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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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episodes four eighty seven through four eighty nine. The Insatiable a Kayinu love a
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fists pummel Loofy, the desperate scream, courageous moments that will change the future,
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and here comes Shanks. The War of the Best is finally over in
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these episodes. Yeah, so Shanks shows up just in time to save Kobe's
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life because Kobe's having a little bit of a nervous breakdown, and honestly,
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I don't blame him at all. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the
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show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning
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this episode, and also thank you to Florian for allowing me to move this
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episode. Originally it was going to be tomorrow. I the full disclosure,
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guys, I moved it to the wrong day, so I wound up screwing
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everything up anyway, But it does. It just didn't matter in the end,
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so it's fine. I have so many questions about what's going on with
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Kobe, everyone. I have so many questions about it. I'm actually pretty
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stoked about it, I'll be honest, because like, Okay, So there's
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a couple things. One it could be that what's happening with Kobe isn't a
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superpower that because like the way that this world works, it's so so heightened
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that there are times where people can do things that in the real world would
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be seen as an actual superpower, but in their world it's simply sort of
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like, oh, they just got so upset that this miracle basically happened,
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or they were possessed with like the power of honor, or you know what
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I mean, Like there is a sort of emotion defying physics that happens.
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And so there was a part of me at first that kind of thought when
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he was initially on the ground and shaking and upset, that it was just
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the sheer reaction to the brutality of everything and this feeling of like won't it
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ever be over? Like you know, when do we stop? The cycle
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just goes on and on and on. And I was fine with that if
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that were what it was going to be. Now though, I'm starting to
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wonder if there isn't like something else going on, and I really can't,
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like I want it, if I'm gonna if I'm gonna be just totally like
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straightforward with you guys. I want it to be a superpower because I would
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like Kobe to have leveled up. It's seeming as if Helmepo isn't in the
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same place as him, And I don't know if it's like, you know
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that Kobe has developed some ability that Helmepo hasn't. If it's that they each
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have different gifts, you know, if Helmepo has been straight up sort of
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left behind, and you know what I'm gonna look because like Florian sent me
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a message on the discord and I only saw it like just before I was
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beginning, so I didn't get a chance to reply. But he said that
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he was going to make a change to the character list and he didn't want
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me to read it until after I watched the episodes. So let me go
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and see, because I bet that they are the change yep Okay, here
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it is Kobe and Halmepo, and then it says some of the six powers
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like shave or iron body. Interesting, So the six powers. I don't
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think there's anybody here today in the audience, which is a shame because I
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have a lot of questions and maybe I wouldn't be able to get answers,
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but I would like to just be able to ask, you know, But
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I really have this whole arc, there has been a big part of me
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going, what is the deal with Kobe being somebody that we keep cutting to
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and then nothing seems to happen with him, Like why do we just have
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to screw up the momentum of the episode by cutting away to a person who
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seems to really otherwise not have much to do with anything, you know,
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And now it feels like this is why, I'll be honest, this is
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a difficult thing because they are not still very involved. They become I say
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they I'm kind of categorizing Kobe and Helmepo as being like one person at this
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point, which I know isn't really fair, but like, functionally in the
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story, that's how it's been, so I'm just gonna go with that.
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But then Kobe winds up being so important to like grinding everything to a halt
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that I can see how difficult it would be as a writer to keep them
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at the top of our minds and aware that like we that they're here,
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but also not like, because you can't just have somebody come out the gate
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after we don't see them for several episodes and they just yell everybody stop,
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and it doesn't feel weird, Like it would be really unnatural if they didn't
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have anything with how Mepo and Kobe at all, and then Kobe does what
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he does. So you've got to find a balance, and it's just part
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of the symptom of the issue with the show having to drag things out the
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way that it does. I just straight up, guys, I really really
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hope that The Lie live action is continued and renewed for like season after season
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after season, because I really I feel like the bones of one piece of
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the original series are so solid, but it needs like a renovation because it's
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it's like a house that's like got still amazing structure to the like it's you
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know, the integrity of it, but it was built so long ago that
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rooms are placed in spots that don't make a lot of sense. Like the
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flow of the house just feels not modern, and there's just a lot of
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like like I know, you're attached to this wallpaper because so and so put
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it up, but you've got to face facts. It just doesn't work,
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and you know what I mean, Like the live action is really getting to
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take some of these storylines and just edit them so so tightly that I'm really
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excited about it, and I just want, I really want that to continue.
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I'm so worried that Netflix is gonna do what they fucking do, and
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that they're gonna like get to the second season and then cancel it or third
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season and then cancel it, and it's just gonna have been like something that
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they almost allowed to really like flourish, but it never really got its chance.
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So just, you know, everybody like pour one out for the gods
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of Netflix and hoping that if we make this sacrifice, they'll keep the show
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going and long enough that we can actually begin to see the potential come to
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fruition there, because the first season was just so great and I this arc
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I could see being something that if you cut it down and the way that
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they have developed Kobe into a main character in the live action that this could
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work really, really well, and I wouldn't be asking the question, why
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do we keep cutting over to these two there's nothing happening with them, because
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it wouldn't have to happen once every ten minutes over the course of like eleven
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episodes in a Row. So anyway, the thing with Kobe as well,
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and I know I have to start back at the four eighty seven and like,
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you know, kind of backtrack after I talk about this, but I
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just wanted to mention this out of the gate for like my own personal sort
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of I have. This isn't I don't want to say that what the statement
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I am about to make is always true across the board. I know that
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there are exceptions. However, often times when there is a character who is
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sort of overwhelmed by the violence, you know, the needless killing and the
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endless cycle that seems impossible to break from. And often when there is a
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character who can like sense the emotions and reactions of the people around them to
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the point where they begin to sort of like lose it, that is so
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often a woman. It is so frequently a female character, and there is
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just I don't think I realized how bored of that I was until this.
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I just really appreciate it being Kobe, that this is happening to you,
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and there is a the fact that Kobe has been a really sensitive kind of
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character from the beginning. It works. It I like, I feel like
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this makes a lot of sense as far as it being like the six powers
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that's mentioned in the chart that Florian gave me, I don't remember those powers
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and what they entail, and I don't know if what he's experiencing in these
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episodes Kobe is part of that or if that if it's a separate thing.
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It's certainly possible. Guys, forgive me that this has been something we've seen
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before and I have just forgotten, you know how it is with the series
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going this long, like just everybody like, cut me some slack. I'm
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just like arguing with a straw man over here. Nobody is yelling at me,
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and yet I'm preemptively being like, don't yell at me. You know,
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it's anxiety. But if it turned out that Kobe was able to do
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something sort of like mind read, or at least when everybody's like their emotions
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are really high, that he could sense things, thus making him sort of
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the voice of reason in the midst of stuff, I would think that fascinating.
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I would actually be really really into that as a way for his character
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to not only be useful, and you know, I don't want to be
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a shit, but he hasn't done a lot, so we need to give
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him a job. But also that is something that could potentially if he is
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still insisting on staying with the Marines, which it seems he is, tragically,
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maybe he could be somebody who reigns in the Marine's bloodthirsty approach to everything.
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Now I also have to address that acab and you know, one person
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deciding that maybe we shouldn't just keep murdering forever isn't going to fix a system
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as broken as the Marines are, the same way that like a good cop
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in the system can't fix the corrupt justice system. It just doesn't work.
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I sympathize with thinking we could change things from the inside. I really understand
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why you would believe you could do that, But it doesn't work. It
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doesn't work, like it's been shown time and time again. So I'm hoping
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that if we let that be a thing in this universe, maybe he can
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make a difference, because we are in a different universe here than reality,
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and maybe this is a place where one person can make a change and it
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would actually help I just you know, I would love that. Let's live
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in that fantasy. So I just wanted to really address him out of the
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gate because I was the thing with him again, it does get drawn out
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a lot. You know, he's on the ground, gripping his head and
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he's hearing voices and you don't know what's going on, and it lasts such
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a long time. At first, I thought it was just him sort of
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like having like memories rushing back, Like I thought that he was reacting to
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the thought of how people had been acting from the start of this battle.
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And then once it began to sink in for me that this was all going
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on currently, and it was like he was it's I say, like reading
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thoughts. I said that earlier, and I know that's not exactly accurate because
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what he's hearing in the context of what's going on, it all sounds like
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it's actually being spoken aloud. It doesn't feel like he's hearing thoughts, not
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really, so I know that that is sort of a misnomer. But he
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has a sort of like an ability to hear beyond when he should be able
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to or where. You know, it's so difficult for me to like describe
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because I'm sure that there is a actual word for this type of power,
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and I am just not thinking of it because I'm like not, I don't
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actually you would think that with the amount of fantasy that I covered that I
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would be more familiar with this sort of thing. But actually it's Owen who
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reads a ton of comic books, and he's the one that's like always on
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top of the names of different powers and stuff because he has run across it
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so much in comics. So it's you know, for me, I just
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kind of nod and go, oh, yeah, that you know, but
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I don't remember what they're called. So all right, let's let's back up
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now and we'll go to forty seven. Fucking Teach is still like this,
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dude. It's kind of funny, like eventually he realizes I am creating total
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mayhem here, and maybe I should just like back off and get my powers
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more under control so that we know what's actually going on and I can do
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some things effectively without killing all of my own allies. And that's sort of
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what, you know. I really want to know how they found out about
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whatever this technique is that allowed him to take the devil Fruit power from Whitebeard,
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because it seems almost like he didn't know how it was gonna work once
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he did it. I won't say that it seemed like he wasn't sure if
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it was gonna work, because that isn't true. I think they were pretty
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fucking confident. They seem to know that shit would work. So you get
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the sense that Teach isn't prepared to be this clumsy with it. There is
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a point when he is like breaking the walls of this place apart, and
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one of the Marines is like, the pirates have taken everything. We have
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this symbol of our strength. It's a nightmare, and I love it because
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everybody is fleeing except this one marine who's just stopping and watching and staring at
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the building that's breaking apart. And this is like what it comes down to
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a little bit later, is when everybody is like, all right, well,
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what does this come down to? You have Oh my god, sungoku.
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I think it's him who specifically says the whole point of like this stronghold
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is for it to be a symbol of our power in the Marines, like
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as the Navy, we have other headquarters, we have other strongholds, but
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this one is like I think he says, dead center in the world.
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So I can't remember how he worded it. And basically, it's like meant
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to be a sort of beacon. He describes it as, so that our
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light can shine into every corner, which is just it's really funny because like
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they are so shitty. I really want to see out like a reformed version
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of the Marines, but I don't even know what that would look like and
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how I could believe it. It's just an interesting thing in this series because
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like it really feels as if we've got extremely black and white good guy bad
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guy stuff, but then you've got Teach, who's a pirate being very bad.
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Like we have definitely had pirates who we don't want to be allied with,
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and if it were between them and the Marines, you don't know what
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you would do, because like they both suck in their own ways, And
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that's sort of what makes it fun, right, Like somebody like Buggy Loofy
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teams up with Buggy and manages to get out of the prison and break it.
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Well, he would have broken a side if things had gone down differently,
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So there is a sense of like even the ones that are real rascals
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and bad guys aren't so irredeemable that you can't work with them sometimes, But
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then there's guys like Teach, who I feel this dude is just off his
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rocker. I just don't think there's reasoning with a man like this. I
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don't think you can team up with him, even temporarily and his allies.
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It just feels sort of this Like I feel the same way about all of
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them in that the only reason that they are teamed up as of right now
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is because they have powers they feel like nobody can stand up to and they
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need to out align with other people who are as formidable. But I have
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to imagine that the second they're going to get a chance to stab each other
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in the back, that's going to be it for them. Like, I
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don't think they're a crew at this point. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm
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wrong about it. I don't know, but yeah, so the you know,
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teaches like whole uh threat I guess you would say for this episode is
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that he is going to give Marine Ford a burial at sea. And this
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is when Sengoku comes down in his like weird golden Buddha form and slams into
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him, and he gives the speech about how we'll rebuild whatever it is that
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you tear down. But this island is different. It's more than a symbol
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of our strength. It stands in the center of the world, and that
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means if we want to protect innocent people from criminals such as yourself, it
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must be our stronghold. So this is something that sort of begins to answer
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the question I have been asking this whole time about what is Marine Ford.
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Is it all like a floating island? Is it an island that's just covered
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from wall to wall with stone and buildings? What is the deal with this
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place? And he calls it an island, But the way that he reacts
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to teach, his threat about giving it a burial at sea leads me to
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believe that if he were to break up the building, that's also breaking up
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the foundations of the island. And I believe that's what we're doing here is
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like the island and the buildings are so intrinsically melded together by this point that
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he would be like wiping a whole piece of land off the map if he
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were to do what he can with his new tremor powers. So Sengoku here
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is still in his gold form, and his speech about standing up to him
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and whatnot is inspiring all of the other troops. A lot of the Marines
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had been looking pretty grim and seeming to like feel as if there was just
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no hope, So why bother You saw a bunch of them like sort of
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collapsed on the sidelines and feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. And now they begin to
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stand up in response to what Sengoku is saying. And I just want to
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register once again some disappointment in Sengoku's power. I don't know if it's just
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that I haven't gotten to see what it's truly capable of yet, and that's
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why it feels sort of like a letdown for me. But he just is
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not like it just looked. It's like he can get really big, and
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that is not that is not that interesting. I really want there to be
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more that he can do with this and other than just like be intimidating,
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which it feels like is the primary purpose, you know. But yeah,
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so all of the Marines are just like, yeah, that's right, We're
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gonna take these assholes down. It's our job as Marines. We're gonna like
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handle these guys. Now's our chance. We'll show every criminal what happens when
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you defy the law. We'll let the whole world know that justice will prevail.
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And as they are saying all of this, we see a bunch of
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the like the pirates, who are trying to get out, like I believe,
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they are just trying to flee the area and get back to their ship,
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and they get stopped by the Marines and by Kiseru, who it's just
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a really bummer move because like, yeah, you could just let them go,
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you could just let it be, like all right, so you're kind
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of you're not surrendering but fleeing at this point, Yeah, you've won.
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Can you just leave it alone? But they can't. They have to prove
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their point. And as all of this is happening, by the way we
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have Eva is like saying to Jimbay that we bought you some time. Because
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Jimbay is still out here trying to get Loofy away from the island, and
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he eventually manages it. You know, of course he does. Lufy is
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just fucking out of it the whole time. I am still so shocked,
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guys that him being catatonic and just being carried away is actually what happened.
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I just I didn't mean it when I said it. I just didn't really
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mean it. I felt like it would have worked, you know, but
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it didn't. I should have known because of the fact that he has to
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be taken out of the game so often that that was likely to be what
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we went with here, but uh, you know. Yeah. Anyway,
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so this is when we have Eva fighting who is she akainuh the fight with
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Akainu. Like, Eva's using that weird sort of glove power that makes that
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turns him into like Wolverine for a second, and I was pretty impressed with
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it actually, Like I feel like Eva is always able to pull something out
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that I didn't expect. Their keeps being surprising twists in what his powers are,
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so every time that we go over to him, it's just so different
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than some of the other character's powers. Where I am sitting here looking at
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Sengoku like, bitch, you're big and your gold very very exciting, And
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then we go over to Eva and I'm like, oh shit, I don't
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know we could do that. That's cool. However, his beautiful nails do
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get melted. And this is when Akayinu says, I'd heard your techniques were
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eccentric, and that certainly seems to be the case. And this is when
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Eva says esthetic technique fat suctioning fist. I can't. I had never even
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thought about it, but all like the fact that a lot of Eva's powers
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have to do with like hormone injections and stuff, I didn't consider just plastic
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surgery as well, just like you know, a variety of sort of surgical
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medical procedures. So yeah, Eva like going for him, and I'm really
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thinking that he's gonna do something, that this is gonna be like a fucking
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win a moment, you know, And instead a Kayinu punches Eva in the
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face and just sends him flying and it looks really, really bad. I
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didn't love this. I was really bummed about it. It's not like,
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you know, it's not like he's dead or anything, but I just really
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love Eva and I want him protected at all costs. I do enjoy when
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he says that his face is melting, and then he says, oh,
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that's not my face, that's just my garish makeup and manages to pull all
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of it off in one he's like an actual mask, but is then simply
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standing there in the midst of real fire, realizing like oh shit, oh
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shit, wait a second. He goes down and the other pirates are like
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trying to get into help, but they're blocked by all of these flames.
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And in the midst of it is akay you just looking very intimidating, saying
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who's next, And I will say, aka you. I don't like him,
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I don't respect him, but I will admire that this man is as
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unstoppable as like Jason Voorhees. There just seems to be something about him that
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cannot be stopped. He's like some sort of autumn maton and is so fixated
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on what he sets out to do that it's just like he bowls through anything
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in his path to get it done, and it really sucks when you don't
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want him to succeed, how single minded he is. So this is the
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point where we get our first check in with Holmepo and Kobe, and Kobe
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is saying, I don't get it, like we've won. I know they're
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pirates, but like, isn't enough enough? And he literally uses the word
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overkill, which it's so funny because I don't think of that word as being
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what it is, but you know, whenever I hear it used, it's
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always meant to be a metaphor. But that's like very literally what's happening now
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is we are overdoing the killing. So this is when we have the whole
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beginning of the breakdowns starting to happen. As he's like asking this question and
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looking around at the men that are still fighting and the bloodshed, he is
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starting to really lose it. And how MEPO is like, dude, what
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is going on? And when he says at one point like I can hear
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voices, you can see him up of being like what, like he does
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not know what to do with this information. Jimbay is out here like,
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all right, so I can't fight a lot of these guys on land,
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but I am going to get into the water and they won't be able to
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be a match for me. There. Akayinu is like after him in mid
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air and jimb punches him even though he's lava, and it doesn't do anything.
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I was surprised that Akaynu or that jimbe even bothered to like try and
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punch him, But I guess, you know, I guess, like you
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gotta try and do something. He hits gripped up Bayaka you knew who then
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scorches a hole right through Jimbei's middle And this is the moment where Lufy's hat
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falls off, and I just really want to point out that Jimbay has got
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a hole in his gut, but the camera pulls away from that to focus
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on Lufy's hat blowing away. I understand that this hat is important, but
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Jimbay has a hole in his gut, a big one. Why are you
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not more concerned about it? Like, I don't think he's going to die,
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but I really resented the fact that we then took a moment to go
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follow the hat. That is not what I'm concerned about right now, just
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speaking for me, And even like the guys on the sidelines are like,
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oh, it went straight through him. It may have hit straw, And
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I was like, can't it just have going like, maybe gone straight through
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him be bad enough? But yeah, so JIMBEI finally like he's he took
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a leap, a very litteral leap, because what he wanted was to get
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in the water, his own element and be able to face this guy.
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But the fucking water was still frozen down there, and he winds up landing
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hard on the ice. He lets go of Loofy, and Loofy does have
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some pretty serious damage. He doesn't have a hole in him, but it's
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definitely like a pretty bad burn. I have to mention this one little thing
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here. As Akaynu is walking towards Jimbei, he has one hand out in
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front of him that's molten, and there is this cool moment where the lava,
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magma, whatever dripping off of his hand is hitting the ice and then
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immediately cooling into these little spikes because of like the pattern and how it falls
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in the way that it freezes up right away. And I just thought that
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was like a really neat little detail. So yeah, a Kaynu comes down
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here to meet up with Jimbei, who is like so devastated that he feels
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like he failed Loofy and is apologizing for not upholding his vow and he stands
34:37
up or he starts to, but really what he's the most concerned about is
34:42
being a human shield between Lufy and Akaynu. Like he wants to if he
34:49
can't actually get Lufy out of there, he wants to be able to say
34:54
that he gave up his life doing his best to protect Loufy. And and
35:00
it's just really sad because like Jimbay is a little bit of a He's a
35:07
very serious character. I was gonna call him a stick in the mud.
35:09
That's unfair, that's too harsh. But I have grown to see him as
35:17
sort of the clutch guy, you know, when every other person seems to
35:22
have been like laid out, jimbe is out here stepping into the cut and
35:27
just really taking over and making it happen. So seeing him laying there with
35:32
his eyes all white was really a bummer. I started to wonder if we
35:37
were actually going to get another death, and I was surprised at how bummed
35:44
I felt at the idea of him dying. And he has this moment where
35:49
he's like remembering conversation that he had with Ace, which inspires him to really
35:58
like struggle to get to his feet again and face a Kayanu, who I
36:02
will say, I kind of like that. Akayanu is so like unwilling to
36:07
let things just be dramatic for the sake of it. Like he goes to
36:14
strike out at JIMBEI right away. He isn't waiting to let this man gain
36:19
his feet. He's just going for it in a way that feels a lot
36:22
more true to like how a real fight should go. So I kind of
36:27
enjoyed that, and he is about to hit Jimbae and here comes fucking Crocodile,
36:37
and he is just basically to Jimbay, like, if you're gonna do
36:43
this shit and get this kid out of here, fucking go get it done.
36:49
If you're gonna protect someone and do it right, I don't like either
36:52
of you, but if you screw this up, then you let the navy
36:57
win. So so I really enjoy anytime that Crocodile is like over here managing
37:06
to be an unexpected like thorn in everybody's side. It's just fun, you
37:14
know, because he really does feel like an agent of chaos, even though
37:20
his actions aren't that chaotic. It seems like they're chaotic, but if you
37:25
step back and look at it, it all actually falls in line. It
37:30
makes sense. Oh my god, I forgot about Buggy apologizing to all his
37:37
pirates and saying, you guys, I'm so sorry. I'm just the King
37:42
of disappointment. And as he's floating in mid air apologizing to all of them,
37:49
Jimbay smashes into them and it all comes together to look like he managed
37:57
to catch them, like this was all a part. He wasn't running,
38:01
he was just looking for straw hat because all the glory in the world means
38:06
nothing compared to the life of an old friend. And all of the prisoners
38:10
begin crying. His heart's as pure as a baby lamb. And then you
38:21
cut up to Buggy who's in the air, and he says, I can't
38:24
hear what they're saying, but I bet it's stupid. Oh you guys,
38:32
that fucking really that was a good joke, just like everybody just falling all
38:39
over themselves to be like flattering and him just being like, oh, these
38:45
fucking warns, what are they doing? So he's like holding onto the two
38:49
of them and is like, why are they even up here? And why
38:52
is it suddenly hot? And then he turns and he sees a giant magma
38:59
fist coming in their direction, and Jim Bay is like, thank you for
39:05
saving our lives. But Buggy didn't mean to do that. He was just
39:09
running and they happened to be like in his arms when he did it.
39:15
I loved Jimbe telling him like he was burned very badly, and Buggy's just
39:20
saying, I don't care. At this point, a Kaye says to himself,
39:29
how many people do I have to go through to finish this brat,
39:34
and he gets his answer as Boa Hancock rolls up. Uh, and you
39:42
just get all of these like is it Boa right here? Because there's I
39:45
see all of these these flower pedals, and I was pretty sure that she
39:52
factors into this. And I can't remember if she's the one who turns up
39:54
right here, but everybody basically is stepping in front of him to say,
40:01
oh, we have another you know, here's another person that you have to
40:04
get through. I'm getting caught up and like describing things in so much detail.
40:10
Oh no, I don't think it is Boa. She. I know
40:15
she turns up later, but I think it was uh, the dude who
40:19
wears the geisha outfit. I think maybe that might be the person who brought
40:24
the flower petals. I'm not sure, but yeah, everybody has gathered around
40:32
him in the fog. So once the fog blows away, you see that
40:36
almost all of the pirates have circled him, and they're saying like, we're
40:40
gonna uphold Ace's legacy and we're gonna save straw Hat. Because the fact that
40:45
you want to kill him so badly just means that he scares you. Because
40:50
he has some real power to him, and I actually sort of liked that
40:57
approach of like, you know what, it's no longer just about the principle
41:01
of the thing. It's also kind of feeling like you guys wanting him dead
41:06
so bad. It's starting to be suspect, like he's a kid, so
41:08
what's the deal? And he winds up later kind of being like, why
41:14
do you think that he would have your back? You think that becoming allied
41:17
with him, that he's going to be able to help you guys out at
41:21
some point. The kid is the son of one of the most like dangerous,
41:25
fucked up warlords, and there's no telling what side he's on and what
41:32
he would actually do, So you know what, And we have a pretty
41:39
intense sequence that I thought was neat where we're we like go underwater, like
41:44
the camera goes underwater and you see a red flash of light and then all
41:52
of this movement as a bunch of people apparently get blown away, so that's
41:59
very unstable. And then like out in the on my ice, a bunch
42:05
of pirates are like, wait, what was that? And then they see
42:07
this other explosion and it's coming from the opposite direction and everybody is starting to
42:13
be like, uh, okay, I thought we were done with this part.
42:17
Why are we still in the midst of this? Meanwhile, Buggy is
42:22
still trying to get Jimmy and Loofy over to a ship that has a you
42:30
know, a medical bay, and jimbe passes out, and so Buggy doesn't
42:35
know where to go, and he's just sort of in the air bugging out
42:40
did you get it? Did you get it? You get the joke that
42:43
I mean? And as he's flying around just sort of like, well,
42:47
wait, what the fuck? Where do I go? What do I do?
42:51
This fight gets worse and worse behind him, and he's starting to have
42:53
to like veer pretty far out away from land, and then boom, a
43:00
ship surfaces and it's fucking uh what's his face? Who looks like Daria's best
43:07
friend's brother, Trent, And when Loofy like this guy is here to help
43:15
Loofy, but Buggy doesn't believe him right away, and he the law says
43:22
that's his name. That Buggy might be my enemy one day, but I'll
43:25
let the fates desire decide that one. Either way, it'd be a waste
43:30
for me to let him die here so put him on here. He's gonna
43:36
die without my help. I'm a doctor and I love Buggy just being like
43:43
what, yeah, sure you are. That's pretty much what the next episode
43:46
starts with is Buggy just being like why should I believe that? But jumping
43:54
ahead, he does hand him over. He has to do a whole like
44:01
what's in it for me? Thing, and then he gets shot at by
44:06
cannons, and it seems like he starts to come to the conclusion of like,
44:09
oh maybe just what's in it for me is getting out of the line
44:12
of fucking fire, Like how about my life is in danger right now?
44:16
So this is all like fucking a Kayenu is still on the sidelines, just
44:23
ready to He just takes it so personally that this kid got away. He
44:29
is really giving, like President Snow a little bit with his just sheer obsession
44:32
at this point, Sir, you know, I really love when Marco turns
44:39
into a bird and like flies down the throat of the magma snake that he
44:45
sends out. I thought that was pretty cool. So all of this is
44:52
when the Marines like double down and are sending even more guys out. I
44:58
didn't know they had more, but they're a period from like under trapdoors and
45:00
stuff and all Garp eventually is like throwing in with the Marines, very disappointed
45:07
in that, and shit is beginning to hit the wall and finally or hit
45:15
the fan, I guess is really the same. But finally we have Kobe
45:21
screaming that's enough. And I actual really liked the speech that he gives,
45:31
Like the speech where you're urging everybody to stop fighting is a really hard one
45:37
to write because it can come off as extremely like Sacharine and full of cliches,
45:45
and I you know, I don't expect like astonishing writing from this show
45:52
or anything, but they can do pretty well with some speeches now. And
45:58
then the thing that really just sort of sends him over the edge is there's
46:02
a marine that has fallen and he sees the uh, like marine has a
46:08
piece of jewelry like a locket or something on him, and when Kobe picks
46:14
it up, he sees a photo of this guy's like wife and children,
46:17
and just you know, these are actual people that we're doing this too.
46:23
So finally, when Kobe is like, you know, guys, these are
46:30
actual human beings that we're doing this too. Uh, there's no point in
46:36
fighting, Like it's over, we won, we can end this. A
46:42
Kaynu unsurprisingly, it's just like you're getting in the way of justice. So
46:50
if you're gonna stand in my way, all steamroll right over you. And
46:55
I'll be real, I think that a Kaynu is taking some shit way too
47:00
personally for him to say that it's about justice anymore. It just isn't,
47:05
dude. It's like you're pissed that this kid got away. That's what it
47:08
is, you know. So finally, when Kobe is like, you know
47:14
what, fine, if you stop fighting, or at least I said what
47:19
I need to say, so if you kill me, I don't fucking regret
47:22
it. I did it and I would do it again. And a Kaynu
47:28
is about to punch Kobe to death like this kid, I know that he's
47:36
no younger probably the most of the Marines, but he just comes across as
47:38
so young that the idea akay knew was gonna punch him to death is just
47:43
dishonor upon you, dishonor upon your cow, Like come on, really,
47:46
dude, Jesus Christ. But he gets stopped and I is like when I
47:52
saw the figure standing there with their swortup. I was like, is that
47:57
looks like Shanks? And then you get like a close up and you see
48:01
the scars on his face and you're like, oh, yes, indeed it
48:04
is Shanks. I'll tell you what. It had never even occurred to me
48:07
to ask where is Shanks? Throughout all of this, I didn't even ask
48:14
myself the question, and I kind of should have because this is exactly I
48:17
would think the sort of shit that he would end up showing up for.
48:22
But yeah, this is just an interesting development here, this wrinkle and him
48:30
being the one that sort of steps in. He says, the speech that
48:37
he gives is no matter what winds up happening here, you giving that speech
48:46
and saying what you said has changed things for like for the better or worse.
48:55
What you did today mattered. And I really appreciated just the sort of
49:02
like, even if you were unsuccessful, it wasn't for nothing, you know,
49:08
because sometimes yeah, she doesn't quite go the way you want, but
49:12
there's still there, there was still a shift because of what you did.
49:19
Shanks also finds the hat, so that's why he like he winds up wearing
49:23
it for a little while again, but it's a like I'm thinking that Ace
49:30
is gonna come in here and just absolutely kick everybody's ass. And instead,
49:36
did I say Ace? I think I said Ace. Oh that's so sad
49:40
Shanks. Instead we get Shanks encouraging them to back off, to tell all
49:52
the pirates like, guys, look, I know it sucks, but you
49:58
lost. He told you not to fight after, like, you know,
50:01
to just do what needed doing, and you kept going, you have got
50:09
to take your loss and walk away, and they finally do. Meanwhile,
50:19
Shanks, because he's found this hat, he's making a deal with Buggy and
50:22
he's like, hey, if you give that back to Loofy for me,
50:28
I'll give you a treasure map. I really love how easy it is to
50:35
fool Buggy. He is such a stupid goon. So yeah, at first
50:39
he tries to act like he's not he hasn't been taken it at all.
50:45
Oh sure, yeah, you just turn up with like, oh, we're
50:50
such good pals. I'll just give you a treasure map if you hand a
50:53
hat over to somebody, and Shanks just says, uh, well, I'm
50:58
sure I can find somebody else want it, and Buggy instantly says, don't
51:04
be so hasty, I'm sure that we can work something out. I'll take
51:07
care of it for old time's sake, and he just takes off and brings
51:12
the hat back. But of course it turns out that there is no treasure
51:16
map and he gets very very angry. I love when Shanks says it's been
51:22
a long time, huh, and Buggy's response is, don't just say that
51:28
to me. Oh, it's been a long time, huh. Shut up?
51:30
Like the voice actor doing Buggy. God, he's good. He is
51:35
so good. Is it the same guy who did Mister two? I feel
51:38
like it is, but I don't remember, but yeah, he is very
51:44
very good. So we have then the like sort of flashback to everything that
51:49
went down with Loofy and him telling Shank's he's not a man because he just
51:54
like laughed off this guy, and then Shank's losing his arm to protect Loofy
52:01
and oh my god, guys, and Beppo is in this episode, and
52:06
I don't remember Bepo being like this, Like I'm sure he was, but
52:10
it just slipped my mind that he is just sort of the Michael Sarah character
52:17
in all of the scenes that he's in, Like he's just sort of the
52:22
guy that's commenting, and it's not like he isn't involved, but he doesn't
52:28
feel like a real player. He's the guy who's sort of everything's happening too,
52:35
you know what I mean. And he's always the one that's sort of
52:38
like, hey, we're run out of time. Guys like he has to
52:40
be the voice of reason over and over again, and I really do enjoy
52:45
him, like him being just a bear randomly is a choice and I can't
52:52
say I have a problem with it. But yeah, So at that point,
52:57
after getting Loofy on board, they fucking go back underwater and take off,
53:02
which I didn't expect. I didn't think they were just going to straight
53:05
up like leave everybody else, but makes a lot of sense. I really
53:10
appreciated that they got the fuck up out of there. So we remember too.
53:17
We have the flashback of Shanks saying like, Lufy, I'm giving you
53:22
my hat, and one day, when you're a great pirate, I want
53:24
you to give it back to me in good condition. But he says he
53:29
can't keep the hat. It's too soon. Lufy hasn't gotten to where he
53:32
needs to be, so that's why he's giving it back. I am just
53:38
so like you guys. I know, eventually I got sort of used to
53:45
it, but the dude playing Shanks and that wig, it's just really really
53:52
bad, and I just I wish we had gotten better because Shanks is a
53:59
case really hot and it just makes me kind of think like what could have
54:05
been. You know, the actor is like attractive, but they just didn't
54:08
do very much with him. You know. It felt like there was a
54:12
lot of potential there and they just sort of didn't. I don't know.
54:16
So anyway, we then have this like the the the whole like situation here
54:32
with Shanks and him managing to get everybody to back off. I was like
54:40
really pleased that even though there is a threat like oh, we're just gonna
54:46
dump their bodies, We're not gonna let you bury them, that he manages
54:52
to sort of talk them down because it was I thought that was gonna be
54:58
sort of the thing that wound up just causing it all to fall apart.
55:01
Uh oh yeah, So this is when fucking when what's her face shows up?
55:08
Oh my god, Hancock, I can't. She just is so not
55:13
Handcock. The fact that that is her name is insane to me. But
55:15
yeah, this is when she's like yelling at the guys and they're like,
55:19
oh my god, it's so hot. When she's yelling at us, I
55:22
knew that she played in with things somewhere. And there's even more of these
55:28
fucking kumabots, y'all, so many. I don't know where they get them
55:32
all. There's two fucking many. But when he's speaking to teach, she
55:39
says that your own thirst for vengeance is your undoing if anyone here still hungers
55:51
for battle, And then we have a very anime sequence of the camera spinning
55:55
around him. He says, then come, we shall be more than happy
56:01
to face you, and he is then surrounded by his cronies, who are
56:08
somewhat intimidating, but, like the Marines, look a lot more afraid than
56:14
I felt was warranted for the particular group. It seemed like more of a
56:21
threat simply that he was fresh on the scene with a bunch of people who
56:25
hadn't been fighting for hours. So probably that's like his biggest advantage. But
56:31
I wish that if they were characters that, like the Marines, recognized and
56:36
fell intimidated by, that, that was conveyed a little bit better, because
56:38
that did not come across and this is when he says to He says,
56:49
teach, and then he's like, sorry, Blackbeard, and there's like a
56:52
real sort of I guess. Blackbeard meanwhile says, you're as pretty as a
56:58
picture. Those scars are a nice touch, and I was like, you
57:02
know what, He's not wrong. The whole look works very well, you
57:07
know, pretty solid, I'm just saying. And then we see the like
57:12
one v one lineup of Teaches people versus Shanks's people, and it was sort
57:21
of a weird thing because like they don't actually really go up against each other's
57:30
I think it's just meant to be like who each of his guys is sort
57:32
of aiming for at the moment, and just a sort of preview and pointing
57:38
out that we do have a one to one fight here. But yeah,
57:44
like I said earlier, black Beard just winds up being like, you know
57:47
what, you guys aren't the ones I'm here to fight, even and I
57:52
do need to work on like getting my power together, so I'm gonna take
57:54
off Sengoku shrinks back down to his race size, still shirtless, still absolutely
58:04
shredded to the gods, and still a weird useless Buddha man I do not
58:10
understand you, sir. I don't and I won't and so yeah, this
58:16
is the argument about what to do with the bodies, and he's like,
58:22
I want to bury them, and some Goku's basically like why the fuck should
58:29
I care what you want, and they eventually do come to an agreement.
58:37
Fucking Do Flamingo. There was in the discord, you guys, somebody shared
58:42
a picture of Ryan Reynolds as Ken edited to look like Do Flamingo, and
58:47
it was fucking uncanny. Like, honestly, if Do Flamingo shows up on
58:52
the live action and it's not Ryan Reynolds, I know it won't be because
58:57
they cannot afford Ryan Reynolds, but if they could, Wow, I bet
59:04
he would leap at it. This feels like a character he would have so
59:07
much fun playing. I really think he would. He's good at comedy,
59:12
and I think he could have sort of a mean edge to him. I've
59:15
never really seen him be a mean character before, but I feel like he
59:19
could make it work, you know. So again we have the really long,
59:24
drawn out like scan of the camera from one face to another, and
59:30
one there's some like random guy that is in the audience back on Sabaodi and
59:37
saying, I think maybe it's over now. And that's part of the reason
59:46
why Shanks is like, we're taking the bodies is because he knows that people
59:52
are watching and that otherwise the Marines might make a spectacle of them as the
59:58
word that he uses, to which they're like, yeah, well you pointed
1:00:01
out that we won the battle and we earned that shit. But then Sengoku
1:00:07
speaks over them all the guys who are like saying, you know, and
1:00:12
I was surprised as much as he is, like why should I give a
1:00:15
shit what you want. It's just sort of like, we really do need
1:00:21
to call this shit. We need to end it. And if this is
1:00:23
what's gonna do it, then fine. And did I say ace again?
1:00:35
I feel like I keep saying Ace instead of Shanks. I just feel like
1:00:37
I keep I can't tell. So he says to the other Marines, now
1:00:45
go treat the injured before it's too late. The war is over, and
1:00:52
of course then he has to say the Navy has won, even though it
1:00:55
doesn't really look like it when the camera pulls back, maybe you did,
1:01:00
but so at what cost? So that's pretty much the way that things wrap
1:01:07
is like everybody carrying the wounded and folks rushing around with like medical kits and
1:01:16
stuff. We get one more look at the tattoo on I think that's supposed
1:01:22
to be Ace's back. I'm not sure. I don't Maybe it's not because
1:01:24
Ace's back was like blown through and that looked like it was a back that
1:01:30
was fully healed. But anyway, yeah, so that's the end of the
1:01:36
episode. But there's just like, there's just so much going on in this
1:01:38
one, and I'm really really interested in what's going on with Kobe, and
1:01:42
I hope that we get more of that, like soon. I hope I
1:01:44
don't have to wait too much for it. I bet I will, though,
1:01:46
we'll see. All right, I've got a wrap. But thank you
1:01:50
guys so much for listening. I really hope you're enjoying the coverage. And
1:01:53
until next time to the loom. Motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network