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please go listen to our review of episode three of The Acolyte. Please.
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I just I just realized that her last name was Anna say this week,
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and I was about to be like Mama, say my say Mama.
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Oh yeah, that's right, folks, we are back to rev review recap,
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react to the fourth episode of as I like to call it, the
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Alkohali. I don't know, I don't know if I'm pronounced. It's act
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all the first act, right, I just gave it to like I guess
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gave it to the Houston accent and the butcher of names. You know,
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how do you know? If you're a long term listener of For All Nerds,
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you know that I am the butcher of names the act of like she
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yes, you know, I don't know whatever. We're back to review episode
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four. If you've been listening, we reviewed the first two episodes, which
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we were both kind of about, and then you know, the third episode
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came around. Shout out to the YouTube comments I saw somebody talk about Oh
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all, y'all talking about in the episode one and two is three, so
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I guess ial come back next week. And I'm like, well, maybe
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you should because one and two were kind of underwhelming, and then yeah,
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and then three came around and we were like, okay, okay, you
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know the whole flashback episode. If you peep last week, I mean hopefully
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you did. You know it was a flashback episode. Moesha was introduced,
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and you know it didn't that's and for those don't still don't realize, Mosha
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is May and Osha after they've done their fusion dance. Yes, you know.
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I had to break down that clip on Twitter because our comedy stylings were
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incredible, Like there was a Wonder Twins reference and then you made a the
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DBZ reference and then we flipped it. And when I'm cracking up laughing,
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I already knew you was going to go to Mosha from Mosha already felt it,
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you know the vibes coming. I already knew Moasha was coming as soon
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as you said motion. That's why if you watch the video, I'm already
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falling out because I already knew Moesha was coming. It was right there.
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It was easy. And then I come back with the Ray J reference and
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this is all in like twenty seconds, folks, unscripted, just off the
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throom. This is legit plastic material watching right here, folks. This ain't
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just content. This is art. You know what I mean it is?
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It is art. We love to do it basically. So yes, to
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your point. Mid first two episodes, the third episodes where it hit for
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me, we connected where I could. I think we both did. But
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that was when I was like, okay, we got something solid. Yeah,
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And now episode four, this is the last of the episodes that we
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got ahead of time. Guys, So what were your thoughts now? You
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did say last week, you did say about how you were nervous about the
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direction that the show would go, and you said you you think you hope
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they wouldn't do this. But a lot of Star Wars properties do this that
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they lean back on familiar ground and the ship that they've done before, like
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especially like there's there's rarities you don't like, andor but like where they seem
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to be going and trying to do something new, and then they just spec
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slided so that I'm episode four, mmm, like we said, Episode three
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was on that upswing. I have to say. Episode four, you know,
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it was back to form fan damn, and it's fob because I've seen
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out there loving this show. And then I saw Forbes say, you know
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what everybody saying, the show is mediocre. And first of all, what
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is Forbes doing talking about this? But Forbes talks about everything, which is
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weird. But Lane, I know, but that's all. There aren't no
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lanes anymore, you know what I mean. Everybody's different than anything. I
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don't. I don't want to hear ship from a wealth. We'll talk about
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that later. But anyway, I saw Joe Budden talking about ninety seven.
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It's like, you know, but he's a he's he's a person media personality
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that he actually didn't talk about anything and and has interest. That's fine,
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I'm talking about fucking Forbes. I don't care about that. But any well,
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they called a mediocre. I would not call the show mediocre weird,
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it's not mediocre. But no, it's not mediocre. But this episode,
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I was worried about certain things, and I felt like this episode started them
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already where we're already only an episode four and OSHA's Change Your Heart and this
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is it osh right, I got that one right right? Yes, the
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Evil Twins, Evil Twins, the good Son. Yes, the good Son's
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change of heart in this episode felt so unearned and all right back to this,
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like there's supposed to be this whole mystery of like and we still we
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talked about that last week. Who really killed the witches because they just got
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taken out? The fire did not kill the witches because first of all,
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you saw a little rumble and crumble around them when when they was laying out
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like you know, doing the death polls. But they something happened to the
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witches before anything else with the fire. That shit wasn't even there. That's
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what we're hoping because like Osha seems so confused, right, like she knows
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what happened. Either she knows that she killed the witches or she knows she
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didn't kill the witches, but she's out hunting the Jedi like she didn't.
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She's hunning the Jedi, saying, y'all are responsible for the death of my
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parents and my family. And I'm just like, well, wait a minute,
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and what is it? Yeah, you know, wa there one mic.
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But then in this episode she flips it and it's like halfway through the
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episode to suddenly really kind of I didn't feel like it was earned. It's
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suddenly like, hey, I don't have to do this, I don't have
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to be on this revenge tour anymore. I can just, you know,
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go be with my twin because she's alive. Fuck it, you know,
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like instead of but why would you go on to revenge tour if there's a
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chance your twin is alive in the first place? But she didn't think there
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was. I don't think she thought that there was a chance, Nigga.
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You And that's the question was gonna that's a question I'm gonna race. I
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don't think she knew whether her twins live. But I'm like, wait a
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minute, Nigga, you're the one who basically had had a false death.
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So I call it a trap door death right where it's like you didn't really
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die, but you you know, we see you fall. You're the one
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who people think is gone to what's going on now? That lead to a
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further mystery. Maybe something happened with her mind in some wine white situation and
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the mass she was she was told something else then than what we see,
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And that's also been the tenants of this show that they had been pushing since
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the beginning. There was like don't believe Even Master Soul says that when he's
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talking to the Young Lanes, he's like, don't trust your eyes, don't
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trust the things you see. Like that has been part of the thread that
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they've been building for this show thus far. So I can understand later if
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they're like, oh, you know, but it also feels very like,
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to your point, a bit unearned, and it also feels like a cop
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out, like, oh, she just didn't know by none of this because
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she was my wipe and dah la la lah. And I'm like, okay,
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yeah, like I don't believe you. I don't know. You need
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more people, And especially if they do that like certainly like we got a
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flashback or the Master of Mind wiping her, it's like you should have shown
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that before. I kind of feel something, you know, like because right
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now her motivations are so strange, because like we said, she's on this
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revenge story and then she's not pretty much in this episode. Here's a different
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question for you. Okay, so then I want to get to my real
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It's also sentiment based on the fact that you're not really in love with and
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not to say you have to be in love with these characters, but I
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don't know if you really like Osha as a character. I'm I'm not very
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convinced of Osha as a character because I don't understand OSHA's motivations right. And
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it's the same way in this episode I questioned May's motivations. Right. May
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has a moment where she's talking to Jedi Master Soul and he's like, I
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want you to come on this mission with me, and she brightens up talking
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about you want to be back in the Jedi order. Hey, but you
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can tell that. But see when she was watching the Young Wings doing a
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judo practice, you can tell she was just like, damn, I want
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that life again. I want that life back. I'm tired of being a
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little, you know, grease monkey on the outside of ships. I want
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to be out there. I want to be where the people are. You
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know what I'm saying, Like she she want to be up there. I
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get it, you know what I'm saying. Remember I told her she'd been
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on her aerial ship. She and and keeping right because she had the best
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ship. You know, she had a bunch of women down with her,
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and they had powers. I really don't understand that, you know, like
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I don't want to fail princess that has command of the seven Sies. Nope,
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I don't want it. So, you know, she brightens up and
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it's like, yeah, I want to be a Jedi again. And he's
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like, nah, not really, and it's like, what why would you
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want to be a Jedi again? You left off your own will. It
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wasn't like anything as far as we know, terrible ship was happening. Nothing
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was just like that. That's an important point. Then we don't know what
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exactly was it, Like did you just just drop out like you like,
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I'm tired of this college course. Here's the withdrawal or did you was there
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something of substance that made you go? You know what? This isn't for
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me. I don't like it's we can not explained, And I don't think
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that's a part of mystery that has to me. That's nothing to do with
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mystery. That's like, can you give me you're missing a foundational block for
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me, like you don't understand these characters. And that's why I said,
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And then let me let me correct what I said earlier about loving the characters,
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just understanding the character. You don't have to like anybody, but do
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you understand do you understand to your point the motivations, whether the character is
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the antagonist, protagonist, whatever, good quote, bad quote, What do
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you get it? Like case in point, my favorite Lex Luthor, I
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get it, Yeah, I get it. Then nigga hate that Nigga is
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Kendrick, He hate that nigga Clark Superman fine, but you get why he
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makes it. It makes they make it very clear through story and experience why.
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I don't see the why here yet? Yeah, you know, I
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don't ever agree with lecturecause he really believes the Superman that's holding back humanity,
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right, and he and youn't have to agree, but you want to see
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and like Superman says that you could have helped humanity all the time I was
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here, you just wanted to fuck with me. So yeah, jealous bitch,
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But ask that before you want to get there, like ma, before
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you wanted to I wanted to ask that question about did you even understand the
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character to really and is this now affecting like how you even viewing this story?
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Yeah, because I'm not understanding these niggas or Osha are both making choices
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when I'm like word fam like for reals, and then it's getting back into
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that goofy you know Disney Star Wars and I don't want to blame Disney because
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a lot of cats out there and be like, oh, the Disney's fault,
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and Star Wars has always been fucking super uber goofy's mixing with bits of
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darkness, you know, but it has a lot of goofiness, like when
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she's like, I'm sensing my you know, her out there again. I'm
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sorrying like she's feeling the connection to the forest again, and it's like,
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what it's because then you train, now they're on the planet Pandora, and
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now you can feel the earth around you. I'm like, since when?
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And again it just feels more of that unearned or unrecognized thing, like where
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is that foundational block that would have made me understand? Now? You can
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sure as a viewer, you can just try to fill in the gaps to
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yourself. It's not hard to make the mental connections, but it's just like
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it's it still feels like almost a stretch, like so what triggered this to
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happen? Just because maybe you're closer to your sister, you're physically closer,
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so then your powers combined. Captain Planet Like, I don't, I don't
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understand, So I just would like to know. And I know so many
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people will listen to this and be like, you know, you guys are
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nitpicking. I can understand that too, But I would then implore you to
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explain to me how does this happening? I would ask anybody, and if
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no one could give me like a very clear, straight answer, well you
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gotta go back to chapter fifty five of you Know the Old Like, I
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don't. I don't need that. I want the story of the Accolade.
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I want the story of May and Osha and all these people and how this
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comes about. I don't want to know about who did what two hundred years
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ago, and like that's not what I'm here for. And that's and that's
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what I mean when I'm just like, there's something missing or misunderstood here and
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and maybe it'll be revealed, but if it be revealed later, I'm like,
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well that was kind of backwards, yeah, And I'm like, do
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we have to have another flashback episode for this series to make sense? Is
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that what's going to happen, or we're gonna have another flashback showing why you
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know, young May leaves and why Osha gets corrupted. I would love to
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know what happened with her with the Jedi, because I did, because there
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was there's literally been no explanation made about why she just stopped training. It
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was just like she stopped for what reason? Why she just stopped you know,
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she just wasn't fucking with it no more. I'm like, okay,
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girl, And it seems like that's something that the Jedi just wouldn't all loud.
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I even know, you could drop out like that or at least keep
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more tabs on you afterwards, because it's like you have power. You're definitely
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not even a weak little Jedi. You know, you come from a line
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of power and where just to let you ride like that feels dangerous. He
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didn't let you ride us again, we can't screit you up. It feels
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like a bit of an oversight, but yeah, and I mean that is
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typical of the Jedi being trifling, and so there is that, so I
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could see that being the case. But I would like some, you know,
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just a little bit more explanation there and for those to say that we
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are in n it picking. Now you want to nitpick. Here's just my
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one other note before my major thing. I want to talk about. My
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one other note was at one point, Osha calls them Jedi scum, and
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it's like Jesus Christ, It's just like it's because you've heard it in every
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Star Wars series ever, it's always Jedi scum, just like in the earlier
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episode when what's his name with Yord with the weird dreads is like, I
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have a bad feeling about this. He has to kill more dreads and he
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does have his but yeah, yeah, and New York says I had a
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bad feeling about this, which is another line that has been in every Star
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Wars thing ever, And to me, it's like, come on, fail
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these things. Yeah, I have a bad feeling about this as one,
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but Jedi scum, Like why would you you know? It's like is that
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just every the SIPs just called them scum every time we see the thing?
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Is I also didn't know because the way she's the character said it also sounded
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unsure, like she was just trying to amp up Camire, like yeah,
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all came here, you know, I'm down with the cause, right,
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that's what I thought. I thought that that was purpose. Maybe it's just
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a phrase that they phrase. It's a phrase that pays, and you know,
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she it's like hal hydra. They might it might be like hal hydra.
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It might be it might be a niggas die every day. Just somethings
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a throwaway line and you just say to express what's going on in the moment.
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But also to your point, I still think they're relying on it.
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Case in point, what Yes, Star Wars has always had like a goofy
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side to it from the beginning, but I felt this episode directionally backslid because
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I felt like the whole thing felt like a power point. There was the
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fucking wipe from the right, right from the left, Its all from the
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bottom circle. Like I just I'm just like a nigga. How many of
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these scene change effects that we go like every other scene was doing that now
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when you sparently are used for a particular effect or context. I get it
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because they've been using it throughout this the show, but this episode just felt
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particularly egregious for me. I was just like, guys, I get it,
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y'all are part of the Star Wars universe. Let the story speak for
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itself. I don't need the catchphrases. I don't need the wipes, the
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crawl like I get it. Like y'all, y'all did that set up this?
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And to your point, you said, maybe they did that in the
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beginning to make sure people knew this was Star Wars. Heart Fine, do
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that in the beginning and give me something else. Yeah, I'd have to
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rewatch and or to see how many of those times they did it. I
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remember them doing it, but I'm sure they do it, and maybe they
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just do it everywhere. I feel like in this episode because it's not something
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and or just you know, it feels it. It doesn't feel like this
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where it doesn't have that feeling of Star Wars you know is a Star Wars
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show. And the reason I'm harping on that is because of that point,
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Like I want the story can be strong and I want them to rely on
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story. Maybe that's hard because you have such a hard fandom to uh to
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please, and you have a hard corporate overlord to appease. And it's just
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like, yo, I have to even though I'm trying to tell a new
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story, I still got to stay within certain guardrails. That's the case,
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I get it. It's also like damn really yeah, but once again,
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we hate I hate to keep bringing up and or type what and or show
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that you don't have to exactly do that. You can tell really good stories
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that don't have even a light sabringdon not one like not one something that people
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are like, you know, this ain't star Wars with a and I've heard
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people call in or not star Wars. Yeah, there were other characters that
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were not Jedi, they're not real lightsabers, and it's called star Wars was
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about the war in the stars, you know, like this is what it's
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about. So I don't know, but this some good things that I really
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did like about this episode. I thought the jungle was really beautiful. I
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loved all the shots of Manny and a man of walking through the things and
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everything it looked, you know, really dope. Yeah, you fucked with
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them. Kel Knaka caught the bad one, but was living a life for
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a little bit. Actually I can't say he was. His home was a
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hobble. Well, first of all, that wasn't a hobble to him.
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He chose that place. That's the only thing. Y'all gotta understand these Jedi
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are choosing their path. That the other nigga who chose to be silent for
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two years and be a bitch, he didn't have to do it. He
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chose that life and just sitting there floating on the fucking invisible pedestal. Kum
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Knaka is a not a Chewboka, is a wookie and chose to be on
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pandora. Okay, I have to say that he's right up there. He's
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one level below bitch of the other nigga who was floating like hiding out,
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yeah, hiding out like now see, in this case, I do blame
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the Jedi, and I do blame I do feel Oshra because these niggas both
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did But again they did some shit that I don't understand why they did it
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because like if they thought that somebody else killed these witches, yeah, then
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they would be out looking for him, right And if they didn't think somebody
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if they were like, yo, I killed these witches, ye, Both
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for these niggas turn bitch instead of just fessing up to it. Nobody wants
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to fess up. It gave me thanos cooking plantings on that farm a farm
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planet where they just like I did what I needed to do and I'm just
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gonna go by my time. That's how with Ko Knacka was doing, I
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was just like, okay, you just is it gives me sailor moon when
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my man throws the cloak, you know my job he mask because you didn't
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do anything. I just no accountability. And yes, that's part for the
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course for the Jedi as well, the lack of accountability. So it's just
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like, well, fucked up and did a bad thing. I'm gonna go
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to the spat planet. And so that's why it's like, why would May
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want to get back down with these whole ass But she always had to me,
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And that's what I'm saying. I think that's just maybe she never grew
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up from that. Just the fact that that as a child, that that
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wonder of something different and something beyond the witches and this planet and the area
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of the little Mermaid effect that was, that's I think that's just never truly
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left her. God damn boy like, and then for her to be in
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proximity to them, you know, her love of soul in the past is
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continuing to to be riled back up. And then she sees the young Lades
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Jackie lawn. You see Jackie moving doing her tight chie and she's like,
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oh you know that shit, Lou look fired though. Oh you know,
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I could use a I could use a light saber, like I just that
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grass is green on the other side mentality. But I feel like she has
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that every every single day, and I don't know she has a little and
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that's why I'm like, maybe she hasn't really grown out that she still has
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and her sister as well, they still have a lot of growing up to
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do. Well, we only got four more episodes, so the better start
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growing because there is no growth in this episode. That was that was my
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thing. It felt like nothing really moved other than you know, we set
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up to, you know, get to that ending. Well, let's talk
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about that. Let's talk about that set up, like all right, but
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before we get to that, I do I do because one last thing I
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want to pick up is Daphne Keen as always is doing great work. Jackie
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Lawn. Uh yeah, I mean that's all I can say. I love
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her. You know, she mates every scene she's in better. I think
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she's killing it. I believe Jong Jay too, you know, yeah,
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Grandmaster Grand Jedi. Grandmaster Jedi was gonna call him, you know, he
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is the prototypical Jedi, prototypical an idiot. So so they have this weird
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like almost alien inspired trek through and I keep calling the planet Pandora. It's
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actually what's the name of the damn planet that they on right now? Who
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knows something? Talking with the t oh I want I wanted to call it
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thanals. But the point is they on day on day in the Amazon,
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and you know, there's animals and shit flying and there's just a random moth
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giant moth comes to try to try to bite them, and you know,
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it's just like a bunch of randomness that I don't think it has anything to
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do with story, right, Like especially I thought it was kind of funny
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when so it was like get behind me, I got this and it was
23:52
just like very and it reminded me of the first fight. It was like
23:56
very disappointing. It was just like it flew at him that he said bomp,
24:00
and then it was over and then they moved on and then we got
24:03
you know, wiped from the right, and I was just like, what
24:06
was the point of that, What was the point of that scene? Like,
24:08
does you know we know souls nice, be nice with it. It
24:14
may may seem dumber. I mean, sorry, but it does. But
24:18
she was touching the things. I'm like, bitch has an egg or an
24:22
animal, Like when you see these trees with all this shit, nigga,
24:25
what I'm not touching nothing? Nothing? You want to plan You never been
24:29
on number one. It could just poison you instantly, you know, death,
24:34
But what do you know? No? No, So they going to
24:37
nature hike, they get they trying, they almost get to to kill Knaka,
24:44
but and and of course and actually what's the face makes it there first?
24:48
Not Osha, but but the may May make it their first. No
24:51
Ocean, you had it right, sorry, no no, no, no,
24:53
no, no no no no no no. Osha is the good one.
24:57
May wait man back earlier. No we didn't, I said sorry,
25:03
Maybe I did say it wrong, Yeah, no, because homegirls always looking
25:07
for Osha. Osha is the good one. Osh's the one that's hanging out
25:11
with Soul's the one that's hanging out with Soul. May is the one,
25:17
right, Yeah. Anyways, the bad twin makes it there and sees that,
25:27
you know, kil Naka got killed and that's obviously that's set up right,
25:30
like to make it like, oh, you're always gonna have to because
25:33
remember she she was already sewing dout with with Kmie. She was just like,
25:37
oh, you know, asking all these fucking questions, how is my
25:40
sister? What my sister like? What she talked to you about? Then
25:41
you know her as you mentioned her tricking him and saying, I ain't got
25:45
to do this shit, no more tricking him up. And I think what
25:48
you said the other day, which was like your prediction of who you think
25:52
this master is, Yes, there's nobody else that could be at this point,
25:56
Oh no. And I was just on the internet that people are you
26:00
know, making that all right falks like we said, if you haven't watched
26:04
this now deep into the view. And I did not want to really go
26:07
that hard on this last week because I'd already figured it out by the third
26:11
episode. I had heavy hints by the second episode, but I was trying
26:15
to let people live and you know, not spoil it. And now I
26:18
feel like I'm already been scooped. But this nigga's the fucking master dog Camire
26:22
is the master. Anybody else, It's no one else it could be.
26:26
It's so painfully obvious in this episode that I can't believe people are still saying
26:33
it's a theory because it's it's just shoved down your throat in this episode,
26:38
Ayo that it's you know, came here comm here earlier says he doesn't know.
26:44
You know, he the Master owns him, you know how he does.
26:48
He just owns people. We owe him things, blah blah. He
26:51
deflects on how he ever knows him. They get into the woods when she
26:55
starts talking about how she wants to flip and you know, have a change
26:57
of heart, he's like that once again. He adopts that other voice that
27:00
I talked about before where he's like, he'll kill you, you know,
27:03
real quick. And then he specifically says, no one can get through this
27:10
stuff, you know what I mean without a guy. Your only way to
27:12
get here is with a guy. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
27:18
And then she's like, yo, there's no way he can get through to
27:19
me. I'll tie Cameier up and bounce and jets to Kaka kil Knaka dead
27:26
up Jedi, cut lightsaber to the chest, and then the Master rolls up
27:33
and also just again just for Clarity's sake. May is the assassin's sister.
27:37
Oh yeah, is a sister that's with with what's face sol on them?
27:41
But obviously May is being played. We know this may be used, and
27:47
even I've been calling her Nebula, the green Nebula, part of the Jedi
27:51
orders. Oh yeah, she was just like, you know, there's a
27:53
larger situation at work, which is also the ongoing theme and story of Damn
27:59
Near every Star Wars, Star Wars, Yes, story and film is the
28:03
menace. She's a smaller piece of the greater puzzle or or she or she's
28:07
the first ball to get rolling of a bigger plan. The other reason why
28:11
I was just like, who the fuck else could it be? But Camier
28:14
is because of what you explained to me. You reminded me of rather about
28:18
storytelling, right, like, at least good storytelling anyway, that it can't
28:21
just be some random that we've never met before. No, it can't be.
28:25
It has to be someone you've already been introduced to. That's how mysteries
28:27
work. It's someone like in any murder mystery, the suspects. By the
28:32
time someone's murdered, you've already met all the suspects. Because it can't be
28:36
someone new because or you meet the suspects right after their murder whatever, but
28:40
you can't start trying to figure out who it is and then suddenly there's a
28:42
new person. It's like, oh, it's this dude at the end,
28:45
you know, when you're trying to figure out and then the detectives like,
28:48
it's none of these people, it's somebody else. What that doesn't matter,
28:52
you know, it's like, why were you telling me this story? Then?
28:55
Why did you include that person in it? So it had to be
28:57
someone that we knew already. So that that was my big suspect, because,
29:00
like we said, there's not many characters, so I'm like, it
29:03
has be someone we know. And Camier started at the front of me in
29:07
episode two when he was so willing to kill when he talks about how all
29:11
the Jedi have a weakness, his hatred of the Jedi, when he starts
29:14
talking about how they think they found peace and all this stuff, that's what
29:18
they're all searching for, blah blah blah. So that was another big tip
29:22
off. Then the third tip off was when he knew where kill Knaka was
29:26
and he's like, you know, I can get to him easy, no
29:29
problem. And Jill Knacka is a Jedi who's been hidden from everyone, and
29:33
then he talks about I got close enough to know where he's at and killing
29:36
knocking then know who he was. I love your pronunciation by the way you
29:40
call him kill Knacka. That's on some kill manger kill knaka. Shit.
29:45
I don't funk about this nigga obviously, because my man gets served like the
29:48
sucker. And then the last one, like I said, is he leaves,
29:53
she leaves him tied up, and then suddenly the Master shows up at
29:57
the end. It was just like Voldemort. Yeah, I will say he
30:03
definitely was terrifying. I've watched the episode a couple of times now. Every
30:07
time he shows up, he's scary. You know that move how he pulls
30:11
the lightsaber up and flies off wirkup. I didn't pick up when he eated
30:17
all of them at once. I said, oh, yes, something's happening.
30:19
And then what happened the white the episode over, I was like episode
30:23
yeah, but again, I just I'm still very upset how they nerve,
30:32
like, don't tell me. These are all powerful, you know, like
30:34
Master Jedi, and then they get got by like a half the time they
30:41
Tay May like this episode. They spent a great deal of the episode talking
30:44
about how May is trained, but she ain't all that. Not May.
30:45
Yeah, man, May is trained, but she ain't all that Like she
30:48
she leads with her emotions and that I like, you know she's strong,
30:52
but you know she she ain't got it all the way. But I'm like,
30:53
but she served two of y'all already easily, technically easily so and in
31:00
my head, I'm like easy because I'm like, ain't no way, Like
31:03
if y'all at least maybe y'all not on Soul's level, but if y'all supposed
31:06
to be at least on Soul's level, why is like things happening like this?
31:10
So like, no, they're Jedi masters. They're on Soul's level.
31:11
They are all Jedi masters. They are supposed to be nice. They're not
31:15
even Jedi Knights. They're Jedi masters. It's another level of it. I
31:19
don't see it. I don't see it. Like and again, I don't
31:22
know if this is just now script or what, but I don't like it.
31:26
Now. The crew is Soul are not all Jedi masters, Soul Master.
31:30
The rest of them is yeah, Knights and Pataws they scrubs. I
31:33
guess Killer is a knight and the rest of the Padawans they're all scrubs comparatively.
31:37
And that's fine, But that makes sense to me because they made that
31:41
very clear. But don't tell me and then don't show me some mid stuff
31:45
happening and like like dirty trick type fighting that they fall for. I'm like,
31:51
and that's why I keep questioning. It's like, Yo, it's the
31:52
Jedi stupid or are they like? Which one is it? It's like,
31:56
are they stupid? Are they nice? Well? The thing is, what's
31:59
his name? The Master is a sith lord of some sort, so he
32:04
is supposed to be dumb, powerful as we They made that clear. He
32:07
was done. I'm talking about how the fuck then may get that going?
32:12
I mean we are in no way. Yeah, we've already distressed how to
32:15
make get this and but then that's again it's the ineptitude of the Jedi.
32:19
Like you said, the Gomora of the Jedi is over here. They're like
32:22
we talked about this. How they are like, oh who could this be?
32:23
You know, like nobody could threaten us? Oh my god, Yes,
32:29
she's green like Gamora, but I call her Nebula, because she talked
32:30
like Nebula did that stuttered. Hey guys, she's nowhere near was Nebula.
32:37
Don't ever compare it to my lady to love the council. Yeah no,
32:46
see that's Nebula. This girl talked like like a slack jaw. You talk
32:54
like that, bro, They all sounded like slack jawn yokles at that council.
33:00
I just again, I don't know. I it's just this is convenient
33:04
storytelling or what. But I this is, this goes. This is like
33:07
a Marvel problem about the power sets. Like sometimes you want them to be
33:10
all powerful. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you want them to be seasoned and
33:15
well versed. And sometimes it's like, oh, look to the left,
33:17
what's over there? Wow? Like I'm just like, come on, like
33:21
it doesn't make sense, so like so fuck him up, Like I don't
33:31
know, but yes, that being said the Master, the sith Lord or
33:36
whatever he's supposed to be, that man got it. He got it.
33:38
And and to your what we said that it brought me to attention, like
33:44
whoa, Okay, now we're getting something that that matters because all that other
33:47
shit, that a lot of shit that happens episode didn't matter so not at
33:51
all because it wasn't explained why people were feeling this way besides saying and and
33:55
and again made this say this changes everything, And my sister's alive. But
33:59
we were like, well, why did you think she was dead? You
34:01
was the one that went to the negative zone, so the negatives, and
34:05
then when you see her alive, why do you know? Why don't you
34:08
have that realization? Then when y'allk you mad time, like why did you
34:15
just suddenly you know, why did you go be like go on this mission
34:19
to kill this nigga when you could have just been like that she felt forced.
34:24
But to your point, you saw your sister before you went to Pandora
34:29
Planet. Yeah, convenience storytelling. I don't know, so the story could
34:35
happen. Shout out to pitch me pitch meeting on that one. Yeah,
34:39
that's a famous woman, So the story could happen because that's you know,
34:43
that's what's happening right here. So what do we expect going forward? Then?
34:46
Then? I don't know, man, Like you know, I feel
34:50
like I feel like we're gonna get another flashback up and sold that it's going
34:52
to have be like wow, Yeah, you gotta explain this shit, bro.
34:57
Yeah, and and then I'm gonna have more and what what I'm really
35:00
hoping that doesn't happen, but I feel like it is is we're gonna a
35:04
flashback episode next week instead of having the fight that we want to see,
35:07
and then you know, they're gonna make us wait for the rest of the
35:12
fight with the Master. Yeah, with the Master, and then episode six
35:16
will have him slaughter most of them Jedi at the beginning of it, and
35:20
we'll be like, oh, the show's ope again. And then by eight
35:22
their powers will combine and everything will be good and I'll you know, want
35:25
to throw my TV off the wall. I feel like my my sentiments for
35:31
these first four episodes have been very EKG like up up, like very just
35:37
kind of you know, it's hasn't been consistent yet, like it stayed mid.
35:44
It's consistently mid. Not episode three, no, no, but average
35:51
mm hmmm. Because this episode was bad, Like you think this episode was
35:58
bad? Episode four, I didn't think it was good, you know what
36:02
I mean? I hate coinything bad, but oh it was like I couldn't
36:09
get over how the obvious it's the Master thing, you know that was or
36:16
maybe just obvious to me and like and like I said, if y'all been
36:19
listening to every review, I'm not good at murder mysteries and ship like that.
36:22
I can't think of a murder mystery move I've ever watched for I was
36:24
like, Oh, that's the killer, you know, I just don't.
36:28
I don't have that type of brain where I think of things like that.
36:30
But this one was like, God, damn, this is the Master.
36:32
There's no other way. But what if it's not? And it's like the
36:37
Mirrors Evil Twins, I'm just they know that that's what happened. I have
36:50
we been introduced. My job is done here besides the random like rodents and
36:57
robots who we didn't talk about the roaded, We didn't talk about Basil.
37:02
What was the point? Like, this is what I don't It made me
37:06
think of a Basil from Austin Powers. This is what I find corny.
37:09
And again that's just this is me personally. A corny thing about stores is
37:13
that the introduction of these animals and people animals that it's like, are you
37:19
are they Are you trying to make them cute? Are you not trying to
37:22
make them cute? Like trying to make them, and I'm just like,
37:24
but is isn't that the grown ass man that's trying to help you out out
37:30
what I mean? It's just like, I don't it's niggas of oh shit
37:35
calling him an it nigga got a name and that's why your I was almost
37:39
called him Yondu fucking Yondu Jr. Is like his name is a puzzle,
37:45
like like like like he was upset. Yeah, and then he's like,
37:47
I took the time to learn his language. You know, most people just
37:52
learn wookie, but your nigga get the fuck out of here. Don't nobody
37:53
care about that. Nobody care You're you're about to get stabbed up by you.
37:57
You should have learned better lightsaber fighting you about to so you got basle
38:01
Bozzle is not the Master. So I'm just like, who else half the
38:07
half the Jedi were being where is the end? Because he got screamed screaming.
38:12
The nigga is screaming like a smoke alarm and just standing there screaming.
38:16
They never go back to him. He's just standing in the middle of the
38:19
forest screaming at the top of the Master cut him down on his way in,
38:28
and he's a little he's a little he's a little rat type type nigga,
38:30
so he's fine. He could floated by. And I don't want them
38:37
to off him because that cute shit needs to go like all that, you
38:43
know what I mean? That would that would flip it like right, They
38:46
never killed when a little cute niggas like that, but they cheated the nigga
38:50
with a name like a dog gore here and sniff this all right, go
38:57
find me, nigga said, I tracking to keep up my tracker like this
39:00
fucking terrible. So we know, we know Basil, we know all these
39:07
random robots, Pip, annoying little Pip and and but the reason I'm naming
39:14
these other randoms who else have we met? Who else has been on screen
39:17
that has had a name besides in the canteena all the random robotic on the
39:23
planet they left, and that ain't domestic And that nigga's super slim. Yeah
39:27
yeah, the mass is skinty. So is it nebula slash like Nope,
39:35
nope slash memorial. No. I mean they can't get there without a guide.
39:39
There's only other one other person in the forest, That's what I mean.
39:44
It's like because I'm also seen online like people saying and maybe you know
39:49
this is before they're they're they're watching episode four, they're like nah, like
39:52
that's obvious that it's camere because like, no, he can't be act like
39:57
but I'm like, well, what if it is just that? What if
39:59
it is and it is the truth? Yeah? It is that that.
40:02
Like I didn't want to beat it one last week, you know, to
40:05
really be like, look, dog, it's the cam here, it's the
40:07
master. But I should have you sure. No, I was sure last
40:10
week, but I just didn't want, you know, cause I knew it
40:14
was like I didn't want to spoil it. I guess for people, but
40:17
I should have said it there so people could be like, oh, Ben
40:20
always be called on these things, you know, because that was one where
40:22
I fucking knew it dog he was. I was sure by episode two.
40:25
I was leaning hard damn. But episode three when he's like, I know
40:30
where to find dude, I'm like, nigga, because you're the master,
40:36
you know that episode three, that's episode two. That's I'm saying. By
40:38
the end of episode two when he's like, yo, I know where to
40:40
find him, I knew he was at those skits where someone walks in the
40:45
store and they're like, I need to speak to the manager, and the
40:46
person who goes bet goes in the back room comes back as the same person.
40:52
Yeah, you want to come out, maybe speak to your manner her
41:00
one moment. Help Pierre, you come out here, right yo. I
41:13
don't but listen, we gotta we gotta start predicting what's happening, man,
41:17
going forward. I know we kept saying we don't know, but goofy.
41:22
Things have to get solved, man, for it's so catching the bad one.
41:28
Is he gonna make it to the end? I don't know. That's
41:35
debate. You don't know. I'm putting money on your getting taken out.
41:39
Oh he's the sympathetic character and he's too pretty boy and he's been talking too
41:45
much ship. So he done. I hope they keep Jackie. Please leave
41:49
Jackie gonna know. Yeah, you're right, sold done, niggas. You
41:52
know, the masters never make it. It's always your pattern on mates.
41:55
It's sold done right now, or gets done up in his first fight,
42:02
damn yeah, or maybe soul gets done one of those, like gives me
42:08
junior master Vibes just got his first report. Yeah, he's a Knight now.
42:13
He definitely told her he just made Knight from Padawan tonight and the Master,
42:16
so he's one of those two is done in this fight, one of
42:22
the two I get. I put money on it. Charles Barkley, Garon
42:25
Tate. I'm trying to who. So wait, who did the Master eat?
42:31
It was like four of them one screens as the niggas the first first
42:36
he flicked Osha off to the side, but then when the line of Jedi
42:39
came came at him, he needed all of them. And how many It
42:44
was your Soul, Jeckie, and who was the other one? Some randos
42:49
who are dead, That's what I mean, like Fozzle or like I'm just
42:52
trying to remember who was still screaming still, you know, several miles away
43:00
screaming. I don't I just it's it is them niggas, is red Shirts.
43:06
I'm not counting them. I don't know who them niggas and then die.
43:08
You know they're gonna get murked. The survival will be Jackie and then
43:15
either Soul or And I'm putting money on your because there's still more episodes,
43:21
so you're getting taken out. But then it could be the flip, you
43:24
know, that could be their flip and so get taken out. Because I'm
43:28
actually looking at this scene again just to like remember, and there was actually
43:31
other you like you said you call them red shirts, right, Oh yeah,
43:34
there's a bunch of niggas there. I forgot that there was a bunch
43:36
of random Oh yeah, there's a bunch of them niggas they getting taken out.
43:40
I did like the way the Master looked like that that hell helman and
43:45
look like it looked like a joker type smile. Yeah, like it's just
43:46
a carve out or cut out into the helmet. Yeah, I think that's
43:51
part of the helmet. That smile, It's all part of it, that's
43:53
all. And I before I was talking to about this off air, we
44:00
always have what we call the basic bitch cosstume of the year that people overdo
44:04
at all the cons that we go to. Usually it's like Deadpool or whoever,
44:08
what's my Man? From Walking Dead? Nagan from Walking Dead? To
44:12
a classic base Mandos, like a bunch of Mandos years ago. I gotta
44:16
give that one that at least takes a little credit, But it was a
44:19
fucking lot of Mandos, you know it takes a little bit more work,
44:22
but it was a lot of them, Wolverine Logan especially another one. And
44:28
this year this master is going to be a basic bitch costume for Star Wars
44:31
people, especially because it's a definitely scary costume. People love to actually,
44:36
you know, be intimidating when they ain't so, but there's certain will make
44:40
it really look good. I will get them that. No, this is
44:44
gonna be fired. They're gonna work this. Yeah, yeah, I see,
44:47
And I see a lot of mashups with this costume. I see the
44:52
Joker mashup coming already heavy, you know. I see things like that,
44:57
which is to be corny. But anyway, I think that's about it for
45:00
our view of episode four of the Acolyte, uh the act right, which
45:07
ain't at the right. We will yeah, we will be back, just
45:10
like y'all. Now we are in uncharted territory. We have not seen any
45:14
of the last four episodes. We will be watching them a real time,
45:16
y'all. So the reviews might be coming a little later in the week.
45:19
We'll see mh. But yeah, man, we'll be back. Who knows,
45:24
hopefully, you know, still four of us left, Still a lot
45:27
of time left. You know, still we at halftime right now. The
45:30
game cag either way. KG brok, Yeah it's up. Yeah, it
45:36
ain't a blowout. You know, it ain't a blowout, you know where.
45:38
Damn this game sucks. You know, it's like this game will turn
45:43
around on it. They could still get a win, you know what I
45:45
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45:47
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Big dj energy dot com. That is my personal site where you can get
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my music that I've been producing, all the remixes, all the original productions
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that I've been dropping, including a million dollar Baby Black Dance Energy Jersey Hype
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remix which is blowing up everywhere. Thank you to everybody who's downloaded. Thank
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you to all the DJs. We've been playing it out. Love to see
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it. If you do play it anywhere, give me a video, Shoot
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me the video at djbit I mean also a bigdjenergy dot Com. Not only
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do you get all this music, you can sign up and get free music
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as well. Leave your email and you get it free, you know,
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just in case you can't afford things. It's on band camp and all that
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for the low, but you know, just in case, just sign up,
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eive you email you get it free. But while you're there, you
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can also pick up a pre order of my new well first ever graphic novel,
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Jimmy Hendrix Purple Haze, soon to be in stores August fifteenth, but
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you can get a sign the copy available from Anyone Comics. We're doing a
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big signing there probably August fourteenth to night it is released, and sorry,
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not the fifteenth or fourteenth. Wednesday, August the fourteenth, it drops.
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Will They'll be doing a signing in Anyone Comments in Brooklyn, so you can
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come through and get your book personally signed, or you can order it from
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biddjenergy dot com. The link is in there to pre order and you can
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get a sign copy ship to you pretty much anywhere, so go get it.
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It's coming up. We've been talking about this shit forever and we are
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almost here. It's June something right now? Uh what is it? What's
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today? June eighth, a little over two months and a week yep,
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a little over two months away, y'all. I'm really hyped gonna be at
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ce Diego Comic Con, so look for me there well actually be out youah,
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along with Mellow Brown, my man Tom Mandrake is gonna be back in
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the house and New York Comic Con, so we'll both be there, so
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you know, the rest of the year, once it drops, I'll be
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everywhere doing all kinds of things. So look out. We'll be talking more
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about it every week. And thank you. Please make sure you pre order,
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go grab yourself a copy. I promise you, it's so worth it.
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You know, I wouldn't be saying this if I wasn't. You know,
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we've been talking about your book for two years. I mean I've been
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working on it more, but yeah, for more. I know, because
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we've been talking about it as long as I could talk about it, and
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I was working on it well before that. I say that just so people
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understand. And when it comes to the creative process, when it comes to
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the films you watch, the TVs, you watch the books you read,
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this stuff is years in the making. It's so like and I've always known
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that because I've worked on films and stuff before, on TV shows obviously,
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all these different things, and you know, I've seen how long it takes.
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I'll think about a friend of mine script today and I say, damn
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shit, that scrip. I remember when I read it, like, damn,
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this is a great show and I still never been made it. And
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I was like ten years ago, like and it happens, you know,
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and then But we started working on this three plus years ago as far as
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I can remember. I have to check the exact date, but it's been
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around, like it's doing on three years. I remember I was talking to
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somebody today and I was like, Yo, it's doing on three years because
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it was three years go and it'll be I think it'll be three years in
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October when Mellow first approached me and asked me, did I want to picture
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on this? And the food of your labor are about to flourish, about
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to flourish three years later, and it's well worth every minute of it,
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so please pick it up. I can't wait for it to be out and
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everybody and then I can really fucking talk about it. Like I barely even
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been to tell anybody anything about it because I didn't want to spoil all the
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story that we have in it. So it's a beautiful space opera. I
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mean, it's about music, it's about blackness, it's about finding change in
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your life. It's about when you reach a point in your life and you
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feel like you're stuck in a point and you need to find a new way
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through life. It's about rediscovery and the magic inside of you. It's about
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a lot of different things, man. I think it's a lot of a
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really beautiful book. And then of course it's Stout the art by fucking Tom
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Mandrake, first comic Out art by Tom the macon Cole and all the man
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brows and brows