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One Piece LIVE ACTION, S01E07- The Girl With The Sawfish Tattoo · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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the live action Netflix series, Season one, episode seven, The Girl with
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the Softish Tattoo. In this episode, we get the iconic moment of Loofy
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giving Nami his straw hat to wear while he gathers his friends to kick some
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ass. I am very very here for it. Welcome to spoil Me,
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Welcome to the show. Everyone. I am the Tasha. Thank you very
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much to Gabby for commissioning this episode. You guys, I'm so bummed one
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episode left after this. I am so sad. This has been such fun.
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I like, I really really want them to just keep making this show
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in perpetuity like the anime. Tighten everything up, do whatever you need to
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do. I'm fine with that, but I really want to be watching this
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series ten years from now, with like new episodes coming out. You know.
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That's I hope so much that they don't cancel it in the way that
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Netflix does. I know they've already you know, it's just greenlit a second
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season, but that's no guarantee of anything, and I just am desperately keeping
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my fingers crossed and hoping, and yeah, I don't think that they have
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anything like a drop date for season two. I think it's just been announced
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that they are starting on filming. But hopefully one of y'all will commission me
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to watch that too, I really hope. So we'll see. But let's
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begin. Let's begin, Okay. I just want to acknowledge too that I
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love the title of this episode, The Girl with the Sawfish Tattoo, as
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clearly a reference to the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, and you know,
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she does have a pretty traumatic history. It's granted, not quite on the
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level of the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, but uh, we're I appreciate
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that little joke. It's pretty good. So we started the episode off with
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Buggy directing Oosop and I can't with how much Buggy says shit and shittastic.
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I think he called them shitty it's last episode, but he is just mocking
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Oose up here for not knowing which direction is starboard, and he says something
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like I thought clowns were supposed to be funny, and Buggy says, want
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to say that to my face, and then Zoro rans the corner and he
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says, I know Lufy made a deal with you, but if you trick
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us, and Buggy says, what are you gonna do bleed on me?
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Which that's a money pythonline. But also, sir, you are only ahead
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like you have no body. You are not in any position to be making
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threats against the guy standing with a sword at his hip, a hip that
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he has because he has a whole body. I would just advise not,
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but Buggy isn't really thinking things through. So Zoro picks him up by his
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little hair cover what do you call that a handkerchief, I guess, and
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hangs him over the side, and he just is like, well, you
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know, Zoro, buddy, We're cool. Everything's fine, right, And
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then you start singing this song. Oh there once was a girl with tangerine
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hair, still my map and look me straight at somewhere, truly a crafted
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and crooked young lass. But you can't deny she had a spectacular oh god,
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right on my nose. Look. I don't like Buggy, but she
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do have an ass though. You got to give it to her. So
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me cut over to Loofy, who is sitting with Sanji. They're trying to
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fish and Lufy is very impatient, which is unsurprising. Soanji is extremely philosophical
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about the whole thing. Sometimes they bite right away, Sometimes it takes ages.
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Sometimes you don't catch anything at all. And he's wearing a pretty chunky
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silver ring on it looks like the middle finger of his right hand. And
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I don't recall if this is anything significant or you know, even if it's
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meant to be something significant on the show yet in terms of like is it
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just a costume choice, I don't know, but I just wanted to mention
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that I noticed it because I couldn't see from this far away what it looked
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like, but it was pretty sizable, and I sort of wondered if maybe
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it was like something to remind him of Zeph or the Baratier or you know,
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anything like that. I don't know, And kiddos, I have got
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to just say one more time, Sanji could get it, like a few
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times, this gentleman has got something going on, and it's like I want
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that to not be true because of his like, oh, women are all
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a mystery. Women don't say what they actually mean later this episode because that's
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just some bullshit. However, also it mixed in with that kind of like
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misogynistic take there is him being able to sense there's more to the story,
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and he's right about that, so he has better judgment despite these like cliche
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sort of here's the thing. The whole idea of women don't say what they
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mean. The reason that is like still bandied about is because for a long
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time women were not allowed to say what they meant. We were punished quite
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frequently and by a variety of parties for saying what we actually meant. So
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we had to learn how to gauge the audience we were speaking to and the
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possible consequences of what we were saying, and be extremely passive in the way
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that we said it. So that's an issue. And secondly, we often
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do just say what we mean and men don't want to hear it, and
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so they just don't and then they act surprised. This is often a thing
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when women decide that they want a divorce and the men will be like,
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well, this came out of nowhere. If you look at the documentation,
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You're honor, it was said many times that she was getting fed up.
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And it's also funny because like men will just tell you fucking lies all the
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time. The number of things like I really feel good about at least with
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Owen and Brendan. I never had lies from them almost ever, and they
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are there's reason that I stayed with them because the lies that you get fed
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by dudes. They may have a totally different motivation in not saying what they
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mean, but it's still like they still do it. So anyway, all
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I have to say, as much as it bugs me that he bandies those
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kinds of bullshit takes about, I really can't be mad at the results,
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which are that he tends to look below the surface and sort of try and
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suss out that there's something actually going on. And later on when we get
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the story about what happened to Nami and her sister, he's the one that's
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like trying not to sniffle in the corner because he's gotten quite emotional listening to
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the tale. So all of that in his favor, combined with the fact
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that he can cook, combined with the just like easy grace, there's just
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a vibe and an elegance to him. It's just really doing it for me.
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It just really is. So I'm sorry, Zoro, I'm gonna have
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to backseat you. I never thought that would happen, but there you are.
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But yeah, he says to Lufy at this point, but we're not
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talking about fishing, are we, And uh Lufy says, I just wish
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I knew Nami was okay, to which son she says, a beautiful,
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talented woman does not choose to ally herself with a pirate like our along.
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Nomi clearly needs to be rescued. And this is when Zoro comes up and
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says her tattoos, says, different tattoos don't tell the whole story, and
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like any woman, she's a mystery. Nomy made her choice. You don't
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know why. The only thing I want to hear from you are dinner specials.
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I really enjoy the two of them, Like we finally get to Sanji
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calling Zoro mosshead. I'm into it, and I like that this like conflict
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between the two of them. It feels because you know, I have no
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problem with the petty conflicts that they have later it's quite entertaining. But this
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moment, because it's the Nami that they are angry about, each of them
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in their own ways, it feels very organic because with Zoro there's a specific
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thing going on with him, where for me, what's happening is that he's
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actually angry at the fact that he grew to like Nam and he trusted Nam,
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and then to find out that she was with the Arlong pirates. You
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know, he made an exception joining this crew because even though he has had
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a whole thing against pirates, Lufy felt like a different kind of pirate.
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But then to find out that Nami isn't a different kind of pirate, She's
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the exact type that he has been going after. It's a betrayal and it's
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him seeing things in a very black and white way. It's almost like he
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is so cynical that when the hint that she is like part of the Arlon
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crew is dropped, it's I say hint. But you know, he is
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fully willing to go whole hog into Oh yeah, she was lying, she
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was conning us. Because he has seen a lot of bad shit and is
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willing to see the worst in people, like it's not hard for him to
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believe at all. But with Soanji, he loves women, he is much
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more like interested in defending her. I am going to go ahead and hazard
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a guess because she is a woman. So there's just that intrinsic sort of
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bias that he has. But then the fact that you know, he because
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he wasn't personally betrayed, that he isn't as close to the situation as Zora
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was. It would make sense that he's more willing to offer up some benefit
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of the doubt because he's not hurt by her. You know, this isn't
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this isn't hitting him where he lives, so he can step back and have
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a slightly more objective approach. And it just makes sense the way that each
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of them is just kind of sniping in each other. So this is when
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us up yells land ho and I always love when they say land ho and
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everybody turns. This is not just the show. Everybody turns and they're like
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one hundred yards away from an island, and it's like the point of yelling
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land hose because you see it long before anybody on the deck would see it,
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like you're on the you know, in the crow's nest or whatever,
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or because other people aren't paying attention. But this is like a giant area
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that there's no way they would have missed it. It was just very funny
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to me. But yeah, so we cut from there. We have that's
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the cold open, and I just wanted to mention. You know, every
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time that we have one of those cold opens, we get a different Jolly
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Roger, and this one is it has like two curls coming out from behind
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it, like almost like cinnamon roll style curls. It's tongue is sticking out,
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and it has a winky eye and stripey blue and white kerchief. I
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can't figure out what this is in reference to you guys, because it's not
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Nammy. At first, I thought it was Buggy because he's just such a
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goober. But it doesn't work for him either. And I mean it's not
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Namy's sister, I don't think, certainly, not one of our alongs,
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guys, Like, it just doesn't. I don't know. I feel like
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I'm missing something here, so if anybody wants to help me out with that.
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But anyway, so we after we see the title card, we get
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nam as a child. This little girl is so like looks so much like
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her, and she reminds me a lot of like a you know, cursed
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and Dunst when she was in interview with a vampire. But we have her,
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you know, as a child, playing with her adoptive sister and they
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are in the tangerine Groves and they are out here with their adoptive mother,
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whose name I always forget. It's like Bellemere, I feel like, and
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she bell maher maybe, and they're playing snap in the garden and it's a
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very sweet scene. Like the whole vibe here is really warm and loving and
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friendly. And they don't have money. You know, they're struggling, but
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you really do see how much she loves these girls and how there is a
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home here and I just really really like this moment. So let me come
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back into the present. And Nami is playing poker with the fishmen and she
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is up against this dude who's got a couple stripes down his face. There's
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a very Polly Walnut's sort of energy to him. Uh, there's just like
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all of these guys the really it feels like they are designed to look like
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a combination of a fish and like a Dick Tracy villain, you know what
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I'm saying. And she provokes this one fishman that he really like looks around
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to every as she makes a joke that he can't count higher than five.
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He looks around and he goes all in and it really feels like he just
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fell directly into her trap, like this is exactly what she was trying to
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get him to do, and he loses, and when she wins, he
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calls her a cheat. There is no evidence that I know of. He
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seems to just be like a sore loser. But we then see her walking
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away and she does have other Queen cards in her bag. She was cheating.
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Now I'm really curious whether or not he knew for a fact, if
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it was just the fact that, like, was he kind of counting cards?
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Like did he know how? You know what I'm saying, Like,
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this is what I really want to know, is was he just being a
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sore lose? Because he may very well have simply been pissy and wound up
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right by accident, But I am curious, like if he had good reason
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to think. So he accuses her. She uses her knife, and she
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just says, you should know that nobody in this crew lies about money.
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And there's a long face down between the two of them, and finally he
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lets go of her, and she gets summoned by Arlong and she goes to
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see him, and he sends her on a mission to go and get the
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payment from the people of Coco Island or Cocoa village. They are on the
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same island because they have failed to pay up. They are late on their
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payment, and then when she finally goes to collect, they don't have the
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whole thing. And this is I found her acting like in this part.
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I feel like, so here's the thing I'm gonna I'm gonna say that I
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understand. At the same time, I find her acting to be a little
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bit like one note sometimes, But I also understand that the point with Nami
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a lot is that she's keeping it inside and trying to keep a lid on
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her actual emotions because she can't let things show. So it's a very like
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difficult line to walk, because this is what happened as well with Denaris in
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Game of Thrones. In the book, she talks about keeping her face placid,
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but you at least get to see inside her interior mind and understand how
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money emotions she's experiencing and how difficult certain moments are for her despite not being
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able to show. And in the television show it was a lot harder because
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she just had to keep a straight face so often that it wound up becoming
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almost tedious since she was attempting to convey I am keeping a straight face,
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but also there's a ton of emotion behind my face and I have to let
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that show somehow in my eyes, but only in my eyes. It can't
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come out anywhere else. And that's a really difficult thing to pull off as
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an actor, and I think that they both are able to pull it off.
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But I do also think that having that be something that goes on for
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such a long time can feel to one note, like I said, too
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tedious. So I was sort of relieved when we get to the end of
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this episode and she has her breakdown, because we got to see a different
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side of her that was truly, like so upset, set in a way
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that she has not allowed herself to be. And I just felt relief for
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the actress, and I'm sure that it was nice for her as well to
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get a moment where she's like able to just let loose for a second,
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you know. And I also want to mention that I after I finished the
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episode, I wanted to see the moment that Lufy puts his hat on Nami
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in the anime again. I went and found the clip on YouTube, and
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she's wearing the exact like green. It's not like, you know, it's
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designed differently here. It's not strappy the way that that is, but she
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has the same sort of overall outfit and once we get to that scene,
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it's like shot for shot with the anime. It's really really similar. So
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anyway, she gets sent on this mission to our by our along and she
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super pissed about it, and we get another flashback of her as a little
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girl looking through this map book and her mother, Bell Mayer, I'm saying,
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mother, you know it is. That's the whole point is that she
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considers herself their mother. She asks Nami where she got it, and Nami
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has to admit that she stole it from the bookstore and tries to justify it
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by saying that she didn't hurt anyone, and bell Mayer is like, I
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you hurt the people who stole it. Why would you do that? And
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she says, because I wanted it? And this little actress, I thought
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pulled this off quite well because she says because I wanted it, and there's
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a certain like snottiness to it, but you can also see the fear like
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she's being preemptively defiant, and so the snottiness there's sort of like something that
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kind of undercuts it a little bit, and she just says, I didn't
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have any money. I am tired of being poor. I'm tired of eating
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tangerines. I'm tired of eating and Nogako's hand me downs and this is like
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something that I can deeply relate to. And bell Mayer says, we may
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not have much, but we have a roof over our heads and we love
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each other. That's what makes us a family. And she says, no,
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we're not a real family. She's not my sister, and you're not
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even my mom. And Nogako slaps her across the face, and I had
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forgotten that she does. She does that in the anime as well, and
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Nomy goes running up out of there, and I thought maybe they would have
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bell mayor I hope I'm saying that right. I think bell Mayer that they
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would have her like apologize to Nami for hitting her. I was wondering if
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they would because in the anime she doesn't. It's supposed to be like she
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meant what she did because it was so offensive to her what Nami said.
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But I kind of wondered if the the live action they would sort of pull
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back a little bit and try and be like, oh, we're going to
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acknowledge that, like slapping a little kid in the face was not the move,
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you know. They don't though, They just go ahead and roll past
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it into her story and her telling Noami, I kept a st plate on
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the stove for you, and I kind of the part of me like appreciated
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that. Even though I don't like that she hit Nami. I also like
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the fact that the show isn't particularly trying to change that part of Bellmayer's personality.
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But yeah, So this is when we get the flashback and she's telling
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Nami about how she was injured and she was starving and she wandered into this
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area where there had been an attack and she thought she was going to die,
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and she found Nami and Nojako under I think it's like an overturned wagon
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or something. The two of them are hiding under there, and she says,
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the moment I saw the two of you, I knew I had to
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live so that I could take care of you, and we are a family,
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like you know, it comes down to her being like, don't you
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ever fucking forget it? And I know that you will do the right thing.
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And when we come back to this flashback later, Nami is giving the
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book back. She's giving it to the uh sort of cop I don't even
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know. I don't remember what his name is, But we'll deal with that
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scene later. Our alongs vibe with Nami. This actor who plays Arlung I
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went and like looked up what he looks like. First of all, he
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finds hell, which is unsurprising, and secondly, I feel like he really
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is excellent at managing that weird, unsettling energy of I'm pretending to be friendly,
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but I'm not friend. I'm not your friend, and I have a
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distinct understanding of the hierarchy I'm working with here. So there's a sense of
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him like telling her over and over different scenes to relax, to have fun
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and to and he says things like I really miss you, and you know,
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it's like he wants to be chummy, but it feels like he is
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only ever actually saying this because he knows how uncomfortable it makes her, Like
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he would never approach a different person and who actually wanted to be in the
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inner circle the same way, because the whole thing is about power and making
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her feel like she's off kilter and unbalanced. So you know, you've approached
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different people in different ways to make them feel really uncertain about where they stand.
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With you and with her, this sort of like false intimacy. It's
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just he does it so well where I find myself almost wishing she would relax,
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just have a drink, just be cool for a second. And I
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have to remind myself, like the instant she did, that he would find
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something to fuck with her, because the whole point of this isn't that he
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wants her to relax, like that's the opposite of it. But yeah,
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anyway, he comes in and he says, uh, you should be proud
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of yourself. Now we know every marine base and strong from here to the
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goa kingdom, and you're a valued member of this crew. We make a
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great team. You were gone so long part of me thought you might not
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be coming back. And she says, of course I came back. We
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have a deal, don't we, And he says, yeah, I'm a
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fishman of my word. But he ain't. He ain't that though, So
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she hands over the map in this you know, big moment here where it
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seems like maybe she's going to fuck with him, and he says, soon
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fishman will rule the East Blue and then onto the Grand Line and every other
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see after that. And we have more talk this episode, not here,
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but in general about the way that fishmen have been enslaved. And I wish
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that if they were going to kind of keep harping on about this aspect of
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the way he like wants retribution, that we had gotten to see more of
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what he meant, or get an example. It feels like because the only
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time that we have ever seen a fishman other than him was the may Or
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d I think at the Barazzier, who is not being mistreated. It doesn't
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seem like there's he's a slave. It seems like that's just his job.
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There's not a really good sense of what it is that he's upset about.
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You can understand it in like a you know, the broad strokes of it
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as a hypothetical, but it doesn't have an emotional hit because we haven't gotten
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a look at this trade and what he's talking about. It almost could feel
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like he's exaggerating things you didn't know for sure, you know what I mean.
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So, yeah, he says that marines can be bought and sold when
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an animal gets too wild, it must be brought to heal, and he
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does like he's sort of holding her chin with the map tube, and he
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says, you'll have a special place in my empire, and Nami says,
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i'd better, and he starts laughing and says, oh, na me,
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how I've missed you. But I have another job for you in the meantime.
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And this is when he tells her to go to Cocoa Village and get
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the money. And it's obvious her being like, i'd better. He has
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to show her her place, remind her that she doesn't get to throw attitude
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at him because she's going to be like sent to do something distasteful as punishment.
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So we then jump over to the Barazzier and we've got Garp turning up
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and asking Zef if he has seen Loofy, and he knows him by the
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name Red Legs Zef he was captain of the Cook Pirates, and Zeph says,
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yeah, well those days are far behind me. I'm retired. I'm
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a chef now and the only thing under my command is this restaurant. But
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yeah, he's being kind of, you know, defensive right out of the
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gate, because understandably he is assuming that they are here for him, and
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gar Pass to be like, no, no, no, we're here for
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a young pirate named Loofy who was here recently, and Zef does the whole
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hmm. I'm afraid I can't help you. I don't have such a great
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memory, you know, I'm growing old, and they're like straw hat running
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his mouth. Nope, drawing a blank. And then how about a meal
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on the house. I've got a dozen tee bone steaks and a busted cooler.
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It'd be such a shame to let all that delicious marbling go to waste.
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And I love as he says this, You guys, if you're watching,
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like really closely, the wistful longing that comes into Garb's eyes as Zef
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says this, it's like Nammy with the mention of treasure. It's just so
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it's comedic. It's so good. And Bogart starts to say, we're not
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here for a meal, we're here, and Garp interrupts and says that steak,
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and you could see like his mouth is all already watering, and Zeph
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says medium rare, and he nods and says more rare than medium. And
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that's how the episode or the scene cuts off, and later on when we
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see him, he's eating with this just hedistic appreciation that got me right in
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the heart. I love to see people enjoying food, and it's like this.
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I mean this in terms of I like to see it because I love
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food and I imagine eating it and it's like entertainment in that way. But
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also I love to cook and I love that seeing like people appreciating what I
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have made. And this has been a bone of contention with me and Owen
32:46
a couple of times, because I will make this meal that takes forever and
32:51
I've put so much effort into it, and I'm really hoping he likes it,
32:53
and I'm not sure if he will. And Owen doesn't get to fly
33:00
with like saying that he likes something, so he'll just put his head down
33:04
and inhale a whole bowl of it in seven minutes, and then I have
33:10
to be like, so, how was it, and he'll be like,
33:14
oh, it was really good, But he will never give any indication of
33:17
really enjoying it while he's eating it, and I always have to ask because
33:22
he's just not effusive, you know. So whenever I come across somebody who
33:27
does what I do, which is like take a bite and just go oh
33:30
my god, that's good, like thank you, appreciate you. So we
33:36
go back to Cocoa village and we've got the boys arriving and looking around at
33:43
all of these huts and how much has been destroyed. And they come across
33:49
one particular hut that's been literally yanked up out of the ground so that there's
33:55
just a like hole underneath it, and they're all looking at it like what
34:01
the hell could even have done that? And I love us up immediately being
34:07
like, maybe maybe I should head back to the to the you know,
34:10
the ship and just like make sure everything's cool the marry. And as they
34:15
keep walking, he's like, or you know, I could go back and
34:19
like take the merry around if we don't want to walk back the whole way.
34:23
He's got some good lines here, Buggy in the bag, Hey,
34:30
shithead, I think we can all agree that our lung's a bad fish.
34:32
But why don't we quit lolligagging and go get my body back? Soanji,
34:43
I think, asks us up, do you want to carry him for a
34:46
while? And usup says oh no, new guy carries the clown head,
34:52
and later on Sonji stuffs a tangerine in his mouth and says, new guy
34:57
shuts up the clown head. So then we go to the scene where the
35:04
whole village is attempting to put together enough money to pay the fine that they
35:08
have to pay, the tribute whatever, and they put it together, and
35:14
the dude with the mustache is saying it's not enough, and this woman says,
35:20
do we have time to get some more? And you just hear Nami
35:23
say no, you don't, and I love she walks through. Everybody here
35:31
is dressed in these very drab like even clothing that head used to be brightly
35:37
colored is so coated and dirt it's all basically the same, like brown.
35:44
And she walks forward and comes face to face with her sister, who has
35:49
grown now, and Loofy almost steps in, but I think it's Zoro who
35:55
stops him and is just like, just observe, and her sister spits at
36:00
her feet and is just like, you are so full of shit. I
36:06
am disgusted by you, and walks away from her. I love the tattoos
36:10
she's got, they look so cool. She just looks dope, like you
36:15
know, and she doesn't. In the anime as well, she had one
36:16
of the cooler character designs for a woman because so many of the women look
36:21
the same in the show. So yeah, she stalks off, and you
36:27
see Lufy sort of taking note that there must be a special relationship between the
36:31
two of them because everyone else is acting afraid of Nami except for that girl
36:36
and that you know. Then this girl spat and left like there's something specific
36:39
happening here, and we then have Nami saying to mustache man, do you
36:46
have something for me? And we then jump into a flashback of him saying
36:51
that to her, and she is returning the book she stole and you know,
36:59
assuring him that she will never steal again. But when she does this,
37:02
he says, do you have your fingers crossed behind your back? And
37:06
she says maybe, which was a cute moment. But yeah, he's got
37:13
a good energy. I like this guy. You know in the anime as
37:16
well, he had he was a voice of reason, mister Genzo. Okay,
37:22
there she just said it, but uh, I feel like this actor
37:24
was a really good choice for it because he has the feeling of somebody who
37:28
could be a hard ass if pushed but he doesn't like to do it.
37:31
So this is when Arlong and his people show up, and they just begin
37:36
to beat the hell out of everyone, and he says, citizens of Cocoa
37:39
Village, this town belongs to me, and they all flee, and mister
37:45
Gonzo goes forward and gets his ass handed to him by a fish man.
37:52
He like is disarmed with almost no effort, and that is where he stains
38:00
the injury that has scarred his face. And our along is indeed the man
38:06
who just yanked an entire house up by the roots. Basically, so Bell
38:13
Maaire flees with Nami and she hides them in the I hesitate to call it
38:22
a basement because it feels like it's not used for anything. It feels like
38:24
it's purely there for hiding and not for storage. But she keeps them down
38:30
there, and we have that scene where Arlong comes in demands a certain amount
38:35
of money, which she has, and he starts to leave until he notices
38:43
that there are two other places set at the table. Even though there's no
38:50
registration of family living at this address, apparently they have that info. I
38:55
don't know where they got it. There must be some central like a sort
39:00
of town hall that has info and they were looking through that. But yeah,
39:07
the moment where he notices that this actor just infuses the moment with so
39:12
much dread. It's just very, very creepy, and you want so much
39:15
for him to just leave, you know. So before we get there,
39:22
we have Loufy facing off with Nami and her telling him I conned you into
39:29
getting the map for me. I was never part of your stupid crew,
39:32
and he says, you don't mean that. And when he says that,
39:37
you see her just get so frustrated because it's she could act in the moment
39:42
like she's frustrated because she wants him to believe her so bad because she she
39:49
thinks she means it, But you know that it's that she's frustrated that he
39:52
can see through enough to tell that she doesn't mean it. You know,
39:57
she is trying to protect him. That's genuinely her motivation here is to keep
40:04
him away because she feels like she will hurt him and if she doesn't,
40:08
ourlong will and so it's up to her to get him to hit the road.
40:15
But just knowing that he is able to sort of read her more than
40:21
she wants to be read that's where the frustration is really coming from. So
40:29
she walks away, and it leaves those four boys standing there discussing what's actually
40:36
going on here. Oos Up is like, that went really really badly.
40:40
Should we just go back to the boat, and Sanji says, there's something
40:46
else going on here. She was, you know, like, I don't
40:51
like this. Zora's like, I mean, she made it pretty clear she
40:55
just wants us to leave. And this is when Sonji says, you know,
40:59
women, they never say what they mean, don't you guys get it?
41:04
She's one of them. She's a bad guy. The villages are terrified
41:08
of her. And this is when Lufi says, not all of them.
41:15
And he decides that he is going to go and talk to the blue haired
41:19
girl. I love that he just says, hey, scar guy, and
41:23
understandably, as he introduces himself as I'm a pirate, Zoro feels the need
41:29
to intervene and say hunter, pirate hunter and explain we're here for our long,
41:37
which he understandably doesn't think these four have got any fucking chance. They
41:45
look like a pretty ragtag bunch. Let's you know, it's weird. We've
41:50
got a couple guys in sort of Hawaiian ish shirt. Sure one of them
41:53
has a weapon, and he seems the one that's able to handle himself most.
41:58
But then we've got this scrawny kid, it looks unarmed in a hat.
42:01
We've got a dude in a suit who does not really give the energy
42:06
off of like a fighter exactly. He's you know, clearly well built,
42:12
but also unarmed. And then we've got who's up in the back, not
42:16
making eye contact and trying to be as small as possible and not draw any
42:21
attention and just generally cowering, and uh, yeah, the whole thing is
42:27
is not looking like these are people who stand a chance up against our along.
42:34
So yeah, he gives them the name of Najiko and says down the
42:37
rope to the down the road to the edge of the tangerine grove, and
42:43
uh, I just sort of wondered if that rang a bell for Zorro,
42:47
because you know, she did mention the tangerine grow grove. So when they
42:54
get there, she's got a weapon, does not want to talk to them,
43:00
and it finally like they are able to negotiate because Sanji is charming.
43:08
He is the guy who is smoothing the way, and he says, well,
43:15
we want to know what happened, and if you would like I could
43:19
make you something to eat, and she's like, we don't have many ingredients,
43:24
and he says, you could be surprised what I could do with just
43:27
a few things. And later on when she eats it, she tells him
43:30
what he made is the most delicious things she's ever eaten. I loved you.
43:37
When she says, my sister doesn't have any friends, and he says,
43:39
sisters makes sense. Both as beautiful as each other. He's very reliable,
43:49
but you know he is the one that seems to warm her up.
43:52
When he says, how about a meal, you really get a response out
43:55
of her that indicates that this is a person who doesn't reliably have have meals.
44:00
You know, she's got just about what she needs to survive, and
44:04
that's kind of it. So, yeah, this a little bit and the
44:12
way that he like worms his way in, I just really enjoyed it.
44:17
And honestly, this girl is so beautiful, Like every time that she's on
44:22
camera, I was like, somebody needs to just sculpt her or something.
44:27
You could make her face into one of those like Barbie heads that you would
44:30
put makeup on, do you know, guys are the ones I mean where
44:32
it's just like the shoulders coming out of the plank or whatever. But she
44:38
would be like so much fun if you were a makeup artist to do makeup
44:42
on, because she's just got one of those faces that's got so much character
44:46
to it but is so flawless. Ah beautiful, beautiful girl. So yeah.
44:54
We then head over to the baratier again. This is the moment where
45:00
we get to see Garp eating. I can't remember who it is. I
45:05
feel like it might have been what's his face? Oh no, it's not.
45:14
It's Bogart, who says this is nothing. You should see him in
45:20
a curry house. That's right, because we've got Kobe and Helmepo off to
45:25
the side watching and just sort of like you get the feeling that maybe this
45:31
is the eleventh steak he's eaten. I don't think it is, but you
45:35
know what I mean, there's like a sense of we've been watching this guy
45:38
chow down for a while. Now. A curry sounds so good to me
45:45
right now, Oh my god, this sounds so good. So we then
45:50
have Zeph come and open a bottle of wine and what he tries to do
45:58
is destroy by chit chatting about fishing and about cooking and everything else, but
46:06
it never actually works. And what it comes down to is a moment where
46:12
Zeph tells him you're not gonna stop him, and he's too like he's grown.
46:17
There comes a point where you just have to let go and let them
46:22
make their own decisions. And of course Garp is not at all interested in
46:29
this advice, but he says, you know, he's a special kid there.
46:32
It's their time. There's a new generation, and you've got to give
46:38
them room to breathe. And it's an interesting tack to take because like being
46:45
like, oh, this kid, you know, he is a pirate,
46:47
this is what he wants to do. Just let him live his dream whatever.
46:52
That is really the way we've approached it in the script mostly, And
47:00
to have Zep kind of just say, you know, we're the old fogies
47:06
and it's time for us to sort of step aside and let them do their
47:08
thing. It makes sense considering the reasoning he gave behind being willing to eat
47:14
his own leg instead of like taking any food away from Sonjy, that he
47:20
was like looking at Sanji as somebody who was going to go on to live
47:23
the dream that he had imagined for himself. So being interested in like letting
47:30
the new generation take the reins actually makes a lot of sense. But Garp
47:37
is just not hearing it. And meanwhile, Kobe and Helmepo are off to
47:45
have a drink. They're not supposed to because they're on duty. But Helmepo
47:49
is just having Kobe like loosen up a little bit, which I don't think
47:52
is actually a bad thing. There are times where somebody is like, you
47:58
know, oh light, no, buddy, and it's they're clearly just a
48:01
very bad influence, getting a person to do things against their better judgment.
48:07
But with Kobe, it feels like he could stand to loosen up a little,
48:10
like maybe they he is a bit too rigid, you know. It's
48:15
not like, as somebody who has anxiety and often likes to follow the rules,
48:20
I can get a little bit too hide bound. And I like the
48:23
fact that he has a couple shots, but it doesn't like, it doesn't
48:28
feel like he tells Helmepo about Garb's relationship with Loofy because he's drunk. He
48:35
has those shots in quick succession and then says it immediately he hasn't had a
48:38
chance to get drunk, so it doesn't feel like Helmepo's recommendation of loosening up
48:45
is leading him down a bad path or anything. It seems like he's in
48:49
control still, but he is just relaxing his standards a drop, which isn't
48:55
always bad. But yeah, when he is talking to Holmepo about it and
49:04
he's like, ah, that's his grandson. Howmepa's like, wow, that
49:08
is super not what I thought you were going to say. But all right,
49:14
I mean the kid with a straw hat in him, And then the
49:16
bartenders like straw hat kid, Oh yeah, we had him here because apparently
49:22
the memo has not gone out to the staff to not say shit about this
49:27
kid. It should have. I'm a little disappointed in you, Zef,
49:30
for not making certain that everybody was on the same page here. But they
49:36
get the info they need and this leads to Garb telling everybody to get ready
49:43
to head out for the islands, and you see Zef kind of panicking a
49:50
little because like he was really hoping they were just gonna not know where to
49:53
head and we could sort of end things here. But they got the info
49:58
from somewhere and I wonder if he knew who it was, if they would
50:00
be punished for it or not. But okay, so let's go back to
50:07
Arlong's area. We got this like kind of weird carnival area where there's like
50:15
games and stuff, and there's a bar that has a big sign that says
50:19
Shark Attack and what's his name? Fishmouth is like drinking booze and spitting out
50:27
and doing one of those like kind of fire breathing type things. It's funny
50:30
because the way that he is, the way that he shoots the the booze
50:38
out, it's like bullets almos. It's really weird, but I thought it
50:44
looked cool. Oh sorry, No, the bar is named it says Ghost
50:49
Train, So it's got like the parts of a carnival, but it's not
50:53
actually like there's a ride in there anymore. I wonder what this is supposed
50:59
to be. Was this meant to be like a tourist attraction that they repurposed
51:04
or were they because like it, you know what I'm saying, you guys,
51:08
It doesn't actually look like this was a carnival and they like invaded and
51:15
made it into something else. It looks like it was already being used for
51:21
something else, and they just happened to have shown up the part where ar
51:27
Along is set up with his chair like a throne. It looks like it
51:30
used to be an area for like a merry go round maybe something like that.
51:38
So this is when Nami comes in to give him the tribute that she
51:45
was able to collect, but it wasn't the full thing, And there's an
51:50
explosion and it's a weird, like I think somebody maybe just fired a gun
51:57
to get his attention, because I thought it was gonna signal the beginning of
52:00
an attack, but instead it's that rat faced marine who is being paid off
52:07
by Arlong, and in this scene he demands more money than they agreed to,
52:13
but later on, after being threatened, some is willing to settle for
52:17
what was originally agreed. So this we then go into the flashback with Arlong
52:29
and Bell Mayer, and as soon as she is threatened, Nami and her
52:34
sister bust out of the like hiding place under the floor, and Nami is
52:42
saying to her, why didn't you just lie just tell him, and she
52:46
says, because you are my daughters, and I will never deny that.
52:52
And I felt like you guys remember probably if you listen to my coverage of
52:59
the anime, how frustrated I was with this scene because I felt like her
53:04
death was so preventable, and I was there was a real sense that if
53:09
she had lied then she would have been spared. But I like the way
53:15
this scene has done better because you really feel like whether or not she said
53:22
I have two daughters, Arlong was gonna find them and he was going to
53:29
make her pay either way. So her choosing not to deny her daughters it
53:37
is easier for me to stomach because it felt like she was screwed either way
53:43
and she knew it, and she just decided to do the thing in the
53:45
moment that was like just and good for her daughters, like in an abstract
53:52
way, Whereas in the anime, I really felt like she should have lied
54:00
because it seemed like if she had, things would have gone a different way.
54:05
There isn't that sense in the scene. In the live action, it
54:07
feels like things would have gone this way whether she lied or not, so
54:12
she may as well make sure to say the truth before she's killed, Whereas
54:21
the anime, I was just sort of like, it feels like she's just
54:23
putting the principle above being there for her daughters, like choosing to state yes,
54:31
that they are my daughters and putting that on more of a pedestal than
54:37
actually continuing to live and care for them, which I feel like is objectively
54:42
much more important than whether or not you deny them to a pirate king who
54:47
has you at gunpoint. Like I just I really it was obvious from the
54:54
way that everybody was reacting to the episode in the chat, and I think
55:01
I did a joint with Gabby on that, and I think that Gabby joined
55:06
me that most people were really affected by this, But I just found myself
55:12
annoyed, and I was glad to see that here they they managed to like
55:20
really nail the situation and make it feel like ultimately she was going down either
55:28
way, and it was just the way she went down that she was going
55:30
to get to choose. So, yeah, she says to our along is
55:35
this is enough to pay for my two girls? And he says, do
55:38
you know what you're saying? And she's like, yeah, I fucking do.
55:44
And so after she tells them both to be good, she's sorry she
55:51
wasn't a better mother. She stands up and turns to him and he just
55:57
shoots her in the chest and she goes down. We don't actually see her
56:01
get shot. The last thing she says is I love you girls. And
56:08
when we come back to the present, even Arlong says about her she was
56:13
brave. I will give her that. And yeah, this is when we
56:19
come to the present. In the moment with the crew being told this story,
56:24
Sanji is sniffling and teary eyed and just trying to cover it up a
56:29
little bit. And I just really like that aspect of it. I feel
56:31
like they're giving them all, like especially Sonji. Though Sonji's getting more characterization
56:38
than the others. And Zoro. I understand that a friend of mine said
56:45
that some people felt he was a little bit too flat the actor. It
56:50
has been working for me, but I could see what they mean, especially
56:54
in contrast to the way that Sanji feels like already pretty. He just feels
57:00
a little bit more interesting as a character than Zoro does. So at this
57:09
point, Lufy stands up and he looks really confused, and I couldn't tell.
57:17
I think that the thing that is happening here is that he has heard
57:23
something so terrible about Nami working for the guy who did this to this girl
57:31
and Nammy herself, that he feels as if this is the confirmation he needed
57:39
that maybe Nami is not a good person, like he kept trying to believe.
57:45
And it's a shame because, like, you know, you want him
57:51
to maintain hope. But there's a sense of like, maybe I was wrong
57:54
as he gets up and goes outside, and eventually he says something like I'm
58:01
tired of hearing about Nami from other people. But it takes a little bit
58:07
to get there. He's outside for a bit here with with Zorro, and
58:13
the first thing he says is she was just a kid. But Zorro is
58:17
not willing to let her off the hook and is like, dude, she's
58:22
a grown woman now and she has made her choice. She's doing what she
58:27
do. She told you to leave Loofy, and Lufy looks at Zoro and
58:34
says, so did you, and follows this up with I know she's not
58:42
one of our along's crew, the same way that I knew you weren't going
58:45
to kill me when I cut you down from that cross, and the same
58:47
way that I knew about Usap and Sanji. I just know that she's good,
58:53
and we get the scene of her when she's little going up to our
58:59
Long and asking to join the crew and this deal that they wind up making.
59:06
She shows him the map that she has made and he is genuinely impressed
59:09
by it. He's like, oh shit, you can see it must be
59:14
very hard to act when you've got so much makeup on. But you can
59:17
really see like the admiration on his face and the fact that he's like,
59:22
all right, then she's fucking something. There's an interesting situation here, actually,
59:32
and he says, I killed your mother and now you want to come
59:36
work for me, and he stands over her. I love how huge he
59:40
looks. Why would you do that because you have something I want? And
59:50
she says, I told Arlong i'd work for him on one condition that he
59:53
let me buy back Cocoa Village, and he said he would if I could
1:00:00
get one hundred million Barry. This is all happening because she's digging up the
1:00:06
treasure that she buried at their mom's grave and her sister stumbled across it,
1:00:14
so she's finally telling her the whole situation here, and is telling her in
1:00:22
the middle of it, like I have the money, and now I can
1:00:23
buy the freedom of the village and everybody in it. And then, of
1:00:29
course, because Arlong had told her at sunrise bringing me the money, and
1:00:34
I thought it was like, you know, I had forgotten exactly how this
1:00:37
went. But when he says bring me the money at sunrise, and I
1:00:39
was like, that's too much time. If somebody gives you this kind of
1:00:44
like deadline, and it feels like there's a little bit too much wiggle room,
1:00:47
it's because they want time to do something on their end. And this
1:00:53
is when that fucking rat face Marine comes around the corner and is like,
1:01:00
oh, well, well, well, look at all of this stolen shit.
1:01:06
I think I'm going to have to confiscate this. And Nami's acting as
1:01:10
they steal all of it. I mean, she is so good here at
1:01:16
just being absolutely desperate, like completely losing her mind. And it's very clear
1:01:25
that Arlong put them up to this. She knows that's what happened, like
1:01:30
there's no doubt in her mind. And when we have a speech from Arlong
1:01:38
about how the fishmen are the superior beings, which is actually a pretty solid
1:01:45
speech. Sometimes these kinds of characters with their speechifying it can feel a little
1:01:50
bit eye rolly and tedious, but he is really really riveting to watch,
1:01:54
so I felt like this was actually well done. And this is when Namib
1:02:00
begins to scream arlong and stab herself in the arm, and it's just so
1:02:04
like guys, I like recoiled from the screen when she started to do this.
1:02:07
It was really bad. And her hand gets stopped by Loofy and this
1:02:15
is the point where things begin to be almost shot for shot like in the
1:02:19
anime. And he's holding her hand and she says, I told you to
1:02:22
get the hell out of here, and he says you did, and she
1:02:27
says, you don't know anything that's going on here, and he says I
1:02:32
don't and his like the whole expression that he has here. He is just
1:02:40
waiting for her to explain. He is so trusting that there is more to
1:02:47
this story and that he wants, you know what I mean, like the
1:02:51
whole thing. And she finally says, Loofy, help me, and he
1:03:01
says, of course I will, and he takes his hat off and puts
1:03:07
it on her head and he says of course I will louder and then yells
1:03:13
of course I will. To the skies as he like does a fist pump,
1:03:16
a double fist pump, and it's a uh it's interesting because like in
1:03:23
the sub which I watched right after this episode, I he's when he does
1:03:32
the like fist to the sky moment. The sub says that he says damn
1:03:39
right, which I actually kind of prefer to. Of course I will a
1:03:45
little bit, but I also understand why they had why they changed it here,
1:03:52
you know, because it doesn't quite feel like Loofy for the way they've
1:03:55
set up his character in the show. So he walks away from her very
1:04:01
slowly. It's a great bit in the dark, you know, on this
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like little stretch of road. And as he's walking away, the camera pulls
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back and we see Sanjy's smoking. We see Zoro lounging with his sword.
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I think he's sitting on the edge of like a stone wall, and Usub
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sort of curled in on himself, sitting on the ground, and Lufy says,
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let's go, and they all say right at the same time, straight
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out of the anime, the characters in the same panels in it same thing,
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And they look up and they see all this fire and they realize that
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Arlong has already started to attack the village. And that is the end of
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the episode. So the next one, guys, next one, and that's
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the end of season one, and I'm so sad. All Right, I
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gotta wrap. Thank you guys again, so much for listening. Gabby,
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thank you for commissioning. I hope you're enjoying. Until next time to the
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loom. Motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled networkst