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One Piece, 525 & 526 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering One Piece
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episodes five twenty five and five twenty six. Lost in the deep Sea,
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the straw hats get separated, and under sea volcanic eruption drifting into the Fishman
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Island. In these episodes, our friends actually reach Fishman Island, and I
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didn't think it was going to happen this soon. I am totally caught off
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guard. Also, under the sea is very very dangerous. Welcome to spoil
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Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very
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much to Florian for commissioning this episode, and thank you Florian for being very
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patient with me trying to get through some tech issues that I am having tonight.
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And apologies if any of those tech issues interrupted this recording. I am
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doing my very best, but I think maybe we're okay now. These episodes.
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I watched these twice. It was so funny. The other night,
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I was just like in this bummer mood and I was just like, one
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Piece sounds very comforting right now. So I went and watched it ahead of
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time, which I don't usually do, and I am I was actually I
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don't know if I want to say disappointed that we already reached Fishman Island,
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because I'm sure like Fishman Island is going to have its own whole cool thing
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going on. But I was enjoying the under the Sea travel so much that
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I I was genuinely surprised we already got here, Considering how much this show
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tends to draw certain things out, I just really thought it would milk the
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under the Sea journey for as long as possible. So caught off guard,
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but in a good way, kind of, I don't know. Also,
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really quickly, I know that there's like almost nobody here in the live but
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I just wanted to finally show off that I remember to go get my adorable
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stuffy of Chopper that I got given for Christmas and show how cute he is
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with his little star eyes. Isn't this a really really good little Chopper.
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I love him so much. So I saw him when I was like tidying
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yesterday. I was like, I'm gonna put him in my office now while
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I'm thinking about it so that I can show him because I just think he
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is so cute. Floria to saying, oh, Chopper, he's so I
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love. Whenever there is a character who gets those starry eyes if they make
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the stuffy with the starry eyes. I also have a Celeste the owl from
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Animal Crossing, and when she looks up at the sky and see stars,
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she gets the starry eyes too, and a surprising number of the stuffies do
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not give her starry eyes. And I'm like, that does have her charm.
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So yeah, Chopper my vip, I love him over here. He's
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gonna keep watch over me during this recording. So okay, this episode,
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the first of the two, we have the recap, of course, of
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everything that's going on with the Kraken throwing the ship around, and our guys
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had just left the ship in their little I can't remember what they're called,
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but they're like those individual bubbles that they can use, and they were supposed
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to wear ropes to keep them attached to the sonny, and immediately all of
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them just completely disregard those ropes, which is just it's so like completely on
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brand. I can't even be mad. It's almost like giving them the ropes
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to begin with was just a fool's Errand you know what I'm saying, Like,
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it's just there comes a point where it's sort of like, look,
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you had to know there was no point in doing this in the first place,
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and they decide to like go deal with this crack in just like a
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straight up fistfight type thing, and Sanji goes in and he hits it with
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grill shoot is the way it's translated here. A kick that lights up like
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a whole tentacle of this thing, which, considering how huge the tentacles are,
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is still pretty impressive. But like, in order to do this,
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he had to leave his bubble. I'm not entirely sure why that is.
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Because they are able to run within their bubbles like they're running in the ocean,
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so to speak. I don't know how better to say that, So
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I'm not really sure if they can like move their feet that much to sort
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of run, why the kick has to be done outside of the bubble,
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But whatever it is, he does the kick, turns around and starts to
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leave and finds himself like outside of it, and Zorro then steps in with
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six paths his technique and he slices up another one of its tentacles in six
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different pieces, which I really felt bad about. I was like, you
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guys know, especially later on when it's kind of been cowed and tamed.
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I was just like, oh, but you kind of tentacle up into pieces
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like this sucks. And Zorro is reflecting on the fact that, like the
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past couple of years, all he has done is fight, and he says
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it sounds awful when I like say it like that, but I'm really grateful
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for it. And yet he says, I still haven't surpassed him yet,
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So two years that's not that long not having surpassed him. I would hope
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not if you get surpassed him in only two years, I feel like that
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wouldn't say much for his reputation anyway, you know what I'm saying. So
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it's all right. But anyway, everybody who is like on the ship is
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really impressed with the two of them. And you know, at one point,
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I think it's oos Up who is just like, oh my god,
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Asanji went so fast, I couldn't even seem like, this is just so
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awesome. Loofy meanwhile, is having a similar reaction to me, where he's
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like, I told you not to like hurt him because I wanted him to
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work for us. Basically, so he does gum gum and it's elephant Gun,
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which does seem appropriate for a kraken, I have to say, And
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he swings this fist that is the size of the kraken's head, which is
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really saying something. And everybody had been impressed with Soanjy and Zoro's progress,
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but when they see what it is Loofy was just able to do, they
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are truly like shook. They get those like white eyes kind of thing going
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on. Meanwhile, the kraken who has fallen backward, there's like some spot
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And I don't really get what's meant to be happening here because as far as
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I know, there are no pockets like this on an actual squid or octopus.
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They eat with a beak on their underside, So I don't really understand
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what it's supposed to be that's happening here. But there was a shark that
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was like stuck somehow in a tentacle. I don't know it. It's a
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weird, like the way this is illustrated. I couldn't understand what it was.
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But this little shark is adorable. He's wearing a little T shirt and
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comes out and like thanks them for helping him, and then like just swims
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away and honestly, this little shark guy. What a treasure. He looks
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so cute. I want to be his friend. He looks familiar. I
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feel like, if we haven't met him before, I've seen a cartoon like
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him before, something like that. But yeah, so so he just thanks
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them and then he takes off, and I have to assume that, you
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know, eventually we're going to reach a point where he's like instrumental in helping
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them because he remembers that they helped him this one time, and it's going
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to be like a whole thing. And just for the record, like,
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I don't have any problem with that, I don't when I say this sort
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of I'm not trying to be dismissive of like, oh, of course,
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this very predictable thing, Like I don't mean that. I mean, you
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know, in stories like this, that's what you do. You set up
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that somebody has done one person a good turn, and that way it comes
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back and you can circle things around later. So this is when our boys,
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all in their individual bubbles, are like, okay, let's go back
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to the sonny. The current is beginning to pull us in, and the
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current has even pulled the Kraken down at this point, and they turn like
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they're gonna be able to just swim back, and they can't. They are
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pulled down. Meanwhile, Frankie is getting onto the you know, the deck
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of the Sunny and like trying to chase them down, and everybody is flying
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all over the place because they are just pointed like there. The ship is
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like vertical. So after they catch up, Frankie just like starts rolling around
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the deck because there is no way to stay on his f and the whole
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like ride down, I'm thinking, well, maybe they'll catch up with their
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friends and it'll be fine, And they wind up actually coming back to the
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ship sooner than I was thinking they might, because I was expecting the under
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the sea journey to take longer than it did. I figured them being separated
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was gonna be a whole whole thing. Did you get what I'm saying,
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Like, because this is what often happens with the straw Hats, is they
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arrive somewhere in a group and then something occurs to separate them all and then
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they each have to deal with their own like villain and find their way back
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to each other. So I kind of thought that was what we were going
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to wind up getting here was like the under the Sea journey would turn into
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its own whole arc before we even got to Fishman Island, and that our
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friends were going to be like each dealing with different threats and finding their way
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back to the Sonny in the end. But yeah, it's it's like the
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factor that I keep forgetting is that unexpectedly the show wants us to take seriously
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their lack of oxygen, and I am genuinely, like constantly surprised at the
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fact that this is meant to matter, because the sunny, like the whole
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thing is just so outlandish that I wouldn't care if there were no rules at
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all at this point, you know what I'm saying. But I also can't
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deny I really do appreciate things being grounded enough to have some rules. So
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I just sort of ignore the whole issue of air supply and all of this,
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because like the physics of this don't make sense at all. And then
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it's brought up like doing one of the he uh jumps that we wind up
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having to do a few times later, that Frankie with the ship, he's
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like escaping things, it's using up their actual air, and that's like going
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to be a problem for them. I keep being like, oh, oh,
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okay, so that's like a factor we actually have to worry about anyway.
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Okay, So in this moment, we are our ship is back up,
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and everybody is standing still on the deck, and oos Up is like,
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what's everybody looking so sad about? Like, you shouldn't be scared.
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We're safe. The ship is upright, we're on its deck. Shit's okay.
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And then he starts to be like, wait, why is it so
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cold? And Robin says that all three of the boys are missing, and
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we just have to hope the monster didn't tear them apart in her usual optimistic
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way. And this is the first of the many threats that we like encounter
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of the deep sea is an anglerfish. This thing again with the fact that
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like shit underwater is just crazy. Anyway, It's just wild that these really
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exist. There was a really fucking cool Halloween costume I saw one year.
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Two girls that were there. I think they were going to a like a
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Halloween rave, and so they did these like anglerfish costumes with the lights and
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they looked so fucking cool. Highly recommend looking that up because those photos were
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like at the top of the Google results, so I'm sure you'll be able
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to find them easily because they got a lot of attention since they were so
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cool. Oh, Florian says, just want to say, I started Doctor
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Who. So far I like it and it reminds me of One Piece in
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a distant way, definitely the thing. I'm not going to get into a
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whole Doctor Who thing here. I'm not trying to like yuck anybody's yum,
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as they say. But my issue with Doctor Who is that it takes itself
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too seriously a lot of the time. One Piece gets serious occasionally, but
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mostly does not take itself seriously at all. It knows what it is,
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and that's the key to the tone being something that I can deal with.
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But Doctor Who often tries to be like preachy or moral in some way that
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isn't actually like sustained in the in the dialogue or the plot, and it
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just gets very up its own ass, and I couldn't deal A lot of
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the time. It was just like, look, guys, if you are
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going to have him just pull out a sonic screwdriver that magically solves this entire
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problem, why do I care about the problem. It's not it's silly.
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I feel like one piece is like don't come at me, but like better
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written overall than Doctorue. And I'm just I'm just saying, so this the
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The other thing that we have dealing with here is the fucking jellyfish, which
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are They're glowing and have like, you know, those little lights in them,
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and because it's so dark down here, they have this effect almost of
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like stars in the sky, which Chopper starts to get very entranced by,
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and it's just like, man, these are so cool. And as they
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come down towards the surface of the deck, he almost reaches out and touches
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one, and Robin has to tell him, like, don't touch them.
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They're probably venomous, which I really would have expected him to know, but
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I don't know why. I guess I just expected that he would know stuff
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about like all animals, which is really not fair. I also the thing
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with jellyfish, for me, I have always found them like very fascinating.
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I think a lot of kids do, just the fact that they are they
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look so graceful and harmless, and yet they are potentially like actually lethal and
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yet made out of material that is so delicate. It's just that contradiction that
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can really catch your imagination. And there is a there's a book I'm covering
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now, the Vorkosagan Saga, where it's it's traveling from different planets, and
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at one point she's on a planet with these creatures that are filled with a
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type of helium and float through the air like jellyfish. And this guy is
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standing watching one and it comes down and lands on his face and it has
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like acid in its tentacles and begins to like burn his face up. And
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it was just the most terrifying like imagery. It was so awful, and
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so now that for some reason them being on land in that narrative, Now,
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when I look at them in the water habitat, even in like a
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cartoon, I keep picturing that guy is getting his face burned off, and
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I'm just like, ooh, not pretty. These are scary. These are
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very very scary. Also, we get to see a new thing from Frankie.
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He has these spotlights built in and they come out of his nipples.
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I lost my shit. That fucking cracked. I was not expecting that at
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all, and I don't know why I wasn't, because Frankie's whole thing is
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just being outrageous, like I would not be surprised if at one point he's
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got like an actual cannon in his keeney briefs that just like sticks out like
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a giant dick, because that just feels like what we're kind of doing sometimes
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with him, and I have no problem with it. It is these these
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actual headlights, amazing perfect, flawless. So anyway, lots and lots of
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creatures that they are encountering, and they all have sort of different not our
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crew being they, but the fish. Some of them can't seem to see
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them very well because their eyesight is so like underdeveloped. Others because of the
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darkness, have highly developed eyesight. So it's sort of like anybody's guess who
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is going to turn out to be an issue and who isn't. But yeah,
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this is when we have to use the coup of Burst the first time
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and get away from the jellyfish that has draped itself over the top of the
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ship. And it just keeps like they keep encountering things that they need to
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use the coupda Burst for and so they're using up their own air supply every
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time they do this. They finally get to a point where they straight up
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can't use that as an escape tool at all, and are essentially stuck.
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It's a good thing that they wind up as close to Fishman Island as they
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do. Oh my god, I love Brooke is over here, you guys.
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I live for Brooks weird like monologues. Who's he talking to? Who
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knows? It doesn't matter. He says, Oh, you're curious as to
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how I can see when I don't have eyes? Of course you are,
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but you really want to know the answer, and then gets real close to
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his eye and he laughs and says, drum roll, it's a secret.
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What are we doing? What is this? I don't care what it is.
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It's great. I love it, Brooke, bless your heart. I'm
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so If it just weren't for him asking to see panties all the time,
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Brooke would be like the perfect character. I would love him so like there
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would be no qualms about it. As I sit right now, Chopper is
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my guy because he's so pure. Brooke just manages to like eek into that
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real creepy territory a lot, but I can like make myself forget that and
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then he turns into my favorite. So it's just sort of you know,
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I just wish that we could let it go. Unfortunately, there's a whole
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thing later with him and Mermaids, and I don't like him and Soanji both
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being on the same wavelength at all. I just don't want the two of
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them. I don't Sanji doesn't need any encouragement. That's where I'm coming from
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pretty much. I don't want anybody on the Sunny to be coming at women
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with the same energy in any sense as the energy that Sanji brings. And
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I almost feel like I want to blame Sonjy for Brook's behavior, even though
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that's super not fair. I want to pretend that Brooke is like better than
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this and that it's just Sonjy like influencing him negatively, and like that's not
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what's happening. But I just want Brooke to be better. I want him
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to be better than he is. So okay, the crew again, they're
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all just like, I don't know where we need to head. How can
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we even like know that when we got pulled down where we went in the
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same like general direction, there's no way that you know. And then finally,
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and I had been sort of wondering this vaguely in the background, but
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I hadn't actually put words to it. They notice that wet hair Caribou is
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gone, and we get this sequence that is so it's so silly. So
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this dude, he's a logiate type, and I guess he turns into mud.
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I don't know. I don't know if we actually have gotten an explanation
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from him about it yet, but he has pretended to be tied up effectively
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to get them all thinking that they really have him on the back foot.
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And he then waits for all of them to be distracted and hides in a
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barrel on the ship so he can bide his time until it's safe for him
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to jump out and attack again, and then I guess take over the whole
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ship. His plan is basically like, I'm going to let them keep steering
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the ship because I need a crew in order to power this thing, so
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I'll at least wait until we get somewhere safe, and then I'm going to
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make my presence known because now that the three best fighters aren't here, I
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don't really have anything to worry about. And I didn't even think of the
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fact that he would consider the rest of the crew to be so little a
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threat. And I mean, I kind of understand his thinking in this way.
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But it's just funny looking at like just merely Frankie alone. You really
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think that you don't have anything to worry about up against Frankie. And there's
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five more or four more? How anymore? Yeah, Chopper usop Nami,
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Brooke, Robin and yeah, five more, sir. Those three fighters aren't
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the problem that you need to be worrying about. You have a whole crew
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of badasses here that you just are acting like you could take solo. Why
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on Earth? And I guess he really believes that he's gonna be able to
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just like crawl around in the dark of night and like maybe take them out
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one by one, and that way there wouldn't have to be any sort of
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like like real fight, that he could get them while their guard was down.
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But anyway, it's really fun because he's over here peering at everybody from
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inside this barrel, really really feeling himself and thinking that he has the perfect
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plan. What a shame I didn't have the chance to kill straw Hat with
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my own hands, But no one will ever doubt he's dead once I come
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back with the rest of his crew members heads. And as he's saying this
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to himself. It's unclear to me whether he like speaks out loud. I
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don't think he does, because we get a look at him at one point
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and his mouth doesn't seem to be moving, but the way that Frankie is
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looking at him, it feels like Frankie can hear his thoughts. And I
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don't think that's happening, but you know what I'm saying, Like there's an
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expression on his face that it And it's so fun because Frankie is just coming
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up next to him as this dude has this vicious gleam in his eye of
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like pure malice, and meanwhile Frankie is like the fuck. So he comes
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up next to him and he says, if I killed them all now,
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there wouldn't be anyone left to sail the ship, and then what would I
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do? So I'll let them live while they can still be useful to me.
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Once we land on Fishman Island, though, I'm gonna slaughter you down
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to the last man. And he laughs. And see this is when Frankie's
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eyes get big, and so it really felt for me like he was hearing
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him. I don't know, I don't know, but yeah, he turns.
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He just sees Frankie looking at him, and then he slowly lowers the
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lid of the barrel again as if he wasn't seen, like he just faked
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him out, and rather than like grab him up, Frankie just seals the
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barrel. Uh genius, I love it. Just keep him in there,
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he rightfully figures out, like, oh yeah, the ropes don't do anything
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because he's not a solid so I can I don't need to worry about tying
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him up again. Just keep him in a fucking container like he's a sourdoughs
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starter or something. I fucking loved this so much. It's such a Wet
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Hair Caribou was so like unlikable right out of the gate, Like some of
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these villains, you know, they come in and they have a certain energy
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and you're like, oh, yeah, I know he's a bad guy,
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but he's fun or you know there's something cool about his design or his power
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is really wild, you know. Wet Hair Caribou just felt like a drag
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and Florian talk with me about this when we did the live together. But
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that he has this, like, you know, a real kind of real
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world creepy factor that a lot of the villains don't have, and so I
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expected a certain type of showing from him that I am not getting, and
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I enjoy it a lot. I am really happy that he has turned out
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to be such a disappointment, and I'm putting that in quotes because I am
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not disappointed at all. This is great, like him being basically shown up
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almost instantly upon arriving on the ship, and then everything he has done since
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then is like pointless and fails. It's great. I want more of it.
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I never want him to get back into a place of power again.
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I want him to keep thinking he is one upping them and keep being brought
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crashing back down to Earth. It's very satisfying. There are some villains for
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whom this wouldn't work, and I would just be like, why am I
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supposed to be like afraid of or invested in this person? And then there
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are people like this where you just made me despise him so much, so
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quickly, so instantly that the sort of petty schadenfreud schadenfreud that you get seeing
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them slap down is like sustaining in this very chewy, full meal type of
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way. So yeah, I am I just the first time that I watched
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this too, even though it was animated very clearly that Frankie can see him.
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Because the animation in this show can be sort of symbolic, sometimes it
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can occasionally trip me up whether something is like happening very literally the way it
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looks like it's happening or not. So there was a time with the first
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first viewing of this episode that Frankie seeing him and his face sort of being
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in the background. I got a little confused, and I thought for a
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moment that it was Cariboo thinking about Frankie, and so the image of Frankie
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in the background was indicative of who he was imagining he was going to have
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to fight or take down first or whatever. And I was like then started
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to be like, oh wait, no, I think he can see him.
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And so when I watched it the second time, I got to appreciate
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a lot more how soon Frankie spots him, and how like there is no
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ceremony about locking him inside that barrel, and he says, literally, if
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he wasn't so stupid, we would have been in real trouble. But yeah,
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he's like a pile of mud in there, and it must be a
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devil fruit power of some kind. He was giving us a false sense of
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security because he could have escaped at any time. And meanwhile behind him,
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the barrel is like hopping up and down, and he calls Frankie, the
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guy in the banana hammock, I really do like that banana hammock is being
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used. I am curious what banana hammock is in Japanese. What's that sound
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like? So all of a sudden, we have a new change in temperature.
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Everybody had been very cold recently, and now all of a sudden it's
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starting to get hot. And they look around and they see what seems to
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be smoke. And at first everybody's like, that doesn't make any sense underwater,
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and Nami is the one who's like, no, no, no,
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that is actually quite possible. And she sees these stacks, which again this
31:32
is also a real thing. This is a volcanic area. There are there
31:40
are heat and gases and magma trapped underneath, and they are coming out of
31:47
these like chimney looking things. It's crazy, and so it is causing everything
31:53
to get quite hot temperature all over the place. Here. This is when
31:57
we begin with another like series of Couda bursts and it's really started to give
32:07
me a little bit of anxiety knowing that, like our air supply is dependent
32:13
on this, that they had to use it over and over and over again.
32:17
Meanwhile, the fact that they're having to do the Coudi bursts means that
32:22
they're traveling in such a way that it might be even harder for them to
32:27
reunite with their friends. And they start to get like, you know,
32:30
how are we supposed to even find them again because they've been blown so off
32:34
course? But uh, as we see that winds up being not a problem.
32:38
So this is this is when the angler fish finally shows up. I
32:42
said it earlier, but I was jumping ahead a little bit, and the
32:46
angler fish like it's so big, and it really does look like it's going
32:51
to eat the whole ship. And then behind it you see a person.
32:59
I don't know what this. The word that is used here is c bonds
33:07
b o n ze. I'm gonna look this up. Bonds a Japanese or
33:13
Chinese Buddhist monk oh okay, because when he said it, I wasn't watching
33:21
it with subtitles. The dub I used to watch with the subtitles to just
33:27
see the difference, and I stopped doing that because I did find it a
33:30
little distracting, and so I was like, I'm I can't be hearing him
33:36
right, like, I don't know what word he's saying, but okay,
33:39
it is apparently a figure from Japanese folklore. Okay, okay, that makes
33:49
sense, and that sort of ties in with like the whole concept of the
33:52
flying Dutchman as well, like these folk stories that have to do with the
33:55
ocean and just sort of anything that you've heard of that seems interesting. You'll
34:00
just make it be real in this that makes sense to me actually, And
34:07
the way that this like plays out is that this being is reprimanding its little
34:16
uh fish for trying to eat the ship because it knows that it is not
34:23
supposed to do that. It punches the fish in the head and says,
34:28
that's naughty. You know better, and caro, you're not allowed to eat
34:32
ships. And it's definitely like the same voice as the woman who does chopper,
34:37
I'm pretty sure, so coming out of the mouth of this like humongous
34:44
person, it's very very weird. But despite the fact that this creature helps
34:51
them in the moment and keeps the angler fish from eating them. It is
34:54
not actually on their side. I thought it was going to turn out to
34:59
be like, oh, we've I met a new buddy, but instead we
35:02
have a new ship that shows up. And this ship is so cool,
35:07
you guys. I love the intro to this So it materializes out of the
35:13
dark. There are all of these like little details about it and the way
35:20
that it's sort of rotting, and the curved teeth on the skull that's on
35:25
the front of it and everything. It looks so awesome and as it's coming
35:34
out of the dark, the song that the captain is singing is the Dead
35:40
Man Tell No Tales. It is so high drama. I loved it the
35:46
most. Like it happens a lot in this show that somebody will show up
35:50
and I will be sort of like, that's not really you know that the
35:57
reaction that everybody else has seems to need to be out of proportion to how
36:00
impressive this person's swag actually is. But this one, I was like,
36:07
no, no, no, it's a It's a combo of the the look
36:10
of the ship, the song itself, the effect that they put on the
36:17
voice that is singing the song as well, because they make it this very
36:21
sort of echoing. You know, dead men tell no tales, and dead
36:28
men have no deep deeds. I pluck the rings right off their hands within
36:31
these shadowy seas, dead men have no regrets and no tears left to weep.
36:39
I'll pluck the crowns right off their heads. Within this cold, black
36:44
deep, sunken treasures free for the taking. A king of pirates in the
36:50
making, I leave my enemies weeping and shaking. Vender Decan is my name,
36:58
and these long lost riches I do claim. And this is all come,
37:05
you know, as it's coming at them, and I love that.
37:07
At one point, we've just got Brooke looking at the skulls saying is that
37:12
me? And I was like, Brook, I feel like that's racist.
37:15
Not all skulls look the same. They don't all look like you. Okay,
37:19
it's not always about you. But yeah, this is when he says
37:23
it's a ghost ship and it Oh man, I'm so sorry, guys.
37:31
I'm just getting distracted by the animation because Oosup slaps him for being scared of
37:37
a ghost ship when he himself is a giant skeleton. And when he slapped,
37:43
he just does a perfect pirouet and poses and then just says, you
37:47
can't get with these moves. And it's an unexpected, like weird little moment
37:51
that did catch me. And then all of a sudden you have a little
37:57
flashback to everybody adding the ghost ship that Brooke was on, bless him,
38:02
which is what later on Frankie brings up. Is like, you, guys,
38:07
we all thought it was a ghost ship with Brooke. Then we found
38:09
out that there was like a perfectly reasonable explanation there probably is for this too.
38:15
Everybody just needs to calm down. It's not a big deal. But
38:21
yeah, the the the sea Bonds evidently like works for this dude, this
38:29
cap Vanderdecker. I don't know why or in what like how this this relationship
38:38
became what it is, but uh, the sea Bounce is like waving down
38:47
the ship, and we find we get like a very brief moment of the
38:53
mouth of this captain as he is like saying to the sea bonds, you
38:59
know, I don't want to cut the treasure out of your stomach, so
39:05
no eating it, which is just a grim thing to say to somebody anyway.
39:14
But we don't actually see the captain other than that fate that like mouth
39:20
while it's talking and then the hand. At one point it points its finger
39:24
and we see its hand and the sea bonds. He tells him to knock
39:35
the ship out, just to give it a real good whack. So he
39:38
goes to do that, but then unexpectedly gets interrupted by the Kraken, who
39:45
is on our side now, surprise, And because it has lots of tentacles,
39:51
it can really beat the shit out of you, and so it's giving
39:54
like gum gum gatling. Actually when it's going at him, I was delighted
40:01
because I knew if this guy was here, then that meant the rest of
40:04
the boys were here also. So problem solved and off to the side,
40:08
Lufy says, okay, he's learned his lesson. That's enough, and the
40:14
Kraken stops, and there's like a look on his face of like, oh
40:17
god when Lufy tells him to stop, But then when he says good boy,
40:22
he looks so happy. I was so conflicted here, guys, I
40:28
really was like this Kraken had been a bad guy. I'm glad that we
40:31
can make friends. I feel bad that he has been like beaten into intimidation
40:37
of Lufy and pals, but also he was going to eat them. So
40:44
you know, I'm just sort of all over the place here with how I
40:45
feel about this. And that's the thing about like the concept of taming animals.
40:52
You know, it's just the animal has to be in distress in order,
40:58
like at the start of the whole thing, And so I don't love
41:01
the concept of it, even if I can understand the necessity for it sometimes.
41:07
But yeah, all of our guys are back, and Whenami is like,
41:12
what the hell happened to you? Because they're all in the same bubble
41:15
and just like packed in there like little fish inside a fish bowl, Zoro
41:21
actually says they got lost. They're hopeless without me, and I was just
41:24
like, oh my god, I don't know what happened to your brain,
41:30
Zoro. That somebody else helping you find Sabaoudi again makes you think that you're
41:35
not the guy who always gets lost. But you need to get back on
41:38
reality, my friend, because this is ridiculous. Meanwhile, as he's coming
41:45
in, Sanji has his face just going all over the place because he sees
41:51
Robin and Nami, and so Chopper is like, I'm going to need to
41:55
build up his tolerance using a series of like less stimulating pictures. You guys,
42:06
this is so this is like it's fucked up, but it's really it
42:09
really is funny that it's just like pictures of them just standing in jeans,
42:15
you know, like and and later on you do see him rifling through the
42:21
pictures getting very excited about all of them, even though we know that they're
42:25
very tame. Actually it's like a weird straddling of perverse and wholesome in a
42:34
weird way. And I just I'm not gonna try and harp on this too
42:39
much at this point. I've made my feelings on it clear, I think,
42:44
but I am just so deeply bummed out by the fact that Soanji has
42:52
been made to be so disgusted by all of the people that were on the
43:00
island with him. I keep I'm never sure whether I should say, like,
43:05
are they trains women? Are they just cross dressing men? Like I'm
43:08
not sure how I want to describe them, But I just really the fact
43:15
that he seemed to be cool with them for a bit, it really got
43:19
me like feeling like we were in a cool place in terms of the representation
43:23
on the show. And then we went in this whole other direction and now
43:29
it's like he's coming up against a krack and talking about how it's not even
43:34
the ugliest monster that he's had to deal with, and it just it's such
43:39
a shame. I know that it's like supposed to be a joke, but
43:45
because of the world, it doesn't feel funny. It's just gross and transphobic
43:52
and nasty and like it's just so ugly, you know. And so every
43:57
time now that he's there's some kind of reference to these people as monsters or
44:05
horror shows or something that's like just really really mean, and it's it really
44:10
it's like undercutting my enjoyment of things a lot more than I would have expected
44:16
because it's happening so often. If it were happening like a lot more in
44:22
the background, I could maybe overlook it. But he's such he's whenever we're
44:28
in a fight, he's one of the main guys to jump up. And
44:30
his whole plot right now is how much hornier even than usual he is.
44:37
And so I feel like I just keep getting beaten over the head with all
44:43
of this, like all of these transphobic jokes and reactions and the fucking upskirting
44:49
of that girl that he was like making sure had the real parts, like
44:54
ew, it's all just so there's like a violence to it that I find
45:00
really upsetting, and so I just I just wanted to like say that here
45:05
and let it go in terms of talking about it anymore. But I just
45:09
really I wanted to underscore it because there was something about the scene here when
45:14
he goes to fight the crack and in the way that he's talking about them
45:17
that it really like pushed me over the edge from being like this is annoying
45:22
to like, Okay, you know what, fucking stop it, and being
45:27
like genuinely angry about it because we just didn't have to be here. You
45:30
know, we could have had him super horny for women and not calling these
45:36
other people monsters. You could have done both. It could have been fine.
45:42
And just the lack of imagination there to have him be on our side
45:50
for a minute and then it and when I say our side, I mean
45:53
the side of people who are decent human beings. To get my hope's up
46:00
about that, thinking that he had seen the light and then sort of just
46:05
yank it away. It just feels even more disappointing because I saw what we
46:09
could have had so Florian says, Yeah, as I said, this joke
46:17
will sadly stay for some more episodes, but will get better in some episodes.
46:22
Okay, Yeah, I just, like I said, I don't want
46:24
to beat a dead horse here. You guys know how I feel about this.
46:28
But the particular stuff in this episode, I just found, like I
46:34
said, the word violent started to come up for me in a way that
46:37
felt really alarming. So anyway, yeah, his whole thing is going to
46:44
be that we have got to get his tolerance up because he isn't going to
46:50
be able to deal with hot mermaids. He is going to lose all of
46:53
his blood and die. Meanwhile, they land on the deck and there's a
47:00
very strange scene here where Brooke is just sort of singing in the background while
47:06
Loofy collapses on the deck. Robin and Chopper are like talking at the same
47:10
time. It's a it's a weird scene of like everybody sort of talking over
47:15
each other and there being a sense of chaos, and I just, I
47:21
don't know, I felt like it was supposed to be giving me a feeling
47:25
that I wasn't getting it. It just felt like there was too much happening
47:29
all at once. But anyway, So their friend, the Kraken, picks
47:37
up the ship and begins to carry it away. The Dutchman pirates are like,
47:44
all right, we're gonna we're gonna chase after him. But then it
47:49
seems something else comes up and he's like, never mind, we don't want
47:52
this smoke after all. So there's like a sort of I hesitate to call
47:57
it the horizon because like we're under one, but there's a red glow that
48:04
begins to appear. And this is when Nami is like, oh, okay,
48:09
yeah, this is the volcano straight ahead, and the Dutchman pirates are
48:17
like, Captain, we can't go for We've got to get the fuck out
48:21
of here, and he's like, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're
48:22
right. I should mention too, considering that it's like being talked of as
48:28
if it is a ghost ship. We see actual people, like they're alive
48:31
on there. I think they look alive, they're gray. I don't know
48:37
if it's maybe like some of the people without Shadows that Maria made and they've
48:40
learned to live underwater. That would be interesting, but uh, Surumee is
48:46
the name of the Kraken, and they were about to ask him to like
48:51
carry the ship as quickly away as possible from the volcano, and then when
48:54
they look over, he's already doing it. And I think that it's like
49:00
Usub who says something like it's sort of embarrassing being so big and that afraid,
49:07
but why he would die as well? So what if he's big?
49:12
I do love Robin, just like to herself saying he runs terribly. I
49:16
don't know why she is so flat for me so much at the time,
49:22
but that one line, it was delivered in just the right kind of flat
49:28
and it was so extra funny because of that he runs terribly. I wanted
49:36
to ask Zoro calls soany mouthbrow at this point, I don't know what that
49:45
means mouthbrow? What is happening there? I was really really confused by that.
49:54
I don't like his the curly. There's nothing mouthlike about it. I
50:00
don't Or maybe he's talking about like mouthlike in combo, like he talks too
50:05
much and he's got crazy eyebrows. I don't know. I don't know what
50:08
it is, but it was a weird comment that like didn't make a lot
50:13
of sense to me. MOS's head. Now that one makes sense, I
50:15
get what you're doing with that one. But anyway, so, yeah,
50:21
the kraken is racing them away, and you can see things like beginning to
50:25
shake because we're about to have the explosion of magma. And they have gotten
50:30
like a little ways away, but it's still close enough that it's a problem,
50:34
you know, Loofy. Of course, it's not a problem for him.
50:37
He's having a great time. He's just flying through the air here.
50:42
But you see it like melting all of the rock around them, and it
50:46
increases the temperature of the water and everything, so that they start to be
50:51
like, are we are we gonna get like poached? Like what's happening here?
50:58
And the fact that all of them are running at the same time,
51:00
they begin to sort of like float off. The Dutch pirates, I was
51:07
just thinking the same thing. Brooke chimes in and says, their ship is
51:13
flying. Is that good or bad? And that was my question also.
51:15
I was like, I feel like that's got to be a good thing.
51:17
You're getting off the ocean floor where I am assuming the danger is primary,
51:24
but also there's the issue of like heat rising and maybe if the heat is
51:31
lifting him, I don't know. And then the worst you guys this kraken,
51:37
you know how, I'm just so mixed on him. They're talking about
51:43
whether he's going to actually be able to help them get away and or whether
51:47
or not they're going to get cooked, and Loofy says, well, you
51:57
know, I think that he'll be able to Like, riding him is really
52:01
fun, but eating him might be even better. And I absolutely draw the
52:09
line at this poor creature being afraid that Lufi is going to eat him.
52:20
That's not okay. Look if he enjoys being patted on the head and told
52:25
that he was a good kraken for doing things, far be it from me.
52:30
Fine, if he is running away from a volcano because he himself is
52:35
already in danger and he's carrying them with him, because it's just like I'll
52:37
just do that, too, fine, But being threatened with like I'm going
52:42
to literally eat you. I just hated it. I really did. His
52:47
little face. It was it was it was troubling, you know, I
52:52
just felt so bad for him. So anyway, this is when Nami says,
52:57
Okay, keep going straight ahead, I have an eye, and they're
53:00
still being chased by this lava. This goes on for a little way and
53:05
then she says, okay, now jump into the trench that we see,
53:08
because there's like a sort of cliff that they come up against, and you
53:13
know, all of them are just like, uh, really okay, and
53:17
Kraken obeys jumps right off of the side and they're floating in mid air.
53:29
Usual suspects here, screaming their heads off, oos up and chopper mostly as
53:35
they fall. The lava is like right behind them, and it doesn't really
53:39
seem like they're outpacing it exactly. And I was sort of like, is
53:45
did this really help? My god? I forgot about us up saying you're
53:50
not really loopy, are you? You're some evil demon that wants to drag
53:54
us down into the depths? Well, oh my god. But yeah,
54:02
So eventually they go over another one because there's like multiple ledges here that they
54:13
just sort of fall down the sides of, you know, and finally they're
54:21
like floating free and the Kraken is holding them up. It made me think
54:25
about how when they left the Skypeia area they were carried by a floating wasn't
54:35
it a floating octopus in that case as well that was holding them. They
54:39
get a lot of help from Giant octopuses, but yeah, the octopus is
54:45
holding them up and keeping them out of the way of like all of the
54:49
falling rocks. And it's just a very tense moment of everybody sort of watching
54:53
this situation and like, are we could get got at any point by one
55:00
of these landing on us Zoro asks Loofy to like help him fight this thing,
55:06
and Robin has to step in and use her power to hold him in
55:10
place, and she says, the ship is over eight thousand meters deep.
55:15
If you go outside, the water pressure will crush you. Again, with
55:21
the actual physics of things mattering in moments that I really didn't think we were
55:27
going to care about that at all. I'm fine with it, you know,
55:31
but it does feel very selective of like, well, we're gonna do
55:35
that when I need you to stay on the ship and can't justify why you
55:39
wouldn't jump off and do something otherwise. So Usup does special attack Green Star
55:50
Sargasso is that how are you saying? I don't remember? But he shoots
55:53
something out in and amongst the rocks, and it explodes with vines like a
56:00
giant sea kelp, and it collects all the boulders and slows them down.
56:07
It's actually a really cool idea to just be like, I can't stop them
56:12
entirely, but I can buyas a little bit of additional time from it,
56:15
you know. So they just barely managed to get away, and they all
56:24
are cheering on this squid. You guys, he looks so happy. I'm
56:31
way too much of a soft touch when it comes to animals. I know
56:35
that this is why I have taken in puppies and now this kitten that's wandering
56:39
around my office here. But yeah, the whole the expression on its face
56:49
when it feels like it did a good job and then it like things begin
56:53
to go wrong and it gets scared again. It just broke my heart.
56:59
He looks so satisfied and pleased and proud, and then it all just went
57:06
down the drain and he gets hit on the head with a rock and his
57:10
eyes x out and he drops the ship and the ship just goes flying again.
57:15
And I was like, oh, come on, man, let him
57:19
have his moment for Christ's sake. I really was. I was so sad.
57:25
But then it sort of transitions in this it's a weird moment because the
57:30
ship sinks. He sinks, You just see them sort of disappearing down into
57:37
the dark, and then all of a sudden there is this like transition to
57:42
bright light, and it's not really like the way that it felt. It
57:47
was almost like you got knocked out and woke up and the light was just
57:53
going when you awoke. I'm not entirely sure if that's meant to be what
57:59
sort of happened. If everybody on the ship was supposed to have, like,
58:02
you know, been slammed to the deck and got knocked out, but
58:06
the light becomes so bright that they can't even see anything, and you know
58:13
this deep. They're ten thousand I think it's ten thousand meters. I'm not
58:16
sure, but it's like deep enough that there shouldn't be like of this type
58:22
down here at all. Brooke is even like, uh, are we dead?
58:25
Like what's happening here? And you see some schools of fish there,
58:32
much less chaotic than they have been in the other areas there are. There's
58:38
just a sense of calm to this spot that there wasn't in the other places
58:44
that they stumbled into. And Lufy sees something and he's like, wait,
58:51
I think Nmi tell us and she has her log pose out and she's like,
58:55
Yep, it's Fishman Island. It's pointing right there. And Fishman Island,
59:01
unexpectedly is like a bubble underwater that looks like it has a sort of
59:08
a spigot that comes out of it. I'm not really sure if that's the
59:15
wording I want, but it looks like that's the entrance. It's just in
59:19
proportion to the bubble. It looks so small, But I know it has
59:22
to be big enough for the ship to pass through, and it's got to
59:27
be some sort of like security measure, you know, to get in there.
59:30
But I was really expecting Fishman Island to just be like open to the
59:36
water, and that they were going to have to somehow get refreshing, like
59:42
refresh the oxygen of their little suits to walk around. I didn't think that
59:46
it was going to be like enclosed in a separate area with air, And
59:54
I like, it makes sense, it would be very difficult to be animating
1:00:00
them in those suits all the time, like, and the air replenishment wouldn't
1:00:06
work. That wouldn't make any sense. But I just took it for granted
1:00:10
that it was going to be something like under the sea in Little Mermaid.
1:00:15
You know what I mean, or even in like Aquaman. So the fact
1:00:20
that it is sort of a contained, I don't want to say, like
1:00:23
a building. They call it a bubble, and it is, but that
1:00:29
doesn't feel adequate for the size of the thing. But yeah, I just
1:00:32
wasn't expecting it to look like this at all. And I'm gonna be really
1:00:37
really curious how it differs inside from just looking like any of the other islands.
1:00:43
Or maybe it won't. Maybe it will kind of look the same,
1:00:45
and I'll forget that we're technically like underwater here, you know. But I
1:00:51
am just Oda can be very very imaginative, so I am looking forward to
1:00:57
seeing what he does with this. I think that's everything. Yeah, that's
1:01:02
where the episode ends, is like all of them being like, oh shit,
1:01:06
we finally got here, and loofy, it's just cheering and says,
1:01:10
all right, we made it, and the Kraken is holding the ship up
1:01:17
and cheering with them, and meanwhile inside his stupid barrel, Caribous saying,
1:01:24
what do you know? The morons made it after all, And I was
1:01:29
just like, they're the morons. You're the one inside of a barrel,
1:01:32
sir. That's on you. I don't know who you think you're calling.
1:01:38
Oh God. And then there's of course the Mermaid for you, A Mermaid
1:01:42
for me with Sanjy and Brooke, and no, absolutely not. I have
1:01:49
no interest there. They're clearly here, like we see them flying around,
1:01:54
swimming around, and Sanji gets knocked out again and I would just like for him