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One Piece LIVE ACTION, S01E02- The Man In The Straw Hat · 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 episode two, The Man in the Straw Hat. In
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this episode, we really get to properly meet Buggy the Clown, and I
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gotta tell you, guys, this dude is very good. That wow.
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Welcome to Unspoiled, Wait spoiled you know, you get it, you get
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it. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very
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much to Gabby for commissioning this episode. Oh my god, I'm so sorry
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about that mess of an intro. I just want to say, once again
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to Gabby, thank you for commissioning this. What a delight this is already,
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And like I feel like this is the sort of thing where even when
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it's not good, I'm still gonna have such a good time that I'm gonna
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kind of not care. And I may be wrong about that, but I
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feel like just being in that place is pretty good. You know, it's
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like a nice it's a generous mindset to be coming from. When it's time
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to do my little chats with y'all. So this dude, jeff Ward,
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I'm looking at the IMD be here. I thought for sure when I first
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saw him in the trailers that this was the dude who played Daredevil. I
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can't remember his name, but he is an extremely adorable, also very pale,
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black haired actor, and he does look quite a lot like that actor.
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But this is somebody who I'm looking through his IMDb just to see what
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else he has been in, and it says he's known for Hacks, Brand
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New Cherry Flavor, and Agents of Shield, and I have only seen like
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a couple episodes of Agents of Shield. I haven't seen either of the other
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two things, and looking through a lot of like, it's all stuff I
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have never heard of in my life. So yeah, this dude is just
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kind of an unknown quantity from me. But I am so pleased with his
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performance. He really manages to walk that line of being a little bit pathetic
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and also extremely scary, and that is a really really tough line, Like
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it's extremely easy to tip over too far onto the side of like so scary
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that the clown thing doesn't exactly work thematically anymore, or it would be a
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very different type of clown that it would be. And we're very clearly leaning
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into this like circus thing here, and you could also lean too much into
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the silly side, and I would argue that's kind of what the show did
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at first. Like Buggy, I did find him pretty intimidating, but there
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were points where I was sort of like, why is this guy in charge?
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And this Buggy isn't giving that at all. I know why he's in
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charge. This is a man who is really much more competent in a lot
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of ways, I would say, and I think that is I don't want
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to say, that's just like better because in one piece, the villains not
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being entirely competent can still work because everything is so goofy and silly that I
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don't mind that, you know, but when you're doing a live action there
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has to be a sort of change in that part of the tone in order
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for things to feel like there was a point to it being made in live
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action. Does that make sense? You can't, like if you just completely
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imitate everything in the original cartoon, you're just sort of like, why are
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we doing this? So the fact that they have made him scarier, I
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think is necessary. I think that really works. Well. Oh my god.
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Michael in the chat says Buggy was great, I have no nose,
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and then asterisk notes get out of here, Michael get just get Sarah,
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fram says, out of a series full of amazing s tier casting and performances,
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Jeff Ward's Buggy is top two for me. Yeah, this is like
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I mean, I have seen this type of character before, right, we
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have all seen And I don't just mean like crazy clown man. I mean
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like agent of chaos who is thinking like he's funny and silly, but is
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actually violent and scary. And it can can be you guys, it can
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be so boring. It's wild how a character that is supposed to be unpredictable,
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a real wild card, can feel like I know everything this guy's gonna
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do. I know practically the exact dialogue. I know everything about this guy
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because snore like it really is tedious to watch certain actors try this character and
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it just isn't working. And there is something about the way he carries his
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body, the looseness of him which really like the physicality of what his fruit
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power is. It ties quite well together in that sense, but also just
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gives him the sort of like the I'm trying to think of the wording here,
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like the posture sometimes of like a child, the way that kids just
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seem like, you know, how they can fall and it's like nothing because
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they're so loosely strung together that it just like they stand up and shake themselves
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out like they're a rag doll, and it's fine. And he can have
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that sort of energy to him, and the smiling and laughing when he does
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decide to laugh, feels like he is really genuinely feeling whatever it is he's
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attempting, not necessarily like, oh, this is so funny, although sometimes
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it is that simple, but the rage behind that laughter is so apparent,
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and I just fucking he's killing it. He's killing it. So let's see.
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Sarah m says anime Buggy was more a joke. This is much closer
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to manga Buggy, but even scarier. Okay, noted. So I'm getting
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ahead of myself as I am wont to do, because we have to start
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things off with a flashback, and you guys, I have come to realize
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in myself, I mostly don't like flashbacks. This is not a one piece
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problem. This is an issue of mine, and I still don't really know
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why, because like it's there are times where it can be done well,
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but mostly when I like flashbacks is a flashback to an earlier time when that
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person was still an adult. I don't like flashing back to childhoods, and
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I don't know what my ideal is with that. I think partially it's an
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impatience with child actors a lot of the time, which is super unfair,
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because this little actor who's doing Young Lufy is the fucking cutest. He is
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so adorable. Oh my god, when he gets a little hat and he's
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like crying, he's so good. But I find myself getting very impatient in
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these moments, and I'm really curious whether or not anybody else has that,
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because it's not logical. It's not like these flashb aren't interesting, or that
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they don't do anything for the story. And the acting is good and it's
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setting things up like they make sense that they are here. But I am
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so every time you go back going, no, go back to the main
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story, stop it, you know. So this is a scene where he's
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been practicing with his gum gum power. He busts up one of the chairs
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of this little bar and she has to sit down and talk with him about
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how some people are going to treat you differently because you're different now and you're
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gonna have to be prepared for that, and he doesn't really care. He
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doesn't like. This is one of those funny times where in a lot of
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stories, when somebody is told people might treat you different. Now you later
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on see them treated different and they realize like, oh, they were so
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right, and life is so hard, And it's really funny because he doesn't
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care here and he doesn't care now. Loofy is who he is and he
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just never really changes his attitude in regard to other people's opinion of him,
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which is sort of great. So this is when the gents who are part
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of Oh my God, I keep wanting to say Red Hats that's not him
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Red Shanks Crew mentioned, oh, we've got enough supplies here for a few
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months, and the one dude with the afro kind of winces when he realizes
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that Lufy is there. It's clear they were not going to tell Loofy.
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They were like Shanks was going to break it to Lufy himself when it felt
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right, and they just kind of dumped this information into Lufy's lap here without
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warning. So now he has to have this whole talk and Shanks has to
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tell him because he says when are you guys going to be back? And
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he says, we're not coming back. This kid just his whole face falls.
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I swear he is so precious. And the lady who runs the bar
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says, what did you tell him? And he just says the truth,
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which I think is usually the right policy. You can't just tell the kid,
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oh, we'll be back in such just and then fucking not do that.
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So then we come back to the present and Nammy is attempting to crack
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this safe and this is so good, you guys, because she wants some
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space, she wants some quiet to concentrate, and he is not leaving her
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alone. She says, I need absolute silence. He says, I know,
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I know absolute silence. It's just that this is my first real pirate
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score. Can you believe that? There's a point just before this where he
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says, I'm just feeling so pirty and I laughed out loud. There was
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this look. I know I've already sung his praises, so I won't just
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get into it too much. But in Yaki, what the fuck with your
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fucking timing? This dude is very perfect. He is loofy, and there
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is just no two ways about it. I can't get enough of him in
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this role. He is absolutely inhabiting this persona and the way that he can
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deliver a line like I just feel so pirty and it feels a thousand percent
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sincere and real, like a real sentence. Amazing. He's just so good.
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Meanwhile, Nami is trying to get this thing open and is really losing
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her patience because he will not leave her alone. There's a point where he
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comes and like hovers right over her and then puts his head against hers and
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she starts like yelling at him, and I had forgotten that Zorro was even
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there. But he says, can you guys keep it down? Because she
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shoves Lufy's hat off his head and it starts flying away, and he says,
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not cool, don't mess with my hat. And this is one of
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the first moments that he has looked as young as he is meant to be.
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This is not cool, and she's like, I don't get it.
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What's the deal with this fucking hat? But we know what it is and
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Soro He's like, I'm trying to get a nap and she says, oh,
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I'm sorry, are we interrupting your beauty? Sleep, and he says,
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don't like what you see, don't look and I was like, I
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would like to know who doesn't like what they see when they look at Zorro,
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because let's be real here, kids. So Nami manages to unlock this
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safe, and when they open it, there is a what do you call
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it? A rolled up poster that I think is for kuro the he's the
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pirate captain for the the Kitty Cat Pirates. What do they call it again,
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you guys, I always forget, but I think that's him. I'm
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wondering if he's going to be in the show or if this is just supposed
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to be a little bit of a reference for our sakes, because, like
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it was mentioned earlier by Morgan that he caught them all the you know,
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that he took down the Black Cat Pirates. And I can't tell whether or
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not it's supposed to be that he's saying that but it's not true, or
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if it's the show just being like, oh, yeah, remember the Black
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Cat Pirates. We are gonna mention them as a little Easter eggtall but they
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aren't going to be in the show. It's just kind of a fun throwaway
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line for those of you who know what I'm talking about, because it could
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be either one. You know, sometimes things specifically get put into the script
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because they aren't going to do that, and then sometimes it's preppy because that
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thing is coming so we'll see. But so they're looking in there and you
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can see Zoro being kind of like, this is disappointing because he was expecting
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there to be actual like wealth, and instead there is this map, beautiful
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map, lovely. But when Namius like, this is better than gold,
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this is knowledge, and again what a Goofy line, but she delivers it
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with true sincerity. So just as they are getting into like, oh the
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grand line, how does this work, she says to Loofy, wait do
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you not know where it is? And he says, well, I guess
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I need a navigator. So this is when we get our first Like.
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It's interesting to me because you guys know how many times you've had to explain
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to me the way the world is set up in the map for this place.
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And I think this may have to be one of several explanations the show
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gives, because it is a really weird setup, this map, and I
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can't imagine it's going to be easy for viewers who are new to this series
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to understand. But you know, she does the whole northwest southeast, and
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it's all set up in a way that you wouldn't expect. And then there's
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this strip down the middle called the Red Line, and this band across the
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middle is the Grand Line, treacherous stretch of ocean with bigger cities, bigger
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pirates, bigger treasure, flush with riches and ripe for the picking. And
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it's really weird. And I understand the way that the narrative has to work,
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but considering how it incredibly densely populated, the Grand Line is that it's
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treated like a big secret how to get there? When it spans the entire
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globe like this, it's kind of you know, I know that the entrance
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to it, the way that you get to it is through you know what
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I mean. So, but it just does feel weird that, like,
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oh, it's this closely guarded secret, because later on it doesn't feel like
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it needs to be. But yeah, so this is when Lufy explains like
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he hid the treasure on the Grand Line all in one piece, and Nonny
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is like, yeah, people have been looking for twenty two years and the
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reason nobody has found it is because it's not real to it. She says,
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I can't wait to see the look on your face when we find it.
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And I do love the assumption he's making that she'll be there, because
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it's not lost on her that he fully expects them to both be part of
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his crew. He has been rejected numerous times, and he's not taking that
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shit seriously at all. So this is when a firecracker goes off above the
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ship and they all assume that it's the Marines that they were found. Loofy
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is the only one that doesn't pass out immediately upon inhaling this gas, and
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we watch him swallow the map in its tube, which I don't recall if
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he actually does this in the anime, but I will say watching a real,
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actual person do this is extremely upsetting and I did not care for this
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at all, So excuse me, sorry, I'm just like getting allergies.
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So he just manages to look up and out at the ship that's coming toward
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them and see that there's a Jolly Roger on it before he passes out.
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And when we wake up, everybody is super groggy. It seems like they're
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inside a crate. Or a box or something at first, and it's extremely
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jarring once it gets lifted away and you see where they actually are. The
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fact that they were like in the midst of a stage having this conversation where
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it feels like they're super super private, but then it turns out there are
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so many people potentially watching and listening that there was something about that that I
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hated, you know, because the light coming in every crack, it really
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looks like this is a crate outside or a crate on the deck of a
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ship, like it looks like outside light, and so it's extremely disorienting when
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it's revealed where they actually are. So yeah, they're arguing about how,
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oh we need a plan. We've been captured, YadA, YadA, YadA,
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and Lufy says, well, if there are pirates that capture us,
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I'm a pirate. I can just talk to them and not mean It's like,
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dude, there is one type of pirate. They are bad people.
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You won't be able to talk to them. And that is the moment where
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the lid comes off and you see these people come like twirling down from the
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ceiling and they lift the front of the box up and out and then we've
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got acrobats flying around, We've got this like fire breather, We've got some
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on a unicycle, and all these people on the in the bleachers applaudding but
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also crying, which I swear. These actors who have to play the audience,
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they're doing a really great job of being like on the edge of hysteria
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but having to pretend to be enjoying themselves. And yet they don't have to
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be that convincing if anybody watched them and they could see easily these people are
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not having a good time, but they do well enough as distant audience members,
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and it's really disturbing. It's genuinely like not fun to watch these people,
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you know what I'm saying. Like I was, I was surprised at
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how bothered I was by this. Florence says, this, that was so
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upsetting to me. These people agree. Florian also says, I love how
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Nami says all pirates are the same, and we right then see the Buggy
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pirates not different at all. Yeah, that also hit me as well,
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like, oh, they're all the same. And then so yeah, the
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whole of this episode takes place other than the flashbacks inside this tent and it
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works really well, especially like I'm sure everybody knows this, but when you
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try and do a lot of special effects, it's often done during night scenes
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because it's easier to cover up the weirdness of how certain things look if there
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is deep shadow. And so having the scene take place mostly outside like it
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does in the anime and buggies like particular power being so heavily dependent on CGI,
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I feel like that would have been very I feel like it been a
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lot sillier looking in daylight, and in this tent it's so sinister. So
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this is when he enters and he starts yelling about how the spot my spotlight
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was late. You completely missed my entrance and oh where, oh, where
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was the dancing lion? And he yells at the dude that we have seen
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before in the anime with that like weird furry outfit. Uh I was wondering
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if they were gonna do the lion thing, and I'm gonna assume this is
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them addressing that there isn't one because that is probably expensive. I'm, you
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know, just pretending I know what's happening here. But uh so, so
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let's see, Oh, Sarahim says they sold how dangerous and messed up Buggy
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is with that one shot of the chains. Yeah, And this is when
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Lufy says, oh, hey, I know you. I saw your wanted
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poster in Shelliston. You're the clown guy, Binky Buggy Ah. Then he
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says Buggy, the clown, Buggy, the flashy fool. I thought maybe
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they might do the flashy thing a little bit more. I wouldn't have been
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mad at it, but they don't. Then he says the genius gesture,
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and Lufy says, wow, you have a lot of names. I bet
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everyone in the East Blue knows who you are. And the audience gasps,
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and he says, what did you just say? And I'm thinking, like,
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why has he said? That's a compliment. He's saying you're notorious,
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which I really thought was what you were going for. And Lufy also confused,
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just that everyone knows who you are. And he comes forward and grabs
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his face and says, nose. Are you making fun of my nose?
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Well? I was, but now that you mention it is that thing for
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real and he reaches up and trust to crab it. I love that he
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calls axe Hand Morgan, axe hand Moron and waits for the laughter, and
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when he doesn't get it, he just kind of goes, well, you
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know, they're not all going to be a winner. It's like I thought
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he would get mad that people didn't laugh, but it was more like,
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Eah, that wasn't my best work, only to find out that I was
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upstaged by three little nobodies who stole it right out from under my No.
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No, it's in my head now. Ah, this was my favorite bit.
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I cracked up the way he got so mad about how he almost said
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nos. Like the absolute irritation that he is feeling that he almost said it
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himself is so so. Lufy says, I'm not a nobody, I'm Monkey
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the Loofy, and I will be King of the pirates, and I love
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no omnious face, just like, oh my fucking god, you can't just
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shut up. She is like this both with Lufy and Zorro. The two
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of them just keep on bringing like more tension into the situation. No,
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me is very much a I'm gonna say what you want me to say to
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placate you and get you off your guard so that I can extricate myself from
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this situation, which frankly is a really female approach. And I say this
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like, as a woman, we are around dangerous men who are extremely unpredictable
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a lot, and the I will just say what I think he wants to
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hear so that he doesn't absolutely snap on me is a very valid way of
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getting out of some of the situations that a lot of us find ourselves in.
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It's why when so many people are like, if you don't want to
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talk to a guy, why give him your number, because they might kill
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us if we don't, and that's a very real threat. Like all you
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have to do is google girl killed for not giving man her number, and
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you will find scores of articles women stabbed for not giving man her number.
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There have been girls whose faces have been cut. It's just you know.
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So the fact that Nami handles things the way she does and gets really irritated
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at these two for not being more careful, it both makes sense. The
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two of them are fighters, and they have abilities that are far different and
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much more advanced than most people they run into, so they just don't have
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much to worry about. Nami is just a regular person and she can fight,
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like I feel like in the show for this, she can fight better
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than she can in the anime. She's not really a fighter in the anime,
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and she can hold her own decently in this, but I would not
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call her like a fighter. And it makes sense that she's the one going
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I'm just gonna lie, I'll do what I need and she gives them both
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up and is about to fucking roll out, and I'm not mad at her
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over it, you know, like they don't seem to be prioritizing their survival
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and she is a survivor. That's what she does. So anyway, there's
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a oh my god, I forgot about the moment. Buggy basically does like
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look around everybody on mute when they all start laughing, and he does get
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that like complete silence when he draws his hands out. So yeah, he
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starts talking about how he is destined to find the one piece and Loofy will
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never find it because he won't last a minute in the grand line. So
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this is when Zoro starts us to like, you know, start some shit.
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If you just surrender, maybe I'll let you live. And Buggy knows
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exactly who he is. He's like, oh, it's a celebrity. It's
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too bad that I don't like sharing the spotlight. Maybe we should skip right
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to the finale. My freaks put quite a bit of rehearsal time into this
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little abduction, and I can't If I can't reward them with that map,
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then maybe I'll have to find some pound of flesh for them instead. And
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this is when Nami says, what if I had something to offer you?
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And she sets Loofy up by throwing his hat into the air to reveal the
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fact that he has devil fruit powers, because this makes him a freak also,
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and maybe he could be added to the crew. She ski daddles while
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he is distracted with the you know, spectacle of Loofy's stretchy arm. And
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she goes out into the town thinking she's going to be able to run down
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to the docks escape something. And when she gets out there, she sees
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that the place is a complete and utter wreck. It is smoke and there's
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like no wall that's still quite vertical. It's pretty upsetting, genuinely, how
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bad it looks out there. And she when she's brought back inside, even
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though she does struggle, it seems like she is aware how dire the situation
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is now and that there's not going to be an easy escape. So she's
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sort of given up in that respect, and she says, what did you
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do to their town? You destroyed everything? And he's like, I let
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them keep their hands, at which point they begin to applaud I love that.
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He says, here end the theatrics, and at that point all of
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the spotlights like center on him in the most theatrical way possible. It's great,
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I want, It's wonderful. So he begins to press tell me where
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the map was, Like, I heard you say that it was in a
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safe place. So we're gonna have to make our guests uncomfortable in the green
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room and the two Zoro and Nami get dragged away while Loofy is brought front
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and center, and what they do is stretch him. But it turns out
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he can be stretched quite far without any problem. So this is when we
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jump back over to the Navy headquarters the Marines, and we have got Kobe
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getting suited up to go and you know, do his first day. And
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we've got Garp turning up to question Morgan about what happened. And it surprised
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me a little bit. And I don't know, guys, is how MEPA
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always supposed to have been a marine or has he been like put in the
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Marines as a punishment for fucking up? What was it that, do you
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know? Because like, I don't remember seeing him in this uniform in the
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show, and I may just have forgotten it, but I was startled by
32:52
it, you know. I always thought that he was sort of separate from
32:54
everything and not part of the I don't know, but anyway, Yeah,
33:02
Vice Admiral garp Hero of the Marines, the man that captured gold Roger and
33:09
Morgan is talking about how the attack came without warning and it was all he
33:15
fabricates this whole dire situation that definitely did not happen. And when Garb sees
33:24
that there's a new recruit in the Marines, he zero's in really hard on
33:32
Kobe here and later on questions Kobe quit closely, I think sensing that,
33:39
you know, I don't want to say that Kobe is the weak link because
33:44
that feels like more means spirited than I think it is. I think he
33:47
can just see like, oh, well, this thing happened, and then
33:50
you signed up on the same day. Obviously you got here because of them,
33:55
you know, putting two and two together. I also have to mention
34:01
Garp's little hat looks so much funnier in the live action in combination with the
34:09
rest of his clothing, because everything else is tailored to a tea like he
34:15
has a fly outfit. It's sick. And then this little hat just it
34:22
feels like it really does not work. It's funny like it does work.
34:28
But do you know what I was saying? Anyway, So this is when
34:37
Nami starts to work on picking the lock to her cage and Zorro has a
34:44
little confrontation with this dude who comes rolling in on a unicycle. This dude
34:50
is cracking me up. So I can't remember his name, but he is
34:55
the woman with the stripey hair, who I feel really I said this before.
35:04
The way that he is done in the show, he is so immediately
35:08
recognizable. I was really pleased with the some of the characters. The change
35:15
to their costume for the live action is somewhat dramatic in order to make them
35:20
seem less cartoonish, I think you know. For example, Alvida was toned
35:25
down a lot. All of the coloring for her stuff was toned down,
35:30
but this dude's is almost identical I feel like and I just really enjoy him.
35:38
So he has a grudge against Zorro because Ro killed his brother, cut
35:45
his head off, and took him away. There are so many moments with
35:47
this that I love, but the one I liked the best was you really
35:51
don't fear death, do you? And Zora is saying, no, I
35:54
just don't fear you. But what he doesn't realize he's doing as he keeps
36:00
throwing knives and Zorro is utterly unflinching, is he's slicing through Zoro's bonds.
36:07
So eventually Nami gets out, shoves him into Zorro, who headlocks him,
36:15
and then he just goes. He just passes out. It's just a sleeperhole
36:17
and he's down. Meanwhile, we have this fascinating thing going on with Lufy.
36:24
He's getting stretched, which is not bothering him in the least, and
36:29
Buggy is questioning him, trying to find out where the map is, and
36:32
Luf is just doing like the whole like, well, I'm hungry, don't
36:37
circuses have cotton candy just pushing his buttons for the fun of it. So
36:43
finally Buggy is like, all right, I'm asking the wrong questions, we
36:49
got to get you out of your comfort zone. You're really young, you're
36:52
trying to be King of the Pirates. Who are you trying to impress?
36:55
Is it a girl? Is it your parents? And he says is it
37:00
a fallen idol? Somebody that you looked up to? And Lufy can't help
37:06
but flinch a little bit on that one, and he realizes that he hit
37:10
it, and as he's looking at Lufy, he begins to put two and
37:16
two together with the hat and he's like, Oh, I knew this,
37:21
dude, that were a hat just like this. He I thought was my
37:27
friend Red Haired Shanks and he betrayed me. I love this because this episode
37:37
we did not find out what the betrayal was, but once you do,
37:42
it's so fucking funny because it just it's nothing, you know, so his
37:49
whole like grudge here, they make it seem very serious, and I really
37:54
would love to see the reactions of people who don't know what the betrayal is
38:00
finding out, because I don't know if they changed it for the live action,
38:05
but I'm hoping they didn't because that shit is so like pitiful to be
38:10
carrying this kind of rage for this long honestly, sir, You've got to
38:15
get a hold of yourself. So Lufy gets defensive about shanks, and at
38:24
this point of course, he says, stretch him till he breaks. This.
38:30
Dude is like, don't make me do this, and Buggy says,
38:31
well, I will pick somebody from the audience then, and he picks child,
38:36
which gets Lufy's dander up, and he begins to pull himself out of
38:40
these restraints in order to save this kid. Pretty fun little moment when he
38:46
just like manages to undo this, and there's a real sense of he could
38:51
have just undone this the whole time, Like he could have It didn't have
38:53
to be like this. You thought you had control of the situation. And
38:57
he was able to get out And it's not until this and when he yanks,
39:01
the kids like mouth up Buggy to they be like tell him you're having
39:05
so much fun, so that he's like smiling, Oh, it's so creepy,
39:08
you guys, really awful. So this is the first moment where Buggy
39:14
finds out what or sorry, Lufy finds out what Bucky's power is. He
39:19
punches Buggy's head, which goes flying off, and Lufy looks at his own
39:23
fist, like wait, wait, there's no way, and then his head
39:30
snaps back into place and he explains about the chop Chop fruit and it's great
39:38
for like, I really enjoy how incredibly theatrical all of his movements are,
39:49
and you could just accept that he is this way just as a villain,
39:53
but the fact that he's literally on stage makes it all seem like part of
39:59
the s theme, you know, like I don't know the whole thing,
40:04
it just works really really well. And yeah, so this is when he
40:12
does the whole like you can slice me and you can dice me, and
40:15
he we see the first moment of him like stretching in all of his parts
40:21
separating and it's really creepy looking, and once again he knocks Lufy out using
40:29
some of that red powder. This is when you know, the whole thing
40:32
goes down. But backstage then we go to Garp questioning Kobe, and Kobe
40:43
eventually like starts. Kobe tells him that it was loofy and that like Lufy
40:49
kind of saved my life because there's almost Garp is. I won't say that
40:54
Garp is like I'll kick you out of here. It's more that Garp is
40:59
just maybe you aren't like cut out for this, you know, And then
41:07
at one point he says like, oh, maybe we'll put you out on
41:09
one of those crosses in the yard. But as much as I believe that
41:15
he would, I don't feel like I don't take this that seriously in this
41:19
moment, but yeah, he Kobe explains about being on al Vida's crew,
41:27
and he says Lufy the straw Hat Pirate, And it's really clear when Kobe
41:32
says that he feels bad to even be saying Lufy's name, but he warned
41:39
Loofy like the next time we see each other, we may be enemies.
41:43
So there is a sense of inevitability here in Kobe being like, I feel
41:49
like a bad person, but he knew what I was signing up for,
41:52
and I knew what he was, you know, where we were going to
41:55
be. This is when Garp says, why are you pretend to be a
42:00
marine? And Kobe is like, I'm not. I want to make the
42:02
world a better place where people can feel safe. That's what I told Loofy
42:07
and he set me free, and Garp just says, did he Now,
42:14
why didn't you tell anyone about this? I was worried they wouldn't let me
42:17
enlist, then my dream would be over. And Garp seems a little bit
42:25
moved by this, so yeah, he uh pushes a chair over. He
42:31
has to push it with his foot, it's such a weird motion. And
42:36
he says telling the truth is a core value of the Marines. Isn't that
42:42
right, Boguard, Yes, sir, one that seems to be lacking at
42:46
this particular base. One last question, this uh straw hat pirate? Do
42:58
you owe him any elitian? And Kobe really takes a minute here, like
43:05
he doesn't know what to say for a second, and finally just says he's
43:09
a pirate. Pirates should face justice, and Garp says good and slaps him
43:17
really hard on the shoulder. Then we'll find him together. And I don't
43:25
know what to think of this. It's just such a different thing, you
43:29
guys than you know what I mean, Like Garp's whole deal and him being
43:32
involved in stuff this early is just so different than what I thought we were
43:39
gonna do. So anyway, it is not It's fine. But this is
43:45
when we get the flashback where young Loofy is saying that he's not hungry.
43:52
I think that's like the first time in his dialogue that we have ever heard
43:57
him say that. And this is when the best man who threw a drink
44:00
on Red Shanks is coming and troubling them again. Lufy, you know,
44:10
shoots his mouth off, gets gripped up, and then Shanks comes up and
44:16
is like, you can pour a drink on me, but you don't fuck
44:22
with my friends. And this is where Lufy is starting to understand exactly where
44:29
Shanks draws the line. And we get a pretty fun moment here, you
44:31
guys, where he does a finger guns at a guy and like pretends to
44:39
pull the trigger and then the guy actually goes down and it's his friend behind
44:45
him who pulled the trigger. And I really I've watched this episode twice now,
44:50
and both times it caught me a little off guard how perfect that was.
44:53
I really liked that moment. And we get a really really f on
45:00
fight sequence here. The Afro guy is the last to stand up. He's
45:05
like so leisurely about the whole thing, and he's trying to shoot one of
45:09
the pirates, but there's his friends in front, and so he like looks
45:13
over at this post and then he shoots sideways at the post instead and the
45:20
bullet bounces off. And the whole way that this goes, with the staging
45:25
of it and the over the top quality of how like competent these guys are,
45:30
is really really fun. I really enjoyed this fight. It's like it's
45:37
almost dance like. It's so easy, but in a way that doesn't feel
45:45
corny. It just feels like, well, everything is over the top in
45:49
this universe, so that's fine, you know what I'm saying. And we
45:53
then cut to the present where Lufy is in a tank of seawater, which
46:00
so that he can't use his power, and we get a sort of like
46:07
flip flop back and forth between this and the flashback where he started to drown
46:13
because he was fault. He was knocked out of this little dinghy that the
46:17
badman put him in by a sea king. So Buggy is trying to get
46:24
him to tell him where the map is because he will drown and there is
46:29
going to be nothing he can do to save himself, and is telling Loofy
46:35
that his friends have abandoned him, and he says, if you'll just tell
46:38
me where the map is, I may have a special place on my crew
46:45
and Loufy like pulls himself to his feet and it seems like he's gonna say
46:49
something, and he just says never, and I love Buggy just says why
46:53
not and like punches the glass and it's such a moment of like true frustration
47:00
and losing his cool for a second, Like the why not seems like a
47:05
real question, you know, that whole sense of like I don't get it,
47:10
dude, just fucking cooperate. I It's just excellent, very very well
47:16
done. So of course this is when we go back to the flashback and
47:23
we get to see Shanks facing off with this sea king and telling him to
47:30
get lost. And now that I know more, I have to assume that
47:35
when he did this, it was Hockey in the you know, my original
47:38
viewing, I was assuming it's just an insane moment of bad assery, which
47:45
I'm not trying to say even with Hockey included, that it isn't that,
47:49
because it still is. But there's like more of an explanation, I think
47:52
now. And this is when you see that he is missing an arm and
47:58
Lufy begins to sort of lose it and realizing like this is my fault.
48:01
Oh my god. And it's just the first time this kid understands the consequences
48:09
of starting shit, that it's not always just you that gets hurt. And
48:14
if you're only worried about your own pride and your own like, you're going
48:19
to be getting in fights constantly with people who do not matter. And the
48:23
only time that it is worthwhile is when it's your friends getting threatened. So
48:30
back in the present, Loofy vomits up the map, but is much more
48:37
intent on getting his hat than the map, so he's going after that,
48:40
while Buggy goes over and gets the tube with the map in it and is
48:45
really feeling himself. But this is when Zorro and Nami come out and he's
48:51
like, where are the rest of my crew? And Zorro says they're not
48:55
here, and it comes at him with his sword and everything he does,
49:05
of course, doesn't work because he already sliced up, and Bucky just yells
49:12
at him surprise, shit hit. When I tell you, I howled,
49:23
I howled. I was watching this with Owen and both of us like lost
49:29
it for a second. This show has more swearing than I was expecting,
49:32
which I personally like, you guys know, I'm a big fan of swearing,
49:37
and there are times where it can be overdone or used as a crutch
49:40
when you're not otherwise actually funny. But surprise, shithead was. It was
49:47
just such a perfect thing to say because Zorro just does not get caught off
49:54
guard often, and it just felt like he was getting to crow about something
50:00
for the first time in a way that like, I bet Zorro has only
50:07
like could count on one hand the number of times that somebody has made him
50:09
stop and go what the fuck and really not know what to do next.
50:14
So we then get the fight scene where Lufi has you know, managed to
50:21
like gather himself after watching his friends getting absolutely fucking pummeled the both of them.
50:29
I mean, it's a bad scene for a little while as Buggy's parts
50:32
go flying around all over the place. It's really really good like the effects,
50:38
I think, and the way it's done. I don't know how if
50:49
I had tried to imagine how this would be done, I don't think that
50:52
I would have expected being such a literal copy of the way his power works
50:59
with a live act would have worked very well. And it does somehow.
51:06
I love when he looks up at Lufy's someone escaped my tank of doom ah.
51:15
So that's is when Lufy is like nam the crates and we get the
51:22
best part, which is to say, Buggy keeps trying to fight and his
51:31
parts keep flying around, and Nami begins to direct his parts into the crates
51:39
and slam the lid down, and Loofy is catching them as they're flying by
51:45
and sending them toward her. Zoro is spearing a couple of them, which
51:51
I keep forgetting that, like when Buggy's like struck with a sword, whether
51:58
or not that body part is canted to his main body at that time does
52:04
not matter. He still feels pain, and I often forget that. So
52:08
yeah, all of his parts get you know, just sequestered, and he
52:16
begins to we get the tiny Minnie Buggy of his just head right on his
52:23
ankles with his hands just standing out on the sides. I never thought I
52:30
would get to see this. This looks so weird, and rightfully they have
52:36
the uh spotlight coming from behind him so that he is very deep in shadow.
52:45
And thus as much as this looks weird, because it can't not look
52:50
weird, they have lit it in I think the perfect way to get something
52:54
as absurd as this to work at all, because I don't know what you
53:00
would do again with something like this in daylight, like forget it. It
53:05
only works in extreme shadow like this. So this is when Lufy does the
53:13
gum gum pistol and or does he do bazooka ah, And he sends sorry,
53:22
Lufy bazuka, yes, gumgum bazooka, and he sends Buggy right through
53:27
the outside of the tent and that's the end of that for right now.
53:31
Buggy's not dead, but he's out of the loop for a little bit.
53:37
So of course they've got to like release all of the people who are chained
53:44
up here. And one of them asks, are you our new captors?
53:50
And Lufy's like what, and he says, well, you're pirates, right,
53:54
And Lufy's like, oh, I'm a different kind of pirate. And
53:59
now he looks up him looking like actually a little startled because it's obvious she
54:06
does not think there's other types of pirates. She has said so more than
54:07
once, and he's proving, hm, no, there are different types.
54:13
And I'm not doing that. These people can just go rebuild their poor town,
54:17
and I should mention like the dude with the crazy wig is the same
54:22
one that had the dog. I was wondering if they were going to do
54:25
the thing with a dog. Kind of glad that they didn't, because that
54:29
broke my heart. And I don't think I could handle it now that I
54:30
own a dog, seeing it done in live action with the real dog,
54:34
I just I couldn't. I don't think. I don't think I could do
54:37
it. It would just be so sad, you guys. But when we
54:45
jump back over to the base, the Marine Base, Morgan is strung up
54:52
on one of those those crosses outside and Garb is talking about this unending war
55:00
against piracy, We're not fighting the right battle. We can take their ships,
55:06
we can take their weapons and even their lives, but we cannot win
55:09
if we do not take away their dreams. And this is why I am
55:15
personally leading a mission to hunt down the pirates who attacked this base, and
55:22
I'm taking this squadron of new cadets with me. Together, we will show
55:25
these pirates and all pirates that there are consequences for their actions, and we
55:34
are that consequence. And I'm really not sure if I imagined it, but
55:40
I could have sworn. When hel Mepo sees his father strung up that he
55:44
smirks a little for a second. It seems like he gets control of his
55:47
face pretty quickly. But for a moment I was like, oh, he's
55:51
kind of happy about this. Oh yeah, they do have the little dog
55:57
running past his feet. I didn't even notice the dog. There is a
56:00
dog there, it's just that they don't do that storyline. Oh I didn't
56:05
even notice the little dog is here. Oh look at him. He's so
56:08
scraggly. So this is when the townspeople attempt to give them some food,
56:14
and Loofy and the rest are just like, you need this a lot more
56:16
than us. It's fine. And instead of clean walking away like he intended
56:23
to, obviously, he has a moment where he's like well and he turns
56:28
back and like grabs something for the road, which is only correct. Lufy
56:32
would have to write. So let me get the scene where young Loofy and
56:38
Shank's part and he's given the hat. It's excellent acting. It's really sweet,
56:45
and this kid like talking about how he's going to have the best crew,
56:51
and Shanks is like moved by it, as you know, whenever as
56:54
an adult. You hear a kid talking about what they're going to achieve in
56:59
life, there's just such a sense of possibility, and it's very poignant because
57:05
you remember your time of life, you know, when everything stretched out before
57:09
you, and it can be very bittersweet. It can be simultaneously like look
57:16
how far I've come and also like, oh, there's so many other things
57:19
that could have done, you know, But this is the point where I
57:24
am not sure if I have to take it all back or what. When
57:29
he takes his hat off and gives it to Loofy, I could swear that
57:35
that's Shanks's real hair under that hat. Now I may be wrong about that,
57:43
and it may be a straight up wig. But when the hat isn't
57:47
on, his hair looks almost normal. It's like, actually, maybe that's
57:54
fine. I can't get over how much worse it looks the fucking hat on,
58:01
Like I don't know if they just put color over it, because what
58:06
it kind of looks like to me due to how peaci it is is a
58:15
colored wax, a colored palmade that I have tried a couple of times on
58:19
my own hair, And because it's a palmade, it causes your hair to
58:24
clump, so it's really great, especially on like black hair. Rashan has
58:30
used it on her dreads that colored wax and it looks awesome. But when
58:36
you've got finer hair, it just makes it look really greasy and like you
58:42
need a shower. So I can't tell if they just used a kind of
58:46
colored palmade on a guy who has otherwise got like blonde hair and that's why
58:54
it looks so fucking scraggly, or if this is just a wig that's not
59:00
done super well. It was hard for me to tell. I just want
59:05
to register my shock at what a difference it made when he was not wearing
59:10
the hat and I wasn't. Last episode I said that like Shanks was not
59:16
really giving what I wanted from him. I'm starting to take that back.
59:22
I liked him a lot better this episode than the first one. Still not
59:28
quite the swagger that I'm looking for, But honestly, I think in my
59:32
imagination Redshanks in the anime has more swagger than he actually does. I think
59:40
that swaggersh is not actually his thing, and I sort of think of it
59:45
as being his thing simply because I consider him a badass. So maybe this
59:51
is better than I am, you know, giving it credit for in my
59:57
head. So something. Back to the present, Namy has repaired Lufy's hat
1:00:05
and he is talking about how Shanks always said, if the path you chose
1:00:09
seems too easy, then you're on the wrong path. And Zoro says,
1:00:14
this Shanks guy sounds all right. I just once again have to register cheekbones.
1:00:23
Oh my god, for days, I swear to God, get a
1:00:28
hold of yourself, Natasha. Every time Zoro is on screen, I'm just
1:00:34
like Jesus. So this ends with Lufy pointing ahead and saying to the grand
1:00:40
line before we cut for our final moment to me pulling a floorboard out of
1:00:50
the floor of like the kitchen area in the boat, and she pulls out
1:00:58
a tiny little nail transponder and tells someone you can tell him that I've got
1:01:06
the map and I love in the brackets. Dramatic music plays and she takes
1:01:15
the year piece out puts it away. Credits. So yeah, so that's
1:01:22
the end of the episode. I really am enjoying this so much so far,
1:01:28
you guys, I'm so excited. I Owen was like after we watched
1:01:32
this, he was like, I'm so mad that they are nailing this show
1:01:37
so hard, and they fucked up Cowboy Bebop so bad because he loves Cowboy
1:01:43
Bebop like that's his anime, you know, And he was so excited and
1:01:50
he didn't even watch any of it. The reviews were so bad that he
1:01:53
didn't want to be saddened by watching it and being as upset as everyone he
1:02:00
knew seemed to be, so he just has never watched it. And I
1:02:07
understand what he means. You know, this can just be a thing where
1:02:12
it's like people around you seem to be getting like, you know, things
1:02:19
just seem to be working out for their series, their fandoms in a way
1:02:22
it didn't for years, and you're just like, god, damn it.
1:02:25
So anyway, I got to wrap this one up, but thank you guys
1:02:30
so much for hanging out with me. I appreciate you all so much,
1:02:32
and thank you again Gabby for commissioning this. Until next time to Lulu Motherfus.
1:03:10
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