HOLY EMPEROR! Salamanders are Amazing! Pariah Nexus: Episode Two Breakdown!
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00:00 Holy Emperor of Mankind, the second episode of the Parionexis series has dropped, it's
00:23 all doctrine and discipline and this time it's all from the perspective of the salamander
00:30 who is an absolute badass. I'm going to jump in, we're going to do the breakdown of the
00:35 episode, go through it all and of course at the end I'm going to give you my thoughts,
00:38 feedback and speculation and theories where this is going to be going in future episodes.
00:44 So let's jump in and let's get waffling. So this episode opens up on the crashed thunderhawk,
00:51 it's the same thunderhawk we saw in episode 1 that was spinning through the air. Episode
00:57 1 was dedicated to the sister of battle where this episode is dedicated to the salamander.
01:03 We're going to see his fight through the rubble as he is taking on the necron forces but also
01:08 forces of the imperium who have become zombified and are trying to kill anything they come
01:14 across. We actually go inside of the thunderhawk itself and there we find out that only one
01:21 salamander has survived the crash. The rest of his brothers have died in a gruesome fashion.
01:28 They've been impaled on the very very harnesses that rode them into battle. Then we see the
01:35 salamander giving some type of burial rites to his fallen brothers and then he notices
01:40 a guardsman stumbling to the burning wreck, unaware that these guardsmen are now zombified
01:45 and want to do him harm. He actually commentates to the guardsman saying he's very very brave
01:50 for trying to assist but he needs to leave the area because harm may come to him if the
01:55 thunderhawk explodes. But of course the guardsman ignores him and keeps coming forward. The
02:00 salamander then says stay back and grips him as the guardsman leaps at him. The guardsman
02:05 is trying to rip and tear at the salamander but nothing is going to touch this armoured
02:11 giant. Then more of the guard start coming into the thunderhawk and the salamander realises
02:16 something is wrong. They have befell, they are corrupted, they are not themselves. So
02:22 he then vanquishes the guardsman as the guardsmen are trying to vanquish him in the thunderhawk.
02:28 We have this amazing scene where he picks up his chainsaw that he's cutting him down.
02:33 He pulls out his combat knife, he's stabbing them, ripping them apart as the thunderhawk
02:38 is burning around him. And as the fire spreads, the salamander equips himself with bolters,
02:44 a infernal pistol if I'm not mistaken. And then he notices one of the guardsmen is not
02:50 dead. He's crawling towards him on the floor and the guardsman mutters please kill me,
02:56 kill me because the guardsman is literally corrupt. He has lost his senses. But the salamander
03:02 just shoos him off and says no, you have earned this bad death. But of course this is a salamander
03:11 and the salamander turns around and actually does give him a quick death. And when I say
03:15 quick death, he literally burns him to dust. Then we move on to the next scene which opens
03:20 up with two necron warriors who are searching for any type of imperial defenders. They actually
03:26 do come across an imperial guard who's crawling on the floor and one of them opens up with
03:30 his gauze weapon and literally evaporates him right in front of him. Now the necron
03:35 who shot the imperial guard then hears a sound and he turns towards his other necron warrior
03:40 and notices that he is dead. There is the salamander but before he can react he shoots
03:46 him in his chest with his bolt rifle exploding him and the salamander pulls out the knife
03:51 of the necron's head and then starts moving through the rubble looking for any more danger.
03:56 Now as the salamander looks upon the absolute devastation in front of him, he then comes
04:01 across a body of a fallen space marine belonging to the ultramarine chapter. The ultramarine
04:07 actually has like a necron's head still in his grasp where he's ripped it from the body
04:11 and killed the necron but obviously died as a result of this. And then we have this kind
04:16 of cool strange scene where the salamander like kind of scans the body and then it goes
04:23 like back in time and it's kind of like what happened to the ultramarine and what led him
04:28 here what led his body here and then we get to see like the battle that actually happened
04:34 here all in reverse as the salamander is walking through it looking around at all the evidence
04:40 trying to see where the shots came from where the necron's were where all the bodies are
04:44 of like the sisters and the guard literally piecing together the jigsaw puddle of this
04:49 huge battle. Now as he's playing out this battle he walks through we actually get to
04:55 like one of the most epic scenes in this episode where it's kind of like a last stand with
05:01 some of the sisters of battle they're like on this mound these boulders these plasma
05:05 guns there the necrons are trying to take their position the sisters are falling down
05:10 but they still stand their ground for the emperor they shout it's absolutely amazing
05:17 then all of a sudden to the rear of the sisters the necron reinforcements come in and if I'm
05:23 not mistaken these are destroyers and the sisters turn their boulders the leader is
05:28 shooting a plasma gun they manage to take one down but of course they're too big they're
05:33 too strong to bring them all down one of them manages to get through slices his like necron
05:40 blade through two of the sisters they instantly die and then like another of the destroyers
05:45 pins down the sister onto a rock with one of his like blade legs the sister's like still
05:51 in defiance like you are a cancer on this galaxy she's trying to shoot the necron with
05:58 one last breath of a plasma gun but it doesn't happen because he forces his leg more into
06:03 a chest literally ripping all of her insides out watching her slowly die literally chills
06:11 at this scene by far the greatest battle scene so far in pariah nexus is the last stand of
06:18 the sisters on this little mound of dust now this leads to salamander into tracking what
06:24 he seems to think well what i seem to think is enemies because he sees some blood and
06:29 he starts to scan them in front of him and he starts to see footprints and stuff and
06:33 this leads him down into some type of well i want to call it like a crypt or sewer system
06:40 or something like that and then he puts his like infrared scanning goggles on and he gets
06:45 to see some life forms that are hiding behind some type of rubble and he shouts at them
06:52 you know come out show yourself now of course the people who are in this are obviously scared
06:57 you know these these monsters everywhere so to show them that he is not harmful for them
07:02 he actually takes off his helmet and then we have the big reveal something that was
07:05 theorized are we actually going to see the actual salamander underneath the helmet and
07:10 yes here we have him he's fully face revealed and then the humans the human survivors look
07:15 upon him and he comes forward like i'm not here to harm you and i know my skin and may
07:21 not look like it's it's human but it's like a genetic thing it's not like i'm corrupted
07:26 or anything like that and the survivors are like okay then we believe you please help
07:30 us can you get us out of here there is a little heartfelt scene where like the children go
07:35 up to him and go oh you're an angel of death and like you're bleeding i didn't know angels
07:39 could bleed and like yes we can bleed you know he's like he's a space marine he's literally
07:42 talking in facts and stuff like that i have lost use of one heart i have three lungs one
07:47 which is punctured and ruptured then they're like oh oh okay kind of thing and then he
07:51 hears the the gunshots he has bolted shots and of course this links now to episode one
07:56 with the sister's last stand from episode one when she starts taking on the guardsmen
08:00 uh themselves like the zombified guardsmen so he turns his gun around and then he starts
08:05 heading in that direction to see if he can assist or to really find out what the hell
08:09 is going on and then we jump to the scene in episode one where he left off where the
08:14 sister and the salamander are staring each other down the sister asks who are you of
08:18 course again he takes off his helmet and he's introducing himself as sacan hopefully i'm
08:23 pronouncing his name right um of the salamander chapter apparently they were going to link
08:27 up with the ultramarines to try and help them take this world back he asked the sister what
08:33 in the emperor's name has gone on here the sister explains to him that they lost they
08:38 lost the necrons then starting to take prisoners starting to turn people into what they've
08:42 been turning into and the salamander is in disbelief because the remnants of the space
08:46 marines who were supposed to meet up with are literally all dead that's what the sister
08:50 tells him they've all been wiped out it's only then remaining now as the sister's explaining
08:55 all this stuff to him she then notices the humans that have been following the salamander
08:59 and she pulls up her boat already to gun them down and the salamander steps in front like
09:04 no you're not doing that they're under my protection and she's like they are faithless
09:08 they will crumble to the necron plague that's taken over they will become soulless and zombified
09:13 as well and the salamander's like no put down your weapon uh the the sister is still in
09:19 defiance like no i will not put it down the salamander's hand then goes to his trigger
09:24 ready to like literally pull up his gun and destroy her if she tries to harm the civilians
09:30 now of course it doesn't come to that because as they're staring each other down the salamander
09:35 at the last second senses something and jumps out the way of course it's the necron hunter
09:40 who wants to eliminate everyone he tells the civilians to get in cover they're all running
09:44 for cover the sister jumps in to cover she's going through some type of like emotions in
09:49 her head um you know because all the faith and all the destruction that's gone down the
09:54 salamander's literally opening up on the necron uh trying to uh defeat it trying to destroy
09:58 it and there's this rubble crumbling everywhere and the civilians are crying they're all scared
10:04 and stuff and then boom there's a big piece of rubble that drops down on the salamander
10:09 the sister is kind of like um the best way i can describe it's like saving private ryan
10:13 you know when he comes off um uh the boat right at the beginning and he's like in just
10:16 a daze and amazement and he doesn't know what's going on but then she snaps out of it and
10:21 she puts her helmet down and she aims her gun at the sniper and that is where the episode
10:27 ends i was like god damn it games workshop again this series is by far one of the best
10:34 official if not the best official warm of 40 000 animations they've put out of course
10:39 i'm not including a star is in that because i still see a star is as a fan made project
10:44 when they do a start is season two whenever that will be i'm sure that is going to be
10:49 the best that there's ever been but that's another subject for another time and this
10:53 one again fantastic sounds fantastic voice acting i thought the music was um uh top tier
11:01 and the environments uh the way the battles were like that that that whole rewind to the
11:07 battle i thought that was done very very cool like to see the actual battle itself between
11:11 the other forces before the salamander arrived with the sisters and the guard and the ultramarines
11:16 uh fighting the necron forces the last stand on that little mound of hill is simpler superb
11:23 i absolutely love how ferocious and how just awesome the sisters can be when they're absolutely
11:30 fully unleashed and the necrons as well literally no emotion in there slice you in half stab
11:35 you through the chest with a knife for and then that's it just looking at you as you
11:39 slowly spit blood and you die into nothingness now i know a lot of people said in last week's
11:45 episode vira you didn't mention um the guard who was falling around the sister there's
11:49 something up there something straight's happening and i completely agree i'm sorry i forgot
11:53 to mention it uh what i should have said in last week's episode that it's the dead man
11:57 walking scenario there's a film called dead man walking it's a british film fantastic
12:02 film if you've watched it if you watched it then you know what i'm talking about if you
12:04 haven't i don't really want to spoil it but you should watch it and then that'll just
12:08 explain what i'm actually talking about the guard is not really going to play a significant
12:12 part in this animation well maybe mentally to the sister but that's basically it like
12:19 it's just going to be the salamander the sisters and now of course the survivors trying to
12:23 make their way to some type of i don't know some some type of refuge maybe some type of
12:29 evacuation area if we have one on the planet literally no idea is it going to be a retribution
12:34 fleet that arrives so many questions going forward um there is a well some people ask
12:40 me about the release schedule it looks like it's every other week so bi-weekly that's
12:45 what they're doing and i think they're doing this for two reasons there's probably not
12:48 a lot of episodes in this series and also they can try and get two months of warmer
12:54 plus out here rather than one month so it will go into next month that's when it'll
12:58 i think officially end that way they get you to sub for another month but of course i'm
13:03 going to keep doing these breakdowns i absolutely love these animations i think they're fantastic
13:07 um you know props the games workshop i've been very very vocal on what gw has been doing
13:12 with warmer plus not enough content and stuff like that and um well sorry not enough um
13:17 animation content because i wanted the animation stuff i didn't i'm not really caring about
13:21 the the white dwarfs or the uh or the paint guides or more or less the bat reps it was
13:26 all it was always for the animation for me but this is the type of stuff i absolutely
13:31 love and i want to see more of right enough waffling i would love to get your thoughts
13:35 and feedback on this for people who have watched it and again it is over on warhammer tv if
13:40 you want to go and watch it warhammer tv.com but of course you have to pay a monthly fee
13:45 um to access um this content see you have a great day and bye
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