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One Piece LIVE ACTION, S01E04-The Pirates Are Coming · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering one piece the
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live action Netflix series, Season one, episode four. The Pirates are Coming.
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In this episode, man, I have started to realize that one of
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the hardest plot lines to watch is the a thing is happening and nobody believes
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it. Trope, I really felt for usap Man. Welcome to spoil Me.
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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much
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to Gabby for commissioning this episode, and also thanks to Gabby. I will
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make this announcement now. You guys know that normally my recording times start at
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four pm Central Standard Time, and on Halloween. I had not booked that
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day off because I wasn't really thinking things through completely, and I have asked
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Gabby if I could move up both one piece episodes on that day because there's
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one for the Netflix and one for the anime, and Gabby generously was very
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flexible. So I will be starting my recordings on Halloween afternoon at one o'clock
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instead of my usual four o'clock. That way, I will be done recording
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at five thirty and I will have the evening because I really want to start
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doing stuff on Halloween. So yeah, I appreciates you, Gabby, and
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just wanted to let everybody know ahead of time. I know that for a
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lot of you who are abroad, earlier time slots are actually easier for you,
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so hopefully you we'll enjoy that on that day. But anyway, let's
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get into this episode. So we start off going down into what I keep
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sort of calling a well there isn't any water in it, so it's unclear
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for me what this actually is. But the main thing that I was like
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sort of surprised by is the fact that Mary the sheep Man seems to indeed
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actually be dead. I wasn't really sure if they were going to do that
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or not. And personally, you guys know that I always sort of have
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had an issue with how easy it is for people to recover from what seemed
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to be life threatening wounds, or indeed people who it looked like had died
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not being dead after all. So I have no problem with this. But
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when Zoro wakes up and looks over, I was like kind of expecting for
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Mary to like cough and then be like I'm still here, you know,
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and instead he is I guess left at the bottom of that well. When
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Zoro climbs out, I assume they go back and get him later, But
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this sequence of Zoro trying to get out of the well, I don't remember
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if this is how it goes in the anime, but I really enjoyed this
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like as a metaphor for him just becoming so determined to accomplish something specific that
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he never gives up even though that shit is very, very hard. And
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this kind of tenacity is the sort of thing that I admire so much because
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I have it with something things, very specific things, but I don't have
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it in a lot of others. And I really wish that I could find
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it in me to just keep pushing sometimes because I really believe in the like.
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There are times, of course where it's no, you should give up,
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this is not going to happen. You're wasting your time when you could
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be applying it to something that's more worthwhile. But then there are things that
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are just like, you know, better for the whole way you live your
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life. If you go ahead and keep trying, even if you never really
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get where you would ideally like to end up, the action of trying makes
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your life better. And that's the thing that I would really like to be
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able to like exemplify a bit more. But yeah, so he we have
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like the whole backstory of Zorro's decision to become the best swordsman in this episode,
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and it's pretty much identical to the storyline in the anime. But I'm
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gonna be honest, y'all, I really prefer the anime version. And you
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guys know that was probably out of like all of the episodes of this show.
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It was one of the most emotionally affecting, and it was certainly for
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me the first episode that I watch that was really surprising to me how tonally
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different it was than what I had watched so far, because it falls very
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early on in the anime, and everything had been so unabashedly completely bonkers that
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I got very used to that tone, and so when we came to this
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episode, I was taken entirely by surprise at how serious it was. And
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I feel like there is some thing about the way it's animated and the like
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just contrast of it with the rest of the show that feels extremely intense at
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the time, and it just kind of lacked that for me in this So
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I don't know, you know, it's it's sort of like a difficult thing
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to say because they are such different mediums. I think part of me didn't
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love the acting of the younger Zoro, and I also like the abruptness with
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which they have him finding out that she's dead, and the just the sense
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of it being this like friendship that they developed. I just didn't quite feel
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it. And it's not like they spent less time on any of it than
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they did in the anime, as far as I can work, But yeah,
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for whatever reason, I just really was affected by the anime in a
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way that the show didn't. And maybe it's just because I knew it was
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coming, But the anime, there are some really like long pauses and beautiful
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moments of the camera pulling back while he's there. I remember one particular shot
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where young Zoro is standing in a field and he is opposite Kuena, and
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the wind is blowing and it's like nighttime, so as the wind is blowing
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over the grass, there's this ripple effect and the moonlight shining off the top
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of it, and it's like just this incredibly beautiful shot in a show whose
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animation can be very very iffy sometimes and when I think of that episode,
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That moment in the Moonlight is the is the moment that I think of.
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So the I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on that storyline
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because because I you know, pretty much it's identical to the anime, and
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because it didn't work for me as well, I'm going to mostly focus on
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the things that I really really liked. So we start off with Zoro,
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but then we cut over to us Up talking to Kobe and he is explaining
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the situation with this pirate that he is claiming is pretending to be a butler.
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Of course, we have Helmepo here, who is like, I can't
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believe that you are buying any of this to Kobe, and Kobe is obviously
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sensing. He has like a gut feeling that one Usup is not lying,
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and two when he meets Clahador, he is like, yeah, this guy's
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no good, Like, clearly something is up, but there's no actual evidence,
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and in fact, the evidence is against USA based on his past behavior.
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So it's what you get here is this incredibly difficult storyline of Kobe's gut
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telling him to believe Usup. Usup telling the truth for like the first time,
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in his life, and neither of those things mattering, because Helmepo is
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insistent that his father already killed Kuro, and there's a certain sense of pride
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there that's getting in the way for sure, like he's never going to believe
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that his father was wrong about killing somebody. And also Hewmepo doesn't want Kobe
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to succeed, so he's very like, yeah, uh, we're not only
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not going to find pirates, but there's no way straw Hat is anywhere around
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here, which results in an interesting sort of conflict with Helmepo when later,
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even though they don't believe that Claudeador is a pirate, when it turns out
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that Lufy is here, he seems to be kind of disappointed, like,
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I think he just wanted this to be an outright failure, and the fact
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that it seems like maybe we're getting what we came for he should be happy
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about. But it's not about what he should feel. It's about just wanting
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this poor kid to fail. So I said this in the intro about how
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tough it is to watch somebody not be believed, and I have realized as
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far back as I can remember, this has been something that has really been
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difficult for me to watch in storylines is when a person has gone through an
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experience and nobody is willing to hear them out even or willing to take a
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leap, and it's you know, because of my reaction to it, you
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would think maybe I had personal experience with saying something had happened and not being
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believed. I don't, really like, there's nothing that I'm very lucky in
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a lot of ways. I never suffered any kind of abuse that I needed
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to report. That's the sort of thing that's extremely common as people who have
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been abused not being believed by authority figures, by their parents, or even
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if they were believed, somebody just being like, well, but you probably
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brought it on yourself somehow. And of course, never forget the whole issue
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with that, with domestic abuse and how many women have suffered at the hands
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of partners who are otherwise extremely charming and know exactly how to handle the outside
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world so that they continue getting away with what they do behind closed doors.
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And people really think that because they knew this person on a social level,
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that they know them enough to say he would never do X, y Z,
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He's not like that. When the whole thing about abusers is that they
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are different people when they are with the person they are abusing. So I
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think that's like part of where my issue came from. Even as a young
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kid, I was pretty aware of the concept of being abused and not believed
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because I had heard from a young age my parents both suffered abuse as children,
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and they both were very vigilant with me in terms of explaining to me
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what that could look like and to tell them right away. Both of them
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were really insistent on me understanding the concept of the various kinds of abuse that
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could happen, so that I would know enough to be able to tell them
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if it were happening to me, which I really appreciate. I was prepared
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if it happened, but it never did, thank God. And because I
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was warned, I had an extra sort of sensitivity to anything that surrounded that
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sort of concept, even in a vague way, like just not being believed
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about something that isn't related to abuse at all. This is part of also
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why I never ever could get into the Labyrinth. The labyrinth came out or
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not the Labyrinth labyrinth and it's this very young girl and this older man being
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super creepy with her, and even as a young young child, I was
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like, Okay, this guy is abusive, like this is a molester.
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And then it became this classic that people love, and to this day I'm
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just like, I guess I have never been able to see it for that
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movie. So anyway, all this to say, I rewatch the beginning of
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this episode, like the first fifteen minutes and the last ten minutes, but
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I skipped on my rewatch the whole middle because seeing poor usap be Gaslet is
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so difficult. I hated this. It's not only the fact that hel Mepo
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is constantly calling into question, not only the fact that Klahador is so good
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at like destroying his credibility, but later when he finally goes and talks to
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oh my god, what is her name, Kara Kayla? I can't remember
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her name, but you know, the young girl. When he talks to
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her, she doesn't believe him either. That part was the worst for me.
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It was the fact that she says something like I believed your other stories
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because they made me feel better, but this is not a okay. Like
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what I always want a person in these sort of situations to ask, is
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what would I gain from lying to you about this? And it's a difficult
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thing because usup will lie without there being anything necessarily to gain. He liess
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Kaya, thank you, Florien kia Is. You know, she's uplifted by
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his stories when he gets really extreme and ridiculous with how he's telling them.
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So he gets something out of that. He impresses her in a way that
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lifts her spirits and makes her feel better, and that's what he wants to
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do with the pirates are coming. I don't really know what he gets out
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of that. I think it's just sort of living out a fantasy of his
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father coming home. But even that, it's just a sort of strange bit
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that he does. So I don't even think that the question what would I
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get out of this? Would work that well in this situation, But that
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is often when I'm watching this sort of thing, what's on my mind is
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just like, you think he's lying, but for what reason? What do
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you think he's lying for? And sometimes like within the plot, there is
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something built in that seems like it would be a motivation, you know,
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And so it can work even though it's difficult to watch, you sort of
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understand why characters don't believe here. I really want to know how MEPO keeps
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saying, you're not buying this right to Kobe about what Usup is telling them,
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And I just wanted to be like, hell, MEPO, what do
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you think Usup's getting out of telling the Marines that there's this person who is
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a piate? Like, why do you think he would lie? It's not
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like how MEPO knows Usop's reputation as a liar, and not only that,
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they come into the town and find Usup already yelling for help from people.
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So it's not like he saw the Marines and was like, oh, perfect
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opportunity, rubbing his hands together to like report a thing that he just fabricated.
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They come upon him already desperate and sitting and asking why doesn't anybody believe
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me? So I just kept wanting to be like, will you just like
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inquire from Helmepo why he thinks you are lying? Ooh, I'm sorry,
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I just saw that Florian earlier, he said. The blue haired character in
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this episode reminded me of somebody else. For weeks, I was thinking of
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the orange haired servant girl from the Rocky Horror Picture Show and now I can
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rest. I'm gonna tell you guys something I have never seen. Rocky Horror
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Picture Show. I know. I know Rashaan is obsessed with it. She
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loves it. She does those like you know, theater going experiences where people
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dress up and they like sing along to it and everything. She loves it.
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I have seen in like the first ten minutes, and that is all.
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The soundtrack was played frequently at like cast parties when I was in school,
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so I know the music, but other than that, never seen it.
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So forgive me, but I do not know the reference. Sarahim says
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it started as a coping mechanism for his dad running away and his mom being
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sick, fantasizing about dad coming home and somehow making his mom better, and
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he just never stopped. Okay, So but like that's the part that I
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find kind of puzzling, is just never having stopped, because it was a
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very specific thing he was hoping to do and now any possibility of that is
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gone. Not to say that we ever just stop our coping mechanisms. There
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are times where they stay with us our whole lives, but usually we can
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sort of delude ourselves into continuing to believe in something from them. And I
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don't know what he's telling himself about lying to everybody regarding pirates. What is
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what is the story that he's telling himself there about that, I don't know,
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but it doesn't it ultimately, it doesn't really matter. It's just like
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I'm just trying to explain to you guys my feelings of like difficulty surrounding this
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sort of thing. And it was I don't want to start a whole thing
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here because I have no doubt that there are gonna be people listening to this
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who want to come at me about it, and I am not interested.
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So just save your breath. But the whole thing that happened with the trial
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between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is such a great example. Johnny Depp is
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an abuser and Amber Heard has done some like really gross things, but she,
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I believe, is fully reacting to having been in an abusive relationship.
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And there have been so many little like bits from the trial that have gained
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this sort of life of their own because they are like salacious, you know,
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like for example, this thing about her having shit on the bed.
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People will still talk about that as if it was real, When if you
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read the documents, he admits that she hadn't actually been the one to shit
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on the bed, like he comes out and says that that wasn't what happened,
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But nobody pays attention to that part. That's not the part that gets
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memed. And there are so many instances of that within that trial, of
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things that she was accused of that stuck for whatever reason as he testified them
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and were disproved or shown to be wildly exaggerated, but that part after the
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fact never tempered what public opinion was or what people's understanding was. So the
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way that she is seen now is as somebody who invented whole claw things that
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happened her and was herself an abuser and just trying to cast aspersions on him,
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when in fact, if you actually look at the history of what happened
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between them, plus the documentation, it is unequivocally that he is an abusive
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piece of shit, And you cannot convince me otherwise. Don't care. I
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have read what I have read, and a lot of it is direct fucking
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screenshots of him, and I can't. You will never convince me otherwise.
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The whole point of that trial was for him to undermine her credibility, and
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it worked, because that is what men are great at, is making women
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look like the bad guy so they can keep doing their shit. This is
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like a classic tactic, and the fact that everybody fell for it is enraging.
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And the fact that it has established now a precedent that a woman can
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accuse a man of abuse and he can counter sue for her making this accusation
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is so hideous and upsetting, Like the implications of that we have created a
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scenario where there's even more reason for women to stay quiet about abuse. It's
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fucking grotesque to me. And yet you, like eighty percent of the world
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is convinced that she's the monster and that he has been unfairly maligned. Poor
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Johnny. I really can't believe that people are still trying to cancel him when
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we all know stop it. So that's the big one that hovers in my
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mind these days, because it's just so everything about people believing him is so
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surface and so predictable and so like entrenched in misogyny that it makes me sick
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to my stomach. And yet, like, there are so many folks out
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there that otherwise have very progressive viewpoints on a lot of things and are really
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leftist, and they still fell for this shit. So anyway, all this
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to say people not being believed. It's like a little triggering, and so
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this whole thing is just really really tough, you guys. We have the
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discovery of Loofy as well. In the kitchen, he has like all the
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soup around his mouth because it was that blue, like chunky soup. I
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don't know what this is. It almost looks like it was like oatmeal or
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grits or something that had food coloring in it. But it looks so gross,
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and it's supposed to be that it's around his mouth because he basically like
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tilted the whole pot of soup up and it got on his face because he
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was eating sloppily. But what it looks like to me is that he threw
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up and it's like on his face. So anyway, his body is discovered
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first by Nami, who was like, oh my god, what the hell
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happen? And she's trying to wake him up when she hears people coming and
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realizes, Okay, something shady is happening because if he ate that soup and
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now he's out. These people were up to no good, so she immediately
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hides when she hears them coming, and they find the body and assume,
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if he's not dead already, that he will be shortly. Of course,
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Kuro is infuriated, like the fact that this is I don't know if he
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had still been planning on giving Kaya the soup or if this was something that
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he had sort of abandoned the concept of getting at her this particular way,
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but it's just the sloppiness of yet another person to deal with, and he
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instructs them to dump his body with the green haired goon or whatever it is
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I don't remember. He calls him like an imbecill or something, and the
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uh uh. When Nami is like overhearing all of this from the cupboard and
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she hears him say like, dump him with the other one, of course
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it sounds like, oh, we killed them both, and she is really
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like freaking out a little bit. Which it makes so much sense, you
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guys, because this this is a woman who is already so traumatized by pirates,
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which we don't know yet as viewers in this, but you know we
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do, so it must be awful for her to be in this situation that
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seems mostly positive after her conversation with Kayenne, sort of getting things out about,
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you know, her feelings regarding this rich girl. She's in this nice
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house, she's being given a place to sleep and something to eat, and
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things are looking pretty up. And then to find out that she has been
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like thrust in the middle of this whole thing. It's like I have to
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imagine just triggering for her, you know. So I do love to I
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want to mention I can't remember the name of the chef, Bachi I think,
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but he is so actually invested in, like being a good chef,
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that he is sort of sad that Lufy's dead because he's like, I really
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would have liked to talk to him about how it tasted, because I was
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pursuing that perfect balance between savory and bitter. And the girl with the blue
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hair says like, it probably tasted like poison, and he's like, not
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when I'm the chef, which I do really like, Like, yeah,
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the point of it is that it doesn't taste like poison or else why would
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Kaya be eating it. But there's something about how like actually wanting to be
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good at his job he is that I do appreciate as somebody who also likes
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to cook. It's just a point of pride, you know. And she
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tries to say like, you're not a chef and I'm not a maid.
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We're pirates. But then later she says something about how he better not track
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Muddon on her floors again, and he's like, oh, really, because
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you're the maid and she's like, how dare you? And I'm like,
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I don't know, girl, that did sound like somebody who is a maid.
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So this is when we have Kobe at the door and he is with
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you know, Helmepo and Oosap, and there's also a pair of guards or
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soldiers or something behind him that are armed. And this is so terrible because
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what Clahador does is he like not only throws the fact that Usap is a
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known liar in his face, but then he says something like he's never been
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the same since his mother passed. But some fruits are so bruised they can't
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help but be rotten to the core, and there's nothing you can do about
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madness. So he just throws everything at us up one known liar, two
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traumatized by mom's death. Three probably just like a bad seed. Four likely
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insane. Like there's so many things that he's just tossing into the pot there
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to discredit him, and of course how MupA was eating this up. Kobe,
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on the other hand, is like, none of this sounds right to
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me, Like I don't like it, but there's no evidence otherwise, So
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all he can do is just be like, well, can I ask you
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a couple more questions? And of course Usup's like, look at his gloves.
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He had blades in his gloves, but he's wearing his regular white Butler's
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gloves, so that's not happening. I just also side note about like Butler's
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gloves, you guys, The principle behind Butler's gloves, right is if you
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are wearing something that shows up the dirt on items, you are going to
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be much more conscious of the state of the household altogether, because the state
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of your gloves is going to reflect the housekeeping going on in the home.
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And I really think that's actually a brilliant idea in a lot of ways.
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Have you guys ever tried wearing white gloves while doing like anything, because I've
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done it one or two times, not for cleanliness reasons, but because I
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was wearing long, like elbow length white gloves for a dress up of some
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kind. Oh my god, they get so disgusting so fucking fast. And
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I always think about how immaculate homes must have been where people were walking around
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with these types of gloves and they just stayed white. Like I can't even
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wrap my head around that level of attention to cleanliness at every stage of the
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home. I mean, you know, I at any given moment, there
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are several chores I could be doing because my house needs it. I could
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be sweeping and vacuuming today. I could be dusting everything in this room very
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likely, or getting the dust off of the ceiling fans or whatever, and
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base boards, and probably could go over my kitchen sink and my bathroom sink.
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Everything at all times could use a cleaning. I'll clean it, and
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I could use a cleaning just a week later. What it must have been
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like to live in a household that had multiple servants taking care of all of
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that for you? Unreal Like, what a fantasy. So this ends with
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Clahador basically closing the doors in Kobe's face in a really abrupt way that signals
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as much as anything that Kobe is onto something and this dude is ignoring him
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and trying to get away with something. We cut from there to the conversation
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between us Up and Kaya, because when he realizes the Marines aren't going to
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do jack shit, he's instantly like, well, the least I can do
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is get Kaya out of here, and he tries to tell her that Mary
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is dead, that Klahador isn't a butler, that he is trying to hurt
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you, he's a pirate, and this is when she kind of like,
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the way that I interpret this is that what he is saying is so frightening
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that she decides to go along with I don't believe you, and I'm angry
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you, instead of letting herself be afraid because it's like just so much easier.
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It's so much easier to be angry than afraid. And he like says,
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you've got to listen, and he grabs her wrist and she slaps him
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in the face and says, I don't think you know what the truth is
32:23
anymore. And I was sort of like, I get that he shouldn't have
32:31
grabbed her like that. He was probably too forceful, but also he's really
32:38
afraid, and have you ever seen him treat you like this? Before,
32:43
you know, Like, really, that's what it comes down to for me,
32:45
is he has lied before, but has he ever gotten physical in any
32:51
way that you have felt the need to be afraid Like that in and of
32:54
itself to me, just says danger is real here, you know. So,
33:04
like I said, it's very hard to watch. Meanwhile, in the
33:09
kitchen, the clock is striking midnight. Klahador is saying Kaya is of age
33:15
and we can finally put this farcet to bed. And I can't help but
33:22
laugh because, like I think I said this in the anime as well,
33:27
and I really want to preface this by saying I don't actually have a problem
33:30
with this, but I can't not say something about it. The fact that
33:37
he is planning to kill her like five minutes after she turns eighteen is hysterical,
33:49
Like like, ultimately on this little island, what is anybody gonna do
33:58
about it? Really? You know, like this is not something that I'm
34:02
like, it would never hold up in a court of law. No,
34:06
it probably wouldn't, And there doesn't seem to be a court of law in
34:10
Syrup Village. It seems like that's not a thing that he is going to
34:15
have to worry about. But I just keep laughing at the idea that he
34:19
is even pretending, you know, that he's even attempting this farce, that
34:25
they are doing this like legally and in a valid way, when sir,
34:31
nobody is going to be fooled by this. It's it's quite apparent that this
34:37
is something that you have been planning for a minute here, and I just
34:42
really enjoy it. It's like literally the clock strikes midnight and he's like,
34:46
hah, finally and I'm just going, wow, oh hey, sure,
34:53
just go for it. I guess. So the results of this like no
35:02
more hiding who we are. This kills me. They first turn off all
35:12
of the lights in the house and drop like all of the shutters so that
35:15
the place is locked down. This is meant to be a protective measure to
35:21
keep people from getting in the house, but it results in everybody being locked
35:25
in and there is no way to get out. When it's like this,
35:30
this is the first moment where it starts to be like Kaya is maybe be
35:35
leaving goose up and the door rattles and I love Nami comes in. It's
35:40
a really great moment because you think, for a second, oh, they
35:43
are already here, which makes more sense actually than what ends up happening,
35:51
because initially clad Or is not even aware Kaya is still awake. So what
36:01
he decides to do, really, if you step back and look at it,
36:06
doesn't make a lot of sense. He's like wandering the house with his
36:09
blade gloves, going Kai and already behaving like we're playing a game of cat
36:19
and mouse here, But there's no reason for him to actually think they're playing
36:22
a game of cat and mouse, like what it What he should think,
36:29
I assume is happening is that she is asleep still upstairs. The only reason
36:37
that I can imagine that they that he thinks the she's aware is because Nami
36:46
knocked that one girl out, So maybe Nami rushed to tell Kaya. But
36:53
you know, oh uh sorry, Florence says, don't think they turned out
36:59
the lights. The lights dimming was just a result of the power it took
37:02
to activate the shutters. You're right, because I'm looking at the scene now
37:07
and the lights are very very dim, so I think that's why I saw
37:10
it that way. But it's everything. The lighting has gotten quite dramatic at
37:16
this point, But you're right, the lights are technically still on. I
37:21
think they've just really gone very dim and you all I have already said,
37:29
what an amazing fucking casting choice Kuro is I you guys, I just can't
37:42
his moment where he walks through those doors, because we first have his like
37:46
two henchmen and they're getting into their outfits, which are ridiculous. They are
37:52
so silly. I love it. I'm so glad that they decided to keep
37:54
a lot of the costumes for the henchmen, at least very very true to
38:00
the original show. I wish that the villains were getting kept the same as
38:07
well. Clahador Is is pretty similar, but you know, the main one
38:13
that I'm gonna keep going back to is Alvida. I wish that they had
38:15
made her costume as fucking bonkers as it really was. These two sidekicks though,
38:22
like the fucking half mask with the cat ears and the cloak for the
38:27
fat guy and then the blue haired girl with these shorts and the sleeveless vest
38:32
with the bow tie, Like what even are we doing? So the two
38:38
of them, it's extra intimidating because they are so goofy seeming that when Clahador
38:44
comes through that door in the center panel, and he has his blades on
38:52
and is like flaring them like he is starting a dance, genuinely super intimidating.
39:02
Like I just love all of the imagery of this. He sort of
39:07
like stands before the camera and then he turns and as he walks away,
39:13
he brings the hand down in front of the camera so that the blades like
39:21
just sort of flutter over. It just gorgeous, Like it looks so good.
39:28
And I just think this guy is genuinely scary. I mean, this
39:32
whole scene with him walking through the house, it's this is done to death.
39:39
There are so many properties out there with a bad man who is trying
39:46
to find the protagonist who is hiding in a room, and he is shooting
39:52
through walls, stabbing through walls, overturning things, whatever, And it all
39:57
depends on whether you really be leave the bad guy wants to kill the person
40:02
and whether you really believe that the danger of them being found is like controllable
40:14
and imminent and all of that works in this scene. You really believe that
40:23
if they make one false move, he will hear them. And what I
40:28
mean by this is and I think you guys are all gonna get what I
40:30
mean, have you seen a scene like this where a person's like actually kind
40:38
of making noise, but the bad guy just doesn't seem to hear them.
40:44
Do you get what I'm saying? There are so many like that where allegedly
40:51
they have to be so quiet, but really when they're running and hiding and
40:55
moving between place to place and whatever, it's like kind of laugh and so
41:00
there's a sense of almost, well, he can't be looking that hard,
41:04
you know what I mean. My favorite example of a really good version of
41:08
this is actually not with people. It's the scene in the kitchen in Jurassic
41:15
Park where the kids are hiding from the velociraptors and any noise, like,
41:20
because they have a whole different like sensory input than human beings do. The
41:28
terror of that is really particular, Like it feels so heightened, and because
41:36
of how scary Clador seems, I assign him enhanced senses, even though I
41:45
do not think that's actually true of him. I feel as if he has
41:50
better hearing, a better sense of smell than a regular person. So every
41:54
moment that they are hiding, I am truly afraid for them. When he
42:00
is stabbing through things, he comes so close to actually getting Kaya a couple
42:06
times, and when the blades cut through and she jumps and claps a hand
42:12
over her mouth, her acting is flawless. She genuinely looks like she barely
42:19
caught herself from screaming, like it was a second later with her hand and
42:23
it would have just come out. And the whole scene. I just was
42:29
on the edge of my seat, even though I know all of these people
42:31
are going to be fine. I know all of this, like how this
42:35
winds up didn't matter. I was so afraid for them and this you know,
42:43
I'm getting ahead of myself here because like this chase scene doesn't quite happen
42:47
until Nami comes in and starts to be like Kaya, think back to when
42:52
you started getting sick. Did that begin when Clahador came into your life?
42:59
And I really loved the moment where us up is like taking a moment and
43:04
looking at the you know, the blue stuff in her room and thinking like,
43:08
oh my god, I gave you that tea, like, you know,
43:13
knowing that you were inadvertently complicit, it doesn't matter. It was an
43:17
invertent. That is a horrible thing to find out that this person you cared
43:23
about who really like, who was suffering so badly and what you came for
43:32
was to make them feel better. And then to find out that they were
43:37
being put through this in part because you were like giving them the poison.
43:43
That is a horrible thing to live with, even if it wasn't intentional.
43:47
So yeah, this whole, this whole bit here, it's just really I
43:53
just felt for us up so bad, this poor guy. So then we
43:59
have the uh, you know, Zoro finally managing to make it up out
44:07
of the well. It has taken a minute. And of course, because
44:13
we have him here and we are going to be you know, we've got
44:19
a couple of like sidekicks to deal with, there has to be a fight
44:22
scene between all of them. So as klah Haador is attempting to find Kaya,
44:36
he has, by the way, handed Loufy over to Kobe and Helmepo
44:40
in order to sort of get them out of his hair. He's just like,
44:44
yeah, take this guy. This is perfect. I don't want him
44:45
around you guys would like to arrest him. Ideal, good, good on
44:52
ya take him. Which I really enjoy the moment of that as well,
44:57
because you can see us up realizing he didn't ask enough questions when they were
45:01
like, we're looking for a straw hat pirate and he's like, oh,
45:05
Lufy, yeah, I can show you Lufy. So not only are these
45:07
guys not believing his story about what's going on with Clahador, he has led
45:16
the cops to Lufy explicitly and just like handed him over on a silver platter
45:22
and betrayed him when he had just finished describing Lufy as his other second best
45:29
friend. Wow, Usup is having a really really bad night, so they
45:37
have us Up or they have Lufy, who finally like recovers from this poison.
45:44
And it's never really explained. I think we all make the assumption that
45:51
he is okay because of his devil fruit powers, that he just has like
45:54
a more a stronger constitution than a regular person. So he's starting to,
46:04
like Lufy's starting to wake up, and how Meppo turns around and is like,
46:07
do you have something to say? And Lufy just vomits that blue soup
46:13
all over him. Truly a horrible moment. I mean, I'm not mad
46:17
at like how Mepo getting thrown up on Great love It, Yeah, but
46:23
anytime that somebody gets puked on it's so like it squiks me out the same
46:30
way that like seeing lots of bugs crawling around squigs me out. So Lufy
46:38
is talking to Kobe and it says, oh my god, Kobe, I've
46:42
got to go back the butler. He's going to kill Kaya. And of
46:45
course you see Kobe just being like, god, damn it. One,
46:51
I really didn't want that to be true, but you're saying it too,
46:54
so it has to be. And two, I am under direct orders to
47:00
bring you in. And Lufy's like you said, you wanted to help innocent
47:05
people, and Kaya is innocent, and all of a sudden, hell,
47:09
Meppo pulls a gun and is like, screw this. Father always said a
47:15
dead pirate weighs the same as a live one. And what I find funny
47:22
here I don't know. I don't think Kobe remembers like Lufy doesn't get hurt
47:31
if somebody shoots him, you know, Like I kind of wanted Kobe to
47:36
be like, Okay, go ahead and shoot him. Of course that would
47:39
be very out of character for him, for somebody who cares about his friend
47:44
here and doesn't actually want him hurt, even though he's obeying orders, which
47:46
would end in Louviy being killed, so I kind of did want to be
47:51
like, just go ahead then whatever, but uh, he gets between them
47:58
and it's just like come up, Oh what are you doing? And he
48:02
just says, pirate, get going, We're going to start walking toward a
48:07
ship or you're gonna die. And then you hear this noise and Helmepo turns
48:13
and there is Zorro standing there with the two guards that had been with them
48:16
on the ground. And the look on Helmepo's face, the fact that this
48:22
is the guy he's facing with, like there is nobody that I think would
48:29
intimidate him more effectively. And Zorro says, hay haircut is what he says
48:36
to him, which I found hilarious. He walks up to them and he's
48:40
very quiet and very understated the way he is with everything. And as he
48:47
walks up, you think there's gonna be a thing. He doesn't even look
48:53
at Helmepo. He just punches him without even giving him like that is.
49:00
It's so disrespectful and how Mepo goes down hard. So Loviy begins walking away
49:07
and Kobe yells, hold it right there, by orders of the Marines,
49:12
I'm placing you under arrest. And I really enjoy Zoro's reaction to this.
49:17
He just pauses and puts his hands on the hilts of his sword, like
49:22
all right, we gotta deal with this. Like there's no animosity coming off
49:27
him. It's just a pause of like, well, you've got to deal
49:30
with red tape sometimes, you know, like a very sort of resigned energy.
49:36
Loofy turns around and comes back, and I love this actor. Guys.
49:43
God, he's good. Oh my god, I didn't even think of
49:47
that. I'm sorry, guys. Florian's in the chat saying Zoro having gone
49:52
the complete opposite direction as the place he was trying to go, despite being
49:55
able to literally see the mansion from the well, because Zura Florien, I
50:02
didn't even question why Zora was on this path here. I straight up just
50:07
was like, oh, he came to rescue Loofy. Why would he know
50:09
to rescue Loofy. He wouldn't know that he was in the fucking well when
50:14
Lufy got got so, of course that's not on purpose. I didn't even
50:16
think about that. That's amazing. But anyway, what I was saying was
50:22
the actor who plays Loofy, I love him so much, because he is
50:24
so good at going from sunshine, pure sweetness and light to oh oh oh,
50:32
he's uh, he's a little scary, isn't he. He just on
50:37
a dime. And this is a perfect blend here because he's trying to be
50:40
kind to Kobe while also brooking no fucking arguments, and so there's like a
50:50
kind of grim smile to this. I know you've got a job to do,
50:57
but I'm gonna go back and help my friend. And he's stepping towards
51:02
him as he says this, so don't try to stop me, and Kobe
51:07
just takes a step or two back and nods, and there's a real like
51:13
okay, okay, Bud, like it's not even I know you have to
51:19
do this. You're a good guy. That felt pure intimidation like I don't
51:23
want to. I don't want any of this smoke and I can tell I
51:27
don't. And then Lufy puts his hat on and tightens the little string around
51:32
his neck and he runs off and just leaves Kobe. There's just standing with
51:37
three unconscious bodies around him, and I was like, sucks to suck.
51:43
So they are heading back as Kuro is wandering through the house, stabbing one
51:50
object after another, just terrorizing Kaya and talking about how like tedious it was
51:59
to wait on her, and all the bullshit that he asked her to do
52:02
or that she asked him to do, and just really like the concept of
52:08
this is so hurtful. Somebody that you thought cared about you, that you
52:15
thought was doing things to care for you, because they actually had affection towards
52:20
you and that they wanted you to be okay, and to find out not
52:23
only were they behind making you sick, but also had utter contempt for you
52:31
every second of every day. I I, that is so upsetting. Oh,
52:40
I'm sorry all those comments were Sarahm, not Florian. Sorry about that,
52:45
Sarahm. That is your credit. I'm giving now apologies for not giving
52:49
you proper credit and crediting Florian. But appreciate you Florian letting me know.
52:55
But yeah, so this whole thing is so like, there's something so humilily
53:00
about that, you know, finding out that this person was like mocking you
53:05
in their head while you thought they were doing their best to be kind to
53:07
you. And I was sort of expecting for him to say that he was
53:14
responsible for killing her parents. I don't remember if that's I feel like that
53:20
was what happened in the anime, and you guys can correct me if I'm
53:24
wrong. Maybe he does say this and I just missed it, but I
53:28
had been sort of waiting for it, so I feel like I would have
53:30
noticed if that didn't happen, or I I if that did happen. So
53:40
anyway, Lufy comes in at this point, and we have a couple moments
53:45
of him like stepping forward and feeling a cut, and it's like the person
53:52
who slashed him was totally invisible, which we know is due to his devil
54:00
fruit power. Now another thing, they don't ever specifically state what his devil
54:09
fruit was. I don't believe so anyway, which I do think is kind
54:17
of surprising, because it's sort of like important to things a lot of the
54:24
time what a person is specifically capable of and what they aren't. And with
54:34
Buggy at least they specifically mentioned the chop chop fruit and what it is that
54:37
he can do. I don't think they say Curo's fruit, and it's just
54:43
sort of like, oh, yeah, he could just be very very fast
54:45
and that's all it is. Oh what I'm sorry, Florian says he does
54:54
not have a devil fruit. He's just super fast, even in the anime.
55:00
That's insane. I did not realize that. Okay, that's what I
55:05
was almost about to call it the shave technique. Actually, Seraphim, so
55:07
that's amazing. Saraphim is saying he doesn't have a fruit. It's just a
55:10
technique he can do. It's an early example of the shave technique. CP
55:15
nine can do. That's what I was thinking. But it's just weird that
55:19
this is introduced so so early, and then we don't really see another person
55:22
able to do this stuff until so much later. Oh my god, I
55:24
don't even know how I miss that. Let's see, Saraphim says, and
55:30
then he rants about how she's done nothing with her life. Well, duh,
55:32
you've been keeping her too sick to do anything, asshole. That bothered
55:37
me too, Saraphim, Like, I would be so dead because he would
55:42
say this shit, and I wouldn't be able to resist arguing with him and
55:45
just giving away my hiding place and just be like, you, dickhead,
55:47
that's not how it. And then I'd be like, shit, why did
55:51
I say that. It's like when people at that meme that's going around of
55:53
like, you know, Michael Myers is standing in your living room with a
55:59
knife and you're hiding behind the curtain or something and you're keeping totally quiet,
56:06
but then he yells like shake it, and somebody just can't help but yell
56:12
back shake it like a polaroid picture, Like that is what I would be
56:15
doing there. So anyway, the fight between Zoro and blue haired girl and
56:24
fat guy like kind of a weird fight. Didn't love it. It was
56:31
like entertaining, but it was so distracting because they are so goofy in some
56:38
ways. And I do appreciate that she gets his swords at one point,
56:45
not all of them, I don't think. I think he's got one left.
56:47
But the silliness of the two of them just never made me really feel
56:52
like worried for him. Even when they were winning. I couldn't get to
56:58
the point that I was actually concerned. That's fine, not every fight is
57:02
going to be a winner. I don't. I don't mind that. So
57:07
of course we then have Loufy in the end getting the better of him by
57:15
grabbing his wrists. He had tried to like impale loofy on these blades.
57:21
Lufy pulls his hands apart to create an opening, and then he says gumma
57:29
gum, and that's the way he says at this time, not dumb gum,
57:31
gumma gum, and then gum dumb bell and it's a head butt,
57:37
which I don't remember this move actually, but head butts him straight out the
57:40
window. And it's so funny to me because he goes flying out the window
57:45
and everybody is just just like, oh, okay, that guy's dealt with
57:47
We won, And I'm like, he just went out the window like he's
57:51
right outside. Guys, I would not call this a straight up victory.
57:52
You don't know if he's gonna just turn around and come back in. But
57:57
once they come running downstairs and they've got this shape, are the shutters of
58:00
the doors pulled up, and the two henchmen are tied up on the ground,
58:07
it's pretty clear, all right, well we've come out the other side.
58:13
And also the sun is out at this point, so it's an indication
58:16
that quite a bit of time has passed. Actually, I love that Zoro
58:25
says, too bad, we can't collect their bounty, and I was just
58:29
like, yeah, I would not recommend that Nan. He says, we've
58:32
got to get the fuck out of here. They're after us, and Lucy
58:36
says, well, what are we gonna how? We don't even have a
58:39
ship, And of course this is when Kaya speaks up and says, yes
58:45
you do, and they go down to the docks. And I was this
58:51
was when I was sort of waiting for Mary to turn up and be just
58:54
fine, because that was how it went in the anime. Basic was like
59:00
it seemed like he was dead and then he turns up to be like,
59:02
oh, I built you a ship. But it's just said here that his
59:07
memory will live on with them. And I do want to like cop to
59:13
the fucking hilarious mistake. In hindsight, I think it was like last episode
59:17
that I was going, what is the sheep guy's name? Again? Guys,
59:21
what is his name? I can't remember his name? How did I
59:23
forget? It's Mary? The name of the ship is going Mary because of
59:28
him? Like I just completely fucking brain farted on that one. That was
59:34
really embarrassing. So and I will say too, like the way that the
59:43
the mass or what is it called figurehead of this ship is carved, I
59:49
actually quite like this. It's not as cartoonish in terms of the way that
1:00:00
it's painted and everything. The overall shape and everything is like essentially identical,
1:00:07
but it doesn't have the pupils in the eyes. It's all monochromatic and kind
1:00:14
of roughly done in a way that I think is really really beautiful and works
1:00:19
quite well in comparison to the design in the show that you guys know,
1:00:22
I had a hard time warming up to a little bit. So this is
1:00:27
the moment where they invite us up to come with them, and he clearly
1:00:32
is feeling awkward because he really wants to go, but he feels some real
1:00:37
responsibility toward Kaya and feels guilty about leaving her. I love that Lufy specifically
1:00:45
mentions his father and it's like, I need a sharpshooter, like Yasup,
1:00:50
I saw what you were able to do with your slinging shot. This is
1:00:54
exactly the kind of guy that I need on my crew. And then yeah,
1:01:00
he says like I couldn't leave Sirrup village. What about Kaya? She
1:01:05
needs me? And Kaya is like, hey, Bun, I know you
1:01:08
mean well and everything, but I have had somebody like looking over me and
1:01:12
telling me what to do and stuff forever, and I think it's time for
1:01:15
me to look after myself, and I think I'll hand the shipyard over to
1:01:21
somebody else and maybe try and become a doctor or something like that. And
1:01:27
they have a kiss here, which I can't recall if they did in the
1:01:30
anime or not, but you know, the two of them had been sort
1:01:32
of protesting about being romantically interested in one another. And I love when she
1:01:40
says, like, oh, the Adventures of Captain Usup and Loufy off to
1:01:45
the side is just like they do know I'm the captain, right, which
1:01:50
they have that argument later. And I had forgotten that this was a whole
1:01:53
thing that Usup was like assuming he was going to be captain and that had
1:01:57
to be squashed. Let's see. Uh sorry, Saraphim says. The memes
1:02:06
are already declaring a certain bird boy is going to be a roast turkey comes
1:02:10
season two since they killed Mary, I really kind of hope, so Saraphim
1:02:17
like, it's I know, it's a fucked up thing to be like a
1:02:19
hope he dies, but like you know, uh, Florian says, I
1:02:22
like that us Up and Kaya got a kiss in the live action. Oh,
1:02:24
Okay, so it wasn't an anime. Usup is the only straw hat
1:02:28
with a love of interest where both sides are into it and I do not
1:02:30
care about romance, but I liked this. I never thought about the fact
1:02:35
that they like both sides aren't into it with everybody else pretty much. But
1:02:39
yeah, I guess that's true. Saraphim says, Hey, now I'm sure
1:02:45
Lufy's feelings for meat are reciprocated. I'm overtime, so I have to kind
1:02:51
of speed through the rest of this. But mostly what we get is the
1:02:54
argument about who's captain us Up drawing an amazing flag, but of course that
1:02:59
gets uh knocked down by Luthy. And then when we go to the Marines
1:03:04
ship, we have poor Kobe being like, well, I failed my first
1:03:08
mission and completely failed to get him. And I thought what we were going
1:03:14
to have was because we hear Garp say you flushed them out, and I
1:03:20
thought we were going to zero in on the little lifeboat because Kuroh is seen
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rowing away from the island just like manually rowing alone. I thought Garp was
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going to be like, well, there's kuro in a fucking row boat alone.
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We got him but no, he is looking at the going Mary and
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saying, you flushed them out. And every time, of course that poor
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Kobe succeeds in one thing, he fails in another, so he's flushed them
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out. But he also doesn't want his friend Loofy to get caught, so
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he has extremely mixed feelings about this. And the straw Hat crew are sitting
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like chatting about how everything's gonna be smooth sailing from here on, when all
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of a sudden, there's like these horrible sounds and they realize they're being fired
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at. So they go out on the deck and see that the Marines have
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zeroed in already, and Lufy sees Garp and says grandpa. So that shit
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is let out of the bag quite early in this in comparison to like episode
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four hundred of the anime. I'm not mad at it, but it is
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funny and that's how it ends, so I can't wait to watch the next
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one. Guys. I'm really really excited. So thank you all so much
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for hanging out with me. I appreciate you all a lot. Thank you
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Gabby for commissioning this. Hope you all are enjoying the coverage and until next
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time, DIDLU motherfuckers, That was an unspoiled network pat