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They had Peter from Narnia and didn't cast him as Maxon?? I'm baffled.

America has to be a true ginger for only one reason: BEING GINGER IS HER ENTIRE PERSONALLY

The Selection probably would work better as a Bridgerton style Netflix show than whatever cw nonsense this is

That pilot was dreadful. The costuming was so ugly, the pacing was way too fast, the characters’ personalities were completely different… how hard can it be to just create a faithful adaptation??

This is why they need to pay their writers

Getting rid of Marlee’s character is the biggest travesty for me

someone wrote a script for the selection on ao3 back in 2021 and it was WAAAYYYY better 😭 tv producers should just hire them or at least take notes on how to do a good job, it’s literally out there on the internet for FREE

this adaptation confused me completely bc if u simply changed the names of the characters i would have no clue what book it was based on like??? every key plot point was changed, every interaction was miles off AND WHERE TF IS MARLEE??? i was disgusted.

its so sad because this series is already in a tv show format!! how great would it be if it was shot like a reality tv show (im thinking a bachelor twist on the office, what we do in the shadows, modern family, etc because it has a ton of comedic potential for the format + the awkwardness of teenage romance to shine). the show that actually gets aired to the kingdom could be interspersed with behind the scenes (cameras cutting off when celeste and america fight, the cameras actually stumbling upon marlee and the guard etc etc) and americas pov (like the hunger games and how we see what panem sees vs katniss’ experience). also, like the summer i turned pretty, for example, where they expand on the plot, a proper adaptation could make aspen a believable love interest and devote more time to each girl and make it overall more complex and interesting to watch. like, america might be the best behind the scenes but bad on screen. there’s so much potential

I thought aspen had black hair and maxon had blonde hair😭😭😭 for me they should’ve just switched the actors

it's the way it reeks of the early 2010's in such a negative way i couldn't even finish the pilot

It’s like they hired a team of writers but only one of them read the books and the others are faking it 😭

I watched this on KZfaq the other day because it popped up on my recommended and I was quite literally appalled.

the fact that the planned Netflix movie also fell through is fking tragic

I absolutely ADORE Ethan Peck (the gentleman playing Maxon) but dear gods they gave him nothing in this pilot. He was absolutely fantastic in the 10 Things I Hate About You TV Series, where he gets to be a sassy and sarcastic deep-voiced being. (Would recommend to see him shine). William was right there, and would have been a great Maxon.

America’s actress making the same facial expressions as Bella from Twilight gave me the ick

“I don’t want you to get hurt, son “ CRIMINAL SIDE EYE, BOMBASTIC CRIMINAL SIDE EYE

the way the book has been picked up at least /three/ times for tv or a movie and all attempts have flopped, no noise made. so cursed, i just wanna see maxon being a silly goose on my screen :(((

The rapid blinking at 8:23 when Clarkson says he doesn’t want Maxon to get hurt is just fantastic

Wait, were there actually two pilots? I remember watching a “trailer” for the pilot years and years ago and in this adaptation the actor who played Enzo in TVD plays Maxon, and a blonde haired actress plays America. It even says so on Wikipedia! So the CW actually tried and failed twice.

I thought the characters weren’t the greatest in the book but at least it translated well into the plot. I realized how wrong I was now after seeing clips of this. Why did they make all the characters the opposite of who they were in the book? if not blender, versions of the characters. is this why we never got the movie?

“I wanted to see the moon.” She said like a true manic pixie dream girl

The radiant smile where America just learns she has permission to pursue some goal(i dont remember) in the picture is like a whole plot point!

i love how this is supposted to be a dystopian future but they are all dressing like its the 2011, its truely horrifying to look at

I wanted the guy who played Aspen to play maxim! This one is so weird it just felt wrong!!! I literally made the same hand motions as you too with a lot of it!!!

The most hilarious thing about Maxim's casting choice is that actor literally went on to play Spock in the newer Star Trek shows. Maybe they saw how deadpan and emotionless he could be in this pilot and casted him based on that

the acting in this is very… school play

I love your rants so much! I totally agree Peter from Narnia would have made a better Maxon. Please finish your series on the Hunger Games from Peeta's POV!!!!!!!!

Feels like the first Percy Jackson adaption

yeah no whenever i imagined prince maxon, i always imaged him as prince char from ella enchanted

Wait, I just had a very weird realization. I think... that the guy who plays Maxon portrays Mister Spock, at least in Strange New Worlds. I truly did not expect that. At all. Thanks, parental Trekkies!

I was so hopeful for the Netflix adaptation of The Selection, but I just found out it was canceled! I guess I'll just re-read the books again 😭🤧

have you seen the other selection pilot? the one they made after cw gave them critiques to make it "better"? (spoiler: it was wayyy worse) the same channel has a link in their community tab to watch it :D

I just wanted to continue cringe watching the series after watching the pilot, I know it’s bad but I was so intrigued on how wild it was going to get

im crying i literally am wearing the exact same blanket hoodie as you while im watching this

4:40 Girl, have you SEEN PERCY JACKSON? JK, Percy Jackson doesn't have a movie 👀

I tried to watch it. I did. I fast forwarded through it and was like WHAT THE HELL IS THIS. 🤣Truly the most atrocious adaption ever.

The bombastic side eye @ the king saying he doesn’t want Amazon to get hurt 😂 like oh my god did they even skim the Wikipedia plot??

I haven't watched the pilot yet but after watching this, I will just because I'm curious. I would really love to see a true to the source material adaptation for the Selection. It's one of my favorite series of all time and it deserves an adaptation that where the characters are how they are in the books. Sadly, this seems like it'll be like the Percy Jackson movies, where they just didn't care about the source material and made it a more adult film. They made Grover unnecessarily horny and Annabeth was just pushed into the background. I feel like this is a mix of that, where they just get all the characters wrong, and the upcoming show, which changes the look of the characters completely. As you mentioned though, the look of the characters isn't as important as the feel of the characters. The Percy Jackson show will do much better than the movies and I only hope someone makes a new show or movie series that is much more true to the books than this pilot is. Someone show do what the creators of the PJO show are doing, which is hiring people who have ACTUALLY READ THE BOOKS!!!!!!! At least they got some parts right, but I had to actually pause this video and pull out my copy of the first book to prove to myself that my memory wasn't wrong about so many things I questioned in what you explained about the episode.

"I don't want you getting hurt, son" *bombastic side eye*

You cannot convince me that anyone involved in this adaptation has ever read any of the selection books. Ever.

this pilot felt less like an adaptation and more like a AU/Alternant Character fic idea one of the writers had after reading the books. they changed all the major plot points by changing the FL into a passive person, then straights up uno reversed all the character appetences. And it really felt like they wanted to capitalize on the "medieval" romance trend that was popular at the time. which is probably why they changed the speaking style of the story to older english. over all just bad! XD I am so glad it wasn't made like this!

Wait there’s a tv thing for it?? Dang it why can’t they just do it well 😢

How badly Maxim and America are in their roles is terrible. America in general is painfully unlikable and Maxim was simply forgettable. It's like the 2 tier characters got good actors while the main characters were someone’s kids the director was forced to hire.

I remember a booktuber reviewing the leaked script of this pilot years ago, never knew the actual footage was released!!

2:37 no, you're right, pronounciation is ILL-ea, NOT eye-Laya. The audio books confirm this. The adaptation buthcered it like how the ATLA live action butchered Aangs name.

My guess is this, sometimes a studio will make a pilot to keep the adaptation rights, it happened with Wheel of Time in 2015 and it looked just as schlocky as this (they even cast Billy freaking Zane in it).

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Im so lost! When did this came out? Why it came out? Where is everyone watching it?

is it bad that "i don't want you to get hurt son" made me laugh out loud...

i've been seeing the pilot in my recoomended videos for a while, glad you covered it finally

As a child of abuse myself, I felt that side eye

Marley sounds like what they did to Uriah from the Divergent Trilogy....they read the first book, didn't think he was important, produced the first movie without him, then read the rest of the series and realized he becomes important in Allegiant, the third book so they chucked him randomly into Insurgent movie

Tbh I think the Selection should just stay a book series and shouldn’t be made into a movie series as well

they said that celeste was from "Australia province" which makes no sense because even tho they said it was the west that came together against the east ( I thought it was just old america??) Australia must be in the east right??

Okay but has anyone else seen the other pilot with the guy who plays Enzo in the Vampire Diaries???

out of context but im in love with that blue sweatshirt

The fact that the guy who was cast as maxim is now playing Spock is so funny to me

in my head, Celeste is just Raquelle from life in the dream house

I remember seeing a clip of a blonde America and turns out ig there’s two plots to this series 😭😭

4:57 me when i saw the ALLEGED cast list for the dork diaries movie

they replaced Maxon with Clarkson. Tell me I'm wrong, I dare you

okay so i've never read the series but i've heard of the CW's crappy attempt at a sexy-fied pilot and i thought this was going to be covering that but YOU'RE TELLING ME??? THERE'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT PILOT??? THAT ACTUALLY DID GET MADE???

What’s good is that a pilot doesn’t necessarily mean the chosen actors always stay 😅 because they need new ones

I swear these books deseve so MUVH better

This is literally. the worst. how could they do this to my girl, those books are so special to me.

Watching this video in the exact same fluffy sweater thing but in purple and spiderman pointing at the screen.

if you did not like this pilot you gotta check the 2013 pilot bec it's even worse Maxon is literally the opposite of his character in the books and even though i love Michael Malarky the actor who plays him in that pilot but he does not fit at all and if someone just saw that pilot without the book i don't know why would they even root for him bec they made him so unlikeable for America they made her blonde for some reason and even though Yael made the character sassier but i still feel something is missing and that the vibes are different somehow I also don't know why they keep insisting on removing Marlee and making queen Amberley villainous in both pilots and in general the 2013 pilot is more different from the book than the older pilot

rip Ashley and Marlee. But maybe Marlee was better off not being included in this monstrosity

We need a movie BY someone who has not only read the whole series(+ Happily ever after) BUT ALSO loves the book

i GAGGED when maxon spoke omfg

Omg r u wearing one of those hoodie blankets? I have the same one

This book series is so good and I absolutely don't get why they felt the need to change everything! Like yes, I understand, that some things need to be cut and altered, but why the main plot and characters? Why there is no Marlenee? Why is the queen the bad guy? Why isn't the fact, that Aspen will be in the castle a surprise (ever for the second episode)? And why is Maxim so rude? His main identifier was, that he is a good guy and he would do anything to help America even thou she didn't love him. And their first kiss is supposed to be this magical beautiful moment of friendship and they completely ruined it. I'm glad they didn't air the whole show, but I'm also kinda sad we'll never get a Selection movie/show adaptation. Sorry for the rant, no one at home is willing to listen to me about it anymore..

I get get over that maxin is played by Spock, I’m reeling

i know this is mean but why is america’s acting so unnecessarily breathy and strained,, it’s giving me war flashbacks to middle school theater.. or 2010s cable tv

My favorite quote from this video: “How would the plot PLOT?!” 😂

The guy playing Maxon was also in the disappointing "10 things I hate about you" series that only lasted 1 season

I don't know the book but Ethen Peck, who plays the prince in this - was so perfect and charismatic in the 10 Things I Hate About You tv series.

I heard there was _another_ pilot, that wasn't picked up (meaning they failed *twice* )- curious if you were going to cover it, if you haven't already...

Does anyone have the link to watch the episode??? It was on KZfaq a couple months ago and I can't find it again 😭

for some reason i think if the actors of prince maxon and aspen were switched it would be better 😭

I'm usually not very picky when a book i read is adapted because, yeah, it's an adapatation, so you've got to change a few things, but then i watched this pilot and wow this is BAD. Thankfully it didn't turn into a real tv show x)

Why does this look like it took place a decade ago??? I know the selection takes place in the future, but where are the ball gowns, the palaces, the sense that this is a monarchy?

I saw your video but didn't watch it, I googled for the pilot, I started to watch the pilot, after two minutes I went back to your video because I couldn't stand what they did with it. So thank you for not making me watch this horrible thing!

if you had played this pilot for me and said it was a pilot for the red queen series' tv adaptation I WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT IMMEDIATELY. WHAT IS THIS?!

I think this pilot (in terms of characters and dialogue) was better than the 2nd one they made where America was *blonde* and Maxon was a huge player (sleeping around & trying to make moves on America). But I’ll give the 2nd pilot credit for the elaborate sets that felt far more realistic to a castle.

5:25 that "radiant smile" lol

Ok no, bc I have picture perfect mental images of all of the characters, and this is bissare bc it never happens, but in this book the characters are described so well that its impossible to get them wrong. Like how is it possible to fumble so hard bro 💀

The same person posted the CW one on Vinemo and I need you to watch that one too so much😂

Totally unrelated, but I really want to know where the blue super soft looking shirt you're wearing is from? I would love that in the winter. Love your videos! Keep up the awesome content!

Also, though I love Peter Pevensie with all my heart, isn't William Moseley like 30😭😭 I know this was made in 2012 but still

Me when Maxon came on: John Mulany?

i was wondering where i recognized the guy who played maxon...he was in the 10 things I hate about you series as patrick verona. oh my god

Having Maxon's father be caring and protective of his son is an absolute egregious mangling of his character. Especially considering that in the books he caned his own son when he got angry. All of the characters in this pilot were butchered.

Ironically, this was better than the 2013 CW version.

I've only read a little of the first book and i really liked it but this is not the vibe. I dont see any of the connection/concept of the book at all.😅 I remember a part where the girls who were selected all had dinner with Mason's family if im not mistaken. Did they just completely scrap that scene? Idk

Omg I read the series and loved it and just recently this pilot popped up on my recommended on KZfaq, so I decided to watch it. It wasn’t necessarily super bad, but they should of not called it the selection since it is way different than the books.

Wait...the pilot is actually out there? And I have never seen it? I only remember the Delirium pilot coming out which was basically the entire first book squeezed badly into 45min.

That is why im willing to watch the new percy jackson. Because even though i dont picture annabeth that way I am hopeful for this adaptation to be good.