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One Piece, 366-368 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering One Piece episodes
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  three, sixty six, sixty seven, and sixty eight. You're Going Down
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  Absalom, Nami's lightning attack of friendship, knock him Down, Special Attacks,
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  straw Hat Docking, and the Silent assault the mysterious visitor Tyrant Kuma. In
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  these episodes, I knew that Nami was going to wake up and fight Absalom,
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  but everything was better than I ever hoped, and I loved it so
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  much. And I'm going to cosplay Lola. I have to 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 the One Piece crew for commissioning this episode. What's up, guys?
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  So these three episodes were delightful. This is one of those things that
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  it's like I hesitate to even admit, you know how that is. But
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  sometimes, and I'm sure you guys will totally understand what I mean, when
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  I'm watching the show, I can find my attentions starting to wander, especially
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  when it gets really repetitive or there's long drawn out pauses of people staring.
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  And this was a trio of episodes that had my focus the whole time with
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  no effort. I never had to be like pay attention. It was just
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  very fun to watch from beginning to end, and I had no issues with
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  that at all. So the beginning of You're Going Down Absalom, of course
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  we have on Funimation, you know, the screen cap of Nami firing up
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  that like lightning Wand I always forget what this thing is called because it does
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  not feel natural to me if I remember, but I so, you know,
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  this is a thing that can happen when you've got screen caps and thumbnails
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  and stuff, is that you get a little bit of a spoiler. But
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  I figured probably Nami was gonna wake up at one point. I'm just really
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  glad that she got to full on fight him, mostly herself, other than
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  Lola, but Lola doesn't count. What I thought it was going to be
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  was, you know, she wakes up and begins to fight, and something
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  happens and then she like ultimately winds up getting rescued. And it wasn't.
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  She just got to settle this whole thing and it was great and I was
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  so happy. Like granted, the reason she was actually able to win is
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  because of Absalom had gone up against Sanji already, so he was super tired.
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  So you know, one could say that this wasn't entirely her victory,
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  but I don't care. It's fine, this is what I wanted, Bes
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  says climb attacked. That's right. Yeah, and that's not like it's not
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  a bad name, but it just doesn't I don't remember, it doesn't stick
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  in my mind. So yeah, this whole like episode. We start off,
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  first of all, checking back in with Mistress Pirona, and I have
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  to say I absolutely love the energy of what's going on with Pirona in this
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  episode, because what it is is her waking up from being like knocked out,
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  having had really bad nightmares about cockroaches and a giant oosop and looking around
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  and then going fuck this and heading to the coast with all of the loot
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  she can carry or her underlings can carry, and getting ready to steal a
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  ship and get the fuck up on out of here. And I've got to
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  say, I would like more villain characters to have this kind of energy.
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  This isn't like, you know, she's not a main villain, so she
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  doesn't entirely count. But we have really only had batties that want to stay
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  in fight. They always are like itching for a fight, really sure they're
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  gonna win. And the idea of her having gone up against somebody she's not
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  killed, but she's knocked out enough that she's like, you know what,
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  I'm good. Actually I'm a go I love this for her, like,
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  I have to admit, even though I don't want her to steal the sunny,
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  obviously, I was sort of rooting for her to just get away because
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  she's straight up like once our big mysterious visitor arrives, is straight up going,
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  I just don't want to do this anymore. This sucks, and I
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  stand a quitter. Okay, this is something that like you can go too
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  far in the other direction, granted, but there's a real culture in the
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  United States of like never ever quit. You don't give up, and frankly,
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  it's like toxic after a point. Sure you should persevere and not just
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  drop everything at the first sign of obstacles or resistance or whatever, but there
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  does come a point where maybe you should reconsider what you're doing. If you
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  just continuously run up against walls over and over again, you know, and
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  sure, there's like probably a lot of examples one could point to of people
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  who, if they had listened to me, would never have had their big
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  break and become famous or successful or whatever. But for every one of those
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  stories, you've got like fifty other people who kept pushing it even when they
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  should have given up and lost everything. And we don't hear about those stories
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  so much because nobody wants to hear about those stories. We want to hear
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  the success stories. But the truth is, there are a lot of people
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  who kept pushing for something that wasn't right for them or wasn't going to work
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  out, and they every time somebody tried to be like, hey, maybe
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  you should like try something else, back off on this thing and do a
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  different thing, it was like, oh, well, you're a hater,
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  you know that kind of response. And honestly, I really think that one
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  of the most valuable lessons that my mom taught me. And I'll grant you
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  my mom's a little bit too much of a quitter, but nevertheless she told
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  me that, like, sometimes quitting is the healthy thing to do. There
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  are all kinds of instances where if you have if you're in like a bad
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  situation, you need to bail and do what's healthy for yourself. And she
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  says something when she's asked about where she'd go about, like singing a cursed
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  song or something. It's delightful, like she's just got a real vision for
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  herself. And as much as I'm not fully in approval of creating zombified animals,
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  I will say that I appreciate that her goals don't have anything to do
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  with, say, world domination or enslaving actual human beings or whatever. You
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  know. Now, I am assuming that, like all of her zombie animals
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  are created by this dealing of shadows of people. So again, don't approve,
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  but I don't know. Maybe she could figure some other way out,
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  maybe she could find an alternative to this method. So all this to say,
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  her whole thing in these three episodes I was really delighted with, and
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  I especially enjoyed finding out that she's the one who stole all of the treasure,
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  because Nami manages to get her way out of the whole Absalom situation and
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  then heads to where she believes the treasure is being kept, only to find
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  out it's gone, and she is so pissed. And there's something about the
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  fact that it's Pirona who stole it. I don't know, there's something like
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  the two of them I feel like could be kind of friends, you know
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  what I'm saying. I just feel like if they had met in a different
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  it would have been possible for them to connect. Because Wollami doesn't really care
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  that much about like the cuteness factor. I don't feel like she'd hold it
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  against Pirona that she cares about that, and they both like nice things.
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  So anyway, I just wanted to touch on that because she's the one that
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  like sort of opens this section. And then we jump back to the moment
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  where Absalam is about to try and kiss Nami and she wakes up just as
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  he is about to kiss her. I appreciate her being like, those aren't
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  even human lips, which I think I mentioned last time, but I really
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  failed to truly like think through what it would be like for those to come
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  at your face. Can you imagine, guys, like just real quick,
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  sit back and imagine being unconscious and then waking up to that weird muzzle a
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  few inches from your face. No, thank you, I'm good. So
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  she is in the middle of attempting to defend herself here and he has got
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  her in a grip and it's really feeling like, all things considered, I
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  don't know how she's getting out of this. And then all of a sudden,
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  I especially love You'll be my graveyard queen. Doesn't that sound wonderful?
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  And she says, I don't even know what that means. I appreciate her
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  saying that because I also was kind of like, graveyard queen, what's that?
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  What exactly does that entail? And it turns out that what it entails
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  is just basically wandering around a graveyard and being in charge of it, which
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  literally who cares. But this moment is when Lola jumps in, and it's
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  a great bit because, you guys, I was so concerned that Lola was
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  genuinely turning against Nami. Here. You know, she's got this like real
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  rage on her face and is saying things like you told me that you wanted
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  nothing to do with him and that we'd be such a great couple. And
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  then I turn around for one second and when I look back, you're marrying
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  him. It was legit. I was genuinely like, oh shit, you
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  know. And then it turns out that Lola is just trying to help Nami
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  out and is pretending to be angry at her, and we also find out
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  a little bit later that she was not taken in for one moment by the
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  oh, I'm actually a man bit that Nami was doing, and she says
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  something like, it was pretty obvious that you weren't a guy, which,
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  like, you know, Jenner Norm's aside. I just appreciated that the lie
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  didn't actually work on her, and I liked the fact that Nami felt the
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  need to tell her the truth because I sort of wondered since it looked like
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  they were probably from this moment never gonna see each other again. I just
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  kind of thought maybe Nami would like keep it to herself and not feel like
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  she has to be straightforward about it, because I wouldn't blame her too much
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  if she just decided to roll without lie. And yet she tells her the
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  truth and is like, hey, look, I when I met you,
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  I was like afraid of you, so I said something that I thought would
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  get you to leave me alone. I love that, Nami, Thank you.
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  Like the kind of honesty is it's even more important when it's unnecessary in
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  some ways. You know, I'm sorry you guys. If you can hear
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  Sam, he's freaking out because I put him in his crate, which he
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  does not like. And I know that there's all kinds of training methods to
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  get dogs to like their crates, and I have tried them all and it
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  has not worked. So we gotta do what we gotta do. He makes
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  these sounds that really truly break my heart. Though I am not going to
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  lie to you. I act all cavalier about it, but I am crying
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  inside. So okay, this this fight with Absalom. First we've got the
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  Lola fight in him, just yelling at her to like back off, and
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  then he hits Lola, and really hits her like. She goes down in
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  such a way that I actually thought she might be dead. And I was
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  really concerned because I had grown to really like her so much, and if
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  this asshole killed her, I don't I wouldn't have gotten over it. So
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  thankfully she's still alive. But I was just the way that he treats her.
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  Oh, I hate him so much. So when Nami sees him,
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  sees Lola go down, this lights the fire in her. She had been
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  about to get away and maybe if she hadn't stopped, she would have she
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  maybe could have gotten out of this room and would have been able to just
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  like move on and left Lola there, but instead she's like, you know
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  what, fuck this guy, and she turns around and decides to engage with
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  him again. Now I'm in a mention. When he takes Lola out,
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  he is sweating and shaking, like, it's very clear he's not doing super
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  well, So the fact that she manages to completely level him winds up being
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  like less surprising when you take that into consideration. But yeah, when she
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  turns around, he initially thinks that, like, she's decided to marry him
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  after all. This is the conclusion he's coming to. She's standing there with
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  like a weapon in her hand and a frown on her face and a hard
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  stare. And this guy is like, oh good, I'm so glad that
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  you've come to your senses and that you will have You're going to marry me
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  after all? And Nami is like, yeah about that, and she says,
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  how dare you? I love it? I love this whole bit.
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  And she goes in and electrocutes him, and she says, I know this
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  isn't enough to beat you, but it'll be damned if I don't try.
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  And then the man just falls fucking over and she's standing there like wait what,
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  And I think it's the priest, the weird zombie priest, who's like,
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  oh, he had his ass pretty well kicked by that other guy,
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  so I guess this isn't too surprising. But in his like fantasies, it's
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  such a weird bit he falls down and then we get this like drawn out
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  Absalom is imagining the wedding to a very excited and happy Nami who's looking forward
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  to getting married. And I was thinking that he was going to fantasize about
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  like the successful wedding, But even in his little dream, after getting knocked
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  unconscious, he only gets to the part where he has to kiss her and
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  then she zaps him, even in the dream, So that was it was
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  a weird thing to add to have us like see this whole thing to begin
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  with, because it's not like he was unconscious when she nailed him with the
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  climb attacked. He was wide awake. So they're like kind of red conning
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  within the moment that he was unconscious and interpret did that hit as the kiss
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  or something. It's just a it's a weird thing. I didn't really get.
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  They don't really do this a lot, you know, like Pirona being
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  inside her dream where she's being attacked by us up and everything. All of
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  that was already kind of the first time I think that we've ever been inside
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  the weird fantasy of a villain. But at least that made kind of sense
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  because those were she was dreaming that she was still in the clutches of the
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  thing that had basically caused her to pass out to begin with. And this
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  it's like, we're doing it again so soon after the other one when we've
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  never done it before that I recall and it's the fantasy starts before this thing
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  has happened to him. It's just a weird setup for it. But anyway,
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  Nami goes over talks to Lola, and then Lola has this moment of
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  oh, I see him, and it turned out that he is totally helpless
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  right now. So I am going to take advantage of the situation. Now,
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  guys, you all know how this is. And I'm just gonna say
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  this for those of you who are not super familiar with Unspoiled and don't know
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  my politics and everything, I don't want to hear. Oh, it wasn't
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  cool. When he was trying to forcibly marry Nami, But it's so hilarious
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  when Lola is trying to forcibly marry him. Oh, it wasn't cool when
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  he was trying to sexually assault Nami, but when Lola is trying to sexually
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  assault him, it's hilarious. First of all, it's just so not the
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  same that I don't even know where to start, because it's just not One
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  of them is a genuine thing that happens to women being like harassed and stalked
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  by men who are super gross and attempt to do things against their will,
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  and the other is a crazy zombie creature that that is just like outside of
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  any real scenario. But also it is just funny. I'm gonna be real
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  with you. It's fucked up. I don't love it. Were I telling
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  the story, I would handle this differently. And I will admit that I
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  had some qualms about the moment where she's apparently like tossing him around the room
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  and saying, will finish the destruction that or started and break the building with
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  our love, because the suggestion there is that basically she's like raping him so
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  hard the building is going to fall down, which is awful. It's awful
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  that said I hate him, He's terrible, and her just deciding to dish
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  out some of what he was prepared to dish out doesn't bother me. It
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  just fails to really get me in any sense. So for me, I
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  appreciated this. And I will also mention that when Lola tries to tell him
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  that Nami is a man, he has that the memory of like watching Nami
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  in the shower, and then we have to go through all of that again.
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  And so the fact that we get to see him like perving on her
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  and being super gross sort of added an extra layer of insulation between my moral
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  center and what happens to him. Does that make sense? So anyway,
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  so this whole bit is just great. And like I said, I really
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  really want to like figure out a Lola cause play. I don't know how
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  it would work, and I am a perfectionist, so I think I would
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  make it pretty complicated because I really want to get that face right. Her
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  face is easy. That would take some real work, but I feel like
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  that's a pretty fucking good cosplay. So Okay, we're gonna jump back to
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  Lufy really briefly. There is not a lot of him in these three episodes.
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  We've just got him running around in the woods and he thinks that he
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  is chasing what is it. He calls him a fat onion, I think
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  is what he says, which is so good. But he thinks that he's
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  chasing Maria, and eventually, at the very very very end of the third
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  episode, realizes that he has just been chasing Maria's shadow and he is really
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  pissed off. So honestly, I don't feel like I need to go that
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  much more into what's going on there, because it's a lot of him running
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  around and chasing this shadow. And there's just one little bit where two dudes
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  who I think they were guys who got their shadows stolen, are watching as
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  Lufy like disappear into the woods and they're wondering what the hell he's doing because
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  he said he was going to the castle to fight Maria, and now he's
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  just out here in the woods and it's there in the middle of like wondering
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  about it. They turn around and there's Maria, and Maria says something about
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  how like, I can't believe you even thought he would win against me.
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  Maybe you're gonna have to kick my ass instead, maybe you could give it
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  a try. And I appreciate every time the camera sort of pulls back and
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  allows us to see how fucking huge hunormous Maria is. Because this man is
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  these guys come up to like his crotch. It's hard to say because he's
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  got a weird body, so I'm not totally you know, but they are
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  extremely small in comparison to him, and he is fully aware that these guys
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  are in league with Lufy and are just is just like, oh, you
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  thought he was going to save you. Well, I'm really sorry, but
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  you're gonna have to watch your precious little savior get pounded into the dirt.
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  That is most of what's going on with Lufy here. So then we're gonna
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  go to Oars. There's a point, you guys, where Oars is just
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  looking for anybody because they're all sort of hiding, and he's peering through the
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  window of the castle and just decides to like poke his hole through the wall
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  or poke his finger through the wall. It's not even like he's attempting to
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  really like get in because he can't see anybody. He's not really trying to
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  reach anything. The vibe that I get from it is almost like the after
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  what's it called when somebody is really sort of absent mindedly dragging their finger through
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  like the icing on a cake or something. You know, it's it's not
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  even like there's no method to it. He's just doing this because he's just
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  fidgeting, and because he's so hunormous. I'm going to keep using that word.
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  This fidgeting is incredibly destructive. And I just couldn't help thinking about how
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  it would feel for me to be sitting in a room and see like a
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  finger that size just come crunching through the wall. That is so scary.
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  So we go back to like the rest of the straw hats who have gathered
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  up and are trying to figure out what they're going to do about Oars,
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  And there's a kind of funny bit here where they're all trying to remember what
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  his name is. I think that it's a chopper that suggests his name was
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  Hughes. Sanji says Roars, which actually isn't a bad name all things considered,
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  And we get a really weird as they're discussing this. We get some
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  weird close ups on our friends, and like, I really want to know.
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  I'm really curious how these animators decide what feature they're going to zoom in
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  on for any given character, because you know, we start this off and
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  we just see, like with a regular background, the feet of each of
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  them walking by, like from the hips down. Then we kind of get
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  a whited out background, and then we go to Sanji first and we see
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  shoulders to eyebrows and signature cigarette smoking sticking out of his mouth. We go
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  to Robin and we're zeroed in on her garters as she's walking with the edge
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  of her hemline and the fishnet stockings. Then we go to Zoro and he
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  is tying a bandana around his head and so we're zeroed in on the knot
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  as he ties it at the back. We go to Chopper and it's just
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  his eyes and a shoulder and mostly his hat and even oos up we get
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  from basically the bridge of the nose up really dramatic hat goggles that like dark
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  shadow over his eyes and it kind of makes him look like a badass.
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  What we get for Frankie, though, is just his crotch. We are
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  just completely year rowed in on Frankie's bikini briefs and like pretty close up,
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  guys, we're the bikini briefs are really high on the screen, so we've
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  got a lot of thigh happening actually, and he is like right up in
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  our faces with it. What for what reason? Come on? Now?
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  Look? I get I get that him being in these in this like weird
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  bathing suit thing is part of his signature. Look, I am one hundred
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  percent behind it. That's fine, But it's not the only part of his
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  look that's really striking. His hair, I would argue, is even more
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  memorable, and his weird nose and even his eyes are pretty intense. And
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  you know, not for nothing. But despite the fact that Frankie is a
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  cyborg, his legs are not impressive. This is not a man who really
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  bothers with leg day. He is an upper body strength type of guy.
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  So to me, the choice to zero in on the briefs at the expense
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  of all of the other things about him that are a lot more noteworthy,
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  in my opinion, is bizarre. But I will say that I do kind
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  of appreciate at least that he gets a cross shot, because that at least
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  makes one male character who got that kind of shot other than Robin, because
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  everybody else we're on their faces mostly, you know, except for Zoro,
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  but still it's his head. It's just the back of his head as he's
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  tying that. Not so if they had zeroed in on Frankie's head, probably
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  be a little bit salty over the fact that apparently Robin's face is of no
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  consequence and all we need to know is of how short her skirt is.
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  I just think the choice for Frankie seemed odd, and I'm also one percent
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  behind showing Robin's face, Like her, why are we doing her skirt?
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  Why are we even doing that? That's not a thing that's it's not like
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  a part of her weaponry, it's not a type of part of her personality
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  or anything like that. So anyway, it was it just struck me because
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  like this sort of really slow walk while they're trying to remember ors his name,
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  it's like a pretty striking moment, and the whited out background as we
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  zero in on each of them. They do things like this a lot in
• 29:49
  the show, but this felt kind of set apart for me. It was
• 29:52
  a much more high impact version than some we've seen, so I really wanted
• 29:57
  to mention it. Um okay. So this is when we have Nami going
• 30:04
  to find the the treasure and finds that the place has been completely cleaned out.
• 30:14
  We jump back over to Oars, who is really excited to get into
• 30:18
  this fight, and everybody is just standing waiting for him. And there's been
• 30:23
  a kind of consensus with the whole straw Hat crew that like, we played
• 30:30
  around with him and it's time for us to get fucking serious about it.
• 30:37
  And Zoro says something about how he's sick of being thrown around, how about
• 30:41
  we throw him around for a change, to which I think almost everybody except
• 30:47
  us Up is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm on board.
• 30:49
  Us Up is the one who's like, how guys, he's fucking huge?
• 30:56
  What are you? How do we do that? And they're thinking about how
• 31:02
  they're going to approach this, and Frankie says, I've got a ton of
• 31:04
  plans. One of them has got to work. So we get then this
• 31:12
  bit here, you guys, this was oh man, this really this really
• 31:18
  got me. So first Mophy attacks them with gum gum giant butt stomp.
• 31:32
  I fell out laughing. He just basically cannonballs down. They all think that
• 31:37
  they know what his moves are gonna be and he just pulls out something that
• 31:41
  is brand fucking new, and after all of this sort of like, oh,
• 31:47
  we gotta figure out how we're going to approach this. We're not playing
• 31:48
  anymore, he really does a bit of a number on them yet again,
• 31:55
  and finally Frankie is like, all right, guys, heads up, I'm
• 31:59
  going to do something new. Tactic fifteen. Everybody grab onto leg arm whatever.
• 32:09
  I thought it was interesting them. When he says tactic fifteen, Chopper
• 32:14
  says it's still being tested, so he is aware of it, and I
• 32:20
  guess they're just practicing it on the ship. But anyway, what we get
• 32:25
  is such an anime movement moment of Frankie connecting docking with each of our friends.
• 32:37
  Right, So he has Zoro and Sanji each attached docked against his leg,
• 32:45
  which when they say doc, all it means is that his foot is
• 32:50
  on one of their shoulders, and he's holding Usop in one hand and Chopper
• 32:58
  is over his head and I'm watching this, zeroing in on all of our
• 33:02
  moment or all of our friends, and I'm looking like waiting for Robin,
• 33:07
  and I was thinking as they were doing it, this doesn't feel like something
• 33:14
  Robin would be excited about. And there's a bit where Chopper points out we're
• 33:23
  incomplete Robin hasn't dalked with us, and guys, this just slayed me.
• 33:35
  I loved this so much. They're like, Robin, come on, you've
• 33:39
  got to join in, You've got to talk with us, and Robin is
• 33:45
  just like, yeah, I'm not doing that. They're like, Robin,
• 33:53
  we need you. No, I'm not embarrassing myself like that. Oh my
• 34:06
  god, you guys, she says, as human beings, you should be
• 34:13
  ashamed. Never ask me to dock with you again. And even Oars is
• 34:22
  watching, going why won't she do it, which is what gives us up
• 34:29
  the idea. A little bit later, he's talking to all of them and
• 34:32
  he's like, you know, I noticed that even though this meant that we
• 34:37
  couldn't fight ors the same way, he wasn't glad. He wanted to see
• 34:43
  the robot, and so that points to the fact that there is still a
• 34:49
  real loofy like personality in there. Actually. So yeah, this is when
• 34:53
  Oars is like, do it, you jerks, do the docking, and
• 34:58
  he like punches all of them and sends them all flying again, and Zoro
• 35:05
  sends, I've never been so relieved to be punched before. That really was
• 35:10
  so embarrassing. Oh god, I love this so much. I love that
• 35:20
  Robin is just going nah man like all that went. Later on, Frankie
• 35:28
  tries this method again and it really is as nothing as it looks like.
• 35:34
  I was thinking that there was going to be some sort of mechanical aspect that
• 35:39
  Frankie had invented that would connect them all and turn them into like a proper
• 35:45
  weapon, but it turns out no, he's basically just like, doing this
• 35:50
  will make us big, and because we're bigger, it'll be easier to fight
• 35:55
  him. And it's not really true, like they're still so small in comparison
• 36:00
  to oars that they're like standing on his forehead and they don't even reach his
• 36:04
  hairline entirely, you know, and they when they start kicking him, it
• 36:09
  does nothing. It's just like a red I mean, yeah, it's not
• 36:14
  impressive, it's not great. So that whole bit was pretty funny, and
• 36:20
  I just love Robin standing there being like, oh babe, no, absolutely
• 36:27
  not. In the meantime, as all of this is happening, we find
• 36:32
  as some key infoe about Brooke. He got injured pretty badly, so everybody
• 36:38
  else is going to go deal with oars, and Brooke is going to attempt
• 36:42
  to find a way to pull himself back together. And he's in the kitchen
• 36:47
  and finds a bottle of milk and is super excited because it is only like
• 36:53
  a couple of days expired, so it's still probably fine. And I will
• 37:00
  confess to some shivers of disgust when he says something about how he'll drink down
• 37:07
  all the chewy chunks on behalf of everyone. He says something like horrible like
• 37:09
  that. I was like, oh, sir, can you please not?
• 37:15
  And he drinks it and starts to glow. The calcium's rejuvenating all of my
• 37:21
  internal organs, which is odd since I don't actually have internal organs, and
• 37:28
  then begins to laugh. Camera pulls out and he yells, I am refreshed.
• 37:36
  Now, I don't think what I just said really does justice to the
• 37:44
  way he says I am refreshed, because friends, he shrieks, I am
• 37:53
  refreshed like it's a battle cry. It is really something voice after doing this
• 38:00
  must have had so much fun, because it is, I mean, the
• 38:07
  performance on this particular scene is over the top, and I'm not upset.
• 38:12
  I liked it. It was great. So after he says I am refreshed,
• 38:19
  he then like kind of cowers for a moment and is like, oh,
• 38:22
  it's too much, but then reminds himself, now I have an important
• 38:29
  job. I need to find what I actually came here for. And I
• 38:34
  was sort of wondering if he drank that milk. If you know, we
• 38:37
  have some cracks across his face, like you know, his skull breaking and
• 38:42
  stuff. I was thinking that maybe we would see those reseal that does not
• 38:45
  happen, and I don't know if that's going to happen eventually, but he
• 38:50
  seems to look pretty much the same. It's just meant to be an internal
• 38:53
  change, I guess. And he goes into to the pantry and finds this
• 39:02
  giant bag of salt, and I do appreciate him asking, you've got to
• 39:08
  wonder why they even keep this stuff, which I have to assume it's just
• 39:14
  for like the human people's right. But I maintained that being on like a
• 39:21
  boat surrounded by saltwater probably not an awesome idea anyway. So yeah, he's
• 39:28
  got that sack of salt that was the size of like couple of Deffel bags.
• 39:34
  I think so that was definitely enough that if they poured all of it
• 39:37
  down Oars his throat, I think that would have to work. So anyway,
• 39:45
  we've got Zoro asking Robin for help with a like submissive hold on Oars,
• 39:54
  while Zoro comes flying forward to get him with that like basically huge nunchuck
• 40:05
  made out of a pillar. Speaking of pillar, we then get really gross
• 40:15
  bit from Robin again. I know that it's kind of got to be gross.
• 40:22
  Anything that Robin can do is going. They're all like every formation is
• 40:30
  flesh colored, and everything is made of hands almost always like sometimes it's not,
• 40:37
  but mostly it is. So by default it's all creepy like it there's
• 40:44
  no way around it. But this one, I don't know what it was.
• 40:47
  This one really got me, guys. This one was super creepy.
• 40:52
  She calls it big tree and makes this huge like it almost looks like a
• 41:00
  hand at first, but it comes down almost like a snake around him and
• 41:05
  grabs one of his legs and arms and sort of pulls them both up in
• 41:10
  such a way that he can't keep his balance, and as he is stuck
• 41:17
  in this position, Frankie builds a stairway in the moment to the top of
• 41:25
  Oars. I mean, you guys, this whole bit with that Frankie can
• 41:30
  just like build anything within them. I truly love this bit. I am
• 41:35
  very much looking forward to seeing this played out in other ways. And him
• 41:39
  and Chopper both punch Oars with what they call the frapper Gong, which is
• 41:47
  a truly impenetrable name, Like, I don't know what that is, but
• 41:54
  that's what they both said, and I see it in the subtitles. So
• 41:59
  this leads to Oars going down for the moment, and we have a bit
• 42:02
  of a POV from the other zombies on the island who are seeing Oars his
• 42:08
  feet in the air and just sort of like, does this mean that he
• 42:13
  got taken out by somebody and another zombie being like, of course he fucking
• 42:19
  didn't. He's enormous, as we all know. He like this has got
• 42:23
  to be part of how he's fighting, and they're like, yeah, but
• 42:27
  he's fienda really been there for like quite a while. And as much as
• 42:31
  they are very happy with the fact that they get him taken down, he
• 42:36
  gets back up again and they have to work to get him down yet again.
• 42:42
  So I'm gonna jump back over to Nami real quick, because she is
• 42:47
  grilling these two little squirrel chipmunk guys asking for information. They are coming at
• 42:53
  her with like, you know, cleavers and stuff, but she just electrocutes
• 42:59
  him mid air and you see their tiny little like skeletons, and one of
• 43:04
  them says, we said way too much like it comes when they When we
• 43:08
  come back to them, they're laying on the ground gently smoking, and it's
• 43:14
  clear that she had just finished questioning them and has headed off down the hall,
• 43:19
  and both of them know that they kind of fucked up because not only
• 43:23
  did they give her information about how Pirona took everything, they told her that
• 43:29
  Perona is stealing the sunny and apparently also told her that there's like a short
• 43:37
  cut to getting there that if she didn't have it otherwise she probably wouldn't have
• 43:43
  been able to make it in time. But yeah, so Nami takes off
• 43:47
  and she is heading over there. I love when she's crossing the bridge and
• 43:52
  she's like, this bridge is weird. It's really well made, but it
• 43:54
  doesn't go with anything else. And as she looks over Oars topples, and
• 44:02
  she just tells herself that is not my problem right now, and she keeps
• 44:07
  going. And I admire that that's good priorities keeping, you know, like
• 44:12
  honestly, when it comes down to it, even if they beat Oars,
• 44:15
  if they let her Pirona sail off with their ship, what good is it?
• 44:21
  Like somebody needs to be on the keeping of the ship, you know,
• 44:25
  So this is this works for me. So Oars gets real pissed about
• 44:32
  having been knocked down and is just like, all right, screw all of
• 44:37
  you, guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna get up and beat the shit out
• 44:39
  of you. And it turns out because he fell on the ground upside down,
• 44:46
  his horns are stuck in the ground. And then we get a real
• 44:53
  slow pan again, guys, from face to face of each of this crew
• 45:04
  smirking in a real mischievous sort of way, going, oh really, oh
• 45:09
  you're stuck. Oh that's too bad. But what I loved about it was
• 45:17
  all of them are like smirking and smiling to themselves, except for Robin,
• 45:24
  who's got no expression on her face. And all we get for her like
• 45:30
  from her is a m That's it. That's it. That's it, that's
• 45:40
  it. I want so much for this to be enough, I really do,
• 45:52
  but I feel like, you know, the moment, for example,
• 45:58
  when she refuses to debate herself by having her join into the docking, it
• 46:06
  sets a real tone that I enjoy a lot. She takes herself super seriously.
• 46:10
  You know, she's got her dignity, she's not doing that, and
• 46:15
  this technically falls within that same theme her just like not cracking a smile and
• 46:23
  just sort of humming to herself. That does work, but I just I
• 46:32
  don't know, you know, I feel like they're something more could have been
• 46:36
  done, just a little moments like this where I feel like I get what
• 46:39
  they're going for, but it just doesn't quite hit for me. And there
• 46:45
  are times actually where having somebody who does take themselves really seriously act extremely excitable
• 46:52
  about something can be even better because they are out of character for that moment,
• 46:58
  and so it can be like extra effective. You know that you know
• 47:01
  they're really excited because they're sort of getting giggly for a moment. But anyway,
• 47:09
  I just had to mention it because each of them like having there,
• 47:14
  oh really and then again slowly walking forward, this was pretty funny. And
• 47:19
  you've got Oars with his mouth open, watching them all head in his direction,
• 47:23
  and he's just like, oh shit, what are you gonna do to
• 47:27
  me? And they begin to like beat the hell out of him once again.
• 47:30
  All of these other zombies on the other side of the island can only
• 47:35
  see it, but they don't understand what's happening, and they're One of them
• 47:39
  is like, I don't know, he's screaming a lot. I feel like
• 47:43
  Oars is getting his ass kicked, and one of the zombies says, maybe
• 47:47
  that's just the sound Oars makes when he kicks ass, which did make me
• 47:52
  laugh actually, And then all of a sudden, Oars is upright again,
• 47:58
  and he is dreaming at our friends, who have decided to turn and run
• 48:02
  for cover. They got him for a little while. Was not enough,
• 48:07
  though, friends, And then we have another retry of the docking thing,
• 48:15
  and it's a really well done the way that this goes again. Of course,
• 48:22
  Robin is like, I told you never to ask me again, so
• 48:25
  she will not participate. I think this time Zoro won't go for it either,
• 48:31
  if I'm not mistaken. But the oh my god, you guys,
• 48:38
  there's a moment where Sanji is imagining what it would look like if Robin was
• 48:45
  docking, and the camera doesn't fully pan over to her. Is it supposed
• 48:51
  to be that she's just got her like legs wrapped around Frankie's arm and that's
• 48:58
  like hot? Is that supposed to be the joke? I was just sort
• 49:01
  of puzzled by this. But anyway, so Frankie gets into position and he's
• 49:10
  like, come on, everybody, let's do this, and they jump up
• 49:15
  onto oors his face. I think Sorrow is doing it. I think he
• 49:24
  is. He comes running up to Sanji and says, can I get a
• 49:28
  leg up here? And I know Sanjie participates, and then he's like,
• 49:32
  never mind, this sucks, And then of course when it does turn out
• 49:36
  to sort of work, he's like, oh, oh this is my idea
• 49:38
  all along. Oh okay, No Zoro doesn't. He stays on the ground,
• 49:44
  and Sanjie just like launches the three of them up there. So they
• 49:49
  get up there and they are doing the kicking and punching and it is nothing.
• 49:54
  And then we have them starting to just basically like roast him. They
• 50:02
  are just roasting oars and starts. I think us up says something like you're
• 50:09
  the world's biggest joke something like that, and they just get him so fired
• 50:15
  up that in order to shut them up, he punches at them, but
• 50:22
  reminder, they are on his head, so he punches himself in the face
• 50:28
  and knocks himself out, and Oars is very mad, feeling like he got
• 50:34
  tricked, and this was like totally uncool. How dare you? Like I
• 50:38
  said, Sanji is on the ground talking about how he planned this whole thing.
• 50:43
  This is I knew this was going to happen exactly this way, and
• 50:50
  the whole like Oars falling and the slowness of it, and how he's like
• 50:55
  toppling and as he's falling saying, oh, I'm falling again. I was
• 51:04
  just loving it, he stops himself from falling. He does not fall you
• 51:10
  guys, this creature is too much. So this is when USAP is like,
• 51:15
  wait a second, Wait a second, he's still got Lufi's personality.
• 51:22
  What if we distract him by saying there's some meat over there and everybody's like,
• 51:30
  I don't know, but okay, And they do it and it works
• 51:36
  like a charm. And this means that our guys, while he is like
• 51:40
  totally distracted, just swoop in and break his kneecaps, which, um,
• 51:46
  I can't tell. It looked like he was sitting basically, but I couldn't
• 51:52
  tell. He winds up like picking a fist up and starting to do his
• 51:58
  gum gum whatever. And this is when Zoro comes at him and says a
• 52:02
  dinosaur could step on this blade and not bend a millimeter. They say that
• 52:08
  its resilience is one of the like signature aspects of this blade, and then
• 52:15
  we get the beginnings of the fight between the two of them. We don't
• 52:20
  get to see the whole thing because this is when we jump over to the
• 52:24
  boat where Pirona is hanging out and the fucking other Warlord of the Sea shows
• 52:34
  up in the midst of Nami, like talking to Pirona and being like,
• 52:38
  Hey, what are you even doing here? This guy is so different,
• 52:49
  He's got a real different vibe. First of all, he's wearing pants that
• 52:53
  are white but kind of look like they've been splatter painted, but in that
• 52:58
  very deliver way that things in the nineties were splatter painted, do you know
• 53:02
  what I'm saying? And it's not like multicolored, it's just like blue.
• 53:08
  Then he's got us like polke dotted. I guess it's not splatter paints.
• 53:13
  It is a pattern, just doesn't look like it when when you get in
• 53:16
  real close. But his name is the tyrant Bartholomew Kuma, and Pirona says
• 53:25
  something about all these atrocities that were committed under his watch, and of course
• 53:31
  he's got this humongous like helmet on that hides his eyes and a really square
• 53:39
  jaw and a really angry expression and everything about the vibe of this guy says
• 53:46
  that he is nobody to funk with. And he's carrying a book under his
• 53:52
  arm that is marked Bible, which choice, but I guess. And he
• 54:04
  asks whether she's working with Maria, and she says she's trying to escape and
• 54:08
  that she wants no part of this anymore. And the warlord asks if she
• 54:15
  could go on vacation anywhere, where would she go? And it's said in
• 54:22
  a genuinely curious way, like he wants to know the answer. And his
• 54:29
  voice is really like high pitched isn't quite the right word, but it's not
• 54:35
  wrong either. You know, you expect this dude to have a sort of
• 54:37
  booming bass note and instead he's like a maybe an alto. He's not even
• 54:45
  like a tenor, you know. And when she answers this question about like
• 54:52
  a cool haunted castle and everything, all of her people are like, we
• 54:57
  really liked your answer, Mistress Perona. But yeah, she says, I
• 55:02
  was taken aback when I realized who you were. But I've got nothing to
• 55:07
  fear with my devil fruit powers. There's nobody that I can't take down,
• 55:10
  and that includes you. So she gets into position like she's about to fight
• 55:16
  him, but he's just looking through his bible, just leafing through it,
• 55:24
  not entirely clear on what it is he's looking for, and she raises her
• 55:29
  hand and is like, all right, special hollow, here it comes.
• 55:32
  She does not appreciate being ignored because she's just not responding to her at all,
• 55:37
  and all of these ghosts come at him and he just ungloves a hand.
• 55:47
  We don't even really see the action. We see the glove come off,
• 55:52
  and then we see him standing with his hand down now and a little
• 55:58
  smoking puff on the ground in front of him, and then he says,
• 56:04
  before you started with this, I was just going to ask you where Maria
• 56:08
  is. And then I realized I thought he had just knocked out the ghosts
• 56:16
  and that they had disappeared, But it turns out that smoking spot on the
• 56:23
  ground was where Pirona had been. She's gone, and when everybody is like,
• 56:30
  what did you do with her? What happened? He doesn't answer.
• 56:36
  He just turns his head really slowly, and all of them panic and begin
• 56:39
  to flee. And I'm sitting here like, oh my god, I thought
• 56:45
  that he just destroyed her ghost. But she's just where did she? Can
• 56:51
  he like teleport? I mean he does. He's standing on the dock.
• 56:58
  Nami looks down, he's not there, and then he's up somewhere else,
• 57:00
  and she wonders about him teleporting, and I'm wondering, wondering if he can
• 57:05
  teleport Pirona by touching her, and you know, she's My instinct, of
• 57:10
  course, when he reaches out and she's fucking gone is that he destroyed her
• 57:15
  somehow, But I don't feel like that's likely. I'm thinking probably he like
• 57:19
  put her somewhere to get her out of his way for the moment, because
• 57:22
  she was about to try and fight him and he just wasn't interested. So
• 57:29
  Nami is like, well, what are you doing? Here, and he
• 57:31
  again teleports downstairs and is like, what I'm doing here is none of your
• 57:37
  concern, and very calmly walks on and Nami watches after him and is like,
• 57:45
  ah, I had better go and warn Lufy, and I'm like,
• 57:49
  I don't see how you think you're going to outpace the man who can teleport.
• 57:52
  Namie like, I understand the impulse and I appreciate the thought, but
• 58:00
  I just don't really feel like there's any point to trying to warn Lufy about
• 58:07
  a man who can travel that quickly and soundlessly. That's just a losing battle.
• 58:13
  You're not going to beat him unless you already know where Lufy is and
• 58:15
  I don't. I don't think she does. But anyway, we jumped back
• 58:21
  to Lufy finding out that he's been chasing Maria's shadow this whole time, and
• 58:24
  not even actually Maria, and that is the end of the episode. So
• 58:31
  all right, I am going to wrap up, But thank you guys again
• 58:35
  so much for hanging out with me, for your patience. Those of you
• 58:40
  who were here when my dog pete on the floor and I had to take
• 58:43
  a moment to clean it up. Sorry about that. And if you're just
• 58:47
  listening, I edited that out. You're welcome, all right, everybody until
• 58:52
  next time to the lou motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast.