The Most Important Cutscene that Nobody Talks About... (RDR 2)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- It's... art.
I finally got around to watching this hidden cutscene myself, I couldn't believe that out of all the 'hidden details' and cutscenes that people larp on about, nobody had really talked or bothered to examine this one.
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Different to my usual content but IMO this is the most overlooked cutscene that had never been examined to the depth that it shouldve done. I'll edit this comment with a brief summary of why....
The Goddamn Edit:
I wrote a million word essay that nobody will read, so I'll highlight the main stuff and feel free to look into it if you want, examine it, criticise it, agree or disgagree.
Another commenter pointed out the random mention of Percival at 1:49. She "doesn't know why" she just came up with it. This is not a line that the writers made for no reason.
The reason I argue that this is the most significant cutscene in the game is simple, the reference to Percival, which was never before mentioend, elucidates many parallels about the story which hitherto wouldn't be picked up on. Revealing that Arthur Morgan is a modern day adaptation of the Knight Percival - is also a revelation that the Van der Linde story is an adaptation of the Arthurian Mythos with a modern, outlaw twist.
The nature of the Arthurian Mythos is incredibly extensive with many variables, so it's better that I outline the objective parallels and anyone can feel free to dig in deeper to the subjective.
Percival was the most trusted of King Arthur's Knights of The Round Table (the Van der Linde gang). They both have parallels in their upbringing, their redemption arc and their deaths. Down to the smallest details.
- They were both excluded from civilisation until they were inducted into their gangs. They both even had single mothers.
- Two popular accounts of Percival's death; he dies valiantly from his wounds in battle after returning from his journey of redemption. Or, he died in an intense battle against Mordred (who is like Micah, manipulated the King betrayed the gang ruined everything).
- They both had to reflect on their lives and mortality after learning that they will die (Percival was wounded with poison, Arthur had TB).
- Both Arthur Morgan and Percival are replaced by a purer hero. John Marston and Galahad. John Marston is a more of a mix of Galahad and his father, Sir Lancelot.
The generally understood relationship of Percival and Lancelot; "they are portrayed as fellow knights and brothers, who share a common loyalty to King Arthur and a quest for the Holy Grail. However, their friendship was often strained by Lancelot’s affair with Queen Guinevere, and generally displayed less loyalty among the knights which Percival disapproved of."
- Galahad was a great Knight and the final 'Grail hero'. In many accounts, Percival and Galahad were close brothers in arms, Galahad was ultimate hero of the Holy grail. Galahad is the reflection of the purest side of John Marston and the innocence of Jack. Prior to starting the final mission Jack Marston is reading out a story about an apple farmer called 'Sir Galsworthy', likely adapted from the name Galahad.
Other things worth noting
- The Fisher King is someone Percival encounters him and he plays a big influence on him and helps in his quest for the holy Grail. He is injured and so he fishes all day.
Hamish Sinclair was a wounded veteran who can't move well so he fishes all day. Arthur takes an immediate liking to him and looks up to him, ends up being gifted with Buell.
- Gornemant of Gohort has many parallels with Hosea Mathews, Percival's mentor and guide. Or he could be a loose adaptation of the old guy in Mexico I forgot his name who taught John how to shoot better and sets him on his path. (Landon Ricketts)
- Deadeye can be the divine gunslinging prowess, passed down to the chosen, much like Excalibur sword.
- Arthur Morgan's name itself is a combination of King Arthur and Morgan le Fay. Both characters represent each side of Arthur's persona, loyally blind but enigmatically powerful.
More things to think about
- Clearly this old woman is a form of the Strange Man, or one of his many entities (e.g Jimmy Brooks). Therefore, like John's other encounters, probably supernatural or hallucinatory. The game has many elements of the supernatural in its universe.
- The mention of her trying this with humans with cholera is directly referencing the cholera outbreak in Armardillo, which most people attribute as the actions of the Strange Man.
She is an artist, she likes the create a world. The Strange Man is also an artist, painting the soul, almost like Dorian Gray (the Strange Man's house in the Bayou). Both are "artists" who play with morality. (e.g - God)
- Percival is playing tennis with three other animals; perhaps representing the ones who had fallen; Hosea, Sean and Lenny. (speculative) Also in the train robbery Sean points out the Tennis rackets laughing at how they really are robbing the bourgeois (also speculative but funny).
-The one who is "full of life" is wearing a sombrero, which looks exactly like the one Javier's wears when John kills him in RDR1. He's full of life, for now. (again, speculative)
So what is the little mannequin thing she gifts him and why doesn't Abigail like it? That's up for speculation, and I'll probably look into it the more I look into this. I also think all this context will be able to answer why Dutch walks off at the end of American Venom. He is a form of King Arthur but also differs from him significantly, likely an amalgation of several beings.
Suggested reading:
Thomas Mallory's 'The Death of Arthur'
John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
This is a deep rabbithole, but it does tie many things together, and may illuminate many more. I've often criticised RDR2's story for being vague and somewhat incoherent, but I can see that much of these inconsistencies are intextual references, central to the Biblical and Arthurian Mythos. I've barely scratched the surface, and I don't have time to write/research more at the moment, I'll revisit this later when I have more free time.
the look on Johns face when he walked in,🤣😂
Because it’s a metaphor for the rockstar developers relation with their creation and the players with their play throughs
Boom beat ya to it
@@Hidalgoes ok😅
@@Hidalgoes no b you didn’t just be patient damn lol
@@Jupa it is are you blind ??
A funny detail to add is that Abigail will hide that squirrel in various places of the house, ending with it being on Mount Hagen. The implication being she was so sick of the damn thing she grabbed it and walked literally halfway across the map to get rid of it.
I think it's meant to be symbolic in a way. The squirrel is dead and looks like John. Abigail might have been alarmed by how uncanny that is... and we know that John dies while Abigail survives... I think it was meant to be interpreted that way. Abigail didn't want John to die. What do you think?
Or maybe it simply comes to life and takes off on its own.
@@syedarizvi7290Abigail doesn’t survive, she dies not long after john does
I never knew she moved it! 😂 so many details to still learn about this game
@@majinxx6272she dies several years after John, you can see jack as a adult when he buries her
"they'll never know who wins, because; they're all dead"
secret backstory to the entire game
...of life
Love it!
❤🖤
They’re all red dead
@@Gabriel-rp2pc and redeemed (unless its my first playthrough)
@@Gabriel-rp2pc but no redemption
I love how John actually likes the squirrel. I thought he was just going to be like “wtf” and put it away, but no he wants it front and center on the mantlepiece.
Yeah he didnt seem very happy to receive it but seems he liked it after on and even repeated the words "its art"
Yeah, you can see how he was a little creeped out by the lady but was really interested in the stuffed animals
I loved it, too. It showed that he really cared for the little old lady and her pieces of work.
I feel like John is the type of person to keep gifts and letters because of the sentimental value, so this scene is kinda sweet.
I just noticed in the first game John has what looks like some kinda taxidermy owl? Also, a buck head, so it would be interesting if this kinda explains that in the first game, maybe even add the statue back as a cool reference if they remake the first game
"I tried it with humans once, during a cholera outbreak"
That dialogue caught me so off guard
"Well, she's a little weird, but her work is pretty cool-"
"I tried this with humans once-"
"...HM?!"
I love his reaction to that, you can just see the hesitation.
*screech
‘You what?’
See I was gonna let her slide up until she said that part. Like “oh well her hobby is cool, must take some creativity and work even if it’s not in line with most peopl- wait did she just say she fucking stuffed a human!”
It took me a moment to process that one
Yea same I left there thinking that was a lot to take in lmao
I like how John has a super creepy interaction with an old spinster, is given a taxidermied squirrel and is like *Abigail is gonna hate this* *places squirrel on mantle*
Peak Husbanding Right there.
You could say it's Arthur
My grandpa bought an ugly ass owl lamp at a yard sale once. His exact words were "This aughta piss her off."
Abigail hides the squirrel 3 or 4 times lol first around the ranch . Then she leaves on top of one of the mountains . If you don’t go and get it back it stays there lol
@@lennyboah7183that’s so dope honestly 😂
John in 1907: "What a weird lady. I'll probably never meet anyone weirder than her"
John doing side quests in 1911: "Oh my God" 💀
*plucking flowers while viciously crying*
If only someone could’ve told him, “wait till you meet a guy named Seth”
Omg the stranger missions seem normal in rdr2 compared to some in the first game 😂
John meets Seth in 1911
@@tipsey4997was Seth the crackhead acting guy? That’s also in undead nightmare? And he’s playing with zombies, and heavily implies he fucks them as well?
This one of the only cutscenes john actually talks and acts like rdr1 john the "no, i never did" and the "be well" is exactly the kinda stuff he told ppl that where weird during rdr1
Only no fitting part is rdr1 john would've assumed she stuffs things after seeing the stuffed animals outside instead of thinking she works with cloths
Makes sense because this mission is pretty much for John
@@619KJ the mission with the writer is also john exclusive and he acts out of character in it
@@Bithe_Get swear Rockstar did everything right with Red Dead Redemption 2, yet did John so dirty. It’s like Arthur just made them forget all about poor John.
@@rileyl7129 Rockstar in general undermined anything concerning RDR1 and the prequel imo.
The moments where it goes to cheery to dark when she says “they’re all dead” are hilarious
and twice too 😭😭
I don't see whats' so crazy about the lady at that point, Taxidermy is considered to be a very normal profession.
Its not the taxidermy itself but rather her demeanour is unsettling, unnerving. Also the part about heaven... I had the same reaction as John lol. But I guess you could argue that a lot of artists are kinda.... weird
Wonder if that's reference to Chuck Testa
@@Tervamursu who's that?
him putting it in his house is literally my favorite cutscene ever.
*"its **_ART"_*
Then Abigail hated it and tried to hide it.
how tf the squrriel gonna look more like rdr1 johns clothes than john himself?
Johns absorbing literally every red flag and just playing it cool
Lol
I think i know you
Everywhere i go i see my twins or arthurs from a different universe
@@jesus92952We need Samurai Jack ASAP to make the quote that fits this situation!
why did you kill my family arthur
what i love is John being caught off guard by the woman, but he's not disrespectful either. and when he's confronted with the same questions, he recites the words he was told. in a way, John appreciated the art he was given
that squrriel is way more like rdr1 john than epilogue john
3:45 I love how he genuinely comes around and loves the squirrel
"I tried this with humans once"
I love how un-phased John looked after hearing that 🤣
I mean, he's seen his fair share of death and destruction at this point, it makes sense in a way.
After the unspeakable things my Arther/John has done immediately after saving game progress, I’m not surprised
John, probably: "Hmm, yes. How very very awful. Anyway...."
You would be too if you killed and robbed for a living...
The reason she probably didn't like working with humans is because our skin is hard to look life like, unlike fur which doesn't have the same issues
The fact that this squirrels outfit looks more like the one rdr1 john wears than the one we actually have beats me
I don't know why they gave John that brighter green leather vest in RDR2. The modders gave us his proper outfit and then some.
@@themadtitan7603 Because that was his outfit in rdr1 box art, it's more like a homage to that.
Because it’s meant to represent John, “a never ending struggle” man pulled himself through hell just to save his family, struggling into the end
@@mik3191 Nope. In RDR1's box art, John isn't even wearing his classic vest but a green one with white stripes plus a tie & white shirt.
@@themadtitan7603I’m going to just assume in my head that maybe his clothes seem a lot more brighter and bigger since it is relatively new and by 1911 it is worn out and darker
I love the awkward charisma John has. It always feels like he doesn't ever have the words yet always knows what to say.
Its called writing.
@@trevormilliner8121 Me? I call it treasure.
@@BrickDaniels-qu7bz Didn't expect to see Belethor here!
I hope they have Undead Nightmare-type DLC, and the squirrel becomes a companion that shoots zombies.
it should have a parrot like voice that mocks John and whispers his darkest thoughts in his ear
"you missed again John / you can't aim John / look out there's a puddle John / you've failed your son Jhon."
That's squirrel better do something considering how hard is to EARN it!
very unlilkly. in rdr2 undead nightmare you are probaly going to play as athur
like the Shell City Scene in the spongebob movie?
@@kennydoggins1712 nah rdr 3 is going to a prequal to rdr2 or it will be about jack
I will always adore the “Wha- what is that?”
“It’s... Art.”
You can see John beginning to realise his true nature: a poorly taxidermied Arthur.
Underrated comment
What?
@@lakshaykochhar6799 In the game, epilogue 'John' is just Arthur's model with different textures. He is quite literally John's skin stuffed to bursting point with an Arthur.
@@Elcore Oh that, I was wondering what you meant.
@@Elcore So is the John model different before the epilogue? Cuz I swear John looks taller than Arthur pre epilogue.
I love the panicked heavy breathing as he walks out of the house haha.
Considering the theory laid out by the person running this channel here, this was a very tense scene for John.
I’ve played this game for 2 years strait and still going. Even on my 4th play through I’ve managed to miss this every time.
U have to do alot of stuff to get this cutscene so most ppl don't bother
You have to do the hunting requests, you can do a few is Arthur, and then you have to do the rest as John. You get the cool statue and you complete the task when you place it on the mantle at beechers home. It’s required for 100 percent
I never found this
@@Davidscomix see the above comments
@@Davidscomixyou pick it up like you would a bounty but at the post office, I forget which one I think it starts with the one in Rhodes but I might be wrong. There's multiple tho
This is strangely sweet. You can tell she’s so happy to finally have someone to show her ‘art’ to and John just lets her have her moment lol.
Abigail actually hides this squirrel a few times lol first you find him around the ranch in chests . Then the final time she leaves him at the top of one of the mountains, if you don’t go and get it back it stays there . Pay attention to the mantelpiece once you get it, if it’s not there. It means Abigail has hid it try the ranch chests first , only the final encounter is when it ends up on the mountains
is that actually true
@@zfighterreeo918Yes, here's a short of John asking Abigail where it is.
ruclips.net/user/shortstKABUvjw7wo?feature=share3
@@zfighterreeo918 yes but it's not really confirmed that Abigail is the one hiding it. Why would she go to the top of Mountain Hagen just to place it there.. Come on
@@zfighterreeo918Yes.
1. Chest in John's Bedroom.
2. Chimney in John's Bedroom
3. Chest in Uncle's Room.
4. Wheelbarrow in the sheep pen.
5. Chest in the barn
6. On top of Mount Shann
How tf did she manage to climb a mountain. And just to put a stuffed squirrel up there?
This woman has made some legitimately nice art in fiction. I commend the real artists behind it.
Always loved this cutscene. The ominous glow of her lights on the animals. Her old voice saying they are like gods now. What a scene!
Agreed. Not something that's specifically praised more often but RDR2 is a superbly directed game in terms of typical scene elements; blocking, camera movement, lighting and of course, the performances. Your work does an amazing job at capturing that through presenting the gameplay sequences in the same cinematic flair.
@@themadtitan7603 aw thanks Titan! We really try to get our gameplay to look exactly like a cutscene. 🥰
John freezing when she said “I tried this with humans once” was perfect comedic timing.
3:26 lots of meme potential
Very
Teens showing their mom anime
Me showing my mom memes for the first time
The lady is chill, until she says she tried it with humans once💀
“You and I are both like god now.” 😰
Honestly I was so overwhelmed by the annoyance of the hunting requests that I didn't pay much attention about this; thank you for making me focus on this dialogue which is very interesting.
I got 100% completion on this game the other day and the worst quest by far was the duchess one. It is now cannon in my head that john went briefly insane in the swamps of Lemoyne during this endeavour. By end of the quest John went from clean shaven, and well built, to a skinny little hermit with unkempt hair and low honour, completely unrecognisable to his former self. God I hate that quest.
@@chrissy9466 True that was the worst one I think, f**k it.
The dark humor of this old lady, and John's taciturn reaction to everything is just so hilarious.
"It's... Art!"
"Oh...!" 😂
I think the message behind the taxidermy animals hits at the nature of taking life in the game. For the people who hunt extensively in this game it never really crosses your mind how many animals you kill and for what purpose you kill them for until this scene shows the bastardized attempt to make them full of life again
To be fair her taxidermy skills are far above average for this time period lol
Yeah, but she's at least not full on evil. She's weird and morbid, but not evil.
Yea I noticed this in rdronline when I had to bring animals to cripps when you open the trader business it felt like i was giving him animals sacrifices just to make chump change and it kinda got weird just gathering a whole bunch of dead animals
I agree she's quirky, weird and morbid but not evil.
The squirrel will never get to to shoot his gun... because it's dead.
There’s something to this lady that’s adorable yk like the older grandma and she’s amazing
I wouldn't use the term adorable. It's disturbing how she almost can't tell the difference between life and death.
@@Eco-pu2zs She was aware, she was very self-aware about them all being dead. The obvious point out is the prize fighter ones. She wasn't doing this out of naivete but more out of an obvious obsession for specific kind of Taxidermy art
It would be more adorable for the Taxidermy she's doing if she didn't say she used humans who died from a outbreak. Whom we can understand would've been shit ridden rotting bodies basically.
@@Eco-pu2zs or she is just incredibly lonely, which was the reason why she slowly lost her mind piece by piece. loneliness can cause big problems
She really is adorable.
😊🩷🩵
There's just something about a sweet old granny doing what she loves. It's wonderful ❤
"both like god now" ... oh Ms.Hobbs if only she knew she was talking to the devil , also nice find didnt encounter this , makes me wanna replay the game
Nah, John will meet the devil near his future grave.
you have to start it by picking up the poster in rhodes train station as arthur and completing each challenge until she goes on vacation.
she doesn't come back until epilogue.
Nah, by the epilogue, I won't call John a devil. He'd been out of the outlaw game for 8 years and was largely reformed.
@@AlphaOmegaXIII I think the Strange Man is more likely a version of death, more clues lead to that. RDR's version of Baron Samedi from Voodoo religion to be specific.
@@themadtitan7603 Death merely takes the souls, the devil will test mankind. Like all the writings and paintings appear in his cabin in Lemoyne, when you progress trough the story. Just like in Valentine with Jimmy Brooks who "saw" Arthur in Blackwater for example. After that scene a verse regarding this encounter will appear in the cabin.
The very first thing that should arouse suspicions without deep thinking, is that the dummy has the same clothes as John's despite she has never seen him personally before this cutscene
Yeah it doesn’t make much sense but whatever I guess
It’s cos she’s like God now
@@therookie5714There are many spiritual artifacts in red dead
How she keeps saying "because theyre all dead" makes me think shes... maybe remembering people in the animals she taxidermied and she sorta did the same with John and squirrel.
That's a good observation. Especially factoring her obsession with the life/death aspect of it all.
I love how John tried to not smile when he was given the taxidermy of him
2:13 honestly took me a few seconds to register what that meant
Could mean something more, or just a meta joke on the players themselves. Everything she tells John about the stuffed animals could relate to how WE the player interact with the world. We KNOW the fates of all characters in the story, John's included. Doesn't matter what you do, they're all still gonna di3 over and over again every time you play, so it's irrelevant who wins that "poker game" or "Boxing Match" because they're all dead. And making up little funny voices in her head, I do that with my own personal low honor 100% John Marston and GTA online characters' lore.
Characters in general where we create them in our own head and make little fun nosies.
2:56 i may consider going to hell
True. This scene oozes with dark comedy and unsettling humor.
Reminds me of RDR1's stranger missions. Which is why it's fitting that this cutscene could only be triggered with John.
@@themadtitan7603 Good catch. This is one of those side missions that really could have been in RDR1 and it wouldn't feel out of place. "he's British if course" is another one of those quests with eccentric characters that fit the description.
@@Pedro_Le_Chef Yep. This, He's British, Of Course and "A Bright Bouncing Boy" all carry that eccentric, disturbing tone of RDR1's side missions. And while not exactly a side mission, the Aberdeen siblings random event is definitely the type of encounter that would fit right in RDR1. If only John just had his proper personality so we could see how THAT John would react to it.
@@themadtitan7603 Exactly. Would've been cool if they wrote John's dialogue according to his personality rather than just have him repeat Arthur's lines
@@Pedro_Le_Chef The worst part is, we know John originally had his own stranger missions cutscenes with new animations and line (there's a video on RUclips showing this for the exotics quest) that they cut for some reason.
I half expected in the shot of the house at 3:14 that John would look back but the house was gone.
Tbh I think John was expecting that as well
I always though it's weird how they're all so repulsed by the whole thing. Taxidermy was nothing uncommon in the day and it was used a lot all over the place.
I don't think he was repulsed by the animal cruelty. but imagine how you'd feel seeing all the little lives you ended being frankensteined as little playthings lol
Theirs taxidermy and then theirs a ghoulish doll house
I don't think he hates it, just unexpected.
It is odd. There's plenty of stuffed animals all over the game, but somehow this is weird.
the odd part was that she said she stuffed a human before
I never saw this in my playthroughs. It's rather sad in a way, but nice to see John appreciating a gift from one of the strangers he encountered. I'm just glad it didn't end like the flowers mission from Red Dead 1. That broke my heart tbh lol
1:25 “There’s so much *life* in him!”
…. Well…. There was…🤷🏻
‘In a way’ 😅
This one specific questline gets its own separate achievement. Not the Dino bones, or the dream catchers, but listening to this old crone talk about her life’s work.
It’s…art
1:03 it's a family of Micahs
You used to be able to glitch into that house and were able to wonder around looking at the animals
You're right lol I knew I recognized seeing this interior at some point even though I never did this quest.
Gotta love how John doesn't have reservations about crazy stuff. He just flows with whatever
Funny that her name is Hobbs as a ‘Hob’ is sometimes a generic term given to a goblin, bogle or brownie. The name "Hob" became associated with the mythical creature as "a piece of rude familiarity to cover up uncertainty or fear essentially, calling a mystical creature after a common nickname was a way to make the concept less frightening, and the nickname eventually became the common term.
me with my silly little space marines that i painted in a buzz lightyear scheme
Is THIS the reason he has the outfit he dons in RDR1?
Am I tripping or is that squirrel dressed like the original John outfit in RDR1?
She says it is dressed like him?
/s but SPIRIT ANIMAL CONFIRMED?
Hobbs can see the future? Or she just made a sick outfit John wanted IRL. Hell yeah
On the epilogue of rdr2 you receive John's original outfit which apparently was a gift from Abigail (or maybe Jhon bought it at some point), but canonically this is what Jhon wears throughout the last chapter of Rdr2, so she dressed that squirrel like him
that's just his cowboy outfit.
you get it after the mission "motherhood"
@@A_piece_of_broccoli No it’s not, this is his cowboy outfit you get in rdr1. It has the same exact textures as the one from rdr1. One from motherhood looks different to his rdr1 outfit
@@gab_lopez1022 The squirrel is wearing his og rdr1 cowboy outfit. Weird how she dressed it in clothes that he has yet to wear
@@BeatleHarrison I bet the modeler never thought anyone would notice or make some bold assertion about it.
This isn’t all that weird, actually. She’s a taxidermist. She acts weird, but taxidermies like this are more for funny stuff and all.
Also I like that squirrel
Taxidermy is once thing. Not my taste but otherwise fine and dandy. The part where she said she tried it on humans is well...err...raising a few red flags.
She tried taxidermy on humans doing a cholera outbreak 💀
Me too. I'd gladly have that squirrel sitting on a shelf in my home.
@@mkultra8882id rather die and be posed n shit then decompose n become nothing lmao
Crazy on how rockstar made the squirrel have johns open cowboy vest yet actual john in game the cowboy vest isn’t open lol
2:42 foreshadowing of John's death that will come in red dead redemption 1
everyone knows he dies in rdr1
@@thebruh8904 dude this 2-month-old why are you getting worked up over my comment?
@@xavierbelmont8935 how is my comment showing any signs of me being worked up lmao you goofy
The squirrel has a better cowboy outfit that John’s 💀
It's kind of adorable that john really likes. He puts it over his mantel and admires it in front of abigail
After 3 playthroughs and 235 hours I never even knew about this interaction
As tedious as the hunting requests were to complete, I am so glad I fulfilled all of them. Genuinely one of my favorite cutscenes in the game, I love how enthusiastic Miss Hobbs is about her work and I unironically like the little kitsch world she built. The squirrel is of course the cherry on top of the cake.
The whole cutscene is beautifully directed and makes Mrs. Hobbs' taxidermy work seem fascinating in an unsettling way, due to her description and the way she views it all as "Life as Art". It's always these interactions with the quest givers that make even the tedious quests in RDR2 ultimately worthwhile.
well said Mr Mad Titan!
Yeah, stuff like the wildlife photography guy when you complete his missions and then do the Charles Chateanay side missions at the Saint-Denis exhibition that displays a photo of Arthur.
But huge shoutout for actually doing the hunting requests, I'll be totally honest because I cheated my way through the whole thing with a Perfect Pelts mod 😅 I've never really done the hunting stuff in this game.
@@Jupa Hunting in this game is needlessly tedious. Somehow a .22 isn't the proper round to use for squirrels despite it being the favored squirrel popper for generations. Not to mention you have to randomly check each and every animal you come across for an arbitrary "rating" system.
I'm just imagining how she would get into the little world she was building. Maybe she would borrow books on things like card games and prize fights, or even attend them herself.
Just wanted to sum up a short story called the Landlady by Roald Dhal that this reminded me of.
To sum it up, a 17 year old man gets recommended to go to a boarding house owned by a unusual old lady (similar to what's in this clip). The old lady seems very kind and offers the man some tea that smells like bitter almonds, while the man looks puzzled at an unnaturally still parrot. After drinking the tea, all of a sudden the man gets all sleepy and the landlady takes him in to his room. When he lays down he questions the Landlady about the parrot and asks if its alive to which she replies that its dead. The man then asks, "It’s most terribly clever the way it’s been done,’ he said. “It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it?.” The Landlady responds, "I did."
In simple terms, it is implied that the Landlady poisoned the man with cyanide (the bitter almond smell), and was going to stuff his corpse.
Your welcome for wasting your time.
one of my favorite characters. a talented and creative artist
'i tried this with humans once during the cholera outbreak'
'You and I are both like God now... In a way'
'Maybe when you die somebody will stuff you'
Don't you find any of these lines weird?
@@stanleystove 😳
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought that was a joke made with mods. I played that game since its rellease, let's say around five times completely, and always managed to miss that side quest, because the hunting jobs just annoyed me so much 😂. Thanks for "opening my eyes" about that side quest. 😂
You know what Red Dead show done for a collector's edition for Red Dead redemption 2 they should have given us squirrel John Marston
homie i make posts for other channels, if i talk about myself the world finna collapse.
I honestly think her passion is kind of... cute in a way. We all have those weird or even creepy interests, and she just fully embraces hers, and it's not like it's hurting anyone. Escpecially that small burst of joy of the fox riding squirrel "making her SO happy!"
Comment section is just going to slide on past the part where she said she tried to taxidermy humans huh?
I don't see the huge problem.
Humans donate their dead bodies for doctors to poke around with.
I don't really see it as a huge shocker.
😂
Reminds me of that dude from rdr1 who asked you to get some flowers to his wife, and then turns out he is married to a skeleton
The whole scene reminds me of those messed up stranger missions from RDR1.
I was exactly thinking about the same thing!
The amount of detail, the quality, and the duration of this cutscene makes me believe that this was made very early in the game development, or it has some importance. Especially, since it's kind of an obscure, and difficult side mission.
one of a handful of times Rockstar achieved their signature brand of weird
How is it possible that I've beat this game twice and I still find on youtube strangers and missions I've never seen before
This is the 100 percent completion cutscene, you ain’t beat nothin
I wonder if Abigail hated it so much because its like a small version of what she was deathly afraid of: a John that cannot change from being a gunslinger, dead. I can imagine her seeing John liking it and even placing it on the mantle being a sign of him fondly remembering his gunslinging past, and potentially returning to that way of life. Additionally, worrying that Jack seeing it would cement in his mind the image of John as a gunslinger rather than a rancher earning an honest living, and that Jack would look up to the former rather than the latter. That being said, I think analyzing a little fucking cowboy squirrel statue is probably a sign I need to go the fuck to sleep
Don’t know if this is true but I heard Abigail will move it around randomly after this and John will ask where it went. Could be something worth checking
It's true. After 24 in game hours, Abigail will have hidden the squirrel somewhere on the ranch, and you'll have to find it. She'll keep trying to hide it every time you put it back, but she'll eventually stick the damn thing on top of a mountain
You unlock a trophy/achievement after finding her last hiding spot and putting it back on the mantle, she gives up after that and will no longer try to move it.
@@EastofAll It was obvious from her initial reaction that she wasn't a fan, but none of us expected her to go to the lengths she did 😅
I think it's meant to be symbolic in a way. The squirrel is dead and looks like John. Abigail might have been alarmed by how uncanny that is... and we know that John dies while Abigail survives... I think it was meant to be interpreted that way. Abigail didn't want John to die. What do you think?
@@thorbat Lol yes it is funny tho. I actually think it's kinda cute.. wish it was made out of clay or wood or something. It would have been better than the taxidermy I guess haha
This cutscene rode the line of satire but kept an emotional, sincere tone as well. Great breakdown!
Lol Abigail's reaction made me laugh out loud! She was so creeped out but she was still so nice about it haha
Mate she literally hides on a mountain lol if you don’t go get it back it stays there lol
In the last few years I started seeing a lot more in stories, my media analysis skills leveled up. I've been going over old games, movies, books, etc. and analyzing them fresh. This is one game I need to do that with and the King Arthur stuff is just about the clearest jumping-off point the game gives you for its literary references and parallels. It's a great place to start.
If you made a video on it, I would gladly watch it!
I’ve been playing this game for over half a decade now and I had no idea this mission existed, I knew that cute little house looked too particular NOT to have some mission or what-not. All these years and the game still never ceases to amaze me. Just imagine what GTA 6 will be like.
That awkward moment when a squirrel has a more accurate John Marston outfit than rdr2 John Marston
TENNIS 1:57 DID I JUST SEE TENNIS DUDE was it even envented back in those years
Actually, it was invented long before that, even in mediaeval times Henry the eighth was playing tennis when he heard his wife, Ann Boleyn had been executed
lmao what a chad
Johns look when she says "I tried this with humans once..."
Maybe it was just me, but I was waiting for that squirrel to blink. 🤣👏
I like how John learned to separate the art from the artist and to simply enjoy what is created instead of getting caught up in why the artist made it.
_"Come meet the world you helped build."_ & _"You and I are like god now. In a way"_ Those line ALWAYS gets me, especially since this AND the Squirrel hunt is part of 100%.
I was entirely on her side and thought that while odd its not like she's entirely deranged.
until she said she tried it with humans
It was wholesome until "I tried this with humans once"
I mean, gotta try everything, right? Lol
Low key read that as "Most Important Character in RDR2" and thought the squirrel was going to come alive.
The little birds are so difficult to hunt
Cardinal or something. Always 2 stars spawn.
Try hanging around the old fort southwest of van horn. Fort Beddard? I think. Stand up on the wooden walkway with small game arrows. Mornings are better. Lots of small birds show up
cardinals spawn all over the map but are easily found with 3 stars in lemoyne.
most of the animals in fact are able to be gotten from lemoyne.
the only one that's super hard to get is the robin, and that's on an island west of braithwaite manor.
I have PTSD from searching for woodpeckers. cardinals spawn every few minutes at downes ranch on the clothesline.
get the legendary buck trinket as soon as you start chpater 2, it gives you a 10% chance to upgrade the skin level when you skin an animal but honestly it seems way more than 10%, i just kill any tiny bird i see and they end up being perfect half the time, works for picking up all small animals, and skinning any large animal@@aegyo9272
I love how John's head shot up as soon as she said "I tried this with humans once..."
"Maybe when you die, somebody will stuff you"...
Gotta be the best damn cutscene in the game, it's on par with the Dinosaur scene (after collecting all the bones scattered all across the map)...
Two hilariously heart warming scenes...
They really thought of everything when they made this 'Artful Masterpiece'' of a game...
I doubt any games storyline will ever be built better than rdr2.
My favorite part of the game.
I was one of the first to get this achievement on the Xbox, like I did the math and I think I was in the first 100. It feels like something special they did just for you, the players crazy enough to spend hours of your day tracking chipmunks and robins.
Unironically, this is the kind of woman who writes the best children books in that time.
She's kookie, but isn't a terrible person. She's still got that childlike wonder in her spirit.
I’m not sure.. she said she tried it on people once. 💀
@@flouserschirdnot like she killed them
People are so Sensitive, just because it is something gross does not mean it is evil or wicked, maybe she did it for experimentation and such, and most of all, its a dead person afterall, and had passed away.
@@generalflowerhead2047 Taxidermy is a sign of respect after all. It's why we used to taxidermy great people and put them in golden boxes [Mummies].
@@generalflowerhead2047Not wanting the violation of a human corpse is not being sensitive.
Violating a corpse goes against all human sensibilities, which is why all cultures have burial rituals and a means of honoring the dead.
There's so much to metaphor to unpack here.
Glad to see you use the true John model.
This looks so good with john being slim and not fat.
I don't recognize that vest on John. At 0:58 you can clearly see a skull and crossbones on the back. Is this from a mod?
Idk..
Its kinda symbolic in a way like a retelling of the story of rdr2 and like how theyre all dead and the boxing kinda when we had our fight in valentine in the bar the poker of the boat and how like its somewhat makes sense and there is one that got out and that is the squirrel john picks up i might be delusional but this kinda makes sense to me
There "was" so much life in him you mean 😂
That squirrel... I think I'll call him... Arthur.
Funny how the squirrel looks more accurate to rdr1 John (it has the same exact outfit textures as one) while epilogue John is just a reskinned Arthur. Truly embarrassing and weird
I think they did it because they ran out of time but the fact that they didn’t patch him with the updates or add his clothes is utterly embarrassing. We can get a better John outfit in RDO but we somehow we cannot in the base game…
1:58 “there isn’t any prize because they’re both dead” 🤣🤣🤣 the delivery is fantastic
I bet the model designers had a blast making these 😂
The “because they’re dead” keeps killing me. 😂😂😂