Adults React to 12 Monkeys (TV Series)

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- (man) Hey, folks.
How about a big smile, huh?

Might get you into The Stars and Stripes.
- What is this?

- I have no idea what this is gonna be.

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- (female voice-over)
I want to tell you a story

about how the world ends...
- What is this?

(gasps) 12 Monkeys.

- (female voice-over)
...and a man from the future

sent back through time to stop it.
- I love these shows.

- I always love time-travel movies,
so this is gonna be cool.

- Stopping time. It's kind
of a timeless classic really.

- I am already intrigued.
- (Jennifer) You are. Finally.

Someone's gonna stop me.

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- (Katarina) They're
using time against itself.

- But you're not supposed
to mess with the past, man.

- Oh, messing with time.
It's not good. It's never good.

- (James) And then I saved
someone who was supposed to die.

- It's really hard
to do smart time travel.

This is smart time travel.

- (James) No one's making you do anything.

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- (man) Reshaping life just to destroy it.

(explosion)
- Whoa.

- (man) Can't do that do the world.

- (man 2) You're gonna keep trying,

you're gonna get yourself killed.

- The new season's
coming out soon, I think, too.

(in video: panicked whimper)

- (woman) Strange things
are afoot at the Circle K.

- (James) She's not that bad.

- (Cassie) Oh my god, she's worse!
- (José) She's horrible, man.

- (James) Okay.

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- (woman) You'll try
and stop it, but you can't.

- (woman 2) No more voices.
No more variables. No more timelines.

- (Katarina) The very fabric of our...

- Oh my god, it's so smart.

- (Katarina) ...unraveling and collapsing!

- (Jennifer) How could you close
your eyes and let the world die?

- This looks intense.
- (Katarina) It's happening.

(dramatic silence)

- (female voice-over) I told you...

this is the story of how the world ends,

one that begins and the end
and ends at the beginning.

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- Oh-ho-ho, 12 Monkeys.

- (surprised) Oh, 12 Monkeys.

- 12 Monkeys. April 18.
Already gonna be on the DVR.

Fantastic. Great show.
It's an amazing show.

- It looks outstanding.

- Oh my gosh. Love 12 Monkeys.

Do you want me to stop talking
right now, or can I keep going?

Like, I'm like, "Oh my gosh!"

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- (Finebros) So that was
the first look at the second season

of the Syfy television
series "12 Monkeys."

- Okay, second season. All right.

- I missed the first one.
Oh well. I'll have to binge-watch it.

- I'm already behind
a season? What the heck?

- (Finebros) How does this show look?

- It looks like-- I wouldn't watch it.

It's not my thing.

- It looks pretty cool.
I'm down with time travel.

- I'm very interested
in checking that out.

I'm gonna have to look
for season one and catch up

and get ready for season two.
I'm looking forward to that.

- It looks crazy-- just
as crazy as the first season.

It is a very intricate, complicated show.

It makes you think about it.

It makes you think,
"What's this? What's that?"

All the different timelines:
"What's happening?"

And it doesn't play towards
certain stereotypes and certain

stereotypical character arcs, if you will.

- (Finebros) Well,
the show follows the journey

of a time traveler named James Cole

from the post-apocalyptic future,
who is sent back in time

to stop the apocalypse and same humankind.

What do you think about a plot like that?
- I always love those.

One of my favorite genres.

- That's a great idea, because
you mess with one thing

on the timeline, it changes this.

- Who doesn't love time travel?
I mean, come on.

And also, if you could go back
in time and save the world

and change everything when you do it.

- It's not stupid time travel. It's smart.

You can re-watch that season
18 times in a row

and still get new things.

- (Finebros) The concept of time travel

comes into play in
a lot of television shows,

and it's a subgenre
that usually does really well.

What is it about the idea of time travel

that people seem to gravitate towards?

- It's just, I don't know,
I guess an escape from reality.

The idea of being able
to see everything before you

or see things ahead of you

that you're not gonna get to experience

is just kind of magical.

- It makes you feel less, um, mortal.

Like, you can change a lot,
and I think that's a powerful thing.

People want to change
maybe the future or the past.

- If you go back in time,
even if you make one little change,

it may change everything for the worse.

When I met my wife, if I hadn't
had met her at a certain spot,

would we have our two kids?

- If you had a do-over,
wouldn't you take it?

And so that's kind of
an age-old existential question,

which I would say yes.
I would take it every single time.

I want a time machine.

- When you hear about things
that happen in the past,

you want to know what really happened.

Or in the future, like,
what does happen? You know?

Is Trump elected president?
Is the apocalypse gonna happen?

- (Finebros) Now, let's say
you have a chance

to travel back in time to save the world.

Would you be up for it?
- Oh yeah. I mean, who wouldn't?

If you had the opportunity
to save the world, you go and do it.

- Yeah, I would give it a shot,

'cause if the world's gonna end,

then I might as well try to save it.

- Yeah. Yeah, if that was the case of,

"This is where the science is.
This is the point,"

just like in the show,
yeah, I would do it.

- No.

When you step into that world,
there's so many plots

where the good guy goes back
and changes something

and completely screws it up.

- Well, I'd probably have
a laundry list of questions

starting with, "Why me?"

And then maybe if after
my 20 questions, they convinced me,

I might consider it,

but only if I get to wear a cape and cowl.

- Yes. I'd be like, "Yo, Hitler.

Just one thing for you right here: bam."

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(eagle cries)
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- (Finebros) So this series is inspired

by the popular 1995 movie
called "12 Monkeys."

Have you seen that movie?

- Yeah, 1995. Yeah, I've seen that movie.

- The movie was amazing.

- (tenderly) Yeah. So good.

- Oh man, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. I loved it.

- I was a fan of it.

It was a little bit different

than a lot of the time-travel stuff.

- (Finebros) What do you think of shows

that spawn out of popular films?
- It's difficult.

I try and take it on a case-by-case basis.

- It's a good idea. And if
it's done right, it can be good.

- I think that that one has aged enough

to the point where it's
gonna bring in new fans,

and then people are gonna go back usually.

If they're like me, I go back
and look at where this came from.

- (Finebros) Back to the TV show,
in the video we showed you,

there was an element
of people working together

to save the world.

Why does that help make shows so good?

- I think it's probably better that way,

'cause there will be at least one person

that someone will connect with.

- It teaches a lesson, first of all.

It teaches you that,
when you work as a team,

then you can survive.

- It parallels real life.
It's trying to tell you that,

if we all work together,
we can literally save the world.

- You're dealing with humans,

and there's always gonna
be some butting of heads

and some conflict.

That's what creates that tension.

I mean, that's what makes shows great,

is having those diverse personalities.

- If you had a group of heroes

that all had the same character traits

and they're all the same
character arcs and personalities,

it'd get really boring.

But you have all these
different, you know--

Ramse's a bad guy or kind of a good guy,

and then he kind of turns bad guy
and goes back and forth.

It's just adding good ingredients
into the pot, so to speak,

that it makes the meal better.

- (Finebros) Finally, now that
you've seen footage of the show,

how does the new season
of 12 Monkeys look to you?

- Well, I think it looks pretty awesome.

I would be open
to checking it out for sure.

- It looked awesome!

I was pretty intrigued by it.

- I was already maxed out, you know?

So it couldn't have gotten
me any more excited.

It just confirms like, yep, that's good.
Yep, it's gonna be good.

- It looks great, and I'm gonna go back.

And as soon as I get home,
talk to my remote and be like,

"Season one, 12 Monkeys,"
and get that thing on TV.

- Thanks for watching
this episode of Adults React.

- Let us know in the comments
what we should react to next.

- See you later.
Keep that timeline in place.

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