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One Piece, 511-513 · 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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episodes five eleven through five thirteen, Unexpected Relanding Loofy to Marine Ford with hopes
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that will reach my friends, Big News spreading fast, and Pirates get on
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the move astounding New World. In these episodes, we do a whole lot
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of jumping around and checking in on people that we haven't seen in a minute.
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And I'm gonna be honest, my friends, this is gonna be really
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challenging for me to talk about. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the
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show. Everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for
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commissioning this episode. Look at me being prepared to actually give credit where it's
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due. So thank you. Michael appreciates you a great deal. Yeah,
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so, guys, here's the thing. This is one of those sections where
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we basically visit almost everybody we have ever met in the series of note and
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thank you. Florian is in the chat saying I will try and help with
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names and stuff. Yeah that will be necessary because my friends, I absolutely
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am not going to get some of these and there is a big part of
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me that feels like I don't even need to worry about getting it that right,
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because I feel like a lot of these check ins are just to be
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like, hey, remember this guy, Yeah, we liked them, right,
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and that it's actually not going to turn out to be something that's like
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that significant. Ultimately, it's just a little bit of a nod for fans
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to you know, have their oh they're still out there doing their thing kind
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of moment, you know what I'm saying. So I'm trying not to let
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myself be too bothered by the fact that I can't remember everybody. And it's
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not just the names. It's also the fact that because this jumps around the
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way that it does, it's gonna be kind of hard for me to talk
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about in some ways because I'm just gonna be like, then we go to
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blank, then we go to blank, and it's going to sound really abrupt,
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but like that's actually the way that the episode is. It's just smash
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cuts to different locations, and a lot of times there's like very little context
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given. It's just you know, a location, and sometimes they'll put the
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person's name, not always. Of course, I'm also watching this on Hulu,
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and I know that like on Fundamation and stuff, it's a little different
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the way that they will translate when characters are on the screen, whereas on
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Hulu they don't give me those translations. That doesn't tend to be an issue
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for the most part, because that's somewhat rare, but it is sort of
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frustrating that Hulu doesn't do that. But uh, you know, it's I
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just want to preface this by apologizing, because I know it's gonna sound kind
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of like all over the place, and I'm there's not a lot I can
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do about that if I'm talking about this correctly and just telling you what's going
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on. Also, because of the fact that we jump aroun to so many
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people, what happens is very little forward movement on the plots with our other
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straw hat friends like the I am growing impatient. I'll say that with how
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long everybody is taking on their respective islands getting their shit together, we actually
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have and I'll just jump into this now. Chopper turning around and coming back
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to the Bird Island, which if I'm being honest, didn't get me as
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upset as I thought it would because of the way the episode wound up ending,
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So at first I was sort of like, well, wait, what
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the fuck are you doing? Because he does this thing Chopper tries to do
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an oosop where he's got like a mask and is saying, I just look
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a lot like Chopper, but I'm not him. He's a totally different person.
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I'm Chopper the mask and is He's attempting to do this sort of like
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superhero alter ego type thing to hide the shame that he's feeling over turning around
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and coming back to the island instead of going to see his friend. And
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I was taken aback by him turning around because, to be honest, the
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reaction he has to finding out that Lufi has returned to Marine Ford, there
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was nothing about his reaction that pointed to him even considering turning around. So
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when he showed back up on the island, I was genuinely surprised. Like
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the way that that section of the story begins is we watch him read the
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article and kind of freak out, and then after a jump to somebody else,
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we return to like the Bird Island and we have the like tribes people
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talking about how they're going to miss him, and I started to be like,
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oh my god, wait, why would we come back here. It's
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got to be that Chopper turns up again, and why would he? And
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I had sort of anticipated that he would have gotten hurt or something, but
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what he ends up saying, so he eventually, after trying to like humor
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him and be like, sure, Chopper the mask, it's actually kind of
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adorable that Chopper finally is like, I don't like, I don't need your
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pity. It's fine, fine, it's me Chopper. But he says like,
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I want to learn more from you guys about your medicine and everything,
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and one of the tribes people leads him to a library. Now it's sort
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of wild that the way that these people are being portrayed is like, oh,
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they only like look and sound stupid, but actually they've got like a
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whole town with you know, stone built homes and a library and language and
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everything. And I really felt like the fact that it's oh, these people
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only look and sound stupid is already like just so deeply problematic because of the
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way they're being depicted to begin with just saying that, but also then trying
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to sort of walk it back and be like, no, despite what you
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thought, they actually have technology, like look at their weapons and stuff.
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And I it just felt like we were trying to do a don't judge a
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book by its cover thing, but in one of the most lazy ways I've
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ever scene, where it just felt like this is just retcon. It didn't.
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I wasn't buying it, you know what I mean, I just I'm
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not. I'm so sorry. I want to buy it because I want Chopper
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to be able to advance, and I you know, they have this whole
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library and everything. Resources are obviously there, so I'm not trying to take
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that away from Chopper. But what I'm saying is that personally, there was
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a real feeling for me of like Odo wants to get Chopper on his way
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to progressing significantly and was thinking maybe I'll have him stop somewhere else, and
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then was like, no, no, no, let me just make it
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be these people, and like took it back and was just like, let's
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have him turn around. And I am being ungenerous. I don't really believe
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that's like exactly how it went down, but it just sort of feels like
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how it went down, And so there's a real sense for me of like,
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so, wait, Chopper was there for however long he was, and
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he didn't see this library. He didn't get to find out about the fact
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that they have written like all of this is just a big surprise, and
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the explanation that we're given is just like, well, our people got so
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sick and we couldn't take care of them that everything else fell by the wayside.
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Okay, I guess whatever. However, despite all of that and my
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feelings on it, I you guys know that I have been a little bit
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saddened when our crew is together at the fact that Chopper always has to be
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the one that watches the ship because he just isn't really able to fight that
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well. He can take a rumble ball and hold his own in an emergency,
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but he can only take so many of those before shit goes left.
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They can only do so much, they only last along. And so the
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fact that he's like, you know what, I'm gonna stay here until I
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actually reach a point where I can be of help to Loofy. I'm not
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gonna lie. I was actually like a little bit maybe that's something. Now,
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the question is how is that going to manifest? Because clearly he's in
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a library, he's not in a training ground with like, you know,
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a dojo and people. That's not to say that these tribes folks wouldn't teach
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him how to fight, but we're being set up for not him learning how
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to physically fight better, but for him to acquire knowledge via this library somehow.
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So based on the fact that Chopper's abilities have been accentuated via the rumble
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balls that he has made, my assign is that whatever advancement Chopper is going
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to manage will be due to some kind of like pill, other kind of
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like potion, something that we can pretend to sort of pseudo medical, and
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he will have either found a way to make things last longer or not have
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as many side effects, be able to take more of them without having the
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kind of you know, beast form that he winds up with. I think
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that it's going to be. Like my concern about that, though, is
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that it's one thing to be able to make yourself big and strong, but
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if you're still not really like a great fighter, if you're not trained,
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how effective is that going to be? Really? And I guess it depends
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on the opponent and the situation, because like it seems as if in the
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cartoon sort of logic of this world that what happens when he takes the rumble
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balls is that he also becomes a better fighter, Like it's the knowledge comes
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over him at once. He takes it because it's like part and parcel with
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actually being physically bigger and stronger. So I'm just gonna go ahead and like
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assume that's the conceit here. All this to say, I want for Chopper
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to grow stronger, so I'm not as mad about him turning around as I
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could have been. But it's only an example of how slowed down things have
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become for a lot of the others. Sona me. It turns out that
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despite like taking this one wizard I don't know what else to call him hostage,
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she is still stuck and they have evidently like shut down a lot of
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the other exits to this island, so she is still there with no apparent
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exit. And this dude is like shockingly chill about the fact that she took
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him hostage. He really does not seem to hold this against her in any
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way, which you know. I don't like to use the word simp.
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He gets thrown around a lot. I think it's problematic. It's often just
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used to insult men who give a shit about women and caring for them.
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However, the way that this dude just will let Nami do whatever and not
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like he will express the mildest disapproval or disappointment. Otherwise he is straight up
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always gonna take it. I feel like simp applies to this guy. I
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feel like this is just gonna be one of the few instances where I'm like,
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yeah, that's the word to use. Though, And Nami has the
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weirdest reaction, you guys, because she reads the newspaper about how Lufy is
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going back to h I keep wanting to say, impel down Marine Ford,
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and she says, what about my feelings? Though? Huh? So selfish?
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And I know that the joke is supposed to be the fact that she's
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actually really selfish here and demanding, like, you know, what about my
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feelings? Is there's like no reason for him to consider that, But I
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didn't really understand what she even meant about her feelings. I feel like maybe
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it's supposed to be just the fact that she is going to be worried about
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him going back, and that's the thing that she's sort of like, well,
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he did ever occur to him how much it would worry that he has
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returned to the scene of this war, but I you know, it was
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just a weird moment where I was like her feelings, Wait, what do
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you mean. I also just want to address that everybody is calling the war
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the War of the Best. I just my question on that is whether that's
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like a translation issue. The War of the Best feels so like weak.
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You know, that was really something that went down there, and I feel
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like the War of the Best just doesn't capture it, and there's something about
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it just being the best, as if we're just going to accept that everybody
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who was like top of their game was there when we know that like they
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weren't in the end, like you know, Shanks showed up sort of toward
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the end of things. We know that dark Lord really he didn't partake in
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the battle or anything. There were a lot of people that are like powerful
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and they weren't in the mix. And I just feel like the War of
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Marine Ford or something would be more appropriate. It's just odd to me,
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And this is something that happens that I think is actually really funny in like
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comic book stuff as well. If you have like a comic book story that
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is well known enough and you adapt that comic book to a movie, for
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the big screen. A lot of times, the people who are creating this
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will not consider the fact that something they just put into the movie as a
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given that the audience will know what it is. Maybe they don't. And
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this happened in the Spider Verse movies. There's a point in which he just
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calls his uncle the Prowler, and it's like that name was never used by
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anybody in the movie, but he calls him that with like a capital P.
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My uncle's the Prowler, and nobody has used that name, but it's
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simply brought up and everybody is like, oh, yeah, we all know
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who that is, you know. And in the most recent like X Men
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movie, there's a character who's like, call me such and such and they
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have gone by a completely different name, but they just drop this fully formed
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name out of nowhere in a conversation because that's the name they go by in
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the comics, and it just feels really strange. And that's sort of how
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I felt about War of the Best. It's like it just appears people just
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start saying it's called the War of the Best, and everybody's calling it that,
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even though it like I don't remember us all deciding that that's what it
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was going to be called, and it doesn't quite feel right to me,
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but you know, it's fine, Florian says, I know it as the
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Summit War in the fandom. I like that. I prefer that some at
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War feels like more about It feels more like what actually happened, Like there's
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a big meeting. War of the Best almost makes it sound like a competition,
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like a battle that was organized somehow, like that would be the name
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of a WWE storyline, you know. But some at War it's like a
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there's something a little bit more chaotic sounding about that, and I prefer that.
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However, in the dub they do say War of the Best repeatedly,
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so I'll probably read that in the subtitles, but I think I'd like to
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go ahead with some at War from here on. So all right, let's
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talk about Loofy landing at Marine Ford, because I'm still not entirely sure what
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it is that's going on here. I think that it's supposed to be loufy,
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because you know, the whole title of this episode is like or the
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next episode, I guess is like, you know, so that my in
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the hopes that will reach my friends so my assumption had been that basically he's
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doing this to just let everybody know that he's okay and where to meet up.
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That this is, you know, we have a change in plan,
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and I think that there's you know, him paying his respects and whatnot is
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just meant to be sort of a ploy. But I don't really so the
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paying of the respects to there's somebody else later who really like gets a little
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bit more detailed on the number of rings that he gives, the bell and
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everything, and we'll get there. But we start off with all of these
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reporters standing around and taking pic taking pictures, and it's sort of it's kind
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of funny because like simultaneously Lufy is relying on these newspapers to share the word
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with his friends. But it also feels like the way that this is written
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that the author has nothing but contempt for reporters a little bit like the conversation
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and the way it goes, uh is she's saying like, supposedly straw Hat
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could already be dead, and she's like smile, Like they're both too bright
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eyed and and have toothy grins as they're talking about this, and this guy's
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like, look what they're dealing with here, uh, And we have a
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flash back to Whitebeard saying that the one piece is real, and they're both
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talking about how apparently now that he has said that, it's set off a
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whole thing with pirates and they're acting up more than they used to, and
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one of them just says, well, how unfortunate for them, with a
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real sense of like sucks to suck, but it's sort of gleeful, like
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I have to say that it's unfortunate, even though I'm personally super excited because
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I'm going to be able to get a lot of great stories out of this
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is the vibe, you know. And they all sort of turn because this
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ship is coming in that everybody thinks has Navy soldiers on it, but we
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know Lufy has taken over with June Bay and Railey, and they don't go
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to the dock like they were expected, so everybody's just sort of like,
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what the hell are they doing? Why are they still coming in? And
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then it on the crowd, which was just I was like, why what
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are we doing? Somebody says a blank shot, So I'm assuming it's supposed
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to be just the explosion without an actual cannon in there, but it was
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like they're trying to get everybody's attention, and Loofy is standing on the deck,
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and of course all the reporters just begin to go absolutely wild. They
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think that he is here for revenge. The Marines are like, all right,
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we're gonna sink at the ship. Don't let him get anywhere near us,
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understandably, and we have all of this like Jimbay using his wild fishman
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powers to keep these the cannon fire from actually hitting the ship. And then
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really he just picks up what looks to be some little they're like many cannon
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blows. I want to call them ball bearings, to be honest. They
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look like bullets, but they're bigger than that, and he throws them and
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they just like explode in mid air. I think, to just sort of
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create cover for them, because he's not really trying to hurt anybody, it
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doesn't seem like. So everybody who is on shore is watching this and just
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like, wait, what the hell are they doing. As the ship continues
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to sail around the island and not dock like they're just it, there is
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an expectation of the way that this ship is going to behave because they think
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they know why Lufy's here. But then as they watch him continuing to circle
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the island, one of them says, it's like a funeral at sea,
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which was interesting because I didn't I'm not familiar with that tradition, and I'm
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assuming that this is, you know, actually based on something. But I
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was glad that the dialogue had them specifically say that, and they say a
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couple other things later as well, and I was like, okay, because
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I would never have the context for that. So some way is saying this
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is a taunt. They think that they can just bury us alive without all
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of our other people here, So fire at will. And the ship begins
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to come into like the main bay area where the whole war took place,
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and it's coming in very hot, and all of a sudden we see an
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arm stretch out and Loofy comes to He pulls Railey and Jimbay out of the
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wreckage with him onto the dock. And my question immediately was like, but
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what about all the marines that they had tied up on the deck of the
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ship, Like you know, we saw the there was like twenty of them
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and they were just tied up like it just very much felt like, we're
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just gonna let them all sink to their deaths, and as long as my
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guys are safe and they got out, who cares. But that was very
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much on my mind. I'm not gonna lie. So Loofy runs to this
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bell, and everybody, like you know, gets taken down by one person
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or another and gets swept out of the way. He gets to this bell
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and he begins to ring, and we find out later I didn't count while
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it was happening. I'll be honest that it was eighteen times. I think
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that he rang it. So it's a pretty long scene. As it's ringing,
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we get panned. The camera pans around the island to all of the
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people and their reactions to this, and nobody is really trying to stop him.
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This is anime logic, right, Once somebody begins to do a thing
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that's like shocking, absolutely nobody moves a muscle until they're done with that thing,
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because we have to let it all sink in first and really underline the
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drama of the moment. So eventually, when he stops, everybody who has
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sort of stood around watching this thing, it's almost like they're beginning to lose
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their fear of him because he's not behaving like he wants revenge. She's not
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attacking anybody unless they're trying to stop him from getting to his bell, so
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maybe it's fine. And he hops off the little dais where the bell is
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kept, and this is when he holds his hat in front of him and
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lowers his eyes and stands with this like attitude of respect. And he also
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has flowers. I forgot about the flowers thing that he pulls out of his
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pockets and like drops into the sort of ravine there. And this is when
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you have like the woman's report saying this is going to make for a great
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photo, and she takes the picture of him with the Marines in the background
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with their swords raised and all of the smoke around him and everything. It's
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very funny to me how the Marines are just literally standing there with their weapons
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raised doing fucking nothing. They are so useless. What do you even hear
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for, guys. So as they're taking this photo, there's this huge whale
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that comes flying up out of the water, and it's just I I am
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assuming that this is uh And I can't remember if this is specifically mentioned or
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not, but I'm assuming that this was Jimbee doing something to create a distraction
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so that he is able to run over everybody's heads and just get away in
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the midst of all of this, and they're continuing to watch and wondering,
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like what the hell is going on here? Like what was the point of
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that? But the story is going to be huge, whether or not they
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know the reason for what he did. It's just it's being framed as he's
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doing something daring to pay tribute to the people who lost their lives. It
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seems like what really's idea was is we want to keep your friends from going
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to Sabaoudi because they could be in danger still, so we will do something
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big and splashy to let them know to come to marine Ford instead. Except
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wouldn't marine Ford be worse? So I feel like I must be misunderstanding the
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point, or that there must be some sort of message embedded in the like
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maybe, well, there's something written on his arm. I forgot about that,
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that the Princess from Alabasta notices and maybe the eighteen rings like ties in
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with that somehow. I don't remember what the writing is on his arm,
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but I'm gonna we'll get there. Eventually and we'll take a look at that.
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But yeah, this is when we have the beginnings of the scenes where
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we go all over the world and we see how everybody is reacting to the
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news that he has not only escaped, but then he comes and plays in
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their faces at the fucking sight of the battle, and then just is able
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to fucking take off again. And there's the meeting with this dude with the
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green hair, and he's got that weird white and blue striped like suit outfit.
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I don't remember this character's face or design, so it felt like I
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was thrown into this conversation that he's having with these other I don't know if
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they're warlords or if I think they must be marines. There a lot of
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them are wearing like the uniforms, but maybe admirals or vice admirals or something.
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But I was just I felt like I was supposed to know who this
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is, and he is not ringing a bell for me at all. So
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you know, it may just be that it slid right off of my smooth
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brain, because you guys know, there's a lot of characters to keep track
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of in this series, and they're not all going to make an impression,
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and he he doesn't have that memorable a character design, to be perfectly honest,
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no offense, dude, but you've got a lot of competition for memorable
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character design in this show. So he's talking to all of them about like
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that this is a humiliation. He rung the bell, not twice as is
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customary, but a whopping sixteen times. My bad, I thought he said
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eighteen, but sixteen. There's no doubt in my mind that this is a
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challenge to us. And then we see the faces of these like older men
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who they definitely do ring bells. There's the one that has he's almost got
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like a Hasidic jew sort of look to him, where he has like the
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really pronounced curled hair and heavy beard and a scar on his temple, and
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he's saying like, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. There's another guy with
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real long, droopy mustache and hair. I'm curious as to how he and
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Raley know each other. I highly doubt Raley intended to rejoin the Fray.
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Then there's a guy who's got a sort of like Wilford Brimley handlebar mustache and
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liver spots and a bald head a pity ging May decided to turn against us.
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His allegiance to the world government as a warlord acted as a symbol of
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intertribal peace. It's disappointing to lose him, which I didn't consider that aspect
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of it, But that makes a lot of sense that it would be sort
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of like, you know, it's a sign of our diverse But that makes
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a lot of sense. And then there's this dude who's got the round glasses.
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He's got a very severe square jawline and I think an entirely bald head.
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He doesn't even have eyebrows. And he says, the three great powers
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are completely unbalanced. How should we take care of the vacancies among the seven
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war lords? And then we go to a guy with a blonde hair and
32:24
beard who looks like he might be the youngest due to the fact that he
32:28
actually isn't a gray beard, but maybe not. And he says, first
32:32
we need to observe what will unfold in the new world. Relationships and hierarchies
32:37
amongst pirates are sure to change. We must take care that we ensure our
32:44
picks are the most powerful ones. So the way that we see this going
32:53
as well, when we check in with the pirates who are in the New
32:59
World, comes clear quite quickly none of these fucking guys was prepared for what
33:05
the New World was going to have in store for them. The New World
33:07
is like a hazard the likes of which none of them have ever seen.
33:14
And it's got me really questioning whether our guys could handle it either, Like
33:19
if these pirates are being taken off guard, and by surprise, I feel
33:23
like the straw Hats are destined to be in even worse shape. So I'm
33:30
kind of concerned about that at this point. And then let's see it,
33:37
says Elder star d is the name of the guy with the bald head,
33:42
I think, according to the subtitles, But he says, we let's see.
33:49
Oh, here it is. Blackbeard already made his first move in the
33:52
New World. By the way, he knocked off a promising rookie, one
33:57
that had a bounty of over one hundred million berries. Is the promising rookie
34:02
white Beard? That he's not a rookie, right, That's not who he's
34:08
talking about. Is there somebody am I forgetting something? But he says,
34:15
and thanks to his time with white Beard, he knows all about the old
34:19
Man's territory. He certainly has a lead over any other pirate who's aiming to
34:24
become one of the four emperors. No one else in history has ever eaten
34:30
two devil fruits, yet he seems to have absorbed white beards. The only
34:36
ones with the power to stop him are the other emperors. So have we
34:43
heard about these three emperors before? If he's becoming one of the four emperors?
34:52
Is it supposed to be that? And you may not be able to
34:57
tell me this. Is it basically like if you get enough power, you
35:00
just get to be an emperor? Or is there a standard number of seats
35:04
available and if one's empty, somebody can fight to take that seat. Like
35:10
it sounds like they're saying they are only three now and somebody's trying to be
35:14
the fourth one. And I can't tell if it's like, you know,
35:17
that he's trying to fill a vacancy or if he just wants to reach the
35:22
level they have and become a fourth one. Do you know what I'm saying?
35:25
Like the difference in what I'm trying to get at here, Florian says,
35:31
Yeah, Shanks, Kayito, Big Mom and white Beard were the four
35:36
before. Oh, I feel like you guys have told me this a number
35:38
of times. I'm so sorry. It's really hard to keep track of this
35:44
like hierarchy for me. I don't know why. I think it's because the
35:50
names don't feel like they have a lot to do with each other, you
35:54
know what I mean. So there's just a sort of like association in my
36:02
mind usually with like the names of hierarchies, and that's not my brain is
36:07
not computing with the hierarchies here, Florian says, and they are just like
36:15
the pirates with the most powers is what we know of, Okay, So
36:21
it's not like there's an established like system that he's trying to become part of.
36:29
It's just whoever reaches the top, they're one of them. So it's
36:34
sort of like the monarchs within cradle, how you can reach monarch level,
36:39
but like and anybody like, there can be any number of monarchs. But
36:44
as we know, that's not like exactly strictly speaking correct. But yeah,
36:49
okay, okay, that's interesting. The fact it's just so interesting to me
36:59
that t each wants to do what he is setting out to do. He
37:07
just doesn't feel like I guess I just don't really understand what his ultimate goal
37:14
is because the others like Shanks he has reached a point of such power,
37:20
but he isn't ambitious really, you know. That's not to say ambition can
37:27
have so many meanings, so I feel like that's not exceretly true. But
37:30
it's more like Shanks is doing what he does because he wants to be able
37:36
to help people, and I feel like that's his motivating factor. But what
37:42
exactly is motivating teach beyond just liking to like bully people and push them around.
37:47
Is that it? There's nothing more to it. I and his friends
37:54
are like willing to prop him up permanently or are they just there until he
38:00
fucks up and they can sort of take his spot. I want to know
38:04
if they can absorb his powers that he absorbed from white Beard. Is that
38:07
something that can cycle through like that on multiple times? I don't know,
38:15
But anyway, anyway, anyway, so interstitial here and then we jump to
38:22
where are we what is it? Red Elite? I'm trying to read the
38:25
subtitles here because it gets covered up a red line. The Holy Land of
38:30
Mariege wis and we've got these guys talking about garb and the fact that he's
38:37
still an officer. We need him to stay on board to train our young
38:42
soldiers. And I was just like, really, I didn't expect them to
38:47
be welcoming to Garb. If anything, I was thinking Garp might get put
38:52
in seclusion or something that they would like for the sake of keeping everything looking
38:58
like it's tip top to outsiders, to lay people. They would have him
39:04
on premises as if everything were fine, but that he would be locked up
39:07
and kept from actually like interfering with things because they had gotten to a point
39:14
where they didn't trust him. But it seems not and we find out that
39:22
a Kaedo is or wait, Sengoku, sorry, Sengoku is resigning his position.
39:32
I this is just kind of a shock to me, and I'm not
39:40
entirely sure how to take it. It feels like what happened was that the
39:45
way the war went, and seeing the honor of the opposing side and the
39:52
unexpected like nobility of spirit they displayed that something in him lost the drive to
40:06
take down all of these pirates the way he originally had. I may be
40:14
wrong about that, but the way that the scene opens up, this guy
40:22
is saying, like, we need garp to stay on board to train our
40:25
young soldiers. And if you intend to resign from your position as fleet admiral,
40:31
could you at least do that for us as well, Sengku, So
40:36
he would retire from Fleet admiral, but he would stay as a trainer.
40:40
And he's like, yeah, all right, you know that's not a terrible
40:45
package, so sure, let's do that. And oh my god, I
40:52
forgot about this really cool office that this guy is in. He's got one
40:59
huge wall that's just like an aquarium with giant eels and octopus and all of
41:05
these fish swimming around. I went to a wedding that was at a aquarium
41:13
and they have two huge tanks that come up against each other and form a
41:20
V corner that's the size of half a ballroom basically, and that's where they
41:27
have the wedding receptions. So you're surrounded by sharks swimming and stuff when you
41:35
eat dinner, and the dance floor and it was just really really cool.
41:37
I loved it. And this just looks almost exactly like that. But yeah,
41:45
so this deal he talks about, like the guys who were released from
41:52
the sixth level of impelled down, who have already teamed up with Teach and
41:54
that we've got our fucking work cut out for us. And Sengoku says the
42:01
Great Pay the Great Pirate era is in a period of transition. Old Navy
42:07
officers shouldn't keep clinging to power. The basis for justice changes from era to
42:14
era, and I thought that was really interesting, the concept the basis for
42:20
justice changes. That's something that I'm going to sort of ponder. I like
42:24
that because I think that adaptability is really key to like humanity, and Sengoku
42:34
being this forward thinking comes as a real surprise. I just kind of expected
42:39
him to be a guy who like stuck to his orders and to the order
42:49
that he was raised with and that was beaten into him until his dying breath
42:53
and just clung to it forever. And the fact that he has clearly undergone
42:59
some major changes in the way he thinks about all of this is really interesting.
43:05
You know. I said that maybe he felt he didn't have the heart
43:07
to go up against pirates anymore the way that he did, but also if
43:12
he is training like new Marines to go up against pirates, maybe that's not
43:15
entirely true, or maybe it is just the fact that he's like, you
43:19
know, it's a young man's game out there, and I don't really fit
43:23
in this world anymore. Maybe it's just as simple as that. And he
43:29
says, I'd like to recommend aokegee to take my place as the next fleet
43:34
admiral. He'd do a fine job. And we cut to Aokige who was
43:38
just out here sneezing, and I was like, is it supposed to be
43:42
that he's uh getting like a cold or what's happening here? But there Aokig
43:47
is somebody who like he he follows the rules asterisk, So I think it's
43:55
interesting that Singoku would recommend him. No. But anyway, we have a
44:04
doctor whose name is Fishbone and who's literally chewing on a fishbone, and he
44:09
is having a chat with oh my god, you guys, you know,
44:16
the little guy with the pink hair, Kobe, and he is telling him
44:22
that it's hockey, that's what happened in the battle. And he's like,
44:25
that's the same power Navy vice admirals have in their position. You're pretty lucky.
44:32
Helmepo is not happy about this. He is extremely irritated at the fact
44:39
that Kobe apparently is like outstripping him in every sense because Helmepo, you know,
44:46
the two of them have been side by side and how much at one
44:51
point, is just like any chance that I could suddenly develop these powers too,
44:53
And everybody's like, yeah, that's unlikely. I feel bad for Kobe
44:59
though, because all of the people out there are in his head still.
45:04
He hasn't learned to control this, so it's not pleasant for him and he
45:07
can't just turn it off, which uh that this is like one of my
45:15
personal superpowers that I think sounds like the least fun. Being able to connect
45:22
with everybody, whether it's their emotions or their actual thoughts or whatever. That's
45:28
just so overwhelming. No, thank you. I already have too much input
45:31
most of the time. But yeah, Kobe's saying, I don't know how
45:36
to feel about all of this, but I do know how I feel weird,
45:39
like I'm a completely different person. But if this thing that happened to
45:44
me really is hockey, I might be able to use it to get stronger,
45:49
much stronger than I am right now, maybe even as strong as him
45:52
for real this time, which I'm assuming is loofy. So I'm to see
46:00
how that develops for Kobe. Definitely, then we have the meeting with AOKG
46:06
and Smoker and he Smoker is asking for a transfer. I'm gonna be honest,
46:15
you guys, I am like fifty what am I like twenty minutes away,
46:21
not even from the end of my time, and I've barely gotten through
46:24
like the first episode's conversations because which is okay? Like the second episode is
46:30
really just a lot of jumps from one person to another and seeing the way
46:34
they react to the news, which I don't think I need to go through
46:37
one by one. But because so much of this information is like is about
46:45
people that I feel not too familiar with and power structures that I'm not confident
46:52
on my knowledge of, I don't want to skip any of this or like
46:58
cover it quickly because I need to ask for confirmation on some things or just
47:04
you know what I mean. But yeah, so AKG says, I'll ask
47:07
Sengoku about your transfer when I get the chance. Is are you actually serious
47:15
about this? People aren't exactly clamoring to join the G five. I'm sure
47:22
you've heard the stories. It's not pretty so transferring to the fifth branch on
47:28
the Grand Line the New World, you realize how wild things get over there
47:34
and Smoker says for me, it's better to be closer to my target,
47:39
and I was like, is that Loofy? Because I have been assuming this
47:45
whole time the Smoker is really after Loofy, And I'm not sure if that's
47:49
true, because he's just like, if he is, I know that Lufy
47:53
does want to go to the New World, like that had been his goal,
47:59
but it feels strange because Lufy's not there right now. So he's jumping
48:04
the gun a little bit, assuming that Lufy's coming back to like Marine Ford
48:08
will just be a stop on his way to the New World. If that's
48:15
if that's what he's after here, I'm not sure I'm correct about that.
48:22
So yeah, this is this is when we get to a scene in the
48:25
New World where with Captain Kidd and he is reading the news. I love
48:30
the fact that the newspaper even reaches the New World and he's talking to his
48:37
guys and he's just like, what's up with the bell and let's see killer
48:44
the guy with the fucking weird mask says it's a sacred It's a sacred bell
48:50
from the ox Lloyd, a navy warship that was very impressive back in the
48:53
day. At year's end, they ring the bell eight times to signify the
48:58
passing year, and eight more times as a sort of good omen for the
49:02
coming year. So that's the meaning of sixteen rings, some crusty old navy
49:07
custom, nothing special. So his theory is straw Hat maybe did it to
49:15
announce the end of beginning of a new pirate era. I like that.
49:21
I think that's kind of a cool concept. And if he's the one ringing
49:24
it in he's basically being like, well, this is my fucking era.
49:30
And they all agree that they need to show him who's actually in charge,
49:36
because he's clearly gotten a little too big for his breeches. And as they're
49:39
discussing this, the guys are looking over their shoulders and seeing these creatures,
49:45
their shadows like appearing in the woods behind him. So Captain Kidd is like,
49:51
I'm going to teach this pain in the ass the hard way that he
49:53
can't do whatever he wants. And as he's saying this, these things begin
49:59
to stand up, and he walks out into the rain and he says,
50:04
from how they talk the place up, I thought it'd be more fun.
50:09
And there's all of these dudes tied up outside. Captain Kidd doesn't acknowledge the
50:16
shadows. His men do they're looking at them, so it wasn't totally clear
50:22
to me if he like saw them and his men didn't want to bring it
50:25
up to him, or if he knows they're there and he's just ignoring them
50:28
because he doesn't find them to be that much of a threat. But the
50:31
guys who were tied up are begging him to let them go back to the
50:38
Grand Line because as far as they are concerned, this place is hell on
50:44
earth and they didn't know how good they had it back when, and they
50:49
came here really thinking that he was going to be you know, that they
50:54
were going to be able to sort of live it up, and they're being
50:57
put in their place repeatedly and are not prepared. So then we go to
51:05
the guy who's like the mafia boss, Capone, and he's eating dinner and
51:09
they're just reporting to him about the newspaper information when all of a sudden,
51:15
the ships starts shaking, and they go outside and the ship is lifting into
51:20
the sky and when they look up, there's this huge sort of rock formation
51:24
over their ship that seems to be pulling them up. The formation it's like
51:31
got a bunch of upside down bowls or something that could almost look like giant
51:36
barnacles or suction cups, but they're hard. They don't look like soft like
51:43
a suction cup would. And the ship I was thinking was going to be
51:46
sucked into one of those, but it isn't. It just bounces off the
51:51
underside of this formation between those like cup shapes and hits it and gets damaged.
51:58
And it's a very weird moment that, you know, we don't get
52:01
any further information about what's going on there, and it just ends with the
52:07
ship like crashing into place and all of them screaming. It doesn't. The
52:13
ship stays too. It doesn't actually fall back down into the water or anything.
52:17
It's like it got jammed into place. Then we go to Hawkins,
52:23
who is the one that uses all the tarot cards and everything, and he
52:29
is talking to some guy brown Beard, and I love the fact Hawkins is
52:35
like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry, I thought you, miss I
52:37
misheard you because that name is so stupid. Hawkins is growing quickly to be
52:45
one of my favorites. I really enjoy his disdainful energy. I just think
52:52
it's abusing. I just like it. Also enjoy his bizarre eyebrows. It's
52:59
a real vibe. There's a look. You know, he's got a look
53:00
going on. So yeah, he's pulling all these cards and he says,
53:07
I can see the shadow of death crawling upon your face. And as he
53:15
says that there is there are these like things that grow over and I am
53:22
barely remembering the extremely creepy power that he has and how nightmarish it looked.
53:31
And saying that death is crawling upon your face and then doing that that is
53:37
genuinely a really badass moment. Like a lot of the characters in this show,
53:45
they'll have moments that are clearly meant to be intimidating a badass, and
53:49
like you know, with varying results. This one, I was like,
53:52
oh yikes. And you know, you see him like expanding and standing over
53:57
this guy because brown Beard is humongous, butially he's towering over him. Hawkins
54:02
has this like, you know, really wild silhouette of all of these arms
54:08
because he's got like that kind of I keep wanting to say tentacles, but
54:13
it's also almost like, ah, not a straw man, uh. I
54:20
feel like I recall him looking like a scarecrow a little bit, but like
54:27
you know what I'm saying anyway, uh unnerving definitely. Then we have let's
54:34
see you rogue. I don't remember who this is, and they're like looking
54:38
at this island that's just lightning without cease. Oh yeah, you rogue is
54:45
the one who's got the wings and the really really thick wide neck, and
54:51
all of his men are like, uh, we aren't going to that island,
54:55
right And as they're sitting there deciding like this is probably not gonna work,
55:05
lightning strikes their ship as well, and it just seems like they're in
55:10
pretty fucking bad shape right here. So then a ship approaches. It's tiny
55:19
and it's got I think like six people on it, and there is an
55:24
old woman at the front in a robe with a covered head and she's missing
55:30
some teeth and she says, uh, what is it that? She says,
55:37
would you like an umbrella for your journey? And she just looks up
55:44
at him and her face is really really creepy. But we don't actually like
55:46
get any further on that one. So this is when, oh my god,
55:55
I completely forgot about how Captain Kidd basically has of like a magnet power
56:00
with his control of metal and stuff, and he like smashes all these guys
56:06
and is like, well, if you weren't ready to deal with some shit,
56:09
then probably you shouldn't have come to the New World. And he smashes
56:14
them all and says, if you want to throw down the gauntlet straw hat,
56:17
that's fine, because don't but don't cry when I come to you,
56:21
because it won't be pretty. And the camera pulls back and you see like
56:25
these people strung up and killed, and it's pretty for this show. It's
56:30
pretty gruesome, like they haven't exactly been crucified, but it's really giving crucified
56:39
on the surface, you know what I mean. And I was like,
56:43
oh shit, Captain Yike's like that just really it was unexpected how upsetting that
56:52
imagery was. So I'm trying to make sure because I'm out of time,
57:00
I want to talk at least about Buggy getting greeted by all of his men
57:04
who pretend they never lost faith in him at all, even though it's like,
57:09
you know, they all had abandoned him to follow Alvida, and he
57:17
winds up giving Alvida that bracelet, which I had forgotten all about Lufy gives
57:27
it to him because he has it on his arm when he's at impelled down
57:31
and when she sees it, she's like, you found Captain John's armband,
57:37
And she's like, well, tell me how you found it, and he
57:42
tells her the truth that like Louvie, gave it to him without a second
57:45
thought and that he couldn't believe how easy it was. But we don't find
57:51
out what the significance of this armband is. It's just a big deal that
57:55
he has found it, and that it's enough for him to feel like maybe
58:00
I was meant to be King of the Pirates. So this is when he
58:05
sees the uh news in the newspaper and the fact that Raley has gotten mixed
58:10
up in the whole thing, and Buggy is just like, what the fuck?
58:15
How did Raley even get involved in this? I can't keep up with
58:19
all of these new developments. If I remember correctly, straw Hat's dad is
58:23
Dragon and his grandpa is Garb, which means really must be straw Hat's long
58:32
lost uncle. I don't know how that works. Is Raleigh Garp's brother?
58:40
Wait, no, Israeli Dragon's brother? It would have to be that doesn't
58:49
like, why why is he leaping to this conclusion? Oh, Florian says,
58:52
that's just a joke. Buggy is being a Dodo bird here, Okay,
58:58
because I was like, where is that coming from? I don't understand
59:00
how he's reaching this conclusion. Okay, good because I just was like lost
59:06
there. So the world government has gotten in contact with him with a carrier
59:13
bat and he starts to panic over what the message is, thinking that it's
59:17
a final warning, but mister three has already opened it and he just is
59:22
reading it, going it can't be. This is simply unbelievable, and Buggy
59:29
is behind him saying that's for me, stop it. We don't see what
59:32
that says. It just cuts away. We go to Saboode and we have
59:39
the sonny that apparently a bunch of pirates are trying to like take this ship
59:46
and turn it in because they think they're gonna get some kind of reward for
59:50
it, since he's Dragon's son and probably the Navy would pay him. And
59:54
so we've got, you know, our assorted people here who aren't straw but
1:00:00
are like straw hat adjacent standing up for it. And we've got the guy
1:00:04
who got kicked into being pretty by Sanji, who is unwilling to let these
1:00:12
people have it for his own very silly reasons I won't get into, but
1:00:17
it is very like I enjoyed touching base with these people, at least because
1:00:22
I totally had forgotten about most of them. So let's see, that's Duval
1:00:28
and then we have the uh Juto is that his name? And I'm trying
1:00:34
to remember everybody's names here, but it doesn't really matter, because what it
1:00:37
comes down to is that nobody is going to take the fucking sonny. If
1:00:42
you touch it, you're gonna die the ship, I mean, not the
1:00:45
girl. He has this whole thing about like wanting to find a girl to
1:00:49
touch him. Oh my god, he's such a I really do enjoy Duval
1:00:53
though, And let's see where else am I going here? Oh? Right,
1:01:00
This is when Vivi spots the like symbols on Lufy's arm, which look
1:01:07
kind of similar to what Ace had had on his arm as well, because
1:01:13
I remember Ace had something that had been kind of crossed out, and I
1:01:15
feel like you guys had told me what it signified for him. But the
1:01:20
picture that she's looking at, I'm trying to see. Uh, because the
1:01:24
way that the Hulu's like interface, it sort of blocks out the bottom of
1:01:31
the screen a little bit when my cursor has been moved around recently. So
1:01:37
I'm trying to just leave the cursor in place for a second so I can
1:01:40
see it a bit more clearly, but because I can't pause it. So
1:01:44
it's A three, A two, A Y. There's an O between the
1:01:47
three and the tube that has a straight line, and then the three and
1:01:51
oh are sort of xed out. I don't know what that could mean.
1:01:58
I really don't know, Like maybe that sixteen tolls has something to do with
1:02:04
it, or maybe it's what they assumed and it has nothing to do with
1:02:07
this code. I do not know. So let's see. I'm just trying
1:02:15
to make sure that I'm not missing anything major in this section. Oh right,
1:02:20
Crocodile sees this and it is just kind of like, what the hell
1:02:22
is Loofy doing back there? And Mister One is also with him and is
1:02:29
like, I don't get the deal here, but I guess, you know,
1:02:34
let's head into the new world and get that started. So Crocodile invites
1:02:37
him and they're going to team up together. I guess the rest of this
1:02:40
episode is basically like we're going to touch base with the originals that we're at
1:02:46
the bar when Lufy was a kid. We're going to go and see Dedan
1:02:51
and all of them, and her saying rest in peace, you brat about
1:02:53
Ace, which I did think was genuinely very funny. We check in with
1:02:58
Lufy and he's being pulled by all of the like girls, and I thought
1:03:02
it was just because of him being rubbery. But then we jump over to
1:03:07
go Really and to Jimbei and they're being pulled on as well. And I
1:03:14
don't know what this is supposed to mean. It's just them being annoying,
1:03:17
I guess, but yeah, and then the whole thing with Chopper is like
1:03:23
almost all of the next the third episode, we have a moment of check
1:03:30
in with USOP. Absolutely nothing happens. I don't know what they're doing with
1:03:36
USOP. It's so it feels so pointless, you guys, I'm just saying.
1:03:42
And then we have the reveal that Frankie is okay, but he has
1:03:51
like burnt part of his face off in this explosion, genuinely terrifying when he
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turns to the screen, and then we get to see that Brooks is on
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display and being looked at by everybody, and you know they're treating him shitty.
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But they did also give him the newspaper when he asked for it.
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So I don't know if the guy who's got the piano key teeth is supposed
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to be one of the long arm clan because they both have like that,
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you know, pair of elbows on each arm. But anyway, I feel
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like that's pretty much everything. Oh right. We have the one check in
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with Zoro where Pirona brings him the newspaper and reads to him where Lufy is
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and he's trying to be like, wait, why would he go back there?
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There's got to be some kind of catch, and he's just laying there
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injured and tired, and she has to hold the newspaper up for him to
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read because he's in such bad shape, and we just see his sort of
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like expanding and dilating, as if he's really freaking out about something. But
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I do not know what that is, and I'm trying to see if there's
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anything else here. Yeah, pretty much, just like the whole thing with
1:05:16
Chopper is like there's the thing that's filled out with his flashbacks to Lufy inviting
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him on the crew and everything. Oh I forgot about the Drake pirate who
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is on this like snowy island. Uh. And there's this thing that starts
1:05:38
to open up that looks like it's covered in stone. It almost looks like
1:05:42
an astrolab inside. I couldn't tell exactly what this is meant to be,
1:05:47
but uh, I do like the significance of all of this, you guys
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jumping around the way that we have been. It is so difficult for me
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to understand how any of these things are connected, how much of it I
1:06:00
should remember. Drake is like approaching this and they start to get fired upon,
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and then this other person appears who has like the weird vertical slits in
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their mouth, and Drake takes them out. Oh yeah, a poo is
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the one who's on another island, and they wind up getting like chased off.
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And I found it really funny because they get chased off like cartoon style,
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running off the edge of a cliff, but they don't fold down.
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They just keep running on air, So I don't know what the fuck is
1:06:32
going on there. And then there's the uh, the let's see San Juan
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Wolf and it just says some burning island and the crew with Teach. It
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turns out they are not in great shape. Their ship is no longer seaworthy,
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and they're stuck somewhere that fucking sucks. And they're all sort of bickering
1:07:00
with one another. And it turns out that he captured Bonnie and he's trying
1:07:03
to get her to become his girlfriend, but she rejects him utterly. Good
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for her, uh, and she says, I'm gonna make you pay.
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Do you hear me? He does not pay any attention to her, but
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girl, I hope you do. I really hope you do. Oh yeah,
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And then we have the check in with with what's his face? Oh
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my god, the one who captured Maria, who's got the fucking like sunglasses,
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flaming do Flamingo, that's him, that's him. But yeah, he
1:07:40
says, one minute he's there and then he's gone. That shadow shadow fruit
1:07:44
is tricky, and so it felt like what he was supposed to do was
1:07:49
kill Maria. But Maria escaped and he's treating it like it's not a big
1:07:56
deal, whereas, of course Maria is still alive somewhere, so he's just
1:08:00
getting reprimanded for doing a sloppy job. But when this guy is telling him
1:08:04
like you fucked up, he gets open this man's face and is like,
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say that again, because you're not my fucking boss, and I'm still a
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pirate and I will fuck your entire world up, So maybe you should keep
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your fucking mouth shut. If I ever get tired of doing business with the
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likes of you clowns, I can just give up my title as warlord,
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don't you forget that? Which he ain't wrong, and this man should probably
1:08:30
have considered his words a little bit more carefully. I think, Yeah,
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that's that's everything. I'm pretty sure I managed to cover everything. Oh my
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god, you guys, this was like there was just so much happening here,
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and I if I missed something that you were like hoping for me to
1:08:51
speak about specifically, I'm so sorry, but it is just there's just so
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much much to talk about that I don't know what to give priority to.
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Oh no, I'm seeing that Florian is in the chat and that he can't
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see me anymore. Something happened. Well, hopefully the recording will work for
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you. Florian. Sorry about it. Thank you guys so much. I'm
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sorry about how I kind of scattered this was, but I feel like it's
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kind of not my fall. I did my best, and I'll see you
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soon with a new episode. Until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers.
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That was an unspoiled Network podcast two