Latest / Spoil Me! One Piece / One Piece, 809-811

Transcript

One Piece, 809-811 · Spoil Me! One Piece

0:02
Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
0:10
Speaker 1: covering one Piece episodes eight zero nine through eight eleven.
0:18
Speaker 1: A storm of revenge, an enraged army comes to attack,
0:23
Speaker 1: the end of the adventure, Sanji's resolute proposal and I'll
0:29
Speaker 1: wait here Lufy versus the enraged army. In these episodes,
0:38
Speaker 1: it looks like I might be getting my wish and
0:41
Speaker 1: Sanji is going to marry Pudding after all. I just
0:45
Speaker 1: really hope it's true, and I hope that if he
0:47
Speaker 1: does marry her, that she doesn't just get left on
0:49
Speaker 1: this island and referenced every now and then. She needs
0:53
Speaker 1: to be with our people on the ship. Even though
0:56
Speaker 1: I know this marriage means he's no longer a straw hat,
0:59
Speaker 1: I still want what I want. Welcome to spoil Me.
1:21
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
1:25
Speaker 1: very much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode. Yeah you
1:32
Speaker 1: guys this uh I no wait, this one's Florian. I'm
1:38
Speaker 1: so sorry. Thank you, Florian. Next episode. I'm only covering two,
1:42
Speaker 1: so just an FYI to those who are following along.
1:50
Speaker 1: This is actually a really interesting trio of episodes. I
1:54
Speaker 1: am weirdly enjoying Big Mom and her constantly surprising personality,
2:06
Speaker 1: the conversation with her and Sangy later where like he's like,
2:12
Speaker 1: I want to make this deal with you, and she's like, okay.
2:16
Speaker 1: You know, it may be that she's just pretending that
2:22
Speaker 1: she's going to make this deal and she then goes
2:24
Speaker 1: then does whatever she wants, But there is something about
2:31
Speaker 1: her for me that was ringing true, and I don't know.
2:38
Speaker 1: This is something that like I can run into a
2:41
Speaker 1: little bit where something just makes so much sense to
2:45
Speaker 1: me that I don't really see why somebody wouldn't be
2:50
Speaker 1: willing to go ahead with it. And so even though
2:55
Speaker 1: you know they are lying for me, I see this
2:58
Speaker 1: as like, oh, well, it has the ring of truth
3:00
Speaker 1: to it, when really what I mean is it has
3:02
Speaker 1: the ring of logic and you know, rational thinking to it.
3:08
Speaker 1: So a part of me is still very suspicious and
3:14
Speaker 1: feels like the fact that Big Mom brings up other
3:17
Speaker 1: things that Lufi has done to her that she very
3:20
Speaker 1: much remembers.
3:22
Speaker 2: You know.
3:22
Speaker 1: She then follows it up with but that's all in
3:24
Speaker 1: the past, and that may be true, but she pointed
3:29
Speaker 1: it out. She brought it all up and mentioned every
3:31
Speaker 1: single thing she's got a ledger she remembers, you know,
3:36
Speaker 1: so I don't know. It could be that she's full
3:38
Speaker 1: of shit. The thing that I was expecting out of
3:43
Speaker 1: the so called negotiation between Soanjy and not putting big
3:50
Speaker 1: Mom was I thought we were going to have big
3:57
Speaker 1: Mom basically, because he comes in there and he's like,
4:00
Speaker 1: how about this, I'll make you a deal that I
4:03
Speaker 1: won't run away and that I will marry your daughter
4:07
Speaker 1: as long as you don't harm my friends and you
4:12
Speaker 1: let them go. Now, if we're really being honest, if
4:18
Speaker 1: we back up and look at this, I don't think
4:24
Speaker 1: that Sanji really has a He's got no leverage here.
4:33
Speaker 1: There's just they already have him in custody. They already
4:38
Speaker 1: have him in shackles that will blow up if he
4:42
Speaker 1: doesn't cooperate. It just feels to me like it would
4:48
Speaker 1: be very easy to say to him simply, well you're
4:53
Speaker 1: obviously going to marry her anyway, because this is what's happening.
4:59
Speaker 1: You don't ye say, and you don't have any leverage
5:02
Speaker 1: at all to be like, let's make a deal. The
5:05
Speaker 1: deal is done and I made it with your dad,
5:08
Speaker 1: and that's like, you know, that's all settled. So the
5:13
Speaker 1: fact that she makes the deal is the only thing
5:15
Speaker 1: that kind of got me going, I don't know about this,
5:18
Speaker 1: because it just seems to me like there's no reason
5:24
Speaker 1: for her to agree. And I think that Big Mom
5:28
Speaker 1: seems pretty astute and that she has to know that,
5:32
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't know, man, It's all it's
5:37
Speaker 1: a big question whether or not I am gonna take
5:41
Speaker 1: her word on this. I can't decide, So, okay, Big
5:47
Speaker 1: Mom when she finds out, if we're starting at the
5:49
Speaker 1: beginning here, she finds out that Cracker was defeated, and
5:56
Speaker 1: this results in her causing a storm. And you know,
6:03
Speaker 1: I had mentioned, you guys about the effect of like
6:06
Speaker 1: rain on all of the confectionery stuff that the whole
6:13
Speaker 1: town is made out of. I am really I understand
6:23
Speaker 1: that there are times where things don't work the way
6:26
Speaker 1: that they would in the real world. It's just that
6:31
Speaker 1: it can get a little confusing for me upon occasion
6:35
Speaker 1: when to expect it to work a certain way and
6:37
Speaker 1: when not to. Because this storm should soften up everything
6:43
Speaker 1: that's made of cookie, the way that Nami using her
6:47
Speaker 1: storm softens up those biscuit soldiers, and it just doesn't
6:50
Speaker 1: really appear to happen that way. And that said, the
6:55
Speaker 1: rain isn't just water. The rain is syrup, as Nami
7:01
Speaker 1: points out later, which can we just take a moment
7:05
Speaker 1: and talk about how awful that is? Just how awful
7:09
Speaker 1: that is, Guys, they're cleaning up spilled syrup or honey,
7:19
Speaker 1: anything like that is just it's not even necessarily difficult,
7:24
Speaker 1: because all you need is hot water and it'll melt it.
7:28
Speaker 1: But the thing is, depending on how much you have
7:31
Speaker 1: to clean up, the amount of hot water you need,
7:35
Speaker 1: and the number of times that you need to like
7:37
Speaker 1: flush it out to make sure that there isn't a
7:41
Speaker 1: sticky residue left behind, that's the part that feels overwhelming.
7:46
Speaker 1: And there was a meme that I saw that was
7:49
Speaker 1: like an entire gallon sized jar of honey that had
7:54
Speaker 1: been knocked off the counter onto somebody's floor, and one
7:57
Speaker 1: of the comments was, I think I would just move,
8:02
Speaker 1: And honestly, I get it. You know, this is just
8:06
Speaker 1: a it's a combination of simply the texture of it
8:10
Speaker 1: and it getting all over everything, but also the like
8:15
Speaker 1: when it dries, it's going to leave behind like a crust.
8:20
Speaker 1: And I would imagine that this would interfere horrifically with
8:25
Speaker 1: any kind of mechanical objects. Or if you're outside when
8:29
Speaker 1: it starts raining and you don't have an umbrella, it's
8:31
Speaker 1: all over your hair, it's completely ruining your clothes. Like
8:35
Speaker 1: everything about a syrup rain is the absolute worst fucking
8:41
Speaker 1: thing I can even think of. It sucks, and oh,
8:46
Speaker 1: Florian says, I think only milk rain would be worse.
8:49
Speaker 1: And that's fair because the syrup thing is going to
8:52
Speaker 1: be the texture is going to be annoying, and it's
8:54
Speaker 1: going to be it will cause damage. But milk is
8:59
Speaker 1: also going to like curdle and begin to stink, So yeah,
9:02
Speaker 1: that's different. Seraphim says, I'm sure she had homies to
9:08
Speaker 1: go do the cleaning. Also, one of the benefits of
9:12
Speaker 1: having buildings designed to be periodically eaten and rebuilt. That's
9:17
Speaker 1: fair that if it's like made of cookie, okay, we
9:20
Speaker 1: can just eat it after a rainstorm. It just sort
9:24
Speaker 1: of seems to me though, because of the way that
9:26
Speaker 1: the Biscuit soldiers got soft. You want the structure to
9:31
Speaker 1: keep you, like, the point of it is for it
9:35
Speaker 1: to shelter you during a storm, and if it's made
9:39
Speaker 1: out of a material that will soften during a storm.
9:42
Speaker 1: That feels counterproductive. But again, whatever, as far as I'm
9:49
Speaker 1: sure she had homies to go do the cleaning, maybe don't.
9:52
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I have a very good idea
9:54
Speaker 1: of how many homies there are. There's you know, all
9:57
Speaker 1: of the things around her are coming to life, like
9:59
Speaker 1: all the food as well and everything, and so I
10:03
Speaker 1: keep imagining it being a somewhat limited number, and it
10:06
Speaker 1: feels like I'm way wrong about that, and that there's like,
10:11
Speaker 1: you know, a thousands of them on the island. So
10:17
Speaker 1: we also get to see the two clouds that she
10:20
Speaker 1: controls uh, and they don't look anything like what I
10:25
Speaker 1: was expecting. We've got Zeus is the one that's wearing
10:32
Speaker 1: like a little red and white stripe baseball cap, and
10:38
Speaker 1: Prometheus is just sort of almost like a shooting star
10:42
Speaker 1: kind of vibes, except it doesn't shoot so much as
10:45
Speaker 1: like bounce around and leave a trail behind it, Like
10:50
Speaker 1: it reminded me of the little ball that bounces along
10:52
Speaker 1: the bottom of the screen on top of lyrics when
10:55
Speaker 1: you have one of those sing along tapes going on.
11:00
Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole thing is uh really not the
11:05
Speaker 1: esthetic I was expecting it to be with these two
11:08
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really like, you know, my question last
11:14
Speaker 1: episode was about how does she have this ability and
11:19
Speaker 1: whether or not it's related to the devil fruit power
11:22
Speaker 1: or if it's a separate thing or what. And I
11:26
Speaker 1: can't tell if these are just clouds that she like
11:29
Speaker 1: brought to life somehow. But even if they are, how
11:34
Speaker 1: is it that they are able to do what they do,
11:39
Speaker 1: which is apparently like create another entire storms. There's just
11:45
Speaker 1: a lot about Big Mom's power that feels so vague
11:51
Speaker 1: and broad as to be almost unlimited in what she
11:56
Speaker 1: can actually affect. And so I'm looking, I think, in
12:02
Speaker 1: my mind for the edges. You know, there's a part
12:05
Speaker 1: of me that is trying to find the boundary of
12:08
Speaker 1: like what is too much for her when and also
12:11
Speaker 1: what causes these like these times where she just dissolves
12:15
Speaker 1: into a horrible craving. I'm looking for some kind of
12:20
Speaker 1: weakness and some kind of limitation, and I just don't
12:26
Speaker 1: feel like I have a very good sense of either
12:28
Speaker 1: one of those things. And that's not necessarily a criticism
12:31
Speaker 1: because those that information may be coming. It's just me
12:35
Speaker 1: acknowledging that, like right now, I think that's why I
12:38
Speaker 1: keep asking these questions is just like everything I find
12:42
Speaker 1: out about Big Mom, it makes her seem even more powerful.
12:46
Speaker 2: So what.
12:48
Speaker 1: Is the limit for her? You know? So yeah, and
12:53
Speaker 1: we have everybody like on the island looking around and
12:56
Speaker 1: being like, oh shit, a storm. That must mean Big
12:59
Speaker 1: Mom is really mad. And then we go to Sanji,
13:04
Speaker 1: who is once again just like in the depths of
13:10
Speaker 1: despair in the carriage, and we get an interesting sequence
13:16
Speaker 1: here for me where his brothers are like talking about
13:21
Speaker 1: all of these people that are coming to the wedding.
13:25
Speaker 1: And this is one of those times that I would
13:29
Speaker 1: love a spreadsheet, even though I do not think it's
13:33
Speaker 1: really necessary. But there are a few different folks introduced
13:44
Speaker 1: in this section. So there's a guy, there's a guy
13:54
Speaker 1: who's like a cream monster. You guys know what I'm thinking,
14:08
Speaker 1: and I'm not even going to say it, but it's
14:10
Speaker 1: just very upsetting. I don't like this at all. And
14:17
Speaker 1: I also don't really get what even his power like means.
14:25
Speaker 1: For Cracker, he makes biscuit soldiers, and I may have
14:29
Speaker 1: my quibbles with the names, but you know, it makes
14:35
Speaker 1: sense the material that he makes and his name and
14:38
Speaker 1: the devil fruit, he ate, and all of that go together.
14:43
Speaker 1: This cream monster dude, he burns loofy later. And that
14:52
Speaker 1: is the part that had me really drawn up short,
14:55
Speaker 1: going wait what, because I don't understand how that is
15:02
Speaker 1: the result of just like it's supposed to be that
15:06
Speaker 1: he is sweet cream, right, so sweet cream. You can
15:13
Speaker 1: interpret that a number of different ways. There's also the
15:15
Speaker 1: possibility of like a translation issue, and that means something
15:20
Speaker 1: slightly different for Japanese desserts than it means for American desserts.
15:24
Speaker 1: You know, when I think of sweet cream, instantly, I'm
15:29
Speaker 1: thinking of like cremunglaze, which is basically the equivalent of
15:36
Speaker 1: a vanilla pudding, but without as much cornstarch in it,
15:39
Speaker 1: so it doesn't thicken to that texture. It's porrible, but
15:46
Speaker 1: it's got the same base to it. And that is
15:52
Speaker 1: never served hot. There is not a single cream dessert
16:02
Speaker 1: that I can think of that's served hot. There's not
16:06
Speaker 1: a cream like accompaniment to a dessert that I can
16:13
Speaker 1: think of that is served hot. You have ice cream,
16:17
Speaker 1: you have whipped cream, you have cremonglaise sauce, you have
16:25
Speaker 1: like custard or Bavarian cream, any like any of these
16:32
Speaker 1: is chilled. That's the whole thing with dairy is that
16:36
Speaker 1: you use dairy as the base for these desserts because
16:38
Speaker 1: when they are chilled, they hold their shape a lot
16:41
Speaker 1: of the time and they become thicker. So the fact
16:45
Speaker 1: that this guy is like a cream based power but
16:50
Speaker 1: he burns doesn't work for me at all in my head.
16:55
Speaker 1: It's just completely like arbitrary, and I really I wish
17:00
Speaker 1: it was something that made more sense to me because
17:02
Speaker 1: I'm not getting why this is the way that it works.
17:08
Speaker 1: Florian says, maybe because of crembrewlay, where you torch the topping.
17:13
Speaker 1: But look, I know that I'm getting fixated on the
17:16
Speaker 1: wrong things here, guys, but you know how I am,
17:17
Speaker 1: and I just have to tell it. The point of
17:20
Speaker 1: crembrewlay is that it is not hot. You torch the
17:25
Speaker 1: top and do it very carefully to make sure the
17:29
Speaker 1: rest of it doesn't get hot, because if it does,
17:33
Speaker 1: that will result in the top not crisping up enough
17:36
Speaker 1: and it won't stay in the texture that you need
17:40
Speaker 1: to shatter it and get that really wonderful contrast. So
17:46
Speaker 1: crembrewlay is also explicitly served cold, and the torching is
17:52
Speaker 1: done to the sugar. It is not done to the
17:55
Speaker 1: breulay it's done well the brula means, you know what
17:58
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's done to the sugar on top, which
18:02
Speaker 1: is separate from the custard itself. So even that it
18:08
Speaker 1: just doesn't work. And there's a line, and again it
18:12
Speaker 1: may be a translation issue, but when he starts fighting
18:15
Speaker 1: Lufy later, he's yelling at him sweet cream is always
18:19
Speaker 1: at its best when it's served piping hot. And I'm
18:22
Speaker 1: just like, nobody thinks that, what do you even mean
18:26
Speaker 1: give me one example of that ever being true? And
18:28
Speaker 1: I know it's supposed to be. Just like this line
18:31
Speaker 1: that he says to explain what his power does. I
18:33
Speaker 1: get it. But like, there are just a lot of
18:37
Speaker 1: different ways that you could play something like this, Like
18:41
Speaker 1: you could have him be, for example, like a tea
18:47
Speaker 1: or hot coco monster, something that is served hot coffee.
18:52
Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna have it be anything that,
18:55
Speaker 1: if it's going to be a heat based power, there's
18:58
Speaker 1: a million foods, sweet foods that you could choose from
19:03
Speaker 1: in order to make this go together, And they choose
19:06
Speaker 1: something that's just explicitly wrong to me. Florian says, I
19:15
Speaker 1: always thought he was to be marshmallows. That's interesting. That's
19:21
Speaker 1: not cream at all. I don't think marshmallows contain any
19:25
Speaker 1: dairy if I'm not mistaken. I think it's just like
19:28
Speaker 1: traditionally there's often egg whites, and then of course gelatine,
19:34
Speaker 1: which is part of why they're not vegan a lot
19:37
Speaker 1: of the time. But that if it's if he is
19:41
Speaker 1: supposed to be a marshmallow, it might explain more why
19:46
Speaker 1: he like why it's a heat thing. But also that's
19:49
Speaker 1: not cream, so that may be a translation thing. I
19:55
Speaker 1: don't know. If he is supposed to be marshmallows. I'll
19:58
Speaker 1: say this that his this design, I feel like, is
20:04
Speaker 1: like it doesn't really give that look so much to me,
20:09
Speaker 1: but it's difficult for me to not think of the
20:12
Speaker 1: staypuffed marshmallow man, So I know that's also influencing what
20:17
Speaker 1: I would be expecting from a guy with a cream power. Now,
20:25
Speaker 1: this dude, I'm looking at him because I've sort of
20:29
Speaker 1: paused at the part where all of these other people
20:31
Speaker 1: get introduced, and I'm trying to make sense of what
20:36
Speaker 1: the rest of his outfit looks like, and maybe that
20:40
Speaker 1: maybe it being a marshmallow would make sense. He's got
20:43
Speaker 1: this like pink bow in the midst of his weird
20:46
Speaker 1: cream beard, and I'm not getting what's going on there,
20:52
Speaker 1: but as far as I can tell, out of like
20:55
Speaker 1: the folks who are introduced as Henchman, like top tier
21:01
Speaker 1: Henchman in this episode, he's the only one that's got
21:04
Speaker 1: another explicitly food based attack. And the one thing I'll say,
21:12
Speaker 1: even though I think that like the choices in his
21:15
Speaker 1: designs and the way his power seems to work don't
21:18
Speaker 1: make sense to me, the one thing I will say
21:20
Speaker 1: is the fact that it's a burn as a result
21:23
Speaker 1: is nice because this means that just eating him isn't
21:28
Speaker 1: something that Lufy can do. We aren't going to be
21:30
Speaker 1: able to just run back to that as an option
21:34
Speaker 1: to fight him, especially considering that Lufy's on a hunger
21:37
Speaker 1: strike right now. So he even like turns over onto
21:40
Speaker 1: his face when he finds out that the rain is
21:43
Speaker 1: syrup because he is determined to not eat any of that.
21:47
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm assuming that, like if it burns Lufy's
21:50
Speaker 1: skin like that, that it's probably too hot for him
21:53
Speaker 1: to eat. And although you know it's loofy, I don't
21:57
Speaker 1: know how much that would even stop him. But let's
22:00
Speaker 1: talk about some of the other people here, guys, and
22:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to help me out with their names,
22:04
Speaker 1: because like, I don't remember them at all, and I'm
22:07
Speaker 1: probably just gonna be calling them the things that I
22:09
Speaker 1: make up, like cream Monster. Then there's this woman that
22:12
Speaker 1: I'm just going to call Big Hat, and honestly, she
22:15
Speaker 1: has a ratus design I feel like top five of
22:19
Speaker 1: one piece. She is so cool looking. She has this
22:23
Speaker 1: very elegantly fish tailed style, pale blue dress with like
22:29
Speaker 1: a hip sash and a very long neck, although not
22:33
Speaker 1: as long as some of the other folks that we
22:35
Speaker 1: see in this grouping, and she has long waist length
22:41
Speaker 1: blue hair, and her hat is almost as wide as
22:49
Speaker 1: she is tall and is perfectly flat brimmed. There is
22:54
Speaker 1: no curve or flounce or anything to it, and it's
22:59
Speaker 1: just got a sort of like big beads or puffballs
23:03
Speaker 1: or something running around the headpiece. But other than that,
23:09
Speaker 1: it's a pretty plain hat. And I just she looks
23:14
Speaker 1: like a tall, skinny, elegant mushroom and I really enjoy
23:21
Speaker 1: her overall look. And then later her vibe is genuinely
23:27
Speaker 1: pretty scary, like there's something about her that is upsetting.
23:37
Speaker 1: She faces off with Boumb eventually, and unsurprisingly, everybody who
23:47
Speaker 1: is you know, a thinking person who is on Big
23:50
Speaker 1: Mom's side basically sees what the homies have done as
23:56
Speaker 1: a fundamental betrayal, and the home are genuinely like, but
24:04
Speaker 1: we did what we had to do, and it's just no,
24:10
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't have to do any of this.
24:14
Speaker 1: But you know, I saw it coming that they were
24:17
Speaker 1: going to be blamed, of course, and there's a part
24:19
Speaker 1: of them I think that also saw it coming. If
24:22
Speaker 1: we're being honest, they're not terribly surprised by this result.
24:27
Speaker 1: It's just that they feel like their hands were tied.
24:31
Speaker 1: So she goes up to Boum and she pulls her
24:38
Speaker 1: sword and, like I want to say, just sort of
24:43
Speaker 1: lays it against his nose because it's not really a strike.
24:48
Speaker 1: It's almost like when you're cutting a cake and you're
24:54
Speaker 1: really trying to get the sections even, so you just
24:57
Speaker 1: lay the blade gently on the top to make like
25:00
Speaker 1: a dent, and that way you can, like you know,
25:03
Speaker 1: mark the lines where you're going to cut first and
25:06
Speaker 1: make sure that it's all even. It's got that kind
25:08
Speaker 1: of feel to it. Except that she presses and slowly
25:17
Speaker 1: begins to push the blade into bomb. I'm sorry, that
25:24
Speaker 1: is fucking terrifying. It's just there. I don't think I
25:29
Speaker 1: have come across this sort of thing. I have. I
25:36
Speaker 1: have seen characters that like to torture, and she says,
25:42
Speaker 1: I want to make their deaths as painful as possible.
25:47
Speaker 1: So in the end it that is what this is.
25:50
Speaker 1: But it feels different when it's like torture is going
25:58
Speaker 1: to be a separate thing and then events I'll kill
26:01
Speaker 1: you or you'll die of it, versus I am going
26:04
Speaker 1: to kill you, and the method by which you I
26:07
Speaker 1: will kill you is just going to be the end
26:10
Speaker 1: result of what I start doing here. I won't change
26:12
Speaker 1: my method. I won't, you know what I mean. There's
26:14
Speaker 1: just something like really different about this approach that makes
26:21
Speaker 1: it fucking terrifying. And it's a really like oh, Florian
26:30
Speaker 1: says amand is her name? It means almond in French.
26:34
Speaker 1: Eww interesting, Okay, thank you. There's there's also like an
26:39
Speaker 1: aspect of this that I really like when in one piece,
26:47
Speaker 1: the way that the storytelling has to work a lot
26:50
Speaker 1: of the time is somebody winds up in a corner
26:55
Speaker 1: and they are in a bad way, and we think
26:59
Speaker 1: that they are about to be killed, and they are
27:03
Speaker 1: rescued somehow, and that's just storytelling, right, But sometimes the
27:13
Speaker 1: fact that the person is still alive and not dead
27:16
Speaker 1: by the time their friends come to rescue them, it
27:20
Speaker 1: can feel really, really contrived that that person is still alive.
27:25
Speaker 1: This is not just a one piece problem. This is
27:27
Speaker 1: a problem in storytelling all the time. Is why would
27:32
Speaker 1: the villain keep their enemy alive long enough for them
27:36
Speaker 1: to be rescued or to escape? And there's various ways
27:42
Speaker 1: that you can answer this question. A lot of the time,
27:47
Speaker 1: what we choose is the villain hates their enemy so
27:51
Speaker 1: much that they want to torture them first. There are
27:55
Speaker 1: also the James Bond, well, I'm putting you into an
27:59
Speaker 1: easy escapeable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death,
28:04
Speaker 1: and that's just sort of an ego thing. In that case,
28:07
Speaker 1: it's like, partially, I hate you so much, James Bond,
28:10
Speaker 1: and it's also partially I'm a super genius and you're
28:13
Speaker 1: going to see the clever way I've devised for you
28:16
Speaker 1: to die. And then there are times where it feels
28:24
Speaker 1: like they barely are able to explain it, and they
28:27
Speaker 1: kind of don't. And when I say they, I don't
28:30
Speaker 1: mean one piece. Once again, this is just something that
28:32
Speaker 1: happens a lot in storytelling where somebody should be dead
28:37
Speaker 1: and they kind of there's a sense that the writers
28:40
Speaker 1: know that person should be dead and they just decide
28:42
Speaker 1: to ignore it. Here with Amnd being like I'm going
28:49
Speaker 1: to kill you really slowly, this is simultaneously really intimidating
28:58
Speaker 1: and frightening and also an excellent way to make it
29:02
Speaker 1: that somebody remains alive long enough to be rescued, and
29:06
Speaker 1: you don't feel complacent about them remaining alive long enough
29:11
Speaker 1: to be rescued because they are still going to be
29:14
Speaker 1: in great pain. It's still going to be bad for
29:16
Speaker 1: them the whole time until they're rescued. The other way
29:21
Speaker 1: that I have seen this done, which I really liked,
29:24
Speaker 1: even though saying I liked it because it's a torture
29:26
Speaker 1: scene is like a weird thing to say. But I'm
29:27
Speaker 1: covering True Blood as a patron's only show with Miles,
29:32
Speaker 1: and there was a scene recently where Marina is torturing
29:37
Speaker 1: Bill and Bill should be dead. She was given the
29:41
Speaker 1: explicit order to kill him, and she's intending to kill him. However,
29:47
Speaker 1: she is in love with him, and even though she's
29:50
Speaker 1: angry at him and a part of her wants him dead,
29:56
Speaker 1: she also doesn't want to let go of him because
29:59
Speaker 1: she's in love with me him, and so she draws
30:02
Speaker 1: out his death for her own personal, selfish reasons by
30:07
Speaker 1: torturing him so that she doesn't have to lose him,
30:11
Speaker 1: which I think makes a lot of sense, and it's
30:14
Speaker 1: like a twisted way to look at things, but it
30:17
Speaker 1: makes sense for who she is, and it also makes
30:19
Speaker 1: it that him getting rescued. There's a sense of logic
30:23
Speaker 1: to that for me, you know. Seraphim says, this is
30:29
Speaker 1: why villains need to read the Evil Overlord List. Don't
30:32
Speaker 1: interrogate your foe in your headquarters, do it in some
30:35
Speaker 1: cheap motel at the edge of your territory. Then put
30:37
Speaker 1: a bullet in their head. This is the thing, and
30:39
Speaker 1: that's part of like, that's something that I kind of
30:42
Speaker 1: enjoy about certain properties that will have their baddies be
30:48
Speaker 1: much more ruthless and much more to the point about stuff.
30:52
Speaker 1: Because when somebody's about their business and you know that
30:55
Speaker 1: they don't like fuck around with all of this extra ceremony,
31:00
Speaker 1: it just makes it seem like our hero is in
31:04
Speaker 1: greater danger and it ups the stakes, and it also
31:09
Speaker 1: makes every attempt on our hero's life feel a lot
31:12
Speaker 1: more serious, hopefully, because this is not some half hearted
31:17
Speaker 1: like you don't hurt him, I want to see him,
31:21
Speaker 1: bring him to me. It's not that sort of thing
31:23
Speaker 1: at all. But you just don't encounter that a lot
31:29
Speaker 1: because it's harder to write, frankly, it's harder to make
31:34
Speaker 1: it that there's a very competent, direct, no nonsense villain
31:39
Speaker 1: that somehow our hero manages to escape but has like
31:45
Speaker 1: a close call, because that's really where a lot of
31:48
Speaker 1: the excitement comes from, is that our hero winds up
31:50
Speaker 1: in a spot where they are You think that they
31:53
Speaker 1: are got, and they are it turns out not God,
31:57
Speaker 1: so how do you do it? So anyway, I really
32:02
Speaker 1: enjoy them on for this reason, and I find her
32:05
Speaker 1: truly scary. And she fucking cuts Balum in half down
32:12
Speaker 1: the middle of his face like a fucking hot dog bun.
32:16
Speaker 1: It's awful. Like granted, bomb doesn't bleed right because he's
32:23
Speaker 1: a tree, so this could have been like way more
32:26
Speaker 1: horrible and I'm probably going to see it be more horrible,
32:30
Speaker 1: but I think it's best to start it off with
32:35
Speaker 1: a tree because otherwise I don't think I could handle it.
32:38
Speaker 1: It'd be very upsetting. There's like I have a weird
32:44
Speaker 1: threshold when it comes to cartoon violence. You would think
32:49
Speaker 1: that it being cartoonish would like make things easier to bear,
32:55
Speaker 1: and sometimes it definitely does. This show, I never really
32:58
Speaker 1: have any problem with it, but I've been watching because
33:02
Speaker 1: it's spooky season right now. My husband every spooky season
33:07
Speaker 1: wants to go through all of the Simpson's Treehouse of
33:11
Speaker 1: Horror episodes, and some of those are so gory, and
33:16
Speaker 1: you would think it being a cartoon would make it
33:19
Speaker 1: like not hit. Nope, it's still really gross and awful.
33:26
Speaker 1: It's still very very upsetting, you know. So Okay, we've
33:32
Speaker 1: got her. We also have a woman in a mini dress.
33:36
Speaker 1: It's like a mini red dress with matching gloves and
33:40
Speaker 1: I think like knee boots, and she has a huge
33:45
Speaker 1: cape I want to say of what looks like purple feathers.
33:51
Speaker 1: Her outfit is actually extremely simple for this show. It's
33:55
Speaker 1: like high impact and really distinctive. So it does the
34:00
Speaker 1: job of making her stand out and you know who
34:04
Speaker 1: you're looking at. But overall, there's not a lot of
34:07
Speaker 1: the extras with her that there are with certain characters.
34:11
Speaker 1: And she winds up fighting Nami later and like flat
34:16
Speaker 1: out admits eventually, Oh, you really didn't look like much,
34:19
Speaker 1: so I didn't take you very seriously, and I guess
34:21
Speaker 1: that was a mistake. There's also this guys. There's enough
34:33
Speaker 1: of these different people that I'm like trying to go
34:36
Speaker 1: through it and stop. And there was a group of
34:39
Speaker 1: them on the screen, but there's enough of them that
34:41
Speaker 1: some of them are standing in front of the other,
34:43
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to find a moment where each of
34:46
Speaker 1: them is on screen separately and that way I can describe.
34:49
Speaker 1: There there's the one guy who's really big and has
34:53
Speaker 1: like a woman who's kneeling on his shoulder. There are
34:58
Speaker 1: these long neck yes, and it's a woman with long
35:03
Speaker 1: kind of indigo hair and a guy with like black hair,
35:07
Speaker 1: and they have what look like halbirds I guess you
35:10
Speaker 1: would call them. And then there's the dude with the
35:17
Speaker 1: suit that's got like a skeleton painted on it, and
35:22
Speaker 1: he also has a kind of skeleton face painted on
35:27
Speaker 1: his uh, like actual skin. Oh, right here comes the
35:34
Speaker 1: part where they say their names. Bobin the Disposer. Okay, everybody,
35:42
Speaker 1: what the fuck? What the fuck is with Bobin the Disposer.
35:48
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions about this one. Okay,
35:52
Speaker 1: this dude is wearing this like it's just like a
35:59
Speaker 1: scrap of fabric with some eyes on it and a
36:02
Speaker 1: cutout for the nose and a total perfect circle cut
36:06
Speaker 1: out for the mouth. It is honestly almost not even
36:15
Speaker 1: a mask. It's like and this the effect is somehow
36:22
Speaker 1: so disturbing. It's so weird to me how effective this
36:28
Speaker 1: nothing mask even is. I don't know why it bothers
36:31
Speaker 1: me so much, but it fucking does. And then later
36:34
Speaker 1: the effect that he has is he's like coming up
36:38
Speaker 1: to Loofy and I can't remember he's saying something softly,
36:42
Speaker 1: and Loofy turns and looks at him and almost instantly
36:47
Speaker 1: falls down asleep. It's like the it's like the whole
36:51
Speaker 1: thing is slowed down so that we can see it happen,
36:54
Speaker 1: but you get the impression that that happened within about
36:56
Speaker 1: three seconds. And I don't like anytime somebody has a
37:02
Speaker 1: power that seems to work exactly the way it's intended
37:06
Speaker 1: on Loofy. It always upsets me. Loufy is supposed to
37:09
Speaker 1: be my guy, who's the exception to the rules and
37:12
Speaker 1: who somehow doesn't get bothered by things or is immune
37:17
Speaker 1: to them, whatever. So whenever we have somebody who rolls
37:21
Speaker 1: up and they have a weapon that they use on everybody,
37:24
Speaker 1: and everybody turns out to include Loofy, I resent it deeply.
37:29
Speaker 1: I'm always just like, what, No, not Loofy. He's not
37:32
Speaker 1: fucking proll like everybody else apparently he is. He just
37:37
Speaker 1: goes down like a fucking sack of wet sand and
37:40
Speaker 1: it is awful to see. Let's see amand the mad moistsel. Okay, guys,
37:49
Speaker 1: let me look up Moisel. I forgot that she also
37:52
Speaker 1: has that like awesome choker and the three hearts going
37:57
Speaker 1: up her throat. Her design is just really cool. My
38:01
Speaker 1: cell can mean savior as a given name of Hebrew origin,
38:06
Speaker 1: but is more commonly a variant of the French word mademoiselle,
38:10
Speaker 1: which traditionally means miss or young lady. Okay, that makes sense,
38:17
Speaker 1: and she's smoking a cigarette too, great, just fucking flawless design.
38:25
Speaker 1: I love her montd'or the scribe. This one confuses me.
38:34
Speaker 1: The others, you know, we have some great designs. We
38:37
Speaker 1: have one that I find disturbing, and this one's just
38:39
Speaker 1: really weird. Where Mont d'Or is he's wearing that it's
38:44
Speaker 1: and when I say a suit, I mean genuinely it
38:47
Speaker 1: looks like a regular old pant suit that is painted
38:53
Speaker 1: with a super basic skeleton design, like you would wear Halloween.
39:00
Speaker 1: And there's something to his face that is sort of
39:04
Speaker 1: giving Scarecrow a little bit. I think it's the way
39:07
Speaker 1: that his hair sticks out, because it's the hair in
39:11
Speaker 1: the show. You guys know, can be really weird and
39:13
Speaker 1: it can sometimes be like is that hair or is
39:16
Speaker 1: it a hat or is it a scarf or what?
39:19
Speaker 1: And his hair has like square ends that stick out,
39:22
Speaker 1: and it gives sort of an impression of being like
39:25
Speaker 1: clumps of hay. His face is painted white. The nose, though,
39:31
Speaker 1: is really red, and for a second I was thinking,
39:35
Speaker 1: is this like a carrot, like a like a snowman?
39:39
Speaker 1: But I think maybe it's just supposed to be that,
39:42
Speaker 1: Like his nose is simply painted that color, and he's
39:46
Speaker 1: wearing a sort of fedora like hat. The woman who
39:52
Speaker 1: is in the uh purple feather thing she has black
39:58
Speaker 1: devil horns as well, which I forgot to mention. And
40:01
Speaker 1: then there is a guy who's got two guns, one
40:04
Speaker 1: over each shoulder, and he's sort of hunched. And they
40:08
Speaker 1: get to a point because this is like all being
40:13
Speaker 1: presented from the perspective of Soanji in the carriage with
40:16
Speaker 1: his brothers who are mentioning a lot of people by name,
40:20
Speaker 1: and they get to a point where they stop introducing
40:25
Speaker 1: everybody and they just say something like, I wonder how
40:28
Speaker 1: much all of these bounties add up to. So we
40:31
Speaker 1: get to see that, like, this is a really tough
40:36
Speaker 1: group of people who are notorious, you know, Saraphim says,
40:43
Speaker 1: and these are all big mom's kids. Oh, I didn't
40:47
Speaker 1: realize that. Okay, that makes sense, Florian says. Montdor is
40:52
Speaker 1: a type of cheese. Ew I didn't know that. That
40:57
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to like from the look of him. I
41:03
Speaker 1: don't see that depicted in his costume from what I
41:06
Speaker 1: can tell. And maybe I'm wrong about that, because I
41:09
Speaker 1: just don't know what that kind of cheese looks like
41:12
Speaker 1: or something. With you the cream dude, he looks like cream.
41:17
Speaker 1: It's pretty clear what you look at him, what his
41:19
Speaker 1: power is going to be He's one of those I
41:22
Speaker 1: can't remember the name of it, but the zones are
41:24
Speaker 1: the ones that look like animals, and then there's the
41:26
Speaker 1: other type that looks like a substance, like they can
41:29
Speaker 1: turn into that substance. But this dude being named after
41:33
Speaker 1: a cheese, he's just sort of like his costume isn't
41:37
Speaker 1: consistent in any particular direction as far as a theme,
41:41
Speaker 1: so I cannot figure it out with him. But yeah,
41:45
Speaker 1: this all results in when we cut back to sanjy
41:50
Speaker 1: a look of extreme terror on his face, and he
41:53
Speaker 1: thinks back to Loufy making the promise that he is
41:57
Speaker 1: not going to move from this spot. And I love
42:04
Speaker 1: Sanji is remembering this just as his brothers are like,
42:08
Speaker 1: not even the straw hats would be stupid enough to
42:11
Speaker 1: try and stand up to a group of people that strong.
42:14
Speaker 1: And you just see Sanji bow his head and be like,
42:16
Speaker 1: oh shit, because he knows if anybody is going to
42:19
Speaker 1: be stupid enough to do this. It is loofy because
42:22
Speaker 1: he just doesn't back down ever, even when it's a
42:24
Speaker 1: good idea and he should. So let's see, I'm trying
42:31
Speaker 1: to jump ahead a little bit here. Oh I forgot
42:34
Speaker 1: about this. You guys, there's this moment where we get
42:37
Speaker 1: a look at like big Mama and her kids, and
42:43
Speaker 1: you guys, there's this little girl who's got like a
42:46
Speaker 1: stuffed animal and she wants a knife so that she
42:49
Speaker 1: can cut her doll open, and she's mad at the
42:53
Speaker 1: cook because the cook won't give her one, and Big
42:55
Speaker 1: Mom's like, come on, give her a knife, and one
42:58
Speaker 1: of her siblings there's there's either two of them or
43:02
Speaker 1: it's just meant to be the one that's sort of
43:03
Speaker 1: bouncing around a lot. But he says, no, no, no,
43:08
Speaker 1: don't give her a knife because she says she just
43:09
Speaker 1: wants to cut open her doll, but she wants to
43:12
Speaker 1: pop our balloons. And then he says something like I
43:18
Speaker 1: hate her and I am definitely going to kill her someday,
43:26
Speaker 1: and Big Bomb just goes, yeah, well, you know that's
43:29
Speaker 1: only natural, and guys, I was cracking up. It was
43:34
Speaker 1: just I think it was the delivery of like, I'm
43:36
Speaker 1: definitely going to try and kill her someday. It was
43:38
Speaker 1: so casual and just said in a way that it
43:43
Speaker 1: was said in this sort of way like I'll get
43:45
Speaker 1: you back, you know, like a matter of fact, promise,
43:49
Speaker 1: but just so extreme. Everyone has a couple hundred people
43:55
Speaker 1: that they want dead. But let's hold off on the
43:59
Speaker 1: killing for now. All right, Your big sister Pudding is
44:02
Speaker 1: getting married tomorrow, you know, aren't you excited? And as
44:08
Speaker 1: all of this is being announced, we pan over all
44:12
Speaker 1: of these kids, and they are wildly different from each other.
44:16
Speaker 1: We've got like a fairy, We've got another long neck.
44:19
Speaker 1: We've got a dude who's like covered in bandages except
44:22
Speaker 1: for like his eyes. There's just like a lot of weird,
44:27
Speaker 1: you know. So she's telling them all like there's gonna
44:31
Speaker 1: be cake, and it's gonna be a celebration, so everybody
44:35
Speaker 1: behave basically, and they seem to get pretty excited about it.
44:39
Speaker 1: They appear to like big Mom. They seem to be
44:45
Speaker 1: I'll say that they're probably quite spoiled based on the
44:49
Speaker 1: way that she's is, And there's a sense for me
44:54
Speaker 1: of like loyalty there, and I think that they're going
44:58
Speaker 1: to have her back. Push comes to shove, and even
45:01
Speaker 1: though their kids they look kind of like they're probably
45:05
Speaker 1: a problem, you know, So we'll see. Saraphim says he's
45:11
Speaker 1: most likely not a logia and made of cream. But
45:15
Speaker 1: more like the snot guy in dress Rosa and is
45:17
Speaker 1: just covered in it. Okay, Seraphim says, speaking of her kids.
45:22
Speaker 1: This never comes up in the anime, and only a
45:23
Speaker 1: single panel in the manga shows him. But Big Mom
45:26
Speaker 1: does canonically have a kid who is half Tontata. I
45:32
Speaker 1: saw a little fairy with wings floating over somebody's hand.
45:40
Speaker 1: I don't know if that person is supposed to be
45:43
Speaker 1: half tontata. But this is very much giving, like who
45:47
Speaker 1: fucked Hagrid's mom? And how did that even work? Kind
45:51
Speaker 1: of energy. I you know, there just comes a point
45:56
Speaker 1: in one Piece where you have to stop asking questions.
46:01
Speaker 1: That's just all there is to it. So let's talk
46:06
Speaker 1: about the conversation between Well, first, I want to talk
46:11
Speaker 1: about a the rehearsal dinner. They sit down and they
46:14
Speaker 1: are having like this lunch. You guys, I could not
46:20
Speaker 1: fucking stop laughing. Everything on the table is alive. It's
46:25
Speaker 1: a little bit inconsistent for me that everything on the
46:28
Speaker 1: table here seems to be very excited to get eaten
46:32
Speaker 1: and is sort of putting itself forward like are you
46:34
Speaker 1: gonna pick me? Are you gonna pick me? But later on,
46:38
Speaker 1: when Sanchi comes to speak to Big Mom in like
46:41
Speaker 1: her throne room. Everything seems like it doesn't want to
46:44
Speaker 1: be eaten and like it's upset by it. So I
46:47
Speaker 1: don't really understand why there's such a difference from one
46:51
Speaker 1: to the other. So I just wanted to mention that
46:53
Speaker 1: because I don't know if there's an explanation there that
46:56
Speaker 1: I missed, you know, But anyway, the uh what what
47:03
Speaker 1: was so weird about this? Florian says, this gives fucked
47:08
Speaker 1: up be our guest vibes definitely, And also they get
47:16
Speaker 1: to a point like where they're all just that it's
47:19
Speaker 1: it's partly, for sure a translation thing, but also I
47:25
Speaker 1: think it's partly on purpose to just get things to
47:28
Speaker 1: be as annoying as possible. Everything that's singing about like
47:33
Speaker 1: what it is and which one of us do you want?
47:37
Speaker 1: It's none of these lines like have really a rhythm
47:41
Speaker 1: that goes together. They don't rhyme. You know, they are
47:46
Speaker 1: singing everything, but it doesn't really feel like a song.
47:51
Speaker 1: And then it gets to a point where they're just
47:53
Speaker 1: singing lunchtime, lunchtime, lunchtime, lunchtime, lunchtime, lunchtime, or something like
48:00
Speaker 1: that in the background for the whole rest of the scene.
48:04
Speaker 1: It's just like two words and there's no change in
48:08
Speaker 1: the tune. It kind of gets like monotonous after a bit.
48:13
Speaker 1: And at first, everything like being alive and introducing itself
48:19
Speaker 1: to Sanji and being like, do you want green to
48:20
Speaker 1: your black tea? You know, I'm kind of like, oh,
48:23
Speaker 1: this is fun. And then it gets to a point
48:25
Speaker 1: where I'm like, oh my god, enough and Sanchi says
48:28
Speaker 1: something like I never hate food, but I hate you. Yep,
48:39
Speaker 1: that's exactly how I was feeling. Even the wine glasses
48:44
Speaker 1: are alive, have little faces on them, you know, It's
48:48
Speaker 1: just it's bonkers. And then we get during this meal
48:57
Speaker 1: putting like hands over the note to Soanji, explaining that
49:03
Speaker 1: she is the one who told his friends where he
49:06
Speaker 1: is and that they were supposed to meet and everything
49:10
Speaker 1: went wrong and so now they're here trapped by a
49:15
Speaker 1: bunch of really powerful warriors, and she feels like it's
49:18
Speaker 1: her fault that they're in danger, but she was trying
49:22
Speaker 1: to help. And this leads to a really great conversation.
49:29
Speaker 1: Pudding is so fun because she says something to him
49:32
Speaker 1: about how like you know that she feels like she's
49:38
Speaker 1: making this all about her and is ashamed of herself,
49:44
Speaker 1: And I just really liked that little bit of self
49:47
Speaker 1: awareness that like, she still kind of wants to marry Sanji,
49:52
Speaker 1: and she is aware that that's like a little bit
49:55
Speaker 1: fucked up to even be thinking about right now. Because
49:58
Speaker 1: Sonji is worried about his friends and he is flipped
50:02
Speaker 1: out and here under duress and literally being like held
50:06
Speaker 1: with with things on his wrist that will blow his
50:09
Speaker 1: hands off if he doesn't agree. There is a lot
50:14
Speaker 1: here that is fucked up, and that her being like,
50:18
Speaker 1: but I want to marry you isn't relevant. However, what
50:25
Speaker 1: she says is like, I won't make your life a hell,
50:29
Speaker 1: though I promise I won't if you do marry me.
50:34
Speaker 1: And when she says like, you know, I'm so sorry,
50:37
Speaker 1: I'm the reason that your friends are here and everything
50:41
Speaker 1: in the end, Sanji is just very first of all,
50:50
Speaker 1: I want I will say this too. There's no like
50:53
Speaker 1: massive heart eyes reaction from him, like we normally get.
50:59
Speaker 1: The way he behaved when he saw her photo never
51:03
Speaker 1: happens again. It does happen with his brothers when they
51:07
Speaker 1: see Pudding. Every single one of them is like god damn.
51:11
Speaker 1: But son. She doesn't have this, and I thought that
51:15
Speaker 1: was interesting. But yeah, after they have this conversation, he
51:20
Speaker 1: says to her that she is his salvation and clearly
51:25
Speaker 1: she has like really touched him with her selflessness and
51:28
Speaker 1: her understanding, and he says, you know what, if you
51:36
Speaker 1: will have me, I think I'm going to stop fighting
51:40
Speaker 1: this and I would love to marry you. And that
51:44
Speaker 1: is when he decides to go and make this deal
51:47
Speaker 1: with Big Mom. And unfortunately for him, Loofy is completely
51:54
Speaker 1: unaware that he is making this deal, so he's getting
52:00
Speaker 1: All of the people in that army are unaware, so
52:03
Speaker 1: they're just like laying into Nami and Lofy while Sanji
52:08
Speaker 1: is making the deal for them to not be hurt.
52:10
Speaker 1: And I do enjoy that. When Big Mom agrees to
52:12
Speaker 1: the deal, she says something like I will ensure that
52:18
Speaker 1: any straw Hats that are still alive are released, like
52:21
Speaker 1: she's just sort of hedging her bets. I'm like, well,
52:25
Speaker 1: some of them might be dead and I don't want
52:26
Speaker 1: to be held responsible for that. I don't know how
52:29
Speaker 1: you verify that, but you know whatever. And oh and
52:32
Speaker 1: I also forgot to mention that there's that thing that
52:35
Speaker 1: Sanji puts on his face to cover up the result
52:37
Speaker 1: of being beaten up by his brothers, and he takes
52:40
Speaker 1: that off in front of Putting so that she can
52:43
Speaker 1: see the damage that they did. And he is very
52:48
Speaker 1: real with her about how he didn't ever want to
52:50
Speaker 1: be a part of this family, they don't care about him,
52:54
Speaker 1: and just how all of this is. He's under duress
53:01
Speaker 1: for all of it. And it was sort of funny
53:02
Speaker 1: because I do not blame him for any of this,
53:06
Speaker 1: by the way, but I do want to point out
53:08
Speaker 1: that as he's talking to her about, like, I went
53:14
Speaker 1: on this journey with friends that I love and experienced
53:17
Speaker 1: all of these things, but now I think it's time
53:21
Speaker 1: for me to give up my freedom, and all of
53:24
Speaker 1: that adventure is at an end. And it's just very
53:28
Speaker 1: much like saying to the person that you're about to marry,
53:32
Speaker 1: I see this as a prison and I would never
53:36
Speaker 1: do this willingly, which again it's not his fault, it's true,
53:40
Speaker 1: but I just felt a little bad for Putting, just
53:44
Speaker 1: you know, And that's why she ultimately says, hey, I'm
53:46
Speaker 1: not going to make your life hell, by the way,
53:48
Speaker 1: because he is approaching this like there is no possible
53:55
Speaker 1: way after being married that he can be happy, which
53:59
Speaker 1: is understandable because the whole way that this alliance is
54:04
Speaker 1: supposed to work is that it's going to be between
54:09
Speaker 1: Big Mom's empire and Judge's empire, so he is not
54:16
Speaker 1: going to be allowed to like run off and be
54:19
Speaker 1: with the straw Hats again. However, I don't know. I
54:27
Speaker 1: guess it depends on exactly how this would work. I
54:33
Speaker 1: really don't know how that happens. I am trying to
54:35
Speaker 1: think how he manages to like both Mary Pudding and
54:40
Speaker 1: get out of this obligation, and I don't I don't
54:45
Speaker 1: see how he does. There's a part of me that
54:51
Speaker 1: feels like maybe he could somehow Threaaten Needle and be
54:56
Speaker 1: part of the straw Hats, But like with a strict
54:59
Speaker 1: I can't fight anybody who's one of Big Mom's allies.
55:02
Speaker 1: Kind of thing thrown in there. But I just don't
55:05
Speaker 1: think that would really work, you know. Also, I don't
55:12
Speaker 1: know if Pudding would want to go on the road,
55:16
Speaker 1: so to speak. So if I want her to be
55:20
Speaker 1: a straw Hat and get on the ship with them,
55:23
Speaker 1: it just feels sort of unlikely. Is it possible that
55:27
Speaker 1: we are going to have Sanji be separated from the
55:31
Speaker 1: straw Hats for a while because he can't get out
55:34
Speaker 1: of it, and that there is like the majority of
55:38
Speaker 1: the arc is figuring that part out. Maybe that's it.
55:44
Speaker 1: I feel like that could go either way in terms
55:46
Speaker 1: of whether or not it's interesting to watch, you know
55:48
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I'm just theorizing here about how
55:53
Speaker 1: they could possibly have their cake and eat it too,
55:56
Speaker 1: so to speak, have their whole cake. Lol. So I
56:02
Speaker 1: just want to talk briefly to about the battle itself
56:06
Speaker 1: that's happening, because we've talked about a lot of it
56:11
Speaker 1: regarding the Bobbin guy sending Lufy to sleep and the
56:19
Speaker 1: sweet Cream guy who burns Loofy and Nami. She has
56:26
Speaker 1: a moment where she's gripped up by a bunch of them.
56:29
Speaker 1: Later on, and when all of the homies are being
56:33
Speaker 1: questioned as to why they betrayed Big Mom, it's revealed
56:37
Speaker 1: about the Weaver card and she tries to tell them
56:41
Speaker 1: Lolla gave me this because we're friends, and none of
56:47
Speaker 1: them believes her. They all fully are just like, yeah,
56:50
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of here, which I can't even
56:53
Speaker 1: be mad that they don't believe her. I wouldn't either.
56:56
Speaker 1: Let's be real, I don't think I would believe her either.
57:01
Speaker 1: So the I'm trying to see like how this fight
57:06
Speaker 1: can because like what Nami eventually winds up doing is
57:12
Speaker 1: she is using her clim attack, but it's not enough, right,
57:18
Speaker 1: Everything that she is doing is affecting the enemy, but
57:24
Speaker 1: it's not affecting them enough to take them out completely.
57:32
Speaker 1: And so she starts to be like, Okay, I need
57:36
Speaker 1: something bigger, and she pulls the uh, what's the word
57:42
Speaker 1: I want? She pulls the power of the storm that's
57:46
Speaker 1: already raging above their heads into her own clim attack,
57:52
Speaker 1: which is really cool. I like the idea that she
57:56
Speaker 1: can harness that in addition to what she's doing anyway,
58:01
Speaker 1: And I didn't really know that that was such a thing.
58:03
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, guys, I'm just looking at the part
58:07
Speaker 1: where fucking boumb gets sliced the way he does. It's
58:11
Speaker 1: just so upsetting. Oh yeah, so let's talk about this,
58:15
Speaker 1: Like Loofy gets pulled into this other world, and I
58:22
Speaker 1: think it's sort of meant to be like a result
58:27
Speaker 1: of a hallucination or something. I don't know what the
58:32
Speaker 1: fuck is going on here, guys. This was genuinely like
58:36
Speaker 1: what are what are we doing? The way that the
58:39
Speaker 1: animators decided to handle this was to have there be
58:45
Speaker 1: a ton of different textures, so they're drawing with all
58:51
Speaker 1: different kinds of mediums, and there's the look in a
58:55
Speaker 1: lot of spots of that really distinctive line drawing style.
59:00
Speaker 1: But then you've got almost a like pastels texture, with
59:07
Speaker 1: things having very jagged edges and almost a sort of
59:12
Speaker 1: space between them. I'm trying to think how to describe this.
59:16
Speaker 1: It's just it's indistinct in a way that's really making
59:22
Speaker 1: it clear. This is a drawing. It's specific. And when
59:26
Speaker 1: we see Loofy getting attacked, this dude says, welcome to
59:32
Speaker 1: the world of books. And when we pull out Lufy
59:36
Speaker 1: is standing still and is his eyes are closed, so
59:43
Speaker 1: this attack seems to be actually hurting him, but he
59:46
Speaker 1: isn't where he thinks he is, and the dude in
59:50
Speaker 1: the skeleton suit that is attacking him is literally standing
59:56
Speaker 1: on floating open hardback books and they're kind of there's
1:00:02
Speaker 1: extra sort of fluttering around him like bats, and he's
1:00:06
Speaker 1: like covering above the crowd on these books as they
1:00:11
Speaker 1: like flap open and closed and Nami is watching this
1:00:15
Speaker 1: like what even is happening because she can see Loofy
1:00:20
Speaker 1: flipping the fuck out, but obviously she can't see anything
1:00:24
Speaker 1: that he is seeing. And he is getting attacked by
1:00:28
Speaker 1: snakes and there's fire, you know, there's all kinds of things.
1:00:33
Speaker 1: So he is so distracted by this. I don't know
1:00:37
Speaker 1: how they're getting in his head. But the soldiers, who
1:00:40
Speaker 1: are like literal pawns, who would be no match for
1:00:45
Speaker 1: Loofy at any other time, are able to just knock
1:00:49
Speaker 1: him around like he's a fucking uh what do you
1:00:54
Speaker 1: call it? What's those things that you bang on? And
1:00:56
Speaker 1: candy comes out Pinata, That's the one I want. And
1:01:02
Speaker 1: this like basically is the lead up to Lufy finally
1:01:06
Speaker 1: actually getting flattened because there are two huge dudes that
1:01:11
Speaker 1: come at him from either side and punch him and
1:01:15
Speaker 1: crush him between their fists and he goes down and
1:01:20
Speaker 1: it's rough. It's rough, kids, like the way that he
1:01:24
Speaker 1: just gets defeated so handily. And Nami, throughout all of this,
1:01:29
Speaker 1: is already imprisoned. She's got her hands pinned by somebody
1:01:34
Speaker 1: and uh so, like Loofy, he's on the ground and
1:01:40
Speaker 1: somebody is like, there's this one particular huge guy that
1:01:43
Speaker 1: keeps stepping on him and trying to insist that he
1:01:46
Speaker 1: get up. I think, actually, maybe this is the Cream
1:01:49
Speaker 1: Guy because he's got these weird nodules on his head,
1:01:52
Speaker 1: so maybe this is him. But I thought the Cream
1:01:54
Speaker 1: Guy's outfit was brown. He's got a similar thing with
1:01:58
Speaker 1: the nubs on his head, though, so I don't know.
1:02:03
Speaker 1: But they're trying to pick Loofy up and he's holding
1:02:08
Speaker 1: onto the grass and saying, I'm not moving. I told
1:02:12
Speaker 1: him that I would be here and I'm gonna stay here,
1:02:14
Speaker 1: and this guy keeps stomping on him. At one point,
1:02:18
Speaker 1: one of the other member I think it might be
1:02:20
Speaker 1: amand says something like you've got to stop it or
1:02:23
Speaker 1: you're gonna kill him, and he is not listening and
1:02:27
Speaker 1: just stomps on Lufy one last time, and that is
1:02:32
Speaker 1: how the episode ends, is Lufy getting knocked out bad
1:02:35
Speaker 1: enough that he finally lets go of the grass and
1:02:38
Speaker 1: that's the end. And it was really sad because like,
1:02:41
Speaker 1: we don't see Lufy go down like this very often.
1:02:45
Speaker 1: He will get knocked out, you know, by something that's
1:02:49
Speaker 1: like a big attack, but this is much more disrespectful
1:02:52
Speaker 1: feeling and feels bullying because he's being like ganged up
1:02:56
Speaker 1: on and just sort of fucked with in a way
1:02:59
Speaker 1: that's really really undignified and feels humiliating. It's just it's
1:03:06
Speaker 1: tough to watch, so but I liked it and sure
1:03:09
Speaker 1: like it's different, you know, it has a very different
1:03:12
Speaker 1: energy to it than a lot of the fights he's
1:03:14
Speaker 1: been in, and I thought that was a nice change.
1:03:17
Speaker 1: So all right, well I'm gonna wrap this up. Thank
1:03:21
Speaker 1: you guys again for hanging out with me, and thank
1:03:23
Speaker 1: you Florian for commissioning this one, and I hope you
1:03:27
Speaker 1: all aren't enjoying the coverage, and see you again with
1:03:30
Speaker 1: a new episode.
1:03:32
Speaker 2: Until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers.
1:04:03
Speaker 1: That was an unspoiled network podcast.