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- 0:02Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
- 0:10Speaker 1: covering One Piece episodes eight thirty nine through eight forty one,
- 0:17Speaker 1: The Evil Army, Transform, Germa Double six, Cutting, the father
- 0:23Speaker 1: son relationship Soanji and Judge, and Escape from the Tea Party,
- 0:30Speaker 1: Loofy versus Big Mom. In these episodes, a lot of
- 0:38Speaker 1: things go really really wrong. Our friends had a solid plan.
- 0:43Speaker 1: You know. There are some times where I feel like
- 0:45Speaker 1: this is sort of on y'all, that it went left
- 0:46Speaker 1: because you didn't think things through, And this time I
- 0:49Speaker 1: don't feel that way. They tried, but you can only
- 0:54Speaker 1: foresee so much. Planning can only get you so far,
- 0:58Speaker 1: and that's me saying that. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome
- 1:20Speaker 1: to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very
- 1:24Speaker 1: much to Mina for commissioning this episode. And Lena is
- 1:27Speaker 1: here in the chat today. Hi, Lena, Lena, is this
- 1:31Speaker 1: the first episode that you've commissioned? Like I've been doing
- 1:36Speaker 1: One Piece for so long, It's certainly possible that you
- 1:38Speaker 1: commissioned early on and it's just been literal years now
- 1:42Speaker 1: and I have forgotten, But Lina says, yes, yay, Welcome,
- 1:45Speaker 1: Thank you so much. This section was so interesting, because guys,
- 1:52Speaker 1: you know, I am aware that this is something that
- 1:55Speaker 1: I'll tend to do where I'll say how pleased I
- 1:59Speaker 1: am with the pace, and then I will have to
- 2:01Speaker 1: take it back because things wind up getting dragged out
- 2:04Speaker 1: further along, you know, later on. But at the moment,
- 2:08Speaker 1: I'm really pleasantly surprised because everything about how this has
- 2:14Speaker 1: been paced so far to me has made a lot
- 2:16Speaker 1: of sense. I have stayed engaged the whole time. There
- 2:20Speaker 1: hasn't been any feelings of like, God, we know this already.
- 2:24Speaker 1: You know. The flashbacks have been And when I say flashbacks,
- 2:29Speaker 1: I don't mean like the new information flashbacks, like the
- 2:32Speaker 1: flashbacks to Big Mom's childhood. That's brand new stuff. When
- 2:37Speaker 1: I say this, what I mean is more the flashbacks
- 2:39Speaker 1: to like things that we have seen in the past
- 2:42Speaker 1: that they are choosing to remind us of. Right now,
- 2:47Speaker 1: they have been at a minimum, and I just really
- 2:52Speaker 1: feel like good about the way this has all been
- 2:56Speaker 1: progressing so far. And again, I do, to a point
- 3:02Speaker 1: have my guard up because I have said this before,
- 3:05Speaker 1: but I am I can't pretend I'm not still feeling
- 3:11Speaker 1: this way again, even though I know I must be cautious,
- 3:14Speaker 1: so oh shit, Lena is watching along with me for
- 3:18Speaker 1: the first time. Lena, that is awesome. I don't feel
- 3:23Speaker 1: like I've seen anybody say they're doing that for one piece.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Fucking everybody involved has all seen it already. I have
- 3:30Speaker 1: this occasionally with like book coverage, but with TV shows
- 3:34Speaker 1: it's a lot rarer and with one piece I don't
- 3:36Speaker 1: think it's happened at all. So that's really cool, awesome.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I'll be interested in your thoughts and if you have
- 3:44Speaker 1: more to say than you can say here. I don't
- 3:47Speaker 1: know if you're already in the discord, but there's a
- 3:48Speaker 1: whole no spoiler one piece channel in the discord as well,
- 3:52Speaker 1: and would I would love to see what you think
- 3:57Speaker 1: you guys. There is a very funny I think that
- 3:59Speaker 1: I shared it in the discord actually, but it's a
- 4:03Speaker 1: song that's talking about like having a chopper in the
- 4:05Speaker 1: car and he's talking about a gun, but it's this
- 4:08Speaker 1: like you know, TikToker and he's just got a bunch
- 4:12Speaker 1: of chopper stuffies in his car, and it is really
- 4:14Speaker 1: funny to me. So this section is when we're cutting
- 4:21Speaker 1: back to the present and again, granted last time we
- 4:24Speaker 1: had cut back to the present, but I chose really
- 4:27Speaker 1: not to talk about a lot of what happened there
- 4:30Speaker 1: because I was focusing almost entirely on Big Mom's own
- 4:34Speaker 1: history and her story for that. So I'm kind of
- 4:39Speaker 1: doubling back a little bit here. Big Mom they launched
- 4:45Speaker 1: these like missiles at her, and they don't do fucking anything.
- 4:51Speaker 1: It's I was sort of like, I don't really know
- 4:58Speaker 1: why they don't do anything, and I'm assuming we're going
- 5:02Speaker 1: to find out more information about this. It feels like
- 5:05Speaker 1: it's just as much of a surprise to everybody else
- 5:08Speaker 1: that they don't do anything. Like there's no moment of like, oh,
- 5:12Speaker 1: we missed our window and so now like she's unhurt
- 5:16Speaker 1: because xyz. It seems that everybody is sort of going, wait,
- 5:23Speaker 1: this should have worked. What the fuck? And it is
- 5:30Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Lena says, I am.
- 5:32Speaker 1: I'm the one with the snowbar. Okay, guys who aren't
- 5:35Speaker 1: in discord, Lena posted this awesome. It's it is a
- 5:40Speaker 1: drink spar that they made out of snow because you
- 5:43Speaker 1: can just stick the bottles in it and keep things cold.
- 5:45Speaker 1: But there's also like, you know, what did you have
- 5:49Speaker 1: like hot chocolate and stuff. It was so cool looking
- 5:51Speaker 1: and there were like Christmas lights bound up in it
- 5:53Speaker 1: to make it glow. Everybody should just get on the discord.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I post the link in the show notes every episode.
- 6:00Speaker 1: If you're not already in there, you're missing out. It's
- 6:02Speaker 1: a fun time. Get on there. Seraphim says the rockets
- 6:07Speaker 1: might have worked if they hit her, but her scream
- 6:08Speaker 1: was more powerful than anticipated and blew them up early,
- 6:12Speaker 1: if I recall correctly. Okay, because it is sort of
- 6:15Speaker 1: hard to tell at first, but I think you're right, Saraphim,
- 6:18Speaker 1: because the way that it pulls out and shows how
- 6:22Speaker 1: they go off, sometimes it's hard for me to tell
- 6:25Speaker 1: what is literally happening and what is like a style
- 6:28Speaker 1: choice in the animation. So it looked like they detonated
- 6:32Speaker 1: before they got to her, but I wasn't sure if
- 6:34Speaker 1: that was actually what was going on. And her scream
- 6:39Speaker 1: also explodes the mirror that everybody was about to escape through,
- 6:45Speaker 1: which really fucking sucks. I was completely wrong about the
- 6:52Speaker 1: way this was going to go awry because I had
- 6:55Speaker 1: anticipated that somehow Brulat was going to like get out
- 7:00Speaker 1: of their clutches and turn against them. You know that
- 7:05Speaker 1: there was going to be some way that she found
- 7:08Speaker 1: to like use the mirror escape as a trap or something. No,
- 7:14Speaker 1: it turns out that it's much more simple than that.
- 7:18Speaker 1: BRULEI is actually out there with Mama trying to like
- 7:23Speaker 1: make up for her fuck up at this point, so
- 7:26Speaker 1: she's well back with Mama and fighting on her side.
- 7:32Speaker 1: But it is not the way that you know what
- 7:35Speaker 1: I'm saying. It just didn't go down in the way
- 7:37Speaker 1: that I thought where Brule was going to get control
- 7:41Speaker 1: of her power back. And it's sort of interesting because like,
- 7:47Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is this has never happened.
- 7:51Speaker 1: I'm just saying that, like it's I don't remember anything specific.
- 7:55Speaker 1: So if you guys do remember something specific regarding this,
- 8:00Speaker 1: let me know, because I am curious about it. But
- 8:03Speaker 1: I don't remember there being a specific type of power
- 8:11Speaker 1: that the person who has that power can completely be
- 8:19Speaker 1: all like detached from the object of their power and
- 8:23Speaker 1: it still works. Does that make sense? And like Brule
- 8:29Speaker 1: can do this thing with mirrors but then be quite
- 8:34Speaker 1: far away from the mirror and it doesn't matter. It
- 8:39Speaker 1: still does its thing. Or she can like you know,
- 8:43Speaker 1: be made to do this unwillingly, and it's not like
- 8:45Speaker 1: she can simply turn it off after she gets away
- 8:50Speaker 1: from them, and because she now wants to screw them over,
- 8:53Speaker 1: she can't just like undo it. And I really thought
- 8:59Speaker 1: there was going to be more control on her part
- 9:02Speaker 1: when it came to this. I'm really surprised, Like it,
- 9:07Speaker 1: I almost feel bad for her, and I don't really
- 9:09Speaker 1: mean that, but there's like a sense to me of
- 9:11Speaker 1: how embarrassing this is to have a power that can
- 9:16Speaker 1: be sort of taken advantage of by other people against
- 9:20Speaker 1: your will in this way. It's just like it. I
- 9:26Speaker 1: want to compare her a little bit to Caesar, but
- 9:28Speaker 1: it's not really the same thing, because Caesar's being taken
- 9:31Speaker 1: advantage of for his like scientific genius, but not his
- 9:38Speaker 1: devil fruit power really, unless I'm like kind of convoluting
- 9:45Speaker 1: things here. But anyway, I just I really thought that
- 9:49Speaker 1: there was going to be a different way that this went.
- 9:51Speaker 1: And it surprises me and also makes me feel a
- 9:55Speaker 1: little sad for her that her ability can just be
- 9:57Speaker 1: sort of like wrenched away in this manner. So anyway,
- 10:03Speaker 1: all of our people are running full tilt towards this
- 10:07Speaker 1: mirror when it explodes and it's very fun because like
- 10:11Speaker 1: the whole crew of big moms behind them is walking
- 10:16Speaker 1: up really slowly, like fucking Michael Myers. You know, it's
- 10:22Speaker 1: just a very threatening. Yeah, we don't need to rush
- 10:26Speaker 1: because y'all have absolutely no chance of withithstanding us, so
- 10:30Speaker 1: we will take our time. And Veggie is like, all right, well,
- 10:35Speaker 1: I guess it's time to pull out the big guns.
- 10:39Speaker 1: And he says something like that, it's time to pull
- 10:43Speaker 1: out the big rock something like that, and he holds
- 10:47Speaker 1: his hands up and does something with his fingers. He's
- 10:49Speaker 1: got all these rings, which is very fanos for me.
- 10:53Speaker 1: It's just I can't not see that. And he begins
- 10:57Speaker 1: to turn into solid stone and expand and expand and expand.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And we knew VEGGI could be a building, and we
- 11:08Speaker 1: knew that he could open himself up and hide people
- 11:10Speaker 1: inside him and all of this. I had no idea
- 11:13Speaker 1: that he had it like this. This is extra and
- 11:18Speaker 1: even Loofy watching this is just like, holy shit. And
- 11:22Speaker 1: of course he's super excited. Loofy, even when it's an enemy,
- 11:26Speaker 1: if they can do something really cool, is always just like, well, goddamn.
- 11:30Speaker 1: So we see these turrets appear and there are a
- 11:34Speaker 1: lot of like guns that sort of begin to poke
- 11:40Speaker 1: out as well, like I guess you'd say cannons. There's
- 11:44Speaker 1: just it's it's a much more elaborate system with much
- 11:49Speaker 1: better defense capabilities than I was thinking. It's one thing
- 11:52Speaker 1: to be able to turn yourself into a castle at all,
- 11:55Speaker 1: but it's a much like it's taking it to the
- 12:00Speaker 1: next level. If you can turn yourself into a castle
- 12:02Speaker 1: and you've got like what amounts to mechanical and combustible
- 12:08Speaker 1: weapons like this and he he says, it's the Big Father.
- 12:14Speaker 1: I keep forgetting that, okay, So that's what he winds
- 12:16Speaker 1: up calling it, like for the rest of this whole thing,
- 12:19Speaker 1: it's the Big Father, and like it's sort of I
- 12:24Speaker 1: think meant to be like Godfather vibes, like, because you know,
- 12:29Speaker 1: he's got this whole gangster thing going on. So I
- 12:31Speaker 1: think that's what we're I don't want to say what
- 12:35Speaker 1: we're dancing around, but I guess what it's meant to
- 12:38Speaker 1: call to mind, I suppose, but this, like you know,
- 12:44Speaker 1: he he says this later, I can keep you guys
- 12:47Speaker 1: in here for so long as I survive, but if
- 12:50Speaker 1: something happens to me, then this thing is gonna fall
- 12:53Speaker 1: apart and you are going to need a plan. And
- 12:56Speaker 1: I've got to admit, there comes a point where BEGGI
- 12:58Speaker 1: is like, it appears he might bail on them, and
- 13:05Speaker 1: I don't even really in the moment, there was a
- 13:08Speaker 1: part of me that was sort of like, I hope
- 13:11Speaker 1: you don't, but I kind of should have seen it
- 13:12Speaker 1: coming if you do. And then he decides he's not
- 13:15Speaker 1: going to do that, and he really cites like his
- 13:19Speaker 1: dudes and his wife and his kid are all in
- 13:21Speaker 1: this boat. But it's not really like, and you guys
- 13:25Speaker 1: put yourselves on the line for me, you straw hats,
- 13:27Speaker 1: so I feel obligated, like it's just really about his
- 13:30Speaker 1: own people, which is fine, but he like it. I
- 13:36Speaker 1: don't really know if he had decided that he was
- 13:39Speaker 1: going to bail, if that even really would have worked
- 13:42Speaker 1: out for him. I don't know how much more likely
- 13:44Speaker 1: that would be than trying to fight through to the
- 13:46Speaker 1: end anyway. Saraphim says pretty sure she does need to
- 13:52Speaker 1: be relatively close to a mirror to let it be
- 13:55Speaker 1: a portal people can talk through them if they're on
- 13:58Speaker 1: the mirror dimension then not turning it off, Yeah, that's
- 14:01Speaker 1: just bad luck for her, Okay, so for it to
- 14:04Speaker 1: be a portal. Brendadette says, genius is a strong word
- 14:08Speaker 1: for Caesar. I recognize this. I'm kind of talking like
- 14:13Speaker 1: specifically scientifically, but I also don't really even know how
- 14:16Speaker 1: accurate that is, because here's the question. Whenever you're dealing
- 14:21Speaker 1: with somebody who just doesn't really have any regard for
- 14:24Speaker 1: human life, is it genius? If you just try anything
- 14:29Speaker 1: and see what sticks, and other people aren't willing to
- 14:33Speaker 1: compromise their ethics in order to do that, does that
- 14:36Speaker 1: count as genius or does that just count as ruthlessness
- 14:40Speaker 1: that occasionally hits because you're throwing a wider net, you know.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I feel it's just I don't know, but it does
- 14:49Speaker 1: seem like he has built enough of a reputation for
- 14:51Speaker 1: himself in like in the underworld. I suppose you'd say
- 14:59Speaker 1: that other people see him as a scientific genius and
- 15:03Speaker 1: are trying to like hire him and get him to
- 15:05Speaker 1: do stuff. And I guess that's really like the part
- 15:09Speaker 1: that matters whether you are or not. If everybody thinks
- 15:14Speaker 1: you are, then you can kind of ride on that
- 15:17Speaker 1: for a while. So everybody runs into Benjie and it's
- 15:26Speaker 1: just like, apparently, I guess Mom's pirates didn't know that
- 15:33Speaker 1: Benjie could do this either. I'm not sure maybe they did,
- 15:36Speaker 1: but it seems that from their reaction as they watch
- 15:39Speaker 1: him expand that they're like, what the fuck as well,
- 15:43Speaker 1: and the pirates that were hiding inside him come out,
- 15:49Speaker 1: and this is when a bunch of different people are like, oh,
- 15:53Speaker 1: BESHI must have been planning this for a while. This
- 15:56Speaker 1: isn't a spur of the moment thing. This was all
- 16:00Speaker 1: set up and he had his guys ready and armed
- 16:03Speaker 1: to go, and this is when he does the whole
- 16:07Speaker 1: uh like begins firing cannons, and Lufy gets super excited,
- 16:12Speaker 1: and Chopper is like starry eyed and literally floating with excitement.
- 16:17Speaker 1: And it made me think of how the whenever you
- 16:24Speaker 1: split the party, there has got to be somebody who
- 16:27Speaker 1: kind of fills in for a particular ability a lot
- 16:30Speaker 1: of the time. And Beggie is really like taking Frankie's
- 16:33Speaker 1: spot right now in terms of just being this like
- 16:38Speaker 1: almost mechanical thing that can do all of these different functions. Meanwhile,
- 16:45Speaker 1: by the way, like throughout this, Mom is still screaming.
- 16:50Speaker 1: She's just I don't think she's taken a breath since
- 16:53Speaker 1: she started. And there are some folks who are really
- 16:56Speaker 1: nearby who are starting to suffer some real damage from it.
- 17:02Speaker 1: And one of them he's that Mochi guy, and he
- 17:06Speaker 1: plugs his ears with it and that manages to sort
- 17:09Speaker 1: of calm things down. And this dude is the one
- 17:14Speaker 1: that goes and his name is Dufeld according to the subtitles.
- 17:21Speaker 1: He also speaks in rhyme, which I don't recall, like
- 17:26Speaker 1: having really seen this from him before, but there's been
- 17:30Speaker 1: a lot happening. So this is when he spots the
- 17:34Speaker 1: Tamat box and is like it's glowing, and he says
- 17:41Speaker 1: something about how the mystery calls me. I think it's
- 17:45Speaker 1: meant to just be what it looks like to him,
- 17:50Speaker 1: and I'm not supposed to see it as literally luring
- 17:54Speaker 1: him like a magical object. But I might be wrong.
- 17:58Speaker 1: It may, you know what I mean. Like, I'm thinking
- 18:00Speaker 1: about it as like the one ring, where it just
- 18:03Speaker 1: sort of everybody who sees it is entranced and feels like,
- 18:08Speaker 1: but I want to touch it though, you know. So
- 18:14Speaker 1: Caesar is determined to get like he wants to get
- 18:19Speaker 1: to Beggie get his heart back, and he is blasting
- 18:23Speaker 1: past Nammy, Chopper and Uh and Carrot, and for a
- 18:30Speaker 1: second as he like knocks them all down in order
- 18:33Speaker 1: to get inside Beggie, he just is like, ah, I
- 18:38Speaker 1: made it, no problem. And then somebody grips him up
- 18:42Speaker 1: and drags him outside, and Caesar actually thinks to himself,
- 18:48Speaker 1: who dares to mess with the great gangster Guestino? Which
- 18:52Speaker 1: the fact that this dude has like gotten high enough
- 18:55Speaker 1: on his own supply that he even thinks this. It's
- 18:59Speaker 1: not him posturing. This isn't him like saying it out
- 19:05Speaker 1: loud to somebody trying to pretend this is like to himself,
- 19:09Speaker 1: what do you say? Who are you fooling? Caesar? So anyway,
- 19:14Speaker 1: he's got Brule attached to him reminder, and Brulay is
- 19:18Speaker 1: very excited because it's her big brother, as she calls him,
- 19:22Speaker 1: pulling them back, and Caesar is just like, oh shit,
- 19:26Speaker 1: and they're really pissed. So he is trying to run away.
- 19:31Speaker 1: The straps are extending, and it looks like her brother
- 19:34Speaker 1: really is more concerned with getting her back than with
- 19:38Speaker 1: getting Caesar, so he allows Caesar to run. But now
- 19:44Speaker 1: that Brule is back, you know, who knows what all
- 19:46Speaker 1: is going to happen. I hope there's no mirrors inside
- 19:50Speaker 1: of Beggie. I'll just say that. And at this point,
- 19:57Speaker 1: Caesar is trying to say that they should just shut
- 20:00Speaker 1: the gate, and of course our people are still out there,
- 20:04Speaker 1: and BEGGI is listening to Loofy. I'm very pleased to
- 20:07Speaker 1: see waiting for our guys to catch up. The fact
- 20:11Speaker 1: that Caesar like knocks them down in his hurry to
- 20:14Speaker 1: get in here. I feel like I've mentioned that he
- 20:17Speaker 1: is very much giving George Costanza a few other times,
- 20:20Speaker 1: and it just keeps happening. It's just a certain, you know,
- 20:23Speaker 1: certain pattern I'm really seeing. So then we get to
- 20:30Speaker 1: see a lot of the mom pirates doing their things.
- 20:36Speaker 1: So first it's kind of Cory, who does the what
- 20:39Speaker 1: is it? He fires like jelly beans, right, So he's
- 20:42Speaker 1: doing that. We've got the Smoothie lady. I look, there
- 20:49Speaker 1: are a lot of powers at play throughout that I
- 20:52Speaker 1: will stop and just be like, this is this is
- 20:54Speaker 1: a terrifying one. But Smoothies is just so like it's
- 21:00Speaker 1: it's not just what it accomplishes, it's the way it
- 21:02Speaker 1: does it that's so cruel and drawn out. That's what
- 21:06Speaker 1: makes it feel so upsetting to me, you know what
- 21:09Speaker 1: I mean, I just fucking oh, I just hate it.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Even later, it's people on her own side that she's
- 21:18Speaker 1: like squeezing poison out of to save them. And even
- 21:21Speaker 1: though she's saving them, I'm still sort of like, oh Jesus,
- 21:24Speaker 1: you know, sorry, I'm Bernadette, a bitch has lungs about
- 21:31Speaker 1: being mom. Bernadette. I wish I had just a tenth
- 21:35Speaker 1: the confidence that Caesar has. And Sarah Fenn says, yes,
- 21:39Speaker 1: Smoothie is freaking terrifying. Yeah, she's just like especially the
- 21:43Speaker 1: way that everybody got greeted, where there were different people
- 21:46Speaker 1: that she was serving up, like, ugh, it's horrible. It's
- 21:52Speaker 1: like being able to use this ability and they don't
- 21:54Speaker 1: even die, they just you know, yikes. So then we
- 22:00Speaker 1: get du Quah, who's yelling and saying you're not gonna
- 22:03Speaker 1: get past us. I don't. I'll be honest, guys, I
- 22:07Speaker 1: do not remember Daquah bro is like a little bit
- 22:12Speaker 1: of a surprise for me when he pops up, because
- 22:14Speaker 1: he's got a very distinctive look, and so do his
- 22:17Speaker 1: compatriots and I we certainly may have run across them,
- 22:21Speaker 1: and I just didn't notice or I have forgotten, But
- 22:24Speaker 1: the qua is a short dude with a sort of
- 22:27Speaker 1: stitching around his like biceps and forms that make it
- 22:31Speaker 1: look they're like Frankenstein stitching, if you're doing that real
- 22:35Speaker 1: dramatic look. And he has a big top hat with
- 22:39Speaker 1: a skull on it, but it's not like an empty
- 22:43Speaker 1: socket skull. That skull looks like it's animated and alive,
- 22:48Speaker 1: kind of like big Mom's hat, does you know. And
- 22:51Speaker 1: he's got this like weird barrel thing going on on
- 22:55Speaker 1: his middle with a I'm unclear, is of like a
- 22:59Speaker 1: big stone in the center or what. And then on
- 23:03Speaker 1: his feet, this is the part that I find the weirdest.
- 23:06Speaker 1: He's almost wearing what looks like legwarmers because he's not
- 23:10Speaker 1: actually barefoot, but his toe stick out and his heel
- 23:15Speaker 1: sticks out, so they like go up mid calf. But
- 23:20Speaker 1: you know what, it's almost giving like the kind of
- 23:22Speaker 1: recovery binge that you would have on if you sort
- 23:25Speaker 1: of strained your ankle, but looser and on both feet. Real,
- 23:32Speaker 1: just a real weird vibe to this dude. Don't know
- 23:36Speaker 1: what to make of him. And then behind him is
- 23:39Speaker 1: somebody that I would like to know more about because
- 23:42Speaker 1: he looks like a pumpkinhead, but it might be that
- 23:44Speaker 1: he's a persimmon, perhaps because per Simmons, I can frequently
- 23:49Speaker 1: make that mistake. He's got grieves and uh like the
- 23:56Speaker 1: I don't know what you call the part that goes
- 23:57Speaker 1: up to the thigh, but basically from the thighs down,
- 24:03Speaker 1: he's wearing what a fully armored knight would be wearing.
- 24:09Speaker 1: But then above he's wearing a grass skirt. It looks
- 24:14Speaker 1: like and you know, just sort of a tunic top
- 24:18Speaker 1: with a long purple cape. He's got the the gauntlets well,
- 24:25Speaker 1: actually no he doesn't. He just has the like forearm
- 24:28Speaker 1: covers and and it looks like epaulets of the armor.
- 24:34Speaker 1: And his head is orange. It looks like it's carved,
- 24:38Speaker 1: and the it's almost like the leaves that hang down
- 24:41Speaker 1: are his hair. He's just really giving, you know, in
- 24:46Speaker 1: a way that like I if I have seen him
- 24:48Speaker 1: before and I didn't remark on it, I am surprised
- 24:52Speaker 1: at myself because it's it's so halloweeny in a way.
- 24:56Speaker 1: That's part of what I think is arresting about the look.
- 25:00Speaker 1: I really like it, and I kind of wish that
- 25:04Speaker 1: it was like this dude that was more of the
- 25:06Speaker 1: main villain that we have to deal with here. It
- 25:11Speaker 1: seems like he's just a dak Qua's backup more than anything,
- 25:15Speaker 1: and da Qua isn't giving He's just real weird. So
- 25:20Speaker 1: no offense, da Qua, but I would give you an
- 25:22Speaker 1: emotion here and promote per Simon Head if that is
- 25:25Speaker 1: indeed who he is. And then in the background Bro
- 25:28Speaker 1: with the like dragon Wings, who we have seen before.
- 25:33Speaker 1: But you guys know, I Am never going to remember
- 25:35Speaker 1: everybody's names unless it's in the subtitles. I'm so sorry,
- 25:38Speaker 1: but that's just not gonna happen. So anyway, uh, Smoothie
- 25:44Speaker 1: has Nami in her hand and is like, I Am
- 25:48Speaker 1: going to squeeze you to death, which I just hate
- 25:52Speaker 1: so much. Chopper does his like transformation and tries to
- 25:57Speaker 1: save Nami, and it is embarrassing, frankly, the ease with
- 26:02Speaker 1: which he is just completely knocked off course, and he
- 26:07Speaker 1: gets caught in mid air by the guy who's like,
- 26:12Speaker 1: you know, a thousand degrees or whatever. So poor Chopper,
- 26:15Speaker 1: it's not like he's just being held in place, he's
- 26:18Speaker 1: being actively burned while he's staying, And then we've got
- 26:22Speaker 1: Karat trying to save Chopper and this little weirdo dude
- 26:26Speaker 1: who's got the smoke that comes out of his belly
- 26:29Speaker 1: catches her in mid leap. So it's just really like
- 26:34Speaker 1: we are seeing all of our people in dire straits
- 26:38Speaker 1: pretty quickly. And the guy with the smoke coming out
- 26:42Speaker 1: of his belly, y'all, what is it that's going on
- 26:46Speaker 1: with his ears? Because he's got coverings with a little
- 26:51Speaker 1: loop at the bottom and I can't tell if it's
- 26:53Speaker 1: supposed to be that he's wearing earrings and there's just
- 26:58Speaker 1: something covering his ears in the ear are sticking out
- 27:00Speaker 1: from underneath. Is the ear covering protection from Big Mom's scream?
- 27:09Speaker 1: I don't think it is, because it doesn't seem like
- 27:11Speaker 1: everybody is having to wear them, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway,
- 27:17Speaker 1: this dude, like the costumes on everybody are really remarkable.
- 27:20Speaker 1: I would love to just talk to Oda about the
- 27:25Speaker 1: process that he uses to design new characters, Like where
- 27:30Speaker 1: does he even go in his mind to do this?
- 27:35Speaker 1: This is like ah anyway, So at this point we
- 27:42Speaker 1: kind of cut over to Soanjy and he is overwhelmed
- 27:46Speaker 1: for a second at how left everything has gone, and
- 27:51Speaker 1: we have this sort of blue filter covering this whole scene,
- 27:57Speaker 1: and he's looking down at his father and he gestures
- 28:02Speaker 1: with his thumb, and I was sort of like, is
- 28:05Speaker 1: he telling him to leave? What is going on here?
- 28:10Speaker 1: And then we've got the slowpan over his brothers and
- 28:16Speaker 1: his sister, and all of a sudden we get this
- 28:21Speaker 1: like arming up sequence for all of them. Like it was,
- 28:25Speaker 1: it was very much giving power Ranger in a way,
- 28:29Speaker 1: you know. And I'll tell you what, these guys really
- 28:33Speaker 1: really suck. But also I'm very glad they're on our
- 28:37Speaker 1: side right now. It's temporary, you know, because I know
- 28:41Speaker 1: that it's just going to be like as soon as
- 28:45Speaker 1: we are out of here, it's over. But for now,
- 28:51Speaker 1: it was kind of nice to see them team up
- 28:53Speaker 1: for good, even though I know it's just self interest.
- 28:57Speaker 1: It's not really for good. It just happens to align
- 29:00Speaker 1: with good and it's purely accidental. And they have these
- 29:05Speaker 1: cans that each has like their number on it and
- 29:08Speaker 1: their color and everything, and they hold them out and
- 29:11Speaker 1: we see them sort of spin, and it's really funny
- 29:15Speaker 1: because it, like what it reminded me of is a
- 29:20Speaker 1: combo of like sailor Moon, that transformation thing. And you know,
- 29:26Speaker 1: there's a part of me that was side eyeing the
- 29:29Speaker 1: fact that the sister gets like a particular focus on
- 29:33Speaker 1: her as she is undressed. But the brothers, it's not
- 29:37Speaker 1: like we're not focusing on them too, it's just a
- 29:39Speaker 1: lot less what's the word I want? Their positioning is
- 29:45Speaker 1: less erotic. You know, she's got her chest thrust out,
- 29:49Speaker 1: in her back arched as she cries out, and with
- 29:52Speaker 1: them they're in power poses, but they are naked, and
- 29:56Speaker 1: we do have like a couple shots of them, so
- 29:59Speaker 1: it's not really the but it's adequate. I'll let it pass,
- 30:02Speaker 1: and it is just super fun to watch. It's like
- 30:08Speaker 1: I knew as soon as everybody on our side was
- 30:14Speaker 1: immobilized by some enemy, I was like, okay, so we're
- 30:17Speaker 1: about to pull out some stops here, what's it gonna
- 30:21Speaker 1: look like? And I didn't even think of German double
- 30:25Speaker 1: six because I think it's mentioned at the beginning of
- 30:29Speaker 1: the wedding that their power suits were like taken from
- 30:33Speaker 1: them and kept in custody somewhere, So I don't know
- 30:36Speaker 1: if they got if these like canisters are always where
- 30:40Speaker 1: they keep their suits, or if they are, they managed
- 30:45Speaker 1: to like get to them somehow and I missed it.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I don't know, like but regardless, this being how they transform,
- 30:55Speaker 1: no wonder. There's like all of these comics about them
- 30:59Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, this is extremely cinematic. It's super drama, queen.
- 31:04Speaker 1: And as they're transforming, a bunch of the different pirates
- 31:09Speaker 1: are like shooting at them, trying to catch them while
- 31:12Speaker 1: they're like vulnerable, which is smart, makes sense. But we
- 31:16Speaker 1: see all of these bullets that are fired and then
- 31:21Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call them by their colors. Let's see
- 31:25Speaker 1: Bengeki Blue, So they are called by their colors. I
- 31:30Speaker 1: guess it's the number and the color, but I'm just
- 31:34Speaker 1: gonna call him blue. He catches all of the bullets
- 31:39Speaker 1: in mid air and just drops them out of his
- 31:42Speaker 1: hand like a matrix move. It's very fun. We've got
- 31:46Speaker 1: Green who there's like a couple of giant boulders that
- 31:50Speaker 1: have been thrown down on them, and he not only
- 31:53Speaker 1: catches them, but he manages to break them into pieces
- 31:58Speaker 1: like they're fucking chalk. It's nothing. Ooh, sorry, Bernadette says,
- 32:04Speaker 1: I'm very salty by the way that we didn't get
- 32:06Speaker 1: a songy magical girl transformation here. That would have been
- 32:11Speaker 1: pretty fun. Actually, uh, Florian says they yet they got
- 32:16Speaker 1: the canisters by Nammy and Co before Mom's flashback, okay,
- 32:21Speaker 1: and Seraphim says, yeah, the canisters are their morphers, and
- 32:24Speaker 1: Beggie was the one who confiscated their weapons in the
- 32:26Speaker 1: first place, right right right, Okay, cool? Cool cool. So
- 32:32Speaker 1: then we have the sister and she makes this like
- 32:35Speaker 1: cocon of poison around herself. I know that I already
- 32:41Speaker 1: have said how dope it is, but her power is
- 32:45Speaker 1: so cool. It's like it's just so weirdly versatile because
- 32:51Speaker 1: it's vague enough. You know, poison can mean a lot
- 32:55Speaker 1: that you can do plenty with it, because her making
- 32:58Speaker 1: a cocon of poison around her, if you take it
- 33:01Speaker 1: as what poison when we think of it, what we
- 33:06Speaker 1: imagine poison to be usually is that it's something that
- 33:09Speaker 1: you can't consume because it will kill you. But we've
- 33:13Speaker 1: also seen that it can be a gas. And here
- 33:17Speaker 1: when she does this thing to protect herself, it's it's
- 33:20Speaker 1: like a combination of just being like a gas and
- 33:23Speaker 1: also being acidic, like it's corrosive somehow, because it catches
- 33:28Speaker 1: all of these arrows that are heading towards her, and
- 33:32Speaker 1: they appear to just sort of like burn up and
- 33:35Speaker 1: fall apart, like they've just been dissolved by acid. And
- 33:41Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing, guys, but like the fucking
- 33:43Speaker 1: color scheme for her and her wings and everything. I
- 33:47Speaker 1: am so into it. I love it so much. This
- 33:50Speaker 1: kind of color scheme is just my kryptonite. I really,
- 33:57Speaker 1: you give me purples and hot pink and turquoises and whatnot,
- 34:03Speaker 1: and like I'm lost. It's just my very, very favorite.
- 34:09Speaker 1: And then we go over to Judge, which I honestly
- 34:12Speaker 1: forget Judge can do anything because he's always so like
- 34:17Speaker 1: focused on showcasing his kids that I always fall into
- 34:22Speaker 1: imagining him as being kind of weak and unable to
- 34:25Speaker 1: do stuff himself and relying on them. But that is
- 34:29Speaker 1: not the case. It's just that he isn't like I
- 34:33Speaker 1: don't think he hasn't been genetically altered. I'm sure that
- 34:39Speaker 1: he's probably undergone some surgeries and stuff if we want
- 34:42Speaker 1: to go that way, that route. But yeah, so he
- 34:46Speaker 1: can make these sort of twisters appear that I wasn't
- 34:52Speaker 1: clear if these are made of air or made of
- 34:55Speaker 1: metal or but you know it essentially it's arranged that
- 35:00Speaker 1: seems very effective and strong, and he is able to
- 35:03Speaker 1: toss a bunch of people away. And then we get Red,
- 35:08Speaker 1: who is able to like absorb certain types of attacks
- 35:12Speaker 1: and redirect them, and so he catches this like electric
- 35:18Speaker 1: it's almost looks like a lightning bolt that he absorbs
- 35:24Speaker 1: into him and then like spins and sends back out
- 35:27Speaker 1: at the enemy. And it's very fun because they each
- 35:31Speaker 1: get to do their one thing that's super badass, and
- 35:34Speaker 1: then we have this long pose with all of them
- 35:37Speaker 1: with the flaming background and it just has like Gerba
- 35:41Speaker 1: double six, like they are on the cover of a
- 35:43Speaker 1: comic right now, And I am absolutely delighted. I really
- 35:50Speaker 1: like guys, did Odo to write a side manga about
- 35:57Speaker 1: these guys, because this fe feels like the type of
- 36:00Speaker 1: thing that when you are an author, it would be
- 36:03Speaker 1: very easy to get sort of caught up in and
- 36:05Speaker 1: distracted by, and then you go off and like fall
- 36:09Speaker 1: into this other rabbit hole of these other people that
- 36:12Speaker 1: you have created, you know, but it is after like
- 36:18Speaker 1: being introduced to all of them and being told about
- 36:23Speaker 1: how badass they are and everything we have seen them
- 36:27Speaker 1: do things that are that showcase their prowess and their ability,
- 36:32Speaker 1: but in a way that felt like, okay, it's about
- 36:37Speaker 1: power as well, though not there innate power, but like,
- 36:40Speaker 1: you know, one of them, we saw somebody pull a
- 36:44Speaker 1: gun on him and he just has a henchman step
- 36:47Speaker 1: in front of him and take the bullet for him.
- 36:51Speaker 1: It was not like we got to see them really
- 36:54Speaker 1: using all of their abilities and doing the thing that
- 36:57Speaker 1: they're sort of known for. So it's fun after seeing
- 37:02Speaker 1: them like be this. They're being this animosity between them
- 37:10Speaker 1: and Sangy and kind of begrudging them the fact that
- 37:15Speaker 1: they're good at anything. It's like it makes me think
- 37:21Speaker 1: of a line from the Dressden Files where he says
- 37:24Speaker 1: something about like the morale that goes up when the
- 37:30Speaker 1: good guys see that like Darth Vader is on their
- 37:33Speaker 1: side now. And it really does kind of have that
- 37:36Speaker 1: sort of energy to it for me of just like,
- 37:39Speaker 1: oh good, you know, now I get to actually enjoy
- 37:44Speaker 1: their abilities rather than be salty about it, because this
- 37:48Speaker 1: is these are all my people, at least for now,
- 37:52Speaker 1: And I should mention that on the sidelines. Vito is
- 37:56Speaker 1: watching this, and he had already mentioned like that he
- 37:58Speaker 1: was a big fan of these guys, and he is
- 38:02Speaker 1: just having the time of his life and just going, oh,
- 38:06Speaker 1: this is rad as hell. They look even cooler and
- 38:10Speaker 1: perfect in person, like I couldn't have asked for more.
- 38:15Speaker 1: So let me cut over to this dude who's got
- 38:18Speaker 1: this weird, uh fucking candy tongue, and he says to himself,
- 38:25Speaker 1: I can see why big Mom wanted their technology. I
- 38:29Speaker 1: am going to find a way to cut through all
- 38:32Speaker 1: of their abilities and immobilize them. And it's very funny
- 38:37Speaker 1: to me that he thinks he can. It's like, I mean,
- 38:42Speaker 1: I guess you just got to try. But he just
- 38:44Speaker 1: seems so confident, you know. And we have read coming
- 38:48Speaker 1: at him and saying, all who face our scientific might
- 38:51Speaker 1: will kneel and punches this dude out, and we get
- 38:56Speaker 1: like the number one popping up to couplet. Here goes
- 39:00Speaker 1: another guy whose name I don't remember having seen before,
- 39:03Speaker 1: who can turn into multiple people or is multiple people?
- 39:08Speaker 1: I actually can't tell. Guys, Actually, there's one in the
- 39:11Speaker 1: foreground who looks like he's bigger than the rest, like
- 39:16Speaker 1: both height wise and weight wise, And so I guess
- 39:21Speaker 1: they are meant to be all different people, but they
- 39:24Speaker 1: sort of work together. But yeah, the Blue fires on
- 39:32Speaker 1: them and is just like, oh, yeah, you guys are
- 39:34Speaker 1: fucking nothing to me, and he manages to like take
- 39:38Speaker 1: them out and go after the dude who is holding
- 39:42Speaker 1: Chopper and freeze Chopper. Then we've got Green, who he
- 39:49Speaker 1: goes up against this dude who's in this giant suit
- 39:52Speaker 1: of armor and says to him, whatever you've got in there,
- 39:55Speaker 1: it sure ain't muscle and literally just picks him up
- 39:59Speaker 1: and him and it's genuinely humiliating, like just ouch. Yeah,
- 40:07Speaker 1: the whole thing is supposed to be you're so intimidating
- 40:10Speaker 1: and look how big you are, but he's able to
- 40:12Speaker 1: fully use that against you. And then Nami, who, by
- 40:16Speaker 1: the way, Smoothie is starting to squeeze her already gets
- 40:22Speaker 1: rescued by the Pink who she kicks Smoothie in the
- 40:29Speaker 1: arm and rather than bleeding, Smoothie seems to sort of
- 40:32Speaker 1: leak juice. It's like a pink puddle that's on her
- 40:37Speaker 1: arm in combination, obviously Pink leaves poison on her, but
- 40:43Speaker 1: there was a splash that I was thinking, is that
- 40:46Speaker 1: from Smoothie herself? And I don't know if it's like
- 40:50Speaker 1: a it looked like it was a different thing from
- 40:53Speaker 1: the poison, and maybe it was just the animation giving
- 40:57Speaker 1: some variation in the color just for the look of it.
- 41:00Speaker 1: But if Smoothie bleeds juice, that would make sense, you know,
- 41:06Speaker 1: I would accept that totally. It would be fine. So anyway,
- 41:11Speaker 1: all of our guys are able to get out of
- 41:14Speaker 1: the grips of the Mom pirates and behind what's the
- 41:20Speaker 1: word I want? It's like this pork cullis I guess
- 41:24Speaker 1: that Beggie has because it's you know, it lowers as
- 41:27Speaker 1: soon as they get inside and locks them in, and
- 41:33Speaker 1: all of Jerma double six stays outside. They are not
- 41:37Speaker 1: trying to flee inside of Beggie. They're going to stand
- 41:40Speaker 1: and fight now that they are equipped again. It's on. Meanwhile,
- 41:46Speaker 1: we've got this other dude at the tamate box and
- 41:49Speaker 1: he's like untying the rope that's tied around it. Big
- 41:54Speaker 1: mom scream. It seems like she starts another one because
- 41:57Speaker 1: it does like a kind of additional burst of energy
- 42:01Speaker 1: that sends the box flying and also busts the lenses
- 42:06Speaker 1: of his glasses, and he's watching it fly away with
- 42:10Speaker 1: this expression of just such sadness. It's like, you know,
- 42:15Speaker 1: you have an ice cream cone and you lick it
- 42:17Speaker 1: too hard and the scoop just rolls right off and
- 42:20Speaker 1: hits the ground. That's the sort of like sadness in
- 42:24Speaker 1: his face that I saw. So Begi is watching Big
- 42:30Speaker 1: Mom here and he's like, I can't believe she's still going.
- 42:34Speaker 1: We have one more shot where we can maybe get her,
- 42:38Speaker 1: and he does the cannons again, triple fire and Perispera
- 42:45Speaker 1: that's the name of the guy with the the weird
- 42:48Speaker 1: tongue thing. He interrupts the shot and it basically is like, oh,
- 42:57Speaker 1: so you are colluding, you fucking trade it. You are
- 43:01Speaker 1: like deserve whatever is coming to you. And as he
- 43:05Speaker 1: says this, bes she drops this like I don't really
- 43:12Speaker 1: know what I want to call this. It's it's like
- 43:14Speaker 1: a tank, but you know how tanks travel on like
- 43:18Speaker 1: those sort of conveyor belt wheels, what are those called?
- 43:22Speaker 1: But that is how this castle gets around and remains mobile.
- 43:27Speaker 1: So Big Mom is still kneeling and screaming, and he
- 43:31Speaker 1: is just trying to get a different angle on her
- 43:34Speaker 1: and is like, all right, I'm gonna try again, and
- 43:37Speaker 1: he fires, and this time we get a different dude interfering,
- 43:43Speaker 1: and Capone is just like, wait, what the fuck happened?
- 43:48Speaker 1: And he looks down and the cannons are all like
- 43:52Speaker 1: splayed backward and had been jammed up with Mochi. Which, honestly,
- 43:57Speaker 1: this is one of those things where I know that
- 43:59Speaker 1: the functions this way just because it's a cartoon, but
- 44:04Speaker 1: Mochi is so fucking sticky that I can't help but
- 44:07Speaker 1: think in real life, if you plugged up a cannon
- 44:10Speaker 1: with Mochi, you would really have a serious problem. This
- 44:13Speaker 1: is the sort of thing that I'm like, I actually
- 44:16Speaker 1: wonder if this wouldn't work, you know, in reality, because
- 44:20Speaker 1: that shit is crazy, and it's like it's so flexible
- 44:24Speaker 1: that it wouldn't just all pop out when it gets
- 44:26Speaker 1: hit with pressure. It would just bend in like absorb
- 44:30Speaker 1: it in this weird way that I could see really
- 44:33Speaker 1: ruining somebody's fucking day. You know. Like even just stuffing
- 44:37Speaker 1: a cannon with a towel like a if you have
- 44:41Speaker 1: like a cleaning towel and shoving it down far enough
- 44:45Speaker 1: can cause it to backfire and kill the person who
- 44:47Speaker 1: was trying to fire it. So yeah, anyway, the Mochi
- 44:50Speaker 1: I buy it. I feel like that would work. Saraphim says,
- 44:55Speaker 1: treads for the wheels that are like conveyor belts. Okay,
- 45:04Speaker 1: so yeah, suffice to say, he is like about his
- 45:09Speaker 1: business when it comes to trying to take Mom down
- 45:13Speaker 1: in a variety of ways, and it just it's not
- 45:17Speaker 1: for lack of trying. This isn't one of those cases
- 45:20Speaker 1: where I'm watching everybody sit around and let somebody just
- 45:24Speaker 1: like keep doing their thing, and I'm going, why aren't
- 45:27Speaker 1: you taking a shot right now? Why isn't somebody doing something?
- 45:31Speaker 1: Her attack with this scream is so it's so overwhelming
- 45:39Speaker 1: and dramatic that everybody having to flee makes sense, you know.
- 45:43Speaker 1: And then he is trying to shoot her, He tries
- 45:46Speaker 1: to run over her. He's like everything that is at
- 45:50Speaker 1: his disposal he is trying to use and it's just
- 45:55Speaker 1: not working. It's not his fault. They just underestim needed her.
- 46:01Speaker 1: This bitch is not to be fucked with, you know.
- 46:06Speaker 1: And every time that we pull out and we just
- 46:09Speaker 1: see how like how much damage she has done and
- 46:14Speaker 1: that she is still going it's crazy. So at this
- 46:19Speaker 1: point they're about to like he had been just about
- 46:23Speaker 1: to run over her. And they get stuck in candy, which,
- 46:28Speaker 1: once again I just have to say, if this is
- 46:32Speaker 1: this work real life, and you had this amount of
- 46:36Speaker 1: like sticky hard candy, I think this would work. I
- 46:40Speaker 1: really do. You've got this giant machine and you just
- 46:45Speaker 1: it's got all of these sort of slowly rotating moving
- 46:48Speaker 1: parts and you just fling some soft, sticky substance into
- 46:54Speaker 1: the works. Yeah, that's a wrap, man. I feel like
- 46:59Speaker 1: that's just it, you know. Oh my god, Bernadette, I'm
- 47:04Speaker 1: gonna kick you out of here, Bernadette, And the chat
- 47:08Speaker 1: just said she is not to be trifled with. That's
- 47:13Speaker 1: very good, Bernadette. I'm angry, but not at you, am
- 47:17Speaker 1: I angry at myself that I didn't think of that one.
- 47:20Speaker 1: I can't believe I didn't think of it. But I
- 47:24Speaker 1: bow down to your superior punning. So anyway, that is
- 47:32Speaker 1: the end of the first of the three episodes. And
- 47:34Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about being sort of behind time
- 47:37Speaker 1: here because I have talked about a lot of things
- 47:40Speaker 1: out of order. But I really like when I talk
- 47:42Speaker 1: about the pacing being good, this is what I mean
- 47:45Speaker 1: where I was engaged enough with this whole battle that
- 47:50Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about each individual leg of it
- 47:55Speaker 1: as it begins, because it all feels important in its
- 47:59Speaker 1: own way. I'm not sitting back going yeah, okay, the
- 48:02Speaker 1: big fight, let's fucking get the show on the road.
- 48:05Speaker 1: This is we're seeing like what everybody is capable of,
- 48:09Speaker 1: whose side people are coming down on, and like the
- 48:14Speaker 1: reality of what we're up against with Big Mom's pirates
- 48:17Speaker 1: and how they can their powers can seem really trivial,
- 48:24Speaker 1: but then once they are up against something like Beggie,
- 48:27Speaker 1: who feels so impossible to overcome. Actually it's the perfect
- 48:33Speaker 1: weapon to use against somebody like him and Begi. Meanwhile,
- 48:40Speaker 1: it's just like, guys, I don't know if I'm losing
- 48:43Speaker 1: my touch or what, but I have never failed a
- 48:48Speaker 1: hit job in my life, and I don't know what
- 48:52Speaker 1: we're gonna do because we aren't gonna be safe in
- 48:54Speaker 1: here for long. You know, it's only a matter of
- 48:57Speaker 1: time until this all just completely falls apart. It's just
- 49:02Speaker 1: already our attempts have blown up in our face. And
- 49:06Speaker 1: that is partially literal when it comes to like the
- 49:09Speaker 1: cannons exploding. So as he's saying this, the camera pans
- 49:15Speaker 1: outside and we see Big Mom take a breath. She's
- 49:19Speaker 1: suddenly more like together, and Kate Cory says that fool
- 49:30Speaker 1: and she's like, I can't believe he betrayed me, and
- 49:33Speaker 1: Begi inside is like there's a focus on his face
- 49:38Speaker 1: where he's going, Yeah, I might have fucked up on this.
- 49:43Speaker 1: I really might have. When he's talking about what if
- 49:47Speaker 1: I die, you see a little like animation of him
- 49:50Speaker 1: with sparkles and angel wings and a little halo floating
- 49:53Speaker 1: off and it was very funny. So now Big Mom,
- 50:01Speaker 1: now that she's focused and together, is genuinely terrifying. She
- 50:11Speaker 1: begins to gather power to herself in a way that
- 50:14Speaker 1: causes all of the ground around her to crack and
- 50:18Speaker 1: her eyes turn red and I don't mean like her pupils,
- 50:23Speaker 1: I mean her sclara and pupil and iris. Everything is
- 50:28Speaker 1: red like she's possessed. And there is this cloud of
- 50:33Speaker 1: like black force coming up from her as she walks
- 50:38Speaker 1: toward Beggie, and it's genuinely I know we've seen a
- 50:44Speaker 1: lot of baddies before, but she was just able to
- 50:49Speaker 1: drive everybody away without even lifting a finger. She was
- 50:54Speaker 1: just screaming in distress. This was supposed to be the
- 50:57Speaker 1: moment when she's the most vulnerable, and she blew up
- 51:02Speaker 1: the fucking missiles fired at her and sent everybody running
- 51:06Speaker 1: for their lives. So I, for one, am extremely intimidated
- 51:13Speaker 1: by Big Mom now that she has gotten her shit together.
- 51:17Speaker 1: And we see her take a swing at Beggie and
- 51:20Speaker 1: it is no joke. Dude is hurt, Like he's just
- 51:25Speaker 1: like I cannot believe some of the hits that I
- 51:28Speaker 1: have taken in my life. And she's just out here
- 51:31Speaker 1: punching me like fucking regular punches, and she is doing
- 51:35Speaker 1: so much damage. And she actually pulls herself up to
- 51:39Speaker 1: look through the window at everybody hiding inside of Beggie,
- 51:44Speaker 1: which is so like weirdly disrespectful somehow, like you know,
- 51:50Speaker 1: it's it's like the equivalent of yanking somebody's mouth open
- 51:55Speaker 1: and like peering inside. It's just very funny to me.
- 51:59Speaker 1: So Begie, he is trying to withstand this as best
- 52:02Speaker 1: he can, but it's really rough. And meanwhile, all of
- 52:07Speaker 1: her people are outside just waiting for the inevitable moment
- 52:11Speaker 1: when Capone dies and they are all, you know, completely
- 52:16Speaker 1: exposed and vulnerable so that they can jump in. Of course,
- 52:22Speaker 1: Loofy is like, we can't do this. Guys, he's in
- 52:26Speaker 1: this pain because he's trying to protect us. We need
- 52:29Speaker 1: to go out there and do something, and not me
- 52:32Speaker 1: is like, hey, I really want to remind you what
- 52:36Speaker 1: the thing the objective was in the first place was
- 52:41Speaker 1: to save Soanjy and his family and get the fuck
- 52:45Speaker 1: out of here, and we've accomplished that. I think we
- 52:53Speaker 1: might just need to cut our losses and get out
- 52:56Speaker 1: of here, because there's like we are perhaps actually outmatched
- 53:00Speaker 1: this time. It's not just a matter of like if
- 53:02Speaker 1: you believe hard enough, you know. And I like kind
- 53:09Speaker 1: of enjoyed this. I didn't ever really think that Lufy
- 53:13Speaker 1: was gonna go for it, but Nam is making some
- 53:17Speaker 1: sense here, you know.
- 53:20Speaker 2: So anyway, at this point, we have the conversation between
- 53:29Speaker 2: Sonjy and Judge where they're talking about, like, why would
- 53:33Speaker 2: you even throw in with us when we aren't even
- 53:38Speaker 2: supposed to be family anymore?
- 53:41Speaker 1: And Sonji says, because my father would be ashamed of me,
- 53:46Speaker 1: And obviously he's not talking about Judge, and he's like, yeah,
- 53:51Speaker 1: what am I supposed to sit back and laugh and
- 53:53Speaker 1: watch my family die? Like that's not who he raised?
- 53:56Speaker 1: But I am square now. It's not like this is it,
- 54:02Speaker 1: and after this, I never want to fucking set eyes
- 54:06Speaker 1: on you ever again. And Judge is like, yeah, you
- 54:09Speaker 1: know what, fair, I will never darken your door. I'll
- 54:13Speaker 1: stay out of the East Blue and you know, basically
- 54:16Speaker 1: saying that he's not gonna bother Sanji's real dad. And
- 54:22Speaker 1: I feel like that all of this is completely reasonable.
- 54:27Speaker 1: So at this point, Capone is like, you guys can
- 54:33Speaker 1: fly you German double sixes, so we can leave without
- 54:37Speaker 1: you and you'd be able to take care of yourselves.
- 54:41Speaker 1: And Judge is like, yeah, we could definitely do that,
- 54:44Speaker 1: no problem. And we watch all of them. It's just
- 54:49Speaker 1: so majestic because it's not just the fact that it's
- 54:52Speaker 1: slow motion, and it's not just the fact that they
- 54:54Speaker 1: all are like in really cool costumes. It's also that
- 54:59Speaker 1: the costumes of the hair have this like design to
- 55:02Speaker 1: them that already has a lot of movement in it,
- 55:06Speaker 1: and so when they move it's more exaggerated. It's almost,
- 55:10Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like dancing somehow. But his Sanji's dad,
- 55:19Speaker 1: well not really, but you know what I'm saying. He
- 55:22Speaker 1: is heading out and Caesar has to be sent also,
- 55:27Speaker 1: and Caesar's like, why do I have to take this risk.
- 55:30Speaker 1: And basically Bezi just holds Caesar's heart up and is like,
- 55:34Speaker 1: do what you're fucking told. And Caesar is extremely irritable
- 55:38Speaker 1: about this, which, like I can't blame him for, to
- 55:41Speaker 1: be honest, just being blackmailed into this. It sucks. So
- 55:46Speaker 1: he is like coming out with German double six, but
- 55:50Speaker 1: he isn't with them. He's well behind them because they're
- 55:54Speaker 1: gonna be his human shields. Really, they'll be his weapon
- 56:00Speaker 1: if anything. Not that Caesar has no ability to take
- 56:04Speaker 1: care of himself, you know, but that's just not really
- 56:06Speaker 1: what his specialty is exactly. So all right, I'm gonna
- 56:12Speaker 1: jump now to the final episode. I've talked about so
- 56:15Speaker 1: many things out of order, and I just want to
- 56:19Speaker 1: make sure that I haven't missed anything that happens in
- 56:22Speaker 1: the end here, because we do eventually get Lufy like
- 56:27Speaker 1: breaking with the rest of the group because Sanji or
- 56:31Speaker 1: not Sanji, Nami tries to like talk Lufy into accepting
- 56:35Speaker 1: the fact that they are outmatched here. And if there's
- 56:40Speaker 1: a moment, I will not say that I thought he
- 56:43Speaker 1: was gonna go for it, but I will say that
- 56:45Speaker 1: I could see Nami maybe thinking that she had convinced him,
- 56:50Speaker 1: and obviously that's really not It was just never going
- 56:57Speaker 1: to happen that way. So we have like the what's
- 57:05Speaker 1: the word I want? I feel like ambush isn't really
- 57:07Speaker 1: right because there's this moment out in the courtyard where
- 57:14Speaker 1: Caesar swoops in and he grabs up Capone and like
- 57:19Speaker 1: carries him away, and it's because Capone like lost his abilities,
- 57:26Speaker 1: like his it's a devil for power, so he can't
- 57:29Speaker 1: have lost it. But it's like he ran out of
- 57:31Speaker 1: strength to maintain the castle. I guess, is the way
- 57:35Speaker 1: that I want to say this. And so Caesar like
- 57:39Speaker 1: swoops in and rescues him, not out of the goodness
- 57:42Speaker 1: of his heart. Reminder, it's because Veggi has his heart,
- 57:46Speaker 1: so I guess it is the goodness of his heart. Lol.
- 57:51Speaker 1: And this like this confrontation Big Mom is so huge,
- 57:59Speaker 1: she's so pissed, and like her being as angry as
- 58:03Speaker 1: she is, I'm not even I feel like it's valid.
- 58:06Speaker 1: You know, the way that she was betrayed by Beggie's
- 58:09Speaker 1: is very thought through and elaborate, and she's terrible and
- 58:14Speaker 1: deserves it. But I can understand her feelings of just
- 58:18Speaker 1: like I can't believe you little motherfuckers, you know. And
- 58:22Speaker 1: there's a terrible like scene with her and her daughter
- 58:27Speaker 1: where she basically says, how can you stand there asking
- 58:33Speaker 1: for mercy with uh not Lulu, because that's what is
- 58:42Speaker 1: what is the other girl's name, the one that she
- 58:44Speaker 1: like was abandoned by and is super mad at. But
- 58:50Speaker 1: she tells her after today, you're never going to eat
- 58:54Speaker 1: another sweet again, which is just such a weirdly specific
- 58:57Speaker 1: threat when it's what you're saying is that I'm going
- 58:59Speaker 1: to kill you. But you know, I guess it works, Lola,
- 59:04Speaker 1: Thank you, Bernadette. So sarahem, this is what people think
- 59:11Speaker 1: they be when they say they are on demon hours. So, like,
- 59:17Speaker 1: I just really hated this because her daughter clearly thought that,
- 59:22Speaker 1: like maybe there was some familial feeling that she could
- 59:28Speaker 1: play on here, and it just does nothing. If anything,
- 59:32Speaker 1: it makes her mom more mad because it's like, yeah,
- 59:35Speaker 1: well there would have been familial feeling if you hadn't
- 59:38Speaker 1: utterly betrayed me, you and your husband. So actually this
- 59:42Speaker 1: just makes it all way way worse. And this is
- 59:47Speaker 1: when Mom grabs both her Prometheus and her Zeus and
- 59:54Speaker 1: she begins using them in earnest as weapons, and it
- 59:58Speaker 1: is no joke. You know, we have Poison Pink dropping
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: like a fly because she's the one targeted with this flame.
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: And granted, like she's meant to be the weakest out
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: of all of them because they hadn't quite perfected this
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: whole like genetic modification thing by the time she was born,
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: but it's still you know, it's still worrisome. And she
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: gets back up and is like, I'm not done yet,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: but I was like, yeah, that looked like it really
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: took something. Maddie though, and Sanji, who is watching on
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: the sidelines, he's with Nami and they are trying to
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: hold Loofy back, and they are watching as these two
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: weird long necks whose names I don't remember sneak up
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: on Poison Pink and can't really do anything about it,
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: so they just watch as pink Man just to jump
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: over them and hit them both in the neck with
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: her foot and poison them. And that's the thing that
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: Smoothie has to like squeeze the poison out of them
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: to save them. So anyway, long story short, when we
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: get to the middle of this episode is where Loofy
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: is finally kind of let off the leash. He has
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: decided enough is enough you like, you know, you're you're
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: coming after everybody like you're some sort of big shot
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: and you're not even King of the Pirates yet, And
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: we get that flashback to him saying, if you aren't
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: King of the Pirates yet, that's on you, which I'd
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: forgotten the way he said that, and I do think
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: that's really funny. So he goes to what is this
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: gear five? I can't even remember. I can't keep track
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: of him anymore, guys, and blows himself up in this
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: bonker look in state. I I know that it is
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: actually like serious, but he just looks so crazy that
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: whenever everybody laughs at him, I understand it, you know,
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: I get it. So he does this thing where he
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: sort of tries to turn himself into a meteor and
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: fall toward Big Mom to punch her. And she can
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: use hockey too, so she lifts her arm and manages
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: to not only block him but just kind of toss
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: him back, and it causes a friggin crater to form
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: around them.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: And.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: It like, basically, I am thinking what Brookes said earlier
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: might be quite true, that maybe we did bite off
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: more than we can chew with an emperor. It's like,
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: we've got all of these allies and that's certainly gonna
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: help keep us alive, but I don't know that this
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: is enough to actually win against her. I really do
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: have to wrap up because I'm over time a little
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: bit here, but I started a bit late, so I'm
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: gonna you know, and uh, we've got the double sixes
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: like continuing to fight some of the other henchmen on
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: the sidelines, and Caesar like floating off with uh with
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: Capone and they're getting chased by the fucking smoke guy
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: who's got this weird genie that's attached to him. This
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: this ability is just so bizarre. It's so weird. It's
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's just such a specific thing.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: You know, what would you call the fruit that this
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: even comes from, and the genie. It's like, I don't know,
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: he looks very impressive, but I've just I don't feel
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: like I've seen him really succeed. He just always gets
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: trounced in a way that it's like he's got a
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: real aesthetic to him. But there really doesn't seem to
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: be a lot backing that up. I don't know. So anyway,
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: this is when Smoothie jumps in front of them and
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: we have a red show up and play interference here.
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: I love Caesar ordering red. Yeah, okay, good, keep it
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: right there. He's just like ordering everybody around. He doesn't
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: really think he's the boss, you know. So then they
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: come across this giant like pile of oozing purple, which
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: I'm seeing this and my thought immediately is like, okay,
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: is this poison pink because it looks like her whole deal,
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: but what is it? And then we see all the
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: Double six boys team up and they yell black Bug,
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: and they get their fists synchronized together and they punch
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: this purple so that it like just gets like there's
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: like a hole in it that cracks wide. So this
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: I can't I can't even see. It looks like a
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: giant tsunami wave. Really. It turns out that this is
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: the candy Man down there with the the long tongue
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: in the cane. Guys. I just want to say, I
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: don't know if this is like anything, but I when
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: I was thinking about this show the other day, there
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: was a flash for me of suddenly like the old
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Candy Land game, and I went and looked it up
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: because like, there's new versions of the game, and I
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: wanted to find the one that I had grown up
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: with that was like, you know, the eighties, and there
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: is a licorice bad guy that kind of looks in
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: a way like this candy dude. And then it got
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: me thinking like, oh, I wonder how much of this
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: was inspired, you know what I mean? But I don't.
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: It's not like a one to one at all. It's
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: just really had me stop and go, oh, yeah, I candy.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: I forgot about that. So anyway, the candy wall breaks,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: Caesar is able to make it through, and he is like, ah,
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: freedom is within my sight. Maybe it's the candy that sorry,
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: is that it? I think he says, maybe it's the candy. Actually,
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: I don't know who says that, because it's weird the
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: way the subtitles went, Oh right, I forgot that. We
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: go back to this dude trying to get the Tamante
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: box yet again, and he has like watched where it
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: fell over the side of this this like building and
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: he pursues it and then this woman shows up and
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: she has this uh little like kind of twenties looking outfit.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: I don't know her name, guys, but she evidently is
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: intending for the what's his name is Stussy? The name
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: of the the woman or the name of the bird,
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: because Stussy just came up on the subtitles. But I
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: can't tell who it is that they are referencing here,
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: but uh okay, Florian says, the woman is Stussy. Oh,
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: Lena has to go. Good night, Lena. She evidently is
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: gonna try and like blame this dude with the glasses
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: for taking the box, but then he knocks it over
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: the edge even further and it drops out of sight,
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: and both her and Morgan's are like freaking out and
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: the like. She's behaving as if she knows what's in
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: the box, and I don't think she does, but she's
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: clearly intending to take it whatever it is. I am
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: interested in, like what the rumors are about what's in there,
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: what people think, and of course, once we find out
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: what it is, I have to assume it's not going
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: to be anything like what people were assuming. So it's
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: funny to me that they're like willing to fight here
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: for this thing that's sort of an unknown quantity at
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: this point. So finally we have like again Loofy fighting
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: big Mom, but he just gets fucking his block knocked
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: off almost Sanjy leaps in and tries to grab him
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: out of the way, and Mom is like, yeah, I
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: don't fucking think so, and just leaps into a dead
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: sprint after them, and it's just like, do you think
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: that you can just fucking leave after all this? I
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: don't think so. And then Judge jumps in and is
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: just like, after everything, I need to get my revenge
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: on you for all of this, and he uses his
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: spear and she catches it in her teeth and just
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: makes the fucking thing explode and it just shatters it.
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: It's so abrupt, and he's clearly just like what do
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: I do? And he can't back down, like that's not him,
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: So he's going on and trying to kick her and stuff.
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: Bitch has hockey. It does nothing, And finally she ras
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: him and she's like, Oh, I'm going to make the
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: whole world peaceful thanks to all the scientific research I'll
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: be taking from you. And as she's holding him, she
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: reaches up and puts her hand into the mouth of
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: the Cloud of Zeus and collects a bunch of lightning
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: and then pours it in what looks almost like a
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: concentrated laser stream down on to Judge, who begins to smoke,
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: like from the inside. It's really something. It's really something. Now,
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: I don't know if he's actually going to die. If
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: he does, I'm fine with it. For the record, the
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: show so rarely kills people, but like killing somebody like him,
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: it wouldn't be completely out of the question, I feel like,
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: But I just really want to draw attention to Big
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: Mom's variety of attacks. She's just got like an every
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: time I turn around, she's got a new thing that
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: she can do, and it's look, lufy is outclass. That's it.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. You need to get out.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: You're not up for it yet, dude. This is not
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: an insult, it's just a fact and regroup and fight
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: another day. But I just don't know how you get
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: out of here. She is determined to keep them here.
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: So see, all right, I really have to go, But yeah,
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: enjoying this a lot. I'm very curious where we're going.
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: So I will see you guys again on Tuesday. Thank
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: you again to all of you for coming into Lena,
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: for commissioning this and I will see you soon. Until then,
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: total lou motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast.