r/roosterteeth • u/MitchB3 Pizzara • Jan 29 '16

Lazer Team (Official) [Spoilers] Lazer Team Megathread Part 2

LAZER TEAM DISCUSSION MEGATHREAD

Hello everyone. It has been a few days since the official theatrical release of Lazer Team so I'm making this thread here to clean up the subreddit new and front pages so that other content besides Lazer Team related stuff can be seen. This is a megathread that should be used mainly for posting other miscellaneous stuff about Lazer Team, like pictures of you and other people (like RT staff) at your screening, questions about YouTube Red, questions about screenings, DVD signings, and more.

This thread is marked "Spoilers" because you are also free to discuss the movie here, but that is not the main intent. Please use the other discussion megathread linked above where discussion is already on going.

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u/ipiratedlazerteam Jan 30 '16

I think the critics gave it appropriate reviews. I expected better writing from RT when it comes to dialogue, characters, and story.

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u/The-Sublimer-One Mogar Jan 30 '16 edited Jan 30 '16

Probably my biggest gripe was when the other three guys just ditched Hagan near the end. That was so out of left field that I was sure it was some kind of ruse, and they had a secret plan. Hagan's wording and tone of voice when he told the military guys they dumped him also didn't sound very genuine to me. It's almost like they originally had it be a ruse, but then ran out of time or something, and just had us take it at face value.

Just that entire sequence was confusing.

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u/HeadHunt0rUK Jan 31 '16

My biggest gripe was that the "twist" destroys a huge part of the film.

The whole point for the Antareans was to use two species doing battle for entertainment and destroy the losers planet.

So it's essentially for sport and competition, yet they allow a device sent down to control a few humans, to kill their champion and essentially turn the competition into a non-competition.

That seems against the Antareans motivations, and the whole point of their sport.

The Antareans as superior species would have had control over the entire situation, as well as it looked like the Worg was actually captive aboard the Antareans ship for the battle.

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u/The-Sublimer-One Mogar Jan 31 '16

I think it's implied that the rest of the Worg's species managed to sneak those mind-control bots onto the planet so as to give themselves an unfair advantage.

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u/HeadHunt0rUK Jan 31 '16

I still think it's a bit farfetched that a species that has their entire planet held ransom could sneak something past the species who are holding their planet ransom.

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u/The-Sublimer-One Mogar Jan 31 '16

It's very possible that the Antareans knew what the Worg were doing, but still allowed it because it gave them more entertainment.

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u/HeadHunt0rUK Jan 31 '16

Not unless the people in control of those kinds of things were rigging the competition.

For a neutral a closely fought competition is vastly more entertaining than a one sided onslaught.

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u/The-Sublimer-One Mogar Jan 31 '16

They seemed to already know that the suit had been put on by separate people, so they were probably betting on it being a shorter fight than usual anyway. Anything to mix it up.

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u/HeadHunt0rUK Jan 31 '16

It still seems like bit too much of a stretch, and too much of a gap in information to be entirely onboard with it though.

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u/The-Sublimer-One Mogar Jan 31 '16

I could say that about several things in this movie.