chemistry between Thomas and Theresa or between Thomas and Brenda? There is none. Oh, for sure, there's some sort of emotional attachment between Thomas and Theresa owing to their shared pre-Glade history, but don't mistake it for love. If there had been something between them pre-memory-wipe, it no longer exists. Would Theresa betray Thomas if she actually loved him? if Theresa was wedded to anything, it's WCKD. I've always wondered if Theresa didn't betray Thomas to WCKD initially, and history repeated itself. Brenda does seem to love Thomas, but Thomas regards her as a friend only. The mythic elements on which the films are based actually call for Newt to be in love with Thomas. Newt is clearly Ariadne, Ariadne loved Theseus, and Theseus is Thomas. The two actors seem to have been aware of this aspect of the characters and portrayed them accordingly. I can only assume they wanted the audience to think Thomas and Newt were actually more than just good friends. You start noticing this right away. For example, as Newt walks away after meeting Thomas for the first time, Thomas looks after him several times, and Newt seems to glance back towards Thomas himself. Alby even looks back to see what Thomas is looking at. When Thomas rashly runs into the maze the first time, who reaches out to stop him? It's Newt. There are many like cues in the films. After Newt's death, it's clear that Thomas is no longer the same person as he was. The pièce de résistance is Newt's love letter to Thomas.

@thylionheart

Ай бұрын

Newt is also confirmed by the author James Dashner to be gay, which means that it is canon and author-approved to interpret film Newt as gay as well. As someone who didn’t initially ship any of the characters when I first read the books and watched the films, I now, on rewatch, think that, in my opinion, Thomas and Newt have the most tragic and believable love story of all the ships

oh every time, I see something of Newts death I tear up and it's so sad but also this trilogy is so so good.

Nice! Did you know? Dylan O'Brian almost died during the filming of the movie as he was involved in an ATV accident onset. Filming was delayed for a year, until O'Brian fully recovered from his injuries.

You're not the only one that didn't cry or felt Teresa's death, she kind of redeem her self by saving Thomas but that's it. On the other hand, Newt's dead broke me, in the books is even more sad.

@CharlieFBarassi

5 ай бұрын

Teresa is so stuck in her decision because of her backstory: She lived alone with her Mum, who ended up catching the virus. Her Mum then locked herself in the basement and would scream and claw at the walls so much that it was engrained in Teresa’s head. She could hear her mother’s wailings even when out of the house. One day, she wakes up and the wailing has stopped. It’s been 2 years. She opens the door to the basement to find her mother in a pool of blood with her eyes gouged out. Based on hearing, her mother turns to her and whispers “they’ve stopped. The visions have stopped.” Teresa was a little girl who had to watch her Mum descend to insanity and hear her pain for 2 years, which only ended by her Mum tearing out her own eyes. When WICKED (as it’s called in the books, contrary to WCKD in the films) comes a knocking, she offers herself because she never wants another person to go through what she has. The Maze Runner is the perfect story of “do the ends justify the means?” Can you justify putting literal teenagers through hell and back over and over again for years by the fact that you might eventually get the cure to this horrible virus?

@spikebite505

5 ай бұрын

I’m the letter scene, I bawled my eyes out and when newt died I was speechless.

Fun Fact: Most of this movie was shot in South Africa, and as a South African it was awesome to recognise locations 😆They even filmed on the side of Table Mountain when they first see the city. It was strange to see the Cape Town Convention Centre used as Wicked's building. Even the bus stop where Newt died is a bus stop I used every day on my way to varsity 😆 My friend even got to play the role of Mino's stunt double.

29:25 "oiii" that was so cute hahaha

there were so many ways that Newt could have been saved. hey, if Gally hadn't given the serum to that little kid to safeguard it he'd have it on him when they needed it

14:47 If you watch back when theyre in the tunnel and the car flips, Newt stands up holding his arm. That's when he got injured :/

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

3 ай бұрын

A theory which I like is that WCKD injected Flare into Newt at Jansen's facility. Recall that giant hypo. I think it was the same arm, too, that showed Flare. The only puzzle is why did it so long to manifest itself? Perhaps, he had partial immunity??

I'm so happy you enjoyed this series!! And, you are not the only one who didn't feel much with Teresa's death, so don't feel to bad

I felt the same, I love Newt 🥺💛 about Teresa, yes, I didn't like either that Thomas still likes her, Brenda deserves his love so much more...

The author is writing a new trilogy, which is focused on the children of Death Cure survivors. There we will know who Tomas married and all the others.

@laurine____7543

6 ай бұрын

Yes, he maried brenda for what i remember

I love that they filmed this in Cape Town 🇿🇦 where I live, I didnt get to see anyone from the films but its still pretty cool seeing all of those familiar landmarks you past by everyday, my favourite has to be when they're looking into the city from Table Mountain National Park ❤.

Newt’s death destroyed me it still does, and the letter doesn’t help. I will always cry any time I watch those scenes. Tbh this is my favorite one of the series I know people don’t like it that much but I loved it. I wish the didn’t have to kill off Newt but that’s what the author decided for his eries. Also I was happy when Teresa died so don’t feel bad that you had know emotion when she died I don’t this most do. I haven’t read the books so I’m not sure if they do better redeeming her character in the books, but in the movies I still didn’t like her after “redemption” I also agree I ship Brenda and Thomas way more, the Teresa and Thomas love story was not done well in the movies.

Great reaction! 😊 As much as I love the other two movies, this one is my favorite of the trilogy. 1:18 - 1:28 Fun, but Scary Fact: Dylan O'Brian(Thomas) was seriously injured while filming the opening sequence of this movie. And the rest of the filming had to be delayed for almost a year while he recovered. 5:30 - 5:42 When I first saw this movie, I was so afraid that Minho was put back in a maze. 11:10 Yep! Gally's back! LOL! It's crazy that I disliked Gally in the first movie. And I really like him in this one. Newt's death gets me every time I watch this movie. And it's even more heartbreaking in the book. Teresa very slightly redeemed herself for me at the end when she sacrificed herself to save Thomas. Fun Fact: When filming the scene at the end when Thomas read the letter from Newt, actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster(Newt)stood off camera to read the letter. Thank you so much for reacting to this amazing trilogy. I very highly recommend "The Divergent Series: Allegiant". Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊

Newt's death really hit hard

I was watching Scorch Trials and looked at your videos… you hadn’t put this reaction yet… But when finished.. you now uploaded this one 8 minutes ago 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

32:31 no i completely agree, i didnt like teresa so her death wasn't exactly a big deal for me, plus I like brenda more

This trilogy is timeless! Glad you enjoyed it 🖤

Here endeth the third lesson of this amazing heroic trilogy. Although these films were adapted from a YA series of books, they are adult films, not YA, which probably explains the reaction of some viewers of that ilk. There is no female protagonist with associated love triangle etc. However, there is a love story, albeit one that's subtly understated. The films do homage to the books, but the universe of the films is not the same as the books. Thomas is very different in the films. You could describe the film trilogy as about selflessness and about a band of brothers, who follow the principle of "No man left behind." You could also say it's about life's stages with the first film being about childhood, the second about adolescence, and the third about adulthood. This only touches the surface, of course. The films are deeply rooted in myth. The most obvious aspect being the ancient Greek myth of "Theseus and the Minotaur." Thomas is, naturally, both the hero Theseus and Daedalus, whereas Newt is Ariadne, and therein lies the trilogy's love story. Heroic stories often follow the same basic pattern. In his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," Joseph Campbell, distilled the world's myths into a common structure which he called the monomyth or hero's journey. It's very concisely summarized as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. That's the "Maze Runner" film trilogy in a nutshell. What's the "boon" in the trilogy? Obviously, it's Thomas himself or, more specifically, his blood. He can potentially save mankind. By the end of the third film, Thomas has come to accept this as his destiny which he will meet even if it means his death. Tragic heroes almost always die, and Thomas is a tragic hero. This is without doubt what the epilogue of the final film means. Thomas is going back to the Krank-world, and he is going to offer himself up as a cure even if it means his life is forfeit. Unlike the books, Thomas is not going to remain in the Safe Haven with Brenda to live happily ever after. Even though WCKD's HQ was destroyed along with the city, there were more than one WCKD lab and installation referenced in the films. Ask yourself, where was WCKD evacuating to in the third film? The fact that the trilogy doesn't end with a conventional happy-ending like boy-gets-girl or vice-versa, if that's your preference, also sets it apart. Another reason these are adult films. Nevertheless, many people do crave happy-endings, even Oskar, our dear reactor, but he's still a young lad himself. Instead, the film ends on a hopeful note. Thomas is going back. He's not going to stay in the Safe Haven, which, if you think about it, is really a new Glade. He's going to venture out into the maze again, the krank-filled-world. He's going to try to save, in this case, not just Alby and Minho, but the world. It's an open question whether he'll succeed. We hope so, but we don't know. This time the maze might defeat him. The end of the trilogy brings us full-circle, and we're back at the beginning. Thomas and Theresa are basically mirror images of one another. They're both betrayers, and they both want a cure, but they're complete opposites otherwise. The key difference being Thomas is selfless, whereas Theresa is self-centered. Theresa often refers to her own personal history to explain her actions. Thomas never does. To be fair, Thomas can't because his personal history has been erased, but, even so, we can see his altruism is innate. Personal history would have no bearing on his actions. These attributes primarily motivate their respective actions. Hopefully, everyone realizes there's no way Thomas could ever kill Newt, even Flare Newt. The same is true for Newt, but not Flare-Newt, of course. In that gut-wrenching struggle, Thomas would defend himself, but always stop short of killing Newt. Inevitably, Flare-Newt would kill Thomas. To save Thomas, Newt kills himself, instead, and as the Bible says: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Whereas Thomas and Theresa were "oppositum ego," Thomas and Newt were "idem ego." What effect did Newt's death have on Thomas? It's profound. Thomas is palpably different afterwards. He presents a diminished lifeforce and sadness. Not only did Newt die, but Thomas did, too. He will never again be the same person. Newt's death marks a turning point. From that time forward, Thomas will focus on being "the cure." He's not staying in the Safe Haven, he's leaving to save mankind. Thomas is determined to complete WCKD's mission, and we have yet another instance of immense tragic irony when Thomas, for a second time, offers himself to Ava Paige in lieu of the immunes. This time she accepts, and mankind might have been saved then and there, but Jansen, out of pure selfishness, kills her, and destroys the opportunity. The interplay between selflessness and selfishness is another aspect of the trilogy. "Does the end justify the means" represents WCKD's agenda and is the central theme of the "Maze Runner" trilogy. It's a principle often associated with totalitarianism, and the phrase has its origin with Machiavelli, although the idea is much older. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed. Therea/WCKD adhere to this end-means principle rigidly. This principle is, unfortunately, a too common belief today. It allows people to believe their actions are justified regardless of how they go about achieving their desired end result. It potentially allows for all sorts of aberrant behaviors. A rather trivial example of this is the following scenario: My end is to get a certain work promotion. To get it, I work to sabotage all the other candidates. Hopefully, we agree that's not a nice way to behave. This is essentially the viewpoint of WCKD and Theresa, although they are dealing with an end of much greater significance. WCKD and Theresa are totally ruthless in their pursuit of a cure. Thomas, on the other hand, believes that the means are just as important, or, maybe, even more important than the end. His viewpoint is if the means are morally objectionable in themselves, then this outweighs any potential benefit from the end. In other words, the "how" is just as important as the "why." Thomas, just like WCKD, wants to find a cure to the Flare, he's only opposed to how WCKD tries to do it. Thomas is willing to sacrifice himself to obtain a cure and save humanity. He's not willing, however, to sacrifice the unwilling. Theresa's/WCKD's morality is relativistic and man-centric, whereas Thomas' morality is based on absolute principles and God-centric. Even so, the trilogy challenges both WCKD's and Thomas' perspective, and makes us wonder which one is "right." I'm reminded of Pilate when he said: "What is truth?" We have man's truth, and we have God's Truth. Some miscellaneous observations: Cranks/Kranks. Krank is German for sick, diseased, unwell etc. The English word also has that connotation if you think about it. The purpose of the VR torture/stress isn't to increase heartrate but to alter brain engrams/chemistry. The increased heartrate is only a side-effect. Newt was probably injected with Flare at Jansen's facility. Recall the giant hypo? He was injected in that arm. The mystery is why it took so long to manifest itself. Different people may react differently. Thomas was shot in what looks to be the exact same spot as Ben was stung. By the way, under the circumstances, Thomas would have died from that gunshot wound. The only gripe I have about the films, and it's not really that big a gripe, is that Thomas should have died at the end of the third film. Tragic heroes almost always die, and since there weren't any more films, his arc was incomplete or left to the imagination. Why was Theresa put into the maze? She was always meant to coax Thomas back to WCKD, should he survive, as befits her role as "temptress." Why was Thomas put into the maze? Well, for betraying WCKD, but also to serve as an experimental catalyst to complete the Trial. He was the best and brightest of the immunes. A real genius, actually. His selflessness makes him act impulsively, and he can seem foolhardy as a result. He was Daedalus, the maze-maker etc., after all. Why do Thomas and, apparently, Theresa remember bits of their past, whereas the others don't? That must be by WCKD's design. Perhaps it's part of the coaxing back plan? WCKD always seems to want Thomas back after he escapes the maze. Ava Paige considered him a prodigal son. Why does Ben not seem to remember being stung or, presumably, the Griever? We know WCKD can wipe memories. Perhaps WCKD wanted stung boys to return to the Glade sometimes to create the situation he did. So, they'd wipe the memory of the sting/Griever. The Ben episode certainly created a lot of stress/terror for the Gladers, which was part of what the experiment was about. Why does the mob destroy the city? It's part and parcel of the madness of mobs!! Finally, what a fantastic trilogy "Maze Runner" is, especially when you consider all three films only cost $157 million. The average cost for a major Hollywood movie is $100 million. You'd never know it watching these three movies that they were done on the cheap. They come across as much more expensive productions. Hats off to the actors for their incredible performances and the director, crew and SFX folks, too. Job very well done.

i watched this one in cinemas with my best friend and newts death destroyed me so much that my friend said she had never seen me cry that hard

A movie suggestion, it's a dark comedy with some serious topics to discuss too, truly a classic: *Heathers* ✨ (starring Winona Ryder) it would be a great one to react to!

Hear me out the lady Teresa was talking to in the presentation what if her niece was that zombie in the mall behind bars

The end scene with the letter always ends up with me bawling as newt is my favourite character. I just finished it a couple minutes before watching this video and I skipped to the letter scene to get this guy’s reaction, and I’m crying again.

The train scene is so intense, especially after knowing dylan obrien (thomas) almost died doing a stunt.. i’m so glad he is okay😭

Best birthday surprise was seeing this posted!

@thecocoacouch

6 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday!!!

27:13 could have tied newt up to keep him restraint until Brenda came

@ednortonshonkers

4 ай бұрын

tied him up with what? and mid fight? 😭

and didn't the knife have Thomas's blood on it? sure it hadn't been distilled down to the magic substrate, but fake science and say it helped for a while to get newt back to the vehicle and thus were born dozens of absolutely amazing fan fics on AO3 (I'm not kidding, I have recommendations!)

@natasunshine1541

5 ай бұрын

Can you please share?

I will NEVER forgive them for killing Newt Love your videos ♡ Can you watch Rio? Lots of love from Brazil ♡

I'm so happy you loved Brenda

I loved this series, glad you liked it. Is there any way you’d do Agents of SHIELD? It’s pretty long but there’s lots of plot twists and drama and it’s one of my favourite series

I'm so happy you reacted to this! These are my favorite movies! Love your reactions! This movie was my favorite out of the whole series, I cried so hard when Newt died but I really didn't care about Teresa much either.

And with his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger

So all those kids that you saw strung up during the beginning of the scorch trials all those kids were reliving the maze just like how they were doing to Minho. That’s the process of the harvesting

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

Yes, more or less, they were in a continuous virtual hell. Very wicked, right?

Glad you liked this series! 💚 Usually people that like Hunger Games appreciate this movie too.

I remember sitting in the cinema, crying my eyes out when Newt died. When everyone left after the movie, me and my friend were hugging each other, I couldn't even see through my tears... It really hit hard. I have Newt's letter memorised like a lyrics of my favorite song. I even dreamed about Newt and his accent, lmao The 3rd one is my favorite out of all the movies even tho a lot of people hate it. Also, we don't like Teresa. I was a little emotinal at her death because of Dylan's acting skills and because since Newt's death, I basically didn't stop crying haha

If you like thrillers/mysteries youve got to watch Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman

i LOVE dylan obrien and i LOVE this series! can’t wait to see you reaction😁

Yes this is what I was waiting for,thx for reacting

Man, I've been waiting for your reaction to this movie. There is a lot of characters (character's arcs) that you can have an inspiration from. But for me it was, and will alaways be Newt! Early in my life I was thinking : "IIf you have someone like Newt in your corner", than damn that would be something great. Now I think : "I'm glad that I have someone for whom I'll be "Newt"". Normaly I'm not emotional, but with Newt either it's his death, his letter or his "Tommy", something always getts me. P.S. Mate sorry for mylack of propper English and my uncoordinated thoughts (I hope that you understand what i'am saying).

I read the Maze Runner books for the first time back in the spring after watching the first movie for the first time. I wanted to read the books before finishing the movie trilogy. I know I’m probably an outlier. Maybe I didn’t understand the themes of the books. But they frustrated me towards the end and I felt like they missed the mark. I then later went to watch the movies. I was surprised by how much they diverged from the books, but could still see that they were trying to tell their own story. The trilogy in both forms is not my favorite, but I do think this movie did a great job of communicating its message with Teresa’s line about the gift still being his. Glad you enjoyed them!

Newt could have lived cus he could have stayed with gally when gally was getting the cure like new said let's focus on Minho but how can they when newt is infected so newt should have stayed with galley cus he wouldn't slow the team down . How could they not tell Thomas was the main cure like look at Brenda alive

I’m glad you enjoyed it!!!

You need to watch Percy Jackson the movie there's several of them they're really good and I think you'd enjoy them

I’ve been waiting for this one!!!😊

22:54 "Thomas is nuts, they're just loyal". Yes lol

i'm sorry but newt's letter?? that's fully a goodbye love letter

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. No other way to take it.

tbh this movie is my favorite even though i cried because of newt’s death. i didn’t see any chemistry between thomas and brenda and didn’t like teresa, only shipped newt and thomas like many other fans haha

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, Newt's death is hard on everyone. I also see no chemistry between Thomas and either Theresa or Brenda. There is an emotional bond between Thomas and Theresa because of their unique and long-standing shared past in WCKD, but it's non-sexual, despite the kissing. Although Brenda may feel otherwise, Thomas also regards her just as a good friend. I agree that the only people who had any sort of "chemistry" between themselves were Thomas and Newt.

In the books wicked was even more fucked too, they would hurt Thomas because he wouldn’t forget his actual name until he chose to use the name Thomas, they tortured Minho because he wanted to leave and newt because he wasn’t immune. They killed newts parents so they could have him and his immune sister. They manipulated Thomas and Teresa to build the maze. They were just outright horrible, but Ava was actual one of the only good ones, and she tried to help Thomas in the end telling him they had enough resources and brain scans to make the cure themselves and telling Thomas to run.

I've both watched the movies and read the books and I loved both, each for their own bits and pieces and unique aspects. I always felt that there were a bunch of things that lead to the publics rather poor perception of the movies. For one, people always have certain expectations when their favorite books get adapted to the big screen. Not everything that works for a book can work for a movie and vice versa, even though of course at times choices are made that may not be the best for either. If one takes a moment to appreciate both variants of the Maze Runner series for what they each are and represent then both are admittedly rather great works of fiction, in my opinion either way. Can't judge anyone who doesn't like them or dislikes the changes and I can absolutely see why some changes weren't okay but some made me rather happy. So glad to see you liked the movies.

Btw newt got scratched in the tunnel, I sobbed when newt died.😭 My favourite character always die…

Can you react to "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms"? That's a beautiful christmas movie! 😊❤🎁🎄

NEWT!!! 🥹

After Newt's death, Thomas doesn't go to be with Theresa or anything like that. Thomas isn't interested in either Theresa or Brenda that way. No, the fact is Newt's death has profoundly changed Thomas. What happens next parallels what happened after Ben was banished and died in the first film. In that first instance, Thomas decides there will be no more Maze deaths if he can help it, so he "sacrifices" himself in order to save Alby and Minho from the Maze. After Newt's death, Thomas decides there will be no more Flare deaths if he can help it because he knows he's the "death cure." Yes, he's tempted momentarily to kill Dr. Paige, but it's clear he never would because she's like a foster mother to him, and he's a prodigal son to her. There will be no matricide! All Thomas desperately wants to be is the "cure" for Newt's sake, the person he truly loved. That's what's driving him, now. As befits his altruistic nature, he doesn't care what happens to him, as if he ever did. So, he repeats the offer he made at the end of "The Scorch Trials" to Dr. Paige; namely, take me and leave the others be. I'm the one you've always wanted. It really underscores the great tragedy of the trilogy that Dr. Paige rejected his offer in "Scorch" because, by that time, Thomas was the "cure," and WCKD finally would have had it in their hands. All this subsequent death and destruction didn't need to happen. However, history repeats itself, and Jansen, out of his own selfish self-interest, upends this second chance for WCKD to have the cure by killing Paige. We're left to wonder, then, if mankind can be saved? The "Death Cure" epilogue, however, tells us that Thomas remains determined to be the cure, and he will return to the krank-world to search out WCKD's remnants and, hopefully, be the cure that saves mankind. Whether he's successful or not is an open question.

I think that one of the main reasons it didn't become as famous as the hunger games movies is cause the main couple doesn't really work out and the girl is on the "bad side". To me this is actually really refreshing, but I guess most people still prefer the main couple being the enemy to lovers thingy

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

5 ай бұрын

Seems like those people are in a bit of a rut. No pun intended. It was actually quite refreshing there wasn't the typical teen romance.

oh thank GOD

NOO!! i am with you on this one, BRENDA AND THOMAS FOREVER🤩

If you like the train scene with all the action and chaos, you might really enjoy _Mad Max: Fury Road_ . Although you might have already seen it (not sure if Aussies are legally required to watch George Miller movies like Americans must watch Steven Spielberg. 😛 )

I'm with you. Newt's death was so hard for me that by the time Teresa died I really didn't care about her. I loved Newt.

My fav trio 🥺🤍

Don’t want to be a nerd, but it seems this one also wasn’t on the Patreon 😂

@thecocoacouch

6 ай бұрын

Oi I feel bad 😆 sometimes I have to edit a day before uploading the patreon version has to render overnight (takes 6 hours) so it ends up being ready a couple hours after the KZread version has uploaded. Sorry!!!!

@Aikatepiva

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@thecocoacouchthanks for explaining, will know now 😊

I Honestly have never understood all the Teresa hate. Yes she betrayed them but she did it for a reason with good intention (I mean common there are so many characters like her and yet fans still love them anyway, Luke how big of a hypocrite you have to be). She wasn’t a bad person but someone who wanted to do something good in a bad world. And her death was actually really emotional, she sacrificed herself for Thomas but chose not to safe herself because she felt that after all she did to them they wouldn’t accept her, plus the amazing theme while she was falling and the city was burning is just so good.

I also didn't feel bad for Theresa. Not going to lie

Please go and watch marvel ( mcu ) I think we will all love it.

Not so fun fact: the blonde girl, Sonya, from Aris’ maze is actually supposed to be Newt’s sister. Newt died before they could find out and properly reunite.

you are definately not the only one. Neither in the books or the movies did I care about Teresa dying. Heartless me.

newt and thomas ☹️💔

Pls watch divergent 3 I really like your reactions

I thought that Teresa wanted to save her friends. She tried to persuade Thomas for Newt, but he didn't make it. Bad Timing. Also, the reason that Branda arrived first when Newt died, was for comparison, Branda and Newt, and they were both infected, but one was saved by Thomas and the other was not. And Teresa KNEW it. I loved that you watched my favorite movie. Thank you!❤ and Happy new year. 🎉

JoJo Rabbit mate. Trust me on this move!! You’ll love it guaranteed or you can ban me from here ok.

Teresa can suck it. I will say in the books there's more of a relationship between her and Thomas. It makes no sense watching this why Thomas was so obsessed with her, but in the book they had more of a backstory and intense history together.

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

Was he obsessed with her in the films? I don't think so. He did have an emotional attachment to her, for sure, but I think that was because she was one of the very few people whom he remembered from his past. That was the tug. The other was Ava Paige, and she was really like a foster mother to Thomas. I imagine it would be devastating for Thomas to have them both die because they knew the before Thomas more than he did himself. It'd be like a part of himself dying.

not just you, newt's death scene is much more hard hitting

Newt 😢

It is really fun trilogy to watch, like yrah maybe it isn't the best there but it is a lot of fun.... And I feel like you need to watch all 3 to get this story, I remember when first movie come out and I watched it like year layer or something, short before second come out and I feld like "yeah ok movie, interesting, but hmm something is lacking" and when I watched all three like galf a year ago (I decided it is time to do this trilogy) I saw positivly suprised bc watching all give me the feeling if completed story and mivies looked good, like effects etc. Yeah it was fun to watch all tree. And I say ir bc for example Hunger games or even Twilight you can watch first movie and never see next ones and feel content like you watched full story.

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

I think TMR is still one of the best trilogies out there for so many reasons; but yes, one of the greatest things is how each movie leaves you wanting more, and I'm so glad they (purposely) made it this way

@laurine____7543

6 ай бұрын

​@@propriovwell, it is the same with all dystopy...eatch movie you know more

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

@@laurine____7543 this trilogy did a better job at splitting out the plot, making you eager for more after each movie and keeping you on the edge of your seat - that's what I'm saying.

I kinda funny how every person who knowns how to make the cure dieds except for thompas

you should cry for teresa, Teresa is so stuck in her decision because of her backstory: She lived alone with her Mum, who ended up catching the virus. Her Mum then locked herself in the basement and would scream and claw at the walls so much that it was engrained in Teresa’s head. She could hear her mother’s wailings even when out of the house. One day, she wakes up and the wailing has stopped. It’s been 2 years. She opens the door to the basement to find her mother in a pool of blood with her eyes gouged out. Based on hearing, her mother turns to her and whispers “they’ve stopped. The visions have stopped.” Teresa was a little girl who had to watch her Mum descend to insanity and hear her pain for 2 years, which only ended by her Mum tearing out her own eyes. When WICKED (as it’s called in the books, contrary to WCKD in the films) comes a knocking, she offers herself because she never wants another person to go through what she has. The Maze Runner is the perfect story of “do the ends justify the means?” Can you justify putting literal teenagers through hell and back over and over again for years by the fact that you might eventually get the cure to this horrible virus?

@thecocoacouch

5 ай бұрын

Yep. That’s why I didn’t feel much 😆 I get a lot more for the characters who were victims to WCKD.

In the cinema Teresa death made everyone cheer

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

3 ай бұрын

Oh, my. That seems a tad heartless. I understood Theresa's perspective, but I didn't agree with it. I also understood why she didn't save herself. Throughout the trilogy, she was wedded to WCKD. That's what she loved first and foremost, the WCKD program. She believed in it body-and-soul, which explains all her actions. She preferred to die with WCKD than live. I regretted her choice, and it made me sad. But that sadness was in no wise comparable to the way I felt about Newt's death. I'm sure we all felt like we'd been stabbed in the heart, too.

@fantasyland3646

3 ай бұрын

@@user-bl5yi4uw6j they would have easily gotten the cure so much sooner but they played with these kids life's and obviously they would keep running away not wanting to be experimented on until they dead like they treated them as lab rats in fact worse than that,they weren't treated like human beings and all these adults are selfish just caring about themselves and using these kids for their own benefit they are wicked they are inhumane, if they actually treated the kids nicely and cared about them truly cared just let them help find cure by their own free will and give them breaks like obviously the kids would want to find the cure but not like this. Why every time there's a end of the world type destruction and still there's a leader with her lackeys and they only help specific people and torture kids kill kids use kids for themselves cus the youth is the future they mainly immune.

The movies truly went so far away from the books in Scorch Trials and especially Death Cure. I favour the books, but the movies are so great too

This trilogy is meh. The opening is a banger and then it loses steam over parts 2 and 3. But still worth finishing and glad to have taken this journey with you. Cheers!

gess finally!! i was waiting for you to react to the death cure hahaha. I literally couldnt do my day to day life for like 3 months after watching it. it took a toll on me😂😂

I cried a lot for Newt but I was similar to you in terms of Teresa. The betrayal got me. Like I will let her choices be hers but like she didn't have to betray them is what I feel. I have read all the 5 books and her betrayals and lies are even bigger in that. Specially once you read the prequels and the reread the triology it hits more. She did have some redemption arc in both the books and movies but I feel same as you. And I agree I prefer Brenda more, also in the book there was a point when Brenda had a secret at start when they just met but once thats out and once she knows whats right and she befriends them, she is loyal af! But thats where Teresa is different that she had important info which she kept till the end and even after being friends betrayed them.

Now i remember why i forgot the 3rd movie. I thought it was so bad.

Everyone hates Teresa lol and I don't think that changes much by reading the books either. I've heard the prequel makes her look even worse. But Newt's death DESTROYED me, I can't believe you can record these without bawling your eyes out

I think the one of the worst things about the newt death scene, is that no one knew that he stabbed himself. So when they come across the body, they have no idea what actually happened. And no one will probably ask Thomas about it, so they may just live the rest of their lives thinking Thomas stabbed him

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

5 ай бұрын

Anyone who knew Thomas and Newt would know Thomas could not kill Newt.

@johnmcsmith5112

5 ай бұрын

@@user-bl5yi4uw6j for sure. However, they saw a Newt that had turned with a knife in his chest and Thomas with a stab wound. You’re telling me that not a single one of them may be thinking “he did his best, but Newt had turned was attacking him”? No one will know the truth apart from Thomas, and survival instincts will kick in, and the others know that.

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

5 ай бұрын

@@johnmcsmith5112 Your viewpoint is not unreasonable, but I still disagree because it's contrary to the narrative and the characters' development. Let's imagine ourselves transported to WCKD world. God forbid, right? The real world is bad enough, but who wants to be in WCKD world? I'd be scared shitless. Anyway, we're a Glader who escaped the Maze with Thomas and the others and have been with him and Newt ever since. All along we've seen how Thomas is utterly selfless. No exceptions. He's always willing to risk his life for others while combating the forces of darkness whether it be Grievers, WCKD, the Flare or what-have-you. We also know Newt and Thomas are very close. Not just alter ego but probably idem ego. Both completely selfless with regard to the other. No way either one would ever kill the other. That's our logical premise. But we have a third actor in our scenario: the Flare virus. We also know the Flare is a process. It's not like "World War Z" or "28 Days Later." There's a diminishing intermediate period of rational lucidity. So, to battle. It's a three-way struggle with basically three possible outcomes: 1) If the Flare wins the battle-of-wills with Newt, then Flare-Newt will kill Thomas because Thomas will still try to save Flare-Newt at the cost of his own life; 2) If Newt-Flare wins the battle-of-wills, then he will kill himself to save Thomas despite Thomas' attempts to prevent it; and 3) The Flare temporarily seizes control of Newt, he kills Thomas but in a succeeding moment of lucidity he kills himself to prevent further deaths and, probably, a great deal of remorse. Both are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the other. Accidental death doesn't seem in the cards. Okay, we, the Gladers, arrive on scene after the fact. Whose body do we see? Thomas, Newt or both? It's Newt. We conclude Newt in a moment of rational lucidity killed himself to spare Thomas because we know Thomas would never kill Newt. Yes, we see Thomas was stabbed, but it doesn't really signify anything other than there was a struggle. Now, obviously, someone who didn't know Thomas and Newt as well as we do would note Newt had Flare, that Thomas has been stabbed and probably conclude Thomas killed him in self-defence after a struggle. I say "probably" because it's still within the realm of possibility that Newt killed himself like, say, Winston. However, we know Thomas and Newt, and it's we whose belief matters. Not these other people. In retrospect, it's interesting that Newt is the one who gave the gun to Winston and not Thomas, even though Thomas was leader. Kind of presages this scene in the final film. When that happened in the second film, Thomas showed the same kind of expression as when Ben was banished. As if to say: I have to stop this/This can't continue. It's an interesting scene psychologically.

Honestly I am glad he didn't end up with Brenda, they just had no chemistry and more importantly from the very beginning it is clear that he is strongly in love with Theresa, love like that doesn't just disappear in 3 months because u meet someone else, Thomas is loyal so it makes perfect sense.

@thecocoacouch

6 ай бұрын

It does make perfect sense for his character. That’s also why his character arc had the challenge of letting her go after that line of holding on “even when you shouldn’t”. He’s loyal to a fault and it’s what almost gets him killed multiple times, it’s only when she makes the ultimate sacrifice that he’s able to move on and see the good around him. I love that arc it’s super well rounded and honestly really accurate to human nature. Sometimes the best traits in us can produce the worst outcomes.

@not-that-Chris

6 ай бұрын

I disagree. I think Teresa and Thomas had absolutely no chemistry and it would have been better from a story standpoint if they were siblings

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

​@@not-that-Chris ! this. yep.

@joshoconneronechanceplease

6 ай бұрын

@@not-that-Chris yeah , i just don’t see the chemistry 😭

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

@@not-that-Chris I also don't see any "chemistry" between Thomas and Theresa. However, there was an emotional bond because of their uniquely shared past in WCKD. Theresa is one of the very few people who knew the before Thomas. In a way, Theresa and Thomas were members of the same family, even siblings after a fashion. However, Theresa was so wedded to the past and WCKD that she couldn't live in a world without it. She saw no place for herself in the seeming post-WCKD world. And, yes, Thomas is loving and loyal to a fault. So, letting go of his almost sister is devastatingly difficult and traumatic.

I really like the movies, but the books are definitely a lot better (and very different). The books do a much better job of making Theresa a more complicated character. My two favorite books are probably the two prequels which weren't adapted into the movies.

You should watch chronicle

Does Thomas really leave the rest of the world to suffer and die though?

@propriov

6 ай бұрын

It would be impossible for Thomas to go back and save the rest of the people not belonging to the Safe Heaven without running the risk of being killed by the environment or the Cranks. Not to mention we don't know if he can remember the scientific knowledge to make the serium ('cause blood itself isn't enough to make the cure) or if he can afford harvesting the amount of his blood requested to cure all the people

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

5 ай бұрын

No. The point of the final scene is that Thomas is going back.

@propriov

5 ай бұрын

@@user-bl5yi4uw6j OR the scene's point is showing he was thinking about how everything could have gone differently. The Last City is destroyed, the rest of the world is populated only by Cranks (and those who aren't will soon become Cranks 'cause the virus is now airborn), and he doesn't have no one left "to save" - so "going back" it's just suicide (and makes the creation of the Safe Heaven lose its meaning), it's highly improbable they would have implied it with such certainty.

@user-bl5yi4uw6j

4 ай бұрын

@@propriov Thomas is a tragic hero. By the third film Thomas, through his suffering, has gained the strength to accept his destiny which he will meet even if it means his death. Tragic heroes almost always die. This is without doubt what the epilogue of the final film means. Thomas is going back to the WCKD world, and he is going to offer himself up as a cure even if it means his life. Even though WCKD's HQ was destroyed along with the city, there were more than one WCKD lab and installation referenced in the films. It's a pity there wasn't a fourth film made where we would see our hero, Thomas, noble to the end, achieve his ultimate destiny and be reunited with Newt in the Elysian Fields. That would have made a good trio into a great quartet. There were a couple of striking differences between the books and the films that really stood out to me. Although book Thomas may be heroic, he's not a tragic hero like film Thomas, at least in my opinion. Book Thomas often thinks things like I didn't really know those Gladers so I wasn't affected when they died in that horrible manner. Cold and unfeeling, right? That's not film Thomas at all. Book and film Thomas are two different people. Also, unlike film Thomas, it's clear book Thomas hasn't been transformed in any substantial way by the end of his adventure-journey. There's no epiphany or moment of self-realization. He's merely completed his trek. He's had adventures along the way, experienced bad times and lost travelling companions, but it's all over now, and that's that. Time to settle down. Book Thomas is more like Odysseus come back to Ithaca to be with Brenda, his Penelope.